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Benmont Tench Biography

Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III (born September 7, 1953) is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

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I loved working with Bob Dylan.

Bob, Dylan, Loved, Working

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

Levels, Nelson, Takes, Willie, Working

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.

Jeff, Play, Say, Think, Thinking, Trying

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.

Song, Crazy, Emotional, Thing, Play, Intensify

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

Sound, Impossible, Knows, Smith, Fortunately

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.

Band, Producer, Records, Take, Tell, Trying

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

Drift, Love, Sad, Sad Love, Song, Thinking

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

Move, Moving, Song, Things, Trying

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

Attention, Cardinal, Expense, Sin, Song

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.

Feet, Look, Love, Middle, Mike, Night

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

Holding On, Mal, Note, Rubber, See, Soul

I think we've always been better live.

Live, Think, Thinking

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

Couple, Play, Rolling, Special

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

Feels, Heard, Like, Sometimes, Working

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