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Some more OT: RIP Tom Petty

galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 2, 2017 11:02PM in Sports Talk

"Learning to fly" is my fav

Sad news

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    grote15grote15 Posts: 29,535 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just read that his death was reported prematurely and that he's in the hospital.



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    galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @grote15 said:
    Just read that his death was reported prematurely and that he's in the hospital.

    talk about widespread erroneous reporting

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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    unconfirmed as of now.

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He has already come back more times than Elvis.

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He Won't....Back....Down......

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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I saw the Heartbreakers in concert in Seattle on Aug 19th (Safeco Field). Tom put on a great show ... he's been on my bucket list for a long time. Have always loved his music. So glad I got to see him.

    A very sad day/weekend.

    Dave

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Dave99B said:
    I saw the Heartbreakers in concert in Seattle on Aug 19th (Safeco Field). Tom put on a great show ... he's been on my bucket list for a long time. Have always loved his music. So glad I got to see him.

    A very sad day/weekend.

    Dave

    He was just in LA at the Hollywood Bowl. Sad. Loved him

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    grote15grote15 Posts: 29,535 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm hearing now his family is taking him off life support. Not sure if that is true but sad news in any case.



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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I loved his duo with Stevie Nicks.

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DIMEMAN said:
    I loved his duo with Stevie Nicks.

    Common ground found :D

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Petty joins Dylan, Clapton, Harrison and Young (plus a few more notables)

    https://youtu.be/rGEIMCWob3U

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:

    @DIMEMAN said:
    I loved his duo with Stevie Nicks.

    Common ground found :D

    mark

    Stevie Nicks is a sweetheart! :) We probably have a lot of common ground not tapped yet.

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    WOW.....what a stage full of major stars!!!

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Traveling Wlibury's were my jam for awhile. Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, ( ELO) Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. They won a Grammy

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:
    The Traveling Wlibury's were my jam for awhile. Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, ( ELO) Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. They won a Grammy

    m

    Great jam....oh for that kind of music again. Thank God for You Tube!

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    BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the link.

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    galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2, 2017 10:50PM

    confirmed now

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He's dead again?

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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Walls

    Some days are diamonds
    Some days are rocks
    Some doors are open
    Some roads are blocked

    Sundowns are golden
    Then fade away
    But if I never do nothing
    I'll get you back some day

    'Cause you got a heart so big
    It could crush this town
    And I can't hold out forever
    Even walls fall down

    And all around your island
    There's a barricade
    It keeps out the danger
    It holds in the pain

    Sometimes you're happy
    Sometimes you cry
    Half of me is ocean
    Half of me is sky

    But you got a heart so big
    It could crush this town
    And I can't hold out forever
    Even walls fall down

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

    But you got a heart so big
    It could crush this town
    And I can't hold out forever
    Even walls fall down

    Baby you got a heart so big
    It could crush this town
    And I can't hold out forever
    Even walls fall down

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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    sadly, the Truth we all feared and held in denial has now been made official: Drug Overdose. Tom Petty now joins the ranks of celebrities who inadvertently committed accidental suicide.

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @keets said:
    sadly, the Truth we all feared and held in denial has now been made official: Drug Overdose. Tom Petty now joins the ranks of celebrities who inadvertently committed accidental suicide.

    It's hard to feel sorry for those who take drugs and lose their lives.

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sounds that he was in pretty poor health either way.

    Eric Clapton is not well either.

    :/

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 20, 2018 9:54AM

    Let's not get carried away here. He died accidentally taking a combination of prescription pain meds for his broken hip. He was still touring 50+ nights a year.

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    1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I imagine most overdoses are accidental. Most people don't sit down saying 'Man, I want to get so high I die.'

    The thing is, you didn't always get the prescriptions you get now for pain; I grew up with stuff that was less addictive AND less effective. You dealt with pain and you weren't ready for a heroin addiction after 6 weeks.

    do no harm < get money

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 20, 2018 12:53PM

    All were scripted by physicans for the pain for his broken hip. Mixing them in quantity to relieve the pain is a slippery slope.

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    BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awaiting for the report on Cranberries lead singer Delores O'Riordan C.O.D. She passed the other day at age 46. Found dead in a London hotel room.

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    Awaiting for the report on Cranberries lead singer Delores O'Riordan C.O.D. She passed the other day at age 46. Found dead in a London hotel room.

    I can almost guarantee it's another Janis Joplin case.

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 20, 2018 3:04PM

    I guess I don't know how to put a You Tube link in a post, but here is the address to Stevie & Tom singing duo.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UD0c58nNCQ

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:
    All were scripted by physicans for the pain for his broken hip. Mixing them in quantity to relieve the pain is a slippery slope.

    mark

    Lost a friend a year and a half ago that got hooked after surgery. I don't have any good answers or even bad answers for the opioid problem.

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    JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:

    @Justacommeman said:
    All were scripted by physicans for the pain for his broken hip. Mixing them in quantity to relieve the pain is a slippery slope.

    mark

    Lost a friend a year and a half ago that got hooked after surgery. I don't have any good answers or even bad answers for the opioid problem.

    I hear you. Sorry for the loss of your friend.

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    bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 9,964 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I heard it was a fentanyl patch , I don't know if thats true but those things are deadly . They don't work the same on everyones skin , sometimes you get a higher dose than you are supposed to. And sometimes its just delayed and a person in severe pain isn't going to be super patient so might slap on a second one and then its all over :s

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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 20, 2018 5:56PM

    Tom Petty wasn’t taking illegal drugs to get ‘high’. He played 50+ shows with a broken hip. Please ... let’s not lump him in with the folks who OD while ‘getting high’. This was an accident; a bad mix of prescription drugs prescribed for a hip fracture and knee issues. Very tragic, and a huge loss to both his family and the music industry.

    Dave

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How do you know, Dave. Plenty of folks get high on prescription drugs.

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    grote15grote15 Posts: 29,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 20, 2018 8:03PM

    The point is no one knows but the facts are that he had a broken hip, was in a lot of pain, but continued touring at an age when most people are sitting down for early bird specials, so I'd give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.



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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sometimes we/I jump to the wrong conclusion due to past history of other performers.

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