Rocker Legend Tom Petty dies at 66

[cubbeegirl]

The MOJO tour was incredible. So so so so awesome. I covered live music for about a decade, and have seen hundreds of bands perform in my lifetime. He was one of the best. Top five, of not top 3. Saw him again in earlier this year with my dad and brother. His music is part of the fabric of rock and roll. I know his influence on music lives on — I see and hear it every day. It's tangible. But he's gone. The man who created it all, for decades, and lived with us through our lives, is gone. It's almost like losing a friend. It's like losing a part of myself. There's his music and his legacy, but there's a shadow left where his humanity lived within ours.

That's cheesy. But it's what's on my mind this morning, and I miss him. I feel for the people close to him who lost even more. He's gone. [emoji853]


[emoji202]MOO

Not cheesy at all ... I still tear up thinking about him being gone .
It was a great ride and lots of great memories .Thanks for the jams Tom !
And yes, Mojo was phenomenal !
My 25 yr old son is as upset as I am ...
That speaks volumes !
RIP Tom

 

[alwaysonmymind]

This song did not get the attention some of his others did.

I know he’s at the top of the world tonight.

Rest In Peace [emoji257]

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[theshadow45]

Happy Birthday Tom Petty.

 

[SeesSeas]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/Family-Tom-Petty-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose_164676073
Family: Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose

Published: January 19, 2018
Updated: January 19, 2018 at 08:04 PM

LOS ANGELES — Rocker Tom Petty died last year from "multisystem organ failure" caused by accidental drug toxicity, the Los Angeles County Coroner said Friday.
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[Boodles]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/Family-Tom-Petty-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose_164676073
Family: Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose

Published: January 19, 2018
Updated: January 19, 2018 at 08:04 PM

LOS ANGELES — Rocker Tom Petty died last year from "multisystem organ failure" caused by accidental drug toxicity, the Los Angeles County Coroner said Friday.
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I keep wondering whether they gave him Narcan. And if not, would it have mattered? It’s too late for Tom now, but if Narcan wasn’t administered, hopefully this case will shine a light.

When his cause of death wasn’t released for all these months, I knew the tox report was going to be significant, and this result isn’t a surprise.

RIP TP.

 

[AlwaysShocked]

Yes, the EMT/paramedics would have given him Narcan upon their arrival. But the problem is that he was already in cardiac arrest - remember the 911 tape? And the early, erroneous reports that he had died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital? Being without oxygen causes the multiple organ failure with the brain telling the body to breathe being the first to fail.

Reading the list of drugs in Tom's system made me mad. At him. "How could you be so stupid?" I want to yell at him. And then I feel so very sad, because I was a huge fan of his for many, many years.

He was so great in concert. Just wonderful.

I just don't get it. He was experienced enough and smart enough to know that this was a possibility - especially after Prince had just died this way. Although his thinking ability definitely had to be messed up from both the long term use of the strong opioids and the combination he was taking.

And where were his loved ones and family members in all of this? No one can be taking these amounts and combinations of drugs without others who are around them knowing that something is going on! Are those around these famous stars so intimidated by them that they are willing to stay silent and just watch them die? That's what it seems like.

The story about his health problems doesn't make a whole lot of sense. None of the listed drugs had anything at all to do with having emphysema. And the statement that he had a "fractured" hip for a long time but that it had just recently become "full on broken" does not sound like any medical diagnosis I've ever heard of. A fractured bone IS a broken bone. So who knows what the family is talking about. Did he have some sort of a degenerative hip condition? Avascular necrosis perhaps?

Oh well. RIP Tom Petty. Sorry you went so young!

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

I had the impression that Petty had a hairline (or partial) fracture and really wanted to make it through that tour. And the stress of performing caused complete fracture.

My guess is he it needed surgery anyway, which could potentially impact his mobility and health. (And career.) He just wanted to finish the tour. His pain was probably blindingly intense.

We have to find less-lethal ways to treat chronic and acute pain.

We’ve lost too many to this epidemic.

[emoji26][emoji853]

 

[AlwaysShocked]

FWIW: less lethal ways of treating sudden blinding pain:

1.) Call the doctor who has been prescribing the fentanyl patches and the oxycodone and tell the doctor that despite taking a shyte-load of medication for a long time now, you are still in a whole lot of pain and you are afraid to take one more pill on your own and you want to be admitted to a hospital immediately for medically managed pain control and to then schedule the long needed surgery.

