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41Forever Oct 02 2017 07:32 PM

This does not sound good. [url]http://kdvr.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-found-unconscious/ MALIBU, Calif. — Tom Petty was rushed to the hospital Sunday night after he was found unconscious, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest, law enforcement sources told TMZ. First responders rushed to his Malibu home and were able to get a pulse. He was then rushed to the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and TMZ sources say he was put on life support. Petty’s condition is unknown but was critical from the moment he was found. Petty, who became famous with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1978 with “Breakdown,” is 66. Petty just wrapped a huge tour, ending at the Hollywood Bowl late last Monday.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 02 2017 07:40 PM Re: Tom Petty

Yikes. It's not like he's been hitting the gym much.

Edgy MD Oct 02 2017 07:51 PM Re: Tom Petty

The Daily News is reporting that he's been removed from life support.

seawolf17 Oct 02 2017 07:56 PM Re: Tom Petty

Frig.

TransMonk Oct 02 2017 08:05 PM Re: Tom Petty

100% happy I went and saw him this summer. Poop.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 02 2017 08:09 PM Re: Tom Petty

Yeah he's dead. I hemmed and hawed over the ticket prices this summer and decided against, but at least I'd seen him before. RIP to a terrific songwriter and rock hero. Don't bore us, get to the chorus!

cooby Oct 02 2017 08:11 PM Re: Tom Petty

Glad he has his own thread. A real legend. RIP

Ashie62 Oct 02 2017 08:28 PM Re: Tom Petty

Torpedoed.

Edgy MD Oct 02 2017 08:47 PM Re: Tom Petty

Loser though I might have been, Tom Petty showed me stars I never could see. [youtube:378be8f5]TNMT4AYf6Xo[/youtube:378be8f5]

Mets Willets Point Oct 02 2017 09:02 PM Re: Tom Petty

I know there's a lot of big Petty fans here, so this is probably a hard day for you all and just want to say I'm sorry for your loss.

G-Fafif Oct 02 2017 09:22 PM Re: Tom Petty

I have a friend who worships Tom Petty. For his sake, I hope the classic rock stations he's tethered to play nothing but Petty for at least a week, maybe a month. Not because he has no other way of hearing his hero, but because the respect would make him happy in a time of sadness. For classic rock radio, this should be like a head of state passing. Which he shouldn't have so relatively soon.

G-Fafif Oct 02 2017 09:31 PM Re: Tom Petty

CBS rescinding death notice. Still "clinging to life" and the end is expected directly. But technically he is and not was.

Chad Ochoseis Oct 02 2017 10:08 PM Re: Tom Petty

He won't back down.

Lefty Specialist Oct 02 2017 10:28 PM Re: Tom Petty

A long time ago, 'The Waiting is the Hardest Part' was the background for my answering machine message.

metirish Oct 02 2017 11:23 PM Re: Tom Petty

For fucks sake, I have thought for the last several hours he was dead.......is he alive at the present time?

Frayed Knot Oct 02 2017 11:26 PM Re: Tom Petty

The last reports I saw -- and it's almost funny (y'know, without really being funny) how these news outlets copy one another and then have to retract what they all reported earlier -- is that he's not dead but that he's been taken off life support, has a DNR from the family, and shows essentially no brain activity. IOW, it may not be official yet but he ain't coming back from this.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 02 2017 11:43 PM Re: Tom Petty

I delivered the Daily News back in '81, and they had a bonus program for new subscriptions where if you got enough you could get free stuff like albums. Two two records I "earned" this way were Steely Dan's Gaucho and Hard Promises by TP. The year before I'd met a kid in my jr high shop class absentlmindedly singing "Refugee." We bonded over that and are still close friends.

