Happy Birthday to the greatest guitarist in Rock 'N Roll! Mike turns 57 today. Born in Panama City, Florida. Just know I'd be embarassed to look at a guitar, yet alone pick one up in his presence.
Happy Birthday Mike!
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Showing posts with label Mike Campbell. Show all posts
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Happy Birthday Mike Campbell
Happy Birthday to the greatest guitarist in Rock 'N Roll! Mike turns 57 today. Born in Panama City, Florida. Just know I'd be embarassed to look at a guitar, yet alone pick one up in his presence.
Happy Birthday Mike!
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Happy Birthday Mike Campbell
Happy Birthday to the greatest guitarist in Rock 'N Roll! Mike turns 56 today. Born in Panama City, Florida, February 1, 1950. There's just something about Mike's playing that I've always admired, respected and strived to show other guitarists. Remember in th 80s when all the Heavy Metal guitarists were playing as many notes as humanly possible in the least amount of time? Mike Campbell can pick up a guitar and tell them all to f#$k off in 10 notes or less. Actually, I guess he has. On stage he's a humble guy who steals the show without stealin' the show. I just know I'd be embarassed to look at a guitar, yet alone pick one up anywhere near him.Happy Birthday Mike and Thanks!
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Happy Birthday Mike Campbell
Happy Birthday to the greatest guitarist in Rock 'N Roll! Mike turns 55 today. Born in Panama City, Florida, February 1, 1950. There's just something about Mike's playing that I've always admired, respected and strived to show other guitarists. Remember in th 80s when all the Heavy Metal guitarists were playing as many notes as humanly possible in the least amount of time? Mike Campbell can pick up a guitar and tell them all to f#$k off in 10 notes or less. Actually, I guess he has. On stage he's a humble guy who steals the show without stealin' the show. I just know I'd be embarassed to look at a guitar, yet alone pick one up anywhere near him.
Happy Birthday Mike and Thanks!
Friday, September 10, 2004
Mike Campbell & Benmont Tenchplay on new Tift Merritt CD "Tambourine"
blah ... blah ... blah... Merritt lacks the grit of, say, Lucinda Williams, but who doesn't? Merritt is a talented songwriter, and while there are some strong ballads, most of the better tunes benefit from the combination of her smooth voice over the guitar playing of one of the best in the business, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.blah ... blah ... blah... blah ... Maria McKee lends backup harmony to a couple of songs, and another Heartbreaker, keyboardist Benmont Tench, who played prominently on "Bramble Rose," appears on the reflective "Laid a Highway." ...
Read blah...blah... blahs here
Sunday, February 1, 2004
Happy Birthday Mike Campbell
Happy Birthday to the greatest guitarist in Rock 'N Roll! Mike turns 54 today. Born in Panama City, Florida. Just know I'd be embarassed to look at a guitar, yet alone pick one up in his presence.
Monday, February 10, 2003
Campbell, Keltner back songwriter on new album
CHRISTINA SARACENO - Rolling Stone - Tim Easton will release his third solo album, Break Your Mother's Heart, on February 11th. On his last record, the critically acclaimed The Truth About Us, Easton assembled the No Depression dream team of Jay Bennett, John Stirratt, Ken Coomer, Mark Olson and Victoria Williams as his band and backing vocalists. On Break Your Mother's Heart he goes for broke, enlisting a slightly more varied set of players: guitarists Mike Campbell (of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), David Philips (Frank Black) and Chris Burney (the Sun), bassist Hutch Hutchinson (Bonnie Raitt), keyboardist Jai Winding (Jackson Browne), drummer Jim Keltner (John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton). Easton also worked with producer John Hanlon (Neil Young, the Beach Boys, R.E.M., T-Bone Burnett), who made it clear that no computers would be used in the making of this record.
"He said in our first meeting," Easton says, "'If you're the kind of guy who's going to want to fix stuff on ProTools, then I'll see you around.' And I said, 'No, let's make a real record, a human being record.' My favorite records are real and not fussed with too much."
Break Your Mother's Heart gets about as fussy as the pump organ Easton plays on "Man That You Need." Most of the album's ten tracks were recorded in one or two takes with Easton playing guitar and singing live with the band. As a result, he says the record "breathes a little more" and sounds more "relaxed." Contributing to that vibe was a month-long trip Easton took to Oaxaca, Mexico. "I did nothing, barely moved from the beach and the shack that I was living in," he says. "I didn't wear shoes." What he did do was pen a collection of songs that suit his restless heart, changing landscapes (Mexico, Kentucky, Los Angeles, upstate New York) as often as sound (wistful ballad, blues, straight ahead rock, folk).
