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Tom Petty, Free Fallin’ - Amy’s First Listen And Analysis (Patreon)

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2024-12-27 14:17:07
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What great fun! This song starts us out in a certain way and then without asking any permissions, throws us into a free fall.

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Ron

I'm glad you finally got to Tom Petty, Amy. Petty was a unique and very creative artist. This was his most mainstream hit, and it is excellent, but some of his other songs better show his offbeat style.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma

A great start to a great artist. I still think Tom's debut album (featuring AMERICAN GIRL) would be a good listen all the way through... it pretty much set the pattern Tom would mostly follow throughout his long, impressive career. AND, by all accounts that I've read over the years, Tom and his band were really nice guys.

Misty Bastian

Agreed that it’s great you have visited with Petty (solo), Amy, but I would also put in a vote for the full glory of Petty and the Heartbreakers, together. (His duet with Stevie Nicks on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” is also very worth a listen.) “American Girl” is, indeed, the song that set the standard, and you could even see “Freefallin’” as a later response to that song. In “American Girl,” she doesn’t wait around for the vampires on Ventura Blvd to move past her, though. She’s grabbing the world by its coat tails and going along for the ride. I am, once again, so sorry that you will never be able to experience Petty in his truest form. I never saw him or the Heartbreakers give a bad concert, and I’ve sung along with him (and even once with him and Dylan) at every show I could. BTW, Petty was originally from Florida but yes, he became one of the great rock poets of California along the way. Thanks, and I hope you and Vlad have a lovely New Year.

todd morrison

Damn the Torpedos was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers best album in my opinion. A lot of bangers on that one. Refugee, Here Comes My Girl, Don’t Do Me Like That, just to name a few.

Lee Kennison

Loved it. Great reaction and commentary. I am so happy you enjoyed this, since Tom Petty is one of my favorite artists, and this is a great song to be introduced to his music. You will also want to check out his earlier work with the Heartbreakers with several great tunes. Not only does it shift in story and location painting emphasis, it also shifts in his coming to terms about how he really feels about this girl, he starts saying he is a bad boy, because he doesn't even miss her, to the realization that he wants to paint her name in the sky by the end of the song. So now he wants to free fall into nothing, leaving this world for a while, perhaps though getting drunk or high with the bad boys to escape his regret. So while he is now free, he has a sense of falling into nothingness escaping the world for a while, which offers a real duality to this sense of freedom he was seeking.

TONY SURRATT
>>159505608

Marc, Tom Petty would be a great listen for Amy. Dose this song feel like your home town, a specific place? I wanna glide down over Mulholland. Isn’t Mulholland in the Hollywood hills. I was thinking that it a historical area outside of LA, a long and winding dangerous road, across steep cliffs. A lot accidents, homicides and suicides there. A scary place. Would you say the word Mulholland has other meanings to the lyrics other than location

TONY SURRATT

Enjoyed that so much. I got to see Tom in April 2017. Coincidentally. It was a Christmas gift exchange between me and my daughter, she got Petty, and I got Peppers And he had such a great concert. He had the longest outro, on each and every song, I think you guys should check out more Petty , a deep dive. That west coast music.

David Taylor

Very nice Amy, Tom Petty is nothing if not an American icon. He was a massive Beatles/Byrds fan. Adapting their twelve string Rickenbacker sound. And his brand of Americana painted a vivid tapestry of this country. He is sorely missed... I always loved that he never strayed too far from his folk-rock roots. I wish you and Vlad would do "listen to her heart". That was my introduction to Tom Petty and, It was his first hit I believe. Once again, enjoyed you guys.

steveRock

Tom Petty was a unique songwriter and vocalist. I got to see him and the Heartbreakers in concert in 1995. Great live musicians. Tom was from Gainesville, Florida. He went to the same high school as Steven Stills (Buffalo Springfield, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young), Bernie Leadon (Eagles), and Don Felder (Eagles). He played with each of these other musicians in early bands in and around Gainesville. "Mary Jane's Last Dance", "Breakdown", and "Refugee" are all worth analyzing. Tom did a duet with Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) in 1983 called "Stop Draggin" My Heart Around". Stevie so enjoyed the process with the band that she wanted to leave Fleetwood Mac and join the Heartbreakers. Tom responded sorry but you're a girl and the Heartbreakers are all guys.

Mike Clancey
>>159505608

Yes, the geographical references are to the LA area. The Valley (San Fernando Valley); Reseda, a city in the Valley (I had an aunt and uncle who lived there, no freeway in their yard). Mulholland Drive, a scenic, twisty road in the Hollywood Hills. Name in the Sky, the Hollywood sign.

