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Offline 754

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So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« on: October 02, 2017, 01:52:39 PM »
 Tom Petty has passed on to the Great Jukebox in the Sky.
 Thanks for the awesome music over all the years. .
Now you get to hang out with Roy Orbison..
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2017, 02:07:06 PM »
Really enjoyed Tom's music, saw him in concert a couple times.

RIP....
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2017, 03:02:05 PM »
Mary Janes last dance. RIP.
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2017, 03:31:09 PM »
Check out the cool sidecar.  One of my 80s favorites from his long catalog of songs:

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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2017, 03:32:32 PM »
He's not dead yet....
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2017, 03:34:41 PM »
I noticed Tom Petty at the Concert for New York after 9/11. "Won't Back Down" was the perfect song for the day.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA

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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2017, 04:15:41 PM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on October 02, 2017, 03:32:32 PM
He's not dead yet....

Conflicting reports at the moment, first I read he passed now I'm reading he's still clinging on life support. Boy wouldn't that be a theme for a new song if he is still kicking and recovers.
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2017, 04:31:28 PM »
 Apparently the above is true, but unfortunate... I read he has a DNR order.
DNR is Do Not Resuscitate..
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2017, 04:48:15 PM »
I was jamming with a friend just yesterday. I sang "American Girl' then he brought up "You Don't Know How It Feels". Had no idea Tom was sick. RIP Tom, the songs will live on.
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2017, 05:19:36 PM »
Report is he had a heart attack and has been taken off life support according to an article of couple hours ago.  Rolling Stone falsely reported his demise, which his daughter ripped into them for doing so.
They are facing a lawsuit for the false reporting of campus rapes that rocked the mation not long ago.  The number of rapes on college campuses is obscenely high and needs dealt with appropriately but victims need protected.


Notice how the Youtube occupant of the car in the opening of the video has dirt on the sunglasses, unexpected for an enclosed vehicle, maybe expected for MC or sidecar rider without goggles or faceshield.

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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2017, 05:23:54 PM »
Quote from: RAF122S on October 02, 2017, 05:19:36 PM

Notice how the Youtube occupant of the car in the opening of the video has dirt on the sunglasses, unexpected for an enclosed vehicle, maybe expected for MC or sidecar rider without goggles or faceshield.
David

Longtime Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell.  There are all kinds of silly continuity-style issues with that video but it still makes me smile. 
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2017, 05:31:35 PM »
great artist,great band,losing alot of them these days.
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2017, 11:25:20 AM »
They played Last DJ this morning  one of Toms best songs..
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #13 on: October 03, 2017, 04:00:55 PM »
goddammitsomuch  :-\ :-\ :-\ :'(

I saw him in '95 on the Wildflowers tour and just a few months back in May on the 40th anniversary tour.
I have basically everything he recorded. I hope there's just a little more left.
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #14 on: October 03, 2017, 04:21:46 PM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on October 02, 2017, 03:32:32 PM
He's not dead yet....

I wouldnt be so sure of that.
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #15 on: October 03, 2017, 05:48:53 PM »
'' into the great wide open'' rip
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2017, 06:45:22 PM »
Quote from: Stev-o on October 03, 2017, 04:21:46 PM
Quote from: CycleRanger on October 02, 2017, 03:32:32 PM
He's not dead yet....

I wouldnt be so sure of that.
Well no shiat he's dead now.
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2017, 03:08:10 AM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on October 03, 2017, 06:45:22 PM
Quote from: Stev-o on October 03, 2017, 04:21:46 PM
Quote from: CycleRanger on October 02, 2017, 03:32:32 PM
He's not dead yet....

I wouldnt be so sure of that.
Well no shiat he's dead now.

Probably singing :

"You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down"
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Re: So long Tom, Thanks for the tunes..
« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2017, 09:50:36 AM »
My sister and friends were lucky enough to see him on October 22 at the Hollywood Bowl.  They said he was fantastic.
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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