It was the official song of the network's playoff coverage that year iirc, I would assume they had a fairly lucrative deal worked out for that.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
Ah, yeah, that's definitely more than x song played going into a commercial break.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
T.P. & Peter Gabriel checking in on their daughters' joint art show in 1999.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e4/43/f5/e443f5f33548e5a4b37d9a350533577c--peter-gabriel-tom-petty.jpg
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
Jason Isbell did “Refugee” @ the Ryman on Sunday nighthttp://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-jason-isbells-ripping-cover-of-tom-pettys-refugee-w507990
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
Petty was a big Lakers fan so in my eyes its not quite the same as say a Kia commercial.
― DavidLeeRoth, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
yeah Petty wasn't a nerd who called stuff "sports ball" so he probably thought it was cool
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
Music isn’t a hobby, it’s the pieces of a ladder you build to get the FUCK out of your hell. you make it your job to be the best & surround yourself with the most talented people you can to ensure you stay out.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, October 9, 2017
OTM. Still can't recall whether it was Petty or someone else who said that his greatest musical talent was his unique knack for convincing people not to go to college.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
Jason Isbell did “Refugee” @ the Ryman on Sunday night
http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-jason-isbells-ripping-cover-of-tom-pettys-refugee-w507990
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 10, 2017
I'm afraid to listen. Is it good? The Wilco and DBTs covers did my heart good but honestly kinda sucked.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
i was trying to think of actually good Tom Petty covers and was having trouble coming up with any ... anyone have a favorite?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
Sharon Van Etten, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"https://youtu.be/KiH6Dtwz-aU
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
isbell did a few covers this week it turns out... "even the losers" solo guitar pretty moving actually
https://youtu.be/5R0XnkPYw9g
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
and to my great relief his refugee is legit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsERVz6-xRw
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
With the Heartbreakers as backing band, no less.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
oh yeah, the cash covers are good! forgot those ...
Sharon van Etten can do a mean Stevie Nicks, haha
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
i like Melissa Etheridge’s cover of Refugeeit’s quieter but her voice suits it https://youtu.be/KONLrSI2_Y0
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
and I love this Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs cover of Here Comes My Girlhttps://youtu.be/__q1sS5vSKc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
(except they go too slow on the chorus & i want to hurry them up)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
!!!ok i just stumbled on this & it might be my favorite TP cover from the past weekChris Stapleton doing Learning to Flyidk maybe i just love his voice but i think he kills ithttps://youtu.be/FzWXO_Il8So
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
not a cover at all, but a sweet, adorable homage. the pooh sticks, "the wild one, forever":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhfXuubw1x4
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
I've been on a Tom Petty binge for the past year or so and have been reminded how much I really, really dislike most of his videos. Maybe it's because they were on all the time, I don't know. But actually the "Here Comes My Girl" video (him and the band playing alone in a room) is great. He was so charming on stage in those early days, and it really captured that.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
I honestly thought he made a mistake doing "Won't Back Down" on the post-9/11 TV special. Playing right into W's agenda.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVyHYMKCdVM
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22492011_10214902824431986_2552834980319831246_n.jpg?oh=873025aa40b8e9cdfbe9fbfe2ca60e2b&oe=5A6D4C2C
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
OOPs.
https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22491652_10154976969810496_3707255343680371963_n.jpg?oh=b5ca8834d3427e33fa1fb8a022ab0638&oe=5A6E8C16
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
is that Gary Hart
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
not sure if serious, but anyway - that's jerry lee lewis (great balls of etc)
― StanM, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
2/3 through Zanes bio, goddamn so good. I thought the Bogdanovich doc was good but man Zanes really peers into the dark corners & gives so much more nuance, i love it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
I was in Austin over the weekend, and a friend hooked us up with Austin City Limits passes. We only went for maybe an hour or so, saw a bit of Spoon, saw a bit of Chance, then left. A couple of days later I saw a roundup whose headline implied lots of tearjerker moments. I thought, really? Who in the world would elicit tears at this latest in a long line of now anonymously corporate events? Gorillaz? Jay-Z? So I read the article and, indeed, at least one of the BS tearjerker moments was an artist so happy to be there they got weepy. Um, yeah. But another emotional moment cited was when the fest played over the PA Tom Petty doing "Free Falling"from a past live at ACL. That's how lame these festivals have become. If you want something truly emotionally, you've got to go the archives and get yourself a pro.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
Would have been 67 today.
New Rolling Stone Cover Story
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 October 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Very few people beyond the Heartbreakers' immediate circle knew that Petty was suffering, at each gig, from a hairline fracture in his left hip, which he planned to deal with after the tour. "I don't know how it happened," says his longtime manager Tony Dimitriades. "I don't think he even knew when it happened." At one point, Dimitriades told Petty, "You can't tour like that." The singer responded, "Why not? I'll do it in a chair if I have to."
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 October 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
i love the Dylan anecdote Dhani recounts a story that Petty once told him about the Heartbreakers' tour with Dylan – a story that "says everything about the way Tom interacted with people: honest but cheeky." Onstage one night, Dylan kept complaining that the stage lights were too bright and threatened to leave if they were not turned down. Finally, Dylan walked off, forcing Petty to coax him back on as the Heartbreakers kept playing.In the wings, Dhani says, "Bob was going, 'Fucking lights. I'm not going back out there. It's like fucking Disneyland out there.' And Tom says to Bob, 'You've never been to Disneyland.' Bob just started laughing. Tom called him on it, straight out. They walked back out there and carried on playing."