Edgy MD Oct 03 2017 01:21 AM Re: Tom Petty

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers vs. the Stones was the first-ever matchup in the band ladder challenge. We didn't have access to video enbeds back then (or even YouTube links, for the most part), and I couldn't successfully convince voters how unutterably sublime "A Women in Love (And It's Not Me)" was. But it is. That instrumental bridge just tear open the night. [youtube:fgea05zl]fKDYErlu5Kc[/youtube:fgea05zl] I like to think Tom tried to write lyrics for that bridge, but it's so good musically, he just let it go. Really stylish b/w video too. Tom was kind of bitter that "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" was such a big hit, because it was released at the same time as "A Women in Love (And It's Not Me)," and he thought the former kept the latter from getting airplay.

Fman99 Oct 03 2017 12:34 PM Re: Tom Petty

While he was never my favorite rocker, I can tell you as a guitar player that his songs are vocally and instrumentally accessible to even a fairly novice player and singer. This is my personal favorite, the title track from his "Wildflowers" album. [youtube:2iahek2k]Ozgmyx919a4[/youtube:2iahek2k]

Edgy MD Oct 03 2017 12:38 PM Re: Tom Petty

You know what's kinda cool? Tom denied that he was part of the punk/nu wave revolution, having a arrived on the scene at the same time as them, and having a cool, stylin' detached look like them. But what really got him mixed up with them is that he totally had a punk-assed name.

Centerfield Oct 03 2017 01:18 PM Re: Tom Petty

Was surprised to learn that he was only 66 years old. I would have guessed he was much older. I remember in 1988 when the Traveling Wilburys came out, thinking it was a group of legendary, but old, rockers. But at the time Tom Petty was 38 years old, or 4 years younger than I am now. Never saw him live. Really regret that.

MFS62 Oct 03 2017 01:43 PM Re: Tom Petty

His music seemed to always be on every radio station when I was listening. I never stopped what I was doing to listen, but I never turned it off, either. It was just there. He wasn't a legend to me, just a presence. And for that reason, I'll miss him. RIP. Later

Frayed Knot Oct 03 2017 01:59 PM Re: Tom Petty

Centerfield wrote: Was surprised to learn that he was only 66 years old. I would have guessed he was much older. I remember in 1988 when the Traveling Wilburys came out, thinking it was a group of legendary, but old, rockers. But at the time Tom Petty was 38 years old, or 4 years younger than I am now. The way I (sort of) keep track of rock stars ages is that I relate everything to the Beatles. I'm not one of those who keeps track of the age of famous people (my father was) but the Far Four are among the few exceptions. That Ringo was the oldest and born in July 1940; with John in Oct '40; Paul in June '42 and George in Feb '43 is just permanently stamped in my brain. So seeing as how they are (or would be) 77, 77, 75, and 74 now I assume that contemporaries of theirs -- Dylan, Mick, Keith, Paul Simon, various WHO and KINKS members -- are right around the same age while I then mentally subtract years from later stars depending on when they first came out. Therefore guys who debuted around mid-'70s, say Petty or Sting or Springsteen, are likely to be about a decade younger. So while I wouldn't have known TP was specifically 66, my Beatles-esque guessing method would have put me right around there if asked. Petty was the youngest Wilbury as he was hanging around with a bunch of guys who were making music most of a decade before him with the exception of Jeff Lynne (who's 69 -- just looked it up). Sting & Bruce both had birthdays this past week btw (heard this on the radio just yesterday); Sting turned 66, Bruce 68 Guys who were really young when coming up -- Stevie Wonder (b. 1950) and Stevie Winwood (b. 1948) -- tend to mess up the method a bit (and also tend to be named Stevie) but if you knew they were precocious teens then you can make the proper adjustments.

