Willie G. Moseley Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 http://pagesix.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-on-life-support-after-suffering-cardiac-arrest/?_ga=2.197586351.1466458934.1506972318-2012186720.1506972318 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Until he is out, there is hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbonesullivan Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Damnit. I've seen him a few times. Always a great live show, with some really great guitars on stage. Also just an all around great guy from all I've heard. I'll keep him in my thoughts. This sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooks Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 one of the greatest songwriters ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeboy Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 TMZ is reporting that he has passed. This just destroys me...first Vegas....now a huge musical hero gone. A sad day. I am SO glad I just saw him on this tour. If his death is true as reported, may he RIP. May the Vegas victims RIP as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velorush Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Lots of sources now reporting his death. Still trying to confirm. Still hope. TDC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthes Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 My cousin's ex (they're still best friends and share a dog) is Ron Blair, so we've gotten to see Petty and the Heartbreakers many times over the years and meet everybody BUT Tom. By all accounts, he is a really great guy (despite the demons he's battled), a very generous individual and obviously a musical genius. Hoping for the best here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockbody Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Just reported that he was taken off life support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 He passed. I'm honestly stunned. My absolute favorite songwriter of the last 40 years. I actually got fired from my radio gig for playing his lve "Bootleg, Bootleg" EP that came out around the time of his first album. The asshole program director said Petty was "punk rock" because he was all in black leather on the EP cover. PD said "no punk rock" and fired me. General Manager rehired me the next day....and the first thing I played was the same Tom Petty track I'd gotten fired for. Broke him on the station, so everyone else could play it. I was so pissed I missed Petty last month in NYC/Queens. Started to rain and it was outdoors, so I said "next time." The last great American classic rocker. R.I.P. Sure left a hell of a catalog of work to live on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrettyMcgee Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 I think he's gone. Fucking sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 They are now reporting he has passed. FUCK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasein Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 OMG --- just reeling here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie G. Moseley Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-petty-dead-dies_us_59d2946ee4b0f962988937a2?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 RIP Tom. Thanks for the music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchee Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 One of the few good things that came out of the mid-late '70's, musically. Did a lot for guitar's popularity during the Disco years, too. RIP Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthes Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 REALLY sad to hear. I've been a fan since '79. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgstandard Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 RIP Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie G. Moseley Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 Always thought his set at Live Aid in '85 was one of the better-sounding presentations, and I really liked "Handle With Care" by the Traveling Wilburys. Curious how the "reflexive memories' based on what's just happened don't focus more on his own career and albums, which I respected, of course. No explanation for such ancillary-history-at-the-forefront rumination. Certainly did a lot (in a passive manner) to publicize Rickenbacker guitars. You know someone's been an important musical factor if they can be referenced for having proffered a certain sound, and I remember reviewing the song "Daylight Fading" by Counting Crows in the mid-'90s by opining, IIRC, that the song "outfoxes Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at their own game" (RE: The Rickenbacker guitar sound). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atquinn Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Wow, this is effed up. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veatch Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 RIP, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM OF HAMER Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Saw "The Heartbreakers" many times..............one of the best live acts ever! So very sad to hear he is gone. Another ICON has passed away, RIP Tom your music will live on ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donner Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 This has always made me shiver. Great song, thanks, Mr. Petty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donner Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Won´t you ever back down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BubbaVO Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Well... let's not get too hasty about his departure from among the living. ahhh... nope...back to RIP and missing him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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