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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Janelle Borg

“I didn’t like it, but Tom said, ‘No, it’s great. Now you’ve got to double it’”: Mike Campbell on the riff he wanted to ditch – but Tom Petty made him double down

Tom Petty & Heartbreakers.

Mike Campbell has looked back on the making of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' American Girl, for which he had to get creative with his trusty 1951 Fender Broadcaster.

Like the rest of us, Campbell has one guitar that he prizes above the rest. For him, it’s his trusty Broadcaster, which has crafted the quintessential guitar tone of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and many projects beyond.

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