I don't want to make this thread, nobody wants to see these words, but it looks like this is the case.
Glad I got to see him, truly one of the greatest American songwriters of all time.
RIP, I hope you and George are jamming tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8
RIP Tom.
Thanks for all the great music.
He was one of my dad's favorites, and got put on to Tom when I was pretty young. He was one of my first concerts I went to as well. Went with my dad and Black Crowes opened. It was a rockin night, I'll never forget.
:cry: RIP
damn! RIP
What a bummer
I'm at such a loss right now, the guy was still killing it on tour.
Top 5 concert I've ever witnessed and a huge part of my adolescence.
I feel almost as heartbroken about this as I was about Jerry back in 95.
GODDAMMIT
Holy Shit
Great songwriter, put on a great show
RIP
Damn.
I only saw him once, at Polaris, this was summer of 2000, shortly after the Phish shows...iirc, it was within days. Anyhow, it was a fantastic show. Maybe I was still buzzing from the Phish, but I seem to remember thinking it was a fantastic live music experience.
RIP
Holy fuck, this one hurts. Such a great musician. The last time I saw him live Trey opened for him. :cry:
RIP
Latest from TMZ (http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-found-unconscious-full-cardiac-arrest/):
Quote1:35 PM PT -- 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.
I desperately would like a miracle here. :-( :-(
terrible. I saw him on the Wildflowers tour, my second or third concert experience, and I smoked a water bong for the first time on the way there. amazing show, and the jam out of Mary Jane's Last Dance was the first jam I ever witnessed. will be putting on my Wildflowers vinyl tonight. side two of the 2 LP set (It's Good To Be King, It's Only A Broken Heart, Honey Bee, Don't Fade On Me) might be my favorite side of all time. (other contenders are side one of Sky Blue Sky and side three of Physical Graffiti)
ETA I didn't get choked up until I typed out those four song titles, now it's waterworks
Really kicking us while we're down.
It sounds kinda dumb, but the lyrics to "You Don't Know How It Feels" changed my entire philosophy on life. The man was/is a true artist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlBTPITo1I
Quote from: VDB on October 02, 2017, 05:26:18 PM
Latest from TMZ (http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-found-unconscious-full-cardiac-arrest/):
Quote1:35 PM PT -- 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.
I desperately would like a miracle here. :-( :-(
Not great news but sounds like there is at least hope.
LAPD apologizes for falsely reporting his death.
QuoteHe is currently alive.
"Alive"
Sorry, just went through this with my cousin/boss who went into cardiac arrest while running. Paramedics were able to get her heart beating after an unknown amount of time. She was brain dead however, just a heart and lungs involuntarily working. Life support was removed and it took a couple of days before she was dead. There was never any hope, however.
Looks like it is official now. What a crappy ass day. :x
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/entertainment/tom-petty-obit/index.html
Man I really hope we still get that Wildflowers expanded version.
There's like six songs nobody's ever heard, if they can pull that together it would be a fitting eulogy for an incredible career.
Quote from: Hicks on October 03, 2017, 02:57:26 AM
Man I really hope we still get that Wildflowers expanded version.
There's like six songs nobody's ever heard, if they can pull that together it would be a fitting eulogy for an incredible career.
Agreed. I've been holding out on grabbing that box set, hoping for this.
The Vol. 2 set shot up a bunch recently.
Now there's one up for over $500.
I think I paid $179 when they were available.
This is a crushing loss.
Way too early.
This guy had a catalog of great songs so deep he could have played five hours and you'd know all of the words.
I wrote this yesterday on the instagrams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8
I was eleven when Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' "Don't Come Around Here No More" came on my MTV. The video blew my mind but the song, its sound, changed my perspective on music. As I grew older, I came to learn where those sounds came from. Petty wore his influences as proudly as I wear my Grateful Dead cap. But he also integrated them and called them up to serve his seemingly bottomless well of songs. An American icon, a troubadour, an unceasing road warrior, Tom Petty is bound to remain in the American songbook for a very long time.
And for all of that time, he will be missed.
Wildflowers is, ultimately, the album I'll hold close to me forever. That album alone is enough to put him in every hall of fame, music history text, VH1 special, and grammy montage. The fact that it came 18 years into a career that BEGAN with a record featuring songs like "Breakdown" and "American Girl" just shows the depth of the man's talents...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF90YDYAI9c
Lastly, if there's one good thing that comes of this thread, it's that we now know that someone out there still says "water bong".
