Remembering Tom Petty

I've been a fan of Tom Petty for ages. My sister listened to him, so I know his music was in my life very early on.

I can't even fathom picking a favorite song that he recorded. There are so many great ones; Refugee, American Girl, The Waiting, Even The Losers, You Got Lucky, Don't Come Around Here No More, Jammin' Me, I Won't Back Down, Free Fallin'....see what I mean? There are just so many great ones.

I consider myself lucky to have seen Tom in concert on the tour for Full Moon Fever. It was a fabulous show, marred only by the fact that they changed how the seats were set up at the AJ Palumbo center. (I never have had good luck at this venue) We thought our seats were 8 rows from the stage, but instead we were all the way at the back of the gym.

Boo hiss.

I had brought roses for Tom too.

Can you say that sucks?

Yeah, I had a small crush on Tom back in the 90s.

He won bonus points with me because of his friendship with George Harrison. Anyone that hung out with George was ok in my book.

And now a few weeks shy of his 67th birthday, he's gone.

That's way to young to leave this earth.

And if you go to youtube and check out his last song at the show he performed on Sept 25th, you'll know that he still sounded great.

Tom...you broke on my heart when your's stopped.

~ Let's get to the point....let's roll another joint....turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to be proud

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I Have A Confession

When I was in high school, I had a huge crush on Tom Petty for a time. I'm not sure why, but I did. I had every one of his albums on casette tape, which is a great source of annoyance for me now.

Why, you ask?

Because I only replaced one or two of them on CD. I have The Best Of, Wildflowers, Long After Dark and the soundtrack to She's The One.

And lately I've been in the mood for Tom. I don't know if it's the release of the Traveling Wilbury's discs in June or discovering he covered Feel A Whole Lot Better, which I knew he did...because I had Full Moon Fever. I saw him on that tour at the A.J. Palumbo Center with my sister, her hubby and my boyfriend at the time.

All I know, is now I'm going to have start the whole business of replacing a vast majority of his discs, specifically Hard Promises which is my favorite album. The Waiting is one of my favorite classic Petty tunes.

I don't know where to start rebuilding that collection. And there's so many great CDs too, Southern Accents, Let Me Up I've Had Enough, Damn The Torpedos....ARGH!

It's times like this when I wish that music wasn't such a huge part of my life.

Oh and will someone please explain to me why this picture of Tom Petty is so damn sexy?