But it must be more difficult for the person who's been successful for a long time on their own terms, and then all of a sudden something fails.Yeah, you don't sell records. But a lot of people think the same thing and it doesn't happen for them.Oh no, no. The Del Fuegos were originally an Oberlin band that Dan Zanes, Warrens older brother, started with some college friends; Warren joined after Andover. Longtime Petty manager Tony Dimitriades fired Lynch on the phone shortly after the show, and the drummer didnt say a word to Petty until the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. The Heartbreakers are hardly a case study in intolerance. Yeah, you tank. As were driving, hes making me haul ass, and he says, Stanley, driving a Ferrari fast, thats what a groove feels like. At the gig, Marley had the place hypnotized. But I don't buy that whole thingI think most musicians really want attention and they want to be heard, and it's great! Because my nature was to be there 20 minutes early with fuckin' bells on! It wouldn't sound the same if it wasn't Keith Moon playing the drums.Oh absolutely, but at the same time, it's Pete Townshend protecting his idea. I interviewed Stan for Vintage Drums Magazine (a now defunct British publication) in 2018 and we got deep into his gear for Damn The Torpedoes. Stan Lynch's income source is mostly from being a successful . It's like, for me, "Thank God Tom sold a lot of records 'cause now I can enjoy making music!". So the core values are that I'm really comfortable with it, and I always was. We both started smiling at one point and went, We got something here. I didn't know that there were good and bad ways to make it. Is there an example of Stan Lynch being behind the beat on a Tom Petty song? Its because hes trying to succeed at something that his own family failed at, sometimes dramatically. You haven't taken it too seriously.Oh, no! That is what I thought rock'n'roll was. I sat and talked to him a year ago, and it was like my long lost brother. That may be. "Oh! Then I heard him at a gig talking to a guy in another band. Unless there's other people that recognize it, that go, "Oh, he's in a cycle.". (The Del Fuegos lasted for one more album before disbanding; Dan Zanes went on to be a fixture on the childrens-music scene.) He takes a Sharpie and signs it for me for every Beatle and hands it back to me. [laughter] I mean, I know that. And I cant tell you what you can and cant write., Oct. 2017: Tom Petty on life support after cardiac arrest, according to reports, The result is a penetrating profile in which Petty opens up for the first time about his heroin addiction, something he had sliced out of Peter Bogdanovichs four-hour documentary, 2007s Runnin Down a Dream. Zanes also coaxed Stan Lynch, the ex-drummer of Pettys longtime backing band, The Heartbreakers, to talk unflinchingly about his falling-out with Petty. I get a good chapter out of this. Collaboration is a whole other thing, you have to let the collaboration happen, and that's a wonderful lesson to learn. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. [laughter] That's a totally appropriate description of my career at times! Send us a tip using our anonymous form. So it helps you to step back and maintain that perspective. Heres the important point. In Lynchs mind, it was a Heartbreakers song. And yelling and protesting. I tried being late to rehearsals like everybody elseI tried to act disinterestedbut it all backfired on me! This was unsettling for everyone in the group besides Campbell, who worked extensively on the album, but Lynch voiced his objections the loudest. I just couldnt look at it. The idea for a new unauthorized Tom Petty biography came from a surprising source: Tom Petty. He remembered me from the tours. Family of Tom Petty Partners With Gun Safety Group for Voting Ad, One night, they started warming up backstage by singing Stories We Could Tell, an obscure John Sebastianpenned song that Petty and the Heartbreakers often played in their early days. You stumble upon George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Petty in Pettys office, jamming. But sometimes it's tough; it's not a democracy. It still blows my mind that that shit that I remember cutting like it was last week is still somehowviewed asREAL! Stan Lynch page 1.jpg. I'm interested in rock music, literature, cinema, and doing research in Cultural Studies. He didnt ever get a trampoline out and do a backflip. A couple of the guys I worked with always thought when we were kids that rock stars were better than other people. He is from OH. Now there's a book in itself." Any book about the fifty-two-year-old Lynch would surely be an entertaining, fairly hilarious read. 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. Are you up for it?, Lynchs first instinct was to decline the offer. I promise you.. I don't get the angst. Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. If you're the kind of person who's an addict, or if you know somebody who's an addict, get help! No matter how hard I tried, they saw through me! He makes a big noise wherever he goes. He didnt want it to be authorized because he felt like authorized meant bull-, says Warren Zanes, whose Petty: The Biography arrives next month. And you just let him go. Call somebody you respect. Tom Petty has had too many hits for some critics to be fully comfortable with him. Oh, my my, oh, hell yes, did Lynch serve those songs well. I knew that there was the capacity within that group to push boundaries, he says. Stan Lynch. . But we dont mind our heroes being human. 