Exciting news in the new Rolling Stone about a Tom Petty release called " The Live Anthology " due out in early November. It will come in a 4 disc box, priced under $ 25.00 and a deluxe package for about $ 100.00 that includes a fifth cd as well as a bonus DVD, a vinyl EP of 1976 club dates and a Blu-Ray disc packed with every track in super-high fidelity and 5.1 mixes.

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Product Description
The Live Anthology is 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 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.

Disc: 1
1. Nightwatchman
2. Even The Losers
3. Here Comes My Girl
4. A Thing About You
5. I'm In Love
6. I'm A Man
7. Straight Into Darkness
8. Breakdown
9. Something In The Air
10. I Just Want To Make Love To You
11. Drivin' Down To Georgia
12. Lost Without You
13. Refugee

Disc: 2
1. Diddy Wah Diddy
2. I Want You Back Again
3. Wildflowers
4. Friend Of The Devil
5. A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
6. It's Good To Be King
7. Angel Dream (No. 2)
8. Learning To Fly
9. Mary Jane's Last Dance
10. Mystic Eyes

Disc: 3
1. Jammin' Me
2. The Wild One, Forever
3. Green Onions
4. Louisiana Rain
5. Melinda
6. Goldfinger
7. Surrender
8. Dreamville
9. Spike
10. Any Way You Want It
11. American Girl

Disc: 4
1. Runnin' Down A Dream
2. Oh Well
3. Southern Accents
4. Crawling Back To You
5. My Life/Your World
6. I Won't Back Down
7. Square One
8. Have Love Will Travel
9. Free Fallin'
10. The Waiting
11. Good Good Lovin'
12. Century City
13. Alright For Now

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WOW.I'm in for the Deluxe.

A hundred bucks is more than fair for the deluxe edition. I'm in!

Wow! For only $75 extra I can get a vinyl LP I'll never play and a blu-ray disc I can't play!!

I can remember when Tom Petty fought to keep the list price down to $8.98 on his Hard Promises album. I guess Tom's saving for retirement or something.

Wow! I'm all over the Deluxe Edition... Hopefully music on Blu-ray will get off the ground. Neil Young may have pissed a lot of people off with Archives, but I really want to see the Blu-ray format embraced for music... so thank you Neil and thank you Tom.

I'm waiting to hear of a Blu-Ray player with a truly audiophile analog stage. I've been reading quite a bit about the Opps the last couple days since my d/a fried, & the consensus on the regular dvd players amongst high end folks is that the audio stage isn't actually all that good. I haven't read as much on the Blu-Ray, but it's only $200 more which limits parts quality differences..

RIGHT THE F**K ON!!!!!!!!!

From tompetty.com:

We are very excited to announce the upcoming release of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' The Live Anthology, a multiple disc set of recordings drawn from thirty yearsof live performances. The collection brings together material from 1978-2007 culled from hundreds of hours of live concert recordingscovering 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.

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 TomPetty.com Announcing 'The Live Anthology'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. The Live Anthology is the band’s story told through the music alone; the producers made no fixes or overdubs.

In addition to offering The Live Anthology via digital outlets including iTunes, The Live Anthology will be available in the following four configurations, each with artwork and packaging by renowned contemporary artist Shepard Fairey (Studio Number One, Obey Giant).

1. A four CD set of 48 tracks.

2. A deluxe box set featuring 62 tracks on five CDs PLUS
- Two previously unreleased DVDs including the 1978 New Year’s Eve concert from Santa Monica , CA and the Martyn Atkins documentary 400 Days shot during the recording and tour forWildflowers.

- A re-mastered vinyl of the 1976 Official Live 'Leg bootleg.

- A High Resolution Blu-ray Audio Disc featuring all 62 tracks in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound. This disc has 256 times more audio resolution than a CD.

- AND MUCH MORE (see details below).

3. A seven LP vinyl box set mastered directly from the uncompressed 24-bit 96K files and pressed on audiophile quality high performance vinyl.

