Zip City wrote:Certainly explains having Jeff Lynne produce his records

Kudzu Guillotine wrote:Tom Petty was a heroin addict in the ’90s. Here’s why he’s finally talking about it.

Clams wrote:

Kudzu Guillotine wrote:Tom Petty was a heroin addict in the ’90s. Here’s why he’s finally talking about it.

^^^ That's a really good interview. Well worth the few minutes.

Tequila Cowboy wrote:Listening to TP and the Heartbreakers Live Anthology. Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench are Rock & Roll gods. Just sayin'.

Tequila Cowboy wrote:Listening to TP and the Heartbreakers Live Anthology. Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench are Rock & Roll gods. Just sayin'.

dime in the gutter wrote:

most excellent. can't get it to post proper. apologies.

cameron crowe imbeds with the band.

hard promises/long after dark era.

cortez the killer wrote:
Just stumbled across T. Hardy Morris' excellent cover of "Scare Easy".

Watched the documentary on the making of this album last night right before I fell asleep. Woke up this morning missing Tom, missing my youth, and feeling totally inadequate as a songwriter. May have to dig a Ric outta the closet today and hold it like a security blanket for awhile...

I only saw him twice. He’s my favorite. The best. People think of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, and guys like them as great songwriters. They ARE, but nothing they ever wrote ever hit me the way Tom did. Tom Petty lyrics are like the unspoken random thoughts that pass through my head. I feel like he was inside me, pullin’ things out, and puttin’ ‘em in public. Glad he could, ‘cause I sure can’t seem to. None of the other “songwriters” ever did that to the degree Tom Petty did...

I only saw him on the Long After Dark tour, which was fantastic, then on Southern Accents, which wasn’t fantastic. It almost wasn’t even good. They were living on cocaine at that point. Didn’t phase my love for him though. Once I started touring in bands, I missed him every time. Never was home when he played here, never was anywhere else when he was playing either. The very last tour, I was home, but it sold out so fast I didn’t get tickets. I had the chance to get ONE ticket through Tom Bukovac, who was playin’ guitar with Joe Walsh. I turned it down because I didn’t want to go without Janet. I don’t regret that choice, but who knew that was my last chance to ever see him? Even if I knew, I still woulda made the same choice. Tom was one of those people I thought would never die...

If you want a true glimpse of the real “inner me” via songwriters, I only scratch the surface. The ones who really nail it are Tom Petty, who ALWAYS nailed it. Next closest would be John Prine. Merle Haggard did it quite often, and Neil Young did it, but he has more goin’ on than whatever I am. He nailed me consistently, but only occasionally. Tom Petty was 100%. Springsteen never once nailed the inner me, but he does in spirit. I love him for reasons other than his lyrics. My love for him comes more from the animal world. It’s recognition at the breed level...

I loved Tom from the first moment I heard him, which was his first album. No one wrote more songs I loved, for a longer stretch of time than he did. I’m at the age now where no one else has time to beat him. I’m living out the rest of my life already knowing who my lifetime favorite is...

Clams wrote:Here's a series of Instagram posts, all from this morning, by Brian Henneman of the Bottle Rockets

Watched the documentary on the making of this album last night right before I fell asleep. Woke up this morning missing Tom, missing my youth, and feeling totally inadequate as a songwriter. May have to dig a Ric outta the closet today and hold it like a security blanket for awhile...

I only saw him twice. He’s my favorite. The best. People think of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, and guys like them as great songwriters. They ARE, but nothing they ever wrote ever hit me the way Tom did. Tom Petty lyrics are like the unspoken random thoughts that pass through my head. I feel like he was inside me, pullin’ things out, and puttin’ ‘em in public. Glad he could, ‘cause I sure can’t seem to. None of the other “songwriters” ever did that to the degree Tom Petty did...

I only saw him on the Long After Dark tour, which was fantastic, then on Southern Accents, which wasn’t fantastic. It almost wasn’t even good. They were living on cocaine at that point. Didn’t phase my love for him though. Once I started touring in bands, I missed him every time. Never was home when he played here, never was anywhere else when he was playing either. The very last tour, I was home, but it sold out so fast I didn’t get tickets. I had the chance to get ONE ticket through Tom Bukovac, who was playin’ guitar with Joe Walsh. I turned it down because I didn’t want to go without Janet. I don’t regret that choice, but who knew that was my last chance to ever see him? Even if I knew, I still woulda made the same choice. Tom was one of those people I thought would never die...

If you want a true glimpse of the real “inner me” via songwriters, I only scratch the surface. The ones who really nail it are Tom Petty, who ALWAYS nailed it. Next closest would be John Prine. Merle Haggard did it quite often, and Neil Young did it, but he has more goin’ on than whatever I am. He nailed me consistently, but only occasionally. Tom Petty was 100%. Springsteen never once nailed the inner me, but he does in spirit. I love him for reasons other than his lyrics. My love for him comes more from the animal world. It’s recognition at the breed level...

I loved Tom from the first moment I heard him, which was his first album. No one wrote more songs I loved, for a longer stretch of time than he did. I’m at the age now where no one else has time to beat him. I’m living out the rest of my life already knowing who my lifetime favorite is...

RolanK wrote:[
I saw those too this morning. A pretty good instagram moment. Henneman's account can be quite entertaining sometimes... at other times he may disappear deep down into the guitars&gear rabbit hole.

Clams wrote:

RolanK wrote:[
I saw those too this morning. A pretty good instagram moment. Henneman's account can be quite entertaining sometimes... at other times he may disappear deep down into the guitars&gear rabbit hole.

Plus there is the dog

jr29 wrote:

Clams wrote:

RolanK wrote:[
I saw those too this morning. A pretty good instagram moment. Henneman's account can be quite entertaining sometimes... at other times he may disappear deep down into the guitars&gear rabbit hole.

Plus there is the dog

I love his guitar and gear posts even though I don't understand a lot of it. He LOVES guitars.

Clams wrote:

jr29 wrote:

Clams wrote:
I love his guitar and gear posts even though I don't understand a lot of it. He LOVES guitars.

Yes he really does. I think he even works in a guitar shop too.

10. After Petty’s sudden death in 2017, the Heartbreakers are openly considering a Wildflowers tour featuring guest singers.
Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and Crowded House vocalist Neil Finn are currently on the road with Fleetwood Mac, taking over Lindsay Buckingham’s parts. But after that extensive tour wraps up in November, Campbell’s schedule will be open, and he’s said he’s considering embarking on a Wildflowers tour with the rest of the Heartbreakers. “It would be a great tribute to Tom to just do that album,” Campbell told Rolling Stone last year. “We’d probably have four or five different guest singers with us. We don’t know who they might be, though, or when this might happen.”