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. Below Deck Sailing Yachts Daisy Kelliher Is the Best Chief Stew. Better to have rocked and lost than never to have rocked at all [laughter]. That's God's little way of telling you to collaborate. srlynch@stanford.edu. Stan said no to the interview between three and four times. Stan: Oh, yeah. The entire band was displeased by those decisions, but Stan was the most vocal. We're a rock band! Stan did everything he could to get fired, Petty said. You first encounter Petty as a fan and then, youre in this rock band, the Del Fuegos, and opening up for these guys. 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. 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. I have regrets. They were laughing their asses off, says Lynch. In a world of headlines, this is going to be a big one. I'm Bihter. 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. The Heartbreakers sent Howie to rehab. But it's a wonderful thing to know that I'm on a journey now. We all know who the super managers are, we know who the good labels are. 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. -Liberty DeVitto Hewitt2 Senior Member Sep 15, 2020 #2 His parts fit those TP songs so well. 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. Lynchs portion of the tour was slated to kick off April 23 in Boulder, Colorado, so he had plenty of time to prepare. It became like, "Well that's pretty stupid that he's not acknowledging this." But the last time I tried, I dont know if he was in a better spot, I reduced it to, Stan, I will fly down there, rent a car, come to your door for 20 minutes. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. So that one, just take it on, don't sidestep that one. 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. 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]. I was wearing this brocade jacket and had long, bushy blonde hair. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame drummer-turned-successful songwriter/producer (for Don Henley, The Eagles, The Mavericks, Ringo Starr, and Tim McGraw, among others) and tree farmer (a gig he describes as part Zen, part holding on for dear life, and not unlike playing with Bob Dylan) is an opinionated, intelligent guy who doesnt mince words or sugarcoat memories. If I ran a record label, probably one of the first things I'd do is drop half the roster. Well that was one of the best interviews ever John! I had gotten the phone call signifying one part of my life was over. To me, it was like, "Who gives a fuck? Which is great, I mean, that means you certainly don't have to compromise! Now, if you're trying to tailor your work to the widest possible audience, then I don't know if you can reconcile those two things. I felt like all of the uniforms and emotional and metaphysical stuff about being a drummer, Id sort of outgrown. Youre at Pettys house at a Christmas party. But other times I've been in a room where you just strike an E chord and the guy starts singing. Otherwise, I listened to what I already had.. And I interpret that in any way I can: that means spiritually, financially, they know the rudiments, they know their scalesthey've done their homework! 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. Im really proud of the legacy. I didnt want to find out anything that would compromise the mans dignity, Zanes said. 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! 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. Copyright 2023 Modern Drummer Publications. Stanley Joseph "Stan" Lynch (born May 21, 1955) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. But usually, in all of those great bands, there's a lot of creative contribution by all of the musicians. And I also probably would have told myself, don't waste any moments in terms of those six months between tours, where Tom's writing, you should be writing too. So that was the perspective I had immediately. I mean, some guys bat .310 one year and then the next year they bat .145. Stan Lynch joined Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1974 when Petty's piano player Benmont Tench recruited him. That was probably part of the charm was that I didn't know, and I think the very thing that used to be charming became a burden to [the Heartbreakers]. Location. There sat the fantastic coffee. [laughs], But I'll bet you're glad you stayed that way.I think it's the only wayto thine own self be true [laughs]. Receive updates & special offers from Modern Drummer and our advertising partners. I mean, somebody dies, or somebody hates itto get a run, a creative run, is amazing, period. Tons of them. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Stanley Joseph "Stan" Lynch (born May 21, 1955) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. But it hasn't taken over your soul.No, no. Stan Lynch, the bands longtime drummer, who eventually quit in 1994, is unsurprisingly the most critical of Petty. But it's wonderful to be in a band, if I have to leave somebody with a thought: it's wonderful to be in a band, even if it's just for a short period of time. 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. This is the first time Im talking about it in any depth.. Any book about the fifty-two-year-old Lynch would surely be an entertaining, fairly hilarious read. And George Harrison looks at me and says, Its Brian Jones, back from the dead. Of course, George knows enough what a man who wants an autograph looks like. He left the band in 1994 due to personal differences with Petty. A couple things. That time Tom Petty kindly asked Michele Bachmann to stop using his song in her campaign. It never felt that strange. USA. What do you do if you've had a long run of success and then your music goes out of style with the public taste, your sales are flagging, and there is a lot of pressure from people to change. Lynch reflecting on his time in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: There were many things that were not said that should have been said. When the director of Goodfellas decided to make Personality Crisis, a documentary about David Johansen and his alter ego, Buster Poindexter, he wanted it to be a family affair. Other cats, you never get to them one way or another, they never go high and they never go low. Thats 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 his first solo album. Rock drummers seem to be almost expected to be troublemakers, and early on you had that reputation. 