A to Z Challenge - 2020 - Petty

"P" is for Petty, Tom Petty.  I am not sure why but of all of the musicians we have lost in the last few years, his death really hit me.  I cried, which is something I hardly ever do.  I was so sorry that I hadn't gone to the concerts he did in our area right before he passed.  I thought they were too far away and wasn't familiar with the venue but in retrospect, I should have made the effort.  He died a month and a half later.  At least we did get to see him twice.

The first time was at Oracle Arena in 2010.  Our eldest daughter came with us.  I was amazed at how many trucks it took to bring all the equipment in.

We had reasonably good seats, although they were off to the side of the stage a bit.  I even joined his fan club so I could get early access and bought a sweatshirt.  

I made these layouts a while ago but I still remember some of the things I did.  The musical stamp on this page is a smaller version of the one I used with Daughtry.

The paper is from a collection from Paper Wishes called Hopscotch.

I used the "Say Cheese" stencil that I used with the Frampton pictures.

I used the "Pearls" stencil for this one.  

I had a stamp that looked like the circles on the paper so I stamped it in the corners and added some enamel dots.  

Here's the setlist from that show and also a review that was in the paper.  I really love the picture of Tom with his arms outstretched and his back to the crowd.

He was promoting his then new album, Mojo, and some of the songs were really good.  I'm glad he did his standard hits too though.  I "made" this paper myself, using watercolor crayons.  I think it matches pretty well, don't you?  

This is "Running Down a Dream" from the second time we saw him, in San Jose in 2014.  My goal had been to scrapbook those pictures for this post but that's not happening. 

I'm hoping to use tomorrow to get ahead a bit on the rest of the alphabet.  Oh who am I kidding?  10 days left of the A to Z Challenge.  Are we having fun yet?

Rocktober Music Fest - 2019 - and Other October Oddities - Running Down A Dream

We got some really good news the other day.  Our youngest daughter graduated from Sonoma State University in 2018.  The first two years we had to take out loans in order to pay for her dorm and tuition.  In the beginning of the third year my husband was declared Permanently and Totally Disabled from his job as a maintenance mechanic and the Department of Education sent us a notice that if he continued to be disabled for three years, our loans would be forgiven.  Each year we have had to submit proof that he was not working and this September was the last time we had to do that.  The letter came saying that the debt was permanently discharged!  What a relief. 

Going to college for some is a dream.  For my Rocktober Music Fest I'm using Tom Petty and Running Down A Dream.  I am so glad that we were able to see him twice before he passed away.  It was a real shock when he died.

This is from October 5, 2014, the last time we saw him.   

Running Down a Dream...

I'm glad our daughter got to run down her dream of getting her Psych Degree.  

I  have really had fun playing along with the #RMF this year.  Thanks again to Mary at JingleJangleJungle for hosting the show.  Hope that she'll do it again next year!