Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee

I finally broke down and bought a new TV yesterday.
Dear "neighbor Fred", Ms. X, and pretty much anyone who has ever seen the monstrosity that was my old TV have been harping on me for the last year to go buy a new one but:

A. )  My old TV came from Dugan's Sports Bar (by The Clermont Lounge) and thus, was a genuine piece of Atlanta history with a tremendous amount of sentimental value.
B.)  I'm contrary and the more you try to push me in one direction the more I dig in and fight to go the other.

But, eventually, even I was forced to agree that it was time to take "Ol' Yeller" back behind the barn for her final walk.
It was a sad, sad day around here yesterday.

I don't mind telling you that I shed more than a couple tears for that old tube.
It's gonna be missed.

The good news is I am now the proud owner of a 39" HD Flat Screen something or another - I'm not really a "technical" type guy.
It's a large TV and the picture is great and it weighs a tiny fraction of what that old boat anchor of a tube television did.  (Geez - I think I sprained something just getting it up to the curb.)

In an effort to take the new TV out for the proverbial shake down cruise, I popped in the Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Biography video, "Running Down a Dream", that "the Amazing" gave me for Christmas a few years ago.

If you haven't watched it - go buy now.

It's great.

I know what you're thinking - Tom Petty?
Isn't he like dead or something?
No, sir.
Very much alive and this retrospective includes 4 DVD's full of all kinds of early footage of him and the band way back in the Gainesville days playing under the name, Mudcrutch.  (Awful, awful name.)

They even have Super 8 video of the band as they move from Gainesville to Los Angeles in the mid-70's, stuck on the side of the road waiting on a tow truck.

It's definitely worth watching.

And the guy's music is every bit as crisp and sharp as it was when he first wrote it.

Listen to "Refugee".

If you don't like "Refugee" we can't be friends anymore.
I'm sorry to be so blunt but someone has to draw the line in the sand here.

xoxo


P.S.  The Waiting, Here Comes My Girl, You Got Lucky, Don't Come Around Here, Rebels, American Girl, etc.