Gainesville's own Tom Petty dies from cardiac arrest

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Can you prove it came from Petty?
Definitely not. It's back when Petty's band was Mud Crutch. My brother-in-law had no idea Petty would become famous, of course. He paid him with a wah pedal, the Bigsby tailpiece and a few other things as the story goes. Petty thought my brother in law was weird, which was actually a fairly good assessment.
 

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Definitely not. It's back when Petty's band was Mud Crutch. My brother-in-law had no idea Petty would become famous, of course. He paid him with a wah pedal, the Bigsby tailpiece and a few other things as the story goes. Petty thought my brother in law was weird, which was actually a fairly good assessment.
No photos with Petty during that period, nothing like that?
 

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Now on the 34th st wall. Next to the Student Murders memorial
 
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No photos with Petty during that period, nothing like that?
It's a shame he didn't keep the negatives. It would make for some good retrospective about now. He still lives in Gainesville, by the way, I haven't talked to him in years since he divorced my sister.
 

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I'll share my Tom Petty Story. 7th grade: friend won two tickets from Q105 in Tampa (remember them). Paid $20 bucks for the pair, and saw TP about 10 rows back in the Sun Dome with my dad.

Opening act was a little known artist at the time named Lenny Kravitz.

13 year old in me still gets "excited" about the skateboarding girl in "Free Fallin'" Video.

RIP TP. Better to know you and miss you, than to have never known you.
 

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I'll share my Tom Petty Story. 7th grade: friend won two tickets from Q105 in Tampa (remember them). Paid $20 bucks for the pair, and saw TP about 10 rows back in the Sun Dome with my dad.

Opening act was a little known artist at the time named Lenny Kravitz.

13 year old in me still gets "excited" about the skateboarding girl in "Free Fallin'" Video.

RIP TP. Better to know you and miss you, than to have never known you.
Ah, the Q Morning Zoo
 

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What a great thread, so great it probably needs to go HOF. I could swear from the comments that I know some of you, I just need for you to be unmasked. Cooter, you're one. Tunaboat, wow, great story. I'd love sit down and chat.

The whole thing takes me back. When someone famous dies, your mind flashes to a time and place. With Petty, it's intensified because the time and place was right there before my mid-'70s eyes. He became the local boy who rose to fame. Boom, just like that, he was Hollywood and selling platinum albums.

And yet he never stopped being the simple boy from Gainesville.

I'll always remember the great music, but what I will remember more is the guy behind it.

Thanks for the memories, TP.
 

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Ah, the Q Morning Zoo

Best stunt they ever pulled was putting "Electric Avenue" on constant replay for 30 straight uninterrupted minutes the morning Bundy was executed and word came he was finally worm food.
 

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Not a particularly good song - but a young Johnny Depp.

 

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That's a great interview. For the bands/musicians who have had sustained success, it always seems in a lengthy interview it becomes clear that they are not just talented musicians but also brilliant. Petty was no exception.
 

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Best stunt they ever pulled was putting "Electric Avenue" on constant replay for 30 straight uninterrupted minutes the morning Bundy was executed and word came he was finally worm food.

At one point they were the most popular station in the country, literally.

Then the power pig 93.3 with bubba the love sponge came in.

Then Bubba let Hulk Hogan sleep with his wife and secretly taped it. Then wwf/wwe fired Hulk for dropping the "N" bomb on that tape.

Ergo, w/out the Q morning zoo, Hogan would still be around. I dunno, just go with it.
 

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Not a music video, but him driving around Gainesville with MTV. Cool stuff.


Some things in this video stood out to me:

1) I always thought Devil's Millhopper had steps to the bottom. We would go sometime back in the late 70's to early 80's and they were there then. Makes me wonder when they were added.
2) His hat toward the end had a huge stars and bars on it. He was in a fight at a frat house for wearing one :lol:. I remember seeing a lot of hats like that back in the day, probably owned quite a few. Those last few scenes had a couple confederate flags in it. Unthinkable this day and age, he would be labeled a racist if more saw this.
3) I had no idea he was a snake handler...
 

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Some things in this video stood out to me:

1) I always thought Devil's Millhopper had steps to the bottom. We would go sometime back in the late 70's to early 80's and they were there then. Makes me wonder when they were added.
2) His hat toward the end had a huge stars and bars on it. He was in a fight at a frat house for wearing one :lol:. I remember seeing a lot of hats like that back in the day, probably owned quite a few. Those last few scenes had a couple confederate flags in it. Unthinkable this day and age, he would be labeled a racist if more saw this.
3) I had no idea he was a snake handler...

He was actually very anti-Confederacy.
 

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