What has Tom Petty done the last 20 years?

I have no idea if he'll play any of these, but...

This is "I Should Have Known It," from his new album:

Here's a live version of "Have Love Will Travel," a song from his 2002 album:

Here's a live version of "Walls," a song from 1999, I think:

Finally, I think this is a fantastic version of Bob Dylan's "License To Kill" from Dylan's 30th anniversary concert in the early '90s:

 

"Walls" alone made the "She's the One" soundtrack worth buying. Movie didn't do it for me though.

 

I saw him a couple of years ago in Toronto. Steve Winwood opened for him. If I remember correctly, his first song was "You Wreck Me," from Wildflowers. Great song.

 

Main thing he's done, I imagine, is a ton of weed.

 

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are back with their first new release in eight years, "Mojo," and you can hear it all only on ESPN.com.


http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/music/news/story?id=5260264

 

Nice

 

"Into The Great Wide Open" is one of the greatest videos ever made, starring a post-21 Jump Street, pre-Oscar contender Johnny Depp as well as a scenery-chewing Faye Dunaway. Worth watching just for the parodies of pop culture circa 1991 (as well as the sight of a Tower Records and the Billboard charts featuring the likes of Paula Abdul, Extreme and Motley Crue).

There aren't many albums that featured a better 1-2 punch of opening singles than "Into The Great Wide Open," whose first single was the just-as-awesome "Learning To Fly." Great soundtrack to the summer of '91.

 

He has a new CD out in next week or two. Performed two songs on SNL near end of the season, sounded promising. I've seen him in concert three times, and he's great -- good for an out-of-nowhere cover here and there as well.

 

A recent set list had him covering Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home." That's a hell of a cover.

 

He had that cameo in "The Postman" as the Mayor of Elvis.

 

Definitely one of the best five videos ever.

 

The question confuses me, as I can't think of any other answer besides "lived 20 more years as perhaps America's best living rocker."

And yes, that includes Bob Dylan -- whom I consider a poet and spokesman for a generation more than a rocker.

rb