Mark Agnesi talks vintage guitars with guitarist Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
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The Dirty Knobs’ frontman Mike Campbell’s unique approach to songwriting and versatile playing style helped shape the sound of seminal artists including the likes of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, and Don Henley. You can bet with a career as illustrious and long as he’s had that he has the guitars to match.
In this episode of “The Collection” host, Mark Agnesi heads to “Knobville” in Los Angeles to talk shop with Mike and see where all the magic happens. The two go deep into Mike’s arsenal, including several Gibson classics like the 1960s Gibson SG Jr that he picked up at a video store and used on Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream.”
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Guitars featured in Mike’s collection:
1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard
90s Gibson Firebird V with Johnny Winter’s signature
1965 Gibson Firebird III
1965 Gibson J-200
Gibson Double Dove
Early 20’s Gibson L-4
1937 Gibson L-00
1959 Gibson ES-335TD
1968 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop
1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom
1964 Gibson ES-335TDC
1962 Gibson Les Paul SG Junior – the guitar on ‘Runnin’ Down a Dream’
1963 Gibson SG Standard
1969 Gibson ES-150TDC
1957 Gibson Les Paul Junior
1954 Gibson ES-175TDN
1960’s VOX Teardrop XII
1950 Fender Broadcaster – the guitar on ‘American Girl’ & First two Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers records
1964 Fender Stratocaster as used by Tom Petty and track ‘I Need To Know’
1956 Fender Telecaster B-Bender – The Mudcrutch guitar
Duesenberg Mike Campbell 40th Anniversary
1963 Rickenbacker 625-12 – The ‘Listen To Her Heart’ guitar
Rickenbacker Custom
Gretsch Country Gentleman
1962 Gretsch White Falcon
1960’s Mosrite Ventures Model
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49 Comments
Did Not like the video but the Music is great.
Every time he plays a bit on one of those guitars, it sounds so good, and familiar. Sweet.
He Misses His Buddy Tom ❤
How often do those guitars get dusted and who does it? 😅
Thanks for this gents, very interesting. My heart jumped everytime a guitar was picked up, with all those knocking noises, no damage done I presume ? Mark really knows his stuff.
That 59 in the beginning is in such scary mint like condition its crazy.
Mike's voice sounds just like Tom's. Like they were brothers.
Well now that carousel is now officially the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
Here is the thing I think about when I see these episodes. Where are all these guitars going to go when these men pass on. I’m hoping some of them come available. A chance to own a piece of history. It’s just to bad now days whoever gets nominated to sell (usually a family member) they put some crazy unrealistic price tag on everything. And some should. Anyway I think about that.
Incredible collection .
Sure is a wicked amount DNA on those fretboards.
You're a very great player, no doubt about it, Mike. But please, TAKE THOSE DARK GLASSES OFF INDOORS!! Be at peace with yourself, and let your very soul come out..instead of that r'n'r cliche
Mikes wife sounds like an awesome lady!!!
He is like Gizmo😂
My favorite episode of the collection series. Mike Campbell is chill and totally unpretentious—the best kind of artist, the kind of person you would love to just hang out with and jam. He loves the guitars for their sound and aesthetics…he is not especially interested in the details/specs as much as his deep love of music that pours out of these gorgeous creatures in his hands. I am now watching this episode the third time.
No wonder I cant find nothin yall have it all hoarded up. I don't blame you
Mike is cool
I feel SHOCKED…
Great collection. It's uncanny how similar Mike's voice and demeanor is to the late, great TP. Certainly no wonder how they worked so well together.
The intro solo to Boys of Summer and the riff to Runnin down a dream, music that moves you.
You left out he played guitar in George Harrison's last public concert performance in London.
I love this series. Just found it today.
Do guitars influence what they play?
I took a hollow body Gretsch, as part of a trade. No intention of keeping it. Just in the act of cleaning it up, in order to sell it, I got sucked down a path of playing Rockabilly, which was a ten year long blast for me.
I had played for decades before this happened, and that was a complete surprise for me. It fired a spark that I had not felt in years. It inspired me to learn new things, and it was the guitar's sound that I give all of the credit.
dazed and confused is a telly
One of my very favorite guitar players.
