Well, here we are again. I didn't want to do this. I definitely didn't want to do this so soon after the last "Match the Song Title" post. I know this is a card-centric blog and I try to keep it that way, but, damnit, my heroes are disappearing at a rapid rate lately, and I'm not in the mood for writing about anything trivial right now, I'm sure you know what I mean. Tom Petty and I go way back. I know that some people discovered him when he was with the Traveling Wilburys or from the Free Fallin' video or the Kim Basinger video or whatever. I knew Tom Petty before all that. I knew Petty when he was "new wave." That's right. They used to lump Petty in with The Clash and Elvis Costello. You see, rock n' roll got pretty bloated during the '70s and if you didn't play rock n' roll like Styx or Boston or Kansas and you didn't disco, then you were "new wave." Musicians like Petty and The Cars were rock n...
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