Quote from: rowjimmy on October 03, 2017, 08:31:02 AM
Lastly, if there's one good thing that comes of this thread, it's that we now know that someone out there still says "water bong".
And there, you brought a smile to a very gloomy day RJ.
Cheers.
When my future wife I started dating I noticed she owned quite a few of his albums. I knew then she was keeper. This one is her favourite.
https://youtu.be/nvlTJrNJ5lA
Finely put, RJ.
If this one has hurt me more than any of the recent celebrity losses – and it has – that's because of the deep place of affection that Tom Petty has occupied for, well, basically my entire waking, music-aware life. There was a point, I'd guess in my early teens, when he (with The Heartbreakers) climbed all the way to the top of my own Power Rankings, and on account of this I had made a point to catch them live several times over the years. In fact, the first overnight concert trip I ever took was to a TP show, made allowable thanks to the chaperonage of some older, "responsible" friends.
The sheer length of his career and his endurance as a presence in our lives makes the prematurity of his passing all the more difficult to grapple with. We're going to miss him a lot.
One of the great songwriters. He made it look so simple and easy.
I can't believe I only saw him live once, in about '92. It was a killer show.
I almost saw him last month at the Berkeley Greek theatre, but the cheapest seats were at least $125, so I decided to skip it. Sigh.
I remember being like 10 years old and thinking Refugee was a great song. That was in '81.
And his newest album, Hypnotic Eye, is great, his best since Wildflowers. The man was on a roll.
Last time I saw him in Amsterdam (2012/6/24) he was fucking amazing.
Listen to Her Heart
You Wreck Me
I Won't Back Down
Here Comes My Girl
Handle With Care
Good Enough
Oh Well
(Fleetwood Mac cover)
Something Big
Don't Come Around Here No More
The Waiting (with Eddie Vedder)
Free Fallin'
It's Good to Be King
Something Good Coming
Learning to Fly
Yer So Bad
I Should Have Known It
Refugee
Runnin' Down a Dream
Encore: Mary Jane's Last Dance
American Girl (with Eddie Vedder)
https://youtu.be/yAT6viH2068
Quote from: rowjimmy on October 03, 2017, 08:31:02 AM
This is a crushing loss.
Way too early.
This guy had a catalog of great songs so deep he could have played five hours and you'd know all of the words.
I wrote this yesterday on the instagrams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8
I was eleven when Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' "Don't Come Around Here No More" came on my MTV. The video blew my mind but the song, its sound, changed my perspective on music. As I grew older, I came to learn where those sounds came from. Petty wore his influences as proudly as I wear my Grateful Dead cap. But he also integrated them and called them up to serve his seemingly bottomless well of songs. An American icon, a troubadour, an unceasing road warrior, Tom Petty is bound to remain in the American songbook for a very long time.
And for all of that time, he will be missed.
Wildflowers is, ultimately, the album I'll hold close to me forever. That album alone is enough to put him in every hall of fame, music history text, VH1 special, and grammy montage. The fact that it came 18 years into a career that BEGAN with a record featuring songs like "Breakdown" and "American Girl" just shows the depth of the man's talents...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF90YDYAI9c
Lastly, if there's one good thing that comes of this thread, it's that we now know that someone out there still says "water bong".
Well said RJ and lol, let's roll another water bong.
I wrote a little tribute too:
https://www.aperionaudio.com/blog/rip-tom-petty-1950-2017
Quote from: Hicks on October 03, 2017, 01:48:18 PM
Well said RJ and lol, let's roll another water bong.
I wrote a little tribute too:
https://www.aperionaudio.com/blog/rip-tom-petty-1950-2017
Nicely done, ikki.
Quote from: Hicks on October 03, 2017, 01:48:18 PM
I wrote a little tribute too:
https://www.aperionaudio.com/blog/rip-tom-petty-1950-2017
Superb and lovely, Hicks.
Quote from: rowjimmy on October 03, 2017, 01:59:37 PM
Quote from: Hicks on October 03, 2017, 01:48:18 PM
Well said RJ and lol, let's roll another water bong.
I wrote a little tribute too:
https://www.aperionaudio.com/blog/rip-tom-petty-1950-2017
Nicely done, ikki.
This.
My own thoughts:
I have never until very recently owned a Tom Petty album with or without the Heartbreakers. I bought Damn the Torpedos on vinyl recently and I love listening to it.
That said, I saw him play play twice. The first was at ACL Fest in 2006. The band was forced offstage by a major storm for about an hour. They came back and just raged well past curfew. In fact, in 15 years of ACL Fest this is still the only instance of a band playing past curfew. It was amazing... and for a guy who owned zero Petty, I found out I was already a fan. I knew every fucking word to every fucking song! The guy's work is just that ubiquitous.
