The Tom Petty Project

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Will do! I never mind a bit of #CrossPodContamination 😁

He really is missed! ❤️

It gives us a baseline and a starting point in one melodic flashback scene, before we’re dragged back forward in time to devastating effect in track four.

Without this contrast the more belligerent songs the album could easily take on a petulant tone but in Dreamville, Tom gives us that fleeting Utopian vision to measure cultural decline against.

It’s this innocence that contrasts so starkly and so effectively with the corporate interference in The Last DJ, or the commodification of Johnny’s art in Money Becomes King.

Tom is hugely proud of this song. In Conversations with Tom Petty, he tells author Paul Zollo, “Dreamville” is one of the best songs I ever wrote. That was about innocence.”

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It’s this innocence that contrasts so starkly and so effectively with the corporate interference in The Last DJ, or the commodification of Johnny’s art in Money Becomes King.

Yep - on the bill for this year's weekend and can't wait to meet up with people I've only chatted to online! 😊

I'd mentioned a week or so ago that I'd drop a few photos from my England trip onto socials for ya! ☺️

Really looking forward to seeing the sights next month!

Gonna make that silver sing

#dreamville

Man, I don't listen to the Stones outside Hot Rocks! That's basically the start and end of it for me - I don't think I've ever actually listened to an entire studio album! 😬

A perfectly reasonable position to hold mate! I know Ivan Anderson would more or less agree with you. I just love a good story song as much as I love a universal piece 😊 Where do you stand on Tweeter and the Monkey Man?

Yeh, sometimes they take off and most times they don't! 😊 Thankfully, I don't do it for the clicks! (can you imagine how insane that would drive you?!)

Some things are over
Some things go on
Part of me you carry
Part of me is gone

Always in my heart. Miss you #TomPetty

I wrote these words over four years ago as I contemplated the road ahead. Even though it was actually October 3rd, I think about that rainy day on THIS day every year.

I’ve now become somewhat obsessed with Tom’s music and creative genius and I thought that one way to channel this obsession would be to record a podcast. This is that podcast. I hope you enjoy it."

I consider how strange it is to mourn the loss of someone you never met and how profound that loss can feel. That sense of loss, amplified by the fact that I never got to see the Heartbreakers perform live was the shove I needed to really start listening much more closely.

I did eventually tell her that he had died yesterday and that I was feeling very sad about it. I think about that day quite often, especially as my daughter is now a fervent Tom Petty fan herself.

I couldn’t get the words “He died yesterday” out. They stuck in my throat and threatened to set off a flood of tears that would rival the steady rain we were driving through.

I can’t really explain the way my stomach sank at hearing those words and realizing that I didn’t want to answer that question, for the first time in all the times it had been asked.

The Waiting was playing and my daughter asked “Who’s this Dad?” “It’s Tom Petty sweetheart.” She then innocently asked “Who sings ’ won’t back down’? Is he still alive?”

As I listen to a lot of older artists, she developed a habit of asking me “Is he/she still alive Dad?” On that cool, rainy morning, as the windshield wipers were slapping time, I was listening to a Tom Petty mix CD that happened to be in my van.

"At 8am on October 3rd, 2017, I was driving my youngest daughter, then ten years old, to school. Those drives were always fun as she’s a music fan like me and tends to prefer rock and roll over the pop hits of the day.

“How much money do you need?”

- Tom Petty (2002, LA Times)

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As I walked out of the arena
My ears began to ring
And money became king

#MoneyBecomesKing

What songs are you most looking forward to diving into this season? Are there any skippers on this album for you? What would be your lowest scored song (even if it's still 9/10!) and how many 10/10s do you reckon I'll be scoring from the album?

#TheLastDJ #SeasonThirteen

I'll have to see if it's streaming anywhere. I know it's a very highly-regarded show!

"As we celebrate mediocrity" could be the way we describe modern "celebrity culture" eh? I mean, the fact that the Kardashians had their own TV (still have?) for so many years is a sad indictment of the times we're living in!