Big Blue Sky

Can't say I didnt have the same thought when I saw that interview myself.  Can you imagine the hidden unreleased gems on his phone??? 😳

Hi y'all, the thread started to split, with a second thread on exactly the same topic. Which is fine, no big deal. May as well cluster it all on one thread, if that's cool with everyone. Arete noticed that this was all go, donations... And then updated us to say no, looks like it's on hold. 
From the website mentioned above. They provided the (non-creepy) image of The House. 
Help Preserve the Petty House Welcome and thank you for taking the time to stop by and support the effort to purchase and preserve the Petty Family Home and Tom's legacy. At this time Kevin Beauchamp, the contract holder, has exited his agreement with the Gainesville Music History Foundation Inc. by offering to give his rights to purchase the Petty Family Home to the Petty Family, which at this time does not involve our Foundation. If the Petty family wishes to purchase the home we are in favor of that and support their buying it. Things may change moving forward. If so, we will make an announcement. We had agreed to provide the $20,000 deposit due on the contract this Thursday and that is now on hold until we hear what transpires. So in the mean time we have paused the donation campaign. We will contact each of the people individually who have so kindly donated to the project out of the goodness in their hearts thus far, and we thank them. Please look for news moving forward. Thank you....

Hi y'all, the thread started to split, with a second thread on exactly the same topic. Which is fine, no big deal. May as well cluster it all on one thread, if that's cool with everyone. Arete noticed that this was all go, donations... And then updated us to say no, looks like it's on hold. 
From the website mentioned above. They provided the (non-creepy) image of The House. 
Help Preserve the Petty House Welcome and thank you for taking the time to stop by and support the effort to purchase and preserve the Petty Family Home and Tom's legacy. At this time Kevin Beauchamp, the contract holder, has exited his agreement with the Gainesville Music History Foundation Inc. by offering to give his rights to purchase the Petty Family Home to the Petty Family, which at this time does not involve our Foundation. If the Petty family wishes to purchase the home we are in favor of that and support their buying it. Things may change moving forward. If so, we will make an announcement. We had agreed to provide the $20,000 deposit due on the contract this Thursday and that is now on hold until we hear what transpires. So in the mean time we have paused the donation campaign. We will contact each of the people individually who have so kindly donated to the project out of the goodness in their hearts thus far, and we thank them. Please look for news moving forward. Thank you....

From the website mentioned above. 
Help Preserve the Petty House Welcome and thank you for taking the time to stop by and support the effort to purchase and preserve the Petty Family Home and Tom's legacy. At this time Kevin Beauchamp, the contract holder, has exited his agreement with the Gainesville Music History Foundation Inc. by offering to give his rights to purchase the Petty Family Home to the Petty Family, which at this time does not involve our Foundation. If the Petty family wishes to purchase the home we are in favor of that and support their buying it. Things may change moving forward. If so, we will make an announcement. We had agreed to provide the $20,000 deposit due on the contract this Thursday and that is now on hold until we hear what transpires. So in the mean time we have paused the donation campaign. We will contact each of the people individually who have so kindly donated to the project out of the goodness in their hearts thus far, and we thank them. Please look for news moving forward. Thank you....

I was a bit surprised that the estate wouldn't want to run this for such a low buy in price.  Hopefully it proceeds without drama in light of the legal disputes with the music side of things...  

Maybe "Benmont's Boogie" could be in there as subsection's subheading?

I absolutely love the picture Dana Petty took/ shared of Tom on Instagram this weekend.  💘

6/16/19
Richard Dodd Interview
A must see for musicians and people that want to be musicians. Almost 2 hours long, so grab a beer, sit back and listen. Don't miss a second of this!! Richard Dodd is the Engineer and Producer of the stars, including Tom Petty, George Harrison, The Wilburys, and many more listed in the interview. This is fantastic!!!!
 

Isn't it about time Ben gets his own subsection here? Much like The Knobs have? I know I would peek down the "Good Street" as often as I could. (Better name than Welcome To He'll, arguably.....) Just an idea.

A short break from looping Neil's new record for some fantastic Bobness. 
 

3 posters from Gainesville years. Source = Petty Archives (of course) 

