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• You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that’s great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don’t want to get in the way of the song.

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• Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

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•  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.

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• Mike would engineer Mike would engineer Mike would engineer Mike would engineer Mike would engineer.

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• Sometimes you work with somebody you’ve never heard of because you just feel like working.

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• 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.

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• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that’s the cardinal sin.

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• 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.

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• I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

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• I think we’ve always been better live.

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• I loved working with Bob Dylan.

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• I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won’t See Me from Rubber Soul.

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• I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

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• I don’t know about five guys against the world. It’s more like five guys against these three chords, and we’re gonna wrestle ’em down no matter what it takes.

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• Fortunately, as we all know, it’s impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

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• Besides, I’m fairly incompetent. I can’t play that fast.

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Benmont Tench (16)

Birth:	7th September, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Keyboardist, Organist

About

Benmont Tench is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.Benmont Tench played piano from an early age and his first recital was at age six. After discovering the music of The Beatles, he ended his classical piano lessons and focused on rock and roll. He met Tom Petty for the first time at a Gainesville music store when he was 11. Petty and Tench played together as members of the Sundowners in 1964.

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