Tom Petty appreciation thread for this Friday night...

[Joe Fields]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800KU4VtJws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5lcmh0NodM

[graywarrior]

1. I appreciate him immensely

[Hugin]

3. You have appreciable good taste there...

:D

[graywarrior]

8. My ears dance when I listen to Petty.

I love him. LOVE HIM, I tell you!! !

[Hugin]

14. I'm sure you do!

:D

[Joe Fields]

9. There's something about Petty, when he's on the radio,

you just gotta turn it up.:toast:

[graywarrior]

12. Doesn't he make you just bounce in the driver seat and roll down your windows?

He's infectious.

[Joe Fields]

13. I know I look like a bobble head going down the road when he's on.

[Hugin]

2. How'd you know I was needing me some Petty?

Right on!

:thumbsup:

[Joe Fields]

6. Oh man, Petty and Friday nights just go together, like peas and carrots,

as Forrest Gump would say.:toast:

[Hugin]

10. Great observation...

:toast:

[Guava Jelly]

4. He hangs around with some really cool dudes

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hZyy5pmQI6Q

[Joe Fields]

7. I think he's Dylan's long lost kid brother...

:toast:

[graywarrior]

15. Dylan was awesome when they played together as a band,

[Guava Jelly]

16. I wonder if they ever smoked pot together??

:sarcasm: :rofl:
I have always liked Tom Petty

[Joe Fields]

17. Gee, I wonder...hmmmmm....(rubs chin)

And Willie, too?

[graywarrior]

18. Two stoners if I ever saw any.

[Guava Jelly]

22. Yeah...

You are on to something there. :)
:hi:

[idgiehkt]

5. I'm still searching for a way to work 'lay there and revel in your abandon'

into a conversation, lol :hi:

Refugee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8qyoVssNQ

Don't be a-cheatin' on me without warning me first, now. :rofl:

[Joe Fields]

11. The man sure can turn a phrase...I have to admit, I have never

worked that phrase into a conversation either!:toast:

[PassingFair]

19. His is the first collection you see when you walk into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

And it left the biggest impression on me, too.

We were there last weekend for the first time.

Funny. He is NOT my FAVORITE artist, but .....

His clothes, his hand-written lyrics, his music...

yeah, I like him more than I knew!

[Joe Fields]

20. Was Tom's rocket sport coat in the collection?

I only saw one other like it, and it was in a boutique in Vegas, and it sold for 3500 bucks.

[PassingFair]

21. From the way you call it the "rocket sport coat" I think I'd know if I saw it or not....

the thing that REALLY struck me was the SIZE of his clothes!
They're BIG!

Most of the rocker's clothes are so SMALL, they look like
child's clothes,(Mick Jagger's stuff looked Lilliputian)
and Tom Petty looks so SKINNY on the tube....

But his shirts and coats were ENORMOUS. I was surprised.

[Kajsa]

23. He's one of the best around.

I've seen him in concert, twice.

He's even better in person.

:loveya:

[Kajsa]

24. 'Running Down a Dream'

'Yeah running down a dream
That never would come to me
Working on a mystery
Going wherever it leads
Running down a dream '

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4zsllIOV4A


------ one of the best guitar solos, ever.
( is it a solo?- i don't know- i just love it!)

Mike Campbell rocks!!

[Joe Fields]

26. I came this close to posting that song. I had a hard time deciding.

[Kajsa]

27. I know, they're all good.

Thanks for posting this thread.


:hi:

[PassingFair]

28. She’s a complex kid and she’s always been so hard to figure out.

Tom Petty - Shadow Of A Doubt (a Complex Kid) Lyrics


There goes my baby, there goes my only one.
I think she loves me, but she don’t wanna let on.
Yeah, she likes to keep me guessin’,
She’s got me on the fence with that little bit of mystery,
She’s a complex kid and she’s always been so hard to figure out.
Yeah, she always likes to leave me with a shadow of a doubt.

Sometimes at night I wait around ‘til she gets off.
She don’t like workin’, she says she hates her boss,
But she’s got me askin’ questions, she’s got me on the fence
With that little certain something, she’s a complex kid,
And she’s always been so hard to get around.
She always likes to leave me with a shadow of a doubt.

Just a shadow of a doubt, she says it keeps me runnin’.
I’m trying to figure out if she’s leadin’ up to something
And when she’s dreamin’, sometimes she sings in French,
But in the morning, she don’t remember it.

But she’s got me thinking ‘bout it,
Yeah, she’s got me on the fence
With that little bit of mystery, she’s a complex kid,
And she’s always been so hard to live without.
Yeah, she always likes to leave me, with a shadow of a doubt.

[stuntcat]

25. yyyyYes!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[hellbound-liberal]

29. I appreciate him immensely too. He got me through the 90s.

My all time favorite song and video has to be Free Fallin'. It reminds me of the summer I spent in L.A. with my dad befor he passed. We used to travel Mulholland Drive and Ventura Boulevard on the way to job sites. One of our jobs was in Reseda too! Enjoy this classic video:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=736410811

[In_The_Wind]

30. I like him on Saturday night, too.

[Joe Fields]

33. That;s true, and say hello to the little down in the corner for me.

He looks pretty happy...:toast:

[In_The_Wind]

34. for sure

[Coventina]

31. I admire his songwriting abilities.

I have to say that as a former new-waver/mod/punk-wannabe his singing and musical style never appealed to me back in the day.

But he writes awesome songs.

My favorite: Ways To Be Wicked

[tyedyeto]

32. Not just a Heartbreaker but a Wilbury, too. n/t

[borlis]

35. I've always liked him. But sometimes it looks like he

sings without opening his mouth.

:shrug:

[jobycom]

36. That bastard made me total my car!

There I was, at 2 AM, about to cross the Pecos River bridge in my rented Camry on I-10 in west Texas, about 100 miles from the nearest thing that sort of looked like a town. Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever" was the only thing keeping my eyes from shutting down completely. Suddenly, on the very fringe of my speeding headlights, a ghost appeared. A glowing ghost, about two and half feet high and about the same size around, and it floated or waddled straight into my path. As Tom Petty was running down a dream, I made a quick correction to my path to avoid this ghost, which grew in solidity as I drew closer. But the ghost wouldn't stay put. It drifted to the left, to the same spot of highway I had redirected my Camry towards, requiring me at the last moment to flick the wheel a little further left than I intended. It had been raining that day, hard, and the road was polished smooth, and at this exact point on the interstate, the right lane of asphalt dropped down three inches to the left lane of old, glassy smooth concrete, just as I-10 made a last second bend before crossing the Pecos River.

The combination of Petty's guitar chords, the change in surface frictions, and the sleep that a 7-Eleven Big Gulp Dr. Pepper had not fully been able to replace was just too much for the poor little Toyota rental. It fishtailed thrice, and on the fourth I knew I had lost it. Rather than flip, I hooked the wheel as hard as I could at the last second and bounced against the beloved and aptly-named guard rail of the Pecos River Bridge, forty feet above the river basin. The car and I went one way, and the contents of my trunk went the other, scattering like Bush voters when the media shows up at a KKK rally.

Four hours later, as my wife, six year old daughter, three month old infant, and I checked into the nearest hotel--over 100 miles from the crash scene--tired, shaken, but alive, I realized that "Full Moon Fever" was still in the cassette deck of the Camry, cruising on the flatbed of a wrecker towards whatever junk depositary such vehicles go to when they are totaled at 2 AM on I-10 in the middle of friggin' nowhere.

Adios, Tom Petty. Nothing personal, but whenever "Running Down a Dream" comes on my car radio now, I change the station. Of course, it's still on my IPod.