Please say it isn't so. RIP Tom Petty
I'm only seeing critical condition after cardiac arrest last night...where did you read that?
this is horrible horrible news.
Quote from: LBSUNFLWR on Oct 02, 2017, 03:54 PM
I'm only seeing critical condition after cardiac arrest last night...where did you read that?
this is horrible horrible news.
Cameron Crowes twitter. This day just sucks big time!
This is the worst news. I am so sad.
I'm so glad I saw them this summer on the 40th anniversary tour...and many other times.
Wildflowers is one of my all-time favorite albums in the history of music.
I just saw him Aug 19th in Seattle, my 6th time seeing him. A truly great song writer. It's just about the worst news that could have happened after the Las Vegas tragedy last night. Heart goes out to the band, Tom's true family.
Today sucks.
Quote from: LBSUNFLWR on Oct 02, 2017, 04:09 PM
Wildflowers is one of my all-time favorite albums in the history of music.
Wildflowers is my number 1 go to road trip album. If I'm in a car longer than 2 hours there's a 99.9% chance it will be played.
Quote from: hoojack on Oct 02, 2017, 05:37 PM
Quote from: LBSUNFLWR on Oct 02, 2017, 04:09 PM
Wildflowers is one of my all-time favorite albums in the history of music.
Wildflowers is my number 1 go to road trip album. If I'm in a car longer than 2 hours there's a 99.9% chance it will be played.
Most definitely!
This is terrible. Saw the last show of the tour 1 week ago....I am heartbroken :cry:
Posted a few days ago on TP website about the huge 40th anniversary tour they just completed:
"It's 1:22 a.m., and the last lighting, video and sound cases are getting loaded up and pushed off the stage at the Hollywood Bowl, where Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played three incredible sold-out, hometown shows to close out the band's 40th Anniversary tour," reads the blog post. "Fifty-three shows. Twenty-four states. Twelve lighting crew. Eleven truck drivers. Nine in Production. Seven sound guys. Six backline crew. Six months. Five opening acts. Three countries. Three riggers. One legendary band and over one million legendary fans. Thank you to all!"
What a rollercoaster of information on his death yesterday. It's truly a sad loss for Rock N Roll. I agree with the comments on the Wildflowers album here but if you want to hear Tom Petty's best do yourself a favor and get ahold of the Live Anthology recordings. Like MMJ, TP & The Heartbreakers are best served up live. There's 5 albums of live music that can't be beat. :headphones:
Agreed, The Live Anthology is awesome.
Had a friend tell me yesterday he looked through his collection and realized he has no Tom Petty albums! what?! I sent him Wildflowers, Full Moon Fever, Damn The Torpedoes, Greatest Hits and The Live Anthology.
The first time I saw Tom Petty, he opened for my favorite band, the Grateful Dead, in 1986.
The last time I saw Tom Petty, my favorite band, My Morning Jacket, opened for him in 2010.
His impact on my live music journey cannot be overstated. He was one of the most underappreciated threads in the fabric of American music.
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I fully expect a Tom Petty cover in CO.
Have they ever played one?
They did "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Neko Case in Detroit a couple years ago. Great version! Think that might be the only Petty they've ever attempted though. I'd kill to hear MMJ do just about any Petty tune.
Quote from: johnnYYac on Oct 03, 2017, 12:25 PM
The first time I saw Tom Petty, he opened for my favorite band, the Grateful Dead, in 1986.
The last time I saw Tom Petty, my favorite band, My Morning Jacket, opened for him in 2010.
His impact on my live music journey cannot be overstated. He was one of the most underappreciated threads in the fabric of American music.
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That is quite circuital Yac. Thanks for sharing. I've been bummed for the past few days. Let's not forget he was a Traveling Wilbury too.
I haven't listened to Petty too much over the last few years, but I did put some old stuff on while driving on vacation last month and was reminded of how many insane hits he had. As mentioned above even though it wasn't the same album as mentioned above...... it was a terrific fit for the road.
basically haven't stopped listening to the Live Anthology all week.
yeah it's so good. that's how I fell in love with the song "Have Love Will Travel"
I guess I never played the album it was on, The Last DJ.
I only got to see him once and it was incredible. Very small venue, before the Joint was remodeled and expanded. I have no idea if he played the song regularly, I kind of think not, but I thought it was awesome that at the The Joint in Las Vegas they opened with Chuck Berry's Around and Around ("They say the joint was rockin'")
Aug 16 2005
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Setlist
at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Around and Around (Chuck Berry cover)
Listen to Her Heart
I Won't Back Down
Free Fallin'
Breakdown
Rip It Up (Little Richard cover)
Mary Jane's Last Dance
I'm Crying (The Animals cover)
You Don't Know How It Feels
What Are You Doin' in My Life?