A Boy Named Seo Oct 03 2017 02:00 PM Re: Tom Petty

I feel like 'Wildflowers' is to Petty as 'Nebraska' is to Springsteen, a cross-over album for people who maybe didn't love either of those guys before those records. And I'm not sure what it is about those records, but they both seemed cooler in some way than the stuff before and in some cases after. And it's easy, but I love 'Wildflowers' and that album brought me into Petty even if he never grew into one of my all-time favs. It was around the time that album was released I saw him with my high school GF. Probably still have an actual ticket stub from that show. Remember those? Surprised that the news of his passing hit me harder than any of the 2k16 Bowie/Prince/Cohen trifecta or the Merle 4-horse quinella box, if you please. Last week I gave a couple spins to 'She's the One', an underrated soundtrack album he made for this Ed Burns rom com. Couple nice songs on there including these jams, the second one a Beck cover which is undoubtedly written about every girl I've ever dated: [youtube]hUnJzeoPpuE[/youtube] [youtube]i-2A20W5X3Y[/youtube] RIP!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 03 2017 02:08 PM Re: Tom Petty

Dug that Beck cover. TP did pretty well by breakup songs, in general. [youtube:1rbhipnx]mtLpZWNyM0I[/youtube:1rbhipnx] Never got to see him, either.

Mets Willets Point Oct 03 2017 02:13 PM Re: Tom Petty

Petty is one of those artists that I could tell was talented and understood why other people like him but I could never get into his music much myself.

A Boy Named Seo Oct 03 2017 02:35 PM Re: Tom Petty

Mets Willets Point wrote: Petty is one of those artists that I could tell was talented and understood why other people like him but I could never get into his music much myself. You needed the gateway album 'Wildflowers'. I didn't want to look in that mirror myself, but it's his most hipster, cool-guy accessible release IMO.

sharpie Oct 03 2017 02:38 PM Re: Tom Petty

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers vs. the Stones was the first-ever matchup in the band ladder challenge. Actually, it was the Doors vs. Queen. As far as Tom Petty goes, I'm pretty much with Willets Point. I like his stuff enough to keep his songs on when they hit the radio but I never owned any of his music. He mostly felt like a lesser Byrds to me. I saw him with Dylan in '87 - Dylan at his worst. The Petty set was okay. But he seemed like a great guy and many musicians I do admire (the rest of the Wilburys among them) seem or seemed to like him.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 03 2017 02:47 PM Re: Tom Petty

DAMN THE TORPEDOS was such a phenomenal record that MCA felt they could push a retail price increase through on its followup, but Petty was like, no fucking way. He said if they listed it at $8.98 he'd title it "The $7.98 Record" This was the best duet he did, I think. I know others were way more popular. And he was never a looker I suppose but I think he inspired a lot of guys back then to part their hair in the middle [youtube:1ezrkk95]x7bjXWzms5I[/youtube:1ezrkk95]

Edgy MD Oct 03 2017 03:50 PM Re: Tom Petty

His battle with MCA over their "Superstar Price" gouging scheme was really impressive to 15-year-old me.

Edgy MD Oct 03 2017 03:52 PM u

sharpie wrote: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers vs. the Stones was the first-ever matchup in the band ladder challenge. Actually, it was the Doors vs. Queen. Doors v. Queen was the ad hoc model. Stones v. Heartbreakers was the first official one. Amazingly, the Stones are the only one of those bands left that still has a lead singer. Oh, and Queen. Every time.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 03 2017 04:02 PM Re: Tom Petty

I feel like the CPF NBF has invented 3 really cool things: The Ladder Challenge, the World Championship of Classic Rock, and the Desert Island Mix Tape. Someone should take these concepts to a dedicated site on the web and count the money.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 03 2017 04:17 PM Re: Tom Petty

sharpie wrote: As far as Tom Petty goes, I'm pretty much with Willets Point. I like his stuff enough to keep his songs on when they hit the radio but I never owned any of his music. I'm totally in the Willets/sharpie camp here. Except I own a Petty Greatest Hits CD, which I got from those old 80s/90s CD clubs where'd you'd get like 10 CD's for a penny or a dollar plus s/h. John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: DAMN THE TORPEDOS was such a phenomenal record that MCA felt they could push a retail price increase through on its followup, but Petty was like, no fucking way. He said if they listed it at $8.98 he'd title it "The $7.98 Record" I bought most of my albums and CDs at J&R Music World, the greatest record store I ever did see. In the late 70s (Damn the Torpedoes was a 1979 release), albums were $4.99 at J&R, maybe (I don't remember for sure) $5.99 for some new releases. Best selection, too. ---Best prices and largest selection. J&R had everything. Really. No $8.99 or $7.99 albums. I bought my very first albums at Sam Goody. What a piece of shit store that was as I'd come to learn as my music tastes and senses developed. Prices two to three times J&R's prices and the crappiest selection ever.