For some reason this makes me belly-laugh  (though in a perfectly normal way - thank you very much)!  
When I was in my 20s, we rented a historic house beside a Saturday market. Buskers (ranging in talent & skill) outside our window from 6am were painful. One busker played blues at mid-morning = a joy. So tourists incessantly taking photos of the lovely house were no big deal by comparison. We tried to have empathy, as it was mainly just on Saturdays. Shut the lace curtains. Repeatedly cleared all their discarded milkshake & kebab sticks & crepe wrappers (from inside our fence) every couple of hours so rubbish wouldn't fester. Our "we're wearing sunglasses & ignoring you" images are doubtless photo bombing many, many, tourist images.
...so, hey, Gainesville people, just you try buskers from dawn outside your Petty house / musical museum! Then tell us how you feel about drive-by photos. 
I do love idea of museum to honour the past and encourage the present and future musical heritage.  They do need to invest in planning approval & a management strategy. It's not just red-tape & paperwork - it helps long term success.  Or the neighbours' peace will be shattered all down the street ...parking in a residential area ... issues of long-term funding ...protecting historical sites from being even slightly tacky ...finding real stuff to put on display behind the velvet rope ...finding ways to stop visitors touching / stealing that stuff... Maybe people will pay to see Tom's childhood bathroom & 1950s pink tiles?  Maybe Gainesville's central music museum could be somewhere else with a better layout & design & an interesting collection of music stuff.  They could maybe then maintain childhood homes / venues (for those fabulous Gainesville musicians) as brief stops in organised museum tours.  Still, I'm gonna say, there's a Bob Dylan story that may put all this in the shade. From my memory: someone wanted to buy Bob's childhood home in Hibbing, but owners repeatedly refused for 20 years. They were there first. Potential buyer didn't give up, instead buying the house next door - and living there. Whether anyone stared longingly over the fence is & in through the Zimmerman windows every night for 20 years is not reported. 
 
On a more cheerful note, I recently read a novel called Dumplin' - 2 main characters are teenage girls who both love Dolly Parton & her music. One is on a first date & no surprise, mentions Dolly, so her date asks her about being a die-hard Dolly Parton fan.
I feel an intense loyalty to her that I can't shake. "Okay, so here's the deal: yes. I am a huge Dolly Parton fan. But here's something you have to understand about Dolly Parton fans: we're nuts. And since there's a high level of crazy amongst us all, I am, in comparison, not as batshit as most. [....] "Okay," he says. His brow crinkles together, and I can see he's really making an effort to understand. "Okay, but on, like, a scale of one to ten?"  "On a scale of one to ten, ten being total nut job, I guess Ellen and I would be fours. Maybe fives? Mrs Dryver is a total eight, but not quite a nine because she hasn't had plastic surgery. Yet." 

For some reason this makes me belly-laugh  (though in a perfectly normal way - thank you very much)!  
When I was in my 20s, we rented a historic house beside a Saturday market. Buskers (ranging in talent & skill) outside our window from 6am were painful. One busker played blues at mid-morning = a joy. So tourists incessantly taking photos of the lovely house were no big deal by comparison. We tried to have empathy, as it was mainly just on Saturdays. Shut the lace curtains. Repeatedly cleared all their discarded milkshake & kebab sticks & crepe wrappers (from inside our fence) every couple of hours so rubbish wouldn't fester. Our "we're wearing sunglasses & ignoring you" images are doubtless photo bombing many, many, tourist images.
...so, hey, Gainesville people, just you try buskers from dawn outside your Petty house / musical museum! Then tell us how you feel about drive-by photos. 
I do love idea of museum to honour the past and encourage the present and future musical heritage.  They do need to invest in planning approval & a management strategy. It's not just red-tape & paperwork - it helps long term success.  Or the neighbours' peace will be shattered all down the street ...parking in a residential area ... issues of long-term funding ...protecting historical sites from being even slightly tacky ...finding real stuff to put on display behind the velvet rope ...finding ways to stop visitors touching / stealing that stuff... Maybe people will pay to see Tom's childhood bathroom & 1950s pink tiles?  Maybe Gainesville's central music museum could be somewhere else with a better layout & design & an interesting collection of music stuff.  They could maybe then maintain childhood homes / venues (for those fabulous Gainesville musicians) as brief stops in organised museum tours.  Still, I'm gonna say, there's a Bob Dylan story that may put all this in the shade. From my memory: someone wanted to buy Bob's childhood home in Hibbing, but owners repeatedly refused for 20 years. They were there first. Potential buyer didn't give up, instead buying the house next door - and living there. Whether anyone stared longingly over the fence is & in through the Zimmerman windows every night for 20 years is not reported. 
 
On a more cheerful note, I recently read a novel called Dumplin' - 2 main characters are teenage girls who both love Dolly Parton & her music. One is on a first date & no surprise, mentions Dolly, so her date asks her about being a die-hard Dolly Parton fan.
I feel an intense loyalty to her that I can't shake. "Okay, so here's the deal: yes. I am a huge Dolly Parton fan. But here's something you have to understand about Dolly Parton fans: we're nuts. And since there's a high level of crazy amongst us all, I am, in comparison, not as batshit as most. [....] "Okay," he says. His brow crinkles together, and I can see he's really making an effort to understand. "Okay, but on, like, a scale of one to ten?"  "On a scale of one to ten, ten being total nut job, I guess Ellen and I would be fours. Maybe fives? Mrs Dryver is a total eight, but not quite a nine because she hasn't had plastic surgery. Yet." 