Such a cool cat! The marriage between cool and tone.
man I love Mike Campbell guitar tone he had the sweetness of the clean tone with the two princeston In the stereo, it is dirty crunch guitar in Lead solo is always through
vox ac30 non top boost ! The 6 hole with the tremolo channel. The non-top boost model while it doesn't have as much gain on
Tap, has a super similar smooth overdrive that is really rich and harmonically with the right overdrive in front of the amp like a klon Will sound
great!
channel it's a little bit
Mike is right when he talks about the guitar sounding really good and feeling good it doesn't matter what year it is sometimes you just get a guitar with a really good piece of wood it resonates it's more lively and because that guitar has p90s in it of course you're going to be able to hear the natural tone of the wood and it's going to be more clear and more detailed and it will not overpower the natural tone of the acoustical properties of the wood. I work for Gibson custom shop in Gibson USA 23 years on neck line. I also was a frat filer front and neck setup guy at the custom shop when we used to do it by hand in the 90s. As well as I worked in final assembly at USA. I was always picking up guitars and testing them out just to see how many guitars would stand out to me in a rack of 25. And I found usually one or two guitars would sound noticeably better than all the rest of them in the rack of 25. I just had a really good lightweight body in the wood was not as dense . And if the neck is probably next fitted for a good snug fit it will transfer more vibration and residents from the strings from the neck to the body. Typically a lighter weight guitar usually sounded better and had better tone it was livelier and more resonant. Also you might get lucky in the pickups maybe they're around a certain way and they just sound a little better sometimes 😮😊
Wow even that acoustic guitar sounds really good! 🎸🎶 It's not overly boomy it's very lively you can tell you know the frequencies are right there that you want to I mean it's obvious that Mike Campbell has a really good ear! No matter what he buys he trusts his ears ❤!! As a true musician should
Why when Mike just casually strummed the strings with his fingers on that broadcaster you could literally hear and feel how loudly and projected the tone of the guitar which was very well balanced it seemed to really punch out like it was very lively resonant! I mean the guitar actually had tone without even being plugged into the amplifier! I understand why he picked all these guitars he's got a damn good ear!
Thanks Gibson, Mike is not only one of the best, he seems like a really cool guy.
That's an actual mathematical equation,
Q: How many guitars does a person need?
A: Current stock plus one,
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Excellent interview,awesome job 😮 really surprised on how many Gibsons with P90s!. I'm a big fan of those.i have them on my 2005 Lp Surpreme. Again thank you and Mike for filling my heart and mind with your knowledge of such great and wonderful Guitars. Chow guitar Rebel Lio Galveston, c ya soon…
Morning coffee and talking guitars and stories is how to start a day
that tele finger cheese is grim!
Such a great guitarist
I love the Rick Nielsen episode! But Mike hands down has the best coolest Gibsons! Those acoustic guitars alone were unbelievable!!! That J-200 and Double Dove man now that's a pickguard worth showing off! Stunning
Such a cool guy. Great interview. I really get the feeling he picks out many of his guitars because of how the look, feel and sound; without realizing their rarely or collectibility. Also love the stuff that focuses on, like the wood grain or the deep color. Great stuff, but he also makes me miss Tom even more; they were magical together.
I love whenever anyone mentions Luther Perkins!
"Wow! This is a shablagoo 20773! The specs on the skronkle were only there for 3 months"
"I like it because it looks shiny and it sounds like an angel plays it"
That's it. That's the video. And I love it.
Trust me if Tom was still alive and they wanted to do one of these with him there’d be too many to do in the clubhouse
So this is where they got the idea for the Gibson Garage from.
The sunglasses thing,???
As for effects and pinch harmonics be careful to not use either of those "touches of color" with your playing. Some guitarists are only recognized by such things. Not necessarily their playing skills. Zak Wylde, pinch harmonics in every sing he plays. All over it. Kirk Hammet uses his wah wah 99.99999% of time in his solos.. if those guys released something and they didnt use those things. No one would know who was playing.
All jokes aside, Mark really knows his history and guitar history. Starting back from his days at Norms. Him getting the Gibson gig really was the job only Mark was qualified for
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On of my guitar heroes of all time
And yet, he played a telecaster on all of those hits.
I was willing to straight up trade a les Paul custom for a country gentleman. the owner refused.
Mike Campbell embodies cool. It oozes from him in every way imaginable. He's one of those heroes that you actually want to meet. One of my favorite episodes of "Collection".