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Tom Petty: Hypnotic Eye

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Label: Reprise Records
Released: 2014.07.29
Time:
 44:47
Category: Heartland Rock, Rock & Roll
Producer(s): Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Ryan Ulyate
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tompetty.com
Appears with: Traveling Wilburys, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, George Harrison
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] American Dream Plan B (T.Petty) - 3:00
[2] Fault Lines (T.Petty/M.Campbell) - 4:28
[3] Red River (T.Petty) - 3:59
[4] Full Grown Boy (T.Petty) - 3:26
[5] All You Can Carry (T.Petty) - 4:34
[6] Power Drunk (T.Petty) - 4:39
[7] Forgotten Man (T.Petty) - 2:48
[8] Sins of My Youth (T.Petty) - 3:49
[9] U Get Me High (T.Petty) - 4:11
[10] Burnt Out Town (T.Petty) - 3:05
[11] Shadow People (T.Petty) - 6:37

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Tom Petty - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar on [1-9,11], Lead Guitar on [9,10,11], Fuzz Bass on [3], High Bass on [7], Bass on [9], Producer

Mike Campbell - Lead Guitar, Lead Guitar on [9], Rhythm Guitar on [10], Producer
Scott Thurston - Rhythm Guitar on [1,3,5-8,11], 12-String Guitar on [4], Harmonica on [2,10], Tambourine on [9]
Benmont Tench - Piano on [1-7,10,11], Electric Piano on [1,6,11], Organ on [1-3,5-9,11], Mellotron on [4,8,11], Synthesizer on [5]
Ron Blair - Bass Guitar on [1-8,10-11]
Steve Ferrone - Drums, Percussion on [6,7]
Josh Jove - Fuzz Guitar on [7], Assistant Engineer
Ryan Ulyate - Background Vocals on [8], Engineer, Mixing, Producer

Greg Looper - Backline Technician, Engineer, Monitor Engineer
Chase Simpson - Assistant Engineer
Chris Bellman  - Mastering
Ryan Corey - Design
Jeri Heiden - Art Direction
Nick Steinhardt - Art Direction, Design
Andy Tennile - Band Photo
Michael Zysman - Photography
Frantisek Czanner - Back Cover Photo
Alan Weidel - Backline Technician, Logistics
David Greene - Backline Technician, Drum Technician
Travis Weidel - Backline Technician
Wayne Williams - Backline Technician
Steve Winstead - Backline Technician
Joshua Hassell - Backline Technician
John Bunker - Backline Technician
Mark Carpenter - Backline Technician

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When Tom Petty emerged in the mid-Seventies, he was the perfect down-to-earth rock star for the times: a hungry Southern boy playing tight rock & roll in mellow Southern California, kicking against the era’s soft-bellied complacency with hard-jangling realness. On Hypnotic Eye, the 63-year-old and his eternal Heartbreakers return to the scrappy heat of those early days with their toughest, most straight-up rocking record in many years, deepened by veteran perspective. "I feel like a four letter word," Petty sings on "Forgotten Man," which sounds like "American Girl" remade as a Bo Diddley roof-rumbler. You can be sure as shit that four letter word isn’t "darn" or "rats"

Hypnotic Eye took three years to make, but it often sounds like buddies out on a weekend garage-jam bender. It’s especially reminiscent of their first two records, 1976’s Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and 1978’s You’re Gonna Get It!, before they hit on the crystal- line polish of 1979’s Damn the Torpedoes. It’s also of a piece with the foundational vibe of 2008’s Mudcrutch, where Petty convened the country-rock band he and two future Heartbreakers (guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench) played in Florida in the early Seventies before they hit L.A.

Yet there are few, if any, attempts to reenact Petty’s vintage hits. This is the Heartbreakers four decades and a million shows later, deepening their attack with sturdy reliability. On "Faultlines," Petty and Campbell exchange snarling guitar phrases against a swamp-boogie swing from drummer Steve Ferrone and bassist Ron Blair. On "Red River," the band’s trademark Byrdsy shimmer comes with extra crunch and desert horizon beauty. Sometimes the intensity doesn’t even need to be loud, as with the subdued "Full Grown Boy," where Tench plays jazz-shaded piano and Petty pushes his voice into a relaxed croon for the wee small hours.

