Benmont Tench Doesn’t Want to Play Another Heartbreakers Show

Former Tom Petty keyboardist Benmont Tench is not serious about taking part in once more because the Heartbreakers.

He says he is open to the concept of taking part in with the others in varied groupings, however that issues merely aren’t the identical with out Petty.

“It isn’t the Heartbreakers without – hell, our rhythm guitar player and occasional lead guitar player. It just isn’t the Heartbreakers,” Tench says in a brand new Kyle Meredith With… interview, which you’ll be able to pay attention to in full under. “Without Tom, it’s like, are the Rolling Stones going to play without Keith [Richards]? No. … Led Zeppelin didn’t continue.”

Tench emphasised that he was solely talking for himself, not his bandmates. Guitarist Mike Campbell has admitted to feeling reluctant about reuniting beneath the Heartbreakers banner, however says it’d occur sometime beneath the fitting circumstances.

“If we had a reason, then I would be all aboard,” Campbell added. “If there was something that makes sense to me as a real reason to do it, but I don’t really feel it right now.”

In the meantime, Tench confirmed that there is nonetheless materials within the vault that might doubtlessly be launched in some unspecified time in the future. “We always recorded more than what we put out, but we always put out what we thought was the very best,” he advised Meredith, “but fairly often, I would wonder why a song had been left off the record.”

The intensive Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Live on the Fillmore (1997) field set arrived final month. Tench referenced songs from more moderen 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 really great songs” that have been recorded in 1973 – three years earlier than the band’s debut album – in Tench’s mother and father’ lounge, “completely live to two track.”

Tench is not certain if there are any plans launch additional vault materials, since “the cat who knows where everything is buried.” Engineer/producer Ryan Ulyat has been the first individual engaged on the band’s archival initiatives since Petty’s loss of life in 2017.

“I hope it comes out because I think it’s cool,” Tench stated, “but there’s even more.”

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