It definitely sort of dawned on me that he was just completely free - free of any stress, free of any responsibility.Ĭampbell: We all miss him. So we’re doing the best we can with it, and it did get easier about a year after he died. He’s got the sort of light that I still feel is around. So it’s a tricky transition at the moment. But there it is.Īdria Petty: His whole thing was so much about creating a good vibe that I don’t want people in a constant state of grieving when they hear Tom Petty music. That’s just what I’ve done my whole life, and it’s gone. We played together since before I was old enough to drink. You know, the phone’s going to ring, and it’s going to be “Go down to the clubhouse at 3.” It always happened, whether it was “Mudcrutch is coming back” - and boy, would hearing that again have made me happy - or literally just “Let’s go play a bunch of blues,” and I would start a Howlin’ Wolf song and he would just fall in, or (Scott) Thurston would blow something on the harmonica that would turn into a Sonny Boy Williamson song. That might sound strange after a year and a half, but it takes time for somebody whose impact on your life and presence in your life was so huge for almost half a century. and do this and this and this and this.” And I’m like, “Well, yeah! Obviously.” … And now it’s getting more real for me. He’d made some noises about it, like he had before, but by the end of the tour, we were on the plane flying to the next gig and he’s like, “I’m never breaking this band up! We can wait a couple years and come back. We weren’t going to quit making records and playing gigs. We were sad, but also very proud of what we’ve done.īenmont Tench: When Tom passed away, none of us saw it coming. But Ben and I were forced to look back as we went through this stuff, and we both had an epiphany about how we have a legacy that has integrity. Mike Campbell: When I went back through all this stuff… I don’t want to get heavy with it, but it’s very emotional, in being nostalgic, because we were never nostalgic when we were working. They were eloquent enough in speaking about their friend and father that we thought we’d leave their words as uninterrupted as possible. Variety spoke with Campbell, Tench, and Adria and her sister Annakim Petty about putting together these two projects, how they’ve been dealing with their grief, and what lies ahead for archival projects and their own careers. Both collections were assembled by guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench, the two lifetime mainstays of the Heartbreakers, along with the late star’s eldest daughter, Adria Petty (who has also been making posthumous music videos for her dad’s work), and producer/engineer Ryan Ulyate.
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