#431:Benmont Tench/Keyboard Player for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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🗓️ 22 July 2018

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Today on LET THERE BE TALK the legend Mr. Benmont Tench stops by and talks about playing Keyboards with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers for most of his life.

Benmont is 1 of the best keyboard players of all time and is also an incredible songwriter. He has a killer solo record out called You Should Be So Lucky that I highly recommend you check out asap.

It was a honor to have Benmont on and I think you guys are gonna love this episode.

Spread the word and go see Benmont when he plays Largo in Los Angeles.

Candles Lit

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0:00.0	Alright, here it is. It's one of those days. This is the fourth time I've tried this fucking intro.
0:06.5	Anyway, happy July 23rd Monday. Welcome to the show. I do not know what's wrong with me, but I've just...
0:14.4	I can't spit this intro out. My brain. I think my brain is just completely cooked today.
0:20.6	I'm trying to stay focused. I should have taken my...
0:23.8	What is that stuff? Alpha brain or whatever. But anyway, I'm just...
0:31.0	I think I'm just scrambled because I've packed up the apartment and I'm sitting in here. It's completely empty.
0:38.6	And the end of the thin wall apartment tour has come and it's scary. I haven't slept that good in the last month.
0:48.2	I'm about to go into full bloom as James Hetfield would say on wherever I may roam.
0:54.9	A no-mad, a vagabond. Call me what you will.
0:59.7	And that's what my life looks like mid-summer here.
1:05.7	I'm looking forward to it. I also know it's going to be scary. Who knows what's going to happen.
1:10.4	I've got the stuff in storage. I'm going to hit the ground.
1:13.8	And follow this comedy train to wherever it takes me.
1:20.2	This week it takes me to Montreal, which is pretty fucking cool.
1:24.7	And I'm doing JFL.
1:27.7	And I talked about it before. And since I've talked about it, I've got like four shows now.
1:32.2	I'm doing the stand-up on the spot show on the Thursday, Friday night. I'm doing best of the fast.
1:37.2	Saturday, I'm open for Crystal Lea. It is Netflix special shooting.
1:41.4	And then I'm doing the LOL Kevin Hart show Saturday also.
1:48.0	So there it is. That's one week that'll be in hotel rooms.
1:52.5	And I just look at it as week to week.
1:55.2	What am I going to do? Where am I going to be?
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