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No....
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fuck fuck fuck.

being selfish for a minute, I have listened to his radio channel nearly every day for several years now, the channel where he is the DJ. They play rerun tapes 24/7, and he had become one of those radio friends, like the baseball announcers for your favorite team.

edit: guess TMZ called it a few minutes ago. I cut out a few words that no longer apply.
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What the fuck
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The

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I can't even remember why I didn't go to his show in April other than pure laziness. FUCK.
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Yeah, he didn't hit Vegas on this last tour and I thought I should have gotten down to LA for the shows down there. But I didn't. This one really, really sucks.
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Dammit! I saw him once, on the Wildflowers tour, and he was great. Had tickets a few years back, and ended up not being able to go. This sucks.
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He was a lot better than I expected at Super Bowl 42, mostly because I figured he was a "stand and play" guy, not a "showman" (he was the year after Prince). I've done a dozen and his was one of my favorites.
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Ryan wrote:What the fuck

Oh act all coy and innocent-like
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DSafetyGuy wrote:He was a lot better than I expected at Super Bowl 42, mostly because I figured he was a "stand and play" guy, not a "showman" (he was the year after Prince). I've done a dozen and his was one of my favorites.


We were in New Orleans for one of my best friend's bachelor party for that Super Bowl. The place we tried to go watching the game was packed by the time we got there, but we stumbled upon a dive that probably had a capacity of 40-45 people and we were the first ones there. By the time halftime arrived, there were probably 55 people in that place and we were all singing along to Free Fallin' and every other song at the top of our lungs. One of my most favorite memories.
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Giff wrote:I can't even remember why I didn't go to his show in April other than pure laziness. FUCK.

Same. He was just here. RIP. Damn.
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Fuck. Just fuck.
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At least now I can put a face on my mourning today. Cuz I really ran out of any fucks to give after Sandy Hook.
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howard wrote:
Ryan wrote:What the fuck

Oh act all coy and innocent-like


Ha. Someone take Billy's keys tonight
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Nobody takes the piano man's keys ha ha ha sorry I'll self-impose a ban here.
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You had to open up your mouth
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TMZ & CBS now saying "clinging to life"...so not dead yet...
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GoodKarma wrote:TMZ & CBS now saying "clinging to life"...so not dead yet...


Also heard he was taken off life support and essentially brain dead so I wouldn't cling to much hope either.
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By the way, I can't claim to know anything beyond the hits so...

1. American Girl
2. Breakdown
3. Don't Do Me Like That
4. Refugee
5. Runnin' Down a Dream
6. Into the Great Wide Open
6. Free Fallin'
7. Don't Come Around Here
8. Last Dance
9. The Waiting
10. You Wreck Me

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around would be 4th or 5th. I think the only one I actively dislike is Learning to Fly
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I'm not fixing it
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The entire Wildflowers album is fantastic from start to finish.

If you're looking beyond the hits, I recommend Down South, Yer So Bad, and Crawling Back to You.
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Ryan wrote:By the way, I can't claim to know anything beyond the hits so...

1. American Girl
2. Breakdown
3. Don't Do Me Like That
4. Refugee
5. Runnin' Down a Dream
6. Into the Great Wide Open
6. Free Fallin'
7. Don't Come Around Here
8. Last Dance
9. The Waiting
10. You Wreck Me

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around would be 4th or 5th. I think the only one I actively dislike is Learning to Fly

Not going to try to rank them, but I'd also throw in:
* I Need to Know
* Listen to Her Heart
* You Got Lucky
* Even the Losers
* Here Comes my Girl
* I Won't Back Down
* She's a Woman in Love
He also did a great cover of the Byrds' "Feel a Whole Lot Better"
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The She's the One soundtrack has no real hits either, but is really damn good.
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Only major Petty song I actively dislike is "Free Fallin'". That's saying something because I'm a bit of a misanthrope.
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The song (to me) that initially set Petty apart from most musicians was Here Comes my Girl on Damn the Torpedoes. There's an affect to that song that I seldom hear. Where the chord hammers home the sentiment. Kind of like Born to Run in that sense.
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An anecdote that endeared him to me was regarding the first single Listen to her Heart off his second album, You're Gonna Get It. The first line of the song goes:
You think you're gonna take her away
With your money and your cocaine

This was the late 70's and the record label told him no way he was putting that word in the lyrics, and demanded he change "cocaine" to "champagne". Petty told them something to the effect of, "People will relate much more to the character in the song if it's cocaine than if it's champagne!" And, told the record label he refused to change the lyric to suit them. He wasn't that big a star yet, so I loved that he stood up against his label up for his song.
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Headed back down south
Gonna see my daddy's mistress
Gonna buy back her forgiveness
Pay off every witness

