Mike Campbell understands the importance of matching his electric guitar tone to whatever song he’s playing. It’s a well-honed sense that was in clear evidence when Tom Petty & the ...

Mike Campbell was Tom Petty’s right-hand man throughout his career. They started playing together as teenagers in Mudcrutch, moved to Los Angeles together and honed their music together, along ...

Mike Campbell reveals how he and Tom Petty developed the guitar tandem that defines the Heartbreakers' classic sound Phil Weller Thu, May 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM UTC ...

Fender has partnered with The Heartbreakers guitar veteran Mike Campbell for a new signature guitar, the Red Dog Telecaster – a meticulously recrafted electric guitar inspired by Campbell’s ...

“When I first met Tom, he was writing on guitar, but he mostly played bass in the band that we were in, Mudcrutch,” Campbell says in the new issue of Guitarist.. “When we got to LA, I had a ...

The Mike Campbell Red Dog Telecaster is being offered in two editions, one a $20,000 Masterbuilt electric guitar, hot out of the Fender Custom Shop, the other fresh out of Corona, ...

Mike Campbell explains how a lifelong connection with Tom Petty was forged in a matter of days – and the guitar was central to it all Andrew Daly Wed, May 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM UTC ...

As Campbell revealed to Rolling Stone, he cut the song’s original slide guitar solo, only to suggest Harrison try it instead — which he did, resulting in the tune’s indelible lead guitar break.