Here's another thing about Mike: if you clean the necks you're fired, haha, especially on a maple! Yes, they thanked me prolifically and I mean a lot. They do make some good ones, but this was not a good one. Thats a beautiful-sounding guitar, too, but its so valuable now that I leave it at home.. Guitar Center 1.03M subscribers Mike Campbell's guitar playing and songwriting come from a place of joy from his long career with Tom Petty & The Heartbreaks, to joining Fleetwood Mac in. Those are our main ones. Its been rebuilt a few times, but its basically the same. We think somebody wanted it to look like John Lennons, so they had somebody carve that top horn. And maybe I learned a couple of other Dylan songs. Well, thats an emotional song for me, because the night they did that record, Tom called and said, Look were finishing a song I just wrote with Bob (Dylan) and George and Jeff. Ive only bought things that I actually play. This thing is loud, says Campbell. Weve been on the road four years in a row. 26) Hank asked: I saw that you use those Danelectro pedals. Thats how I learned how to bend strings, by hearing him do it, slowing it down and thinking, Oh you have to push this down to get the string to make that sound. I learned a lot of phrasing and scales I just love the way he played on that record. Product Description To commemorate over 30 years of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Duesenberg have along with Mike Campbell created a beautiful signature guitar brings you classic Doozy tones in a hot rodded semi hollow design. And coming from Rick, I guess he got inspired (laughs)! $3.39 to $5.99. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers guitarist and Petty songwriting partner Mike Campbell was recently on tour in Australasia with the new version of Fleetwood Mac, proving to the doubters that the Neil Finn/Mike Campbell combination works a treat as Lindsey Buckingham's replacement. Weve found more of them, but none quite have the same sound and this feel. Blair has a different kind of tone very clear. How much does the guitar influence the way you write songs? This Magnatone Custom 260 High Fidelity is owned by Mike Campbell. And I said, You gotta get this! Nobody else wanted to do it (laughs)! So I suggested to the drummer from my band, Go try out. And he brought them over to our house and it turned out they had lost their guitar player, so he said, Theres a guy here who plays. So I sat in, and we both joined Mudcrutch that same day. I cant really remember all of them, but there was a variety of instruments. When I play it on another guitar it sounds okay, but it just doesnt have the same magic it does in that key with that voice. And theres something to be said for the aesthetic qualities of a bunch of them, as opposed to one. So Ive been really lucky that way. Wed love to stay in touch, sign up for The Pick team to contact you with great news, content and offers. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. He uses Jazz III nylon picks, 10s during the week, 9s at the weekend, and shamefully still struggles with rhythm figure one of Van Halens Panama. Im always in awe of him, of his talent. Weaned on Elvis, Johnny Cash and the Beatles, he liked the bright jangle of Rickenbackers and used a Fender Broadcaster in the early days. I dont know if it was an homage to the guitar, but we thought there should be at least a token instrument. I think when I was a teenager, there were probably dozens I wanted but couldnt afford. Its a lot to live up to. I actually auditioned for Tom on that thing. And which electrics can we hear on the album? Guitar pick I pick you in bronze. For more information on Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and the Mike Campbell guitar series, please visit TomPetty.com. The same with Carl Wilson. It was his concept, and he came to each of us. Princeton Volume 7 Treble 7 Bass 3 Speed 1 Intensity 1 Deluxe Tone 9 Mike Campbell is also in my opinion one of THE most tasteful guitar player ever alongside George Harrison. On almost every song there was at least one or two acoustic Martins. did you use to get the sound f "Rickenbacker, 370, 360? It's so haunting and demonic in many ways, both in lyrics and music. Then Mick got stuck with it, and when we started working with Rick, we needed a song. It was funny how the song went around the corner and came back to where it shouldve been. Like Neo., See Eric Clapton make a surprise guest appearance with Jerry Douglas to pay tribute to Jeff Beck and play While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Larry Carlton demos his $641 Sire signature guitar, Nuno Bettencourt explains his secret to playing difficult guitar solos it involves getting his leg up, Music meets gaming in the Beat Machine, the world's first music-making arcade machine. Thats my favourite. Theyre not noticeably different. The guitar has always been the archetypal thing, to me. Kept in immaculate condition, the guitar was used by Campbell to write the riff for Tom Petty's Good Enough. Overview A phenomenal reproduction of a great guitar. The first song I ever played on guitar was Baby Let Me Follow You Down. A friend had the Bob Dylan record, and he taught me the chords to that. It was kinda different because its a small room, so we had to play a little quieter. Well, I kinda instigated getting Rick into the fold because one time on tour I got a message that he wanted to know if I had any songs that I would want to give to Mick Jagger, who was working on a solo record at the time. Tom Petty: (laughs) What goes through my mind? 