Members of The Black Keys, Guster, Alberta Cross, The Strokes and Common Rotation Salute Tom Petty

Adam Busch with Johnny Depp

A diverse line up of artists and comedians including Black Keys drummer Pat Carney, members of the Strokes, Ke$ha, Sarah Silverman and Johnny Depp performed at last weeks Petty Fest LA. The first-ever West Coast edition of the Tom Petty tribute festival took place November 14 and 15 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. All of the proceeds from the event will go to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.

As in past Petty Fests, the various artists were backed by the Cabin Down Below Band, featuring Matt Romano, Alex Levy and Austin Scaggs (the bands name is a reference to a song on Pettys solo record Wildflowers and a New York bar of the same name). The first person they played behind was Har Mar Superstar, who offered a version of Dont Do Me Like That while urging the crowd to sing along all night.

Har Mar Superstar was followed by Nicole Atkins, Harper Simon and Jenny O and Jesse Malin, who performed Stop Draggin My Heart Around, The Waiting and You Wreck Me, respectively. Atkins told the crowd about her parents bar, which had been badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

The show also features appearances by Gusters Ryan Miller, Alberta Cross, members of Little joy and the Eagles of Death Metal. who got together for a rocking version of Running Down a Dream. In one of the more noteworthy moments of the night, the Black Keys Patrick Carney and Ke$ha took the stage for a unique take on Last Dance with Mary Jane.

But th! e odd collaborations did not end there. Comedian Sarah Silverman joined the superjam for Dont Come Around Here No More, before Johnny Depp took the stage sporting a blue Duesenberg guitar. The actor stuck around for a six-song run, staying on stage longer than any of the nights other guests (with the exception of the Cabin Down Below Band). Depp even managed to get an impressive solo alongside Common Rotation singer Adam Busch during Its Good to Be King.

The show wound down with Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr. and Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes joining the Cabin Down Below Band for I Need To Know and Honeybee, with Valensi and Moretti staying on for American Girl, which was the last song of the set. As expected, the nights entire line up came out for an all-star sing-along encore of Free Fallin.