A pilgrimage to Tom Petty's hometown in Gainesville, Florida (touring historic music sites)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2020
- Touring Tom Petty landmarks and visiting where he grew up in Gainesville, Florida.
The following locations are featured in the video:
▶Lillian's Music Store (112 SE 1st St., Gainesville Fl. 32601). This location was featured in the song Dreamville, which was probably about Gainesville. You can listen to it here: • Dreamville
▶Mathewson Museum (513 E. University Ave. Gainesville Fl. 32601). The museum used to have an exhibit on Petty: gainesvilledowntown.com/2019/...
▶Heartwood Sounstage (619 S. Main St. Gainesville, Fl. 32601). This location features Tom Petty Alley and a mural of Petty as the mad hatter in the "Don't Come Around Here No More" music video.
▶Mural (S Main St. and 16th Main St). This mural features the lyrics "and the world got still.
▶Mural at Sidney Lanier School (312 NW 16th Ave). This mural features the lyrics "you belong among the wildflowers". Petty went to this elementary school and you can learn more about the mural here: gnvurbanart.com/united-challe...
▶Tom Petty Park (400 NE 16th Ave. Gainesville, Fl. 32601). Petty used to run around here during his childhood.
▶Petty's Childhood Home (1715 NE 6th Terrace, Gainesville Fl. 32601).
▶Mural on the 34th Street Graffitti wall, featuring the lyrics "the world was changing fast, but our love was built to last."
Notable locations that were not featured:
▶Wiggo (1010 N Main St.). They currently sell wigs but this is supposed to be the first location of Lipham's Music, where Petty hung out and learned guitar.
▶Mudcrutch Farm (2203 NW 45th Ave. Gainesville, Fl 32601). This used to be a farm where Petty played with his band Mudcrutch. It's now a subdivision.
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Some additional useful info from a local:
Lillian's Music Store was, in fact, a music store when Tom was growing up here. In his song, Dreamville, he mentions going to Lillian's to buy guitar strings, which was true. In Tom Petty Park there is a baseball field but I'm not sure you could call the area a stadium. The location you refer to as the 34th Street murals is known locally as the 34th Street Wall which has been here for at least 50 years, probably longer. I've been here 50 years and the wall was here when I got here. The Wall has always been a place of free expression with the exception of obscenity. Lord only knows how many layers of paint have accumulated over the decades. People are allowed to paint and repaint the entire wall, other than the two spaces at the center. One space is a Memorial for five students who were murdered in 1990. The other space is for Tom's Memorial. New incoming students who are not aware of these two sacred spaces painted over Tom's Memorial last year but local artist Blake Harrison, who painted the original, repainted Tom's Memorial. Members of the community contributed to the cost of paint and supplies. You probably know that Tom's first wife, Jane, purchased his childhood home and continues to maintain it. We are grateful to her for keeping the house and yard looking nice.
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i am a native Floridian and also grew up in Gainesville. I used to see TP perform in a local band called "Mudcrutch". He inspired me to play bass and guitar. He was a bass player and frontman during that time. Late '60s, early to mid seventies. I miss him. RIP TP.
Nice trip, Tom would appreciate it.
Nice. I used to live on SW 34th st, where the concrete wall murals are. I moved to Gainesville shortly after Petty moved to L.A. Went to clubs he played in. So glad the Florida boy and his buds made it big. His music will live on forever.
Thank you for that great video. I'm a Tom Petty and the heartbreakers fan for so many years. All the best from Bavaria
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
I lived in Gainesville for 30 years. I’ve played at Lillian’s. You would think that there would be a big music scene there, like Austin TX,and there was at one time, but it dried up…great town though!
Nice to see murals of Tom Petty in his hometown Gainsville from a massive U K. Fan
Thanks, yeah it's great that they have a bunch of them around the town!
How many massive UK fans are there ? I thought I was on my own over here.
@@mikeeverell3346 Mike you are not alone love from Suffolk England
@@markbarnes2238 Good to hear from you Mark. It hurts like never before,I'm not alone any more.
Thanks for sharing! I’m heading to Gainesville in the summer and I’m a huge atom Petty fan! I was so excited to hear that a superfan had bought his childhood home a few years back, and was going to make it a museum. I didn’t hear anything after that, but I searched it and it seems like that fell through and his ex-wife bought the house.
Have a great trip!
No matter how high they put that "Tom Petty Alley" sign, people still take it.
This is truly a Tom Petty week for me. Found his "Buried Treasure" show on XM radio and have been listening to it most of the week. But this video had me from the git-go. I used to go to Lillian's Music Store all the time. I didn't know he sang about it. I had two separate college experiences there. The degree my parents wanted and four year later the one I wanted, plus I lived in the duck pond area and fell in love with Gainesville. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks so much! Yeah he sings about the music store in this song, super cool to see it in person: czcams.com/video/ViczcWEHgaY/video.html
I so appreciate this great tour. So insightful for this TPHB fan. ✌️ 🤘 💜
Thanks!
I've been a TP fan since 1981. I was 15. I've seen him in concert over 20 times through the years. Would love to go to Gainesville one day.
That's awesome, I saw him 14 times in concert, amazing live show!
@@DavidBridwellMusic Thank you for the video tour.
great info! glad u got to check it out! thx for sharing:)
Excellent video, David!! Thanks for all of the information you provided, very organized!! I went down to Gainesville in June of 2019 for the same reason and saw many of the sites you referenced. Some, I couldn't locate from the research that I had done. Thanks to you, I now have better information, so that I can make a return visit there!! Again....many thanks and much appreciated!! ✌❤
Thanks so much!