Edgy MD Oct 03 2017 04:42 PM Re: Tom Petty

Petty is one of those artists that I could tell was talented and understood why other people like him but I could never get into his music much myself. I can only speculate, but it may be similar to your relationship with The Cars. Both became kind of branded and trademarked and formulaic in the MTV era, becoming like wallpaper to a guy who came of age when you did, but you would have just missed out on their pre-MTV breakthroughs that were just astonishing and authentic and romantic and blood-and-gristle real and there was no such thing as this big dead thing called classic rock. There was rock 'n' roll coming out our radios and it was this immediate, living, magical thing and nobody knew it wouldn't last forever. Petty and The Cars and The Police and Cheap Trick and Blondie and U2 were taking up the torch but nobody knew they were something like the last generation, the brief rekindling of the grunge-era bands being too self destructive to offer the renaissance that was so needed. But you caught things at just the right age that other people missed, so win. Just this weekend I watched Foo Fighters: Back and Forth (2011), and Grohl recounted his brief flirtation with the Heartbreakers. He was getting set to launch his post-Nirvana career, and he got a call from his manager that Petty wanted him to come on Saturday Night Live. They had a new record to promote, but Stan Lynch had quit the band to concentrate on songwriting, and they hadn't found a replacement. Grohl sat in, and played the hell out of "Honeybee," and was shocked that afterwards when Petty invited him to join the band. He had all of these songs of his own that were finally going to get out, but Petty was a hero of his, and he struggled for like a week before declining. It would have been a different world if Stan Lynch could put aside his songwriting career for the Heartbreakers, but Grohl couldn't. [youtube]XtlBnxyXNGI[/youtube] It's remarkable now to think I was watching this as Petty was gasping for life on his floor.

Ashie62 Oct 03 2017 05:34 PM Re: Tom Petty

Damn the Torpedoes was a perfect segue/crossover for rock,punk and new wave.

d'Kong76 Oct 03 2017 05:42 PM Re: Tom Petty

Tom and I had a weird relationship. I never turned him off in the car, in fact I often sang along with him hundreds of times. Regrettably turned down going to see him many times with friends who were really into him back in the day. I only have one 'album' ... two disc compilation with about 35 songs. Good songs. RIP

Ashie62 Oct 03 2017 05:45 PM Re: Tom Petty

American Girl was the soundtrack to the first day of school at Ridgemont High.

Mets Willets Point Oct 04 2017 12:51 AM Re: Tom Petty

Edgy MD wrote: Mets Willets Point wrote: Petty is one of those artists that I could tell was talented and understood why other people like him but I could never get into his music much myself. I can only speculate, but it may be similar to your relationship with The Cars. Actually, The Cars are a band that I can't stand and don't see the appeal at all. You do remind me though that when we first got cable TV, "Don't Come Around Here No More" was wallpapered across MTV. Not a song I'd listen to otherwise but it was a fun video to watch over and over back in the day. [youtube]h0JvF9vpqx8[/youtube]

Fman99 Oct 04 2017 01:31 AM Re: Tom Petty

Recorded tonight. Like I said, very accessible.