The album kicks off with one of the record's fullest and most unabashedly rock & roll songs, "Poor, Poor L.A.," an ode to the city that Easton had called home (he now lives in Athens, Georgia) and a frequented landscape in his lyrics. "There's so many emotions going on in that town," Easton says, "so many rich people and poor people put into one place together. Everyone always makes fun of it and I get tired of defending it. It's beautiful and grotesque, and that's what the interesting things in life are all about."
On "Amor Azul," a dreamy, acoustic number inspired in name only by the bowl of blue liquid ("some kind of drinky drink") that was at the back of a photography exhibit in Oaxaca. "I had my guitar with me and walked out and wrote the song," he says. The bluesy stomp "Lexington County Jail" is what Easton calls the album's wild card. "That's the kind of song that some people wish my whole album sounded like that and others are like, 'What's that song doing on there?' It breaks up the middle of the record. If it was on vinyl, you'd flip it over, but here I put a few more seconds in between songs."
Break Your Mother's Heart also features two songs, "True Ways" and "Jon Gilmartin," by Brooklyn singer-songwriter J.P. Olsen. "I saw him play music in Columbus, Ohio, before I started playing out live," Easton says. "He was playing his songs mixed with Bob Dylan songs and Hank Williams songs, and he influenced me to get my act together. I still think he's one of the greatest songwriters, so I want to bring his songs to people as much as possible."
Easton will begin bringing those songs to people when his tour kicks off tomorrow in Minneapolis, with a full band behind him, and he's already looking ahead to the next album. "I've got a bunch of songs already and I'll be writing on the road," he says. "I realize that I'm never going to be that still for that long, so I might as well get used to traveling."
"He said in our first meeting," Easton says, "'If you're the kind of guy who's going to want to fix stuff on ProTools, then I'll see you around.' And I said, 'No, let's make a real record, a human being record.' My favorite records are real and not fussed with too much."
Break Your Mother's Heart gets about as fussy as the pump organ Easton plays on "Man That You Need." Most of the album's ten tracks were recorded in one or two takes with Easton playing guitar and singing live with the band. As a result, he says the record "breathes a little more" and sounds more "relaxed." Contributing to that vibe was a month-long trip Easton took to Oaxaca, Mexico. "I did nothing, barely moved from the beach and the shack that I was living in," he says. "I didn't wear shoes." What he did do was pen a collection of songs that suit his restless heart, changing landscapes (Mexico, Kentucky, Los Angeles, upstate New York) as often as sound (wistful ballad, blues, straight ahead rock, folk).
The album kicks off with one of the record's fullest and most unabashedly rock & roll songs, "Poor, Poor L.A.," an ode to the city that Easton had called home (he now lives in Athens, Georgia) and a frequented landscape in his lyrics. "There's so many emotions going on in that town," Easton says, "so many rich people and poor people put into one place together. Everyone always makes fun of it and I get tired of defending it. It's beautiful and grotesque, and that's what the interesting things in life are all about."
On "Amor Azul," a dreamy, acoustic number inspired in name only by the bowl of blue liquid ("some kind of drinky drink") that was at the back of a photography exhibit in Oaxaca. "I had my guitar with me and walked out and wrote the song," he says. The bluesy stomp "Lexington County Jail" is what Easton calls the album's wild card. "That's the kind of song that some people wish my whole album sounded like that and others are like, 'What's that song doing on there?' It breaks up the middle of the record. If it was on vinyl, you'd flip it over, but here I put a few more seconds in between songs."
Break Your Mother's Heart also features two songs, "True Ways" and "Jon Gilmartin," by Brooklyn singer-songwriter J.P. Olsen. "I saw him play music in Columbus, Ohio, before I started playing out live," Easton says. "He was playing his songs mixed with Bob Dylan songs and Hank Williams songs, and he influenced me to get my act together. I still think he's one of the greatest songwriters, so I want to bring his songs to people as much as possible."
Easton will begin bringing those songs to people when his tour kicks off tomorrow in Minneapolis, with a full band behind him, and he's already looking ahead to the next album. "I've got a bunch of songs already and I'll be writing on the road," he says. "I realize that I'm never going to be that still for that long, so I might as well get used to traveling."
Saturday, February 1, 2003
Happy Birthday Mike Campbell!!!
Happy Birthday to the greatest guitarist in Rock 'N Roll! Mike turns 53 today. The official site says that he was born in Gainesville, but I have also heard Jacksonville. I don't care where he was born, I just know I'd be embarassed to look at a guitar, yet alone pick one up, if I was in his presence.
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