One more time down south
Sell the family headstones
Drag a bag of dry bones
Make good on my back loans

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Sleep late down south
Look up my former mentors
Live off Yankee winters
Be a landlord and a renter

Create myself down south
Impress all the women
Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens
Wear seersucker and white linens

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Spanish moss down south
Find the heroes of my childhood
Who now can do me no good
Carve their names in dogwood

Chase a ghost down south
Spirits cross the dead fields
Mosquitoes hit the windshield
All documents remain sealed

So if I come to your door
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I'll give you all I have
And a little more
I'll give you all I have
And a little more
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I always dug this song and video.

https://youtu.be/mtLpZWNyM0I
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I can probably sing 75% of the lyrics to "American Girl" and somehow had no idea it was Petty.
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mister d wrote:I can probably sing 75% of the lyrics to "American Girl" and somehow had no idea it was Petty.

Get the fuck out of here.
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Having trouble finding it online, but his cameo in the last episode of The Larry Sanders Show was pure gold.
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Breakdown was a station-changer for me, but Wildflowers is firmly in my pantheon of college albums.
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govmentchedda wrote:
mister d wrote:I can probably sing 75% of the lyrics to "American Girl" and somehow had no idea it was Petty.

Get the fuck out of here.


Yeah, man. Not sure how to explain that one away.
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govmentchedda wrote:
mister d wrote:I can probably sing 75% of the lyrics to "American Girl" and somehow had no idea it was Petty.

Get the fuck out of here.


Like half a dozen people here didn't recognize Sting in Money For Nothing, so I can almost believe him.
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Like in hindsight its obvious, but the sound of the song is nothing like what I expect of Petty as someone who only knows Petty's hits.
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mister d wrote:Like in hindsight its obvious, but the sound of the song is nothing like what I expect of Petty as someone who only knows Petty's hits.

Now even more flabbergasted. American Girl, not a hit?
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Ryan wrote:You had to open up your mouth


Normally I would participate in and encourage such an exercise, but this is a somber occasion. Of course, I may be crazy. (you probs the type who would rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.)

Sers, only the fucking good die young, and TP is/was way way too young.

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GoodKarma wrote:TMZ & CBS now saying "clinging to life"...so not dead yet...


Also heard he was taken off life support and essentially brain dead so I wouldn't cling to much hope either.

Sadly, this is gonna sow not only confusion, but a shitpile of false hope. Prognosis for a 67yo man found by EMTs unconscious with no vital signs, that turns out to be cardiac arrest, even w/o preexisting conditions, carries a mortality that approaches 99%. Of course, some of that info I cite in that evaluation may turn out to be error. I hope it doesn't cause his family much additional upset and difficulty. (proud I didn't say heartbreak.)

I often cite that a golden age of music dawned in the middle of my college years, roughly 1976. Ramones, Dolls, Bruce, Costello, Graham Parker, Heads, et al. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, their first album, November 1976. First record was very good, not a hall of fame record, yet the last cut was American Girl.

Second album, You're Gonna Get It was closer to 12" album genius. Included the breakout radio hits I Need to Know and Listen To Her Heart, as referenced above, and many other strong cuts. While those first three albums were in my age wheelhouse (20-23), and the first time I could afford to buy records without thinking twice (as long as I kept it to about one a week,) he went on for years and years. Sure some clunkers, but his last album, Hypnotic Eye, is fucking fantastic and I highly recommend. I also love the two Mudcrutch records. Like my man Parker, both of them with somewhat less acclaim and attention then Bruce, Petty made some great music in the past decade, didn't need to ride on a geezer rock pedigree that trailed off long ago like so many bands (nothing wrong with geezer rock, lots of people love it).

Oh I could go on at much greater length, prob should throw up a blog post. But one little remembered tidbit, Donald 'Duck' Dunn plays on a small number of cuts. He is my fav all time bass player, all things considered (I won't argue the best, just my fav), and I just love this little tune so damn much, from Damn The Torpedoes. That's just my dumb opinion; You Tell Me:

(at least earphones, better take the time to turn up the bass if listening on phone or computer, the virtuosity is the reward)
(oh, Benmont's work on this cut is notably brilliant as well)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S51JzoGx348

and, on the lighter side, I still often think of this and chuckle, all these years later. Of course I am easily amused, but we all know that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXNJTd5aSoo

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govmentchedda wrote:Now even more flabbergasted. American Girl, not a hit?


Bad phrasing. Definitely a hit, as I know it, but doesn't really sound like his other hits.
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It's not a perfect comparison, but in many ways, Petty is Florida's Springsteen.
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