It’s Cupcake here, the resident Kamloopsian ready to embark on a step by step story of the Vancouver show that happened here about a month ago. Whoever said Petty is too old to rock is completely wrong. 
I would have written a review earlier, but I got stuck under the car seat. So here’s my personal story of my first ever Tom Petty concert, and the best concert I’ve been to in my entire life (and I’ve been to at least 1)… so that says a lot about Tuesday’s show!
I woke up early Tuesday morning to guarantee myself a spot in front of the line up. We arrived at GM Place by 10:30am. There were about 2 others infront of us at Gate 9… some had camped out overnight, but most people like me, arrived that morning.
I introduced myself to a bunch of others sitting in the area – 2 guys, Trevor & Eric from Victoria BC, a couple Jen & Jeremy from North Vancouver, and a Guatemalan Vancouverite whom I forget his name, but was very friendly. I didn’t recall seeing anyone with a yellow Wildflower tag, so I brought mine out. Most people were curious as to what is was, but weren’t familiar with the Wildflower mailing list.
The lineup was rather smallish to begin with, but soon started to grow. Around 1pm the GM Place security started to give out the wristbands to the 5 or so people in line. They first inspected the ticket, stamped the ticket, then put the purple wristband on our wrist. I don’t have any wrists so they threw me in the dumpster. How am I supposed to see the show from here!!
I managed to climb out and roll into the arena around the same time Tom came onstage. It took me a long time to find my seat, boy it’s a big stadium! When I finally sat down the band was starting the encore. omg tom petty! lets’ smoke weed! Then someone tried to eat me.
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