Tom Petty in bad shape

[Willie G. Moseley]

http://pagesix.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-on-life-support-after-suffering-cardiac-arrest/?_ga=2.197586351.1466458934.1506972318-2012186720.1506972318

[Steve Haynie]

Until he is out, there is hope. 

[tbonesullivan]

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.

[Brooks]

one of the greatest songwriters ever

[Jakeboy]

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.

[velorush]

Lots of sources now reporting his death.  Still trying to confirm.  Still hope.  TDC

[cmatthes]

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...

[Lockbody]

Just reported that he was taken off life support.

[mc2]

 

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.

 

 

 

 

[FrettyMcgee]

I think he's gone. Fucking sucks.

[Cary]

They are now reporting he has passed.

FUCK.

 

 

 

 

[Dasein]

OMG --- just reeling here....

[Willie G. Moseley]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-petty-dead-dies_us_59d2946ee4b0f962988937a2?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[sixesandsevens]

RIP Tom.  Thanks for the music.

[crunchee]

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.

[cmatthes]

REALLY sad to hear.

I've been a fan since '79.

[dgstandard]

RIP Tom.

 

 

[Willie G. Moseley]

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).

[atquinn]

Wow, this is effed up. RIP

[veatch]

 

RIP, sir. 

[ARM OF HAMER]

                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 !

[donner]

 

This has always made me shiver. Great song, thanks, Mr. Petty!

 

[kizanski]

 

[donner]

Won´t you ever back down.

 

[BubbaVO]

Well... let's not get too hasty about his departure from among the living.

ahhh... nope...back to RIP and missing him.