Mike Campbell isn’t a fan of shopping for classic guitars – not less than, not anymore.

The previous guitarist for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, who’s at present main his personal band Mike Campbell & the Soiled Knobs, explains that touring with a smaller manufacturing has pressured him to be much more selective with the guitars he retains with him.

“Sure. I’ve a guitar obsession,” the musician admits in a current dialog with Guitar World. “I offered about 120 of them a few years in the past as a result of I don’t have room for them anymore.”

Campbell, who’s been a guitar collector for so long as he has been a guitar participant, provides that he has since give up shopping for them “as a result of I form of have certainly one of each guitar that I ever dreamed of.”

“At this level shopping for them is form of pathetic,” he says.

And whereas he nonetheless enjoys exploring his assortment of axes throughout studio classes, Campbell says his focus is on holding issues easy, bringing solely what’s crucial when he’s on the street.

“I play all of them within the studio, however I simply take just a few necessities on the street since you’re proper — it’s a smaller manufacturing,” he explains. “That features a Rickenbacker 12-string, a ‘56 Tele that Gene Parsons put in a B-bender on, and a white Firebird that I bought in a pawn store for 500 bucks on the Fleetwood Mac tour.”

“Now that I’m main the band and I’ve bought all this stuff I have to think about, the very last thing I wish to do is attempt a distinct guitar only for enjoyable. I simply need it to be in tune as a result of I’ve bought to consider different stuff now. It’s a distinct gig!”

Mike Campbell & The Soiled Knobs’ newest report, Vagabongs, Virgins & Misfits, is now out. Hearken to the monitor Hell Or Excessive Water feat. Lucinda Williams under.