Tom Petty is pissed

[hanselthecaretaker]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/st...1731111093&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.813

I agree with a lot of what he says, and his The Last DJ album is one of my current favorites.

 

[H_T_]

i didn't read it but Petty is way kool. i heard one of his older songs in the grocery store today.

 

[chewyxrage]

He has many valid points.

Tom Petty is a great entertainer/musician

 

[bdog527]

That was a refreshing read.

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

Tom Petty is a cool dude~! his music rules!


(glad i posted before razorguns got on and told everyone how tom petty sucked because he saw him in west hollywood beating a kitten or something)

 

[Razorguns]

Pretty accurate. It's no surprise, the music industry is the most under-handed, back-stabbing, moral-depraved, insecure, stressed out industry out there. Very few people like to do business with the music industry. Notice why other industries never sign any long-term contracts with the music industry on anything? They just don't trust 'em. They'll do biz with the artists (marketing endorsements, etc.) but never with the record companies.

 

[Lestat]

last dance with mary jane is an awesome song

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Tom Petty is a cool dude~! his music rules!


(glad i posted before razorguns got on and told everyone how tom petty sucked because he saw him in west hollywood beating a kitten or something)

explain.

 

[CFZB]

tom is really good.hes the only one that could pull off a voice that sounds like dylans.

 

[ass_face]

I love is on hip hop:

Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

Totally agree. I don't think 50 cent an all those other buffoons know how silly they look.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I love is on hip hop:

Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

Totally agree. I don't think 50 cent an all those other buffoons know how silly they look.

I can tell he's really irritated by it all. He sounds a little conceeded there but hell, he's Tom Petty; he's definetely entitled to sound any way he pleases.

 

[lilred]

He has many valid points.

Tom Petty is a great entertainer/musician

 

[Steve The Bluesman]

Nothing groundbreaking there, but good for him for saying it nonetheless. Petty makes (or made - his best stuff was pre-1985) simple rock and roll music, lyrically and musically. If you are just learning the guitar, get some of his music...

He is still a cool cat though.


Bluesman

 

[EnderJE]

My new hero.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

All his albums are solid.

 

[Gambino]

I love is on hip hop:

Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

Totally agree. I don't think 50 cent an all those other buffoons know how silly they look.

I'm not saying that this is the case with Tom Petty, but this anti-hip-hop argument i often see racist peeps using. 6 outta 10 peeps who subsribe to this belief will always have certain racial opinions towards black peeps. found out for yourselfes if you don't believe me, talk to peeps you know, you will see what I'm saying
Comparitively, i do not believe that Petty's lyrics or instrumentation is earth breaking or profound. him calling out a whole type of music is pretty arrogant.

 

[PICK3]

Yeah ... he's got a tough life.

Must be a bitch being a rock star for the last twenty something years.

 

[gab9681]

I'm not saying that this is the case with Tom Petty, but this anti-hip-hop argument i often see racist peeps using. 6 outta 10 peeps who subsribe to this belief will always have certain racial opinions towards black peeps. found out for yourselfes if you don't believe me, talk to peeps you know, you will see what I'm saying
Comparitively, i do not believe that Petty's lyrics or instrumentation is earth breaking or profound. him calling out a whole type of music is pretty arrogant.

There is difference though between hip-hop and the "ghansta" trash that thrives on the radio these days. I don't think the youth of this era even know what hip-hop really is.

 

[Gambino]

There is difference though between hip-hop and the "ghansta" trash that thrives on the radio these days. I don't think the youth of this era even know what hip-hop really is.

i don't listen to radio hip-hop but in the same token i don't listen to radio rock (npr and sports radio). why? cause they both fucking suck, big time. rock music is waaayyy geay these days

neither nelly or tom petty get airplay in my ride

 

[tbuz67]

There is no new music out there. Listening to a current hits radio staion these days sounds like a classic hits radio station. All kinds of performers are all covering old songs! I heard 3 old songs in a row from the 70s on a top forty station just because they are being re-done today by current artists ( I use the term "artists" pretty loosely).
Myself, I grew up on rock music, and thats what I listen to if I have a choice. Not the crappy rock that comes out these days, but mostly stuff from my heyday and beyond. Tom Petty included.
But I don't have anything negative to say about other types of music, such as hip-hop. its a new type of music and some of it is creative and catchy to my ancient ears. The reason I have a open mind about music is this:

Back in the day people hated rock-n-roll when it first came out. Hated the shit out of it. They called it devil music and many people hated it just because it was black influenced and had its roots in the blues. If they had their way, rock n roll wouldn't have made it; instead, country music would have ruled the world like it ruled theirs.

I'd rather not be one of those types of people.

It does seem that rock music has run its course, ruling the music business for over 40 years. Just like country music was before it.

Now hip hop and R&B and rap will branch out into other creative types and get bigger and more popular, probably becoming dominated by white artists over time like rock music did. Kids will grow up with it like my generation did with rock music.

In several decades, it will burn itself out like rock is doing now, and will get replaced by something new that the kids will love. The people who grew up with hip hop will be saying, "This new shit is crap!! I'll take old school hip-hop over it any day!"

