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Post by ace5150 on Oct 2, 2017 20:09:30 GMT
So sad, a fantastic musician.
A sad loss to music.
Into the great wide open Tom RIP
Axl and Tom show us how it's done
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Post by mrschisholm on Oct 2, 2017 20:45:50 GMT
He was wonderfully talented. I loved his work in the Traveling Wilburys too. RIP Tom.
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Post by pr1 on Oct 2, 2017 21:34:53 GMT
This is a real surprise. Basically all that's on the news over here, understandably, is the shooting in Las Vegas. I saw him in concert back in the '80s and really liked how The Byrds were an influence n his music. I also liked The Travelling Wilburys.
Rest In Peace.
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Post by plasticpenguin on Oct 2, 2017 22:18:45 GMT
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Post by plasticpenguin on Oct 2, 2017 23:56:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 0:39:10 GMT
I heard on the radio that Tom Petty had been hospitalised due to a cardiac arrest and that he had been taken off life support. Didn't psecifically mention his death
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Post by pr1 on Oct 3, 2017 1:01:26 GMT
Here in America I am hearing conflicting stories about whether Petty is alive or dead.
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Post by jno on Oct 3, 2017 3:36:30 GMT
I think we should probably wait until it is absolutely confirmed that someone has died before starting a thread in this section of the forum.
That said, Tom Petty is a darn cool musician and has a lot of top tunes!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 5:43:27 GMT
I have every single track Tom has produced and released. I hope he is OK. EDIT: Sadly now confirmed as true. I am gutted.........  No age either. 12 years older than me. |
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Post by daz on Oct 3, 2017 6:05:13 GMT
Not usually my type of music, but I actually liked a lot of his stuff and thought him a good musician. He also came across as a decent bloke.
RIP
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Post by ace5150 on Oct 3, 2017 8:07:30 GMT
I think we should probably wait until it is absolutely confirmed that someone has died before starting a thread in this section of the forum. That said, Tom Petty is a darn cool musician and has a lot of top tunes! It WAS confirmed when I posted, an official comment from his family and Santa Monica Hospital. Very sad indeed. |
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Post by jno on Oct 3, 2017 8:43:52 GMT
I think we should probably wait until it is absolutely confirmed that someone has died before starting a thread in this section of the forum. That said, Tom Petty is a darn cool musician and has a lot of top tunes! It WAS confirmed when I posted, an official comment from his family and Santa Monica Hospital. Very sad indeed. I get that, and was not getting at anyone by posting that, but subsequent posts clearly show there was some confusion about whether it was true or not - my post was not aimed at anyone in particular.  Sad news about Tom, he has some really great tunes. I really like this Roger McGuinn version of American Girl if I am honest, more than Tom's version - some really great guitar in this one: As for Tom, my fave is 'I Won't Back Down' ... but 'Free Fallin' is superb, despite the same chords all the way through, I honestly wondered how anyone could get away with the same thing repeated all the way through for 4.5 minutes. Just shows what a master he was : |
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Post by flyingsquad on Oct 3, 2017 9:22:58 GMT
RIP Tom
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Post by mybodyguard on Oct 3, 2017 11:35:02 GMT
RIP Tom. Full Moon Fever is at the top of my list of best Rock albums of all time. He was also part of the best Super Group of all time, with George, Roy and now Tom sadly gone.
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Post by pr1 on Oct 3, 2017 12:04:33 GMT
The confusion of news reports in the US regarding his death was disgusting!
I am with jno in preferring Roger McGuinn's version of American Girl but Petty's is a fine tribute to one of his major influences.
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Post by flyingsquad on Oct 3, 2017 12:34:07 GMT
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Post by plasticpenguin on Oct 3, 2017 13:56:07 GMT
I think we should probably wait until it is absolutely confirmed that someone has died before starting a thread in this section of the forum. That said, Tom Petty is a darn cool musician and has a lot of top tunes! It WAS confirmed when I posted, an official comment from his family and Santa Monica Hospital. Very sad indeed. Indeed. These were reports coming out subsequent to your initial thread. |
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Post by pr1 on Oct 3, 2017 14:02:21 GMT
The reporting on Petty's passing continues to be disgraceful! The years 1946, 1949, 1950 and 1951 have all been reported as his birth year. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 15:56:13 GMT
Probably my fault FS, I was so upset about his death I may well have put 46 instead of 50. |
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Post by flyingsquad on Oct 3, 2017 17:29:47 GMT
Probably my fault FS, I was so upset about his death I may well have put 46 instead of 50. That's alright MIAS. Most of the reports I've heard said he was 66 so he was either born 1950 or 1951 depending on if he already had his birthday this year. He would have been 67 later this month according to wiki.  |
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Post by Zimbo on Oct 3, 2017 18:35:07 GMT
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Post by pr1 on Oct 3, 2017 18:40:02 GMT
Probably my fault FS, I was so upset about his death I may well have put 46 instead of 50. don't feel bad MIAS. The American news media couldn't get it right. |
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Post by Portland Road on Oct 5, 2017 7:33:31 GMT
I didn't get into his music as such. But I remember his popularity in the late 80s period. I liked some of his singles and The Travelling Wilbury's.
R.I.P. Tom Petty.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 9:34:31 GMT
Been a fan since 1977. Probably the same time I got into The Jam, The Clash, the Sex Pistols, etc. Tom Petty was a great fan of The Byrds as was I. Tom never released a duff album in 40 years. Some achievement. Not even Paul Weller can say that.
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Post by jno on Oct 5, 2017 10:21:22 GMT
Travelling Wilburys ... superb.
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Post by fordcapri on Oct 8, 2017 19:13:34 GMT
Exactly 30 years ago, 1987, I was playing in a little four-piece band. Strangely, we called ourselves 'Ghost' - not because the name was in any way appropriate or indicative of our music, simply because in our desperation to find a name for the group, we flicked through a dictionary and the name 'ghost' was the first one we came across that we all liked. We did quite a few gigs (including one where, finding that the rehearsal room had been double-booked and with a van full of 'gear', we drove round to a local pub and said 'do you want a band on... for free?'. We were so popular that night that the landlord booked us for two more!) and lasted about a year before breaking up - due to group tensions and 'musical differences'.
Not long after we broke up (and here's the point to all this), someone said to me 'I was sorry that the band broke up... you had a kind of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers vibe about you'. I nodded, sagely, but without admitting that I didn't know who Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were and wouldn't know one of their songs if I heard it. When he died last week, I immediately thought about this.
On Friday night I was flicking through the TV channels and came across their 1980 'Rock Goes to College' gig, which was being shown again on BBC four. bl**dy brilliant! Did we really sound like that ??!!!!
So, thanks for the inspiration, Tom. Even though I was completely unaware of it at the time!
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Post by thewoodster on Jan 31, 2018 22:45:10 GMT
He was a fantastic musician,and part of one of the best formed supergroups of all time.
Rip Tom petty.
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