Tom Petty (1950-2017)

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Its funny, I was just talking to my younger brother on the phone about that (I'd taken him along to the Knebworth Festival in '78 when T.P played), and we were saying that there wasn't a track of Tom Petty's we didn't like, some we liked much more than others, and both thought Mojo was one of his best albums.

I'm sitting here trying to think of a released song of his I didn't like.

I can't.

Doug
 
Just came out of the woods to discover all this bad news. What a drag. Seeing that heart with the guitar piercing through from the tour gives me chills. Perhaps a re-release of the anthology set is in order now. I know what I will be listening to next week when I get home.
 
don't forget about the shrooms

he was a big mushroom fan

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I feel sick to my stomach he's dead

some recomendations:

https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Petty-Heartbreakers-Runnin-4-Disc/dp/B000XPNZTK

https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Petty-Heartbreakers-Live-Blu-ray/dp/B005V4X8TK/
 
I used to sort of make fun of his many drug references and his apparent obsessive behavior with them but, after really considering his awful life as a child, I understand his dependency.

Doug
 
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Oh my,

Another weekend of music dedicated to a lost Icon.

It seems that I am doing this every month !!

RIP to another great musician. :smokin
 
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Can't recommend this highly enough. Even if you're a casual fan you'll get something out of it, because of how many others' careers his bumped into at times.

I'd be curious about him bumping into and eventually backing Bob Dylan. Petty and his Heartbreakers were so exceptional as Bob's backing it was a match made in heaven. Yet not many people want to acknowledge it, or admit it was great.

So glad I got the laser disc of the Sidney, Aust show from 1986 titled "Hard to Handle" with its wonderful picture and sound.
 
I'd be curious about him bumping into and eventually backing Bob Dylan. Petty and his Heartbreakers were so exceptional as Bob's backing it was a match made in heaven. Yet not many people want to acknowledge it, or admit it was great.

So glad I got the laser disc of the Sidney, Aust show from 1986 titled "Hard to Handle" with its wonderful picture and sound.

This just in: How Bob Dylan and Tom Petty challenged and inspired each other

http://nodepression.com/article/how-bob-dylan-and-tom-petty-challenged-and-inspired-each-other
 
Here's another side of the man...

The debt recording artists owe to Tom Petty, who wouldn’t back down

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/1...tists-owe-to-tom-petty-who-wouldnt-back-down/

Petty was the first mainstream rock star to file for bankruptcy expressly to get out of a contract with his record label.
And because he was the first, MCA had to make sure he didn’t succeed.
“As soon as they thought my action might set an industry precedent,” Petty explained, “they rolled out the big guns.”
So began one of the most epic games of chicken in music-business history.

In the end, Petty reconciled with MCA, signing a deal with an artist-friendly label under the MCA umbrella, and the rest is Billboard chart history.
The Heartbreakers’ next album, “Damn The Torpedoes,” went triple platinum, unleashing two of Petty’s most omnipresent songs on the radio, “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “Refugee.” (“Somewhere, somehow, somebody must’ve kicked you around some,” he sings in the latter.)
In all, Petty released some 68 singles, a record 28 of which became mainstream-rock top 10s.

In standing up to MCA, Petty demonstrated the premise that an artist with fans has leverage.
He used that leverage over and over.
He did it in 1981, when MCA tried to sell the band’s fourth album for a dollar more than the standard.
And he did it in the late 1990s, when he capped his concert ticket prices at $50.
 
Opioids. :mad:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/family-tom-petty-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose/2018/01/19/1b40a3e2-fd78-11e7-9b5d-bbf0da31214d_story.html

“On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication,” his family’s statement said, adding that he performed more than 50 concerts with a fractured hip.

...and right in the middle of the article: A WALGREENS AD... oh , the ugly Irony.......
 
Opioids. :mad:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/family-tom-petty-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose/2018/01/19/1b40a3e2-fd78-11e7-9b5d-bbf0da31214d_story.html

“On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication,” his family’s statement said, adding that he performed more than 50 concerts with a fractured hip.

In 1982 I had a back surgery. They fused the area with bone from my hip. Post op was ok, back pain was tolerable, it was my hip that was killing me! They were giving me the strongest pain killers and it still hurt beyond anything. I was unable to turn on my side or front without help for a week. I feel for this guy and what he must have been going through. Take the worst toothache you ever had, and have it go on for years, with only some relief. Your entire life suffers. Those who have been there know.
 
Opioids. :mad:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/family-tom-petty-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose/2018/01/19/1b40a3e2-fd78-11e7-9b5d-bbf0da31214d_story.html

“On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication,” his family’s statement said, adding that he performed more than 50 concerts with a fractured hip.

These damned pain killers are sure "killing"! So sick and tired of this problem....ugh. Sad though...too bad Tom was in such pain that he was likely taking way too many...too often.
 
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