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
sometimes feels heard
Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.
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.
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.
levels nelson
Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
song crazy emotional
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.
sad-love song thinking
I think I drift toward sad love songs.
trying band records
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.