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Title: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: listo on October 03, 2017, 06:42:43 AM
Just read he's passed away from cardiac arrest at 66. Sad news for the music industry with another legend gone.
Thanks for the music Tom, RIP.
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Bird on October 03, 2017, 07:05:52 AM
Yea sad if its true.  but Ch9 just said he isnt dead but still on life support... who knows..
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Rumpig on October 03, 2017, 07:10:48 AM
Yea sad if its true.  but Ch9 just said he isnt dead but still on life support... who knows..
Ch9 said a minute ago he had died
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Bigfish on October 03, 2017, 07:17:42 AM
Shit...I,m getting old....all my favourite muso,s are hanging up their cues!!! Still love the 70-90,s music..best ever.

R.I.P.   :'(
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Rumpig on October 03, 2017, 07:45:43 AM
Not only a sad loss for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but that's 3 of the original Traveling Wilburys gone now
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: paceman on October 03, 2017, 08:00:30 AM
hasn't actually passed away as yet...  life support has been removed, with a 'no resuscitation order' in place...

very sad, either way... 
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Bird on October 03, 2017, 08:23:10 AM
MMM are doing a memorial gig to him at the moment...

104.3 have in still alive and kicking...

Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Rumpig on October 03, 2017, 08:26:57 AM
hasn't actually passed away as yet...  life support has been removed, with a 'no resuscitation order' in place...

very sad, either way...
Ch9 reported this morning his life support had been removed, then the next news break a half hour later they reported he had died
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: paceman on October 03, 2017, 08:36:08 AM
Ch9 reported this morning his life support had been removed, then the next news break a half hour later they reported he had died


well, based on multiple american news and radio sources, they have retracted the 'death' news story and are reporting he is still alive...

also, it appears as though ch9 have changed their tune (as at 8:13am):

http://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/2017/10/03/06/52/rock-icon-petty-has-heart-attack (http://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/2017/10/03/06/52/rock-icon-petty-has-heart-attack)



believe what you will.  here's hoping he pulls through...  media ghouls showing that it's more important to them to be first, and accuracy comes later...

as i said, sad either way...
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Rumpig on October 03, 2017, 09:02:20 AM
well, based on multiple american news and radio sources, they have retracted the 'death' news story and are reporting he is still alive...

also, it appears as though ch9 have changed their tune (as at 8:13am):

http://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/2017/10/03/06/52/rock-icon-petty-has-heart-attack (http://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/2017/10/03/06/52/rock-icon-petty-has-heart-attack)



believe what you will.  here's hoping he pulls through...  media ghouls showing that it's more important to them to be first, and accuracy comes later...

as i said, sad either way...
i'm just going off what the tv news is saying this morning ....they literally just now have been on telly retracting the fact he's died....gotta love the standard of journalism today
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: paceman on October 03, 2017, 09:06:23 AM
i'm just going off what the tv news is saying this morning ....they literally just now have been on telly retracting the fact he's died....gotta love the standard of journalism today

it's not even journalism any more...  >:(

tom's daughter just posted her thoughts on the media (particularly rolling stone magazine) on her instagram page (dadlivesmatteronelove (https://www.instagram.com/dadlivesmatteronelove/) is her handle):

dadlivesmatteronelove @rollingstone my dad is not dead yet but your ****ing magazine is ??????your slim😵has been pieces of tabloid dog Shit. You put the worst artists on your covers do zero research. How dare you report that my father has died just to get press because your articles and photos are so dated. I will ****ing Shit down your throat and your family's . Try not being a trump vibe. This is my father not a celebrity. An artist and human being. **** u


says it all...
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: Bird on October 03, 2017, 10:07:04 AM
Quote from: paceman
media ghouls showing that it's more important to them to be first, and accuracy comes later...
I've never understood the "FIRST AT FIVE" bullShit that one station promotes.. who gives a ****.. all stations will have the same bullShit on within an hour... then another station now has a 4pm gig to be FIRST AT 4...
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: paceman on October 03, 2017, 02:36:39 PM
sadly, now confirmed...

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/915063690629496832 (https://twitter.com/passantino/status/915063690629496832)

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/tom-petty-had-life-support-switched-off-after-being-found-in-cardiac-arrest-reports/news-story/e2d172ab47bc0692023b20174972a971 (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/tom-petty-had-life-support-switched-off-after-being-found-in-cardiac-arrest-reports/news-story/e2d172ab47bc0692023b20174972a971)
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: speewa158 on October 03, 2017, 07:33:17 PM
l do believe that when you get to Life Support the deck has been stacked against you  .

                         RIP  Tom Petty
Title: Re: RIP Tom Petty
Post by: wacanary on October 06, 2017, 02:23:02 AM
I went to the Knebworth Festival in the UK in 1978 as a callow youth, and a then (now embarrassed ex-) fan of Genesis, not knowing the works of Tom Petty at the time. After 39 years, his set is the one from that festival that sticks in my mind. As time passes by, you encounter more and more passings of musical icons that have featured in your life with varying degrees of feelings of loss. I never owned one of Tom's records (in retrospect, I don't know why) but this loss seems to be one of the more painful. Nearly as heartbreaking as the passing of John Peel for me (Brit music fans will know what I mean). RIP Tom