I felt like Philly Joe Jones in those three hours. My joke was, I'm going to count four and then Bob is going to just start playing and, in about a minute or so, we'll know what song it is. My life was great, my body had never been stronger, no one ever to told me what to do or what not to do. Ben was very private, and I didn't realize he was struggling and how much personal pain he was going through. That's how five guys can be such good friends and never know each other.
There was a lot of pain in Ben's interview for me. Was there anything specific you were referring to? When I first emailed you, you said your experience was totally different from Benmont’s. L-R: Petty, Lynch, Dylan, Howie Epstein, Mike Campbell, Tench But, right now, here’s my conversation with Stan Lynch: So when you’re done with this, read my equally long conversation with Benmont Tench, if you haven’t already, to get another perspective (and then, for a third take, my interview with former Petty and Dylan road manager Richard Fernandez ). It takes everybody there to give you the truth. He notes at one point, “I would love one day to be interviewed en masse and go around the room. And, as Stan says, he brings a pretty different perspective than his longtime bandmate. To avoid too much overlap, I tried to ask Stan different things than I did Benmont. As I’ve written before, it’s a personal favorite era of mine, and I was thrilled to talk with someone else who was on that stage. Those ‘86 shows in particular are about as fun as it gets, a joyful mix of hits and deep cuts and old-time-rock-and-roll covers, all backed by as a whitehot band as well as the Queens of Rhythm backing singers. He later wrote in Chronicles, “Tom was at the top of his game and I was at the bottom of mine.” But Stan disagrees with the second half of that statement - and I do too. And today, on the anniversary of the first date of their second tour together, I am happy to present an in-depth conversation with the band’s drummer, Stan Lynch.ĭylan hired the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to back him for much of 1986 and then, following a few summer dates with the Dead, 1987 too. To celebrate February’s anniversary of the first date of the first tour Bob Dylan did backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I ran an interview with Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench.
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