Tom Petty, the rocker best known as the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, is dead at 66, CBS News has confirmed.
The legendary musician suffered a full cardiac arrest and was found unconscious and not breathing in his Malibu home Sunday night. He was taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and put on life support, reports TMZ.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:50 pm
by Pastor Fireball
This definitely sucks. Several of his songs have been in the soundtrack to my life, especially "I Won't Back Down".
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:53 pm
by elwoodblues
Man, that's a shocker. I liked a lot of his songs.
Let's hear Free Fallin' one more time.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:30 pm
by Bob Juch
He shot this here in Tucson:
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:50 pm
by T_Bone0806
Yeah, this was a shocker. My first reaction was shock, followed closely by anger. Jeez, Grim Reaper, can you leave us with a FEW classic rockers please? You're really pissing me off.
I posted this on Facebook:
I've told this story before, but in tribute to Mr. Petty, I'ma tell it again. Tom Petty provided what is probably the coolest concert moment I have ever experienced...and I have seen many. It was in Rochester, would've been somewhere around 1980 give or take a year. The band had just started up the sleek, slinky intro to "Breakdown" when some nimrod set off a firecracker. Petty slowly sauntered up to the microphone, in PERFECT time to the music, and drawled "Only a real asshole would set off a firecracker in a crowded auditorium"...then slowly stepped back, AGAIN in PERFECT time to the music, as the band went into the intro proper. I remember clear as day thinking "that's gotta be the coolest guy on the planet'. You'd swear it was all scripted, it was so perfect. RIP, Tom.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:53 pm
by T_Bone0806
I also remarked that there are now only 2 Wilburys still travelling, Dylan and Jeff Lynne. Petty joins Roy and George in the Heavenly Wilburys.
The Poynter Institute's Craig Silverman has a term to describe it, "obiticide," which he defines as premature death by media.
"There's been lot of cases of this," Silverman said. "Before he actually died, Pope John Paul (II) had been declared dead at least twice. Bob Hope had been declared dead before he actually died.
"It happens to people in the public eye, especially when they get to a certain age or when they're ill."
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:38 am
by Vandal
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 6:23 am
by littlebeast13
elwoodblues wrote:Man, that's a shocker. I liked a lot of his songs.
Let's hear Free Fallin' one more time.
Let's not. I turned down the radio when this got played on the way home from work this morning...
Liked and even loved a lot of Tom's stuff, and am sorry he is gone. But this song should've went with him...
lb13
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:51 am
by Jeemie
OK- we'll do this one.
No one can hate "I Won't Back down".
BTW, Tom Petty is one of those rare rockers in my experience in that I don't know anyone that hated him as a singer.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:24 pm
by Ritterskoop
Jeemie wrote:
BTW, Tom Petty is one of those rare rockers in my experience in that I don't know anyone that hated him as a singer.
I'll raise my hand to be the first.
Not hated, but avoided. He had a nasally thing going on that makes me cringe. Loved his work with the Traveling Wilburys as long as he wasn't a solo lead. Same with Dylan, for mostly the same reason, though he also has a thing where he slides up into a note that makes me crazy.
So three of the main five Wilburys were good for me, and four if you count Del Shannon.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:47 am
by jarnon
An autopsy shows that Tom died of an accidental prescription drug overdose.
Also, Roy Halladay’s autopsy reveals that he was on prescription drugs. Unwise during recreational flying.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:20 am
by ghostjmf
A lot of people have to learn not to self-medicate. To live with pain.
Right now I'm in terrible pain from what my doctor says is bursitis. I've had arthritis in that hip for years. Absolutely no medical exams have been given, beside the hip having been rotated. And my heel on the other leg hurts too. I can barely walk.
I have been before in a position, with plantar fasciitis, where my doctor says "you can't have that because you weren't in enough pain when I manipulated the area". Then the x-ray showed I *did* have it.
In one way I'm lucky that painkillers, other than local anaesthetics like novocain, don't work very well on me. When I had major surgery the opiods didn't work very well. (I was told "oh, they're working. You'd be in more pain if we stopped them". But when I was home & *did* stop them, the pain was about the same.)
In a way I don't *want* to find something that works well for this hip, because I want the problem cured. Not covered over. But I fear if something *did* work, it would be hard to stop taking it.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:26 am
by Bob Juch
ghostjmf wrote:A lot of people have to learn not to self-medicate. To live with pain.
Right now I'm in terrible pain from what my doctor says is bursitis. I've had arthritis in that hip for years. Absolutely no medical exams have been given, besides the hip having been rotated. And my heel on the other leg hurts too. I can barely walk.
I have been before in a position, with plantar fasciitis, where my doctor says "you can't have that because you weren't in enough pain when I manipulated the area." Then the x-ray showed I *did* have it.
In one way I'm lucky that painkillers, other than local anesthetics like novocaine, don't work very well on me. When I had major surgery the opioids didn't work very well. (I was told "oh, they're working. You'd be in more pain if we stopped them".) But when I was home & *did* stop them, the pain was about the same.
In a way, I don't *want* to find something that works well for this hip because I want the problem cured. Not covered over. But I fear if something *did* work, it would be hard to stop taking it.
I have bursitis in my right hip. I just had a cortisone injection Thursday and have no pain today.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:17 pm
by ghostjmf
My doctor didn't even mention cortisone, they suggested exercises. Which of course I would have to walk to.
When I had plantar fasciitis, I had to hike around the hospital looking for a "standing upright" x-ray facility. Eventually I wound up at Sports Medicine. Once fasciitis was confirmed I was offered a cortisone injection, which I was afraid of.
Back when I had cycling hormones, the cycle used to cure hormonal stuff. Can't count on that anymore.
Re: R.I.P. Tom Petty
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:11 pm
by ghostjmf
Weirdly enough, some of the exercises, which of course I looked up, seem to be things I've half-done instinctually, thinking "stretching that might make me feel better". What *is* counter-instinctual is where they say "ice packs, not heat".
) reported Joe Pa's death 12 hours too soon.