Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench
Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench IIIis an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth7 September 1953
CountryUnited States of America
sound impossible jimmy
Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
period
There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.
attention guys hands liked turned
I never liked the showboat guys who called attention to themselves, who turned the Leslie on and waved their hands up in the air.
great mike producers recognized shared songs tom
We've had producers who've all shared at least one thing. They've all recognized that Tom and Mike write great songs and that's what it's about.
soul rubber holding-on
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
night feet looks
I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
couple play special
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
bob dylan
I loved working with Bob Dylan.
thinking
I think we've always been better live.
song moving trying
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
song attention sin
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
thinking play trying
Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
sometimes feels heard
Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.
trying band records
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.