Tom Petty’s Keyboardist Benmont Tench Is Ready for His Spotlight
The longtime member of the Heartbreakers is supporting his album The Melancholy Season with a live show that mixes solo tunes ...
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Benmont Tench, Still a Heartbreaker, Is Carrying on Solo
Image The Heartbreakers, from left: Mike Campbell, Stan Lynch, Tom Petty, Ron Blair and Tench.Credit...Aaron Rapoport/Corbis, via Getty Images “It’s funny, if I go to the Heartbreakers ...
How Bob Dylan and John Lennon inspired Benmont Tench’s ‘The Melancholy Season’
Tench, who plays a pair of shows at Largo at the Coronet in LA this month, says the sound of Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ and ...
Mike Campbell Reflects on Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ ‘Really Poor’ Beginnings & Avoiding ‘Stupid’ Topics In His Memoir
John Oliver sounded off on a Justice Department official’s claim that she was fired for refusing to recommend that Mel Gibson ...
Rolling Stone13d
Tom Petty’s Keyboardist Benmont Tench Is Ready for His Spotlight
Along the way, Tench never stopped writing songs ... his brief return to Stevie Nicks’ touring band, teaming up with Mike Campbell for a Band tribute tour last year, and why he’s given ...
Guitarist Mike Campbell had a challenging relationship with Tom Petty, but ‘love and respect’ never wavered
In his new memoir, Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell recalls the highs and lows of working with Tom Petty.
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NC judge denies plea deal for man accused of dumping body after leaving South End Charlotte bar
Police say Andy Tench died while celebrating his birthday in Charlotte. A judge rejected a plea deal for the man who claims ...
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How Bob Dylan and John Lennon inspired Benmont Tench’s ‘The Melancholy Season’
When I was 19 or so, whenever I first started playing with Mike and Tom. But it did not come easily. On the demos that got the first band Mudcrutch [Petty, Campbell and Tench’s precursor to the ...
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“It Stung a Little Bit”: Mike Campbell on How the Heartbreakers Navigated Tense Band Dynamics
Tom Petty's lead guitarist, Mike Campbell, explains how the Heartbreakers navigated tense band dynamics throughout their ...
Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell: How ego, heroin and a hot temper nearly wrecked the Heartbreakers
As guitarist and a key architect of the Eighties band’s iconic sound, Mike Campbell rode the highs and lows of band life ...