4. The entirely unique Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Superhighway Tour

The Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Superhighway Tour is a first of its kind digital tour experience that delivers to ticketholders 24 of the 48 Live Anthology tracks over an 8 week advance period. During this period ticketholders will receive an insider’s view of those 24 tracks, whether through archived memorabilia, new band commentary, classic reviews from the vaults, and more amassed rare vintage Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers content.

Upon the official street date of the album ticket holders will digitally receive the remaining 24 tracks on The Live Anthology, thereby completing the entire album.

Tickets for the entire 8 week SuperHighway Tour will go onsale soon and the Tour will start with a FREE PREVIEW including a FREE DOWNLOAD from The Live Anthology.

More information including The Live Anthology release date will also follow soon from TomPetty.com.

More than fair? I'd say very unfair for $100.00. I guess the Blu-Ray and the useless vinyl made it so. Nice collection though-of that there can be no doubt.

There is a very detailed description of all the formats this will be available in over on musictap.net.

I can understand the gripe about price point and vinyl, but why knock what you have not yet experienced. I have the Neil Young Archives Box in the BluRay format and it is awesome.The sound quality is incredible and the interactive experience as well.I am hoping more artist go the route of BluRay releases.As long as they take advantage of the Hi Rez,multichannel and interactive capabilities, it's worth the premium.

I'm PROBABLY going to have to stick to the 4 cd version for $'s reasons, especially if it's only $25 as stated above.

But I don't have a blu-ray player and have no plans to buy one at the present time.

Come on now, everybody knows the prices always drop from the SRP.

Well, that's your choice. But many of us do have Blu-ray players and enjoy them greatly. Movies have never looked better, and what music is available to date sounds fantastic! Why is everybody bitching about the deluxe edition? It sounds like a really nice package to me...

It's the price. $25 for four CDs is a great deal. But $75 for the extra stuff is sticking it to the fans. Make a CD/DVD package for the average consumer at a reasonable price and the deluxe for the collectors at a slightly higher price.

If fans continue to buy these expensive deluxes, they'll make more of them. That might be an enticement for some, but some of us aren't made of money and need to make our purchases more judiciously.

A Blu Ray disc can't be that expensive to manufacture as they're already dropping to the $10 range for sale or older titles.

I know vinyl is making a comeback but how many people have a turntable and will be able to appreciate the EP in this package? They usually don't pack these CDs full and may have been able to fit the vinyl portion on the 5th disc or the Blu-Ray. In order to get your money's worth, you need four pieces of electronic equipment, two of which you may not have That may be excessive.

Nobody is bitching about the content (except the stupid vinyl and the Blu-Ray being forced upon the buyer-there is no other option), but the price as Chris said. In today's miserable economic climate especially, anybody has the right to bitch. And, whether it's $100 or the buyer-friendly $80 it comes down to, it's too much. The whole "You don't want it, don't buy it" argument does not work here, as many want it, but cannot afford it-that's a big difference.

Couldn't have said it better me-self. Applies to the other recent mega priced boxes, too (Neil Young & to some degree Beatles).

While I will be in for the deluxe edition...2 things that bother me here are:

1: Why not include the vinyl EP tracks on the Blur-ray disc with the other audio tracks? or on a CD for that matter.
and
2. Why is the bonus DVD material not on a Blu-Ray disc as well. If one owns a Blu-ray player (as I do), it is only natural to want the concert DVD on Blu-ray as well.

This box seems to be a "something for everyone but everything for nobody" type deal.

Roqdawg

well, the audiophile BD players are coming (IIRC Brinkmann, Goldmund and i-forget-who have all announced megabucks players)..... in the meantime, the oppo bdp-83 built-in analog audio is really not bad at all. and: if you didn't know, it is possible to legally access the audio content from HDMI and divert to your DAC of choice -- thereby using the bdp-83 as a BD transport and sending hi-res to your favorite DAC.

i'm listening to NY Archives 24/192 in this manner now.

a real bang-for-the-buck system allowing exceptional 24/192 2-channel playback is bdp-83 >HDMI > (atlona AT-HD570) > Benchmark DAC1. or substitute your favorite DAC with confirmed 24/192 optical input. there are other A/V products such as HDMI-to-DVI adapters which also provide audio breakout on TOS and coax; few are confirmed at 24/192 2-channel (many max out at 24/96)