', But when he went to speak, he found himself tentatively agreeing to the plan. I keep going back to this band and I cant help but feel like the reason the Heartbreakers wont die, cant die, is because Pettys family was so dysfunctional. Yeah, you tank. That was 30 years ago. So that guy who is hellbent on keeping things together, because that is who he is, keeps his band together. The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History I think I have some Tom nuances in my voice. I felt like all of the uniforms and emotional and metaphysical stuff about being a drummer, Id sort of outgrown. My take on that record is that I like bands that count to four and play loud. ', When he heard about Pettys death in 2017, Lynch says he was shocked, but not completely surprised. As a fan, I have to grumble that Pettys never been given quite the same level of respect as, say, Bruce Springsteen. The last tour that they had Howie on, in the days prior to the tour, he was stopped by police in a stolen car with Carlene Carter with black tar heroin. Stephen Lynch Science & Engineering Assoc, Chemistry. And he's also one of the biggest displays of the pitfalls from beyond success: drug addiction, overindulgence, friends that aren't friendsthe peripheral players that just kill you, they bleed you. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. Id gone from Madison Square Garden to being a bike mechanic. He was working on a bike when he first heard Runnin Down a Dream, from Pettys 1989 album Full Moon Fever. And I thought, There he goes. If you, at 45 now, were to run into yourself at 20, what advice would you give to yourself?Whew! It made a big difference for me, and I believe my participation made a huge difference for them., Lynch has stayed on good terms with Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench during the past 30 years, and the drummer is very open to the idea of one day playing with all the surviving members of the group in some capacity. The next incarnation. Occupation. Stan said no to the interview between three and four times. . Stan Lynch, the band's longtime drummer, who eventually quit in 1994, is unsurprisingly the most critical of Petty. I sat down at the drums and I didnt know whether to cry or barf. It became like, "Well that's pretty stupid that he's not acknowledging this." Combine that with a finely honed sense of dynamics, a big signature tone featuring huge toms and in-your-face snare, and an uncanny attentiveness to every moment of a performance, and you may as well have custom designed the ideal rock drummer. Born. A lot of the times Id just be focused on what I was doing, but then Id turn around and be like, My God, its Lynch and hes fuckin smoking it! Thus, the rocker said he has tons of regrets regarding his time with the band. Guitar Saved Me!: Jeff Beck Looks Back in Never-Before-Heard Interview Audio I have regrets. Zanes also coaxed Stan Lynch, the ex-drummer of Petty's longtime backing band, The Heartbreakers, to talk unflinchingly about his falling-out with Petty. I've been extremely curious about what's gonna happen if? "The coolest thing about this is that I get to put a bookend on a really, really long book of life," says Stan Lynch, second from left, of reuniting with Mike Campbell, third from left. When we got back together for the Bridge School Benefit it was just misery. This was unsettling for everyone in the group besides Campbell, who worked extensively on the album, but Lynch voiced his objections the loudest. God bless 'em! And some bands that have been together for 10 minutes, it's 10 minutes too long, and some bands that have been together for 20 years are just right. So I think a smart band leader has gotta be a good casting agent and a benevolent dictator. Ok, here's another attempt to post my Stan Lynch interview. 90.9 KB Views: 172. That's good advice for a lot of people now who have home studios and sit in them by themselves.Yeah, you need a muse. A couple of the guys I worked with always thought when we were kids that rock stars were better than other people. What do you do in that situation?I think the real question then would be: what are you in it for? So you never bought into the whole idea that rock'n'roll is just for rebellious kids?No, it wasn't a personal rebellion for meit was a joy and also a way for me to draw attention to myself [laughter], which was what I always wanted to do. I don't get the angst. Theyre all playing but stop because this kid ran into the room with this Beatles magazine. A totally different sound, yet completely him., Zanes enrolled in Loyola and spent the next twelve years in universities, eventually getting a Ph.D. from Rochester University in Cultural Studies. He didnt want it to be authorized because he felt like authorized meant bull-, says Warren Zanes, whose Petty: The Biography arrives next month. They got me a Beatles magazine from 1965, the year I was born. During a three-night stint at the Roxy in L.A., in the mid- eighties, Petty got in touch and invited the group to his place in Encino. But a lot of people think the same thing and it doesn't happen for them.Oh no, no. What would I start doing, polling people in high school? The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Rumble Doll, Jun 12, 2015. Then youre at this party and you hear rumblings that George Harrison is in the building. In Pettys interviews with Zanes, he was as forthright and honest as he is in his songs, talking about his abusive father, his failed marriage, and his heroin use. Ask Amy: Im still hurt by what my daughters did after their sisters death, Carolyn Hax: Embarrassing son is back home after losing his job, Carolyn Hax: Teen turns against mom after his dads death. 