It's flippant to say it but I kinda figured by default he'd be the last Wilbury to go. Not the middle one.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
Rest In Power, Tom.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-on-past-confederate-flag-use-it-was-downright-stupid-20150714
Again, people just need to think about how it looks to a black person. It's just awful. It's like how a swastika looks to a Jewish person. It just shouldn't be on flagpoles.Beyond the flag issue, we're living in a time that I never thought we'd see. The way we're losing black men and citizens in general is horrific. What's going on in society is unforgivable. As a country, we should be more concerned with why the police are getting away with targeting black men and killing them for no reason. That's a bigger issue than the flag. Years from now, people will look back on today and say, "You mean we privatized the prisons so there's no profit unless the prison is full?" You'd think someone in kindergarten could figure out how stupid that is. We're creating so many of our own problems.
Beyond the flag issue, we're living in a time that I never thought we'd see. The way we're losing black men and citizens in general is horrific. What's going on in society is unforgivable. As a country, we should be more concerned with why the police are getting away with targeting black men and killing them for no reason. That's a bigger issue than the flag. Years from now, people will look back on today and say, "You mean we privatized the prisons so there's no profit unless the prison is full?" You'd think someone in kindergarten could figure out how stupid that is. We're creating so many of our own problems.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 2 October 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed another 20% of the traveling wilburys
― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 October 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
RIP. Although he wasn't really my cup of tea, he clearly had the respect of a hell of a lot of notable musicians and, in spite of him mostly being an American phenomenon, he definitely made his mark.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 2 October 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
This is the first "celebrity death" since Prince that's brought me to tears.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
</3
=(
One hell of a songwriter.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
It has been confirmed.
JUST IN: Rocker Tom Petty is dead at 66, Los Angeles Police Department confirms to CBS News pic.twitter.com/XJp3mc69Rl— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 2, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
don't think anyone made the flying V look cooler
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
He certainly put on one of the few arena shows I've enjoyed, w/ Dylan @MSG, July '86.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
Unlike Prince or Bowie (to name two recent examples), I don't feel compelled to listen to Tom Petty today. Those guys were foundational alchemists, a guy like Tom Petty was ... comfort. In the best possible way. It's a strange irony that that makes him harder to listen to right now.
I saw Amy Ray from the Indigo Girls do a killer cover of "Refugee" once that completely re-contexualized the song for me. Also helped me recognize how hard it is to write a universal anthem, let alone a few.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
Fuck. A huge loss.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
his last show was at the Hollywood Bowl just nine days ago. played there three nights in a row.
― nomar, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
damn ): rip
― Rael Estate (diamonddave85), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
Love tom petty. Have always loved tom petty. He could do that eternal byrds thing with better hooks than anybody.
Wahhh
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
um what
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
whatever their lives were actually like, all these guys...Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty...they seemed like decent guys, good souls, and they tried to bring that to their music and personas. Tom Petty, he was a real performer. He almost reminded me of a silent movie actor, he was such a great, funny, warm presence onstage and in his videos.
― nomar, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
Jon Not Jon and nomar otm, he was important to me ever since I started listening to music and was always there, like a familiar friend from high school who you don;t see very much but it's always cool when you do, the kind of classic rock that makes you happy when you hear it on the radio
― sleeve, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
The last two songs from what turned out to be his final show. If you're going to barnburn, do it like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNHB8vROg4
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
His might be my favorite still-active backing band. I could listen to Campbell or Tench play for days.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
His last album was a robust little thing.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
he was fucking great on King of the Hill too.
― evol j, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Aww, damn.
A great, consistent songwriter whom I've found it all too easy to take for granted over the years. Like, he's never someone I think of as a favourite of mine, but then "The Waiting" or "American Girl" or something else will come on the radio when I'm driving and for three or so minutes I'll think I'm hearing the most brilliant pop song ever written.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
my first favorite musician, and I think my daughter's first favorite musician. as dadrock as you can get, I know. i thought about taking her to see him last summer for her first show but she's still pretty young. regretting that now.
― tylerw, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
TMZ's latest update indicates that things are still tangled but that ultimately the end is near:
Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom's hospital room. We're told the family has a do not resuscitate order on Tom. The singer is not expected to live throughout the day, but he's still clinging to life. A report that the LAPD confirmed the singer's death is inaccurate -- the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. handled the emergency.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
RIP. one of the greats.
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
There's that great 4 hour documentary about Tom Petty, Runnin' Down a Dream. Watching it, the thing that strikes you is how little struggle he had, career-wise. Everybody loved him from the beginning. In Florida, he was instantly the top guy in his local music scene. Moves to LA, gets signed right away. His band Mudcrutch is dropped, but he gets a solo deal. First album has Breakdown and American Girl.
No years of toil, honing his craft. It was immediate success. It's a testament to how great he was (damn it sucks to type was
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
I thought his appearance on The Larry Sanders Show was v good. From memory he was squaring up to Clint Black and calling him "fucking Roy Rogers, here" or something similar.
