Behind "The Waiting" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

[MsZombikilla]

Smoke on Tom! Mr MOJO!

[Lisalikesclassic]

Why do I want to cry when he sings?

[km25648]

He is so stoned here.

[Truesettingsun]

love tp and h.

[mthrnatrsson1]

GREAT !!!!

[Cashcrawler]

What an incredible songwriter. Thank you for posting this man I needed a lift. I am going crazy with the hollow and meaningless crap we are being force fed. I am building a website dedicated to independent artists and real songwriters...anyone wanna help me? Go to audioinspiration (dot) com or indiemusiczone (dot).com lets turn this ship around!

[sixstrings2]

That is a great riff........

[ibanezae20]

i wish i had the acoustic chords to this

[sniper00006]

@ibanezae20 Well uhh... watch his fingers and do the same with yours. He plays it the same way no matter what video you watch. This particular video helps you out with the acoustic version, and you just play it a little faster for the electric version. Pretty simple but you have to get the beat right. I use a super jumbo, and it sounds almost completely correct when you drop her down a half-step. Thats with EJ-26s on there.

[jlehane3]

Instant classic,and Eddie knew it.Look at him lovin it,wanting to BE Tom Petty and stand right next to him doing it. So cool.

[mojorisen74]

"Baby don't it feel like heaven right now" is a great way to open a song! Not only that but alot of the greatest songs ever written have taken weeks or even years to write.

[1977rpearce]

I remember around 1979(give or take) I bought an 8 track of Your Gonna Get It after I head Joe Anthony "The Godfather of Rock and Roll" in San Antonio play "I need to Know" on 99.5 KISS FM. My 1st wife said "I never heard of Tom Petty". I use to request Joe and Lou to play it all the time back then. Met the drummer a few years ago at sycamore cove, he was a guest speaker for C.A. Peace Out Tom.

[briansmobile1]

Tom Petty and his music are so solid and consistent. It rocks, yet it's mellow too.  It's Hip and it's timeless.

[Superphilipp]

This song is from the 80s?? Fuck me. The first time I heard it I thought it was a Byrds song.

[10ccalanarkush]

I like him a lot, but he's like a dead ringer for simple jack

[johnhamilton08]

Petty is a music God, up there with Beatles, Dylan and so on.

[MrTatorTott]

I've listened to him for so long!

I remember getting in the car leaving my grandparents and my mom was like "I've got somthing you'll like!"

and she played american girl by Tom petty and i was hooked :p

lol i was like 6 or 7

[johngrnwd]

Just saw him in concert in indianapolis. What a great show, and it was surprising there was a lot of young fans there. Good to see.

[mistertomo123]

Tom Petty and Eddie Vedder together live: that would be a feckin' dream come true!

[crazyguy1279]

@mistertomo123 they did!!

[coozcooz21]

im not a big eddie vedder fan but i will agree with him, the girls did and still do love tom petty

[OneGoalOneMission]

i am going to his concert in june. i am soooooooo excited.

[jasminr70]

@OneGoalOneMission me too! in oakland =D

[OneGoalOneMission]

@jasminr70  im going to the one in vancouver

[jusbow567]

@OneGoalOneMission and sooooooo lucky

[PrinceCharminglol23]

So young...Gainsville Florida - been to 3 of his concerts and he so good live.

[tmcjb17]

later gainsville

[kovajo]

I really like the way Eddie Vedder sings this one! Totally my favorite Petty song!

[Shepherdess]

So simplistic, so beautiful - verse, chorus, verse -- and I'm one of those chicks who **loves** Tom Petty!:))

[iampokerchris]

The Super Beatles are pretty much stage props. They aren't really even used except maybe on the recordings. Mike Campbell uses uses Fenders Princetons and Tweeds and a VOX AC30 that are behind the Super Beatle facade.

[mavis41558]

PS for all Buckethead fans, a Super Beatle amp is a super groovy relic from the sixties when we actually made music.

[mavis41558]

Holy shit! Look at all those Super Beatles at 2:33!

[IdleOz]

if Christopher Nolan needs a Mad Hatter, BINGO!

[Highland45]

He's so nonchalant about it all but this stuff is really history. Benmont is right; "The Waiting" is a great way to open an album "Baby don't it feel like Heaven right now" One of the best!

"Don't play that anymore!" haha

[njg1623]

its hard to say how much this guy has made my life better, i know that sound strange but just reflect for a moment how much music has enriched your life

[chpman2013]

I don't think I could live without this guy.....his music is as good as it gets....I just can't wait for the live anthology to come out!

[devsol]

I love this. You always hear songwriters going on about they wrote such and such a hit song in 10 minutes. This is closer to the truth: grinding it out over and over until you get it right. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. One of the best songs ever.

[wrigh1sl]

soooo coool

[desertbutt]

I want what HE'S smoking!

[cmterrell]

I love the part when he say's "Don't play that any more". funny. I saw him in concert in Indy last July. I always liked them but after that I realized how much. It makes us wish we could go back in time and have known them.

