KSUL & Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

On Friday, June 6, 1980, the KSUL staff and listeners boarded a bus in the turnaround in front of Long Beach State. The destination was the ABC Studios in Hollywood where we were part of the audience for a, then, new late night television show called "Fridays" -- ABC's short lived answer to Saturday Night Live. The "real" reason we were all so excited about going to this "TV show" was that the musical guest for that night's show was Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - who at the time - was just out of a nasty lawsuit with his record company and was back with a new album -- "Damn the Torpedos". Our group were the last to be let into the studio, but ended up in the first few rows where we got to see TP and the boys do, the classic, "American Girl' and a new song "Shadow Of A Doubt (Complex Kid)".

Both songs are featured in the new Peter Bogdanovich documentary "Runnin' On A Dream: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers" and included on the bonus CD that comes with the 3 DVD package.

I have yet to wade through the hours of material included with this great documentary, but from what I've seen so far, this package is well worth the price if you are a TP fan.