Sunday, August 10, 2025
Time: 3:31 PM
Song: Room at the Top
Artist: Tom Petty
Mode of Consumption: Listening to the album “Echo” on Spotify
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7By7UYWA21PcKoKCl8ZaI7?si=34e4220bcd5f4941
This is the follow up post to yesterday’s post.
The second album that always makes me think of the fair is Tom Petty’s “Echo.”
In the summer of 1999, Petty released this album and simultaneously DirectTV was playing a free Petty concert on loop where he was debuting a lot of these songs along with some of his classics.
This was the summer before my senior year of high school, and so really, the last fair of my youth. I don’t remember a lot about the actual fair, other than it was in an era when it was starting to hit some tough times. The crowds were small, and there might have been a night or two of rainy weather.
I ran around most nights with a group of friends that included Jodi, her cousin, Abbie, my friends Jake and Kyle, and likely a few others depending on the night.
I don’t think I had started football practice yet for the season, although it’s possible that was starting, too. I also might have baled some hay during the days.
All of that is possible.
I do know that we went back to Jake’s house at least one of the nights and re-watched this concert, probably for the tenth or eleventh time that summer.
It’s easy to slip into listening to Tom Petty. Clearly, his tunes are catchy, but they sort of seduce you into the little four-of-five-minute worlds he creates.
I realize now that I was in a little four-or-five-minute world of my own, one that was on the brink of changing drastically over the next year or two.
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