RIP Tom Petty (10/20/50 – 10/2/17): Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks.
Tom Petty Oct. 11, 2014 at the LA Forum photo by Art Predator (off the big screen with my iPhone)
by guest blogger Ron Wells
“Some days are diamondsSome days are rocks..” —Tom Petty
- Tom Petty of Mudcrutch.
- Tom Petty of the Heartbreakers.
- Tom Petty of The Traveling Wilburys.
- Tom Petty has passed away.
“She was an American girl, raised on promises…”
“She’s a good girl, loves her mama,Loves Jesus, and America too”
Tom Petty Oct. 11, 2014 at the LA Forum photo by Art Predator
“Baby even the losers, get lucky sometimes”
“Here comes my girl, here comes my girl,Yeah, she looks so right, she’s all I need tonight”
“The waiting is the hardest part”
“And then she looks me in the eye, says, “We gonna last foreverAnd man, you know I can’t begin to doubt it”
“Some things are overSome things go onPart of me you carryPart of of me is gone”
In his own words:
“You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.”
“When I met Elvis, we didn’t really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look – he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.”
“You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.”
“I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can’t sit down and play this and get the song over, I don’t take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.”
“I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.”
“The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn’t that bad! The writing came natural to me.”
“I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.”
Tom Petty Oct. 11, 2014 at the LA Forum photo by Art Predator (off the big screen with my iPhone)
To a man who created music that was pure, that healed, that was real, and that was magic,
Rest in Peace, Tom Petty.
Text and quotes curated by Ron Wells. Videos curated by me; (Photos also by me from this Tom Petty Concert; I thought I’d published a write-up on it by Ron but didn’t find it so here’s another one.)
According to Wikipedia, American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer Thomas Earl Petty “suffered cardiac arrest early in the morning of October 2, 2017, and died later that night at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.[4] Best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, he co-founded the Grammy winning late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilbur’s, and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.[3] In 2002, Petty was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
art predator 
Excellent tribute to a world class artist.