Album: Long After Dark
Year: 1982
The second time I saw Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers was on September 4, 1982, the second night of the first US Festival.
Tim and I and a guy named Mike made the five-hour drive from Fresno, slept two nights in sleeping bags in the dirt parking lot, and endured temperatures as high as 108 in order to see a whole slew of amazing bands — Talking Heads, Police, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Kinks — because at 19, I could endure just about anything for rock ‘n’ roll.
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