Peter White - Driving With Dave Koz

I'm Dave Koz and this is

driving

with me and there he is, ladies and gentlemen, everyone's favorite English guitarist, don't tell any other English guitarists. I said I'm never wrong, there are more than you know, many English guitarists. true, there are not several but you are my favorite you want to move that seat a little back you brought everything on your harmonica you brought where your compression box is you don't need to be better it's not every day of the week that you have a private concert in your car from Peter White to be the new Money Colding, go tougher on Parkinson's, yeah, it's not about I need to play, you'll calm down what people would paint big.

I bet you could make like $10 for a lot of people. and you know what the other thing is about Peter White in case you don't know, Peter White knows all the songs, so for example, if I say right now, play the look of love, they play classical gas, but the butterflies You see, not all of them go. Look, I noticed this yesterday, it's a huge swarm of butterflies that started in Mexico and they are flying back to Oregon, why are they in Burbank on the way when you can be in what you can't in Santa Monica?

Well, I'll be in Bourbon okay, he flew off northwest to go back to Oregon, now the other thing you get with Peter White is these kind of little things that you don't necessarily know. He is a very thoughtful man, he has many things on his mind. It's amazing It's amazing how you have so many things in your brain You have kind of a big head I didn't realize how to use it right Baker Street What do we do with that drive in D minor at the same time? How about any Beatles songs that come up? How did those guys write so much indelible music in such a short period?

It was incredible Smithson, three of them, John Paul and George, who were together since they were teenagers and they all found themselves being incredible musicians and All the songwriters meet at the same time and that is creating a group that is bigger than just one person in the band. Who is your favorite composer or composers? I mean, that's one of the things we talk about a lot. The art of songwriting is just so you know, I mean, I'm a very important king and you're so good to many artists, but to me songwriters are above artists, the song Rogers lately, what if the songs are the same?

Personally, though he knows what started with the Beatles when I was a kid, I first learned to play guitar if I'm going to do a show on the cruise dedicated to explaining how I got started with human music, rather than what was. my first inspirations and that was probably the beginning right there and you had formal training like formal musical training at some point I had lessons from you know and I had musical training in school my father actually told me to read music what did you play best? Sir. Dannon played the piano well, but here's an interesting little piece of information that no one knows.

I actually dropped out of music education in school when I was 15 because, get it, I didn't think there was anything they could teach me like I hadn't already done it. I know I couldn't understand it and I'm not sure I was wrong, but not everyone is like I did. She is wonderful. I don't recommend this, yes, but for you it worked fine. me because I'm still here and what brought you to Los Angeles because it wasn't like you came here to become a star necessarily, there wasn't even that format that we have, we had smooth jazz, it wasn't even when I was in London.

I live in London. I was very lucky to meet a singer called House Dude and I started playing on his bad side. If I was really around to play the piano, in one I already had a guitarist and in two I didn't even have one. I know he could play the guitar but he could play the piano. I received piano lessons. I continued playing piano, so I joined his band and we had great success. Well, I say that you know, we recorded now, but until the year of the cat that was released. In 1976 it was huge and it became huge all over the world except England, what was the high point that made you stop being an accompanist?

By the way, I'm sure you made a good living supporting other artists. What was inside? that's what you said you know what I think I can I can do this on my own I can be a guitar star what happened I can feel exactly how that happens One day I moved Tony on the radio and 94.7 which was km et make the mighty men and it was a hard rock station, they played Led Zeppelin, that was my station because, you know, I love listening to classic rock in those days, it wasn't classic rock and it was just wrong and they changed the format and everything.

Suddenly I heard this explosion called acoustic alchemy playing acoustic guitar music with the band. I thought, well this is cool, it actually seals the butterflies. a slow, you know, up until that point the only time you heard instrumental music on the radio was jazz and I certainly wouldn't consider myself a jazz player or an easy listener, but this was very serious and the music played later. I discovered English guys I thought well if they can do it maybe I can make an album and at the same time the 94.7 record that used to be the rock station became the wave as we all know in Los Angeles and they started playing Al Stewart music. in which I appeared and they started playing passion music in which I appeared and I hear myself playing the music and I don't get any recognition and they fight one afternoon I heard Don Burns remember oh yeah, that was a foul, Stewart and I come on.

No, technically it was me, I was on the record, it was his song, it was actually a song that he had written that he didn't actually play again with a peg played on the guitar, so I'm thinking, what do you know? need to get recognition for my own playing I thought, well I had to make an album and put my name on the front, that was around 1989, right in life when everything was converging, all the radio stations started playing, a lot songs didn't work. and then I turned them into instrumentals, what was the name of that album, someone speeds it up, yeah, vision I can't pronounce right, it's French, he had to excuse it too, that was an apology for the food, everything, so I just told you you realize Getting back to the touring side, you really love it.

I mean, I've seen it firsthand. Your relationship with the audience is so powerful and the people we have been to England and shared the stage in England, instead we shared the stage in a many places England for the first time for the first time I will never forget it, thank you very much, but I'm playing your time passages, but I wrote this song, the title track, but you would really love it if you had to choose between producing. writing music, being in the studio or playing gigs, I would think that just meeting you, being in front of an audience and making music in that real-time situation is your favorite part, is that right?

Know? This is how I see Italy. We know that we learn to play our instruments practically in isolation, we write, record and arrange a lot in isolation. There are many times when you have to go deeper into yourself. That's where art comes from. You have to go deeper into yourself. and putting it out there and something that can be lonely and for me, when you go out for the first time and play a song in front of an audience and you get the recognition, you get a round of applause for me, that kind of reward for all the effort that went into making it. music.

I think it's a yes, it's always an important part of watching TV or listening to your surround sound system. If someone comes to the show and wants to stay and say hi, it's the least I can do, but with thousands of shows on your Bill and literally with you, it's been thousands of shows over your career to still have the energy to do that, that's what's awesome and I think people really appreciate it, although we'll stop here for a second and I want to do it just so I can play a little saxophone, okay, okay, what do you want to do this?

Without a doubt, my favorite Peter White song might be one of my favorite songs of any order. You see, you can take the man out of rock and roll with your conflict. man's rock and roll, will always be there with you, let me tell you this as we wrap up our show here, but you already know, I love you, I appreciate you doing so much, you've given the world so much fun. entertainment amazing music and a great spirit I think musicians are the coolest people on the planet because of music, music is the only authentic thing we have in life and you have been doing it so generously giving of yourself to so many people around you. the world for so long, but it's going to say on behalf of all of us that we love you so much, thank you so much, truly, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you, there is no one in the world like Peter Whyte, yes, you.