Posted on 10/07/2017 8:00:45 PM PDT by Djl3668
Thanks Tom for many years of great music, not only growing up through the MTV Generation of the early 80’s, but for being a gentleman and a true musician.
I can’t forgive you for “The Postman”, however, I will always treasure every moment that my friends and family shared with you while your Hearbreakers were playing in the background.
My dad taking me to a 6th Grade hoops game listening to Refugee drive up the charts in the back of his Delta 88? Amen.
Singing along with you and the beautiful Stevie Nicks in high school? Love ya man and the band!
I watched and listened to the video of Refugee again and I will say that the Hammond Organ makes this song when it kicks in. Then, it weaves itself through some great percussion and the your soothing, but coarse voice that will never be replicated.
Our children will not know what it is like to live then or look up to a great musician like yourself sir. In my dreams I wish for my kids we will have another Tom Petty come along, however, that age of innocence and just imagining the lyrics you being put into context during my life growing up is so wonderful I had to vent here.
We lost an American Icon, what a beautiful man and great musician.
Icon.
Amen.
I feel like Tom Petty was the last great one before rock went down the tubes.
Awesome!
NBC is showing the SNL from 1979 with Buck Henry hosting and Tom Petty performing. It’s on at 10:00 Pacific time.
I guess they showed today’s SNL live on the Pacific Coast at 8:30, not that I watched it. Just another Liberal attack the POTUS waste of time.
83 MTV for me. They had a nice relationship, both such talents that defined the not only the 70’s but an entire MTV Reagan Generation.
Yeah... it was a Reagan Generation!
I was probably the second person who liked “The Postman”. I loved Petty’s raw, gritty rock and roll too. RIP Tom Petty.
Prince and Petty defines early 80’s, Late 70’s and changed the world. Both amazing songwriters and guitar players.
Loved the first and second records. Saw him in a small 1000 capacity place somewhere around damn the torpedoes. Then he did back to back shows at Red Rocks Amph. In Colorado, can’t remember which record he was supporting. The Two Tom Tour with Tommy Toutone. Got to see both up close. Amazing.
When the first two records came out, they did squat in the US, but they were HUGE in England, probably one of the reasons they got mislabeled as a “punk” act back then.
Roughly 25 years later, that list has gotten much shorter, and the holes are not being filled (sadly).
Thanks to both of you for the links, I’ve never seen any of those clips.
“Damn The Torpedoes” was such an epic album! — there was one particular bar I used to frequent in my college years, and they played it all the time. To this day I think of that bar when I hear Tom Petty. Fond memories, worth all those culled brain cells.
When I watched his rendition of “Southern Accent” he did for his 30th Anniversary show in Gainesville, my screen got real blurry.
“Personally I liked Petty’s cameo in The Postman.”
That’s the only thing he did that I ever liked. I was never much of a fan of his music.
Well they did try to package him that way. Leatherjacket, must be punk/new wave. And you’re right, I was working at a big record store that reported to Billboard. We did sell some of the first, Breakdown got a lot of airplay. The second sold squat.
Nada innovative today. Song writing? What has not been regurgitated since the 70’s, 80’s and Early 90’s?
I think America is lazy. Our kids don’t know what it is like to plug in a guitar, into a real amp and “Pretend” to be a rock star.
A rock star nowadays is a dumbdowned Disney Channel Wanna be Justin Timberlake. I love Justin Timberlake. Great talent however just like the movie studios, nobody is creating anything anymore.
Rap? HipHop? Sampling. Cheap music for a dumbed down Society.
Do you remember the first time you tuned up an electric guitar via an amp?
We’ve dumbed down Guitar to ensure everybody can be “diversified” and play guitar hero just like our music industry.
Tom Petty was an icon. I want my son to be the kid hooking up his amp with a Strat on my front lawn screaming at the world! That’s America and how we roll.
Petty was it.
Okay, got it. Thought I might have missed something.
I remember reading about Tom having a dustup with Johnny Rotten once, in a hotel lobby. Tom and his entourage came into the lobby where Johnny saw him — Johnny said “There’s that pop star, Tom Petty” — and a fight broke out between them (not sure how physical it was).
I found a reference to a “condescending” Johnny Rotten in an Atlantic article, but couldn’t find the original description of the event that probably happened in 1978.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/the-humble-hugeness-of-tom-petty/541785/
Seems to me they did that to the Cars too, mislabeling them.
About 6 months later they started playing the Cars on the radio, and they were suddenly mainstream pop and soared in the charts.
I was listening to Tom Petty’s songs and forgot how many I knew and use to listen to throughout the 1980s and 1990s. A
Think he had around 20 famous songs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFnOfpIJL0M&list=PLL0i6iA30NJRFHzBp4Mn4Ru1c2kazFImS
Thanks. He was a good actor, probably could have had many more parts if he wanted them, but he probably didn’t care too much about pursuing an acting career anyway. And why should he? He was already a legendary musician.
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