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 October 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
ha, that's great -- think there's a similar story in the Zanes bio, but with the roles reversed!man, still in disbelief that he's gone. my daughter has been playing his music constantly the past week, singing along in her little eight-year-old voice :'(
― tylerw, Friday, 20 October 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
i can’t stop lisening to him. it’s weird & kinda nice but i have been waking up every morning with a song fragment rolling around in my head & by the end if the day i’m cueing up another album
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 October 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Listening to him for the first time since he passed, it really struck me how well his voice held up, especially for being a retirement-age lifelong smoker. Maybe it's just that he has a particularly weird one, like Neil Young's?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 October 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
I was in Austin over the weekend, and a friend hooked us up with Austin City Limits passes. We only went for maybe an hour or so, saw a bit of Spoon, saw a bit of Chance, then left. A couple of days later I saw a roundup whose headline implied lots of tearjerker moments. I thought, really? Who in the world would elicit tears at this latest in a long line of now anonymously corporate events? Gorillaz? Jay-Z? So I read the article and, indeed, at least one of the BS tearjerker moments was an artist so happy to be there they got weepy. Um, yeah. But another emotional moment cited was when the fest played over the PA Tom Petty doing "Free Falling"from a past live at ACL. That's how lame these festivals have become. If you want something truly emotionally, you've got to go the archives and get yourself a pro.― Lefsetz in Chicago, Wednesday, October 18, 2017 12:03 PM (three days ago)
― Lefsetz in Chicago, Wednesday, October 18, 2017 12:03 PM (three days ago)
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Friday, 20 October 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Ha.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 October 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
My other Austin epiphany, for what it's worth, came when I was wandering down Congress and popped into a bookstore. I heard "Free Falling" on the radio, and it really struck how me how little it felt like some station playing it in tribute to a dead rock star. It just sounded like a song - like a lot of Tom Petty songs - that I hear all the time, anyway. More so than even Bowie or Prince songs, tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 October 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-petty-died-accidental-drug-overdose-family-says/
combination of several benzos and opioids which don't mix well. :-(
― Bowling for Bitcoins (Lee626), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
fuck that sucksi read some recollections from ppl who saw him visibly in pain on the last tourhey fentanyl stop killing my fave musicians
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
Playing 53 shows on a breaking hip that finally broke. Jeez.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
The Los Angeles County coroner confirmed Friday that Petty's cause of death was a "multisystem organ failure" due to mixed drug intoxication, including fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl.
sorry to be a scold but how the FUCK do you imbibe this cocktail and think you won't kill your liver?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
Statement from family http://www.tompetty.com/statement
― Jeff, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
=(
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:41 (six years ago) link
xpost if he had multiple doctors they may not have known collectively what he was taking (which is increasingly common) & he probably wasnt mindful of interactions. if his pain was as severe as it sounds he may have kept seeking new prescriptions to be able to keep performing. which is obv a baaad idea where chronic pain is concerned but hindsight is 20/20 idk for sure that was the case obv
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
I was in hospital a few years back and had two doctors prescribe similar drugs at almost the same time, both unaware of the other, so close together timewise that the hospital's system that informs doctors of what's being fed through the IV tube didn't reach the other one.
I'm curious as to whether the amount of these drugs found in the autopsy were consistent with what he was prescribed, and indeed whether he was prescribed them at all. There were three types of fentanyl found, one which isn't legal in the US, as well as another less powerful pain reliever oxycodone, plus two benzodiazepines (Xanax and Restoril, for insomnia maybe?) and Celexa, an SSRI antidepressant. I hope this wasn't another case of a celebrity bypassing usual channels to get medications for legitimate ailments, as Prince seems to have done. He also died of a fentanyl overdose, and like Petty was complaining of pain just before his death. Prince wasn't prescribed fentanyl though, and fentanyl tablets were found in his home in a bottle labelled hydrocodone which is a less powerful painkiller that's very common in the US. Had he taken hydrocodone for his pain rather than fentanyl, he might still be alive.
― Lee626, Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:56 (six years ago) link
Been watching and digging the Bogdanovich doc on Netflix the last few nights (which I'd never gotten around to before). The only jarring thing is one interview that I'm guessing is from the late '90s or early '00s, which is interspersed with a bunch of other interviews from different periods before and after, and I kept thinking "why does he look so weird in that one?" Finally realized it's because of the pinpoint pupils -- it's obviously from his heroin days. He's coherent and everything but it's still unnerving.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 2 February 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
New Rare/Unreleased Box Set: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/tom-petty-boxed-set-of-unreleased-music-coming-in-september-1202869884/
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
The track listing for the box is out. About 1/4 of it is deep album cuts, and about half of it is live. I was hoping for more previously unreleased studio material, but I'll almost certainly buy it anyway.
http://www.tompetty.com/news/american-treasure-box-set-1772051
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
Perhaps the most random thing on there
6 Concert Intro Live introduction by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Forum, Inglewood, CA—June 28, 1981
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link