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.
Acted in 11
2000s
- 2008
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live from Gatorville
Movie
- 2006
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: 30th Anniversary Concert
Movie
- 2003
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Live at the Olympic (The Last DJ)
Keyboards
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert
keyboards
1990s
- 1999
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Docks, Hamburg
keyboards
1980s
- 1986
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation - Live!
Movie
- 1980
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Rock Goes to College
Performer
1970s
- 1978
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Old Grey Whistle Test
Movie
- 1974
- 1971
No release date
Del Shannon: The Runaway
Movie
Appearances19
2020s
- 2025
- 2024
- 2021
2010s
- 2015
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
- 2010
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Self
2000s
- 2007
- 2004
Live Aid
Self
1990s
- 1999
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - High Grass Dogs - Live from the Fillmore
Himself
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: VH1 Storytellers
Self
- 1997
- 1995
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Playback
Self
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 400 Days
Self
- 1992
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Take the Highway Live
Self
1980s
- 1989
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - A Bunch Of Videos And Some Other Stuff
Self
- 1986
Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
Self
- 1985
Live Aid
Self
- 1984
No release date
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
Self