I'd Like to Love You Baby (J.J. Cale cover)
Born in Chicago (The Nick Gravenites John Cipollina Band cover)
Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon cover)
Honey Bee
Thirteen Days (J.J. Cale cover)
Learning to Fly
Melinda
Don't Come Around Here No More
Refugee
Runnin' Down a Dream
Encore:
You Wreck Me
Gloria (Them cover)
Quote from: parkervb on Oct 06, 2017, 10:20 AM
basically haven't stopped listening to the Live Anthology all week.
Ditto, Still can't believe this happened, this one hit me hard as I was a fan from the beginning. I remember hearing "Breakdown" on the radio on my lunch break when it came out. I ran to the record store after work looking for it. The guy asked if he could help me and I said do you have that album by Richard Petty and the Heartbreakers. Of coarse he laughed and said you mean Tom Petty? I got the album and it didn't leave my turntable for a month. After seeing Johns ticket stubs, I went to see some of mine, saw the "Damn the Torpedo's" tour at the Paramount in Seattle 12/28/1979 $8.75. Saw "The Waiting" tour at Hec Ed in Seattle 7/6/1981 $9.50. I think I paid around $150 to see him this past August. Just goes to show, musicians made money on the records back in the day now have to make it on the touring.
^^^ great story!
The shows this summer were worth every penny though, wouldn't you say?
Quote from: LBSUNFLWR on Oct 06, 2017, 12:42 PM
^^^ great story!
The shows this summer were worth every penny though, wouldn't you say?
Yes I do! I don't regret one penny of it. Took my son's girlfriend to it, she's pretty up on music but young. The first thing she said after the show to me was "Wow I've heard every one of those songs before, that was fantastic."
Yeah - the 40th Anniversary tour was great. I was lucky enough to catch them at the Arroyo Seco festival, with Alabama Shakes, Dawes, Pres Hall, Charles Bradley & Broken Social Scene. Pretty great lineup!!
I went to the show at Deer Creek in Indiana. They had a special relationship with Indiana and that venue in particular that they talked about a lot.
great show to be my last show. :(
Damn! Beautiful. Well done War on Drugs. Brought a tear to my eye, Thanks for posting this.
Can't wait to see what MMJ pulls out in CO.
Quote from: rkwedge on Oct 06, 2017, 12:57 PM
Quote from: LBSUNFLWR on Oct 06, 2017, 12:42 PM
^^^ great story!
The shows this summer were worth every penny though, wouldn't you say?
Yes I do! I don't regret one penny of it. Took my son's girlfriend to it, she's pretty up on music but young. The first thing she said after the show to me was "Wow I've heard every one of those songs before, that was fantastic."
someone said the average person can probably name 6 more Tom Petty songs than they think. I thought that was a pretty nice compliment.
This was a tremendous remembrance of Tom Petty by Patterson Hood:
http://bittersoutherner.com/from-the-southern-perspective/music/like-sonny-liston-tom-petty-patterson-hood
The Replacements story is so good.
:beer:
Quote from: parkervb on Oct 06, 2017, 04:01 PM
This was a tremendous remembrance of Tom Petty by Patterson Hood:
http://bittersoutherner.com/from-the-southern-perspective/music/like-sonny-liston-tom-petty-patterson-hood
The Replacements story is so good.
Holy Crap that's written well. And "Something Big" is a top 5 Petty song for me so I was pleased to see it was his fav. Thanks for posting :beer:
Look at how many different bands have done covers this week, and how many different songs have been covered. What an impact he's left on our world. <3
Really good: http://americansongwriter.com/2017/10/life-times-tom-petty/
Quote from: parkervb on Oct 06, 2017, 04:01 PM
This was a tremendous remembrance of Tom Petty by Patterson Hood:
http://bittersoutherner.com/from-the-southern-perspective/music/like-sonny-liston-tom-petty-patterson-hood
The Replacements story is so good.
Great article. I listened to Live Anthology based on your recommendation. Cool covers on there too!
