R.I.P. Tom Petty

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,846
    PJ_Soul said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    igotid88 said:
    So many of our rock stars are dying in their 50s and 60s lately. You'd think we'd have them for another 20 or 30 years
    After Bowie and Prince a friend said to me that a lot of our icons are going to start dropping more frequently now due to their heavy partying lifestyles when they were younger. And some who continue to have dangerous vices.

    That being said, it's time we start worrying about how we are going to leave the planet for Keith Richards.
    There is that... I guess we also need to keep in mind that half of the population dies younger than the average lifespan. Not to be grim or anything, but... brace yourselves everyone. It's only going to pick up from here and it's not going to stop. Most of us are just at that age now, when we're going to see pretty much every single one of the musicians we've grown up loving die, and then our own peers will start dropping too. :frowning: I know we all know that... but it's easy to forget... I'm not sure if it's good or not so good to live in this kind of denial. One the one hand, it does no one any good to avoid their emotions ... but if we greet each loss like this with any serious level of misery, that could be damaging as well. I guess trying to deal with these kinds of losses takes a bit of an emotional balancing act once it starts happening frequently, which it will.
    The average lifespan for males in my generation (I'm about 10 months younger than Petty was) is somewhere around 78.  But I've read it's falling.  I don't know if that's due to more pollution (industrial) or getting more polluted (recreational) when we were younger.  I'm sure I burned a few years off.  Really get's you to thinking.  Damn.  Poof!  Just like that.  T.P.'s loss was a gut punch.  But at the same time I guess we could say every day is icing on the cake.   Get some miles out of each one!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,314
    RIP Mr Petty..a big thanks..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    My first real concert and a lifetime of memories associated with the different songs of this amazing artist.

    RIP
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,846
    Still heavily bummed about losing T.P.  It'll be a while before I can listen to any of his stuff.  It will happen, but not now.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,902
    http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/why-losing-tom-petty-feels-so-deeply-personal.html
    I miss igotid88
  • Shyner
    Shyner Posts: 1,226
    A drop from the ocean
    A tear from the heart
    All my love
    Has gone away
    Here we remain
    Waiting
    Any sign
    To reconcile
    hurt when i believe
    Without you now
    I'm so alone

    Fly now
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,846
    igotid88 said:
    http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/why-losing-tom-petty-feels-so-deeply-personal.html
    Great article.  Thanks so much for posting it.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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