{"id":5165,"date":"2017-10-07T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-tom-petty-1950-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-10-07T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:47:48","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-tom-petty-1950-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-tom-petty-1950-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Tom Petty (1950-2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the '60s ended my musical interests shifted to jazz and classical, so my acquaintance with rock from the '70s on is pretty spotty. But I sat up and took notice when, in the late '80s, Petty teamed up with his elders Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison  and Jeff Lynne to form the supergroup, The Traveling Wilburys.   With Petty's death, Dylan and Lynne are the sole remaining Wilburys.<\/span><\/p>\n

And as we all approach The End of the Line<\/a>, the Traveling Wilburys have some words of wisdom:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maybe somewhere down the road a ways<\/span>
You'll think of me and wonder where I am these days<\/span>
Maybe somewhere down the road when someone plays<\/span>
Purple Haze<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Well it's all right, even if you're old and gray<\/span>
Well it's all right, you still have something to say<\/span>
Well it's all right, remember to live and let live<\/span>
Well it's all right, best you can do is forgive.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Free Fallin'<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I Won't Back Down<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Cash has a great version<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Handle with Care<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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When the '60s ended my musical interests shifted to jazz and classical, so my acquaintance with rock from the '70s on is pretty spotty. But I sat up and took notice when, in the late '80s, Petty teamed up with his elders Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison  and Jeff Lynne to form the supergroup, … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Tom Petty (1950-2017)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}