2.) Present yourself to an Emergency Room with the complaint of blinding pain in your hip. Be HONEST with them that you have been self-dosing with opioids for some time now. They will xray your hip. They will treat your pain. They will either call in an orthopedic specialist or refer you to one.

The problem with all of the self medicating - especially when you are talking long term high doses of opiods (central nervous system depressant) combined with sleeping pills (central nervous system depressant) and xanax (central nervous system depressant) is that your brain IS part of your central nervous system. So in addition to making the pain go away, you are making your brain unable to function. It cannot think. It cannot remember. Eventually it cannot even remember to tell your lungs to breathe.

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

FWIW: less lethal ways of treating sudden blinding pain:

1.) Call the doctor who has been prescribing the fentanyl patches and the oxycodone and tell the doctor that despite taking a shyte-load of medication for a long time now, you are still in a whole lot of pain and you are afraid to take one more pill on your own and you want to be admitted to a hospital immediately for medically managed pain control and to then schedule the long needed surgery.

2.) Present yourself to an Emergency Room with the complaint of blinding pain in your hip. Be HONEST with them that you have been self-dosing with opioids for some time now. They will xray your hip. They will treat your pain. They will either call in an orthopedic specialist or refer you to one.

The problem with all of the self medicating - especially when you are talking long term high doses of opiods (central nervous system depressant) combined with sleeping pills (central nervous system depressant) and xanax (central nervous system depressant) is that your brain IS part of your central nervous system. So in addition to making the pain go away, you are making your brain unable to function. It cannot think. It cannot remember. Eventually it cannot even remember to tell your lungs to breathe.

Yes, this is known. Petty also had chronic pain.

As you suggested, he did in fact go to the doctor — he died the day he learned he had a broken hip. He wrapped the tour several days prior.

Add those + other heath issues = accidental overdose of prescription medication.

imo, His family deliberately said he “over-used” medication. Not that he “abused” it. He has scrips for all those potent meds.

He also was a longtime recovering heroin addict who was prescribed potent opioids and benzodiazepines.

Petty wasn’t stupid. He wasn’t weak. Blaming anyone is inappropriate in this case, imo. Methinks Petty’s family meant to encourage discussion of addiction in general and the opioid epidemic specifically.

Deaths similar to his are shockingly common. It’s literally an epidemic.

https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html

ETA: link

 

[Boodles]

He fell before the tour began and decided to proceed anyway even though he was in great pain. I don’t know that he had prescriptions for all those meds. I haven’t seen that stated anywhere. He may have, or he may have found his own sources for some of them. I find it difficult to believe that he was prescribed all of those drugs together. Fentanyl alone could be potentially lethal, and adding oxycodone would be crazy. Then adding multiple benzos...it’s an insane mix of meds that I can’t imagine any responsible doctor prescribing.

As a heroin addict in recovery, any use of opioids and benzos should have been strictly administered and monitored, (or even avoided in lieu of alternatives if at all possible). And TP was not a stupid man; he was highly intelligent and would have known about risks.

He may have even relapsed before the fall (thus causing the fall). We’ll likely never know all the facts.

He may have felt pressured to do the tour; so many people earned a livelihood from him. But I also can’t understand how he could have become insured for a tour while suffering with a crack in his hip.

I respectfully take his wife’s statements with a grain of salt. Understandably, she wants to protect his dignity and reputation. Although I’m sure her words are intended to be sincere, she may have some of the details confused.

Anyway, it’s such a huge shame. He was so brilliantly talented and it’s sad to find out that this could (should?) have had a different ending, at least regarding the drugs as related to hip pain. His cause of death doesn’t lead me to think less of him. I love him, but am sad at the tragedy that didn’t have to be.

 

[Trinitee]

FWIW: less lethal ways of treating sudden blinding pain:

1.) Call the doctor who has been prescribing the fentanyl patches and the oxycodone and tell the doctor that despite taking a shyte-load of medication for a long time now, you are still in a whole lot of pain and you are afraid to take one more pill on your own and you want to be admitted to a hospital immediately for medically managed pain control and to then schedule the long needed surgery.

