Well, sh*t. "Breakdown" was one of my favorite songs in the 80s. Esquire ran an interview with him awhile back. My favorite line was this: "Do
something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."
1:35 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.
This from MSN.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
According to an initial LAPD source via CBS News and Variety, he was taken off life support soon after.
Yet later tweets from CBS and the LAPD claim that the department has “no information about the passing of singer Tom Petty” and any information
has been “inadvertently provided”, with both apologising.
A friend told me he had been smoking since he was 17 and just recently got below a pack a day. That's 50 years of smoking more than a pack a day.
A very hard habit to kick, indeed. This is how many end up stopping.
There might have been other smoking involved too, eh?
There was a time between Damn the Torpedos to Full Moon Fever to Wildflowers that he was probably my favorite rock artist. I grew tired of much of the
syn-tech 80s sound that gave way to rap/hip-hop in the 90s. There was very little else on LA broadcast radio, especially when KSCA became Spanish
around 1995. Thirty to forty years of "classic rock" had finally gotten old, too. The Smooth Jazz emergence was initially attractive but, ultimately,
not interesting enough to listen to, except at dinner parties.
Without the emergence of sat radio and channels like The Loft, The Spectrum, Bluesville, the 40s channel (love the Swing Era!), Classic Jazz and
occasionally Willie's Roadhouse, The Coffee House or Symphony Hall, I dont know what I'd listen to these days. Contemporary country is too
predictable. Contemporary Christian is too hopeful. Contemporary pop is plain unlistenable.
Even the Grateful Dead channel has too many bad, live performances from the late 80s and early 90s, when Jerry was spiraling down. When the Dead were
ON, they were the best jam band ever. When they weren't, they weren't worth listening to...........
And, yes, the Tom Petty Channel, got me through. I would listen to that, too. Much more variety than just Tom playing Tom's music. Early rock roots.
Obscure stuff from around the planet. Very unpredictable.
No doubt about it. Tom Petty was really, well, instrumental in bridging the gap from the death of commercial rock radio to the variety of sat
radio, for me.
This prolonged purgatory of waiting for the official word of his passing, reminds me of a line from one of my favorite songs of his,
"What they hey, baby. There ain't no easy way out........."
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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