{"id":489003,"date":"2019-08-13T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=870996"},"modified":"2019-08-13T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:18:23","slug":"flashback-tom-petty-plays-a-rare-solo-acoustic-american-girl-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-tom-petty-plays-a-rare-solo-acoustic-american-girl-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Tom Petty Plays a Rare Solo Acoustic \u2018American Girl\u2019 in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tompetty.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this month, Bruce Springsteen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-live-album-1986-bridge-school-benefit-869881\/\">released his October 13th, 1986, acoustic set<\/a> at the Bridge School Benefit as an official live download. The hotly anticipated set was his first major performance since the end of the <em>Born in the U.S.A.<\/em> tour a year earlier. With Springsteen backed only by guitarist Nils Lofgren and organist Danny Federici, it features stripped-down renditions of \u201cFire,\u201d \u201cGlory Days,\u201d \u201cMansion on the Hill,\u201d and others. The set has circulated in bootleg circles for years, but the sound quality has never been this good even though they had to use some fan recordings to fill in missing segments from the master tape.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the bill that night were CSNY, Lofgren, Don Henley, Robin Williams, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tom-petty\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-petty\" data-tag=\"tom-petty\">Tom Petty<\/a>. The Heartbreakers leader spent that year on an amazing co-headlining tour with Bob Dylan, but he began his Bridge School set totally by himself. Watch him open up with \u201cAmerican Girl,\u201d one of the few times he ever played the song in public without any members of the Heartbreakers. Keep watching to see him play Bill Monroe\u2019s \u201cBlue Moon of Kentucky,\u201d the <em>Damn the Torpedoes<\/em> deep cut \u201cShadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid),\u201d and \u201cThe Waiting\u201d before bringing out Heartbreakers pianist Benmont Tench to join him for \u201cIt\u2019ll All Work Out\u201d from the yet-to-be-released <em>Let Me Up (I\u2019ve Had Enough)<\/em> and a finale of \u201cTwist and Shout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show ended with everyone from the show performing \u201cTeach Your Children,\u201d even Robin Williams. It\u2019s the only time that Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen ever played together. The whole show is really worthy of official release someday. On that same note, there really should also be a Tom Petty equivalent to the Bruce Springsteen live download series. He never changed around his set list from night to night like Springsteen does, but his estate is still sitting on a mountain of concert recordings from his four-decade career. Why not start pumping it out to fans?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tom-petty-american-girl-acoustic-bridge-school-1986-870996\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Bruce Springsteen released his October 13th, 1986, acoustic set at the Bridge School Benefit as an official live download. The hotly anticipated set was his first major performance since the end of the Born in the U.S.A. tour a year earlier. With Springsteen backed only by guitarist Nils Lofgren and organist Danny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-489003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 23:47:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}