Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Launch Virtual SuperHighway Tour by Troy Rogers
Legendary
rocker Tom Petty is back with The Heartbreakers
for a new online tour experience with a virtual
website called The
SuperHighway Tour, which coincides with the
November 24 release of the upcoming Tommy Petty
and the Heartbreakers compilation, The Live Anthology.
Leading up to the release of The Live Anthology,
fans who purchase tickets from Ticketmaster
for The SuperHighway Tour get exclusive access
to all 48 tracks from The Live Anthology, archived
memorabilia, band commentaries, retro reviews,
and new Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers content.
The SuperHighway Tour is the first of its kind in the music world, as Tom Petty fans go on an eight week online tour back in time with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as they gain access to 24 of The Live Anthology tracks ahead of the release and the latter 24 when The Live Anthology goes wide everywhere on November 24. The Live Anthology will also be available in different formats, including a series of vinyl options, which Tom Petty fans can check out below in the official SuperHighway Tour press release.
We've already found our way to the The
SuperHighway Tour and judging by what we
see from the new online experience from Tom
Petty, the online music world just got a lot
more interactively better.
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers have launched
The Superhighway Tour, a first of its kind online-only
music experience that delivers 24 of the 48
tracks from the forthcoming Live Anthology as
high-quality digital downloads and on-demand
streams in advance of the Live Anthology's release.
"Ticketholders" will receive an insider's view
of those 24 tracks, through archived memorabilia
reproduced on the site, new band commentary,
classic reviews, and curated content from the
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers vaults. Fans
will also be able to share their photos and
stories from their favorite Tom Petty and The
Heartbreakers shows. Then on the album's November
24 release, ticketholders will receive the remaining
24 tracks on The Live Anthology, thereby completing
the digital album.
Access
to the Superhighway Tour will be available to
fans that purchase "tickets" from Ticketmaster.com
or through the Superhighway Tour box office.
Tickets for the entire 8-week Superhighway Tour
are on sale now through Ticketmaster.com and
TomPettySuperHighwayTour.com. The price of a
Superhighway Tour ticket includes all 48 The
Live Anthology digital tracks plus the 8-week
online experience for $24.98 without any additional
service fees. Downloads will be available in
256kbps MP3 or FLAC formats - fan's choice.
A FREE PREVIEW of the SuperHighway Tour is
now available at www.tompettysuperhighwaytour.com
and includes a FREE DOWNLOAD of a track from
the 1981 run of shows at Los Angeles' Forum.
The week of November 22nd Tom Petty and The
Heartbreakers and Reprise Records will release
The Live Anthology, a multiple-disc set of recordings
drawn from thirty years of live performances.
The collection brings together material from
1978-2007 culled from hundreds of hours of live
concert recordings covering every era of Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers' tours and represents
the best tracks as chosen by producers Tom Petty,
Mike Campbell and Ryan Ulyate.
The release of The Live Anthology comes on
the heels of two sold out tours, the Grammy
winning documentary Runnin' Down A Dream (directed
by Peter Bogdanovich), and a headline performance
at the Super Bowl XLII halftime show. Now, Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers - one of rock and
roll's greatest touring bands - will mark their
unparalleled string of success with the release
of this landmark collection of live recordings
that is unlike anything previously available
- the band's story told through the music alone.
The producers made no fixes or overdubs, letting
the newly mixed original recordings showcase
the invention, spontaneity, craft, and the musicianship
that has made Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
among the most celebrated live performers of
their time. Along with powerful interpretations
of their own classic hits and originals, The
Live Anthology features the band tackling some
of their best-loved cover material, from classics
to obscure beauties to unexpected adaptations.
The theme from Goldfinger, the Zombies' "I Want
You Back Again," the Grateful Dead's "Friend
of the Devil," early Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well,"
Booker T. and the MGs' "Green Onions," James
Brown's "Good, Good Lovin'" and many more. Tom
Petty and The Heartbreakers travel wide, paying
their musical debts through song and showing
just how confidently the band moves across genres
and over time.
The Live Anthology will come in multiple configurations
featuring artwork and packing by renowned contemporary
artist Shepard Fairey (www.studionumberone.com,
www.obeygiant.com).
Included in the multiple configurations are,
a 5CD collector's deluxe box set available only
at Best Buy that will include a first-of-its-kind
audio-only Blu-ray disc, a four CD set of 48
tracks, a 48 track digital album, a seven LP
vinyl box set of 51 tracks and the entirely
unique Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Superhighway
Tour (www.tompettysuperhighwaytour.com).
The collector's deluxe package will be in Best
Buy stores on November 22nd. All other configurations
will be in stores and available online on November
24th.