"Only A Broken Heart"
Here comes that feeling I've seen in your eyes
Back in the old days, before the hard times
But I'm not afraid anymore
It's only a broken heart
I know the place where you keep your secrets
Out of the sunshine, down in a valley
But I'm not afraid anymore
It's only a broken heart
What would I give, to start all over again
To clean up my mistakes
Stand in the moonlight, stand under heaven
Wait for an answer, hold out forever
But don't be afraid anymore
It's only a broken heart
What would I give, to start all over again
To clean up my mistakes
I know your weakness, you've seen my dark side
The end of the rainbow is always a long ride
But I'm not afraid anymore
It's only a broken heart
Quote from: LBSUNFLWR on Oct 06, 2017, 11:20 PM
Really good: http://americansongwriter.com/2017/10/life-times-tom-petty/
This is a great read. The part about his grandparents is amazing, I'd never heard that before. Thanks for posting :beer:
If you haven't seen it, you gotta watch the Bogdanovich documentary, I recommend the 4 hour version. In contrast to his easy going laid back image and demeanor, his relentless determination to succeed and succeed on his own terms without compromise was really fueled by hurt and rage towards injustice. Petty's life story is a brilliant inspiring American one for sure.
^^^Agreed this and their 30th anniversary concert "Runnin Down a Dream" are must see's
The Paul Zollo book Conversations With Tom Petty is great for getting deep into the songwriter's perspective on Petty's genius as a songwriter and get his take on lots of his deep cuts that otherwise never get discussed very much, like if you want to hear writing and recording details of songs like Between Two Worlds or stuff like that.
The Warren Zanes book is the definitive biography too, getting more into his personal life because most of it is based on hours and hours and hours of interviews with Petty as well as Zane's perspective opening for Petty on the Rock n Roll Caravan tour in 1987 with the Del Fuegos and the Georgia Satellites (holy shit that was a great show!!!)
https://www.jambase.com/article/jason-isbell-honors-tom-petty-in-memphis
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit were among the performers at last weekend's MEMPHO Music Festival in Memphis. The singer-songwriter led his band through a pair of Tom Petty classics as part of their set at Shelby Farms Park on Saturday.
Touring in support of their recently issued LP The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit performed several songs from the album, such as "Cumberland Gap," Hope the High Road" and "Last Of My Kind." The set also saw a few selections from Isbell's previous solo efforts Something More Than Free and Southeastern with a couple cuts from his time with Drive-By Truckers.
Following a performance of The Nashville Sound track "If We Were Vampires," Isbell took the stage for a solo acoustic cover of Tom Petty's early-career single "Even The Losers." The band then joined or "Anxiety" from the new record and a set-closing rendition of Petty's hit "American Girl." Audience-shot video of the two Petty covers can be viewed below
Jason Isbell's awesome, both these are so good. The University of Florida crowd did good Saturday as well, and I never thought I'd say this but Miley Cyrus and her dad on The Tonight show doing Wildflowers is top shelf. Thanks for posting and diverting away from that political thread down below, Yikes
I like everything you said except I heard Miley Cyrus on Howard Stern and thought I was going to barf. :grin: didn't hear the one with her dad but I can't imagine I'd like that either...Wildflowers is my favorite song.
oh, and I didn't read the political thread...
Love to see all the folks in this thread that loved Tom. As you can see from my name he had a massive impact on my life as a Florida boy. If y'all see any more covers around the web keep em coming please.
Here's a few of my favorites, some more known than others, for those of you who may not have known a lot of Tom's work and would like some tunes.
The Wild One, Forever. Hurt. Magnolia. Deliver Me. Between Two Worlds. Fooled Again (I Don't Like It). The Best of Everything. Grew Up Fast.
There's plenty more, but I think those are some that the more casual fan may not know and would enjoy.
Thank god (or whoever) music never dies
Quote from: Petty55 on Oct 12, 2017, 04:22 AM
Love to see all the folks in this thread that loved Tom. As you can see from my name he had a massive impact on my life as a Florida boy. If y'all see any more covers around the web keep em coming please.
Here's a few of my favorites, some more known than others, for those of you who may not have known a lot of Tom's work and would like some tunes.
The Wild One, Forever. Hurt. Magnolia. Deliver Me. Between Two Worlds. Fooled Again (I Don't Like It). The Best of Everything. Grew Up Fast.
There's plenty more, but I think those are some that the more casual fan may not know and would enjoy.
Thank god (or whoever) music never dies
So far Jason Isbell has done a TP cover to start the encore each night of his 6 show run at The Ryman. videos are on jambase. will try to post them here when I have some time this afternoon.
a YT playlist of these great Petty covers would be cool.
oh 2 Isbell covers are on the previous page, I did post them.
