Amazing musician and person. In Europe, at first i only knew him through his Full Moon Fever songs. Thèse were played to death though. Only years later when i bought his Best-Of and slowly started to discover his back catalogue did i truly come to appreciate his greatness.
Was blessed to see him more than once! Last seen him May 2017 it was a great concert. Joe Walsh opened for him. The pain he must have been going through 😢
An amazing, down-to-earth, caring, genius composer/musician TOM PETTY is 🎉😊❤. Missing this guy terribly! Hope, even without him, I just hope the Heartbreakers band will still be playing their songs through simple concert and also as a reunion of band mates as a tribute for Tom.
Frank Zappa i believe did that Bubble thing - I didn't Realize how much Tom touched my life while I was growing up - Musical Genius- i Never realized i could grieve so much ova someone I'd Never Met - I had been watching a Netflix documentary on Tom not long b4 his passing Days later it was removed- ugh Greatly Missed💔
His hits are his hits but the deep cuts slay me. I had a bad accident that resulted in 7 operations top put me back together and the chorus of Square One got me through. I tattooed it on my back shoulder. So many great songs. The only "celebrity" death that ever wrecked me.
@@maryellenthompson5392 yep and the Mudcrutch stuff is incredible too…never heard a bad Tom Petty song…not even an “average “ one…as authentic and real as they came, THE best
Truly! It all started for me with the album "You're Gonna Get It!". I didn't even know which songs were hits or singles, but I played that one over and over. I was in England, and a friend had 2 of his albums. The other was "Damn The Torpedoes". I was only 17 and clueless, so that one didn't even click with me as much as the other. Turns out that was his true breakthrough album! I even bought Hard Promises before that one. I became a truly big fan many years later (around the time of Wildflowers). The hits are great, but it's just not what you focus on as a fan, is it? You understand exactly why Free Fallin' was a big hit, and you like it well enough. But, just to name a few, when you play NightWatchman, Too Much Ain't Enough, Something Big, Time To Move On, The Wild One Forever, Don't Fade On Me, Like A Diamond, Change The Locks, then you get the full picture. Wow! That initial line-up was insanely good. I always missed Stan Lynch after he left. Ferrone did fine, but Stan Lynch and his thundering sound! It's like there were two bands over time. Both excellent, but very different. But Tom Petty was one very special guy. Sorry to ramble, but he's worth it. An absolute genius. Never afraid to try something new. Fighting the good fight. Never once sold out. In short, a greatest hits album is just not something you need! Take care.
Paul Zollo, musicologist par excellence, glad his book Conversations with Tom Petty back in print because it focussed primarily on how music gets made as opposed to what scurrilous bio can we uncover behind the artist. So shout out to Paul Zollo from whom I learned a lot and of course the late great Tom Petty claimed to this day by grieving females (yuck) but across 4 generations people whose lives his music affected profoundly. And of course not forgetting The Last DJ, tx for this podcast!!!!!!!!!!
Wasn’t some stalker, the satanic cowards who run the industry had enough of Tom costing them $….right after he made :I Won’t Back Down”…absolute badass
Tom was smart enough at an early age to know that Leon Russell and Shelter records was a lot more of his necessary life choice vs all the other bullshit that was going on..
I am from Florida. Don't ask. But I was also in Philly for 24 years. And then back to Florida in 2005. Yeah you have to be crazy to live here. And you have to be crazier to be the governor. And it's really screwed up. Still here. Really really.
And let's not forget Tom talking about his father, coming home, drunk and beating him. And his grandmother and his mom having to put cold water and alcohol on the welt on his body. His father beat him from head to toe. Yeah.
Amazing musician and person. In Europe, at first i only knew him through his Full Moon Fever songs. Thèse were played to death though. Only years later when i bought his Best-Of and slowly started to discover his back catalogue did i truly come to appreciate his greatness.
Best American rocker of all time
Was blessed to see him more than once! Last seen him May 2017 it was a great concert. Joe Walsh opened for him. The pain he must have been going through 😢
Great conversation, thank you.
Zollo's book, 'Conversations with Tom Petty' is really a treat.
I ordered it from Indigo and should have it in the next week. I can hardly wait!!!