Great video....very surprising and sad that Gainvesville doesnt recognize an Icon like Tom....But that's the way Petty would want it anyways!
Good job, I'd like to check out the things you mentioned some day👍👊🙏🌴
thanks, it's a cool road trip
Thanks for the video. I just stopped in Gainesville to see if there were any Tom Petty sites to see. Doesn't look like a whole lot. Someone should set up a permanent exhibit.
Thanks for sharing your trip!!
Thanks, we're gonna get by there sometime. We'd' love to do PettyFest some day. We have a couple of friends from G'ville and one of them went to school with Tom. I'm sure he wishes he got to know him better. So happy we got to see him in concert a few times. Miss the hell out him for sure!
super cool, glad you had a chance to see him in concert. First show I went to was Tom Petty at the Fillmore!
Thank you for the post ..im a huge tp fan petty fest might be a goidvtime to go there
Thanks! I hope to check out the Petty Fest one day!
I really enjoyed this video David. I moved down there at age 20 from Georgia, stayed 10 yrs. Saw Tom in a Sonny's restaurant once, and at several shows, loved the guy. Really hit me hard when he passed. You would have been driving on Hwy 441 through G'ville, like waves crashing on the beach. Used to be a bar on it called Dubs, where Tom played one of his 1st gigs. It was the coolest bar I've ever been to, bout 4 levels, a room with 10 pool tables, live music every nt of the week, students mixed with wild locals, man it was something else. The good ole days. Got a new sub here my friend, check me out you get time.
That's super cool! Will have to look into Dubs, thanks!
@@DavidBridwellMusic Big fat old guy ran it, He died and his relatives closed it right before I moved away, 1990? Since your into history, and you visited G'ville, you might like one here called The Hitman. I had a hit taken out on me while I lived there, crazy lil story, even has guitars in it!
Yes, when I lived in G'ville, I worked as Road Manger for a local soul band called "Blacklash" we played Dub's several times. One time we played there with Chubby Checker. Will always remember that night like it was yesterday. Good Times..
@@jimle22 That's awesome! The good ole days. Boy have the times changed. Bad as I regret him not being here with us physically, I'm glad he didn't have to experience the world going crazy as it has been for over a year now. He was too good for this crapola, so for that I am thankful.
If you are not a member, please join Tom Petty Nation on Facebook. “The World Got Still” = The world got still is in the song, but “ the world got still” when Tom Petty passed! It’s what the family released on the official Facebook page.
Very tasteful but also heartbreaking, no pun intended! 💔
You need to attend the Tom Petty birthday bash in G’ville if you want really see it all. 💘
Hope to check out both the documentary and the birthday bash, thanks for the info!
This was a good video! Not petty at all.
That's Payne's Prarie! Between Gainesville and Micanopy.
Spelled Micanopy!
@@samfic6751
You are absolutely correct.
I am sorry, I can't see the sign way up here in Alachua! Lol
3:33 LMAO
Built to last...
1950-Forever
Loved that sign . so true
I really wish you had gotten with any of us that grew up with him so you could get it better...Blake Harrison keeps the Muriel up on the 34th Street Wall. Tom Petty did not attend Sidney Lanier School, etc..
Love you guy but you got so much "incorrect", as Jane Benyo Petty, the Mother of his children bought and owns the Petty family home but rents it out. You could have seen so much more by contacting Jason Hedges of "Heavy Petty" who along with his talented wife Sarah and his family and lots of Volunteer's did theTom Petty Birthday Bash in Depot Park until last year due to COVID, and was done virtually with the permission of The Petty Family, on IHeart Radio,
where Dub's Lounge was where the Echo's/Mudcrutch became "the house band", where the song titled "Gainesville" was made and so much more. Any of us would have been happy to have shown you where the real Lipham's Music Store was where Tom use to work, after he gave up being a grave digger and where Benmont would come in and play all the Organs & Piano's, where Don with The Eagles, who wrote "Hotel California" gave guitar lesson's including to Tom as Tom truly loved playing the base guitar, but being the "frontman" he needed to up his skills playing as the lead vocal/guitar, along with Mike Campbell, where Bo Diddley Plaza is, places on Campus where they played, the old Mudcrutch Farm, their first paying gig at the Old Moose Club, etc.... You did ok, but could have really done better. At least you tried.
Have a great Petty evening!🎸💘🎩🎤🎹🎶🐊🐊🐊🐊
We moved to North Florida @ the end of 2019. Went to the birthday bash in 2020. All I can say, is please continue it. Had the time of our lives. Heavy Petty sounded just like TPATH, when you closed your eyes. Hope they do it this year.
You should've gone to Lake Alice....you'd see some gaters there. Unless they've got it so secured. When I lived there there was no fencing, and the gators would crawl up on the banks. Can't believe I used to feed them. That was before I knew how fast they could move! ha!
Thanks! Will look out for it next time I am there!
find that alligator, u know u want to
one day!
Went in to buy a Black dimond string
its also the home of lynyrd skynard,blackfoot and 38 speical to name a few
Skynyrd was from Jacksonville.
38 special was jacksonville also.
Gainesville and jacksonville two completely different cities in a lot of ways
Thanks for uploading! If you have a second, I uploaded a cover of Little Big Town. As a fellow music lover, I'd love if you would take a listen. It's on my page. Hope you like it!
Some are murals some just ugly graffti