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I've digitized a Retro Rock rebroadcast of a 1978 Tom Petty live show. It's well circulated in other versions, and up in streaming audio at Wolfgang's Vault....but I've never seen the Retro Rock version out there, so...here it is. I've got scans of the disc label, cue sheets, and a pdf file of a newspaper review of the show that I found online.
https://mega.co.nz/#!XFhCXSRS!ZDVaH0gkPtewT8k7p7ml_3bat3R96ULvrx0IzPLnocg
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Paradise, Boston, MA
July 16, 1978
Retro Rock show #82-9 for broadcast the week of 2/22/82
01. RR 82-9 Intro - Meg Griffin
02. Anything That's Rock and Roll
03. RR 82-9 Break - Meg Griffin
04. Commercial - Budweiser
05. Fooled Again
06. Don't Bring Me Down
07. Commercial - Lee Jeans
08. Commercial - Budweiser
09. You're Gonna Get It
10. Breakdown
11. Commercial - Lee Jeans
12. RR 82-9 Promo
13. Strangered In The Night
14. I Need To Know
15. RR 82-9 Break - Meg Griffin
16. Commercial - Budweiser (Bus Boys)
17. Shout
18. I Fought The Law
19. Route 66
20. Commercial - Lee Jeans
21. I'm A King Bee
22. RR 82-9 Credits - Meg Griffin
This concert is listed as having been originally broadcast by WBCN-FM in Boston.
A year later, the King Biscuit Flower Hour distributed a show with Tom Petty and Steve Forbert for syndicated broadcast on July 15, 1979, which may be part or all of the 1978 show. The Petty KBFH segment is listed as from the Paradise in Boston. I couldn't find a track list of the 1979 broadcast for comparison, so I can't confirm that the 1979 KBFH show was sourced from the 1978 Paradise show (although it's very likely.) The 1979 KBFH show was distributed on reel-to-reel tape, so copies are rare.
Retro Rock was a syndicated radio show distributed on vinyl LPs in the early 1980s by the Clayton Webster Corporation. I've seen shows on EBAY with distribution dates between 1981 and 1984. The formats were rebroadcasts of live concerts, interviews or artist profiles with studio or live cuts, with national commercials. The concerts were often several years old, hence the "retro" in the show's name.
Retro Rock syndicated the Tom Petty 1978 Paradise show for re-broadcast during the week of February 22, 1982. The Retro Rock version has eleven out of the thirteen songs originally performed, and is missing "American Girl" and "Too Much Ain't Enough."
The Retro Rock cue sheet inexpicably lists the song "Anything That's Rock and Roll" as "Rock and Roll Spy" on the cue sheet.
Wolfgang's Vault has a version of the Tom Petty 1978 Paradise show posted in streaming audio with twelve tracks (it's missing "Strangered In The Night").
The "Breakdown!" bootleg on Italy's Great Dane Records was released in 1990, and has all thirteen tracks. It sounds fine...if you have that, you probably don't need this.
There was also a vinyl bootleg in the 1970s on Excitable Recordworks 4510-1 titled "It's Only Rock and Roll" sourced from the 1978 Paradise show with eight tracks.
This Retro Rock version was digitized in June 2014 directly from the Retro Rock syndicated LP. I cleaned the record and removed most of the clicks, pops, and surface noise in Audacity. As there's some tape hiss audible in the quieter portions, it's likely the show was made from a copy of the WBCN master tape, as opposed to cut directly from the master tape. I've left in all of the original commercials, but tracked them so they can be removed.