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The trusted keyboard player on his best and most difficult sessions, from the Heartbreakers to that guy Bob from Duluth.

Founding members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell, hold the notes of memory.

His name is Benmont Tench, but you can call him genius. That’s what band mate Mike Campbell calls him. “I didn’t have to pay him for that,” Tench said. Campbell and Tench are founding ...

Tench jokes that he sings like Chet Baker if Baker couldn’t sing. His second instrument has taken a battering in the decade since his debut, but he has emerged from mouth cancer surgery in 2023 ...

Eric Christian Smith/AP Share Benmont Tench, a founding member and longtime keyboardist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, performs May 15 at Garcia’s. The spring series from Hubbard Street ...

Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will perform Tuesday, May 20 at The Church Studio as part of the studio’s Legacy Concert Series. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for a 7 p.m. show ...

Benmont Tench comes to Sonoma April 12 to play a solo show at the Sebastiani Theatre. Benmont Tench played keyboards with a little band called Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for a few years.

The most famous keyboard sideman in rock is making a rare return to center stage after making it through a life-threatening health scare. The man who is arguably the most famous or legendary ...

Benmont Tench has not really been out of sight for any truly extended stretch since the Heartbreakers necessarily went their separate ways …. at least not if you have strong eyesight.