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Wong Notes

Mike Campbell Likes the “Real Stuff”

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Heartbreakers’ guitarist and Dirty Knobs frontman answers deep questions about songwriting, producing, and hitmaking.

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I'm not going to lie. I just tried to find a quiet spot at Charles de Gaul, the airport in Paris, France. I just played a show last night at La Segal. Sick.

0:21.2

Sold out show.

0:22.2

I'm on my way to Dublin right now.

0:23.8

Finishing off my four-week Europe tour, which has been an absolute blast.

0:29.0

Insane shows.

0:30.8

It's so much fun.

0:32.3

All sold out.

0:34.0

Frickin' sick crowds.

0:36.1

Band is on fire.

0:42.7

Killing right now. And it is not lost on me that it is an absolute gift treat to do what i do and to be able to do it at this level i'm super grateful

0:50.8

for that and i'm really grateful for everybody that comes out to the shows.

0:54.9

So thank you to everybody who's been coming to the shows, because you help me, have a great time,

1:00.0

and I hope to usher you in to a good time for yourself as well.

1:05.2

Today on the podcast, we've got Mike Campbell.

1:08.9

Mike Campbell is one of those names where I heard over and over and over again when I was doing a bunch of session work, especially in Nashville.

1:16.5

That was a reference that was used all the time and still is used for guitar players doing session work.

1:22.9

And just kind of in music in general.

1:25.6

There's a certain tone.

1:27.3

There's a certain vibe. There's a certain vibe, there's a certain

1:28.8

style of parts that go along with Mike Campbell when somebody references it. And admittedly at first,

1:37.1

I didn't know exactly what people were talking about, what producers or artists were talking about,

1:41.6

what they wanted it, what they wanted, you know, when they would say that. But I was very familiar with a lot of the Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker

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