Tom Petty, RIP

[Ksyrup]

Pales in comparison to LV, I know, but Petty apparently had a heart attack and is in critical condition.

[cartman]

TMZ, which is usually pretty accurate with these things, is saying that life support was pulled.

[Ksyrup]

Dammit

[Kodos]

Today sucks.

[Butter]

My question is, if he was found Sunday night and rushed to the hospital unconscious, why are his people posting on Twitter on his behalf at like 9:30 this morning?

RIP.

[Ksyrup]

I was wondering the same. The fact that TMZ went from reporting his heart attack to life support pulled in about 30 minutes tells me they kept this pretty well under wraps. Maybe his own people tweeting to keep up appearances, or maybe they were in the dark and routinely posted stuff like that.

[CrimsonFox]

yeah just saw this.

pulled off life support is last thing I saw. :/

[JonInMiddleGA]

My question is, if he was found Sunday night and rushed to the hospital unconscious, why are his people posting on Twitter on his behalf at like 9:30 this morning?

RIP.

that happened with ... someone else, celebrity-wise, a few months back IIRC.
I just can't recall who it was off-hand.

[Young Drachma]

My question is, if he was found Sunday night and rushed to the hospital unconscious, why are his people posting on Twitter on his behalf at like 9:30 this morning?

RIP.

Those posts are almost always scheduled via Buffer or some other app. Very rarely are there minions preparing to tweet things on the fly unless it's a video or a response to a live thing.

[QuikSand]

Today sucks.

Yup.

Including my own guilt about how I feel about this relative to... that other thing. Shouldn't even have room to care, but I do.

[Neuqua]

Today sucks.

[Butter]

Those posts are almost always scheduled via Buffer or some other app. Very rarely are there minions preparing to tweet things on the fly unless it's a video or a response to a live thing.

I didn't know that was a thing, though it doesn't surprise me. Does help to explain it.

[frnk55]

unreal. Un fucking real

[corbes]

CBS now reporting that he has passed.

:(

[BYU 14]

Damn, just watched a documentary on him the other day, never one of my top favs, but had a consistently solid body of work and always in rotation. R.I.P :(

[corbes]

Yup.

Including my own guilt about how I feel about this relative to... that other thing. Shouldn't even have room to care, but I do.

+1

[cartman]

God is getting the Traveling Wilburys back together

[Chief Rum]

Fucking blows.

RIP

[Izulde]

Yup.

Including my own guilt about how I feel about this relative to... that other thing. Shouldn't even have room to care, but I do.

Don't feel guilty. It just shows your capacity for caring. This event hit me hard, too. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits was an album I listened to a lot in my middle school and early high school years. Still one of my favorite albums of all time.

It's another blow in what already was an awful, awful day.

[Arles]

Sad day (for yet another reason). Petty was a staple in my high school years.

[Vince, Pt. II]

My first ever concert (that I didn't go to with my mom). What a bummer of a day today is turning out to be.

[CrescentMoonie]

The first thing of his I was exposed to was You Got Lucky when I was still in single digits. Still my favorite tune he ever did even though others were better.

[PilotMan]

Sigh..:cry:

RIP Mr Petty.

[CrimsonFox]

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He really tied this song together with his awesome bridge

[Johnny93g]

Crushed. Listen to him every single day....

Crushed

[CrimsonFox]

The first thing of his I was exposed to was You Got Lucky when I was still in single digits. Still my favorite tune he ever did even though others were better.

indeed

I can't remember exactly the first TP song I heard...oh wait it was Refugee!
That's right. I remember it because that song was on "Chipmonk punk"

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then i went looking for the actual song.

My first MTV experience of him was YOu GOt Lucky...

I loved when he shot the video game.
Loved that song ever since.

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And of course the video that became one of my favorites of all time...

"Don't Come Around Here No More"

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I played the hell out of that song on college radio.

And was happy in 2010 they finally did a Classic Albums episode for Damn the Torpedoes. Love his stories, esp about Jim Keltner

https://qello.com/concert/Classic-Album-Damn-The-Torpedoes-2799

[CrescentMoonie]

“Free Fallin’”: Tom Petty Wrote His Biggest Hit to Make Jeff Lynne Laugh | Guitar World (http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/free-fallin-tom-petty-wrote-his-biggest-hit-make-jeff-lynne-laugh/31865)

[QuikSand]

I don't think the story actually changes, but TMZ has this:

1:35 PM PT -- Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom's hospital room. We're told the family has a do not resuscitate order on Tom. The singer is not expected to live throughout the day, but he's still clinging to life. A report that the LAPD confirmed the singer's death is inaccurate -- the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. handled the emergency.

Tom Petty Found Unconscious in Full Cardiac Arrest (UPDATE) | TMZ.com (http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-found-unconscious-full-cardiac-arrest/)

[CrescentMoonie]

CBS, Billboard, NY Daily News and a few others have reported it within the hour, but LAPD just tweeted that info was inadvertently given to media members and hasn't confirmed it.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Some perspective on the nature of ... time?

Petty's last significant hit was 23 years ago.
And it's been 29 years since the debut of Travelin' Wilburys.

[CrimsonFox]

“Free Fallin’”: Tom Petty Wrote His Biggest Hit to Make Jeff Lynne Laugh | Guitar World (http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/free-fallin-tom-petty-wrote-his-biggest-hit-make-jeff-lynne-laugh/31865)

That's awesome! :) Love his stories!

