Tom Petty - American Girl

[Carlvskansas]

jesus this is awesome

[MrQuinceymagoo]

I thought it was supposed to be guitar solo not a horn section solo.

[billwitt2010]

@DaLynxfighta Fuckin' Towlhead

[LeeJTurnock]

He looks like a cross between Roger McGuinn and Graeme Garden. Great song though.

[8z88z]

Love his jacket!!!!

[bookboyolismaster]

That man is a lad.

[Jstykz31]

During his opening number, "American Girl", Tom Petty flipped the middle finger to somebody off stage about one minute into song. Petty stated the song was a last minute addition when the band realised that they would be the first act to play the American side of the concert after the London finale and "since this is, after all, JFK Stadium".

[FunkKlock]

damn watching these live aid videos are torture. why was i born way too late DAMN!!!

[TheYajrennat]

Howie

[Zooomabooma]

SMMMMO-KINNN!!!!!!

[wellingtonian]

Bring back Stan Lynch!

[solefthanded2]

A big *thumbs up*, Go Giants SB42!!

[DaLynxfighta]

a song for them ? Is he crazy ? Yeah he is... american girls are the most disgusting girls in the world. and i feel pain for the man who was begotten by one of them.

[BuggsBonnie]

@DaLynxfighta...Really? American women are the most amazing and beautiful women in the world. You, on the other hand, are disgusting and repulsive. No decent American woman would have a loser such as yourself.

[dafaton3]

@DaLynxfighta You've clearly never been to the South. Best looking women in the world.

[SimmonsDrums]

Red drum pad in 0.20 is SDS 8 or SDS 7?

[jaylynnmaholick]

i cant beleive he is gone

[grafzahlization]

HE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL.

just in case you haven't noticed.

[PicciProductions]

R.I.P. Howie

[KarineGundacker166]

You can grab the audio-mp3 of this tune at greatgrabber doht cohm.

[WinterBot7877]

Happy birthday Tom!! 

[fartmagnet]

The original american bad ass!

[LukePeetsMusic]

those glasses make him look really nerdy and gross

[perhapsbigd]

three people missed the 'like' button

[VikingAmps]

You think maybe he was upset about playing in the dark?

[bigtorquehemi]

looks like Tom might be havin a little bout of cotton mouth....haha

[thgil567]

I am curious about what the audience did to influence the flip off.

[lawlessone03]

@thgil567 someone else had this video up on YT and claimed to be the camera operator. The finger is aimed at the camera. Whoever the cameraman was, Dr. Petty was probaby just screwing around and having fun.

[PADOC76]

One finger salute fom Tom @ 1:17 is

directed @ the BS written on this page!

[unskinnyboba]

Petty was not going to do this song, he added it on the set list at the last minute when it hit him that he was the first act to play the American side after Wembly finished. "After all this is JFK Stadium" he said afterwards.

[paintbokx]

is he trying to get them to turn up the monitors or something? he keeps pointing his finger up and then walks out in front of the monitors and throws his hands in the air, haha. still pretty pro that he nailed the song in spite of technical issues.

[MrCiaran31]

A cool version ;-P I'd really appreciate it if you guys/gals checked out my humble cover :-D

[ILOVEBEECHCRAFT]

hahah 1:16 wtf "she was...flip off...an american girl"

[Page27music]

its the best strokes rip off going....well the into is.nothing else.

peace out.

[GPhoenixMan]

Are you saying that this is a rip off of the Strokes, or that the Strokes ripped this off? None of the Strokes were even born when Tom Petty wrote this.

[DuNZCruiser]

Uhhh. The Strokes were in diapers when this song was performed. They ripped Petty off.....

[smautomat]

@DuNZCruiser : Well, yeah! Saying that Tom Petty ripped off The Strokes makes about as much sense as saying that The Beatles ripped off Justin Beiber's hair style!

[thgil567]

@Page27music

Especially since The Strokes formed more than twenty years after "American Girl" was written by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Whatever song that The Strokes have out that sounds like this is the best Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rip off going.

