Stan Lynch - wikipedia Stan Lynch Stan Lynch Lynch in 1977 ( 1955 - 05 - 21 ) May 21, 1955 ( age 62 ) Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Occupation Songwriter, Record Producer, Musician Stanley Joseph Lynch ( born May 21, 1955 ) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He was the original drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for 18 years until his departure in 1994. Contents 1 Early years 2 The Heartbreakers 3 Departure from the Heartbreakers 4 Personal 5 References 6 External links Early years Lynch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., and moved to Gainesville, Florida, in the early 1960s. He began playing music as a small child. As a teenager growing up near Gainesville, Lynch determined that he would find a way to make a living with music. `` As a kid I had very little opportunity. I was a marginal student. I was n't going to college. My parents did n't have money. '' `` I played guitar and piano, and I always thought I was going to be a guitar player, '' said Lynch. `` The drums were sort of a happy accident. I did n't really think that they would be my ticket out of the ghetto. Choosing to be a musician back then was not like choosing a job, but an entire lifestyle. My father looked at me as if I were going to wear a dress and dance in the circus. '' Lynch was always involved in fights at school so his friends reasoned that the high - strung youth might be able to rip the aggression with drums. His parents made him take lessons before they bought him a kit, and he recalls with a laugh, `` as soon as I got my first set they took up tennis -- they just split, and I do n't blame them. '' The Heartbreakers Lynch started to work with various Florida bands, among them Styrophoam Soule and Road Turkey, and when he was 15 he met Ron Blair, who was six years older than Lynch. `` I remember he accused me of stealing an amp from him. Hell, I did n't steal it. I was roadieing for him ! '' Drums did n't absorb all of Lynch 's feistiness as his parents had hoped, although he stayed in school long enough to graduate from P.K. Yonge School in 1973. Lynch moved to Los Angeles, and hooked up again with fellow Floridian Ron Blair, during a recording session set up by Benmont Tench in 1976. The session also included fellow Gainesville native Mike Campbell. Benmont called Tom Petty, also from Gainesville, to ask for some help with some vocals. While they were taking a break Petty looked into the recording studio and thought to himself `` this should be my band ''. Petty had come out to LA with his band Mudcrutch, which Tench and Campbell were originally a part of, and had a recording contract. But once in LA the producers decided they were not keen on the rest of the band, so it broke up, leaving Petty basically a solo act -- something he was not happy about. But because he had the record deal already, after the break Petty went back into the studio and started his pitch. By the end of the evening, Lynch and the rest walked out as Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. After being with the Heartbreakers, Lynch calmed down. `` Tom told me, ' Look man, you can call anybody anything you want... but you ca n't lay a hand on anyone in this band. ' '' Even though he was still in the band in 1989, Lynch did not perform on any songs on Petty 's solo album Full Moon Fever, even though Campbell, Tench and Epstein did. For his part, Lynch felt that he had just begun to play well on the band 's fourth and fifth albums, Hard Promises and Long After Dark. `` ( I 'd ) gotten looser, more pliable over the years, '' he commented. `` When I listen to our first couple of albums, I think that I sound stiff. '' As Lynch 's ability increased, so did the offers to play with other artists, creating experience that covers a wide variety of musical territory. Lynch contributed to albums by the following artists : The Amazing Delores The Blasters Jackson Browne T - Bone Burnett The Byrds Belinda Carlisle Bob Dylan The Eagles Elliot Easton Eurythmics Aretha Franklin Don Henley Jackopierce Freedy Johnston Jim Lauderdale Eric Martin The Mavericks John Mellencamp Roger McGuinn Kevin Montgomery Scotty Moore Stevie Nicks The Nudes Rank and File Timothy B. Schmit Del Shannon Todd Sharp Henry Lee Summer Toto Warren Zevon Departure from the Heartbreakers Lynch left the group in 1994. His last gig with the Heartbreakers was on October 2, 1994, at the Bridge School Benefit Concert in Mountain View, California. It was immediately following this gig that Lynch left the band due to musical and personal differences with Tom Petty. After his departure, Lynch moved back to Florida, where he partnered with longtime friend Don Henley to help put together the Eagles ' reunion album Hell Freezes Over. He also has toured with the Eagles. Lynch gave away his drum sets and now works as a producer and songwriter in St. Augustine. He teaches children the drums a few times a week at a high