RIP Tom Petty, dead at 66 after cardiac arrest. TMZ and CBS reporting.

Stuggernaut said:
Ok I am confused... so many mixed reports.
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The concrete info is that Tom Petty suffered cardiac arrest. He's not dead yet, but it does not look good. His daughter is posting a lot of stuff on instagram, most recently a selfie in a hospital room. She's reminiscing and sharing memories about her dad.
 
The news media really fucked this one up.

I understand that there are a lot of other super huge things happening right now, but a Twitter post from the LAPD who is not involved with this at all, and just running with it without actually doing some real research is totally irresponsible, and quite embarrassing.
 
Damn, it's unfortunate to see such a legend go.

Rest in peace, Tom. My thoughts to out to your friends & family, & I thank you for all the great music you provided the world throughout your life.
 
His music has meant the world to me.

These last two years have been so hard.

I need a better day.
 
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One of the greats. A super unique voice, both literally and figuratively.

He made hit albums over the course of three different decades.

1979 Damn the Torpedoes. 3x platinum
1989 Full Moon Fever 5x platinum
1991 Into the Great Wide Open 2x platinum
1993 Greatest Hits 12x platinum
1994 Wildflowers 3x platinum

And a member of the Travelling Wilbury's along with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne.
 
Acorn said:
Gonna be a ton of legends disappearing in the next 10-15 years. Sucks.

RIP
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Yep :(

Tom Petty was one of my favorite singers. There was something about his music that just clicked with me. I was at work when my girlfriend told me the news and I just stood there stunned. I'm still in shock about it.
 
He just had a concert near my house in late August. I didn't attend but I can hear the music from my porch, had to enjoy a few of his songs that night as they drifted my way. Can't believe it.
 
My first job out of high school I got was in an office of a limousine company and one of my first tasks there was data entry. I was using the workstation of one of my bosses who I thought was a "cool dude" and at his desk he had a single CD, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Greatest Hits. I probably had only even heard the name previously due to the ubiquity of Mary Jane's Last Dance on MTV, which was a song I disliked (tho the video was and is to this day very memorable). Decided to give it a try to dull the monotony of hours in front of a computer and from the opening riffs of American Girl I was hooked. I listened to that album on repeat nearly every hour of every workday for my first 2-3 weeks on that job. It's one of the earliest catalysts I can think of for me expanding my appreciation for music beyond that which was being fed to me by MTV and the radio. It completely opened my mind to what I'd previously considered "old people music" and lead me to the nearly all-encompassing appreciation for music I have today.

So in a way, Tom Petty was directly responsible for me being able to button thru the radio and be able to sing along to a Herman's Hermits song one moment, an Offspring song the next and a Carly Rae Jepsen song after that.

Kind of funny how you can go a decade and a half of your life without thinking about something like that and then suddenly realize how inspirational someone was to you.

TL;DR, RIP Tom.
 
In addition to being a great musician, he was a pretty good DJ, too. I enjoyed catching his show on Sirius/XM. He had good, eclectic taste in songs and had lots of stories about the music.

Anyone remember his role in Kevin Costner's The Postman? That was a great book, and a not-good movie, but it was funny to see Petty playing himself in a post-apocalyptic world.
 
Been playing him all day. Into the Great Wide Open, Damn the Torpedos, Wildflowers, Full Moon Fever. Some of the best music ever.

God, this sucks. He was still killing it, too.
 
i never got into him like i did bowie, but i think he had the same talent of being able to adapt to the decade he was in pretty flawlessly. he has fairly distinct and great 70s, 80s, and 90s output. hell i even remember the last dj getting radio play in the early 00s.

sad that he's gone so soon.
 
AniHawk said:
i never got into him like i did bowie, but i think he had the same talent of being able to adapt to the decade he was in pretty flawlessly. he has fairly distinct and great 70s, 80s, and 90s output. hell i even remember the last dj getting radio play in the early 00s.

sad that he's gone so soon.
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I think unlike Bowie though, Tom Petty didn't really try to constantly reinvent himself or wear different faces. Other than the production style, most of his songs are fairly timeless. That, along with his consistently great songwriting, is probably why he lasted so much longer than his rock peers; he wasn't trying to chase his youth, but his songs always had a maturity even in the early days. We lost a great one today.
 
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