<![CDATA[ Latest from Guitar Player in Tom-petty ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/tag/tom-petty Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “I thought it was just a little bit too simple.” Tom Petty almost gave away his biggest hit — five years after he wrote it ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/tom-petty-almost-gave-away-his-biggest-hit-dont-do-me-like-that Wj7aiovF5R6TRcgKpubaaj Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He said, ‘I’ll come. I was wondering what I’d do tomorrow.’” How George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne spontaneously created the 1980s’ biggest supergroup ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/george-harrison-on-the-spontaneous-garage-rock-origins-of-the-traveling-wilburys nk8MAMGDnDZWNyXxMumkob Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:22:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The only guy there was Tom. He told me he was done.” How Tom Petty broke up his band to form the Heartbreakers — and the musician he left behind ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/how-tom-petty-ended-mudcrutch-and-founded-the-heartbreakers 4cfn6PEXv98ZK9QPBahkER Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When they saw my guitar, they all laughed at me.” How Mike Campbell survived his toughest audition — in front of Tom Petty ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/when-mike-campbell-met-tom-petty WAWpgD8srmLL6kYs94owBK Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:47:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The last conversation I had with Tom, he said, ‘If I have to be in a wheelchair, I'm going to do it.’” Mike Campbell shares the best and worst of his years as Tom Petty’s guitar partner ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mike-campbell-on-his-years-as-tom-petty-s-guitar-partner U9CNiJWYrQLQihJhPcZcZS Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:06:46 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He said, ‘God, when I asked for a song, I didn’t expect this!’” Tom Petty and Mike Campbell on the song they couldn’t give Stevie Nicks — and the one they did that became a hit ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/albums-singles/he-said-god-when-i-asked-for-a-song-i-didnt-expect-this-tom-petty-and-mike-campbell-on-the-song-they-couldnt-give-stevie-nicks-and-the-one-they-did-that-became-a-hit 87yoCTy2kUNhQoY8D9zkVB Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:01:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He says, ‘That's the lick, man! How come he only plays it once at the end of the song? It's the whole hook.’” Tom Petty and Mike Campbell on how a chance meeting saved the Heartbreakers’ debut single from oblivion ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/albums-singles/tom-petty-and-mike-campbell-on-how-a-chance-meeting-saved-the-heartbreakers-debut-single-from-oblivion g593kM2tvJZkPw997TkkPG Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:12:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When I was in the hospital with my hand bigger than my head, I said, ‘What am I doing?’” Tom Petty on the freak accident that nearly ended his guitar-playing days ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/tom-petty-on-the-accident-that-nearly-ended-his-guitar-playing-days 33T8nZsVEe63sfH7SENAC3 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:54:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It’s the most misunderstood song I ever wrote. But some people said, ‘God! The audacity!’” Tom Petty on the song that defined him as a new kind of guitar-slinging American rocker ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/tom-petty-the-most-misunderstood-song-i-ever-wrote QtAf6vNbnS8qDL6a4ZfxUo Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:24:11 +0000 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:27:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We we’re playing basketball, and he said, ‘I want to do something different — like a circus.’”Roger McGuinn on Bob Dylan’s big breakthrough, meeting the Beatles...and his question after hearing Tom Petty for the first time ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/roger-mcguinn-on-bob-dylan-the-beatles-tom-petty-and-more 4kYbSkTUjWzpiYmsWN8mbi Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:42:33 +0000 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:15:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I got nervous, thinking to myself, ‘God, I can’t possibly follow that.’” Tom Petty played with George Harrison and Bob Dylan. But Crosby, Stills & Nash was the one act that left him literally shaking ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/tom-petty-on-crosby-stills-and-nash dMs7WJxYuAYxmgLUkEfbjN Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:47:10 +0000 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:30:08 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Bob turned around like, ‘What the eff are you doing back there? I'm trying to talk up here!’” Mike Campbell on the time he broke his guitar in two onstage with Bob Dylan with just one wrong move ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitars/mike-campbellp-broke-his-guitar-in-two-in-front-of-bob-dylan GDDbEyTSRRJgZdcihKq3LL Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:40:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I called Tom and was like, ‘Hey, this whole phrase is really good. You may want to write this song.’” Tom Petty's throwaway guitar riff was hiding between two songs on a demo tape. He turned it into one of the Heartbreakers’ biggest hits ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/rick-rubin-turned-tom-petty-s-throwaway-riff-into-a-monster-hit Mnc4PHBuk4EKzDbfQz5yrh Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:32:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ “People are always telling me, ‘That song helped me through the worst time of my life.’” Tom Petty on how he almost didn’t record his first solo hit — and how George Harrison helped save the day ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/albums-singles/people-are-always-telling-me-that-song-helped-me-through-the-worst-time-of-my-life-tom-petty-on-how-he-almost-didnt-record-his-first-solo-hit-and-how-george-harrison-helped-saved-the-day VzV6y4kAhRGoGo7eNWhsGU Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:35:09 +0000 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:46:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ “All through our career, every time we would play that song, I would feel that rush of adrenaline, as if it was the first time I heard it.” Mike Campbell on the Tom Petty song that stunned him at every performance ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mike-campbell-the-tom-petty-song-that-stunned-him-at-every-show LSYy7wQ9DmrafXHNSytAHa Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:26:23 +0000 <![CDATA[ “One day this kid came in, and it's Tom Petty. He wants to learn to play guitar.” Don Felder on his early years with Petty, Stephen Stills, Duane Allman and Florida's burgeoning rock scene ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/don-felder-on-teaching-tom-petty-and-meeting-duane-allman-stephen-stills wB2DzcnUMsyBUkHLCbqnh6 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:06:18 +0000 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:34:35 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It started with some mad experiment I was cooking up in my hotel room one night” Dave Stewart reveals how Stevie Nicks inspired one of Tom Petty’s biggest hits — which led to one of Mike Campbell’s greatest guitar solos ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/behind-tom-petty-dont-come-around-here-no-more H3e6Ry4dQ2w6iSYi4XWpPD Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:41:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We tried every guitar for weeks, and nothing would fit. And then, one day, we pulled this out." Mike Campbell on his "Red Dog" Telecaster, the guitar behind Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' "Refugee" and the focus of two new Fender tribute models ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitars/electric-guitars/fender-mike-campbell-red-dog-telecaster FSZjjgskfmeizfXaQ3UsLe Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:05:41 +0000 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:11:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It really pulled me out of my grief.” Mike Campbell reveals the offer to become Fleetwood Mac's guitarist saved him just months after Tom Petty's death ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mike-campbell-fleetwood-mac-pulled-me-out-of-my-grief utJefMUwauwSoVWQfhFhWK Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:30:23 +0000 <![CDATA[ “What's magical is when you can feel the quarter note... That's where the drama is.” Al Di Meola reveals his indispensable tool for rhythm guitar playing — and it doesn’t involve your hands ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/al-di-meola-rhythm-guitar-playing dcLyvvWWddA8Zm32DEVrdA Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:43:44 +0000 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:37:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ "This is the guitar that didn’t get away — and it never will.”Mike Campbell says it's the original Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers sound, and the guitar he can't live without ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitars/mike-campbell-the-tom-petty-era-guitar-i-cant-live-without LcBrqQ8jDukvu8MVyeohC4 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:55:09 +0000 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:32:23 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Rhythm playing is a lost art.” Tom Petty shares his greatest advice on rhythm guitar playing in a long-lost 1997 interview ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/rhythm-playing-is-a-lost-art-tom-petty-shared-his-greatest-advice-on-rhythm-guitar-playing-in-a-long-lost-1997-interview 6PtHaarJ9anygeLr56pHoQ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:30:29 +0000 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 03:33:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I Can See in People’s Faces That They Really Feel His Presence. I Feel It, Too”: Mike Campbell Talks New Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Release, ‘Live at the Fillmore 1997’ ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/i-can-see-in-peoples-faces-that-they-really-feel-his-presence-i-feel-it-too-mike-campbell-talks-new-tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-release-live-at-the-fillmore-1997 GF55zHVCxDJhS5JamA4MyF Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:13:13 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Prince Rip One of the Greatest Guitar Solos in Music History During This All-Star Rendition Of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/watch-prince-rip-one-of-the-greatest-guitar-solos-in-music-history-during-this-all-star-rendition-of-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps pRbadjHeQ6FPU9VYCZSvkK Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:57:56 +0000 <![CDATA[ Rickenbacker Boss John Hall Endorses “Definitive” New Book at London Launch ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/rickenbacker-boss-john-hall-endorses-definitive-new-book-at-london-launch gT8MZXPm9gXdnDMEo5RAQj Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:28:13 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:08:24 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch a Re-Cut Video of Prince's Legendary "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Solo – Featuring More Prince ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/watch-a-re-cut-video-of-princes-legendary-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-solo-featuring-more-prince WigutSmmvpHpPjyEz3N7ye Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:09:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ Gibson Unveils New Tom Petty SJ-200 Wildflower Acoustic Guitar ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/gibson-unveils-new-tom-petty-sj-200-wildflower-acoustic-guitar vMxP2FKNDUMhRzzHV4BjBa Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:20:32 +0000 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:38:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ Orianthi, Slash, Tom Petty Signature Models Headline Gibson's 2021 Acoustic Lineup ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/orianthi-slash-tom-petty-signature-models-headline-gibsons-2021-acoustic-lineup vdmk8SAntVoRRx8Bv3Mqxk Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:31:11 +0000 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:04:42 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch "Free Fallin'" and "American Girl" from Tom Petty's Final Show ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/watch-free-fallin-and-american-girl-tom-pettys-final-show 93C7WWt4mbGf6pfYSxgwgV Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:20:09 +0000 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:01:06 +0000 <![CDATA[ Mike Campbell Reflects on His Long Career as the Rock Guitarist's Guitarist ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/mike-campbell-reflects-on-his-long-career-as-the-rock-guitarists-guitarist kQnwbfqEf4CdYA8oWxiwvi Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:33:10 +0000 <![CDATA[ Learn 10 Easy Acoustic Guitar Classic Rock Songs Right Now ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/lessons/learn-10-easy-acoustic-guitar-classic-rock-songs-right-now 9xW6c52Dq76JV7DNJ7crjg Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:38:22 +0000 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:34:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ Tom Petty and more on the story behind Prince’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” solo – and the mystery of the disappearing guitar ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/tom-petty-and-others-tell-the-story-behind-princes-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-solo gUj7MeAK3Y8cH6gZdJaUHT Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:30:24 +0000 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:03:49 +0000