Heartbreaker Benmont Tench on Sculpting Keyboard Sounds | Reverb Interview

Benmont Tench has been one of rock music's most well known keyboard players for decades. In this video he talks about the keyboards he started on and has some fun with effects through a Wurlitzer.
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[@jessievasser6293]

can we have a million more of these videos?

[@Quad8track]

Benmont Tench is an under-rated musician. An unsung keyboard hero.

[@markaochoa2017]

His words were so crafted. Love his playing

[@eddyvideostar]

Artistic babble.

[@makkietakkie]

Brilliant dialogue, I enjoy hearing his vision on the instruments. More like these!

[@collinpople1076]

Him and Campbell are both very underrated musicians in my book

[@MarkBourassaJr]

One of the best. This dude makes EVERYTHING better. Brilliant supportive and so god damn musical.

[@quietinterlude770]

Intro song sounds like Chris Joss's Tune Down

[@brooklynboy1000]

beautiful ! thanks

[@Putaspellonyou]

45 years and he's just scratching the surface...

[@eddyvideostar]

Puta: Thank you.

[@iwillnevergetone5]

fucking legend

[@BasswipeNC]

This guys is very interesting to listen to. You can tell this dude is a class act.

[@rafaelp993]

Effortless! What a talent!

[@ronwood355]

Ne of the best keyboard players in the world

[@jaytartaglia361]

This is cool but... where is the part where actually talks about his pedal board?

[@goldTopDeluxe]

what's the second pedal next to the delay?

[@vidablue700]

Does anyone know what that pedal is on the far right? Thanks

[@teunputker]

David Letchinger DOD Carcosa

[@sesa2984]

Love Benmont. Love any Heartbreaker, but he’s wrong about the synth and seems to be kinda narrowly defining what they are/can be.

[@TheRomeerome]

One of the Greta test keyboardists ever

[@michaelshenton5760]

Viva revolution!

[@creamydistortion]

Hell yeah smoke crack

[@eliotoole]

You got ugly ...🤣🤣🤣 Ben ROCKS

[@kgbinfo]

For someone who dislikes synthesis as much as he says he does, he sure is doing quite a lot of sound synthesis with those pedals there on top of his wurly.

[@uzinakash]

That's not really the synthesis he was thinking of, these pedals are just affecting audio, they are not creating sound by themselves like a real analog synthesizer would do...

[@pedalfiles4441]

Great player, but he should really give more tech a chance. For how much he talked of pedals he really needed an NS or Gate in his FX chain. I have never heard of someone who plays piano disliking synth... seems like a natural progression

[@gonzaloarcecalmet5743]

Freddie Mercury hated synths, at least in the seventees. :)

[@SBL-Unofficial]

Eh, he's been playing his massive, mostly electromechanical/acoustic keyboard rig with an A-level touring band for forty years. At this point he's earned the right to be set in his ways!

[@pedalfiles4441]

I honestly think its just from a lack of trying. This guy is great! He could probably make the coolest synth line you've ever heard, but as he explained he just can't "get the sounds" to come out.

[@zacfortin9023]

Federico Mercurio Producciones check this interview out. He talks about how he's really getting into synthesizers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGW7mJeNec2ph9k

[@mrchordstriker]

PEDAL FILES he is right about sounds coming from the head instead of the heart. But its guitars too. Some people are so techno you're like....wow so sophisticated...but it doesn't move me. Some musicians get it and that is just that.

[@eddyvideostar]

4:28 minutes: What is he talking about? He should just learn to play the instrument. The more time wasted fooling around with toyish sounds, the more this takes time away from his ability to master the pure instrument.

[@BarryWarne]

sound is a part of the instrument and most great musicians pay attention to shaping sound ~ a cellist is using fingers and/or bow to directly manipulate the sound. Same is true of a guitarist. Or singer. Technology is an extension of the instrument. Whether that's a microphone or a fuzz pedal, it all comes down to human expression coupled with curiosity. Toyish sounds have just as much (or more viability) as Serious sounds. Whatever taps into emotional expression.

[@eddyvideostar]

​@@BarryWarne Barry: In the years of yore, my wise uncle used to say to me: "Learn the instrument properly." In my older years, I was shunted from *fantasy to reality,* compelled to develop my chops, skills, and *business prowess* so I can partake of the most important aspect -- buttered bread! "A hungry man is an angry man" who will not digest the teachings of salvation. Another creative dog house (canned songs) adjacent to the music industry's skyscrapers, will not provide solace in the labyrinthine of the music business.