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The Late Great Tom Petty

  Monday was a very rough day for the dude.  First off if it wasn't that the shooting in Vegas was bad enough (I should NEVER have watched the video of that carnage), but to come home from work and get a text from my sister that Tom Petty passed way mde me feel like I was living in the 'Twilight Zone'.  It got worse when the initial reports of Tom Petty's passing proved to be untrue and then to add to that, he probably won't make it through the night.     Tom Petty was like a real American hero to me.  He provided the soundtrack to most of my youth.  I saw Petty live 4 times.  Just the other night, I was at a local internet radio station singing 'I Won't Back Down' to karaoke on the air.  I just learned guitar.  My first song was 'Free Falling'.  I owned every Petty album, seen all his music videos.  The news made me want to jump out of a fucking window (I'm exaggerating, but not by a whole lot!).  I tried listening...