Buddy Guy was the opener.
We came in about middle of his set. He was fairly entertaining.
He did lots of impressions of guitarists “he learned something from”
He turns 74 this weekend, but you couldn’t have guessed it given his energy on stage.
He finished his set off with a medley / mashup of Voodoo Child (Hendrix) with Sunshine of Your Love (Cream) and some other blues sounding riffs I didn’t recognize. It was pretty cool.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers took a good long while to get on stage. I think part of that was a very late arriving crowd, but the place was 99% full by the time they took the stage.
Tom had a really nice stage presence. A lot of dramatic pauses in songs timed to his… swaying, stepping, waving. He also REALLY got into his maracas during guitar solos. Not much in the way of storytelling or anything like that, but he was really thankful of the applause they got for each song. A couple of times “Petty! Petty!” chants broke out and he seemed a little unsure how to react to it.
I played around with the manual modes of the camera a ton, so going to post a lot of pics. Now if I could only remember which I took with what settings!
All of my pictures can be seen here.
No video this time around, batteries were low from the start!
