Tom Petty: R.I.P.

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Gerald

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I listened to the second Mudcrutch album and Hypnotic Eye again, which I both hadn't heard in a while.

Mudcrutch 2 (his last released album essentially) is actually about the only album he worked on I don't find all that special, compared to the first Mudcrutch or his other albums, solo or with Heartbreakers.
By no means is it bad, but the songs are a bit short mostly (around 3 minutes), with only two longer cuts of around 6 minutes: Beautiful Blue and Hungry No More, which also are the two best songs on it I would say.
Apart from Petty the other members of the band sing lead on songs too, but none of them have a very distinctive voice.
I love the sleeve though, of two young bears who have some sort of stand-off it seems.
Also the album comes with an art-card which feels very 'Dark Tower': a cowboy with a horse and above it a red rose.

Hypnotic Eye on the other hand is a very worthy swansong with the Heartbreakers. I had forgotten how good it was. It really rocks the way a Heartbreakers record should, with more reflective songs in between.

I always though it would be great if he had recorded a duet with Sheryl Crow. I once heard her state as a kind of career mission that she wanted to make a solid discography like Petty (which she has done a great job of). But it seems he has limited his collaboration with female singers to Stevie Nicks.
 

Gerald

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Just got the book that's a companion to the Peter Bogdanovich documentary:

Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Amazon.de: Tom Petty: Fremdsprachige Bücher

This is a must for fans. It has probably more photos than text, but big (mostly colour) one page and two page photos of great quality. All the typical photos you'd expect: concert, portraits, photo-sessions, studio, making of music videos, covers of magazines. Also from the bands before Heartbreakers.
The text takes the form of a group interview without questions. So it's just the various people involved talking in turns. It also has a nice cover with the Heartbreakers emblem (the heart with the guitar though it) engraved inside it in a wallpaper pattern.

His mother was very beautiful, or it's just the way she is photographed (or both). She looks like a silent movie star:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.geni.com/p13/16/06/80/8d/53444841a6d1218f/13332817_1239754742708990_2116177884237092123_n_large.jpg
 
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