“The strap came loose, the amp was up, the guitar was up, and the neck broke off. Bob turned around like, ‘What are you doing back there?’” Mike Campbell recalls breaking his guitar in front of a live audience – in the middle of a Bob Dylan show

Bob Dylan on stage with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Mike Campbell, Heartbreakers' guitarist, is in the background.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist, Mike Campbell, has recently recalled an incident involving his beloved 1962 Gibson Les Paul SG Junior, during which his guitar snapped in two in front of a live audience, right in the middle of an impassioned Bob Dylan speech.

“I'm on tour with Bob Dylan, with Tom [Petty] and the Heartbreakers. We're at The Forum here in LA [in 1986, as part of the True Confessions Tour] and I had this guitar on and I'm standing there trying to be cool,” Campbell tells Gibson TV.