More unearthed French TV footage of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers has hit YouTube. A newly restored 1982 performance of “Finding Out” at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, captured by director Justin Kreutzmann, follows previously released clips of “Between Two Worlds” and “Keeping Me Alive” from the same session. The audio from these performances is featured on the new deluxe edition of the band’s 1982 classic Long After Dark.
“[‘Finding Out’] is a really exciting song and I love it,” producer Ryan Ulyate says of the song. “The tempo is up. There’s a version of it that they did live in the studio which is on [Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition)] that’s even faster. I left some of the chatter in there, and I think Benmont Tench just says, ‘God that was fast!’”
Long After Dark is the Heartbreakers’ fifth studio album and the first to feature bassist and backing vocalist Howie Epstein. Produced by Petty and Jimmy Iovine, it features the hits “You Got Lucky” and “Change Of Heart.” Upon its original release, Rolling Stone called it Petty’s “most accomplished record.” Critic Fred Schruers continued, “Petty has narrowed his world to a one-on-one emotional connection and decided to cut a few simple truths into stone. He’s going about it with a trim, meticulously recorded group sound that makes every fistful of strings grabbed by Petty or Mike Campbell sound as near and natural as a fast river parted by rocks.”
Petty once said, “There was some music recorded for Long After Dark that didn’t get on the record, that I thought would’ve made it a better album.” The newly released deluxe edition delivers on that promise, building out from the original 10-song tracklist with 12 additional tracks, seven of them previously unreleased. The reissue also features new liner notes by veteran Rolling Stone journalist David Fricke.
Listen to the deluxe edition of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark now.