"Crayons! Gone 5 yrs, still missing Tom Petty

It was 5 years ago Sunday that the peerless rocker Tom Petty died. I’m once again bewildered by the fact that we’re living in a world where Tom Petty is dead and Dick Cheney isn’t. So today’s newsletter is a salute to the headliner of the very first rock ’n’ roll show I ever saw, and to this day one of my favorite artists and storytellers. In my “Evan & Elle” book, I have Petty-in-Heaven cameos throughout. Because if I get to Heaven and Petty’s not there, I’m going to start looking around for a suggestion box. We miss you, Tom. Thy Wilbury be done.

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Related post … “Missing Mom & Tom Petty,” from 2017.  Excerpt: “A friend, another steadfast Petty fan from way back, said “he’s the only artist who never even once embarrassed me with a look, a period, a statement, or song, much less an album.”

Related post #2 … “Whitney, Petty, weed & Willie”

Unelated post … “Just not a B’n’B kind of guy

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Here’s a video of me announcing my Oct. 19 appearance at The Adams Memorial Library.

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Tom Petty

• Sometimes -- and it doesn't happen often -- I forget the greatness of Tom Petty. Then I listen to Tom Petty.

•If Tom Petty was starting out today guaranteed some record exec would insist he change his name to Tom Magnanimous.

• Still seems like a dream. But it really happened. At one time, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne sat down in the same room and said, "Let's start a band!” #wilburys

• In 1996, Tom Petty and Johnny Cash, two icons worth a combined $190 million, came together to make an album called "Unchained." That they didn't call it "Petty Cash" is to me a bitter disappointment.

• It’s borderline sacrilegious but I request you include in your Thanksgiving blessing a prayer that God mention to Tom Petty that we really miss him.

Randoms

• You’ve lived in same small town too long when you realize you're personal friends with all the guys on the highway billboards.

• Electrical trade magazines are all about current events.

• I wonder if in ancient times there was a kid named Isosceles and he got bummed every time the orchestra teacher made him play the triangle.

• I just once would like to see a cliffhanger show end with a villain named Cliff ascending the steps to the gallows.

• I think people who speak with forked tongues would have fewer reasons to floss than those of us with spoon-shaped ones.

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