PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Hollywood Bowl

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers come to the Hollywood Bowld October 1st Petty's first national television appearance as a bassist was when he played for Tulsa's Twilley on the short-lived children's comedy and variety show "W.A.C.K.O." in the late 1970s. Signed to Shelter Records, co-founded by Tulsa Sound icon Leon Russell in the 1970s. Shelter Records co-owner Denny Cordell changed the names of Petty's band (formerly Mudcrutch) and Twilley's band (formerly Oister) around the time the pai...

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