Awesome Music Video Thursday

Did you enjoy your burnt crumbled burgers and warm Pabst Blue Ribbon in bottle form this Fourth of July? I did, but damn was it hard coming back to work today.

For today's late AMVW, I wanted to pick in all American musician in celebration for Independence day so I went with Tom Petty.

I was lucky enough to WITNESS Tom Petty at Vegoose 2006 last year, and even in the freezing desert night he was fantastic!!

We managed to watch a few minutes of his act before sprinting to my truck and watching him from the parking lot. It was an icebox that night, but we still managed to enjoy the 56-year-old's energetic performance.

If you don't think that a massive crowd of people screaming the words to "Free Falling" back at Petty's toothy grin isn't all American than you can shut the hell up.

In his third decade as a musician, Petty isn't planning on backing down anytime soon, playing music festivals like Vegoose and Bonnaroo with his Heartbreakers last year.

Petty was also asked to do the music for ABC's NBA playoffs in 2006.

The same year he and the Heatbreakers were given the key to the city of Gainesville, Florida, where Petty was born and raised.

For the song of the day, I chose 1994's "You don't know how it feels", one of my favorite Petty songs, I blast it while doing yoga on my living room floor.

From the Wildflowers album, Petty wrote this song in his solo days, a tune possibly about the aftermath of an unwanted break-up presumably the end of his 22-year marriage with his high school sweetheart Jane Benyo.

The lonely depression of the end of a relationship and getting high to ease the pain. Anyone can relate to this song, and most people know what it feels like to get their heartbroken, but every individual's reaction and steps to coping are all different. That's why you don't know how it feels to be Tom.

What's going on in the background of the video you say? I'm not too sure-but the blurry figures kind of look like acrobats or circus performers, and that tall woman(or man) makes Tom look a little sawed-off.

The wrecking ball flying through the room, the collapsing of a wall, gun shots fired at a shooting range and an affair going on in the bank window could possibly mean that it was his wife's wrong doing that ended the marriage?

Also, I couldn't seem to find an embedded version of the video without the word "joint" being impaired. Doesn't it sound goofy? But we can always keep young naked a$$es shaking on MTV.

Petty makes his point clear about the death of radio and the meaning of "rock" vs. "rock and roll". Read this thought provoking interview here at VH1.com.

Remember David Spade playing Tom Petty on SNL? Here is the only picture I could find of that skit featuring Dana Carvey as Bob Dylan.

Here's an incredible video of a guy with no arms playing "Mary Jane's Last Dance" with his FEET!! Youtube, you are the greatest relief for boredom.