Best wishes for Tom Petty

To me, at least, the quintessential American rocker along with Springsteen, but in a different way, American rockers from different places, how can't you love that!. Bdp24, thanks for sharing, nice story.

Heartbreaker

"Mudcruntch stopped in Tulsa Oklahoma to seek advice from TDTB, and perhaps get some L.A. contacts. Twilley introduced Petty to Leon Russell, who had a Shelter office in town. After arriving in L.A., Petty did his first recording at the Shelter recording studio on Sunset Blvd., and the renamed TP & THB debut came out on Shelter Records, seeing respectable sales. Petty ended up achieving far more success than did The Dwight Twilley Band."

interesting bit there, bpd24

Thumbs up for TDTB. I gave my 2 Shelter label TP’s a spin. Great music and sonics. My TP catalog stops at "Southern Accents" This and "Hard Promises" never get playtime compared to the first 3.

Doing a wiki read up on HP, this is a fun fact:
During the recording of the album John Lennon was scheduled to be in the same studio at the same time. Tom Petty was looking forward to meeting him when he came in. The meeting never occurred; John Lennon was murdered before he could ever make it into the studio. In order to pay tribute to one of their influences the band decided to etch "WE LOVE YOU JL" on the master copy of the album. To this day "WE LOVE YOU JL" is seen on every Hard Promises first issue US non-masterphile vinyl copy pressed.

Years ago, I picked up a sealed copy from my neighborhood store. I played side one, and put it in the collection.

A close inspection reveals I have one of these presses. Not the cache of a Hendrix or Fab4 disc, still cool. Sonics are nice, by the way.

He was a music icon of a past generation.  So talented, creative and inspirational.

"I just got out of hospital Sat. 30 after TAVR for aortic stenosis, and more than happy to still be amongst all of us."

Good golly! asvjerry- good luck and long life to you. Stroke survivor here.
Reading up on your procedure, its amazing how technology has progressed.