[maxsspanishmustang]

Yeah I know what you mean, I saw them in '06 and before that, I was aware of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but I never really realized just how much great music out there is theirs. But it would have been really cool to know Tom and the guys when they were just starting out

[cowboysfan782008]

I guess I'm an old dinasour. I had this song on a 45 record, I believe night watchmen was the B side

[SGninja]

eddie vedder and tom petty... fuckin amazing!

[heydoode]

What's that chord Tom plays before D?

[BAFC14]

i think its an a suspended 4

[heydoode]

Ooh thank you!

[MikauOriole]

Try it with just an A chord, that's what I use and it sounds fine.

[milesdj2]

ya thats what i do to

[paintballmoreyo]

whos the guy who is singing it at 2 30?

[hotshotsugar94]

eddie vedder

[paintballmoreyo]

thanks

[cattleforslaughter]

Dude, its fucking eddie vedder!!!!!! the singer of pearl jam!!! dont you know who pearl jam is?? if not, then you must go buy their albums! by "Ten". its they're first record. and its amazing!!!

[ComplexKid441]

The first time I heard him tell the story of his family knocking on the walls telling him not to play the song anymore, I mean, I guess he was pretty rich and successful and married and had kids at this point, but, for whatever reason, probably because of the Apartment Song, I just picture Tom Petty alone in his little two room apartment, neighbors knockin' on the walls as he tries to get this song down.

[RJW882]

geez they should be lucky! if tom was my neighbor he can work on songs night and day for all i care. the only thing i might bang on the wall for is to join in!

[snajgel]

i love you.

[cattleforslaughter]

eddie vedder is such an insane singer!

[Longview8874793]

How can you not like Tom Petty.

The most bad-ass rocker of all-time.

[mjhutchison]

Jeez, nunobits12, you seem to have nothing better to do than slam Petty on all the video postings... guess you're Waiting to get a Life.

[LITEUPAGAIN12]

Are you fucking kidding me? Tom Petty saved Rock and Roll in America.

Oh yah tell me an artist that does drugs and doesn't sound like that.

[nunobits12]

some things dont need saving

[BlondeDisorder]

I fucked up...who gives a shit. It's like another wrong spelling or unknown emote ;P

[McGee4468]

When this song came out my sister asked me "why did Tom Petty never learn to swim? Because the wading is the hardest part." I didn't get it for years.

[yomamadontdanz]

Two words for this masterpiece song... KICK ASS!

[jaymum23]

This is awesome I'm gonna have to pick up Runnin' Down a Dream. :)

[wwekane2468]

I've had it on my dvr since summer when it first came on tv.

[aarjor123]

do you know if there's a full version of the first live clip?...not the one with eddie vedder but the one before that at 1:00 - 1:38, if there's a full clip of that?

[freddyb01]

The GREATEST AMERICAN SONGWRITER!!!!

[ramblinhaze]

The documentary "Running Down a Dream", where this segment is from...was flipping amazing. 4 Hours of Tom Petty and I still wanted more..

[theamazingsamurai]

ive never been too big on pearl jam, but eddie vedder did have a good voice, i mean, tom petty is a hard act to follow

[ramblinhaze]

Pearl Jam is awesome. As is Tom petty. By the way, if you haven't listened to it get the "INTO THE WILD" soundtrack Eddie Vedder kills it on that record. Great singing.

[mentoesman55]

Eff you, Tom petty is god!!

[Master1Icy]

ahahah! XD, well said.

[Welshwitchfan]

would you really tel tom petty to stop playing something i mean really

[PettysBleedinHeart77]

haha hell no!

[DejaVuSu]

Great share Man..thanks..

LOVE this man :)

[shortclayfilms]

this is a really great song!

[dariusjag]

eddie vedder gave me goosebumps, cause he got close to as good as tom.

[TheJackFactor]

Nobody is as great as Tom Petty, but I agree Vedder did a great job on this song.

[Welshwitchfan]

realy nones can do that song like tom petty

[eirnil1]

any got chords for this song?

[AVAmarc182]

I know the chorus is G F# A D

[Fishsticks28]

omg tom is soooo cute

[frankiedex]

Love it... Only wish I had gotten tickets to the San Francisco, CA Lands Festival.

[PettysBleedinHeart77]

the greatest singer to ever live... talking about the greatest song in the world... <333

[Nigelxman]

@PettysBleedinHeart77 Lets not push it. lol Tom's great but the greatest singer ever? haha

[reints74]

We just watched an artist create a great piece of history. Sweet!!

[PinerinFla]

This is one of my all tiem favorites...One its a GREAT song!!! It JAMS!! And two Benmont is so cute in the video....:)

[mushy85]

i never noticed how big his teeth were

[Suzywriter]

I've always loved the message of healthy impatience in this song...it flew into the face of the annoying 70's pop psychology idea that the JOURNEY was the most important thing...aaaaagh!!!

[hamelin12]

I found this song has influenced my life in many ways.. i would call it my "anthem" especially the line

ive chased a couple women around, but all it ever got me was down.. its an amazing song!

[markfroboy12]

The waiting is my faverite song I love it so much my band did it!!

