A Tribute to Fats Domino, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers On the Mojo Tour, The Dead’s Free Piedmont Park Concert & Farewell to “Band On The Run,” Saturday, February 22, 2020

Good Morning, Ungovernables! We have a full slate of programming today, and we do hope you’ll join us!

The Grateful Dead on stage

Here’s Saturday’s line-up:

11:00 a.m. Album of the Week: Paul McCartney & Wings’ Band On The Run

Our final airing of this masterpiece before we select a new album on Sunday morning!

2:00 p.m. Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal & The New Orleans Social Club, Elton John, and John Lennon all pay tribute to one of the pioneers of rock n’roll.

5:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers On the Road in 2010: The Mojo Tour

10:00 p.m. Live Dead: The Grateful Dead’s Free Concert in Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia (July 7, 1969)

Dead devotees can learn more about this day in Grateful Dead history right here.

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An American Treasure, Our New Album of The Week, and The Sixties Becomes Standard Fare, Sunday, February 16, 2020

Good Morning, Ungovernables! Welcome to this totally fabulous Sunday of programming! Check those times! Nothing is as it was today!

The 1960s

Here’s your Sunday Funday line-up:

10:00 a.m. Tom Petty: An American Treasure

The multi-faceted release engineered by Tom Petty’s family and his bandmates, Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell, was released for holiday time 2018. An American Treasure includes alternate versions of Petty standards, unheard live versions of Heartbreakers’ songs, and several never-before-released songs that make you wonder why they weren’t released. Pay particular attention to Lonesome Dave which, as it turns out, is not only my favorite of the unreleased tracks, but is also Mike Campbell’s. Thank Buddha this guy was a work-a-holic.

3:00 p.m. Album of the Week: Band On The Run, Paul McCartney & Wings

Band On The Run was the third studio album released by Paul McCartney & Wings, and was McCartney’s fifth album since leaving the band known as The Beatles. There is no question that it is a tour de force and, given the circumstances surrounding the way it was recorded, that is a miracle.

5:00 p.m. The Sixties on Sunday!

The Sixties becomes part of our regular rotation today, gettng air time once in the middle of every month. By the time next month rolls around, we’ll have two rotating lists.

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We’re Closing Out Tom Petty (& The Heartbreakers) Month in Fine Fashion!

Good Evening, Ungovernables! It’s the last day of PettyFest here at #BecomeUngovernable Radio and we’re going out in style!

Here’s your program list:

11:00 a.m. Tom Petty’s Final Interview

Contrary to urban legend, Tom Petty did not know he was going to pass into the great wide open. He had plans.

2:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of The Traveling Wilburys

The things they did just for fun and because they liked each other.

7:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live in Santa Monica (12.31.78)

The legendary New Year’s Eve show with a great version of Shout.

10:00 p.m. Happy Anniversary, Damn The Torpedoes!

The Heartbreakers’ signature album was released forty years ago on October 19th. It’s time to celebrate. This is an expanded version of the album, with some outtakes and demos. Enjoy!

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It’s a “Rare” Day For Fans of The Beatles, the Ungovernable Report Returns, and More From The Heartbreakers, Friday, October 25, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! We’ve got some prime Beatles stuff coming up for you today so let’s get to it!

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Here’s today’s line-up:

11:00 a.m. The Beatles: The Let It Be Sessions

This is rare and previously unreleased audio of the Beatles at work developing the tracks for Let It Be.

2:00 p.m. The Beatles: Let It Be Naked

The stripped down version of a great album the way it was meant to be heard before Phil Spector applied his infamous “wall of sound.”

5:00 p.m. The Ungovernable Report

With Sarah Freels still sidelined, Adam Rice steps up to the plate one more time to deliver the news. Sarah will return for the next episode.

8:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at The Fillmore (1999)

Tom Petty month is winding down, but we’ve still got some great stuff on tap!

Did I mention that in between all this programmed material, we’re streaming the best damned music on the planet?

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Open Stream All Day Long; A Nod to The Heartbreakers in the Evening, Tuesday, October 22, 2019

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There’s only one for the line-up this evening:

8:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Olympic (2002)

This is officially known as The Last DJ Tour. This was the one album that the Heartbreakers made that didn’t have a unifying ‘theme’ to it, or so the rumor goes. I think the critics are regimented in this industry. Apparently, the prevailing sentiment among the snobby writers is that a mere collection of fucking great songs isn’t enough.

