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
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.
song attention sin
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
song moving trying
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
thinking
I think we've always been better live.
bob dylan
I loved working with Bob Dylan.
couple play special
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
sound impossible jimmy
Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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.
soul rubber holding-on
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
band fit listen
With U2, I got to see how another band worked, and you get to try to listen like they listen because you want to fit into their songs.
enjoy good hang joy nashville time
I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.
band country floyd keyboard learned none records rock roll rolling stones
I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
overly player
I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.
call large music people suit whose
The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.