Posted on 01/19/2018 4:56:40 PM PST by Wolfie
I was working at the Westside Pavilion when they filmed the
“Free Falling” Video.
Got to hear the song all day and you could walk down and
watch him playing to the music while they filmed.
Great day.
Please explain. You tend to blame drugs for everything. You, rather are wrong to ignore the fact that by the time they are taken, everything else is in place for a disaster.
Thanks for the info. Had no idea.
And “holy fear” doesn’t necessarily mean to run around like your tail was perpetually on fire. Sometimes just waiting for God when the activity isn’t being fruitful — and He has arranged for you to be fed, as it were, by ravens — is the right thing to do.
Ignoring the inner dynamic of life is what gets some people, like our dear Marvin Stinson, blaming a selected subset of the outward aspects of disaster. By the time the devil puts the rotten cherry on top, the putrid sundae has already been served up.
When you break your hip, you’re too old to rock.
Sad. He was a talented man.
Or at least you ought to rock a different way for a while.
Had he ever thought of writing rock songs while taking it easy?
A shame...he was good
Really????? I’m shocked!!!!!!!
It’s a kind of distortion stemming from what we know as the puritan work ethic. Maybe it should have been better handed down as a puritan work-and-rest ethic, but that would have needed a theological rethink. The severe Calvinists kept wanting to see proof that their lives were producing fruit for God, and anything short of working to a frazzle was feared to be a sign of not being destined to heaven. Ironically they were moved to work for their salvations even though they would never have theologically formulated it that way. And then this shows up in the “conservative” ethic too, that says just because we don’t want the government wrapped up in welfare, we don’t want to help our needy neighbor in a change of life direction either.
Anyhow, to not heed when God personally says stop, is to plunge into folly. Why should we blame the tools by which people plunge on rather than listen to God. After all, axes are good for many things other than murder. And so forth.
Stardom is the worst drug of all.
Accidental as in what: “I did not mean to mix or take that many drugs knowing they could kill me?”
I liked Tom Petty but geezus, let’s have some personal accountability here given he was a LONG TIME user of drugs, yo!
Yikes!
As the old song went: “... you’ve had a taste of / the sound that says love / applause, applause, applause!”
Until you can’t think of any other kind. Or a deeper kind.
I always heard the expression but never saw it written. That makes sense, but no need to be snooty. I assume I spelled snooty right.
It might have been hard for both Petty and his friends to realize that, as a mortal, Petty was still needful of what lay beyond the mortal plane.
That’s a curse which can go along with a lot of talent. I’m good at talking. Oh, I’m good at talking. And writing. And people think that because I am, I am perfectly self sufficient, and the more I try to tell them that they are doing right by helping me, the more skeptical they get that I need it!
But man doesn’t live by bread alone.
Sounds like medical malpractice to me. No matter how much pain you’re in you don’t take that many meds of that many types. That’s an Rx to kill a healthy elephant.
“You, rather are wrong to ignore the fact that by the time they are taken, everything else is in place for a disaster.”
Good point. But you must admit, even leaving the “god”/prayer thing aside, logically when problems this large/numerous overtake oneself, escapism is NEVER a solution, and drugs are for ESCAPE... from pain, from reality, from one’s very life.
Sad 2C him go as sooooo much recent anecdotal evidence in his chosen industry must have been available, or should I say, was staring him in the face.
Time out, rest, assess, and other suggestion aren’t criticisms, they may come from other shoe sizes, but they emanated from others who have walked a life’s path that none of us can deny those dark nights of the soul.
RIP TP
How is it possible to have an “accidental” drug overdose? Ridiculous!
Anti-depressants, anti-anxiety meds, multiple opioids, sleep medicine. Poor guy was probably on anti-depressants and opioids, learned that opioids helped him sleep (a critical matter if you’re battling depression), and used to many of them, getting a paradoxical reaction (meaning it made him stay up). Desperate to sleep, he got anxious, combining more and more drugs as his wakefulness outlasted his judgment.
Oh wow.
My grandmother used to live walking distance from there and we used to walk there a lot and she would shop at the gelsons.
That would have been amazing. That is an amazing song even with the mistake. (There is no freeway running through reseda anywhere) I love that song. What an experience. Wish I had seen it.
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