The project will be released on Black Friday
The Tom Petty Estate and Third Man Records are collaborating to share a unique bootleg performance of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers recorded by house sound mixer Gennaro Rippo. Taped at the band’s show in Edinburgh, Scotland, Live in Edinburg 1982: The Gennero Tapes recording showcases a raw era-defining moment in the band’s career as they toured their groundbreaking record, Long After Dark. Set for release on November 29th, the bootleg will be available in a limited vinyl press of 7,000 copies.
The offering is inspired by Third Man Record’s Jack White and Ben Blackwell, longtime fans of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and their enthusiasm for hearing something raw and unpolished from the band in this golden era.
The release marks the first and only Petty live recording that hasn’t been touched since the day it was captured, pressed directly from cassette to vinyl, provided by beloved sound mixer Gennaro Rippo. The band enjoyed listening to the cassette tapes after shows in what they would call affectionately “Gennaro’s Hawaiian Disco,” often giving him the Presidential Suite in the hotel for the band to hang out and listen each night.
This previously unreleased show is available as a three-disc collection in three unique colorways, including Tom Petty Store-exclusive turquoise vinyl, Third Man Records Store-exclusive maroon reverse splatter, and indie retail-exclusive orange wisp.
Recorded during the band’s Long After Dark Tour in the fall of 1982, The Gennaro Tapes rounds out an incredible look at the 1982 collection of archival footage and music shared by the Tom Petty Estate this year. Cameron Crowe’s documentary, Heartbreakers Beach Party and Long After Dark Deluxe Edition, including 45 minutes of rediscovered music have delighted fans this fall. Petty’s unearthed original single from the deluxe edition, “Never Be You,” is out now with a new music video created and directed by animator Jeff Scher (Bob Dylan, Graham Nash, Paul Simon).
Side A:
1. American Girl
2. Listen To Her Heart
3. A Thing About You
4. You Got Lucky
Side B:
5. I Need To Know
6. Don’t Do Me Like That
7. I’m In Love
8. Change Of Heart
9. Louie Louie
Side C:
10. Straight Into Darkness
11. Stories We Could Tell
12. Louisiana Rain
Side D:
13. One Story Town
14. A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)
15. Kings Road
Side E:
16. Breakdown
(Hit The Road Jack Interlude)
17. Refugee
Side F:
18. Shout
19. So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
20. Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll
