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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice.
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal to a troll. The individual in the video is very obviously Patrick S. Tomlinson.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never submitted this video footage during any of his many media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
WWAW the Tom Petty?
- Thread starter Torque’sHeadBump
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Can almost smell summer coming around the corner. Cant wait for Friday drives down the Jersey backroads to the shore with TP playing. His songs relate to me almost supernaturally well
For me both Petty and U2 followed the same trajectory. I'd hear their stuff on the radio, like it, sometimes even like it a LOT, but was never compelled to buy an album even when they were readily available through the Columbia House Record and Tape Club.
Then along came the right album at the exact right time - Full Moon Fever (Petty) and The Joshua Tree (U2) - and I was transformed into a huge fan of both. The first time I heard Full Moon Fever, I was in a Sam Goody and they had it playing throughout the store. After three or four songs I was beside myself at how good it was and finally asked a worker what album they were playing. After that I never looked back and have been a huge fan since.
Stil. can't believe Petty is dead ...........
Then along came the right album at the exact right time - Full Moon Fever (Petty) and The Joshua Tree (U2) - and I was transformed into a huge fan of both. The first time I heard Full Moon Fever, I was in a Sam Goody and they had it playing throughout the store. After three or four songs I was beside myself at how good it was and finally asked a worker what album they were playing. After that I never looked back and have been a huge fan since.
Stil. can't believe Petty is dead ...........
Completely neutral
The labels really fucked him John Fogerty really hard. I always found it odd that Mary Jane's Last Dance was a tie-in for his greatest hits album and not part of Wildflowers, even though it was recorded at the same time. But that's what the label wanted. Oh well, greatest hits went Diamond.
Fuck the labels.
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Fuck the labels.
Tom Petty once battled his record label over $1 and changed the music industry for good
Tom Petty's willingness to stand up to his record label set an important precedent.
www.cnbc.com
He actually started Mary Jane during Full Moon Fever. I'm glad he didn't redo it for Wildflowers, it's the last song with Stan Lynch drumming/back vocals and definitely wouldn't have been as good Wildflowers style.
The labels really fucked him John Fogerty really hard. I always found it odd that Mary Jane's Last Dance was a tie-in for his greatest hits album and not part of Wildflowers, even though it was recorded at the same time. But that's what the label wanted. Oh well, greatest hits went Diamond.
Fuck the labels.
Tom Petty once battled his record label over $1 and changed the music industry for good
Tom Petty's willingness to stand up to his record label set an important precedent.
I bought this RS on ebay a little while ago. Still haven't gotten it hung up yet, taint got the right frame.
All in with the Tom Petty. Great music and his music videos ruled when I was a young faggot