― calzino, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile Dylan lives.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
Aw dammit. Dammit dammit dammit. I love Tom Petty, probably more than he deserves, but he's one of my all-time favorites. I love his singing more than anything else, he worked wonders with that whine.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
DON'T FUCKING JINX IT
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
A shock. But worse for my poor mum. I may have to call her.
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
RIP. He was a good songwriter with a unique voice. Also RIP to one of the few current musical concerns that kept my mom buying records. She loved him!
― Dominique, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
Related to that, they're playing The Traveling Wilburys in my office right now. And it's like a party photo of someone gone, vs. a picture of them alone. It's good to hear.
― Eazy, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
(tom petty is not dead btw)
― k3vin k., Monday, 2 October 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
Didn't trust TMZ, but it's looking about as bad as possible. DNRs don't usually lead to happy outcomes.
xpost I think Petty worked really hard for his success, actually, an ambitious redneck playing everywhere from backyard parties and frat houses on up (like Van Halen did). If he got lucky at all it was by having his rise coincide right with MTV's, and also having Mike Campbell as a cohort. And also writing a dozen or so songs for the ages. That takes some luck, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
What the fuck?
― calstars, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
and I was listening to Into the Great Wide Open on Saturday.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 October 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
i had been revisiting some of his latter day stuff last week and was struck by how great this one was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqJS2nB4D4s
― tylerw, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
^^^ holy fuck, tylerw, "You and Me" is a jam. If Fleetwood Mac had released it, no one would've blinked.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 October 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
totally. i remember staying away from the last DJ at first because of its cranky title track, but about half of it is fantastic.
― tylerw, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
Enjoying this bit of Garry Shandling and Petty hanging out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvNe569Q9g
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 2 October 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
ah this year :-(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUiG7E1RYQA
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
My favorite of his ballads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsqMndoM9E
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 October 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
same, may be his prettiest track
― Spottie, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
News and social media in 2017 is so fucked up it can't even get the death of Tom Petty right. There are headlines reporting he has died, and in the body of the same pieces those claims are being reported as unsubstantiated.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
Casual fan myself, but bigger fans will appreciate that the classic rock station here (which has been gruesomely schizophrenic the past couple of years as they make the transition to Simple Minds) is treating his death with a much more personal touch than not just Walter Becker's, but also Bowie's; they've done what such stations should always do when a core staple of their playlist dies (Bowie and Steely Dan were also), which is to drop everything else and play that person's music non-stop. That's what radio does best.
He always felt like the last Classic Rock guy to me, the end of a generation/way of playing + writing.
Agree. When they played "Runnin' Down a Dream," I was thinking that that's the last time anyone would ever have a hit record that name-checked Del Shannon.
― clemenza, Monday, 2 October 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
otm clemenza
― flappy bird, Monday, 2 October 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
Credit to her, I'd say.
Tom Petty's daughter is not here to play pic.twitter.com/ol65RU0yzT— Gabe Meline (@gmeline) October 2, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 October 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Fuck yeah
― flappy bird, Monday, 2 October 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
Is that real?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
aw cheers!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
"Jammin' Me"!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Kinda regret asking for this for Christmas, now I gotta wait.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
this is a pretty great thread of J Mascis doing Tom Petty covers includes a great karaoke video of Dont Do Me Like That, highly recommended
Happy Thursday, here’s J Mascis singing Tom Petty at karaoke. pic.twitter.com/mZ7ZYRdwjQ— Scott Heisel (@scottheisel) April 27, 2023
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:42 (eleven months ago) link
Saw Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs last night with Steve Ferrone on drums (!)he mixed in a few Heartbreakers songs, including a few deeper cuts - Rockin Around - When The Time Comes- Fooled Again (And I Don’t Like It)- Refugee- Runnin Down A Dream His version of Refugee was slowed way down, it was so great - i posted an older video here for reference, but this is v similar to what he did last nighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgvGyLwPJ0U
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 16:00 (ten months ago) link
The estate just put out a statement saying RR Auction in Boston is auctioning off a ton of stuff stolen from Petty. The auction house won't reveal the source of the materials, but the estate is taking legal action and asking people not to bid on anything.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 20:35 (ten months ago) link
Eesh, I’ve never heard of that site but searched the webpage for Tom Petty and it looks like someone basically stole his wardrobe. Creepy.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 25 May 2023 04:24 (ten months ago) link
the Live Anthology & Fillmore sets are such a joythe live recordings for me i think push my already huge Benmont Tench appreciation into the stratosphereall the ways you can hear so clearly the essential elements he brings to the band, accompaniment, soloing or just flourishesand the Anthology is wild because if you listen over a couple of sittings it feels like one big concert, there’s so little variation in the band’s quality or performances or sound over the breadth of those discs. Like sewing a mosaic where all the patterns line up perfectly <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 September 2023 03:12 (six months ago) link
i should listen to those, not seeing petty live is a big regret of mine. certainly had opportunities.
