Mike Campbell On First Album Post Heartbreakers

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mike Campbell, guitarist, co-writer and original Heartbreaker talks to Rick Rubin about growing up with Tom Petty, working on Wildflowers and about his new album, Wreckless Abandon, with band The Dirty Knobs. It’s the first band Mike’s ever been a part of without Petty - who he started playing with in the early 70’s in Mudcrutch. And it’s the first time Rick’s been able to catch up with Mike since Tom’s passing. They talk about their work together and how the Heartbreakers always managed to find new life ... plus Mike, for the first time, tells the story of how he wrote the riff for “Runnin' Down A Dream."

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0:00.0	When Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin first talked about making broken record, one of the
0:17.5	artists they really wanted to speak with was Tom Petty.
0:20.9	Then right as we started production on the show, Tom Petty sadly passed away.
0:32.4	Everyone was processing what happened, including Malcolm and Rick.
0:36.0	So one afternoon they got together at Shangri-La, turned the mics on, and talked about Petty
0:40.4	and his music.
0:42.2	About how Rick first fell in love with the band driving around LA listening to running
0:45.6	down a dream.
0:47.1	And the plans Petty had to put out a trove of unreleased material from Wild Flowers,
0:51.9	and album Rick produced.
0:53.8	That album was one of many high watermarks of Petty's career.
0:57.2	Rick's long thought, and he told Malcolm that day, he believes albums so good because
1:01.2	Petty was trying to impress him.
1:03.4	Petty's lead guitarist and occasional co-writer Mike Campbell talked to Rick last spring, confirming
1:07.9	Rick's notion.
1:08.9	They talked in depth about the making of Wild Flowers and about Mike's new album with
1:12.7	a band called The Dirty Noms.
1:14.7	The song you're hearing now, Irish Girl, is from that album.
1:17.6	It's the first band Mike's ever been a part of without Petty.
1:20.5	We started playing with in the early 70s.
1:23.1	And it's the first time Rick's been able to catch up with Mike since Tom's death.
1:26.4	They talk about their work together over the years, and how the heartbreakers always
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