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Mike Campbell Heartbreaker American Standard Telecaster Electric Guitar We're sorry-this item is unavailable. We may earn a commission on any affiliated purchases. But there were others. As a subscriber enjoy big savings off the shop price! Meanwhile, I fell in love with Scotty Moores playing. The well that Petty, Campbell and company draw from certainly is deep. He uses Jazz III nylon picks, 10s during the week, 9s at the weekend, and shamefully still struggles with rhythm figure one of Van Halens Panama. Well, it sort of built. I love the Fender Deluxe, and I play the Vox AC30 quite a bit. If there was three of us playing, one of us might play that. I was always tuned into the guitar and what the guitar was doing. And Dunlop was going to do a version put out by Dunlop called Campbell Toe for Mike Campbell - a smaller version. Reply . BA1 1UA. I dont really care as long as it comes out good! Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars and guitar culture since 2005, playing them since 1990, and regularly contributes to MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitar World. Mike Campbell talks about the solid-bodied Rickenbacker 12-string he found shopping through the old "Recycler" advertising newspaper, driving to Anaheim, and later discovering it was built on the assembly line with George Harrison's guitar in the 1960's. Click the link to watch the video. He knows when I come in that its going to be hard for me to walk out without buying something. Fenders doing a reissue of that Broadcaster. Here are some highlights. That may or may not happen," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech about the Way Huge Camel On page 3 of his interview in Tone Quest Report Vol. I like the Broadcaster just because the way it is, I mean that's what was done on American Girl and all the first recordings was all Tele sub. Thats where the 62 Gibson SG Junior and Runnin Down A Dream comes in It also just goes to show that sometimes you can pickup the best guitars in the weirdest places. With so many guitars, is there one that Campbell would choose if he had to? Its a really nice, warm, woody-sounding room. It was just perfect. Ours was the first solidbody one. Mike Campbell: Well, my first exposure would have been the records my dad played around the house, which were mostly Elvis and Johnny Cash, stuff like that. Damn The Torpedoes was kind of a breakthrough record. , A Guide to Essential Effects Plugins for Your Home Studio, ESP Announces LTD Kirk Hammett Signature Series KH-V, Epiphone Introduces the 1958 Korina Flying V and Explorer, Building a Pro-Level Home-Studio Mic Closet. Then out of the Whammy and into the tuner," says Mike Campbell's guitar tech when the Digitech Whammy II Guitar Effects Pedal is shown in the rig rundown. But looking at it closely, we figured out that it was probably a red guitar thats the same model as the small-body one from the Torpedo cover. So youre talking in terms of length of time youre out, as opposed to the size of the venues? He had a band called Mudcrutch, kind of a country-rock band, that was playing around the university. 1990: Del Shannon, a close friend of Petty, commits suicide at age of 56. Well, they all make a different sound, you know? $199.97. And those are the things I end up going back and listening to again, more than the newer stuff. 1989: Petty releases his first official solo album, "Full Moon Fever," co-produced by Jeff Lynne and Mike Campbell. And hes one of the few rock stars who has actually been quoted in print saying, I dont think we need that much money.. [The Monza] is a nice guitar to have if you don't have an amp handy, said Campbell. CD LOT - Hard Rock, Pop, Metal: Stewart, Aerosmith, Elton. Ill do it. And I loved it. They're kind of hard to find, but they play really well.. The following photos are from the companion book to one of the best music documentaries that I have ever seen named "Runnin' Down a Dream." Whereas, the other direction is just going by the seat of your pants and jumping on with the band and riding the wave. I studied it quite a bit at slow speed and tried to figure out what he was doing. Right away, I just loved the song, you know? Paul Gray was first and foremost an incredible songwriter, who contributed some of the best stuff Slipknot has ever put out. Decades later, during the recording of Petty and the Heartbreakers' blues-influenced 2010 album, Mojo, another 'Burst became available for Campbell. She showed up one day and said, Remember that $200? I said, You caught me on a good day! (laughs). I love playing with them theyre the best rock and roll band there is, I think. Duesenberg Starplayer TV (best guitar I've owned - awesome!) Hes an amazing, talented fellow, and I probably learned something from everybody there, just because everybody has a different method and way of working. All rights reserved. And youve since obtained every last one of them? Those two bottles and