RIP: Tom Petty
Oct. 3rd, 2017 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayne*sigh*
I've always liked Tom Petty, even if his vocal range was well above mine. He was hitting it big when I was first in the position of having my own income and buying my own music and audio equipment. I was just telling my wife that I was working my first job, selling camera and audio equipment, when his first big album, Damn The Torpedoes, was released. One of the girls that I worked with asked me if he was a castrato.
I read earlier today that he was hospitalized and reported dead, but the report was withdrawn as inaccurate. Then my wife told me that he was found unresponsive and with no brain activity, he was then taken off life-support. It apparently took a few hours for his body to succumb.
For me, he was probably low in my top 10 or in the middle of my top 20, though the two Traveling Wilbury albums are definitely favorites of mine.
I'll definitely miss him. I know the other woman on my wife's telescope is going to be devastated: she's a huge fan and has seen him in concert multiple times.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/03/555157788/rock-star-tom-petty-dead-at-66
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-rock-iconoclast-who-led-the-heartbreakers-dead-at-66-w506651
I've always liked Tom Petty, even if his vocal range was well above mine. He was hitting it big when I was first in the position of having my own income and buying my own music and audio equipment. I was just telling my wife that I was working my first job, selling camera and audio equipment, when his first big album, Damn The Torpedoes, was released. One of the girls that I worked with asked me if he was a castrato.
I read earlier today that he was hospitalized and reported dead, but the report was withdrawn as inaccurate. Then my wife told me that he was found unresponsive and with no brain activity, he was then taken off life-support. It apparently took a few hours for his body to succumb.
For me, he was probably low in my top 10 or in the middle of my top 20, though the two Traveling Wilbury albums are definitely favorites of mine.
I'll definitely miss him. I know the other woman on my wife's telescope is going to be devastated: she's a huge fan and has seen him in concert multiple times.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/03/555157788/rock-star-tom-petty-dead-at-66
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-rock-iconoclast-who-led-the-heartbreakers-dead-at-66-w506651
