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Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: Luke17 Date: October 2, 2017, 4:08 pm
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66 years old..Cardiac arrest.
fuck it, I am not even buying green bananas anymore.
Might not be here when they get ripe enough to eat.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: Bucky Date: October 2, 2017, 4:28 pm
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I've never been a huge Petty fan, but I appreciated his style
and approach. He was a treasure to be sure.
And I'm totally going to Spotify to listen to "Won't Back Down"
right now.
I'm probably in the minority of people who'd rather die at 66
than 92, though. It depends on how I age, but growing up in
healthcare and seeing what happens to people...
I was close to a man in his seventies who had severe arthritis,
yet he was entirely mentally competent. Brilliant man, but his
body was closing in on him. It's one thing to have dementia and
not be there. He had to endure losing bowel and bladder control,
having nurses drag him to the bathroom, and the constant pain
medication. My wife was a nursing assistant, and I worked in the
kitchen, so I'd get to see him and joke around, but she saw the
uglier side (which I avoided). After he died, she dreamed about
him, and told me he was probably coming to see me while we
slept. I'll never forget his wisdom, but I'll also remember his
struggle.
I hope Petty died peacefully.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: AJ Date: October 2, 2017, 6:42 pm
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It's a shock to me....Tom played a unique part in American music
in that he came out blasting his own Byrds,Beatles, Beach Boys,
Punk hybrid music when the scene was ripe for it.
I dug him from the get go. Tom's clean but energetic rhythm
playing, the tightly crafted songs, Mike Campbell's clean
concise solos, Benmont Tench and Stan Lynch's economic drums and
backing keyboards...The harmonies....Tom's nasally voice...
66....A little too close to home as well...... :o
A sad day all around...
:'(
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: indigo_dave Date: October 3, 2017, 12:25 pm
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I thought he had "the knack". Writing pop/rock songs stripped
down to the essentials. Never owned his recordings, but when I
hear one of his songs played, I always enjoy it.
He was a cigarette smoker. But I also heard this morning from a
biographer that he'd been addicted to heroin at some point. I
don't know the details, but when a rocker like David Bowie or
Greg Allman dies I always say that he's actually 10-20 years
older - in Rock & Roll years that is. I don't grieve for him.
Just feel good for him that he had a great life. I heard that
Petty was at his house in Malibu when he had his initial
episode. It was said that he'd recently completed a 40th
anniversary Hearbreakers tour. Sounds like a great life to me.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: Bucky Date: October 3, 2017, 2:50 pm
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Patti Smith and Petty looked like siblings, and both did heroin.
Notice how you never saw them in the same room together.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: AJ Date: October 3, 2017, 6:08 pm
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The rock'n roll lifestyle has it's perils. Petty didn't get
involved with heroin full time until he and his wife of 22 years
divorced. I don't know how long he was on it but he went through
detox and it worked and some of his most active and productive
years followed that.
Keith Richards was a junkie as well, detoxed, and has been a
committed drunk ever since then, makes no bones about it. He
seems immortal...But then we know he isn't, none of us are.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: AJ Date: October 3, 2017, 9:14 pm
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[quote author=Bucky link=topic=110.msg1125#msg1125
date=1506979685]
I've never been a huge Petty fan, but I appreciated his style
and approach. He was a treasure to be sure.
And I'm totally going to Spotify to listen to "Won't Back Down"
right now.
I'm probably in the minority of people who'd rather die at 66
than 92, though. It depends on how I age, but growing up in
healthcare and seeing what happens to people...
I was close to a man in his seventies who had severe arthritis,
yet he was entirely mentally competent. Brilliant man, but his
body was closing in on him. It's one thing to have dementia and
not be there. He had to endure losing bowel and bladder control,
having nurses drag him to the bathroom, and the constant pain
medication. My wife was a nursing assistant, and I worked in the
kitchen, so I'd get to see him and joke around, but she saw the
uglier side (which I avoided). After he died, she dreamed about
him, and told me he was probably coming to see me while we
slept. I'll never forget his wisdom, but I'll also remember his
struggle.
I hope Petty died peacefully.
[/quote]
That's an oft told tale nowadays I guess. My Dad died of a
sudden heart attack at 58, his Dad, my Granpa at 67, of a heart
attack in his sleep, like his Dad, my Great Granpa, at 68.
Not so easy for my Granma, stomach cancer at 59, a long painful,
torturous death. My Mom at 67, of dementia...She really left us
at 64...Didn't know any of us, or anything really the last 4
years of her life.
It's easy for You Bucky, looking down the road ahead when you
have so much left to travel on it, and say "I want to
stop...There".
We have no choice in these matters however. I'm not talking
about destiny, or pre-determination here. We can take care of
ourselves as well as we can, we can be careful, but the thing
is, in the end, we have little to no control over how we end our
journey.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: indigo_dave Date: October 5, 2017, 7:08 am
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My mother said that her father always said he wanted to die in
his sleep. He did around 1958. I only have a couple of vague
memories of him since I was so young and he lived in
Jacksonville.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: Evil Imp Date: October 5, 2017, 1:21 pm
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[quote author=Bucky link=topic=110.msg1125#msg1125
date=1506979685]
It depends on how I age
[/quote]
these are the key words. (i have/had 3 grandfathers due to
divorce/remarrying)
my fathers father was fighting fit when he died of a heart
attack in his sleep at 57, completely unexpected.
my non-biological grandfather was fit as a fiddle until 2 weeks
before his death at 82. he went downhill FAST.
my mothers father was the fittest of the lot, until a few years
ago, when he started suffering heart attacks and strokes. he's
still going aged 80, but he is a shadow of his former self, and
it is very sad to see his decline. i am sure he would rather
suffer than be dead though.
the aging process is different for everyone. personally, i don't
care how or when i go. i'm only 36, but i have thought about
suicide for most of my adult life. i hope i go out the same way
as my fathers father, but what will be will be.
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Re: Dayum..Tom Petty?
By: Bucky Date: October 5, 2017, 3:11 pm
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Yesterday was my birthday, and I remembered how suicidal I was
from 22-23, and I was lucky to survive those years.
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