Former Tom Petty keyboardist Benmont Tench is not considering enjoying once more because the Heartbreakers.
He says he is open to the thought of enjoying with the others in varied groupings, however that issues merely aren’t the identical with out Petty.
“It is not the Heartbreakers with out – hell, our rhythm guitar participant and occasional lead guitar participant. It simply is not the Heartbreakers,” Tench says in a brand new Kyle Meredith With… interview, which you’ll hearken to in full under. “With out Tom, it is like, are the Rolling Stones going to play with out Keith [Richards]? No. … Led Zeppelin did not proceed.”
Tench emphasised that he was solely talking for himself, not his bandmates. Guitarist Mike Campbell has admitted to feeling reluctant about reuniting underneath the Heartbreakers banner, however says it would occur sometime underneath the correct circumstances.
“If we had a cause, then I might be all aboard,” Campbell added. “If there was one thing that is smart to me as an actual cause to do it, however I do not actually really feel it proper now.”
Within the meantime, Tench confirmed that there is nonetheless materials within the vault that might probably be launched in some unspecified time in the future. “We all the time recorded greater than what we put out, however we all the time put out what we thought was the perfect,” he informed Meredith, “however pretty typically, I might marvel why a tune had been left off the document.”
The intensive Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Dwell on the Fillmore (1997) field set arrived final month. Tench referenced songs from newer information, like 2008’s Mudcrutch, 2010’s Mojo, 2014’s Hypnotic Eye and 2016’s Mudcrutch 2. He says there are additionally “one or two actually nice songs” that have been recorded in 1973 – three years earlier than the band’s debut album – in Tench’s dad and mom’ front room, “utterly stay to 2 monitor.”
Tench is not certain if there are any plans launch additional vault materials, since “the cat who is aware of the place all the things is buried.” Engineer/producer Ryan Ulyat has been the first particular person engaged on the band’s archival tasks since Petty’s demise in 2017.
“I hope it comes out as a result of I believe it is cool,” Tench stated, “however there’s much more.”
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