Q&A

Keyboard player and foundingHeartbreaker Benmont Tench: “It was a drastic change…”

This was Rick Rubin’s first album with Tom Petty, after Jeff Lynne had worked on Into The Great Wide Open and Full Moon Fever . What was Tom hoping the change of producers would bring about?

Tom had probably heard something Rick had recorded and liked it. I’d been working with Rick for a little while as a session musician, on a Mick Jagger solo record and a few others. So I knew Rick, but I didn’t introduce Tom to Rick. I was working on a session with Rick one