Pack Up the Plantation: Live!

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Essential Rock Discography	4/10^[2]
MusicHound	^[3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed)^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]
Sounds	^[6]

Pack Up the Plantation: Live! is the first live album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in November 1985. It was primarily recorded at the Wiltern Theatre during their 1985 tour but also includes several tracks from previous tours. It was released as a double LP or single cassette and compact disc.

A concert film of the Wiltern Theatre performance, also titled Pack Up the Plantation: Live! was released on home video in 1986. It included songs that did not make the album, such as originals "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Don't Come Around Here No More", as well as covers such as "Little Bit O' Soul" and "Route 66".

Sandy Robertson, reviewing the album for Sounds described it as "a turgid four-sided video soundtrack".^[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Petty except as noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"	Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn	3:30
2.	"Needles and Pins"	Sonny Bono, Jack Nitzsche	2:23
3.	"The Waiting"		5:08
4.	"Breakdown"		7:43
5.	"American Girl"		3:50
6.	"It Ain't Nothin' to Me"	Petty, David A. Stewart	6:05
7.	"Insider"		5:16
8.	"Rockin' Around (With You)"	Petty, Mike Campbell	3:20
9.	"Refugee"	Petty, Campbell	5:22
10.	"I Need to Know" (LP and cassette only)		2:30
11.	"Southern Accents"		5:20
12.	"Rebels"		6:10
13.	"Don't Bring Me Down"	Gerry Goffin, Carole King	3:40
14.	"You Got Lucky" (LP and cassette only)		4:20
15.	"Shout"	O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley	9:30
16.	"Stories We Could Tell"	John Sebastian	3:55

The cover songs "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Don't Bring Me Down" would later appear on Playback; "So You Want ..." also shows up on Anthology: Through the Years. The two songs only on vinyl or cassette have never been officially released on CD. Both songs were also initially not included in the 2015 Hi-Rez remaster, despite being a digital download without time limits, but after fan response, they were belatedly added to the release..

Recording information

All tracks recorded at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, August 7, 1985 except,

"Don't Bring Me Down" – Paradise Theater, Boston, July 16, 1978
"Stories We Could Tell" – Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, March 7, 1980, engineered by Charles Kaplan in the Mobile Manor Unit
"Needles and Pins" & "Insider" – The Forum, Los Angeles, June 1981
"Shout" – The Coliseum, Richfield, Ohio, March 19, 1983
"Rockin' Around (With You)" – Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine, California, June 1983

Personnel

Tom Petty – 6 & 12-string electric & acoustic guitars, lead vocals
Mike Campbell – lead guitar, 12-string, lap steel & slide guitars
Howie Epstein – bass, mandolin & harmony vocals
Benmont Tench – keyboards & vocals
Stan Lynch – drums & vocals

Soul Lips Horns: (on tracks recorded at the Wiltern Theater)

Jimmy Zavala – saxes, harmonica
Lee Thornburg – trumpets, flugel horn
Nick Lane – trombones, euphonium

The Rebeletts: (on tracks recorded at the Wiltern Theater)

Pat Peterson – backing vocals, percussion
Caroll Sue Hill – backing vocals, percussion

Musicians:

Ron Blair – bass on "Insider", "Needles and Pins", "Stories We Could Tell" & "Don't Bring Me Down"
Phil Jones – percussion on "Insider", "Needles and Pins", "Rockin' Around (With You)" & "Shout"
Bobby Valentino – violin on "Stories We Could Tell"
Stevie Nicks – vocals on "Insider" & "Needles and Pins"

References

↑ Pack Up the Plantation: Live! at AllMusic
↑ Strong, Martin C. (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate. p. 816. ISBN 978-1-84195-827-9.
↑ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds) (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. p. 870. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
↑ Guterman, Jimmy (1986-01-16). "Pack Up The Plantation: Live!". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
↑ "Tom Petty: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
1 2 Robertson, Sandy (1985) "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 'Pack Up the Plantation Live!'", Sounds, 14 December 1985, p. 28

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty Mike Campbell Benmont Tench Ron Blair Scott Thurston Steve Ferrone Stan Lynch Howie Epstein

Studio albums	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers You're Gonna Get It! Damn the Torpedoes Hard Promises Long After Dark Southern Accents Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Into the Great Wide Open Songs and Music from "She's the One" Echo The Last DJ Mojo Hypnotic Eye

Tom Petty solo albums	Full Moon Fever Wildflowers Highway Companion

Live albums	Official Live 'Leg Pack Up the Plantation: Live! Bad Girl Boogie The Live Anthology Mojo Tour 2010

Compilations	Greatest Hits Playback Anthology: Through the Years

Videography	Pack Up the Plantation: Live! Playback Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ Runnin' Down a Dream

Songs	"Breakdown" "American Girl" "Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll" "I Need to Know" "Listen to Her Heart" "Don't Do Me Like That" "Refugee" "Here Comes My Girl" "The Waiting" "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" "You Got Lucky" "Change of Heart" "Don't Come Around Here No More" "Rebels" "Make It Better (Forget About Me)" "Jammin' Me" "I Won't Back Down" "Runnin' Down a Dream" "Free Fallin'" "A Face in the Crowd" "Yer So Bad" "Learning to Fly" "Into the Great Wide Open" "Mary Jane's Last Dance" "You Don't Know How It Feels" "Christmas All Over Again" "Walls (Circus)" "The Last DJ" "Square One" "Saving Grace"

Production	Jimmy Iovine David A. Stewart Robbie Robertson Jeff Lynne Rick Rubin George Drakoulias

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