an old tshirt will get your D-28 looking great. The sunburst 64 Strat youre touring with now and have played for years, is that Mikes guitar? Its a really good, earthy acoustic sound. But the truth is, ours a working collection. That palm wah is really cool, and the fuzztone in them sounds great. And on a lot of his solo work its more piecemeal, like bringing a song in and building it. I added a treble pickup and it became a really nice guitar. On your solo records, do you do most of the bass playing? But my favorite Rick is the semi-hollow blond one I played [on The Tonight Show]. Yeah. All rights reserved. Adds character. So we met up with them and Benmont (Tench, keyboardist for the Heartbreakers) to put a demo session together. Whens the last time you couldnt get a guitar that you wanted because you just didnt have the cash handy? Or this sound has to be a Les Paul because its got that warm crunch, and nothing else will do it. I might have bought a Mel Bay book at some point, but the book I most remember was a Carl Wilson chord book. I used a Telecaster and my Vox teardrop. On the subject of television, you, the Heartbreakers, and MTV kind of grew up together, and your early videos are just chock full of the guitars that fans came to know pretty well through the years. He was a huge inspiration to me, and fortunately, I got to be a bit of a friend with him. Well, I have complete control of a solo album; the democratic process is gone. For instance, you played Vox Phantom in the video for Refugee.. Ive played on several things over the years with Rick most of his acoustic records, and on the new Johnny Cash record, American V, I played on the whole thing. Did that stem from the fact that you wrote with an acoustic? Unauthorized replication or use is strictly prohibited. It spawns the hits "I Won't Back Down," "Free Fallin'" and "Runnin' Down A Dream" and remains in the Top 10 for 34 weeks. I prefer to have the Broadcaster out but for whatever reason he'll take it out. But there was no specific discussion when we came to make Hypnotic Eye that were going to draw from a specific part of the well, because each song just comes in from wherever it comes. "That was my guitar for several years until Tom sat on it and broke the neck off of it". And so yeah, I think the 12-string is always that solidbody Rick. He handed it to me and I pressed the strings down and was like, My God, you dont have to bleed!, Soon, Campbell graduated to electric and met Petty. Well you only need one, dont ya (laughs)? God, let me think Were on this quest to find another bass as good as this Hfner Club weve got. Petersen Concert guitar model A 6. Wed usually set up acoustic guitars in Jeffs kitchen, which is adjacent to his studio, and just lay the basics down, usually on acoustics. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now. Grapevine Opry Guitar Pick. I just would never part with it.. Id like to give it to you.. Wake is easily my favorite album of all time. As artists, they have to go on with their career and live with it, while I can produce it and move on to something else. One side of Campbell's guitar arsenal covers all the bases. It was playable. Here are some highlights. I liked just the sound of it, and the spirit of what they were doing. Well, I was very excited about it. The Collection: Mike Campbell Gibson TV 373K subscribers 519K views 10 months ago #thecollection #gibson #mikecampbell The Dirty Knobs' frontman Mike Campbell's unique approach to. The best $150 Mike Campbell ever spent! And even years before the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan, your aunt took you to a movie set, where you saw Elvis. Key Features Fender Custom Shop Mike Campbell Limited Edition "Heartbreaker" Nocaster Body Ash Finish Nitrocellulose Lacquer Neck Rift Sawn Flame Maple With a Custom Back Shape and 7.25 Radius Frets Vintage Hardware Nickel Get the latest and greatest Guitar news with one of our guitar magazine subscriptions. They really throw it out nicely onstage. Well, that was kind of the first rule of that particular video. Next is a recent Fender Custom Shop Tele with a B-Bender used as a backup, then a pair of Rickenbacker 12-stringsthe one on the right is used on "Free Fallin." Oh, and of course Full Moon Fever is one of my favorites the first album we did with Jeff Lynne. So I always use that guitar on that song. I think I gave it to a friend when I got a Stratocaster. 'Cept it's not a Rickenbacker. But this is the stuff that he couldnt part with. I told Tom that and he was really happy. He is quoted as saying "I have a Fender Telecaster I call Red Dog. And it was a coincidence that the Martins all showed up right then, but we were so pleased with them. When you turn down the other Ricks, they get a little sloppy with the lower pitch, but this one sounds great.. Its hard, theres just so many great guitarists from that era, its just hard to narrow them down to who your favorites are, but George is definitely one of mine. That was it, I think, though Mike has always got some sort of exotic s*** going on. So I made the neck wider, and changed a few cosmetic things put the gold pickup and gold pickguard on the sunburst, which I dont think they were doing. A subscription makes a thoughtful gift for both family and friends. To