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10.16pm
19 September 2010
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Any Petty Fans? He worked with George In The Traveling Wilburys, but I really like his work in his Band, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. If You haven't Heard Mary Jane's Last Dance, Click on The Youtube Link Below. One of The Best Non Beatles Songs Ever
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
7.13am
4 November 2010
Offline I love “Free Falling”, “Last Dance with Mary Jane” and “Breakdown”(the live version from Pack up the Plantation). I haven't listened to too much of his work, but I'm trying to change that.
3.11pm
28 November 2010
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Yep Tom Petty has some great music.
3.22pm
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14 April 2010
Offline I enjoy his work very much. VH1 Classic has been airing one of his concerts from 1978 this month. I've seen it listed a few times, so if they play it again, it is worth watching.
I also think his work on the animated sitcom “King of the Hill” as the character “Lucky” is funny.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
5.50pm
14 December 2009
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I was given Damn the Torpedoes (on 8-track tape!) as a birthday gift from my grandparents 30 years ago. I'm happy to own that one and his debut and a 2-disc anthology, but don't think I need to hear too much more – I got REALLY sick of all those big hits he had, back around the dawn of the 90s.
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11.28pm
19 September 2010
Offline Von Bontee said:
I got REALLY sick of all those big hits he had, back around the dawn of the 90s.
How do you get sick of great music? I am loving his later day stuff, specifically Echo and Into The Great Wide Open.
*9*
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
2.23am
4 December 2010
Offline Another Petty fan here! Great guy with a solid body of work. I'm a fan of the Heartbreaks as well as his solo work. Ifany oof you get a chance, watch his Soundstage performance. Absolutely amazing how diverse his catalogue is as well as how great the Heartbreakers are as a band.
I also recommend watching the Tom Petty and teh Heartbreakers documentary: Runnin' Down a Dream. Amazing doc about the band. One of the better documentaries about rock music I've seen.
Well we all shine on like the moon, the stars, and the sun.
2.29am
19 September 2010
Offline Oh, I forgot to mention that I own Petty’s debut on the recently released White vinyl limited edition version. I have one of 4500 copies!!! (Will sell it later in life.)
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
4.38am
4 November 2010
Offline My Dad's a HUGE Petty fan, I'm no expert but I think he owns almost every album of his that's solo or with the Heartbreakers. It's a good thing, too, because that's why he bought the Traveling Wilburys CD and how I got into them in the first place…
Tom Petty is amazing, he's in my top ten of favorite artists.
4.44am
4 March 2011
Offline Yahh!!!!!!!!!
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ONE MINUTE YOU'RE DEFENDING THE WHOLE GALAXY, AND SUDDENLY, YOU FIND YOURSELF SUCKING DOWN DARJEELING WITH MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER LITTLE SISTER.!
4.40pm
8 November 2012
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Billboard article on the settlement between Tom Petty and Sam Smith about “I Won’t Back Down” and “Stay.”
It’s interesting as – speaking off the top of my head – I believe it was Tom’s friend George’s case that set the precedent for the concept of “accidental plagiarism.”
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10.42pm
11 November 2010
Offline You know, the first time that I heard “Stay With Me,” I thought “This sounds a heck of a lot like I Won’t Back Down.” It’s good to know that I’m not crazy.
EDIT: Well, maybe I am, but not in this respect.
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12.14am
18 January 2014
Offline Tom Petty is great. I like a lot of his work. Good to see that the lawsuit was handled amicably, at least.
That said, I think that suing over chord progressions (especially in cases of admitted “accidental plagarism”) is crap. There are a finite number of chords and even fewer progressions of those chords that sound pleasing to the ear. If you think about it, it’s not really something that someone invented, it’s just a natural property of sound waves and the shifting of those sound waves as we perceive them. Em > D > G sounds pleasing to the ear. Some other progressions sound like a person beating a guitar against a cage full of cats. 
In pop music the melody pretty much follows the chord progression and there’s only so much you can stray from that before people think it sounds terrible. At some point it will literally be impossible to write a three minute pop song without giving somebody else (or their estate) writing credit for having a similar structure.
I’m sure if they looked hard enough, Sam Smith’s lawyers could have found an earlier song with the exact same structure as the two songs in question. I hadn’t heard the new song until today. Yes, it’s very similar, but it’s clearly not the same overall song. The two things I could hear in common between the two songs were a pretty basic chord progression (which sounds particularly boring and simplistic, in my opinion, in Smith’s song) and a sort of AABA verse structure (the latter of which neither of them invented).
Anyway, I’m all for original artists getting royalties if someone covers their song, samples it, or even makes a carbon copy of the song with different lyrics. However, I believe at a certain point the arrangement or overall presentation should be taken into consideration. As similar as the two songs kind of sound, they’re clearly two distinct songs to me. One good and pretty catchy, the other…. meh. As nice as Petty is being about the whole thing, these situations almost always come off as a cash grab more than preserving artistic integrity. After all, you never hear about a song that sold 50 copies getting sued for plagarism.
But what do I know, I’m not a copyright lawyer. 
12.16am
8 November 2012
Offline 4or5Magicians said
Tom Petty is great. I like a lot of his work. Good to see that the lawsuit was handled amicably, at least.
But remember, as the article said, it wasn’t a lawsuit.
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