And they will all feel old because the music they grew up with can only be heard on the "classic" radio stations.

Yes, it will happen.

 

[wootoom]

the last dj? your kidding right

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I'm not saying that this is the case with Tom Petty, but this anti-hip-hop argument i often see racist peeps using. 6 outta 10 peeps who subsribe to this belief will always have certain racial opinions towards black peeps. found out for yourselfes if you don't believe me, talk to peeps you know, you will see what I'm saying
Comparitively, i do not believe that Petty's lyrics or instrumentation is earth breaking or profound. him calling out a whole type of music is pretty arrogant.

I don't think he's correlating his musical abilities to his intelligence, but more his disposition on what he lets affect his personality. So many people listen to hip hop and try to act that way in their own lives, like the rappers do on tv and at their shows. He's talking about having enough sense to know that adopting this behavior is just stupid and deluding to what one's real personality is.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

the last dj? your kidding right

Why?

 

[wootoom]

tom petty is cool but i thought that song was horrible

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

tom petty is cool but i thought that song was horrible

It's a mockery song of the current state of the music business. Ironically it's probably the weakest track on his album of the same name.

 

[wootoom]

cool but i still dont like it

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

cool but i still dont like it

The majority of the album after that song is good.

 

[sigweed]

Yeah ... he's got a tough life.

Must be a bitch being a rock star for the last twenty something years.

clearly you didn't read the link... might be worth doing so before saying something that makes you look stupid

 

[wootoom]

shit hansel i havent really listened to that album. i think im going to check it out

 

[patsfan1379]

hell yeah

 

[ass_face]

I'm not saying that this is the case with Tom Petty, but this anti-hip-hop argument i often see racist peeps using. 6 outta 10 peeps who subsribe to this belief will always have certain racial opinions towards black peeps. found out for yourselfes if you don't believe me, talk to peeps you know, you will see what I'm saying
Comparitively, i do not believe that Petty's lyrics or instrumentation is earth breaking or profound. him calling out a whole type of music is pretty arrogant.

You may be right, but my beef with a lot of rap artists is that the glorification of wealth. Rappers like KRS-One and Chuck D actually had things to say and tried to use their music to do so. Many of the hip-hop acts today look like Circus clowns to me. Zero substance. I think that is what he was referring to... Then again maybe Tom doesn't like Nig... I mean... African Americans

 

[curling]

I think the hip hop stuff he is talking about is all the sex they talk about. Graphic sex. So it makes the youth of today get horny because music is sumbliminal and they go screw, get pregnant and get std all sorts of trouble because some hip hop nut rapped porno on the radio because he is too stupid and ignorant to sing about anything else of importance. I agree with him on the news. I don't watch it no more either. Tom Petty is the white equivalent to Bill Cosby they both rule in my book.

 

[Gambino]

I don't think he's correlating his musical abilities to his intelligence, but more his disposition on what he lets affect his personality. So many people listen to hip hop and try to act that way in their own lives, like the rappers do on tv and at their shows. He's talking about having enough sense to know that adopting this behavior is just stupid and deluding to what one's real personality is.

just like so many kids try to act like limp bizkit or those other gay ass trash bands...the whole goth scence ( at least in my hs) was based around Marlyn Manson. Yet Petty fails to see this, he only picks on the black music...interesting.

Yes it is annoying to hear rappers constantly talk of loot. Give a poor man a few million and he is gonna tell people about it, human nature.

Personally, any rapper who glorifies loot or hardcore thuggery i usually turn off.

For the record, Tom Petty's music is dry and dull.

 

[ass_face]

just like so many kids try to act like limp bizkit or those other gay ass trash bands...the whole goth scence ( at least in my hs) was based around Marlyn Manson. Yet Petty fails to see this, he only picks on the black music...interesting.

Yes it is annoying to hear rappers constantly talk of loot. Give a poor man a few million and he is gonna tell people about it, human nature.

Personally, any rapper who glorifies loot or hardcore thuggery i usually turn off.

For the record, Tom Petty's music is dry and dull.

Well, the goth scene is usually a very small segment of the population and generally these kids are very intelligent (although introverted). Hip-hop seems to attract a lot more followers and with a lot lower IQ's.

I do agree, Petty's music is dull.

 

[Gambino]

Well, the goth scene is usually a very small segment of the population and generally these kids are very intelligent (although introverted). Hip-hop seems to attract a lot more followers and with a lot lower IQ's.

I do agree, Petty's music is dull.

obiviosly, hip-hop is from poor neighberhoods with high dropout rates, of course iq's are gonna be lower. i dunno, i get an image of petty saying this while he sip cognac in his beverly hills mansion. An elitist vibe.

 

[Zebo]

Great read. I agree.

I saw U2 tickets for $695, $899 and even $1,100.

What a joke.....

Petty rules.....

 

[TruBalla4Real]

the record association when too far when the promoted legislation that would legally allow them to hack into people's computers and ruin them as a result of downloading music. shows their true colors.