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
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.
damn good life playing spent tom
I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
kept record sake songs tom wrote
In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.
mike recorded tom
Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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.
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.
sound impossible jimmy
Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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.