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.)
His place in Malibu was fairly far out (the entire incorporated area is a narrow stretch of land about 20 miles long) and the hospital in Santa Monica is not quite 20 blocks inland from the coast. Even in an ambulance with the hammer down, that is a minimum 15 miles before getting into the business district of Santa Monica. It was probably a 15-20 minute ride there.
“All I'm sayin' is, he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall.”
govmentchedda wrote:It's not a perfect comparison, but in many ways, Petty is Florida's Springsteen.
I like that. Will always be a Gainesville boy. That can't be washed away by LA/Malibu.
But even with no traffic, full lights and siren from western edge of Malibu to UCLA Med Center, 20 min if you're lucky and drive like I did when I had that job (in sf.)
Can't believe I forgot to say this earlier, but the news media with their reports, guess they were confident, but not really sure. Sure am hoping for some saving grace right about now.
When I was like 20, the local radio station had a fund raiser/auction and I won/bought a vest that he wore at the Civic Center on the Full Moon Fever tour. I wore it to a party the next night, got drunk, and lost it forever.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. - God
The GF and I went to a "Petty Party" show last night...a band doing all Petty covers, with the crowd encouraged to sing along. What a blast. Jesus, that guy wrote a metric shit-ton of great tunes. Only downside was getting home at 1am on a school night.
DaveInSeattle wrote:The GF and I went to a "Petty Party" show last night...a band doing all Petty covers, with the crowd encouraged to sing along. What a blast. Jesus, that guy wrote a metric shit-ton of great tunes. Only downside was getting home at 1am on a school night.
There is a tribute band that plays around here called Petty Theft. We saw them a couple years ago. Thankfully they don't even try to look or act like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. But, they played note-for-note covers, had a great sound mix, and the singer sounded just like the original.
It was a fun night with a happy packed house, but my friend who used to be in a serious band that played their own original songs bitched all night about tribute bands taking all the dates and venues away from "real" bands.
DaveInSeattle wrote:The GF and I went to a "Petty Party" show last night...a band doing all Petty covers, with the crowd encouraged to sing along. What a blast. Jesus, that guy wrote a metric shit-ton of great tunes. Only downside was getting home at 1am on a school night.
There is a tribute band that plays around here called Petty Theft. We saw them a couple years ago. Thankfully they don't even try to look or act like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. But, they played note-for-note covers, had a great sound mix, and the singer sounded just like the original.
It was a fun night with a happy packed house, but my friend who used to be in a serious band that played their own original songs bitched all night about tribute bands taking all the dates and venues away from "real" bands.
I could see that. I always wonder about bands that do nothing but be a "Tribute" band.
This thing last night was a one-off (well, technically a two-off, since they are doing it again tonight), with guys from a few different bands. And they didn't even really try to sound like Petty...just played his songs, and in generally a more uptempo/rocking kind of style. Pretty fun stuff.
mister d wrote:Being a full-time cover band for a living, active artist feels really weird.
I remember seeing a Doors cover band back in high school, and the singer was in "Daniel Day Lewis/super-method actor" mode of being Jim Morrison, complete with being a drunk slob.
