On the Road and In Your Backyard
Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
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So Tom Petty died twice, as it were. I like to think that he saw coverage of the horror in Las Vegas and couldn’t take it, having just concluded – successfully! – his final round-up tour. It just took him a while longer to shake loose this mortal coil.
I wish he was still with us, for his music, but also for him – I am a big, huge fan of his XM (known as SiriusXM) Radio program “Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure”. It’s some of the best stuff you’ll ever hear, and you’ll have lots of laughs learning about some great American (and British! and other!) amazing music. His knowledge, passion, oddity, heartiness, skill, cockiness, and subtle sensitivity were inspirational.
His radio show offers such a nice alternative to commercial crap it makes you weep, even more so knowing that he won’t be back to Rick’s Airport Recordings, having once again brought some rare recordings from his personal collection to provide – as he said, “the best rock, rhythm and blues”. It is an education, and I recommend it highly.
I just know Tom would wish we’d all roll some great tunes, likely featuring Wanda….so let’s go!
I’ll be posting appropriate music the rest of the week, but now, onto the pictures!