#602 Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's Benmont Tench, Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary & Opinions on Benjamin Booker

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🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Keyboard player Benmont Tench was instrumental in the formation of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1976. He's also had a fruitful career as a consummate sideman and session musician, working with artists like Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, U2, Johnny Cash, and more. Tench joins hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot for some lively conversation about his successful career in music. Plus, a reappraisal of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as it turns 50, and a review of the new album from soul-rocking singer and guitarist Benjamin Booker.

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0:13.0	Wow babbling mambabamam lah bam bam bam bam This is This is sound opinions from W Beasy Chicago and PRX.
0:17.0	I'm Jim Deregatus.
0:18.0	And I'm Greg Kot.
0:19.0	Today we talk with Ben Mont Tench, the man behind the keyboards for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
0:24.8	He's also backed up some of rocks luminaries like Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
0:28.8	The things that I've got to do, not just in the heartbreakersers but if you are playing with an artist
0:34.4	when that light shines through them and comes out there is nothing like that.
0:38.6	We'll also review the new record from punk Blues guitarist Benjamin Booker.
0:42.8	In 50 years on you, right on you, right on you,
0:45.0	and right on you, and right on you,
0:49.0	and 50 years on we give Sergeant Pepper's lonely Hearts Club band a fresh listen.
0:54.6	Is it a buy it or a trash it?
0:56.4	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
1:01.1	This is sound opinions. Coming up, we're going to talk with Benmont Tench of Tom Penny and the Heartbreakers,
1:06.0	but first we've got some new music and some not so new music. Greg, we all know what that fanfare is 50 years after its initial release, May 26, 1960.
1:17.0	Greg, we all know what that fanfare is, 50 years after its initial release, May 26th, 1967 in the UK, June 2nd
1:26.9	67 in the US. Everybody is once again talking about Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band,
1:34.2	the eighth album by The Beatles, and allegedly in many corners the greatest rock album
1:40.2	ever made.
1:41.2	I think those are corners that have not actually listened to this record
1:44.3	in a long time. I don't want to add to the title wave of media hype about the
1:50.7	anniversary of this record, but for our listeners, let's give it a fresh listen.
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