George Brady

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers came to Washington DC in 1976 on their first tour, behind their first single "Breakdown", during a DC radio station 100.4 who sponsored a summer concert series with tickets at $1.04. It was mostly new bands like Bachman Turner Overdrive, City Boy, and Tom Petty. It was a chance to see a new band, and if you were lucky, a future star. Well, Tom was one of the future stars of course. Everyone there could tell these guys were special. Terrific memories!

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159519816

My college band did HERE COMES MY GIRL and LISTEN TO HER HEART at our first, and only gig, at a church dance in 1982. Good songs. LISTEN TO HER HEART is from his second album, so BREAKDOWN and AMERICAN GIRL would have been heard by people (like me) first circa 1980.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159510552

My college band did HERE COMES MY GIRL (from Damn The Torpedoes) and LISTEN TO HER HEART (from the prior album) at our first, and only gig, at a church dance in 1982. Good songs.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159505608

Yes... I "cut my teeth" in that area: basically everything east of Malibu - actually, kinda north, as the ocean faces mostly south from Pt. Conception, above Santa Barbara in the north-west, down to Santa Monica in the south-east. I lived in Thousand Oaks from the early 70s through the early 90s, which is about a half an hour north of L.A.X. - and where, as part of my job as a travelling computer repair tech for a Westlake Village company, I used to have to drive through South Central... not having a clue how dangerous it would have been had I turned off of Crenshaw Blvd onto any side street (Crip or Blood neighborhood) because I was NOT YET listening to ICE-T, CYPRESS HILL or N.W.A. to tell me the real story there. Mulholland starts off from the Pacific Coast Hwy (PCH to those who live there) near Pt. Magu Naval Base (north of Malibu, south of Oxnard) as MULHOLLAND HWY... it goes southward along the top of the mountain range protecting Malibu... and then passes Topanga Cyn Rd, turns into MULHOLLAND DRIVE... and snakes around to the Hollywood Bowl, where I-5 crosses in from the desert to the L.A. basin. I, personally, never saw any accidents on MULHOLLAND... but the canyons can be very steep there, and there were lots of accidents... people driving off the road down 1000 feet into a ravine on Decker Cyn and Kanan-Dume Rd, "where all three tunnels are coming down," as you hear a car crash in the ravine after being driven by drunk teenagers in a song by a band called the Surf Punks called KANAN'S DOOMED, whose main member was the son of Darryl Dragon... the Captain of the Captain & Tenille ("Muskrat Love") fame. Here it is, the song that my friends and I played as we drove, FAST, nearly-careening down Kanan road to Zuma Beach in Malibu: https://youtu.be/UyNMOxhLsxg KANAN'S DOOMED Surf Punks Oh.... those were GOOD times! Thanks for sending down that road, this evening, Tony.

TONY SURRATT
>>159505608

Oh, I remember Captain and Tenille, they had a TV show, not quite as popular as Sonny and Cher, but there was something about Muskrat Love that I did enjoy. That’s interesting about the other routes. And that is one badass tune to describe the setting. That rocked hard and sounds so LA. Thank you

Paul D. Hoffmaster III

A good review Amy. I liked his different voice and one knew it was him when he started to sing. He is missed by me.

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
>>159505608

Oh... Tony... let me apologize... you remember The Captain and Tenille? AND you liked MUSKRAT LOVE????????????????????? I suppose you liked LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER????????????????? Actually, I joke! No... I don't care for those songs... Treacly, treacly, and more treacly. And I don't like treacly. And yet... and yet... I DO get why those songs were popular (bad taste???) And speaking of love... the Surf Punks (admittedly a band of rich-kid-ne'er-do-wells) never got the respect that they never deserved, either!

David Taylor
>>159519816

Yeah Marc, I was a little late on the Heartbreaker train. I know you're correct . I've always got them backwards because I heard the other one first.

Lynn Poole

So many great songs. Those already mentioned and a few more. "Runnin' Down a Dream", "The Waiting", "Even the Losers", "Don't Come Around Here No More". He had a knack for writing lyrics you can use in everyday life. "The waiting is the hardest part" applies to so many situations. And "even the losers get lucky sometime".

jimdkc

When I saw Tom Petty, I was hoping you would do The Travelling Wilburys, too. Then you brought it up right off the bat! Harrison, Lynn, Dylan, Orbison, and Petty... How could it be anything but great. I'll see if I can find your video for them. Also, you're making it harder to get through The Beatles by putting up such great songs!