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. Someones passing a joint through the balcony and Denny says, Thats what a feel is. He was just being helpful in his very 70s way. Artists, Interviews 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. The interview was conducted by Jeff Sims, guitarist of the Dixie Desperados and lifelong friend of Lynch's. Lynch and Sims attended Westwood Middle School in the 1960s and would play music. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? They get busy trying to control the story. You learn them. So I wanted to put the drums down. Zaness visits to Pettys compound inMalibu began in 2012. So it was no small surprise in late 2021 when Lynch picked up his phone one day and heard Campbells voice on the other end. They Took a Third Date to Costa Rica. Then Covid Trapped Them There. If you're actually really good, and they don't get it, you can actually believe that you're wrong and they're right. I couldn't get over it, I always was much more lighthearted about it - even in the darkest days of my drug frenzy, which lasted a full month [laughter]. And then I was working with Rick Rubin on a session I think it. Stan Lynch is really an overlooked player in rock. I love that record as much and in some cases more than any of the classic Heartbreakers albums. What do you do when you lose inspiration for a period of time? It's very incredible. I park and go to the lounge outside his studio. Heres why hes finally talking about it. Stan Lynch page 2.jpg. ', When he heard about Pettys death in 2017, Lynch says he was shocked, but not completely surprised. I couldn't believe that I was the odd man out. So he tells me hes taking me to a Bob Marley & The Wailers gig, and he flips me the keys to his Ferrari. It there something hypocritical about it? He was the original drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for 18 years until his departure in 1994. I get it. Stan Lynch was the original drummer for The Heartbreakers. Songwriter, musician. I just learn from them., Campbell feels the same way. . Hi! And it hasn't taken me very seriously. When he gets into a rock band, thats like the second chance to have a family. No, I don't sign autographs," that kind of shit. I wish somebody had told me that. 90.9 KB Views: 172. But other people will drag things out of you and it's beautiful if you let it happen. They were very bright men. But hes never really opened up about his split with Petty and the band. I reintroduced myself. As a fan, I have to grumble that Pettys never been given quite the same level of respect as, say, Bruce Springsteen. Another intense moment in the show is Southern Accents. Midway through the tour, Campbell changed the lyrics from Theres a dream I keep having where my mama comes to me/And kneels over by the window and says a prayer for me to Theres a dream I keep having where my brother comes to me Its a change of just one word, but its had a profound impact on the crowd. And certainly in Pettys life, it was a big deal when he and George Harrison came together. And whatever I was playing in didnt even feel like a band. My cat could have a record deal! Tom Petty was always part of the bands DNA. Lets get back to the ground rules for this book. What do you do in that situation?I think the real question then would be: what are you in it for? He described us as not his main gig. His only encounter with Petty in the years that followed took place in 2002 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and the only communication he can recall from guitarist Mike Campbell in the two decades since that night was a brief phone call in 2017 shortly after Petty died. It's funny, you know, working in a band is a chop; it's just another chop. Im intrigued by your place in this story. A lot of people in this business seem to forget why they wanted to be there in the first place, their values really change a lot. Stan: Tom had basically told me I wasnt the right drummer for him anymore. This article was published more than7 years ago. And I said "Hey man, it must be fun working with so-and-so", and he goes, "Yeah, thank God I sold a shitload of records 'cause now I can hang around and make records till the money runs out!" Out came Petty, walking his walk, carrying the manuscript. I pretty much showed up at his door the next day, and he said, Welcome to the next chapter.. I wont get into all that, but we were young and stupid and full of too much testosterone. We didn't know any of these things! Hell, it certainly hurts when you spend a year and the record isn't noticed. Id need you to play a leg of the tour. The next incarnation. [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!" But the fact that these guys hung out with me for so fuckin' long is like - oh my God! I was still young and I didnt really understand what he meant by groove and feel. I remember asking Denny, What does that mean, can you quantify that? It was like, "Well that'sinteresting Stan, what are you gonna do to support yourself?" Youll know it when you know it. Sure enough, we went back to the studio and we got two tracks that night. Man, we used to have a joke in the first band I was in, which was: lower your goals and succeed! I dont know what it would mean to them since they have a lot more miles than I do, but it would be a joy for me., Campbell says hes not ready for something like that. I favor Petty. I havent been a drummer since I was in my thirties. So I think that if you're flat, if you've hit a point where you just don't know where the hell to turn, that's usually somebody's way of saying, "Man, you need a bro.". He now resides in St. Augustine, Florida, not far from his and his former bandmates' home town of Gainesville. 