Time To Move On
I don't normally post on Mondays, but after hearing of the death of Tom Petty, I felt compelled to speak to it as well as the much, much bigger tragedy in Las Vegas last night. As you know, this summer marked my Chase the Aging Rockers pursuit. I saw some of the old greats including Roger Waters , The Church , Tommy Tutone, The Suburbs and most recently Stevie Nicks . Time is of the essence with the bands of my earlier generation and we were picking them off one at a time. One of the ones my wife and I hedged on was Tom Petty. This is a perfect example of why sometimes, you just gotta spend the money. More recently, I blogged about his Zombie Zoo earworm . I guess I've been a Petty fan since the Damn the Torpedos album. Some of his biggest hits (Refugee, Even the Losers, etc.) weren't favorites of mine - not bad songs, mind you - but I still respected the tune and the songwriting. As he became more and more mainstream, I kind of lost interest. When Wildflowers ...