Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers "Long After Dark" (Atmos Mix out in October!)

[GOS]

A pity all the way around…

Or, a Petty all the way around.

 

[SomethingAnything]

Perhaps.
I do not claim to be an expert or have personal knowledge.
I just remember thinking - couldn’t you get the guy some help instead of cutting him loose?
While you yourself are using?
Seemed hypocritical…but what do I know?
A pity all the way around…

Yes, I completely get what you mean, if that guy was looking for help. Sounds like he just cut him loose, from the way you've described it. At any rate, it's a bad thing to have a user in your life, if you're trying to address it yourself/keep it at bay. I've just googled about his death, it doesn't seem to be an accidental heroin overdose, per se, but 'a deadly mix of opioids' plus other stuff, related to a number of medical problems.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

Thanks to the mods who moved the comments from the poll thread to this one.

Human beings are flawed, walk a mile in someone's moccasins, etc.
Tom Petty did a lot of generous and kind things in his life.

Resurrected Bob Dylan's career when he and his band backed him on tour in the 80s, then got together with George & Roy & the Wilburys to give those guys a new start, for example.

Happy Holidays, peace, out.

 

[key_wiz]

then got together with George & Roy & the Wilburys to give those guys a new start, for example.

Petty did them a solid by joining their band so it would have success it might not have otherwise? That's not exactly the way it happened...

Petty's career was at a low ebb prior to Wilburys with "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)", which was the worst seller of his career to that point, and critically not well-received.

The Wilburys were Lynne and Harrison's idea and they were the driving force behind it. Harrison was just coming off his "comeback" hit album "Cloud Nine" (produced by Lynne) Petty was the last member asked to join the project and I don't believe his tracks are the strongest on the set. I'd argue that if Petty hadn't participated, the TWs would have had similar success. The two hit singles were primarily Harrison compositions.

It was Jeff Lynne who with that album, and then with producing "Full Moon Fever" the following year, who revitalized Petty's career, IMO.