2.) Present yourself to an Emergency Room with the complaint of blinding pain in your hip. Be HONEST with them that you have been self-dosing with opioids for some time now. They will xray your hip. They will treat your pain. They will either call in an orthopedic specialist or refer you to one.

The problem with all of the self medicating - especially when you are talking long term high doses of opiods (central nervous system depressant) combined with sleeping pills (central nervous system depressant) and xanax (central nervous system depressant) is that your brain IS part of your central nervous system. So in addition to making the pain go away, you are making your brain unable to function. It cannot think. It cannot remember. Eventually it cannot even remember to tell your lungs to breathe.

I suffer from chronic pain and the emergency rooms here do not treat you or prescribe anything for pain. Most physician's won't treat for pain where I live.

 

[alwaysonmymind]

I absolutely believe his wife when she says he was performing with a fractured hip.

My sister-in-law suffers from degenerative bone disease and is still recovering from hip replacement surgery she had in November 2017.

She knew in 2016 she had a fracture in the neck of her femur. There are 4 classification levels- hers was Class. 1 - subcapital fracture.
There are then 4 grades of subcapital fracture. Hers was Grade 1- partial subcapital fracture.

The ball of her femur was fractured but not a total fracture. It was at risk of becoming a total fracture if she fell or even took a wrong step. She was in a GREAT deal of pain and was on pain medication.

She needed surgery but had to lose weight before her doctor would do it. It’s hard to lose weight when you’re in that much pain but she did it. It was so hard to see her suffer like that and I’m thankful that is behind her now. She’ll probably need surgery to replace her other hip eventually. She already has had 2 total knee replacements in addition to the new hip.

I believe he was trying to push through the tour because he didn’t want to disappoint his fans.

Rest easy and rock on Tom. [emoji1591]

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[Hatfield]

I had the impression that Petty had a hairline (or partial) fracture and really wanted to make it through that tour. And the stress of performing caused complete fracture.

My guess is he it needed surgery anyway, which could potentially impact his mobility and health. (And career.) He just wanted to finish the tour. His pain was probably blindingly intense.

We have to find less-lethal ways to treat chronic and acute pain.

We’ve lost too many to this epidemic.

[emoji26][emoji853]

JMO
Yes we have lost way too many people to similar stories. Public figures and regular people from all walks of life.

One thing I wish there was more of is a non narcotic medicine that is really powerful enough to reduce or eliminate severe pain. Many options now but all too common they are not as effective or not advertised enough.

If there could be a large public awareness effort of some sort of miracle non narcotic pain medicine that works like a miracle then I think it could help a lot of people.

An small similar example I could give of what I am trying to think about is something like Advil but much stronger and more effective for acute severe pain.

I use Advil as the example because before that it was Aspirin for headaches and things like that. Once Advil took to the market and largely by word of mouth I believe the Advil became the medicine of choice for headaches and similar pain.

It has become the go-to medicine in much the same way as Aspirin was years ago.

I think if could be something like this for an effective and very strong non narcotic then there could be some success. But here is the deal. It would have to work at reducing and eliminating extreme pain. And it would need to work.

If something like that could be advertised and reduce or eliminate pain like the strong narcotics then a huge advertising campaign could be unleashed and then if it really worked then by word of mouth there could be some success.

Then all that wold be left is to tackle the issue of people just taking the other types of medicine for the "feeling". And that is a problem that will always be there but at least it would reduce real pain sufferers and give them another option.

There may be some medicines today that already exist that are like this and maybe just more advertising needs to happen for those types of replacement medicines.

I just dont see anything being advertised like that. We see all the negative ads and news about the "bad narcotics" but we see no real advertising campaigns for non narcotic alternatives.

So that is where I believe pharmaceuticals and manufacturers need to focus to get the word out once they have their replacement. Tell the world about it and make sure it works as advertised to give people a real option. And scream it from the rooftops as loud as we are hearing all the negative ads about narcotics.

 

[Hatfield]

JMO
His tragic ending reminds me of Michael Jackson and Prince endings. Such a sad situation and there is no doubt that the pressure to perform well in front of an audience probably made them feel like they needed a little "help" as they began to suffer ailments in their older years.

As we get older our bodies just do not have the energy we once had and for these great performers they wanted to give the audience a great show. So I am sure that pressure to perform contributed to them seeing doctors to try to get help to be able to perform well.