Reading through this thread gives me great joy. Some of y'all saw some amazing Petty shows. Still can't believe it's over. So glad I made that 500-mile drive (alone) last summer to see Mudcrutch. To see the HBs again on this 40th Anniversary tour was the true rock n roll cherry on top.
I still am left wondering where the Heartbreakers go from here. They are way too damn good of a band to not keep playing together. But how do you go on without your leader? Can only imagine the pain they're going through.
Long live Petty.
:thumbsup:
after hearing so many of the great covers others have done I was thinking the Heartbreakers could definitely do a reunion tour in a year or 2 if they wanted with any number of people stepping in to do the singing.
Eddie Vedder would be truly great! I thought Wilco's cover was among the best I heard, imagine Tweedy & The Heartbreakers for a tour. Or better yet, a revolving list of singers coming in for a few songs a night.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BaM4bEVFz6w/
Nice words from Benmont Tench. He had solo show already scheduled and is going on with it. This is what he said.
The Heartbreakers are indeed one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. I've seen them 15 times since 1987, but the peak without a doubt was the 20 night run at the Fillmore in 1997 when they played about half covers paying lots of tribute to their influences and having a blast doing it.
They were freight train powerful at those shows, coming out blasting the Flying Vs or the Gibson Explorers and rocking the hell out on their own fast tunes and then all the great covers of their musical heroes. I realized while they mowed me down by blasting through these tunes and made it look effortless that they had become as good as the Rolling Stones ever had been whether it was the early Chicago blues and Chuck Berry years of the early 60s or the prime Mick Taylor years '69-'72. The Heartbreakers took the mantle from the Stones and became the torchbearers for authentic rock 'n' roll, the greatest rock 'n' roll band on the planet in the 90s.
If you haven't heard it, give this show a spin, the last night of the run.
Quote from: rkwedge on Oct 13, 2017, 04:30 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/BaM4bEVFz6w/
Nice words from Benmont Tench. He had solo show already scheduled and is going on with it. This is what he said.
That was nice to read. Thanks for posting.
Quote from: LBSUNFLWR on Oct 13, 2017, 09:01 AM
:thumbsup:
after hearing so many of the great covers others have done I was thinking the Heartbreakers could definitely do a reunion tour in a year or 2 if they wanted with any number of people stepping in to do the singing.
Eddie Vedder would be truly great! I thought Wilco's cover was among the best I heard, imagine Tweedy & The Heartbreakers for a tour. Or better yet, a revolving list of singers coming in for a few songs a night.
Check this for a preview of that dream tour you mention.....Eddie and the Heartbreakers. It won't happen, but it's nice to dream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=padBMW652No
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/tom-petty-heartbreakers-springsteen-remember-late-friend-w509226
Bob Dylan covering Petty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFUrBPu4EaA&feature=youtu.be
Quote from: APR on Oct 23, 2017, 02:08 PM
Bob Dylan covering Petty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFUrBPu4EaA&feature=youtu.be
Nice, Thanks for posting. Bob Dylan really respected Tom Petty as they were basically two of a kind.
Ryan Adams covering Even The Losers
Stapleton doing Free Falling. Just warms my heart hearing all these guys talk about how much Tom meant to them. Miss him
No Reason To Cry
I can't figure out why some mainstream Nashville dude or even someone more artist-like like Alison Krauss or Emmylou Harris have not yet recorded this underheard Petty gem. I can just hear it, could have been a huge hit for someone. What a songwriter.
^ Agreed, it can still happen.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/health/tom-petty-cause-of-death/index.html
:cry: :cry: :cry:
http://www.tompetty.com/
Read "A statement from the Petty family"
Patrick and Tom going to have some fun at Bonnaroo
https://www.jambase.com/article/bonnaroo-2018-superjam-honor-music-tom-petty-heartbreakers
That sounds incredible!!!
Not enough to get me to camp in the sweltering heat, but incredible still. :)
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-announce-posthumous-box-set-an-american-treasure-698087
I'm searching the board for an audio link of Tom & Patrick's Petty tribute if anyone has a beat on it. thecolfax@gmail.com
Thanks
Wildflowers and all the Rest released today. Many great new songs that were left in the studio when the original album was cut from a two album set to a single album. Can't wait to get my vinyl today. How I miss Tom Petty!
Thanks for the heads up. What a tragedy, Tom should be around now.
I am looking forward to hearing this for sure!! Just got it!
Foo Fighters, Beck, Stevie Nicks Set for Virtual Fest Celebrating Tom Petty's 70th Birthday
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/foo-fighters-beck-stevie-nicks-tom-petty-birthday-festival-livestream-1078390/