Benmont Tench
Biography
Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and one of contemporary music’s finest organ players, piano players, anything- with-keys players. In addition to all of the Heartbreakers recordings, Tench has played on records by Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, the Dixie Chicks, the Replacements, John Prine, Waylon Jennings, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, just to name a few.
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Movies (26)
The Session Man
as Self
2025
Heartbreakers Beach Party
as Self
2024
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
as Himself
2021
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Mike Campbell: The Guitars
as Self
2012
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
as Self
2010
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
2008
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
as Self
2007
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: 30th Anniversary Concert
2006
Live Aid
as Self
2004
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ)
as Keyboards
2003
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert
as keyboards
2003
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
as Himself
1999
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers
as Self
1999
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg
as keyboards
1999
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback
as Self
1995
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days
as Self
1995
Tom Petty: Going Home
as Self
1994
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live
as Self
1992
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - A Bunch Of Videos And Some Other Stuff
as Self
1989
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
as Self
1986
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation - Live!
1986
Live Aid
as Self
1985
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Rock Goes to College
as Performer
1980
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
1978
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at Rockpalast
1977
