Tom Petty's $1.7 Million Weekend Windfall

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers earned a cool $1.7 million for just four hours of work this weekend. Friday night, Petty played at financier Leon Black's birthday party in East Hampton - where Mayor Bloomberg seemed to be having "a great time" - for a rumored $850,000 paycheck. The next night, the band earned the same amount to rock Hamptons Social @ Ross,

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[PhillyQuaker]

09:58 AM on 08/29/2007

Tom go for it! Any friend of George and Roy and Jeff and Bob is a-okay in my book.

[EvSmith]

08:45 PM on 08/28/2007

Keith Richards and Tom Petty on the front page.
These are the two best bands in the world, have been for years.
I've seen both live multiple times all within the last decade. They both absolutely deliver the most sonic, dynamic, tasteful performances you might ever experience.
Tom petty at Red rocks or the Gorge ampitheater is unbelievably fat everytime.
The Stones are simply the best rock and roll band of all time, They will never be equalled. I can't believe they may never tour again, drag.

[larry278]

07:45 PM on 08/28/2007

This will be dwarfed by an aging rapper 20 years or now with extra $ to keep up with inflation.

[OhPlease2007]

04:01 PM on 08/28/2007

Damn The Torpedoes ... Full Steam Rock N' Roll Ahead!

A fat and thin mixture of Rickenbacker & Fender Telecaster pickups (with Vox amps), equaled an undeniably classic guitar tone, which, along with Petty's skills as one of the most relevant songwriters of our time, catapulted Petty & The Hertbreakers - to super-star iconic status. To this day, Damn The Torpedoes, is my favorite album;it's such a classic!

And, historically, while the rest of the artists 'seemed' to be led around by the nose by the record industry jacking up prices of their(then) LP records, Petty fought for the fans to keep the prices of his recordings from being unjustifiably raised by the record industry. And to his credit - Petty won the battle and cemented himself in the hearts of music lovers worldwide who enjoy his style of the rock' n' roll based genre.

Lastly, for Petty's style, he will be hard pressed to find a better drummer than Stan Lynch ; Petty's ORIGINAL drummer. Lynch is one of THE best (and most stylistic/tasteful) drummers in the entire history of rock n' roll; F-A-C-T !

[GarysDiscardedCaps]

05:49 PM on 08/28/2007

OhPlease2007,
Tom's OK. Nice tunes. Not at all ground breaking and in fact all are very derivative. This "fat and thin mixture of Rickenbacker & Fender" as you say was "ground breaking" when The Birds first did it in the 60's. TP &THB just rehashed that style in the 70's. Nothing inovative there but nice catchy Rock tunes. As for Stan, also a good drummer, keeps a good steady beat. Inovative, inspiring? No. For this style try Jim Keltner or even Ringo for that matter because that's who he's copping. Nothing new there but still nice to listen too.
As far as the money, I'd say of they want to pay go for it. It's the American way after all. Capitalisum at it's best.

[chilehead]

06:07 PM on 08/28/2007

As far as drummers go, you don't get any better than Neil Peart.

[OhPlease2007]

06:21 PM on 08/28/2007

GarysDiscardedCaps, thanks for your response. To be 'factually accurate' here, I never stated that Petty's sound was, "ground-breaking" or "inovating." Petty has stated in the media -- time and again, that he was influenced by, 'The BYRDS'; this is common knowledge. What I DID 'actually state', is that, Petty achieved an , "undeniably classic guitar tone." Please don't take my posts out of context; that is not being fair & 'accurate.'

As far as YOU thinking that Stan Lynch does not inspire drummers? That is purely YOUR 'opinion.' Furthermore, I find your 'Ringo' reference, suspect at best. But then again, I understand that THAT is, 'YOUR opinion.'

Please don't try to patronize MY opinion; I have many many years experience in musicianship and songwriting in the rock and pop genres and I DO know what I am talking about.

Thanks again for your response.

[SmellyOne]

03:22 PM on 08/28/2007

WINDFALL PROFITS!!!

TAX THIS CAPITALIST PIG 'TIL HE BLEEDS!!!!!

[ScorchedEarth]

02:43 PM on 08/28/2007

Nice payday for a guy from Gainesville, FL. Tom Petty is all class and makes great music.

Bravo!

[kitchenrat]

01:57 PM on 08/28/2007

is this where you go to make a comment about the cop that bush killed in albuquerque?

[TJTelecaster]

12:43 PM on 08/28/2007

Way to go Tom remember the last three words in The Bible brother..

"Get the Cash..!"

[SmootyBooty]

12:39 PM on 08/28/2007

THE single most overrated rock act of all time. TP is a sellout who will do anything for money, including commercials.
HOW MUCH MONEY DO THESE F***ERS NEED?

[ScorchedEarth]

02:45 PM on 08/28/2007

I disagree... his music is not overrated. It's really good. I have a bunch of his albums and you never hear a bad song on any of them. Except for maybe that song Zombie Zoo. That song does in fact suck.

[Prankster]

12:31 PM on 08/28/2007

Saw Iggy a bunch of times in the 70's. Saw him first at the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park, NJ. He was amazing and one of the most outrageous personalities of that time. IGGY LIVES!

[TREDHEK]

02:56 PM on 08/28/2007

But probably not for much longer. He's 60 years old! He should give serious thought to retirement

[jonthebru]

12:20 PM on 08/28/2007

These guys work hard at sounding like a garage band, hungry and lean. Incomes like this make it really, really hard. Damn, what a problem.
Oh yeah, Jeff Lynn is junk.

[visualizechimpeachment]

12:13 PM on 08/28/2007

This kind of thing happens alot. Tom Petty, Steven Tyler, Rod Stewart, Elton, Clapton ... all these stars have played private parties recently because it's easy, they are treated very well, and they can make a million or more in a night.

There's no trick to hiring a famous rock band to play at your party. Ask Jeff Spicoli.

[Libsrule]

12:53 PM on 08/28/2007

Yep, Jeff hired Van Halen to play his party after rescuing Brook Shields...right?

Hell, TWO members of Bon Jovi scored, if memory serves me right, 600 grand for just showing up and playing a dozen acoustic songs for the war profiteer who made lousy body armor for the troops and paid TEN MILLION for his daughter's Bat Mitzvah. I think Tyler from Aerosmith got a bundle for being there as well.

BUT hey, if you can get it, then more power to them. I saw TP and the Homewreckers once and they were okay. Certainly wouldn't pay that exhorbitant amount for them.

Hell I would not pay more than 20 bucks to them and only if the Simpson's weren't on TV.

[drblack]

11:53 AM on 08/28/2007

The Stooges sure ae hell deserve it. I like Petty but face it he kina took the Roger Mcguinn-Byrds thing and did it with a twist.
Also Mike Campbell,the guitarist and co-writer of Petty's best stuff needs more credit.
Jeff Lynn,like many producers found one sound and does it over and over. It is too clean a sound for rock n Roll.
Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators should be in the Hall Of Fame...First Psych band and from Red Neck texas in the mid 60s...brave souls.

[Farva]

11:26 AM on 08/28/2007

Tom Petty is better than Mister-Sunshine-On-My Goddamned-Shoulders John Denver.

[Stanley]

11:03 AM on 08/28/2007

TP rules. Best live show going. They get paid what they are worth. They get it twice in one weekend because they can back it up with a great show for the likes of rich Hamptons gen-xers and Boomers. For us regular folks it still can be had for much less.