Thanks for the stories.
An amazing, down-to-earth, caring, genius composer/musician TOM PETTY is 🎉😊❤. Missing this guy terribly! Hope, even without him, I just hope the Heartbreakers band will still be playing their songs through simple concert and also as a reunion of band mates as a tribute for Tom.
Frank Zappa i believe did that Bubble thing - I didn't Realize how much Tom touched my life while I was growing up - Musical Genius- i Never realized i could grieve so much ova someone I'd Never Met - I had been watching a Netflix documentary on Tom not long b4 his passing Days later it was removed- ugh Greatly Missed💔
"Damn The Torpedoes " is a important rock record , on the same level as "Born To Run".....IMHO.
True about the deep cuts, there is so much beyond his greatest hits.
His hits are his hits but the deep cuts slay me. I had a bad accident that resulted in 7 operations top put me back together and the chorus of Square One got me through. I tattooed it on my back shoulder. So many great songs. The only "celebrity" death that ever wrecked me.
@@maryellenthompson5392 yep and the Mudcrutch stuff is incredible too…never heard a bad Tom Petty song…not even an “average “ one…as authentic and real as they came, THE best
Truly! It all started for me with the album "You're Gonna Get It!". I didn't even know which songs were hits or singles, but I played that one over and over. I was in England, and a friend had 2 of his albums. The other was "Damn The Torpedoes". I was only 17 and clueless, so that one didn't even click with me as much as the other. Turns out that was his true breakthrough album! I even bought Hard Promises before that one. I became a truly big fan many years later (around the time of Wildflowers). The hits are great, but it's just not what you focus on as a fan, is it? You understand exactly why Free Fallin' was a big hit, and you like it well enough. But, just to name a few, when you play NightWatchman, Too Much Ain't Enough, Something Big, Time To Move On, The Wild One Forever, Don't Fade On Me, Like A Diamond, Change The Locks, then you get the full picture. Wow! That initial line-up was insanely good. I always missed Stan Lynch after he left. Ferrone did fine, but Stan Lynch and his thundering sound! It's like there were two bands over time. Both excellent, but very different. But Tom Petty was one very special guy. Sorry to ramble, but he's worth it. An absolute genius. Never afraid to try something new. Fighting the good fight. Never once sold out. In short, a greatest hits album is just not something you need! Take care.
Paul Zollo, musicologist par excellence, glad his book Conversations with Tom Petty back in print because it focussed primarily on how music gets made as opposed to what scurrilous bio can we uncover behind the artist. So shout out to Paul Zollo from whom I learned a lot and of course the late great Tom Petty claimed to this day by grieving females (yuck) but across 4 generations people whose lives his music affected profoundly. And of course not forgetting The Last DJ, tx for this podcast!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful.. OK it's 2 AM time to get some sleep.
The man was like a second father to me, the best
Same
Wasn’t some stalker, the satanic cowards who run the industry had enough of Tom costing them $….right after he made :I Won’t Back Down”…absolute badass
Tom was smart enough at an early age to know that Leon Russell and Shelter records was a lot more of his necessary life choice vs all the other bullshit that was going on..
Harry Green is a great song
The while collection of
Wildflowers
Is soo good
I am from Florida. Don't ask. But I was also in Philly for 24 years. And then back to Florida in 2005. Yeah you have to be crazy to live here. And you have to be crazier to be the governor. And it's really screwed up. Still here. Really really.
How DARE DeSantis not bow down to the satanic COMMIE left….stay indoctrinated…
And let's not forget Tom talking about his father, coming home, drunk and beating him. And his grandmother and his mom having to put cold water and alcohol on the welt on his body. His father beat him from head to toe. Yeah.
Don't you mean the "welts" on his body? RIP our dear Tom Petty.
I know chris whitley toured with him i wonder what if any hetried to help chris,vhris had a hard time with it all,any one know?
Rip Tom petty
funny how some people think Tom Petty music is simple, and then they try to play it and its all wrong
Called ignorance
PS shout out to Dana!!!!!!!!!!
Ths
I can fill you in on what songs/albums I ghostwrote for Tom Petty April 1987. j3lehane on twee eter