but yeah hell of a band. dylan just played farm aid with the heartbreakers as his band, need to check that out as well.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:11 (six months ago) link
yeah the live stuff is very fun — the live disc on Wildflowers is cool, too. And yes! Tench really is a pleasure to listen to, he really gets more room to play onstage. I saw him guest with Robyn Hitchcock once in a small club and though he was seemingly unrehearsed, everything he did was perfect.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:26 (six months ago) link
I've seen him with Jon Brion before, and he got to improvise a lot, a really creative player.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:56 (six months ago) link
When the Replacements were opening for Petty, Tench would sometimes sit in with them, even as they improvised new songs onstage.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:02 (six months ago) link
damn the torpedoes is an exemplary organ record, tench tone is incredible and he's a master of using the leslie to subtly build intensity or add emotion
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:16 (six months ago) link
*tench's tone
Tench is pretty awesome all-around - his role in the Heartbreakers may have landed him a lot of outside gigs, but his talent totally justifies it and he's still one of the great sidemen (in studio and on stage) even though he was in a very popular band for 50 years.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 19:44 (six months ago) link
ha i like TenchTone ... he should sell a pedal or something.
it really was fortuitous that Petty stumbled across both Campbell and Tench so early on — he lucked out!
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 September 2023 19:47 (six months ago) link
Here's the ultimate (not on youtube) Tench clip, playing with Stevie Nicks on SNL in 1981 and stuck doing the more or less sequenced synth part on "Stand Back."
https://vimeo.com/302604378
What a trooper.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:12 (six months ago) link
It's actually a great performance, considering how little he, Liberty DeVito and Waddy have to do. And whatever Stevie's condition might have been at the time.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:15 (six months ago) link
Waddy Wachtel is the ugliest man ever born.
I see Tench is playing Prince's two-finger part.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:24 (six months ago) link
I'm not really a fan of Nicks's solo work, especially after the first two albums, but the stuff she cut with the Heartbreakers is usually enjoyable. I know she said she wished she was in Petty's band instead of Fleetwood Mac, but whether or not she was exaggerating for effect, you can hear how she could've fit in very well with that group.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:30 (six months ago) link
Not just "Stop Draggin' My Heart" which is basically her vocal grafted on a pre-recorded track, there's a handful of other stuff where Campbell, Tench, maybe Lynch or Epstein are backing her up.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:32 (six months ago) link
Heh -- I tend to think her first two solo albums are wooden and sodden until she introduces the synths.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:33 (six months ago) link
To be fair, "Edge of Seventeen" and "Stand Back" are by far my two favorites from those albums, and they're both driven by synths.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:19 (six months ago) link
that SNL performance!!!!!
― fpsa, Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:05 (six months ago) link
this was my birthday gift, thank you so much <3
― fpsa, Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:06 (six months ago) link
Watch "Nightbird"!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:07 (six months ago) link
Yeah, holy shit what a performance that is.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 September 2023 04:52 (six months ago) link
seriously, thank you for posting that performance -- (A) what a bunch of weirdos (B) that guy who shows up to dance aggressively with Stevie, what is that?!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:25 (six months ago) link
i guess he is there to demonstrate what it means to "stand back!"
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:26 (six months ago) link
damn waddy catching strays! leave waddy alone!!!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:31 (six months ago) link
Did Flip Wilson host SNL?!?!
― brownie, Friday, 29 September 2023 15:36 (six months ago) link
Yes, in 1983: https://www.onesnladay.com/2019/02/09/december-10-1983-flip-wilson-stevie-nicks-s9-e8/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:40 (six months ago) link
Huh, I think I put it at 1981, probably because that's when the video puts it, but yeah, 1983!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 September 2023 16:19 (six months ago) link
― tylerw, Thursday, September 28, 2023
"he got lucky" was RIGHT THERE
was it Tench who said Tom Petty's greatest strength as a musician was talking people out of going to college? (Campbell wasn't headed that way; Tench very much was and his family was not thrilled at the time)
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:31 (five months ago) link
lmao that is kinda true
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 October 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
Headed back down southGonna see my daddy's mistressGonna buy back her forgivenessPay off every witness
One more time down southSell the family headstonesDrag a bag of dry bonesMake good on my back loans
So if I come to your doorLet me sleep on your floorI'll give you all I haveAnd a little more
Sleep late down southLook up my former mentorsLive off Yankee wintersBe a landlord and a renter
Create myself down southImpress all the womenPretend I'm Samuel ClemensWear seersucker and white linens
Spanish moss down southFind the heroes of my childhoodWho now can do me no goodCarve their names in dogwood
Chase a ghost down southSpirits cross the dead fieldsMosquitoes hit the windshieldAll documents remain sealed
I'll give you all I haveAnd a little more
― scott seward, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:58 (one month ago) link
i love petty. highway companion is so good.
― scott seward, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:59 (one month ago) link
did you guys do a petty listening thread? alfred? VegGrrl? i would totally participate in that. group + solo.
― scott seward, Friday, 9 February 2024 17:00 (one month ago) link
i don’t think we ever did a listening thread that I know of (unless i missed it)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 February 2024 19:55 (one month ago) link
group + solo + mudcrutch
― scott seward, Friday, 9 February 2024 20:02 (one month ago) link
petty listening thread
yes please!
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:23 (one month ago) link