Actually, The Last DJ is (and always has been) about greed –that’s the only unifying theme it needs. Tom Petty was the one music artist who stood up and told the industry that he thought music was overpriced and that’s why people pirated it. Everybody else remained mute.

Tune in. You’ll enjoy it.

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Happy Birthday, Tom Petty! They’ll Be Rocking’ Across the Nation Today, Sunday, October 20, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! It’s officially Tom Petty’s birthday anniversary. He would have been 69 today. In honor of Gainesville’s favorite son, we’re celebrating with The Live Anthology today.

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Here’s the line-up for today!

9:00 a.m. The Ungovernables Report

The one and only serious item on the menu for today.

11:00 a.m. The Live Anthology, Disc 1

2:00 p.m. The Live Anthology, Disc 2

5:00 p.m. The Live Anthology, Disc 3

8:00 p.m. The Live Anthology, Disc 4

Tune in and join the nationwide celebration!

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TP Month Continues with Charles T. Wilbury, Jr., Back in Time With Donovan, and the Spotlight on George Harrison, Saturday, October 12, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables, today the focus is on the Wilburys as we continue to pay tribute to Tom Petty this month.

Donovan

Here’s your Saturday line-up:

11:00 a.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Donovan

2:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Traveling Wilburys Collection

Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. as Tom Petty is nothing short of amazing.

6:00 p.m. The Ungovernables Report

All the news that you’d rather ignore, but shouldn’t.

8:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of George Harrison (Nelson Wilbury)

11:00 p.m. Orson Welles’ Original War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast

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Onward With the Petty Party, Mudcrutch, How Sweet Soul Music Is, and Frank Zappa Meets Captain Beefheart, Monday, October 7, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! We’re continuing on with the Petty Party today, and we’re introducing something brand new.

Al Green

10:00 a.m. That Sweet Soul Sound

From the Reverend Al to the Temptations. There’s no finer sound.

1:00 p.m. Mudcrutch Madness

The band that left Gainesville with Tom Petty may not have worked out the way he wanted, but it morphed into Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. The rest, as they say, is musical history.

5:00 p.m. An Evening with Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart

Not sure much else needs to be said here!

9:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at the Olympic (2002)

This live performance was part of The Last DJ Tour.

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The Petty Party Continues and It’s Happy Birthday to Stevie Ray Vaughan!

Good Morning, Ungovernables! Thought we’d do something a bit different today, so we’re taking a close-up look at three Tom Petty albums, two with the Heartbreakers and one solo effort, Highway Companion, one of my all-time favorite Petty albums.

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Here’s the line up:

10:00 a.m. Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreaux (1982 & 1985)

Today would have been SRV’s 65th birthday, born in the great year of 1954 (along with yours truly). This guy’s life was cut far too short. One of the greatest blues singers and guitarists ever.

1:00 p.m. Tom Petty’s Highway Companion (released July 25, 2006)

Don’t bother to listen to the critics. All they ever wanted this guy to do is rock out. He’s a whole lot more than that. In fact, his bandmates never understood why he didn’t make an all-acoustic album. He apparently didn’t think he was a good enough guitar player to go there. (He may be no Mike Campbell, but he’s no slouch on that thing.) This is, in my humble opinion, one of the finest albums I’ve heard.

4:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ Hypnotic Eye (released July 29, 2014)

The Heartbreakers’ thirteenth and final studio album was one of the best ever. Up until this release, I truly believed that Damn The Torpedoes, would go down in history as the band’s crowning achievement. Not so. (We will get to DTT also.)

7:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers’ Mojo (released July 15, 2010)

The Heartbreakers’ twelfth album was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs, and was created as a blues album. If you are a music aficionado and care to explore, there’s a cool little story behind this one.

Pull up a tab. This is going to be a good one.

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Tom Petty’s Childhood Home Saved!

I’ve been talking about expanding the scope of this blog, and I finally found a way to kick that off! For me, this is a real ‘feel good’ musical story and I’m happy to make this my first non-programming post.

After Tom Petty passed, his childhood home was put on the market, no doubt by someone hoping to cash in. The first interest in the property came from a fan who was also a real estate developer. He announced his intention to buy the property and turn it into a “museum.”

Tom Petty childhood home

Enter Jane Benyo Petty, Tom’s ex-wife. She stepped in and purchased the property for $175,000. While there are no immediate plans to do anything with the property except make sure it is not “disturbed,” Jane said that she felt it should be kept in the family and felt certain that Tom Petty would not want it to be turned into a museum.