'Cause I mean, an artistic life is a pretty bizarre life anyway, a lot of artists don't ever get paid till they're dead, they're not even noticed - and even then! In light of your experience of being in a band for so long, what advice would you give to band leaders to help the chemistry; what do you think is the best possible way to bring out everybody's creativity in a band situation?The truth of the matter is the best bands, including the Beatles and the Stones and the Who, have a core of creative fire to them that needs to be nurtured before the other people need to be nurtured. And he was dissing Stan Lynch for being behind the beat. Tom Petty was always part of the bands DNA. To me, it was like, "Who gives a fuck? And Im a guy that always wanted to be in a band. Without doing any research, I couldn't tell you what erstwhile Heartbreaker Stan Lynch has been doing with his life for the past three decades. I pretty much showed up at his door the next day, and he said, Welcome to the next chapter.. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. It was really my only ticket to ride, that was it. The original four Breakers are all upright as far as I know, he says. They Took a Third Date to Costa Rica. 2023 Cond Nast. Stan had never heard me sing before, and he was the main harmony singer with Tom. They preferred the punkier numbers, like Even the Losers and Refugee, to the Byrds-ier T.P. Most people collaborate, and sometimes I've been in collaborations where the person is basically just using me as a sounding board, and that's all that's required. There was a lot of things that were not said that should have been said, he says. Later on, Stan Lynch worked with many other prominent names like the Eagles, Eddie Money, Toto, and Ringo Starr. In interviews and subsequent history, it sounds like he could be challenging to deal with, but almost the entire Tom Petty catalogue that constitutes the core of his legacy features Stan. He makes a big noise wherever he goes. And in five minutes or so, Tom Petty comes out. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. But sometimes it's tough; it's not a democracy. He didnt like the record. I'm Bihter. Really hurts some guys. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, In some small ways, the experience mirrored a very difficult time in Lynchs career with the Heartbreakers when Petty cut 1989s Full Moon Fever as a solo album and asked the band to learn the songs and tour it with him. Lynch contributed to the bands first eight albums, and he served as the bands original drummer for two decades until he decided to leave in 1994. So that one, just take it on, don't sidestep that one. [laughter] I mean, I know that. Oh yeah, that one never changed. Stan Lynch had a different take on the situation. Go to AA meetings, whatever it takes! When original Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch was let go from the group in 1995 or excommunicated, to use his own term he started a new chapter of his life in Florida as a producer-songwriter and rarely looked back. Also: recaps of my international speaking engagements and pop culture oral histories featuring beloved figures of books, music, TV, and movies who rarely if ever have been interviewed. There are times I wish that Petty was more of a self-promoter if only so that his songs could travel a little more widely. Other cats, you never get to them one way or another, they never go high and they never go low. I figured, "Well I'm off the road, my job's done, whoopeeee!" And they don't! You learn them. And thats not a judgment on Bruce. by Robyn Flans. I get it. Flash forward to the 1980s. Im suddenly in this room holding a magazine. By virtue of his band staying together and the quality of the musicians, the Heartbreakers are a singular story in popular music. We never even tried one of my songs., When the tour ended, Zanes left the band and went back to New England, drifted around, and ended up in New Orleans, where he became a bike mechanic. 79.6 KB Views: 141. Because my nature was to be there 20 minutes early with fuckin' bells on! But I don't buy that whole thingI think most musicians really want attention and they want to be heard, and it's great! No matter how hard I tried, they saw through me! And if you need me to explain it to you any better than that, I will. I felt like, perhaps, Id made all the noise I could. Because theyre so good. I wish somebody had told me that. But it hasn't taken over your soul.No, no. That's when you've hit the real essence of collaboration, where you know you've found your partner. I've heard talk about taking the best of the 1997 Fillmore. Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. It's inside your navel, man. Like God, I couldn't believe it, we'd get off a bus and people would be screaming and yelling and I couldn't fucking believe it! Also, I could never really close doors on people that were important in my past. He couldnt go from music into politics, and Bruce Springsteen could. Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Just listened to an interview with Jimmy Iovine on the Howard Stern Show last year. The drummer realized after some point that he didnt want to be in the band anymore due to the personal and musical differences he had with Tom Petty. And then I was working with Rick Rubin on a session I think it. Warren became vice-president of educational programs for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And I'm going [excitedly], "We're making 300 a week!" The idea for a new unauthorized Tom Petty biography came from a surprising source: Tom Petty. I was so vibed. We both started smiling at one point and went, We got something here. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. His father beats him. This site is nonprofit, but is not a registered nonprofit organization or entity. I'm not overly celebrated; I feel like I was given just the right amount of notoriety that I could handle. I grabbed him and told him what I needed to tell him. But if you changed you'd be compromising what you've been all about. Petty gave him complete editorial freedom, and told him that he could interview whomever he liked, because thats how Tom Petty does things. Pettys only condition was that he get to read the completed manuscript and be given the opportunity to respond to anything he felt needed it. Collaboration is a whole other thing, you have to let the collaboration happen, and that's a wonderful lesson to learn. having this conversation," he said in a 2003 interview with Newsweek. And when it happens, its certainly a big deal. You don't know you're gonna make it, you don't know you're gonna get over. Here are a couple of albums Stan has worked on that are worth checking out: Barry Sides "Broken Hearts Broken Strings", Dixie Desperados , Drew Copeland and Gregg McMillan's first solo album. This is the first time Im talking about it in any depth.. Stan: Oh, yeah. ), Drummer Talk 271 Agents and Managers 301, Recycled Percussion to perform in Super Bowl Pre-Show, Semisonic Drummer Slips on Ice, Breaks Hand. Great attitude, he knows how funny this shit is, he knows it's all Spinal Tap. When I hear that old shit on the radio I can't believe that it's part of the musical vernacular, that it's been accepted for so long as real. Tensions were thick backstage at the Bridge School Benefit, but the Heartbreakers still delivered an incredibly moving acoustic set featuring You Dont Know How It Feels, I Wont Back Down, Free Fallin' and, appropriately enough, Time To Move On. Heres a gorgeous rendition of Learning To Fly. Nobody knew it at the time, but it was Lynchs final gig with the band. Heres the important point. You know? I was pleased to see that was still there. I didn't know; I was so unsophisticated. All rights reserved. Ive thought about having different singers up there doing the songs, but why? No, I don't sign autographs," that kind of shit. In addition to academic papers on rock, he wrote the 33 and 1/3 book on Dusty Springfields album Dusty in Memphis. Around 2000, he stopped listening to new musicexcept for Tom Petty. Now, everybody has a CD. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. The presence of a Beatle is a thick presence. But then, I know guys it didn't hurt. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. I think, like Michael Jordan always says, that the fundamentals are what make people great. Having Stan [Lynch] play on that is very cool. Like I know Fiona Apple makes great records, but I can't listen to it because there's so much angst! I had to hit myself in the face with one of those lights; when you wake up, you wont remember you were ever in a band. It's really nothing to have a record deal now, it doesn't mean anything. And I couldnt wait for it to end, he said, sipping his coffee. We're a rock band! So, how much is Stan Lynch worth at the age of 67 years old? [laughter]. He left the band in 1994 due to personal differences with Petty. 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Books: * Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman (nonfiction picture book); illustrated by Ty Templeton . Lynchs portion of the tour was slated to kick off April 23 in Boulder, Colorado, so he had plenty of time to prepare. I was ashamed. So you pick a really good time, when everybody's sober, when you've got everyone's attention, and usually you preface it with a lot of love and caring, or a desire to see a full life with them. In the warts-and-all film, Lynchs multi-faceted role as steady drummer/class clown/cheerleader/ball breaker/whipping boy was discussed at some length, though his side of the story was represented mostly through older interviews. Original Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch recently joined an interview with Rolling Stone. And he, being the leader of the band, had to do most of the work around it. 