Comments on: Being Tom Petty

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By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:06:16 +0000

Just returned from two back-to-back driving trips (total distance 2,600 miles). Southern Accents and Long After Dark were the only music I played, over and over. Enough said from this fan…..

By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:06:16 +0000

Just returned from two back-to-back driving trips (total distance 2,600 miles). Southern Accents and Long After Dark were the only music I played, over and over. Enough said from this fan…..

By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:06:16 +0000

Just returned from two back-to-back driving trips (total distance 2,600 miles). Southern Accents and Long After Dark were the only music I played, over and over. Enough said from this fan…..

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:50:08 +0000

very cool.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:39:02 +0000

I heard “Breakdown” on the radio yesterday. I've always wondered, and this seems like a good place to ask, why does he sing the verses with a Cuban accent? Anybody know?

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:00:52 +0000

I had a big crush for awhile on Benmont Tench when I was in HS.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:21:57 +0000

To me, the brilliance of Petty is that he never seems to run out of ways to put 3 or 4 simple chords together with a melody and make something really good. I mean, haven't all the possible combinations of simple roots-rock been played out? Nope, he has some bottomless well of ideas to make those simple ingredients great even after they've been seemingly exhausted for 50+ years now. And better yet, for an amateur guitarist like myself, he writes songs that are easy to learn and play. So I sit there playing them, saying to myself “damn this song is so easy to play”, yet I could never write one like that myself. That's brilliance. He makes it look easy.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:12:36 +0000

It's long been a contention of mine that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is the greatest American rock n' roll band we've ever had. My criteria are as follows:

1. Longevity. They've been around for 40+ years in pretty much the same incarnation.
2. Quality of work over the entirety of their career. TP has really only made a couple of albums that are hard to listen to, and he's made a lot more masterpieces. What would the American musical landscape look like without their debut album, Damn the Torpedoes, Hard Promises, Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers? (I recognize those last two are solo albums, but most of the Heartbreakers play on them.) Many more peaks than valleys.
3. Signature sound. I think you can always tell when Mike Campbell plays on a song and I don't think anyone else sounds quite like him.
4. Amount of work in the American lexicon. If there were any justice in this world, new babies and immigrants would be issued a copy of TP's Greatest Hits and be told, "This is how it's done around here."

Keeping those 4 criteria in mind, is there any other band that comes close? I don't think so.