[guywhoputsupvideos]

omg this is tom petty hi tom im like ur biggest fan

[PonyboyCLuvr]

i'm one of tom petty's biggest fans too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luv the waiting

[guywhoputsupvideos]

sweet

[david1513]

hello tom its AKA David Coffin your old friend from Indiana, post something so we can talk ok? note D/P & Stevie Nicks

[ElGoodo]

Eddie's voice sounds so good on this song...even sounds a little like Petty at some parts.

[rainbowfun420]

tom petty is the most badass rocker to live and the beatles are a bunch of british homo's

[ElGoodo]

Right...Tom Petty is pretty bad ass...so bad ass he'd probably kick your ass for dissing one of his favorite bands...and the band of his good friend Harrison. Not to mention Petty is influenced a lot by the 60's more so the Byrds but The Beatles are definitely in there too.

[PonyboyCLuvr]

he would cuz even though tom met elvis presley and he started loving music when tom saw the beatles on the ed sullivan show he decided to become a musician. so yah good comment him and george and harrison are great friends. tom go!!! my fav song

[hmg789]

hes awesom..he was a guest star on the Simpsons, when Homer went to Rock N Roll camp.

[ftfw313]

he also has a role in king of the hill playing lucky

[PonyboyCLuvr]

my fav song by him

tom ur my fav singer

[Waystarr]

Thanks Tom and the Heartbreakers you are the American Kinks, keep it going!!!! I'm learning The Waiting, so will be driving my family beserk with all my practicing (just like you!!) We all love your work Thanks a bunch!!

[solohunter12]

He has reslly big teeth but I'm one of his number 1 fans he's cute to.

[goodg9]

This and "Don't Stand So Close" to me were the first 45s I bought with my own money. Before that, my parents bought my records for me.

[TubeReel]

There is something magical about this tune

[LMS1961]

This is a great birthday present for Tom Petty. I saw him live twice and both shows were great. Happy birthday, Tom (Oct. 20).

[kwahyaj]

I have to disagree with sbusnello. The artists you mentioned, referring to their classic works, are great singers in the sense that their passion and commitment to the song and the performance is never in doubt. Singing is more than just having a 3 octave range, perfect pitch or basso profondo. It is art.

[huntstrat]

YES! my birthday is October 15 - how did he know? yeah baby, the waiting is the hardest part! i've seen him at least 20 times over the years. i think my favorite was at irvine CA when they did a cover of pretty ballerina. knocked me over and out!

[sethheadrick]

I preordered this right when it came out!! Tom is so great!

[gghani]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, que ganazassssssssss

[sbusnello]

The beauty and secret of great music lies within the lyrics. Dylan, Petty, Young, Jagger, Nelson, and a bunch of others really cant sing that well but damn the strong lyrics, the tight band and the craftmanship are what make these artists great!

[sara8200]

ahhhh....can't wait!! :)

[geikosera]

Amazing. :)

[buffalobraves9]

Simply the greatest American Band, period.

[KalatYeshua]

I have seen Tom Petty four times. I just saw him in Indian Wells in Palm Springs. He and the Heartbreakers are the absolute BEST!!!! I love this man. I listen to him daily. He Rocks!!!!

[suzicat]

Petty, the master..I have seen many bands in my lifetime..it always comes back to TP&HB..best songs, lyrics out there..

[mcairo67]

If you don't have a TP and the HB's song on the soundtrack of your life, then you ain't got a rock and roll bone in your body.

[jto4]

Dude Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is the soundtrack to my life

[lennon278]

amen brother

[3chrds]

true that. just growing up from mid 70's to the 90's, really, all his stuff is in your life, even if you don't like him! I'm just coming around again to re-discovering his music after hearing refugee for who knows how many times on the radio. but like eddie vedder says, you remember the feeling in your gut when you hear each of these songs, especially like The Waiting, this one has taken on a whole new meaning for me now as I'm in my early 30's. I can't stop listening to it, it's beautiful!

[axeman7000]

I play alot of Petty in my band. PPL say I sound just like him...I take that as a compliment. My fav to play is Listen to her heart,Runnin' Dowm a Dream, and American Girl.

[cattleforslaughter]

hey, if you play tom petty alot, maybe you can help me out. I know how to play the waiting, except for the chords he plays during the part where he sings "dont it feel like tonight might never be again" and the part where he sings "dont let it kill you baby, dont let it get to you". do you know what chords he's using??

[axeman7000]

I don't play that one with my band but I picked up the guitar and I believe it's Bm for "don't it feel like tonight might never be again"..and, Bm for "don't let it kill you baby"....but there's another chord I just can't figure out right now.I'll post it when I have more time to mess with the tune...hope some of this helped. I want to figure this one out for myself too...killer song.

[cattleforslaughter]

thanks my man!

[Lindorie11]

Great! Can't wait for 'Runnin' Down a Dream'!

[Sambolicious]

Damn, I can't wait for this movie to come out. Judging by the trailer and this it will be awesome!!

[Hardenghor]

Hach......siiiiigh....