Its such a sad ending for Tom and many others like him. As well as normal folks with ailments.

Im thankful the great performers like Tom and Michael and Prince gave us their lasting music that we can still enjoy. At least we have that where we can remember them by.

RIP Tom. You will surely be missed by many.

 

[Boodles]

I don't question that he had a fractured hip. Not at all.

I am not a doctor, but if I was, with Tom’s history of addiction, if he came to me with a fractured hip saying “I’m gonna do a 53 gig tour anyway, so give me drugs to get me through it,” I’d have said, no I’m not giving you those drugs. Take care of the hip first with a closely managed pain protocol. Otherwise go find yourself another doctor.”

Maybe he did go go find another doctor (this is my speculation only!). Or maybe he found some of the drugs, especially the fentanyls, elsewhere.

It also occurred to me last night that they must have done a death investigation to rule out suicide or foul play. It took 3 1/2 months for the ME to conclude accidental overdose.

It’s so upsetting to know that this was preventable. I love him, but am pi$$ed that he didn’t stand his ground and take care of his medical issue before touring. He knew better. And so did his wife and management, unless he his the drug use from them.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

just =(

 

[SeesSeas]

Tom Petty died a year ago today. Watch his nostalgic new video for ‘Gainesville’
Published: October 2, 2018
Updated: October 2, 2018 at 08:04 AM
Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Florida's greatest rock export, Tom Petty. It's not a date for celebration, per se, but it is a time to look back — especially through a new posthumous video.

Petty's family and label has unveiled a new video for Gainesville, a song unreleased until last week's box set An American Treasure, featuring recordings from throughout his more than 40-year career.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Gainesville (Official Music Video)

 

[Suwannee]

Gainesville Prepares To Honor Tom Petty And Celebrate His Birthday
By Karina Elwood
September 13, 2018Arts and Entertainment


Tom Petty fans will celebrate his birthday at two concerts in Gainesville, and the city will rename a municipal park in the late rock ‘n’ roll legend’s honor, next month.

Gainesville officials will change the name of Northeast Park on 16th Avenue to Tom Petty Park on Oct. 20, said Steve Phillips, the city’s director of parks, recreation and cultural affairs.

Bruce Petty said having the park renamed for his older brother means a lot because their family grew up on Sixth Terrace.

Gainesville Prepares To Honor Tom Petty And Celebrate His Birthday

 

[Grungster]

I remember that day. I was talking to my friend at school about our favorite musicians - we were trying to avoid the thought of what had happened the previous night. Tom Petty came up during our conversation - we were both unaware that Tom was in the hospital at that time. My grandma took me home - something was off about her but I didn’t ask. My dad was playing Tom Petty, something was off about him too but I didn’t pay much attention, and whats so wrong about playing Tom Petty? I didn’t check my phone and I didn’t see anything. About 30 minutes go by and then he walks out of his room and breaks the news. Turns out he wasn’t dead at that time but I had already come to understand that he wouldn’t make it.

It’s been 4 years today. He is so missed. Thank you for the music Tom Petty.

 

[SeesSeas]

UF awards Gainesville music legend Tom Petty a posthumous doctorate in music
UF awards Gainesville music legend Tom Petty a posthumous doctorate in music
WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By Associated Press
December 4, 2021
Nearly two decades after earning a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and more than four years after his death, rock icon Tom Petty has been awarded a honorary Ph.D. from the University of Florida.

The school’s board of trustees unanimously voted to award Thomas Earl Petty a posthumous doctoral degree in music during a Friday meeting.
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Born and raised in Gainesville, Petty once worked as a groundskeeper at UF as he tried to make it in the music industry, but he was never enrolled.

His "I Won't Back Down" is a signature rallying point at UF athletic events.
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UF awards Tom Petty a posthumous doctorate in music
UF awards Tom Petty a posthumous doctorate in music
The late music icon can now be remembered as Dr. Tom Petty.
December 3, 3021
In addition to a sidewalk star in Hollywood and a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the late Tom Petty’s accolades now include an honorary doctorate from the University of Florida.
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University provost Joseph Glover read a motion to award Thomas Earl Petty, the Gainesville-born rock icon who died in 2017, a posthumous doctoral degree in music.
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