Petty populates these urgent songs with a cast of desperate dreamers, zealots, doomed lovers, loose cannons and alienated zombies like the woman in "Red River" stockpiling powerless religious talismans, the doomsaying town crier in the highway rocker "All You Can Carry," or Petty himself in the forebodingly caustic "Shadow People," wondering what role he can play "in my time of need, in my time of grief."

The most sympathetic of these characters is the defiant freefaller in "American Dream Plan B," clinging to hope against all evidence. "My success is anybody’s guess/But like a fool I’m betting on happiness," Petty sings over acrid blasts of distortion. You can imagine the guy hearing this song on his car radio and using it to steel himself for life’s next knee in the grapes. When the God touched chorus kicks in, full of Petty’s ringing chords and Campbell’s psychedelic fuzz, it’s like a backslap of brotherly reassurance. If a Katy Perry song had come on the radio, he might’ve swerved into oncoming traffic. But not today. Tom Petty has saved drive time once again, just like he’s been doing since he was a cranky young man himself.

Jon Dolan - July 29, 2014
RollingStone.com



Looking back, it's clear the 2008 Mudcrutch reunion was pivotal for Tom Petty, helping him re-focus and re-dedicate himself to playing in a band. Like the original band, Mudcrutch Mach II didn't last long - long enough to play a few shows and record a warm, gangly beast of an album - but it reinvigorated Petty. Afterward, he reveled in the sound of how the Heartbreakers played, digging deep into his catalog to shake up his set lists, letting the group exercise some blues muscles on 2010's Mojo, a record that stood as the Heartbreakers' rowdiest record since the '70s but which is easily overshadowed by the trashy psychedelic pulse of 2014's Hypnotic Eye. Teeming with fuzz, overdriven organ, and hard four-four rhythms, all interrupted by the occasional blues workout or jazz shuffle, Hypnotic Eye comes across as a knowing splice of Petty's own XM radio show Buried Treasures and Little Steven Van Zandt's Sirius channel Underground Garage, a record that celebrates all the disreputable 45s created in garages so they could be played in garages. Occasionally, the band evoke memories of their own past - "Shadow People" has guitar tones straight out of Shelter Records - but they're largely dedicated to the sounds that provided them with their original inspirations. What prevents Hypnotic Eye from sliding into the arena of soft, desperate nostalgia is a combination of muscle and savvy, a combination that gives the album a strong infrastructure - Petty strips his songs to the bone; they're so lean they feel as if they clock in at two minutes, even if they run twice that long - and a sonic wallop. Much of that visceral thrill is due to co-producers Petty, guitarist Mike Campbell, and Ryan Ulyate accentuating the intuitive interplay in the Heartbreakers with sharp, striking slashes of color; this gives the record immediacy and complexity, which means there is enough aural activity that repeated plays do not dull the LP's initial bracing impact. Ultimately, Hypnotic Eye is a record about the pure joy of sound, a rush that doesn't lessen upon repetition - a sentiment that's true of those old '60s garage rock singles and early Heartbreakers albums, and this is a surprisingly, satisfyingly vigorous record.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Hypnotic Eye is the 13th studio album from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and the first album from the band in four years. "I knew I wanted to do a rock & roll record, " Petty told Rolling Stone in April. "We hadn't made a straight hard-rockin' record, from beginning to end, in a long time."

Amazon.com



Hypnotic Eye is the 13th studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on July 29, 2014, by Reprise Records. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album to ever top the chart. Hypnotic Eye captured immediate attention and was nominated for a Grammy award in 2015 for 'Best Rock Album'. The first sessions for the album occurred in August 2011 at the band's Los Angeles-based rehearsal space, the "Clubhouse," where the song "Burnt Out Town" was recorded. The album marks a stylistic return to the band's first two albums, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976) and You're Gonna Get It! (1978).

On June 10, 2014, the song "American Dream Plan B" was released as the lead single from the album, along with two additional tracks, "Red River" and "U Get Me High," from the band's website and digital stores. A month later, a CD single with "American Dream Plan B" and "U Get Me High" and a coupon for $2 off the price of the album were released. The tracks "Forgotten Man" and "Fault Lines" were released for streaming by the band's website in early July 2014. Additionally, all five tracks released in promotion of Hypnotic Eye were released on an "interactive radio" with a tuning dial that finds the tracks for listeners.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 131,000 copies in the United States.

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