I’ve have the great pleasure of knowing this multi-talented and very personable human. He scored a TV pilot I made. I even talked to him yesterday. Frankly he’s a unique and fun piece of American history. Thanks for interviewing him and letting even more people know who he is and some of the great body of work he’s contributed to (and they probably weren’t even aware of). And the stories he tells are better than gold (and Bitcoin lol).
This interview took me back to those screwed up times of an era just writhing with uncertainty of humanity . Don Peake thanks for sharing the insiders modest observation and view of first person and did what you had to do to make it in the world back then .
I already made a comment upon hearing the amazing duet...but wow Don what an amazing career you've had. You've played with most of my biggest influences. Incredible story man
Ha! Good comment. I once passed myself off as Bill Gibson, both selling photographic equipment AND as a crew member on small budget shoots in LA. Gibson's a great name too.
One of the best renditions of "Georgia" ever!! Sheer, unadulterated bloody magic!! Don Peake - 1950s legend - Martin Taylor - 2000s legend!! Long may you both continue playing and inspiring us lesser mortals.
What a gorgeous L-7C! That's my ideal guitar. Oops, ES-350! What incredible stories from Don....reminds me of Steve Lukather...somehow always in the right place at the right time.
@@Pimp-Master They *do* sound plugged in, Peake less so; but Peake is plugged in @ 18:56. I don't see any cord on MT's guitar but it wouldn't surprise me to have the jack on the endpin on the tailpiece and he never moves his position enough to see. Even so; from say :50 to 1:30 MT doesn't really strum/pick harder nor change his rt hand to get louder/softer as I think he would have to if he was only acoustic. Also, Peake's guitar/pickup is a lot more "primitive" shall we say (60+ years older) than MT's which is probably a pretty sophisticated pickup of some sort. Also, I don't think MT would sit down & play acoustic (only) w/a player who IS plugged in.
I enjoyed this very much. Thanks for posting. Julio Schwartz, hilarious. It is very sad that my country has these kinds of stories in its history but it is fascinating to hear the stories of how people got through it. If everyone played an instrument maybe we could have done away with racism. No musician that I have ever known or heard of has ever cared a hoot about what color you are.
It's the price of all races coming together. There will always be people afraid of change. I hope that we realize that we can all play together and overcome the hate soon.
You would think Gibson would be suing Peerless for that headstock design. Sure looks like classic Gibson to me. Other than that, great playing. Good vid. Thx for sharing.
All these stories are in the book The Wrecking Crew. Don should sue the author (although I"m sure he told them to the author knowing they would appear in the book).
The last part is reminiscent of the story that Michael sembello tells about getting into stevie wonders band , they already had one white member so they told Stevie he was Italian
Good stuff Martin. ( I didn't know your family had that history?) PS/ I live in Golden green now. When you were in this area a few years ago I didn't know otherwise I would have looked you up. ps/ Sadly, Betty passed away a year ago. Trying to hang in there at present. Love to Liz... Barry Watson.
Wonderful video! Thank You. Don has his timelines a little mixed up, Elvis didn't play with James Burton until 1969, and Albert Lee wasn't playing with Clapton in '62, not until 1980.
At the Star Club in Hamburg: The Rolling Stones, Beatles, and Everly Brothers? He said at 13:35 minutes in to this interview that this lineup of bands played, alternating sets, in Hamburg in 1962. I looked for that history on the internet, and only came up with the Beatle Bible saying that the Beatles went to see the Rolling Stones play, for the first time, at the Crawdaddy Club, after the Beatles had performed for the third time on Thank Your Luck Stars. This would have been April 14, 1963. So they met the Stones in April of 1963, according to this source. This is later than what Don said. Also, did The Beatles play at the Star Club after they were famous in England ? Is Don's memory accurate on this? Maybe somebody out there has some answers? The timeline of The Beatles performances on the TV show, Thank Your Lucky Stars, on this link. beatlevid.blogspot.com/2014/10/thank-your-lucky-stars.html
