Tom Petty dies at age 66

joshofalltrades

This one hits me hard. The dude was a legend and I've been listening to him since I was very small.

He died of sudden cardiac arrest.

Gonna listen to Full Moon Fever on repeat today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SC8rCDGMIfc

Fuck 2017.

Mr Khan

So this was finally confirmed? Heard about it yesterday afternoon, then on the drive home they said it was misreported (that he had not been removed from life support).

joshofalltrades

Yeah. He passed away surrounded by his family and band.

Another thing about him was that he worked very hard to reform the music industry. He wanted to be sure artists were getting paid fairly instead of men wearing suits who had nothing to do with the art. His concerts were always relatively inexpensive to attend. We needed more of him.

Doodmann

Tom Petty will forever be intertwined with the death of my father-in-law in one of the most emotionally draining times of my life. His music is important, entertaining, and supremely sad for various personal reasons. I don't know that any celebrity death has or will have the kind impact this one is having on me.

Trace

Yeah this has been a pretty rough week so far.

Vegas didn't personally affect me but Tom Petty dying does. He was one of the sounds of my childhood.

Steev

I enjoyed Tom Petty well before I seriously got into music and continued to appreciate him long after I built up my collection of mostly metal. I was pretty sad when this news hit yesterday, then hopeful when it was retracted, and sad once again when I saw it confirmed in the evening.

"Running Down a Dream" is probably my favorite song by him, but I admit that my knowledge of his music is quite limited. All I own is a Greatest Hits album with the Heartbreakers and Wildflowers from his solo stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1D3a5eDJIs

I remember reading an interview a few months ago with him that he was planning on winding down the touring because he wanted to spend more time with his granddaughter.

Trace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA

Jacobkosh

Man, this sucks. He was one of the sounds of my childhood. My own tastes diverged from that kind of laconic folksy sound but it was always kind of comforting to me to know he was out there still making music and being by all accounts a pretty nice guy who never, so far as I know, had some giant scandal or racist tirade or whatever. He seemed like a real American independent in the absolute best sense of that term and he is gone way too soon.

Doodmann

This song makes me cry every time I listen to it and about half the time I think about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozgmyx919a4

Steev

Remember when he was in The Postman? It was always funny to me that it was heavily implied he was playing himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDRa8FDL2ts

firewaterword

This is a pretty big bummer. I've always wanted to see him live, but since he just kept touring and all, I always figured I'd have plenty of time to make it happen. Yet another tough learning opportunity I suppose.

One memory that always comes up for me is driving home from a ski weekend in Tahoe with a friend about a decade or more ago. We ended up driving a friend's car back home for some reason, and on the way, we got caught in a huge blizzard coming over Donner pass. What's normally a 3ish hour drive turned into an 11+ hour one, and the only CDs in the car were the 2 disc Tom Petty anthology Through the Years (and a copy of Oingo Boingo's Alive that was scratched to shit).

I think we went through those two discs at least half a dozen times each, and it's a testament to how musically awesome this man was that we never got sick of those songs.

Jazz

Gah, far too young. RIP.

Steev

Random Tom Petty-related stuff I've come across:

A....conversation? between him and Garry Shandling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvNe569Q9g

Picture of him with someone else many of us miss, although at least he's still out there:

https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/916401150517055488

silence1186

I was never a huge Petty fan, but there were definitely some songs of his I loved. Still, he always seemed like an immensely creative person, and his death is a huge loss to the world.

My favorites moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJPP7GkuPU

Also The Simpsons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy5Nr-nBZaU