Mike talks Future of Heartbreakers

**jbrownsjr** · #1 09-19-2018, 02:15 PM

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-petty-724996/

gldstwmn · #2 09-19-2018, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

https://www.arlingtontours.com/general-information

I see what you did there but don't you think using Arlington is just a tiny bit disrespectful to those who are actually buried there? Not just anyone can be buried at Arlington.

jeets2000 · #3 09-19-2018, 02:56 PM

I'm going to take a leap and assume the wrong link inadvertently got pasted here...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-petty-724996/

Mike Campbell on the Heartbreakers: ‘We’ll Play Again Someday’
Guitarist considering Wildflowers tribute show with guest singers, but don’t expect an arena tour anytime soon
By ANDY GREENE

In the immediate aftermath of Tom Petty’s sudden death last October, guitarist Mike Campbell believed that the Heartbreakers would never perform together again. “I just couldn’t think about doing that,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I thought it would just be too sad since we’d be missing our other brother.” But now that nearly a year has passed, he’s had a change of heart. “Of course we’ll play again someday,” he says. “We love each other too much not to do that.”

How exactly it’ll happen remains a question. Campbell will spend much of the next year, at the very least, on tour with Fleetwood Mac. During downtime, he’ll play gigs with his longtime side project the Dirty Knobs. But once his schedule opens up, he’s open to the idea of getting back with the Heartbreakers in some capacity, possibly after the long-awaited Wildflowers box set finally comes out. “It would be a great tribute to Tom to just do that album,” says Campbell. “We’d probably have four or five different guest singers with us. We don’t know who they might be though or when this might happen.”

One thing that’ll never happen, however, is an arena tour with the band playing Petty tunes with a new singer. “We’ll never go out with Paul Rodgers [who performed with Queen for five years] or someone else,” says Campbell. “Nobody can fill those shoes. I can’t fill them and I don’t know anybody else that I would want to fill them.”

Campbell says he’s more intrigued more at the Heartbreakers cutting new material with another singer/songwriter. “In the stretch of my imagination, if there’s somebody that we really respect that would want to do an album with a band, we could maybe do that,” says Campbell. “And if we made an album together and that felt really good and we wanted to go on the road as a whole, doing different songs, maybe there’d be a place for that in the future. But that’s just pie-in-the-sky talk. But it definitely would have to be all new material. It wouldn’t be going out and doing Heartbreakers songs without Tom. That would just be like…ugh.”

iamnotafraid · #4 09-19-2018, 07:56 PM

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Mike Campbell on the Heartbreakers: ‘We’ll Play Again Someday’

...he’s open to the idea of getting back with the Heartbreakers in some capacity, possibly after the long-awaited Wildflowers box set finally comes out. “It would be a great tribute to Tom to just do that album,” says Campbell. “We’d probably have four or five different guest singers with us. We don’t know who they might be though or when this might happen.”

Campbell says he’s more intrigued at the Heartbreakers cutting new material with another singer/songwriter.

Now I just wonder who would be one of the four or five
guest singers?

Cutting new material with let me guess who. Too easy.

Poor Mick isn't a Heartbreaker. #shegotmetoo.

Storms123 · #5 09-19-2018, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

Now I just wonder who would be one of the four or five
guest singers?

Cutting new material with let me guess who. Too easy.

Poor Mick isn't a Heartbreaker. #shegotmetoo.

FM really may be done after this

**jbrownsjr** · #6 09-19-2018, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Storms123

FM really may be done after this

They were done after the BuckVie tour ended.

bombaysaffires · #7 09-19-2018, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

Now I just wonder who would be one of the four or five
guest singers?

Cutting new material with let me guess who. Too easy.

Poor Mick isn't a Heartbreaker. #shegotmetoo.

"there are no girls in the heartbreakers"

iamnotafraid · #8 09-27-2018, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

"there are no girls in the heartbreakers"

Tom couldn't say that now. He'd get in trouble.

But now that Tom's moved on you can't keep
her out of the Heartbreakers.

She'll be there mark my words.

lovethemac1 · #9 09-22-2018, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

Now I just wonder who would be one of the four or five
guest singers?

Aunt Ruth maybe????!!!

vivfox · #10 09-21-2018, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by jeets2000

But it definitely would have to be all new material. It wouldn’t be going out and doing Heartbreakers songs without Tom. That would just be like…ugh.”

Isn't that what Mick Fleetwood hinted FM will do in concert? Just sayin'

Buster · #11 09-21-2018, 03:48 PM

Chris Stapleton would be a great person to sing material with the HB or to guest on tribute album (although I am not a fan of tributes).

As would Stevie. Projects like that, the 2006 TP tour, the Foo Fighters stuff, bring the best out in her.

She should’ve gone that route already instead of the new FM farce.

**jbrownsjr** · #12 09-21-2018, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Buster

Chris Stapleton would be a great person to sing material with the HB or to guest on tribute album (although I am not a fan of tributes).

As would Stevie. Projects like that, the 2006 TP tour, the Foo Fighters stuff, bring the best out in her.

She should’ve gone that route already instead of the new FM farce.

Buster, we have never agreed so much. I agree on both ends.

**jbrownsjr** · #13 09-19-2018, 05:03 PM

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I see what you did there but don't you think using Arlington is just a tiny bit disrespectful to those who are actually buried there? Not just anyone can be buried at Arlington.

Oh lord!! I was looking up touring places for WASH DC because I'm meeting Elle. And I copied the wrong link!!

So sorry.