"Please don’t misinterpret this message but I never cared for Tom Petty’s music. When I first heard him I thought....oh my gosh, here is the next Bob Dylan, but he seemed to veer more toward pop music and I never cared for his sound."
falconcrest- while TP earned his long, prolific career, my interest dropped off after his 3rd release "Damn the Torpedoes" I think the MTV era was nearing about that time, which is when I tuned out many rock bands.
Regarding those 3 releases-IMO, this is his peak. Music and songwriting with "substance(story telling and solid playing). Nice sounding albums to boot.
After that, the music just didn’t hold my attention.
Never the less, terrible event. We’ve already had enough bad news lately. At least TP isn’t physically suffering right now. Whoever is controlling the media machine at the hospital, needs to do a better job.