American - Musician | September 7, 1953 -
I think I drift toward sad love songs.
Benmont Tench
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I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
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My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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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.
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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.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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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.
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I think we've always been better live.
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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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