Ashie62 Oct 04 2017 02:31 AM Re: Tom Petty

Fman99 wrote: Recorded tonight. Like I said, very accessible. Loved it! Working on "American Girl" myself.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 04 2017 05:02 PM Re: Tom Petty

Mets Willets Point wrote: Mets Willets Point wrote: Petty is one of those artists that I could tell was talented and understood why other people like him but I could never get into his music much myself. I can only speculate, but it may be similar to your relationship with The Cars. Actually, The Cars are a band that I can't stand and don't see the appeal at all. Not only am I with Willets on Tom Petty, but with The Cars, too. I could've written Willet's Car line word for word and it would have applied to me just the same. What really annoys me is that in almost every discussion of bands from that era, The Cars and The Police, at some point, will inevitably be mentioned in the very same sentence. It happens all the time which irks me to no end because I dig The Police about as much as I dislike The Cars.

41Forever Oct 04 2017 05:23 PM Re: Tom Petty

I love The Cars. Elliot Easton is an underrated guitar player. I liked Tom Petty. Not a huge fan. He's one of those guys who has more hits and more good songs than I always think he has. I have the greatest hits CD. His live album, with a bazillion cuts from across his career, is really, really good. He seems like one of those artists that everyone likes, but no one is a fanatic about. Certainly a distinctive voice, and he was consistently good. I heard an interview with his biographer that was very interesting. Petty worked with the author, but told him to be completely balanced and said he didn't want the phrase "authorized biography" to appear anywhere, because he said that tells people that the contents are whitewashed nonsense. I respected that.

Edgy MD Oct 04 2017 09:02 PM Re: Tom Petty

Goin' all the way back to 1977 for the savage young Hearbreakers. One part Hamburg Beatles, two parts T-Rex and a dash of sleepy-eyed Keith Richards disaffection. I had completely forgotten this one. Phwam! [youtube:3jd4e5ei]V_wN7GgzqMI[/youtube:3jd4e5ei] You almost forget the band had a history before the Rickenbackers took over.

Ashie62 Oct 04 2017 09:30 PM Re: Tom Petty

Mike Campbell was as good a guitar sideman as there is this side of Keef and maybe Brian May.

Mets Willets Point Oct 04 2017 09:39 PM Re: Tom Petty

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I dig The Police about as much as I dislike The Cars. I'm reminded of an early 1980s Mad Magazine article that had the two bands playing together on the "Police Cars Tour."

d'Kong76 Oct 04 2017 09:41 PM Re: Tom Petty

The first two Cars albums were epic. Epic, I tell ya...

Fman99 Oct 05 2017 01:16 AM Re: Tom Petty

Edgy MD wrote: Goin' all the way back to 1977 for the savage young Hearbreakers. One part Hamburg Beatles, two parts T-Rex and a dash of sleepy-eyed Keith Richards disaffection. I had completely forgotten this one. Phwam! [youtube]V_wN7GgzqMI[/youtube] You almost forget the band had a history before the Rickenbackers took over. Damn, that's a new one to me. I could stand to listen to that every time my XM channel gears up to play "Here Comes My Girl" again for the 99 millionth time.

Edgy MD Oct 05 2017 02:38 AM Re: Tom Petty

XM drives me crazy. 200+ channels and practically all of them controlled by compooters. That song has sort of got some Raspberries splash to it also.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 05 2017 04:14 AM Re: Tom Petty

Ashie62 wrote: American Girl was the soundtrack to the first day of school at Ridgemont High. It was also the soundtrack to the last happy evening in the life of Catherine Martin. [youtube]iamBhRRYfLc[/youtube]

Ashie62 Oct 06 2017 02:35 AM Re: Tom Petty

Interview with Mike Campbell on life with Tom Petty. Good short read. [url]http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/heartbreakers-guitarist-mike-campbell-on-life-with-tom-petty-w506780

Gwreck Oct 10 2017 02:01 AM Re: Tom Petty

There's a great radio program called "Anything, Anything" that airs Sunday nights on a bunch of stations in the NY area. Last night was 2 hours of a tribute to Petty, and it comes with highest recommendation. https://www.mixcloud.com/DJRICHRUSSO/an ... g-10-8-17/

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 10 2017 12:56 PM Re: Tom Petty

Great show. Thanks!