After Tom Petty unexpectedly died in 2017, his longtime partner in guitar and songwriting crime, Mike Campbell, found himself at a loss. But since then, he’s picked up the pieces and leaned heavily into his own band, the Dirty Knobs.
“Of course, I miss the Heartbreakers, and I miss my brother… that was very sad when that happened,” Campbell tells Guitar World. “But I’d always had it in the back of my mind that if the Heartbreakers ever retired, I would focus on the Dirty Knobs and make that my purpose.”
