Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell insisted that his “conscience is clear” on his conductor Tom‘s Died 2017 of a accidental overdose.
“I don’t torture myself [over Petty’s death]”Said Campbell, 75 Guitarist In an interview published on Tuesday, March 11.
The death of Petty at 66 years old sent shock waves through the rock community, especially after the relationship of a coroner determined that a mixture of opioids – including fentanyl and oxycodone – in his system has contributed to “mixed toxicity of drugs”. Rock legend had gone through periods of drug use throughout her life, but cleaned in 1999 when his future wife, Dana Yorkconvinced it to go into a detoxification treatment.
Campbell explained in his new interview that even if he recognized that Petty was no longer sober towards the end of his life, he thought it was impossible to go to his longtime group companion.
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“With Tom, it was like,” your private life is yours, and mine is mine. I can see what you do, but out of respect for you, I will trust that you will do the right thing. If you need me, call me, “he recalls. “I could have gone to him and say to him,” Hey, you have to cut this S – “, which I did once to manage him. But the thing with Tom was, you could say that and he would look at you like: “But I’m Tom Petty. I will do what I want. Get out of my face. “”
Campbell suggested that “the sides of [Petty’s] The personality ”has always made it difficult to get closer to the musician with whom he worked for more than 40 years.
“He was intimidating, but there was love there. I think that one of the reasons why we stayed together is that we have kept our separate privacy. We have not socialized so much tour, “he insisted.
The last time the pair worked together, it was only a week before Petty’s death, when they concluded their 40th anniversary Visit to the Hollywood Bowl in September 2017.
When Campbell was in a hurry why he did not “entered [Petty’s] Face “About his notable decline, the musician replied:” I do not torture myself. My conscience is clear because Tom knew that I knew, and Tom knew that I did not force him and that I did not face him. »»
The guitarist added that there was “an invisible understanding” between him and mean about their personal life.
“I did not have to face him, to know what I felt,” said Campbell. “As I said, there was no second thought or reservations on the release of the tour. In fact, the last conversation I had with Tom about it, I said, “Are you sure you want to do this? Are you up to it? He said, “I don’t stay at home. I go out. I want to do it. If I have to be in a wheelchair, I will do it. I said, “Ok, so what?” He said: ‘Well, when the tour is over, I will go get my [hip] surgery. We are going to write other songs, make another record. It was the plan.
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Campbell continued: “It was a bit as usual. I know that Tony [Dimitriades]Our manager spoke to him and gave him options like: “We can postpone this. You can get your surgery now. Tom said, “I need to be there. I want to play with the group and we will do it. I’m doing well. So I don’t have a second reflection on this subject. I don’t fight like this. I miss they – the same with [Howie Epstein, the Heartbreakers’ bassist, who died at 47 in 2003] – But I did everything I could.
Since the death of Petty in 2017, Campbell and crowded Neil Finn joined Fleetwood Mac to replace Lindsey Buckingham following The acrimonious departure of this last guitarist group. Campbell wrote a dissertation on her career with Petty called PuzzleTuesday March 18.