school friend 's music store in Gainesville. Acts Lynch has produced include The Band, the Eagles, Don Henley, Jackopierce, Joe 90, Scotty Moore, and Sister Hazel. As a songwriter, he has co-written with or written for numerous acts, including Matraca Berg, Meredith Brooks, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Jeff Healey Band, James House, June Pointer, Eddie Money, Toto, Tora Tora, Sister Hazel, Ringo Starr and the Mavericks. Tim McGraw recorded `` Back When '', a song Stan Lynch wrote with Stephony Smith and Jeff Stevens, for his album Live Like You Were Dying. The song went to No. 1 in early December 2004. Lynch did reunite with his former bandmates in 2002 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, playing `` American Girl '' and `` Mary Jane 's Last Dance ''. Tom Petty had the following to say about Lynch, included in his 2005 book, Conversations with Tom Petty : `` Stan was a little younger than us. But he was a very good drummer and he was really conscientious, and he worked really hard. And he sang as well. He sang harmony. He was like our main harmony singer in the days before Howie. He was a powerhouse onstage. He reminded me sort of ( like ) Keith Moon in a way. He was so powerful I used to say he had this fifth gear that he could go into and just really make everything explode. He was really good at that, and he knew the songs really well. He and I had incredibly good communication onstage ; he could read the movement of my shoulder. He could go anywhere I wanted to go. He never took his eyes off me. Anything I did was accented on the drums. Any movement I made. We had great eye communication where I could turn around and look at him, and he knew just exactly what I wanted to do. '' Personal Lynch was involved in a five - year relationship with actress Louise `` Wish '' Foley whom he met while he and the rest of the band were on set shooting a production for the Tom Petty song `` Do n't Come Around Here No More ''. Foley played the main blond haired Alice in Wonderland character in the video. She was also in the video ' Make It Better ( Forget About Me ) ' References Jump up ^ `` The New York Times ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2012 - 03 - 10. Jump up ^ According to Colin Larkin, Gainesville is Lynch 's place of birth. Jump up ^ From Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers : Runnin ' Down a Dream spoken by Petty External links Berkery, Patrick. Stan Lynch, Modern Drummer, May 2008 Issue ( retrieved February 3, 2010 ) Moore, Jayne. Renowned Heartbreakers Drummer Stan Lynch Becomes Top Songwriter & Producer, Songwriter Universe Magazin ( retrieved February 3, 2010 ) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty Mike Campbell Benmont Tench Ron Blair Scott Thurston Steve Ferrone Stan Lynch Howie Epstein Studio albums Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers You 're Gonna Get It ! Damn the Torpedoes Hard Promises Long After Dark Southern Accents Let Me Up ( I 've Had Enough ) Into the Great Wide Open Songs and Music from `` She 's the One '' Echo The Last DJ Mojo Hypnotic Eye Live albums Official Live ' Leg Pack Up the Plantation : Live ! The Live Anthology Mojo Tour 2010 Compilations Greatest Hits Playback Anthology : Through the Years Videography Pack Up the Plantation : Live ! Playback Live at the Olympic : The Last DJ Runnin ' Down a Dream Songs `` Breakdown '' `` American Girl '' `` Anything That 's Rock ' n ' Roll '' `` I Need to Know '' `` Listen to Her Heart '' `` Do n't Do Me Like That '' `` Refugee '' `` Here Comes My Girl '' `` Even the Losers '' `` The Waiting '' `` A Woman in Love ( It 's Not Me ) '' `` You Got Lucky '' `` Change of Heart '' `` Do n't Come Around Here No More '' `` Rebels '' `` Make It Better ( Forget About Me ) '' `` Jammin ' Me '' `` Learning to Fly '' `` Into the Great Wide Open '' `` Mary Jane 's Last Dance '' `` Walls ( Circus ) '' `` The Last DJ '' Related articles Discography Songs Awards Mudcrutch Blue Stingrays `` Stop Draggin ' My Heart Around '' Unchained VIAF : 87365968 LCCN : no00062768 ISNI : 0000 0001 1476 9564 GND : 134703375 MusicBrainz : f89f56cd - 9fd0 - 4b47 - 8ba1 - c31cb1860be4 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stan_Lynch&oldid=821291076 '' Categories : 1955 births Record producers from Ohio American rock drummers Songwriters from Ohio Living people Musicians from Cincinnati Musicians from Florida Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers members American record producers Jewish rock musicians Hidden categories : Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March 2014 Pages using div col with deprecated parameters Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Norsk nynorsk Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 19 January 2018, at 15 : 29. 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Question: who was the original drummer for tom petty and the heartbreakers
Answer: Stanley Joseph Lynch