My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is Peter Northcote, a professional guitar player of some 50 years career experience based in Sydney Australia.
Peter is in all probability the most recorded guitarist in Australian music history. He has toured and performed with some of this country's biggest music acts including Darryl Braithwaite, Dragon, Jenny Morris, Margaret Urlich, Richard Clapton, John Farnham and Jimmy Barnes. He has also performed with international acts such as The Monkees and Tom Jones.
Having lived the life of a top session musician in Sydney doing at times up to 10 recording sessions a day, if you live in Australia you would have almost certainly heard Peter's guitar work on advertisements for major companies such as Toyota, McDonalds, KFC and many others.
As a composer and player he has more than 300 original compositions to his credit with his production music being featured on major USA television programs included Oprah.
The conversation covers a wide variety of topics including making a living as a musician, balancing the requirements of running a business while maintaining creative energy, being a sideman vs the front man, reading music, running a recording studio, understanding harmony and doing what you want to do in life.
Finally viewers get to see and hear Peter perform a beautiful arrangement of a lesser known Lennon and McCartney song, 'She's Leaving Home' as a collaboration between host and guest at the end of the conversation. This features Peter on electric guitar with Brian Hayes on pedal steel guitar.
You can reach out and connect with Peter Northcote at www.peternorthcote.com.
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