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. The drummer looked back and opened up about his time with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers during a recent appearance. The presence of a Beatle is a thick presence. I imagine it's him saying, "You know, I'm only gonna put the best shit on my songI don't want one of these to die; they're hard to come by.". Not all artists understand that. And he said, This is really good. He sounded just like Tom Petty when he said it. Stephen Lynch Science & Engineering Assoc, Chemistry. Then today, as soon as his tour bus hit Philadelphia, it all began again with three more. Theyre all playing but stop because this kid ran into the room with this Beatles magazine. Or, you know - go grow avocados for a year! He couldnt go from music into politics, and Bruce Springsteen could. With $100 in his pocket, Stan Lynch drove his dad's VW bus from Florida across country to L.A. in 1974. Yet, you've actually taken better care of yourself and remained healthier mentally and physically than many of your contemporaries.For me it was always - I really wanted to live! If you know right from wrong, you speak up. And at the beginning of that second day, it began with Stan asking, Do you mind if I lie on the couch. I was lucky enough to be the guy taping it when he let a lot of that stuff out. I have regrets. ', Editors picks John needs Paul. 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. So I think that a lot of people made their best work when they were hungry 'cause they had to. He didnt like the record. 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. The coolest thing about this is that I get to put a bookend on a really, really long book of life, he says. You tell the person that you love, if you love them - or if you need them, maybe you have a symbiotic relationship where if they die, you die, career-wise - you tell them, "Look man, I know right from wrong, and this what you're doing is wrong. Stan was the lone extrovert in this band of introverts. I just couldnt. And - no, I shouldn't! Its not just because you need the band to make the music. Your contract. I wouldnt want to cheapen it or do a watered-down version., Theres been talks of a one-off tribute show where the Heartbreakers would play with guest singers, but Campbell says he cant even envision that. You keep this band together. But they're in it for a different ride. Well, if your ego gets in the way and that's what's dominating your thinkingThat would be so sad! 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. Otherwise it can becomeit's just fetishism, it's just "This is my personal fantasy"of what everyone will love. Earlier this year, Stan Lynch reunited with his former bandmate, Mike Campbell, when Campbell asked him to join him on the road with the Dirty Knobs. Guys at that level of success, I think they meet fewer people where they think, this could be a friendship. And it reverberated for years, some people never got over it. When he gets married, its the same thing. It really came out very intense, at times remorseful, at times angry but he helped the book immeasurably. I've heard talk about taking the best of the 1997 Fillmore. And I think among American rock-and-roll bands, theyre the very best. When I heard from Mike, I almost said, Thats probably not a good fit, but I appreciate the offer. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestions. Work. I was pleased to see that was still there. The behind-the-scenes look at my books, from research adventures to promotion gambles. I know Im not a great singer, but I can get the point across, he says. I had to remind myself that I was full-grown man. The eleven-year-old who first heard Breakdown was always close. I first met you around 1978, and the thing that's really struck me is that basically you've remained the same person all that time. There was a lot of things that were not said that should have been said, he says. Books: * Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman (nonfiction picture book); illustrated by Ty Templeton . Those that have done their homework and that are honest and humble, you can't stop 'em! If anyone is going to think heroin is an option because they know my story of using heroin, I cant do this. And I just had to work with him and say, I think youre going to come off as a cautionary tale rather than a romantic tale. But I wanted to show that Tom Petty is a man who lived the bulk of his life in the album cycle. Born. We apologized to each other for being assholes and young and stupid, says Campbell. Sojust pick a time. 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. 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. His aunt hounds him for autographs at funerals. Joined Jun 3, 2013 Messages 1,601 Reaction score Youre a guy who wants to write songs now. By submitting, you agree to receive communications (emails & texts) from Modern Drummer. All rights reserved. I think, like Michael Jordan always says, that the fundamentals are what make people great. Personally I prefer Stan's style, but Ferrone is excellent in his own right, and I agree Wildflowers was a big peak for Petty. Stan: Absolutely. But you follow your gut on that one. This is the birth of the Wilburys. 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