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Youre a guy who wants to write songs now. It never felt that strange. Very few go forever, you know. The coolest thing about this is that I get to put a bookend on a really, really long book of life, he says. I promise you.. I think he was invested in being caught in that cycle in part because there was so much movement in it all that the trouble from his past was kept at bay. I had gotten the phone call signifying one part of my life was over. Lynch isn't looking for the spotlight anymore, though, according to his interview last week. Last week, Stan Lynch was interviewed at the Matheson Museum in Gainesville, Florida. Well, if your ego gets in the way and that's what's dominating your thinkingThat would be so sad! MD: What was your state of mind when you finally got the call that you were fired from the band? It'd be so frightening if your life really hung on that balance, on that fulcrumlike if I was actually sitting here going, "God, the demographic of people that buy records is, uhhh, 18 to 24! We talked about how you deal with the external circumstances changing, but what about internally? He had signed with Zildjian by the time of this MD interview, but he used Paiste 2002s on Damn The Torpedoes. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Stan Lynch's income source is mostly from being a successful . He could have handled things better, and his mistakes were mainly related to miscommunication and immaturity. I knew that there was the capacity within that group to push boundaries, he says. Now all those fans have got good reason to celebrate. The Heartbreakers are hardly a case study in intolerance. One day, Pettys manager, Tony Dimitriades, called Zanes out of the blue and said that Tom had read Dusty in Memphis and wanted to have dinner the next time Warren was in L.A. For Zanes, who had a new baby at home in Cleveland, It was all I could do not to leave right then. When they did meet, Petty said that the Dusty book had inspired a song, and that he wanted Zanes to come to his house to hear it. He's like, cool looking, great bass playing, beautiful soul nothing burned him! To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. There was a time when they were so glib and articulate, it really was like being around the Marx Brothers or something. We played with X, we played with Gun Club, but we never stopped loving Tom Petty, Zanes said. If I look up and see Mike Campbells butt in front of my drum kit, its kind of like Im home., Opening night in Boulder was heavy on material from the two Dirty Knobs albums, but they also dipped into the Heartbreakers catalog with songs like Refugee, Runnin Down a Dream, Southern Accents, and You Wreck Me. As the days went by, they started sprinkling in additional oldies like Listen to Her Heart, When the Time Comes, and Casa Dega., Im still learning to be a singer, says Campbell. I'm very comfortable with it. Stan Lynch joined Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1974 when Petty's piano player Benmont Tench recruited him. Confirmed guests include Jim Keltner, JR Robinson, Rick Marotta, Stan Lynch, Gregg Bissonette, Lenny Castro, Luis Conte, David Garfield, Rich Mangicaro, Ross Garfield (aka Drum Doctor), Harry McCarthy . [laughter] And the trick is to stay out of your own way, and to stay out of everybody else's way. I know what youre feeling, so get on a plane. So I did. Theres more to this interview! Date:circa 2000Interviewer: Lee FlierInterviewee: Stan LynchNotes: I found this when browsing an old capture of MusicPlayer.com from the Wayback Machine. Drummer Talk 272 State of the Union (So What IS Up? To that end, Stan opens up the treasure trove, eager to share his secrets for maintaining vitality and integrity in a business that can easily rob the unsuspecting of both. But if its all of us without Tom, theres this big hole in the room. All I know is that I have very selective memory about the whole experience, very positive. And you just let him go. Which is great, I mean, that means you certainly don't have to compromise! My music life especially has always felt very cartoonish! It's funny, you know, working in a band is a chop; it's just another chop. And I wonder if you have any idea what the core values are that have helped you to stay sane, and also to grow as a person as you've gotten older and avoid becoming stagnant or bitter.Well I have those days.stagnant and bitter, that would describe several weeks of the year. You just say well, you coulda done, or you shoulda done, or would youand what you're really saying is "Why didn't you do it my way?" They held on trying to keep that band together. Moral dilemmas, relationships, parenting and more. Tom Petty was a heroin addict in the 90s. Location. Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal, shown in a 2003 file photo, is a numbers person in what is, at its heart, a people business. Probably best known for having been the longtime drummer and founding member of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Lynch has also toured the world with Bob Dylan, and written and produced songs for Don Henley, the Eagles, the Mavericks and many others. And so I have regrets, but they dont hold me back. But other people will drag things out of you and it's beautiful if you let it happen. In 1970 or 1969 when I told my father I was gonna become a professional musician, I may as well have told him I was gonna wear a tutu and dance with bears in the circus [laughs]. He had had encounters with people who did heroin, and he hit a point in his life when he did not know what to do with the pain he was feeling. . And on the far end of success: not having that doubt, taking yourself so seriously that you refuse to even believe that there's a chink in your armor and that you're real. It also fucks with the legacy. That's when it fell apart with Stan." The tensions between Lynch and Petty had been building ever since the late 1980s when Petty recorded with the Traveling Wilburys and followed that up with. Mike is a pivotal player in a previous life of mine. For puttin' up with that - God bless 'em! At the end of the process, as was their agreement, Zanes sent Petty the book, and then flew out to California to hear his judgment in person. Otherwise it can becomeit's just fetishism, it's just "This is my personal fantasy"of what everyone will love. When original Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch was let go from the group in 1995 or "excommunicated," to use his own term he started a new chapter of his life in Florida as. If you're the kind of person who's an addict, or if you know somebody who's an addict, get help! having this conversation," he said in a 2003 interview with Newsweek. And - no, I shouldn't! Percussion group Recycled Percussion has a unique, In the early hours of Friday, January 13, Dave had his, LA Weekly just released an article detailing Gadd and, 2 sold-out Twin Cities shows have been called off, Jazz and fusion drummer Alphonse Mouzon died on Sunday. The funny thing is, I really wanted to fit in so desperately, even up to the bitter end. And certainly in Pettys life, it was a big deal when he and George Harrison came together. In retrospect, I look back at that scene, in that office, and I think that maybe its the happiest Ive seen Tom Petty by looking at his face. It was still like.this is incredible, I don't want to die here, this is great! They were very bright men. When I heard what happened, it put me right down on my knees, literally. The other night I looked down during that song and there was a woman in the front just sobbing, says Campbell. I didn't know that there were good and bad ways to make it. That was probably cut more around the time of Greatest Hits in 1993, but it fits in. It's two immovable objects that hit each other at 100 miles an hour, what is gonna happen? Opt out through the unsubscribe link in any marketing email. I was feeling very insecure about them. He wrote songs, they recorded those songs, they put a record together with artwork, they released it, and they went out on the road to support it. And when the set lists and all that stuff went away, I was really lost. You just have to be man enough to hear it, rather than keep trying to change it. 6,156. It was like, "Well that'sinteresting Stan, what are you gonna do to support yourself?" And whatever I was playing in didnt even feel like a band. I love the scale of life here I always have, drummer Stan Lynch told the crowd of about 80 people listening attentively in plastic folding chairs. They werent officially named the Heartbreakers until they came together in Los Angeles in 1976. So Denny, in that perfect English accent, he blows a big cloud of smoke and says, Stan, if you leave all that shit behind and just play the groove, theyll always misinterpret you as tasteful. That was brilliant. The musician revealed that he wishes he had handled the situation in the band in a more proper way regarding his departure. We have estimated Stan Lynch's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. . www.moderndrummer.com "You're never fired, you're just not asked to do the next thing". Below Deck Sailing Yachts Daisy Kelliher Is the Best Chief Stew. [laughs] You know, but back in the day - here we go, Grandpa Shitpants speaks - in 1970, to have a record deal meant something, that was a discriminator: "Well I have a band" "No wait, I have a band and we're signed!" At 45, Stan Lynch appears to be comfortably making the transition from archetypal wild rock drummer to trusted elder statesman - all the while retaining the same enthusiasm that made him stand out as a drummer, showing a keen interest in helping young artists through the struggles of building a career. The Del Fuegos were originally an Oberlin band that Dan Zanes, Warrens older brother, started with some college friends; Warren joined after Andover. Stan Lynch joined Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1974 when Pettys piano player Benmont Tench recruited him. Work. Walking like Tom Petty walks. Other guys, it looks like they went to business school to be rock stars. So I think that sorta nailed it on the head, I heard that and I never forgot it. 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