#619 Remembering Tom Petty
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Tom Petty was a master of the perfect three-chord pop song and an icon of American music. This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot pay tribute to the late Florida rocker. They discuss Petty's tremendous songwriting gifts and revisit their 2003 interview with him on Sound Opinions.
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| 0:00.0 | One, three, four. From W be easy Chicago and PRX this is sound opinions. I'm Greg Koe and I'm Jim De Regadis. |
| 0:25.0 | Tom Petty was a master of the perfect three-cord rock song, an icon of American |
| 0:31.0 | music. This week we remember his life and music and we've got a rare |
| 0:35.8 | interview with the man himself from 2003. I think in the same week I got American |
| 0:40.7 | girl and breakdown and I knew they were both really good. |
| 0:45.0 | That's a good week. |
| 0:46.0 | It's a damn good week. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean you really walk on air for a day. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | It's like, oh God, that feels good. |
| 0:54.0 | Celebration of Tom Petty coming up on sound opinions. You're going to. W W Wack Down |
| 1:16.0 | No, I W want back down |
| 1:21.0 | You can stand me up at the gates of hell but I'll back down. |
| 1:26.0 | You're listening to sound opinions, |
| 1:27.4 | and Greg, we are going to devote this episode |
| 1:29.9 | to Tom Petty, died at the age of 66 on October 2 in Los Angeles, |
| 1:36.0 | where he'd been living for a very long time. |
| 1:38.8 | We had him in the studio for two hours talking about music in 2003. We'll be drawing |
| 1:45.2 | from that interview throughout this show and also giving our own thoughts on a |
| 1:50.3 | rocker I think we both agree generally underrated despite a 40 year career |
| 1:56.9 | and and dozens of songs that resonate with people from all generations. |
| 2:01.8 | Yeah absolutely Jim. |
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