The second time was Jazzfest this year. I caught about 4 songs before ditching his set to catch Maceo Parker. Such is Jazzfest.
At any rate, my final thought is this: Petty is one of the few to keep Rock & Roll alive and kicking in the 80's, and thank Jah for that!!
https://youtu.be/nTZiWlsw1Iw (https://youtu.be/nTZiWlsw1Iw)
Highly recommend giving this a watch. It's been years since I last watched it but fired it up again the other night. Definitely worth the nearly 4 hours that it clocks in at. Currently on Netflix.
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/dvdboxart/173843/p173843_d_v8_aa.jpg)
Quote from: mehead on October 04, 2017, 08:26:28 AM
Highly recommend giving this a watch. It's been years since I last watched it but fired it up again the other night. Definitely worth the nearly 4 hours that it clocks in at. Currently on Netflix.
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/dvdboxart/173843/p173843_d_v8_aa.jpg)
Good call. Will do.
The 30th Anniversary Concert of that box set is up on YouTube BTW.
https://youtu.be/Kw2topZYXrA
So, this afternoon the folks at ACLFest paid beautiful tribute to Tom. At a moment when all stages were between acts they played on video and audio from EVERY stage in the entire place Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' final encore of Free Falling from their 2006 ACLFest performance... I mean every corner of the park was filled the sound... then three skydivers came down from above. Everyone in the place was dancing and singing and hugging and looking up to the sky. It was really beautiful.
Quote from: PIE-GUY on October 08, 2017, 12:56:47 AM
So, this afternoon the folks at ACLFest paid beautiful tribute to Tom. At a moment when all stages were between acts they played on video and audio from EVERY stage in the entire place Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' final encore of Free Falling from their 2006 ACLFest performance... I mean every corner of the park was filled the sound... then three skydivers came down from above. Everyone in the place was dancing and singing and hugging and looking up to the sky. It was really beautiful.
Yes.
Quote from: Buffalo Budd on October 08, 2017, 02:07:04 AM
Quote from: PIE-GUY on October 08, 2017, 12:56:47 AM
So, this afternoon the folks at ACLFest paid beautiful tribute to Tom. At a moment when all stages were between acts they played on video and audio from EVERY stage in the entire place Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' final encore of Free Falling from their 2006 ACLFest performance... I mean every corner of the park was filled the sound... then three skydivers came down from above. Everyone in the place was dancing and singing and hugging and looking up to the sky. It was really beautiful.
Yes.
That's amazing.
Quote from: mehead on October 04, 2017, 08:26:28 AM
Highly recommend giving this a watch. It's been years since I last watched it but fired it up again the other night. Definitely worth the nearly 4 hours that it clocks in at. Currently on Netflix.
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/dvdboxart/173843/p173843_d_v8_aa.jpg)
watched the first hour and a half this am, good stuff.
Quote from: PIE-GUY on October 08, 2017, 12:56:47 AM
So, this afternoon the folks at ACLFest paid beautiful tribute to Tom. At a moment when all stages were between acts they played on video and audio from EVERY stage in the entire place Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' final encore of Free Falling from their 2006 ACLFest performance... I mean every corner of the park was filled the sound... then three skydivers came down from above. Everyone in the place was dancing and singing and hugging and looking up to the sky. It was really beautiful.
First off, HUGE props and thanks to Dave for hooking me and Amber up with wristbands this year!
I was unfortunately under the tent making a beer run when this happened so I missed the whole thing, but here's about a minute of it that the wife managed to catch.
https://youtu.be/phKygzqoCmg (https://youtu.be/phKygzqoCmg)
So I may have hijacked the DJ equipment at a wedding last night to play "Into the Great Wide Open" post-reception.
Quote from: VDB on October 15, 2017, 11:19:57 AM
So I may have hijacked the DJ equipment at a wedding last night to play "Into the Great Wide Open" post-reception.
Shoulda gone You Got Lucky. :evil:
Quote from: Hicks on October 15, 2017, 12:56:20 PM
Quote from: VDB on October 15, 2017, 11:19:57 AM
So I may have hijacked the DJ equipment at a wedding last night to play "Into the Great Wide Open" post-reception.
Shoulda gone You Got Lucky. :evil:
Heh. In fact, I was hoping for American Girl (bride's from here and groom is English) but pickins were slim among the DJ's onboard library.