VIA PRESS RELEASE | 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, the rare 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 29, the bootleg will be available in a limited vinyl press of 7,000 copies—watch the trailer for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Live In Edinburgh 1982: The Gennaro Tapes below. Pre-order here.
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 ’82, 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)—watch above.
