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Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:

"I’ve never made any bones about it. I think Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were the greatest Rock & Roll Band the United States Of America has ever produced."

Wow. Better than The Hawks/The Band (though composed of only one American and four Canadians, I consider the U.S.A. responsible for their formation)? Better than NRBQ, and The Byrds? And Los Lobos? As I consider Marty and his band The Fabulous Superlatives the current best band in the world, his opinions carry a lot of weight with me.

Okay, maybe I’ve been wrong about TP & TH. ;-)
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tomic601
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you got my point about Reseda…love it. Will have to stop there on my way North some time…..love a great bagel…or three…
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Someone posted above about the simplicity of Tom's songs. Yep, there is a lot of magic going on there. It takes just as much natural musical genius to pull off.
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Chuck Berry’s music is very simple, but kills me. Johnny Cashes too. I REALLY dislike music intentionally made to sound complicated, like Prog.

A song can be simple, but great none-the-less. Two songs can be very similar in construction, the only difference between them being their chord progressions. One great, one pedestrian. 
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"Nothing is better, nothing is best...." Make sure you eat properly, get sufficient exercise,  and get plenty of rest.
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@tomic601:

I did a Google search and apparently I and Joy was bought out in 1995 and then, at some point, they closed.  

Too bad... it's not easy to find authentic bagels. 
I was a bagel baker for awhile and learned the traditional ways... 

Ironically, my years of baking eventually made me allergic to gluten and yeast. 

So far, at least, frequent listening to music has not had an analogous effect! 
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