[MultiMicci]

Taylor Swifts cover is so much better

[Thegoodmusic56]

Yeah... got nothing against it but the original is so much better

[janxsustr]

:-D ... It is rather an exception to do a cover better than original. Maybe Johny Cash could od that ;-) You have to do some new, original, unexpectable and good with a song to do a good cover and it´s still a cover :-) TS just sings well song of someone else. No mistakes, no surprises. But peace for her, no problem :-)

[eileenfleming]

"I am an American 'girl' too-and i was raised on the promises that the US was always the 'good guy!'

But, it is a great big world and i learned that was BULLSHIT on my first of 7 trips to Israel and occupied Palestine in 2005.

Did you know that in 1948 the establishment of Israel created 750,000 REFUGEES who are still denied EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS-and US POLICY is BIG REASON WHY!

little sister @ WeAreWideAwake and I won't back down!"

[TopJimmyWinn]

Hello from Gainesville!

[Maverick5588]

everytime i hear this song i think of the silence of the lambs lol.

[Pirate4T]

hahah wow big side beard or what you call it :P

[Barelypostvids]

i was reading some of the comments as the song started and to be honested i did lol when i scrolled up to the vid at 0:35

[bigdragon8me]

1:15

No fuck you Tom Petty!

Haha just kidding you're awesome.

[breenimania68]

haha i love this song but he looks like he should be a monster in a guillermo del toro movie.

[superlou1s]

i think its the mutton chops and tiny sunglasses.

[gherkamum]

Great live track

Terry

[keef186]

How come only Crockett was there? Where was Tubbs?

[2drunk4this]

Hey...don't get me wrong...i love Tom...but holy fuck he's a creepy looking dude...like you aunts boyfriend or somethig....

[lawlessone03]

@2drunk4this - That probably is why he's a much more successful rocker and not some "good looking" Hollywood, self-aborbed crack addict.

[simennsx]

1:15 HAHA!

Don't think he like the audience

[jackshadbolt]

I too though he was flippin the old bird, BUT that was/is how he holds his guitar pick. haha wonder if anyone told him he just flipped or hundreds of tousands of people?

[calzaki]

Actually I think close to 1 billion people watched this concert including every country in Europe, including the USSR. and almost 1 million people right in front of the stage :p

[ace19428]

Sorry Calzaki, there was NOT a million people there. I live in Philadelphia, and JFK - when filled for a concert - was about 100,000 to 105,000 people for that show.

[carefulwiththat]

I grew up listening to this guy, he's fucking still awesome.

[Ergreenthumb]

Haahaa, he does flip off the crowd!! Tom Petty is so cool!!

Not sure if I like the horns on this song.

[heydoode]

Tom kinda looks like a werewolf in this hahah

I love his coat though!

[JBRTelecaster93]

the horn licks fron 3:00 really suck IMO

[GoodbyeLaurelei]

i think he does it again at 1:37

[Whicol2]

At 1:15 is Tom flipping the crowd off?

[MegaAndy93]

@Whicol2 oh yes hahaha

[MrDannyLW]

@Whicol2 yes :')

[YankeesObama]

1:16

wtf?? lol

[SmexyFaust]

That is so great! I didn't even notice it when I first saw it!

[jordanuhiskewl]

man it does sound like last nite lol

[Graham60543]

kind of but this was written way b4 last nite

[jordanuhiskewl]

youre kidding seriously?!??????.....douche

[buffalobraves9]

An American Institution. It should be in the Smithsonian...

[Graham60543]

what year is this?

[stanjonz]

1985

[BeanyBBG]

great video, thx for uploading this. can anyone tell me which year this was?

[Spmilo]

its live aid in 85

[GoodbyeLaurelei]

philly or london?

[StonehamProductions]

philly

[everestthunders]

thanks for posting

[gusgorilla76]

Brilliant!!

[ledzepp10050]

how many middle fingers is enough? but gotta love the style.

[Ministryoflove45]

I still don't get why he did that. But this song got me into Tom Petty.

[cymru1991]

Love this song!!!!

[pedraa]

LEGENDARY!!

[birdman404]

never heard this song before and its not bad!!

[lovejohnlennon]

This video has a tendency to disappear!