Happy Tom Petty day!

 

Happy Tom Petty day! (He was born October 20th 1950) In 1979 I was 11 years old and I was in a pizza parlor with my mom and my female friend who is my age and I heard this whaling guitar and organ and beautiful voice and I ran over to the jukebox saying out loud "oh my God What is this song???" and I found out it was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Refugee". My female friend said my brother has this record. Haven't you heard it? You can probably borrow it!? I ended up borrowing the record and for a while I just listened to refugee over and over and over and over and over and over and over to the point where my mom said stop playing that song and listen to the whole record!!! So I did. I listened to the whole record and I liked every single song on the record... And quite honestly, his music helped me deal with all of my childhood challenges, missing California and feeling like a refugee when my mom took me away from my dad and grandparents in San Diego and we moved to whidbey island... Little did I know that band would continue to make amazing music for decades And that to this day I find comfort in so many of his songs or their songs I should say.... Music is so powerful and I love it so much and I'm happy that I'm starting to make some of my own music again! Even though I'm mostly a visual artist, I've always wanted to create music and I've always been really sensitive to sound... And I love rhyming words and listen to lyrics so carefully and I love the poetic sound of words. I'm always wanting to write and create with words. It's really fun and to turn that into melody and music and rhythm is fascinating and I see all kinds of shapes and colors with sound! And my new music friend that I'm working with has similar mind. It's fascinating to create with someone that I feel a kinship with on so many levels! So thank you to Tom Petty for following his dream and inspiring so many other people! The artists that I admire.... it's not because they're rich and famous. It's because of the passion for their actual music or art. That's the real power... is the actual art and music and love for what they're doing! #tompetty #tompettyandtheheartbreakers #tompettyforever #goddesskring