[Sweed]

As others have said, what a sad day. Saw him in Des Moines in June and was trying to guestimate how old he was figuring had to be mid to late 60's. Concert was awesome and I marveled at the energy he put into it.

RIP Tom.

[cartman]

And it's been 29 years since the debut of Travelin' Wilburys.

In no way is that true. They recorded the first album in 1988 which was... err... um... 29 years ago.

Dammit

[corbes]

CBS and others have retracted the report of his death, reporting instead that his status is unclear.

[A-Husker-4-Life]

RIP Tom

I can remember my big bother playing Refugee for me when I was around 10 and I couldn't believe how great it was. Ever since then, I've bought all his albums and saw him in concerts twice. He'll be missed.

[Edward64]

I remember Tom Petty in "The Postman".

[CrimsonFox]

I remember Tom Petty in "The Postman".

don't forget his stint on "King of the Hill". He was great!

[BYU 14]

Finally reporting he has indeed died :(

[Johnny93g]

He's gone. Fuck

My favourite Petty song, with my favourite Petty lyrics

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[CrimsonFox]

https://media.giphy.com/media/xUNd9WTP1vQVD957tm/giphy.gif

:(

[Toddzilla]

He won't come around here no more :(

[PilotMan]

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[pbot]

I am generally indifferent towards his music. Don't love it don't hate it, wouldn't change the radio station when one of his songs started playing, but not an artist I would actively seek out to listen to either.

That said, Runnin' Down a Dream is one of my favorite songs of any artist.

RIP, Tom.

[Young Drachma]

Another one of those artists that I didn't realize had such a huge following until he passed and I see so many people affected by his music. With Petty it seems really sincere though.

[cougarfreak]

Loved Tom Petty. Great artist, seemed like a really likable guy. RIP.

[Ksyrup]

Strangely, I never ended up buying a CD or MP3 although I had a few LPs/cassettes. Damn I'm old. I saw him once, somewhere in the bay area during the summer of 1985. I remember that show mainly because my aunt/uncle were smoking pot right next to us the whole show, plus my brother (who was around 10) slept through pretty much the whole show not 10 feet from a stack of amps.

But yeah, he's an artist I've always liked musically and as much as I knew of him as a person. And as there are fewer and fewer rock stars alive anymore, it feels like larger and larger pieces of history are going away every time one of these guys dies.

[panerd]

His solo stuff was kind of like Phil Collins to me. If it was on the radio in the background I would listen but never owned any or sought any out. The Traveling Wilburys was some pretty solid stuff though. How much was Dylan and Harrison I guess is a legit question but the music was great. Tweeter and the Monkey Man is one of my favorites when it comes on the radio once in a blue moon.

[korme]

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks

[Neuqua]

I saw him in Chicago a couple years back and he was at the point in his career where you can tell he was just having fun smoking up and jamming with his buddies. It was such a fun concert to be at because he was having dialogue with the audience showing not much was pre-planned and they were just winging it.

[CrescentMoonie]

Just realized today that there are only 2 of them left.

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[Edward64]

I'm a Stevie Nicks fan and forgot that he did "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with her. They did others also.

Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upYAyX4VJVI)

Tom Petty& Stevie Nicks(Stop Draggin' My Heart Around) 2006 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Ll8YYVNnI)

[CrescentMoonie]

Spoiler for size.


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[Edward64]

Nice tribute.

Man, haven't read "Bloom County" in ages.

[CrescentMoonie]

I think it just came back last year as a protest of Trump.

[Ksyrup]

I'm a Stevie Nicks fan and forgot that he did "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with her. They did others also.

Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upYAyX4VJVI)

Tom Petty& Stevie Nicks(Stop Draggin' My Heart Around) 2006 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Ll8YYVNnI)

They did a ton of stuff together. TP&HB was her unofficial back-up band for a while there.

[MizzouRah]

"Free Falling" was the first song I heard when I graduated Marine Corps boot camp. RIP Tom Petty, you will be missed. :(

[CrimsonFox]

Just realized today that there are only 2 of them left.

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Jeff Lynne and who else?

Is Bob Dylan still alive??

[CrescentMoonie]

Jeff Lynne and who else?

Is Bob Dylan still alive??

Dylan just got a Nobel Prize and is still living.

[CrimsonFox]

Dylan just got a Nobel Prize and is still living.

huh...is that what he won the prize for? still living? :D

[CrimsonFox]

A nice Benmont Tench article from a couple years ago...

Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Keyboardist on 40 Years With Rocker - Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/tom-petty-heartbreakers-keyboardist-on-40-years-with-rocker-w506750)

[CrimsonFox]

Mike Campbell article from 2014 i think

Heartbreakers Guitarist Mike Campbell on Life With Tom Petty - Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/heartbreakers-guitarist-mike-campbell-on-life-with-tom-petty-w506780)

[PilotMan]

Another one.

Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, family says - CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-petty-died-accidental-drug-overdose-family-says/)

The Los Angeles County coroner confirmed Friday that Petty's cause of death was a "multisystem organ failure" due to mixed drug intoxication, including fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl.

[thesloppy]

Another one.

Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, family says - CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-petty-died-accidental-drug-overdose-family-says/)

GOTdamn, someone liked their benzos.

[CrimsonFox]

He went the way of the Entwhistle :(

[Neuqua]

Last dance with Mary Jane.

[Julio Riddols]

Fentanyl is way too easy to OD on.

[BishopMVP]

Fentanyl is way too easy to OD on.Indeed. And apparently combining it with 18 other painkillers isn't ideal either. :/