TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS : LIVE AT THE OLYMPIC - THE LAST DJ

  1. The Last DJ
  2. Money Becomes King
  3. Dreamville
  4. Joe
  5. When A Kid Goes Bad
  6. Like A Diamond
  7. Lost Children
  8. Blue Sunday
  9. You And Me
  10. The Man Who Loves Women
  11. Have Love Will Travel
  12. Can't Stop The Sun
  13. Change Of Heart
  14. I Need To Know
  15. Shake Rattle And Roll
  16. Around And Around
  17. Mary Jane's Last Dance
  18. You Wreck Me

Label : Warner Bros. Records

Venue : Grand Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA

Recording Date : October 16, 2002

Release Date : September 2003

Length : 108 minutes

NTSC : 16:9

Review (Wikipedia) : Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ is a live DVD by American musician rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first released in September 2003. The film features the band's 2002 album The Last DJ performed in its entirety. Also featured are several of the band's other songs, and "You Wreck Me" from Petty's 1994 solo album Wildflowers. It was directed by Martyn Atkins. The DVD package includes a Bonus CD containing four covers, recorded for the PBS program Soundstage.

Review (AllMusic) : Released nine months after the studio album The Last DJ, Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ and More is a DVD project that contains a performance of the full album, in order, plus an encore of some old Heartbreakers favorites and rock & roll oldies. Petty must value The Last DJ, since he not only performed the full album in concert - a rarity in rock & roll - he also released it as a live video, indicating that he had more faith in the material than either the critics or fans, since it was roundly panned and didn't sell well. To a certain extent, it's hard not to admire that stubbornness, and by releasing Live at the Olympic, Petty does give doubters a second chance to evaluate the material. To be fair, it sounds a lot better live (augmented by Jon Brion's orchestral arrangements), since the Heartbreakers are always a strong live band, but the songs just aren't very good; when "Change of Heart" and "Need to Know" come in after the album, it's a relief, because the bandmembers are finally playing material worthy of them. It's a professional DVD - it's well shot and the sound is excellent in both the PCM stereo and DTS mixes (however, it takes entirely too long to cycle through the menu screens) - and that may make this a good souvenir for the hardcore fan, but those final six songs are so much fun that it makes anybody else wish that this was a straight-up hits concert instead of a showcase for an underwhelming album.