Best wishes for Tom Petty

Terrible news for Tom Petty
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/tom-petty-critical-condition-cardiac-arrest-article-1...

I saw TP in 1979 when his debut album was just getting attention. What a great band back then. His first 3 albums still get time on my table and sound fresh.

Hoping for a successful recovery.

tablejockey10-02-2017 7:33pm

bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 10,161 posts 10-04-2017 at 08:21am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I neglected to mention that Petty can be seen playing bass in at least one early Dwight Twilley Band video, and also their appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand TV show.
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 10,161 posts 10-03-2017 at 02:53am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Here's a Tom Petty story: Tom and the rest of Mudcruntch left Florida, heading for Los Angeles to get a record deal. The Dwight Twilley Band (Dwight and his partners, Phil Seymour on drums and vocals, and guitarist Bill Pitcock IV) already had their first album out on Shelter, and it had made quite an impact amongst 50's and 60's Rock 'n' Roll aficionados (that album---Sincerely---is one of the greatest debut albums of all time. It's an incredible blend of Memphis and Liverpool.). Mudcruntch stopped in Tulsa Oklahoma to seek advice from TDTB, and perhaps get some L.A. contacts. Twilley introduced Petty to Leon Russell, who had a Shelter office in town. After arriving in L.A., Petty did his first recording at the Shelter recording studio on Sunset Blvd., and the renamed TP & THB debut came out on Shelter Records, seeing respectable sales. Petty ended up achieving far more success than did The Dwight Twilley Band.