John Mellencamp: Tom Petty was the Edward Hopper of American songwriters...

[kpete]

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#TomPetty was the Edward Hopper of American songwriters. He was a certain kind of bird that had no legs so he could never land on this earth; he lived his whole life in the sky. And now he will spread his wings and sleep on the wind. His name is written in the stars #TomPettyRIP

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[Ken Burch]

1. Indeed.

n/t.

[Aristus]

2. Well said, sir. I think Tom Petty would have liked that tribute.

[unblock]

3. wow

i've never been able to get into mellencamp's music, but that's just beautiful.

[spanone]

4. K&R...

[SalviaBlue]

5. That is beautiful!!

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Learning to Fly

[Honeycombe8]

7. Really? I wouldn't have compared the two. Petty spread more joy around.

Hopper was a pretty depressed sort of man, I think. As reflected in his paintings. I love Hopper paintings, though. And I loved Petty. Did you ever notice that he smiled a lot? A lot of rockers don't smile a lot, but he did. I liked that.

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. Wonderful

I view Mellencamp as the Tom Petty of the Heartland, just as Tom was the Springsteen of the South, Bruce was the Petty of the Jersey Area, Billy Joel was the Mellencamp of NYC, etc. etc....

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. With no disrespect to John Mellencamp, I'm pretty sure that's Tom Waits, not Tom Petty (n/t)