Help me identify this song (aka another Petty thread)

I found this video today. Its the infamous 1978-12-30 Winterland (San Francisco) show where Petty got pulled off the stage (and gets his shirt torn open! yeah Im in fangirl mode). One of the songs I cannot identify. I don't even know if it's an original or not (though it sounds like most of the lyrics were improvised, so the "googling the song lyrics" trick isn't really working). On my audio recording of the show, it was identified as "Making Love" but I think its a misnomer.

Here's the video if someone wants to try to help me: Please don't pound the bandwidth.

Even if you can't help, it's still a good chance to hear Tom Petty singing about mosquitoes and giraffes having intercourse and some good ol' gender stereotyping

Anyways thanks ahead

Nobody? I'll give you a cookie!

A little more information about the tour so this isn't solely a "bump" post: I call it the December 1978 California minitour. There were only three shows; Winterland and Santa Monica (the next night) are known to exist on video; not sure about the 1978-12-29 show in Redding and I'm not sure why Winterland is in B&W and Santa Monica color.

But anyways, Santa Monica was officially released on DVD a few years back .... and it's missing Del Shannon's appearance. I actually have a real grainy video of him coming on stage & the Heartbreakers backing him up on "Runaway" -- quite good. Anyways, in December 1978, most definitely the recording of Torpedoes had begun at this point. Several of the songs appeared in the shows, and you can actually hear an early arrangement of "Refugee."

Anyways, it was at the Winterland show where someone caught T.P. around the leg and he fell into the crowd and got torn apart. He goes into a lot of detail in Conversations; Bugs (he's one of the roadies) actually dove into the crowd, although I couldn't see much detail -- video is actually quite blurry.

Bleh, I mean to post a few sentences and I end up posting an exposition. Happens every time.

Your link isn't working for me.

Cutlass said:

Your link isn't working for me.

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What happens? If its not a 404 or server not found or something try right click > save link/target as. Its a direct link to the file. If its a problem with playing, try VLC -- works for me.

Any luck?

aimeeandbeatles said:

A little more information about the tour so this isn't solely a "bump" post: I call it the December 1978 California minitour. There were only three shows; Winterland and Santa Monica (the next night) are known to exist on video; not sure about the 1978-12-29 show in Redding and I'm not sure why Winterland is in B&W and Santa Monica color.

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I was talking to a friend who mentioned that the video was on Wolfgang's Vault (the song was labeled there as "Dark End of the Street") and that he believes that while the Santa Monica video was intended for the public, that the Winterland video was for Bill Graham's (concert promoter, not the religious dude) personal collection and that's why it was in black & white.

So anyways I'm still pretty sure that it's mostly improvised except that part at the end. Anyone know for sure?

By the way, I think I solved another mystery. On the Santa Monica show during "Breakdown" you can see people who are not 'Breakers in the background and I've been trying to figure it out. But now with doing screenshots I've figured out one of them is .... Del Shannon! Doing background vocals??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: I just got an email from my TP&HB corrospondent -- he says the other person is Phil Seymour (who did the great harmony vocal arrangement on "Breakdown").

Another edit: Oh shoot, this was not meant to be a quote. Can a moderator please edit that.

Moderator Action: Merged with post above. - KD

I found the answer to the OP in an article. The song is called "Dark End of the Street." (“The band thought I’d gone nuts or something,” Petty explains. “I thought it was just funny.&#8221