follow the signal path, next are the effects. Brian Jones was a really good rhythm guitarist, I thought, and rhythm guitar is a lost art, you know? His favorite 12-string is the Tom Petty solidbody, which we did use on the record quite a bit. The series is currently premiering exclusively on TomPetty.com for members of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' Highway Companions Club Plot summary Add synopsis Genre Documentary Parents guide Add content advisory Details Release date Theres a 1956 J-200 acoustic guitar, a Gold Top Les Paul Standard with coverless P-90s. Campbell has been at Pettys side throughout. In addition to playing on and co-producing Tom Petty and The Heatbreakers albums and cowriting some of their biggest - . Are you on the lookout for anything in particular? #9. That one is actually owned by Mike. Your solo records have a more laid-back feel because youre not subject to the input of everybody pushing or pulling at you. I kind of keyed on the last big tour thing. That soon changed, though. It was a fantastic time, really very exciting. It was the first one where we broke away from lip-synching altogether. I mostly played acoustic. But I really concentrated on being I guess, because Id been a bass player, I wanted to play rhythm in a real solid way. I think the record company gave us some money when we first got together, and we bought 10 of these big Vox amps. And we did it at Jeffs home studio. The Mike Campbell II features a so called "Destruct Knob" placed at the lower cutaway, which enables you to boost the signal by up to 10db, controlling distortion and feedback at any time with the touch of . Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, when it formed, was essentially the conglomeration of prior groups Mudcrutch (Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench) and Road Turkey (Stan Lynch and Ron Blair). Next, the video moves onto a '80s - '90s-era white Firebird V Campbell picked up while on tour with Fleetwood Mac. As we wind down, we ask Campbell why he doesnt take to the producers chair more often. He tunes the guitar down a whole step, and has been using it on the Hypnotic Eye tour for "American Girl". She may not be the best cook. Signed by none other than Johnny Winter, the guitar was sold to Campbell just a few years ago, mind you for $500, because of its broken neck, and the fact that the pawnbroker evidently didn't know who Winter was. Don't miss the latest deals, news, reviews, features and tutorials. MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. The Hfner Club, which I think weve used for everything for the last 10 years now. I finally just threw it in the corner and got an electric Kay. Well, I dont know its over 100, and theyre all really good ones. It was also seen on 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee during the quartet's performance of " Listen to the Band ," and again in 1969 when The Monkees performed live on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour . Once I get in the studio and get working on something, I get inspired and can do all kinds of things, but it usually has to wrap up in a nationwide tour, which is a whole other mindset. Pettys third solo album, Highway Companion, was released last month, debuting at #4 on Billboards Top 200 album chart, and he and the Heartbreakers spent the summer on the road in support of it. The afternoon after the emotional interview at his house, Campbell is at an enormous soundstage at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. Is there anything in particular you look for, in terms of collecting acoustic guitars? Then, of course, a few years later, I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan like everybody else my age, and I figured, Well, thats what I want to do!. Mike Campbell features on the latest episode of Gibson TVs The Collection in an episode that once more it proves that it has got to be one of the best things about being a career pro musician with decades under your belt is the guitars you collect along the way. But throughout the whole tour I felt the band played really well, and I was very proud of everybody.. I can see it coming down to fewer shows. I find it very interesting to see that he runs both the Princeton and the Deluxe clean, and then uses the Camel Toe for overdrive, and apparently the Fender Excelsior for a soloboost. He played with Petty in the pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch and co-wrote, co-produced and played the searing guitar. It sounds better than any of your other guitars! I told him I leave it at home but I use it in the studio. Theyre tools, and I look at them like colors or paint brushes; each has a different texture or color, and if thats what you need, only that guitar will make that sound. "That was my guitar for several years until Tom sat on it and broke the neck off of it. He's had it for years and years and years, but he's just really fell in love with it for this tour. But the 67 is George-style [double-bound] from A Hard Days Night. I worked at a music store for a while when I was 15 years old, and I gained a pretty good knowledge of instruments. So when we started doing that song live, I just wanted to honor him. I was watching a Rig Rundown and I saw the settings listed below.