Not sure what drama lies beneath this one, but I've been seeing people post on the TPN page not to post the story. Not sure the back story on this but this strikes me as a very positive thing for Gainesville.  Not sure if they had hoped to do a big reveal or if its somehow not a done deal.   Just wanted to toss this in to the mix but I cant imagine there is not a P&S agreement and mortgage in place to get mentioned in a news paper article.... 😕 

Recovering nicely, thanks. 

what I wouldn't do to take that class......

Ha, I'm no Neil Peart, but not bad at all!

I forgot about this - thanks for the reminder.  I watched both parts last night and really enjoyed them.  Tom sure talked a lot from start to finish!

Hello! Bump. Watched this on DVD during weekend & very much enjoyed the experience. A lot of people (as well asTom Petty) contribute ideas & opinions & analysis. Whoever created this (editors? directors?) weave these all together into a shared conversational narrative over the footage of Elvis.  (Not just one person narrating plus some extra experts.) Bruce, Priscilla, Tom, everyone else, we hear you have much to say on the topic of Elvis' music? Here's your chance to really get into it.
They go deep. Fascinating. 
Question for you all. Wooden Heart plays as one of the final songs as the documentary wraps up. Who's playing - Elvis 👑or Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 💘cover? (Without checking google or the DVD case, I'm betting it's TPATH. Actually, I sat bolt upright on the sofa! But I don't have keenly-trained musician ears.) Sure, okay, cover's on soundtrack cd as discussed above. But which version plays in the actual documentary? 

According to Rolling Stone, one of TP's final interviews appears in the forthcoming Elvis doc:
The new two-part HBO documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher (which premieres April 14th) aims to finally restore the King to his proper place in the rock pantheon as a creative pioneer on par with Chuck Berry, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Directed by Thom Zimny and produced by Jon Landau and Priscilla Presley, it tells Elvis' life story through his music, utilizing a treasure trove of unseen video, photographs and new interviews with his friends, collaborators and fans, including Bruce Springsteen and, in one of his final interviews, Tom Petty. "I wanted to attack and shatter the shorthand version of Elvis Presley's life story – that after the Army there was just bad films, bad recordings, bad tours and then his life was over," says Zimny. "This was a man driven by music, even at his darkest times."

Petty song by Trahan? Hah! Yeah, that's messed up song-writing. Cheesy, you say? I'm describing it as a triple deluxe cheese pizza with an extra topping of cheese. Maybe they started with good intentions, then lost their way. 
Reminds me of seeing a trailer for a film - a rom-com about relationships within a band, I think. Equally contradictory message. I didn't watch whole film, so could be wrong. Anyway. The film's title is "I Hate Tom Petty." Gasp, shock, who would say such a terrible thing? Yet main character enthuses: "I want to be Tom Petty. He sings, he writes, he produces. He's had commercial success and no compromise."
eyeroll. 
Oh, also, FYI, I listened to some of your Charlie Worsham's performances, just on YouTube. 🎸 He's easy to like! Interesting songwriting too, depth to his lyrics in the few I heard. There he is, playing TPATH covers, including a 2017 tribute "2 Gunslingers" &. also "American Girl" from, what, 8 years ago? And there he is, discussing music with Marty Stuart at Grand Ole Ophry. So you could maybe see that as nice link with calibre of country musicians the Heartbreakers admired & worked with?  All pulling on rope as same team of tug-of-war between good music & rubbish music. Also, as you know, TP = passionate about encouraging & supporting new musicians (like says in Musicares speech). So, both of those are positive, even if remains mystery about whether TP ever heard CW's music & whether he'd have liked it. 
 

Well, this is a gift from above! (Thanks Tom!)  14 min of trippy bliss.
“Crystal River” was first released on the album "Mudcrutch” in 2008. The song became the go-to show closer for the Mudcrutch tours of 2008 and 2016, which featured Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Tom Leadon, and Randall Marsh performing together for the first time since the early 1970’s.
Recently Tom Leadon’s brother-in-law Curtis Cooper, along with co-Producer Kim Bauldree, created a video which features rare footage of the band performing the song at the Troubadour in Hollywood in 2008. The performance footage was originally done so that Tom Leadon’s elderly father, who was unable to attend, could see his son perform with the band. The video also includes footage from the Ichetucknee River and the song’s namesake Crystal River in Florida. Tom Leadon shared it with us, and we are now honored to present the public debut of this video.   
 
 
OMG That ending of the video....  😎  

May we draw inspiration from Mudcrutch, or is the consensus that these crazy marketing ideas haven't spread that far? Surely they deserve only praise -  no-ones ever selling those fellas down the river? 
How about spin-off recipe book by Mudcrutch called ...Hungry No More?   
Useful Tips section of recipe book: save your water.  Drinks: Ashes In Your Tea.  Snacks: Plain Ol' Sandwich  

I always did my best to Shelter all of them... But, let me just say:
 
When my corn dog barks
And my cannoli sings
I'm out there with Chinner
He's pulling my strings