Westside Steve Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Wow. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvoethe Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Sad day man, he was one of my all time favorites. Got hooked on him back in the MTV days when they actually played videos. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/02/tom-petty-rushed-to-hospital-in-full-cardiac-arrest-on-life-support-report-says.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Better get right with God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dste Ace Posted October 3, 2017 Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 Sucks. Saw him twice, in 2002 and 2005, both times at Blossom Music Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted October 3, 2017 Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 It seems like half the threads on this forum any more are about well known musicians who have died. Goodness...who can be next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted October 3, 2017 Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 This one hurts... a lot. Wrote some of the most singable songs in all of rock. Greatest Hits is a constant in the road trip package. When it's late after many hours on the road and the drowsies hit, it's an instant jolt of awake. Particularly loved the way some of his lyrics roll off the tongue. No better example than Breakdown... It's alright if you love me... It's alright if you don't... I'm not afraid of you running away Honey I get the feelin' you won't... Simply brilliant stuff. 1 hour ago, Dste Ace said: Saw him twice, in 2002 and 2005, both times at Blossom Music Center. Once here at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston. Not sure of year, but want to say 2002. It was the tour with Stevie Nicks. Hit after hit after with hardly a pause between songs... crowd singing along with many of them. One of my favorite live recording moments of any artist belongs to Tom. Crowd is singing along to the opening of Breakdown as posted above when Tom stops... then the crowd stops and he says, "No, don't stop you're doing great." And they start again and he just listens to the entire first stanza thru the chorus. Not exactly the one I was thinking of, but apparently it was not an uncommon occurrence... Roll on, Tom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumby73 Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 On 10/3/2017 at 12:09 PM, Tour2ma said: Particularly loved the way some of his lyrics roll off the tongue. No better example than Breakdown... It's alright if you love me... It's alright if you don't... I'm not afraid of you running away Honey I get the feelin' you won't... Lyric Tissue Alert..Just had to turn the radio channel the other day..far to soon..Farewell TP..your final bow, is the hardest thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browns149 Posted October 8, 2017 Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 Saw him at Blossom many years ago. Great show. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPPT1974 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 Really way too young to die. May he RIP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted October 17, 2017 Report Share Posted October 17, 2017 I was in the Gainsville area when the Heartbreakers broke.. He was and still is a God in Gainsville as evidenced by the tribute at the UF Football game recently There is a good documentary on Petty at netflix.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPPT1974 Posted October 22, 2017 Report Share Posted October 22, 2017 He was indeed beloved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canton Dawg Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 Too many of these gifted musicians are passing way before their time. "If there's a Rock-N-Roll Heaven...you know they've got a hell of a band". A little Tom Petty trivia, the Eagles guitarist Don Felder (another Gainesville native) taught TP how to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicopeeJohn Posted October 24, 2017 Report Share Posted October 24, 2017 I never purchased a Tom Petty album. I never heard him live, except when I was a beertender at an outside concert venue. Of course, I like a lot of his songs. To me, the key thing about Petty is the stature of musicians he played with. In the Traveling Willbury's, alone, he played with the greatest of the greats. He was a listener's musician as well as a musician's musician. Not an easy task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 And Bob Dylan and Keith Richards are still here.. Whodathunk...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browns149 Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 1 hour ago, nickers said: And Bob Dylan and Keith Richards are still here.. Whodathunk...? And all of Aerosmith. 😮 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted November 6, 2017 Report Share Posted November 6, 2017 Not to mention all of Motely,, and Ozzie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumby73 Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 man this is a sad ending https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-pettys-cause-of-death-accidental-overdose-w515472 no memory of how hip injury https://www.msn.com/en-my/entertainment/story/tom-petty-toured-with-hairline-hip-fracture/ar-AAtKwkT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 OD on Fentanyl and oxycodone. Oi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 No doubt over prescribed by his doctors for years and he build a high tolerance level towards it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPPT1974 Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Really the youth and young are not just addicted to the drugs. So is people like Tom Petty. Very sad indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbluhm86 Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 I guess one more time really did kill the pain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cysko Kid Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 It's weird to see the old guard Overdosing. Prince and Tom Petty in recent memory. You don't really expect that past a certain point. I wonder what got the cranberries singer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted January 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 9 hours ago, The Cysko Kid said: It's weird to see the old guard Overdosing. Prince and Tom Petty in recent memory. You don't really expect that past a certain point. I wonder what got the cranberries singer https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dolores-oriordan-inside-cranberries-singers-final-days-w515782 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted May 1, 2018 Report Share Posted May 1, 2018 Just saw the movie Chappaquiddick and what goes just beneath the radar is the theme tune throughout that plays the same notes slow and low. It's Tom Petty's, "I won't back down." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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