Petty Theft has a few deep cuts to rotate into its set list for most shows. Grisman’s essential 17 was affirmed by Heartbreakers lead guitarist Mike Campbell, who told Rolling Stone before the band’s 40 th anniversary tour that for arena shows there were 17 songs it pretty much had to perform. You cannot not play ‘American Girl’ and you can’t cut ‘Free Fallin’,’ and you can’t cut ‘Running Down a Dream.’ ” We have about 17 songs that we have to play.

“It’s hard to get it all in but we have a great rotation. “We could go almost two hours and just play hits and there’s so many gems and nuggets on top of that,” said guitarist Monroe Grisman.

The library of songs from which to choose to play is vast. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are celebrated by the band Petty Theft, which returns on Saturday, Sept. Tom Petty left this world in 2017, but as long as humans are on this earth, his music will be played and his words will be quoted.

Lyric from the Tom Petty song, “Crawling Back To You.” “Most of the things I worry about never happen anyway.”

Monroe Grisman, left, Dan Durkin and Petty Theft return to Crystal Bay on Sept.

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