Best wishes for Tom Petty

ozzy-I’m in LA, listening to the local R&R station( yeah, I actually listen to radio!) Breaking unofficial news is TP was taken off life support......I hope this is fake news

Its been such a long time, I think my date is wrong when I saw TP. It was 77!

"You’re Gonna Get it" is my favorite album. I’ve taken this album to shows and heard it on the best tables, which even blew away the exhibitors.

The local news is reporting TP is "clinging" to life. Apparently, an official declaration TP is deceased, was premature.

Regardless,  it doesn't sound encouraging. 

"Please don’t misinterpret this message but I never cared for Tom Petty’s music. When I first heard him I thought....oh my gosh, here is the next Bob Dylan, but he seemed to veer more toward pop music and I never cared for his sound."

falconcrest- while TP earned his long, prolific career, my interest dropped off after his 3rd release "Damn the Torpedoes" I think the MTV era was nearing about that time, which is when I tuned out many rock bands.

Regarding those 3 releases-IMO, this is his peak. Music and songwriting with "substance(story telling and solid playing). Nice sounding albums to boot.
After that, the music just didn’t hold my attention.
Never the less, terrible event. We’ve already had enough bad news lately. At least TP isn’t physically suffering right now. Whoever is controlling the media machine at the hospital, needs to do a better job.

"Would like to have this if it improves on original releases."

jafreeman-I see your a digital only listener, so my suggesting you simply look for unmolested early presses won't help. It looks like that system is tough to break away from, once you settle in and hit play.

As mentioned earlier, a regular early press of YGGI has spectacular sonics, which is what I've played at shows."Breakdown" from the first album is stellar on a really good turntable.

Ive heard those same redbook albums on really nice systems and to my nostalgic ears, the music doesn't connect the same way a record does? I'm not a fan of "audio" recordings so perhaps I haven't heard a really nice disc or file.

"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."

interesting bit there, bpd24

Thumbs up for TDTB. I gave my 2 Shelter label TP’s a spin. Great music and sonics. My TP catalog stops at "Southern Accents" This and "Hard Promises" never get playtime compared to the first 3.

Doing a wiki read up on HP, this is a fun fact:
During the recording of the album John Lennon was scheduled to be in the same studio at the same time. Tom Petty was looking forward to meeting him when he came in. The meeting never occurred; John Lennon was murdered before he could ever make it into the studio. In order to pay tribute to one of their influences the band decided to etch "WE LOVE YOU JL" on the master copy of the album. To this day "WE LOVE YOU JL" is seen on every Hard Promises first issue US non-masterphile vinyl copy pressed.

Years ago, I picked up a sealed copy from my neighborhood store. I played side one, and put it in the collection.

A close inspection reveals I have one of these presses. Not the cache of a Hendrix or Fab4 disc, still cool. Sonics are nice, by the way.

"I just got out of hospital Sat. 30 after TAVR for aortic stenosis, and more than happy to still be amongst all of us."

Good golly! asvjerry- good luck and long life to you. Stroke survivor here.
Reading up on your procedure, its amazing how technology has progressed.