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 ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is Rex Goh, a professional guitar player of some 50 years career experience based in Sydney Australia.  Rex has played on countless major recordings including number one hits and albums by artists such as Air Supply and Savage Garden. He has played internationally at major venues like the iconic Madison Square Gardens in New York City and performed live on national TV in Australia supporting artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Tommy Emmanuel and John Farnham. The conversation covers a wide variety of topics including equipment choice ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a professional trombone player and long time Los Angeles based studio musician Alan Kaplan.  Alan has played on over 1000 movie soundtracks, countless television productions, live performances and recordings with some of the biggest names in the music industry. He toured with the famous Buddy Rich Big Band and with the Harry James Band for several years.  Buddy Rich and Harry James are regarded as genuine legends in the history of jazz and virtuoso talents on their respective instruments being drums and trumpet. Alan als ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is among other things a GRAMMY AWARD winner, a professional violinist, composer, arranger and performer from Perth Australia.  Emily Gelineau has done so much in her first 25 years on the planet that her story should prove inspiring to all who have an interest in the performing arts and in living a successful creative life. A graduate from one of the most prestigious music universities in the world, Berklee College of Music in Boston USA, Emily has put her studies in violin performance and film composition to good use. In this ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a professional drummer of more than 40 years experience based in Sydney Australia.  Gordon Rytmeister has been a leading drummer working in a wide range of performance and recording situations including extended periods in the television bands on some of the highest profile shows on Australian national TV.  Gordon has further toured nationally and internationally with top tier artists across a wide variety of styles from jazz to rock and pop. He has regularly appeared at the Sydney Opera House and is a former drummer in ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a professional trumpet player of more than 40 years experience based in Sydney Australia.  Ralph Pyl has been a leading commercial trumpet player working in a wide range of performance and recording situations including extended periods in the television bands on some of the highest profile shows on Australian national TV.   In this conversation Ralph discusses highly valuable topics including dealing with the pressures of live TV performance, battling the challenges of the instrument when it doesn't come naturally to yo ..read more

In this episode of The Music Mind Podcast we take a look back at the first 10 episodes and in particular at the music collaborations between the host and the guests from each episode that make this podcast unique. Featured artists throughout the episode include:- Brian Hayes - sopranino and tenor saxophones, concert and alto flutes, dobro, pedal steel and 6 string bass guitar Mike Hayes - electric and nylon string guitars Jim Manley - trumpet Andrew Oh - concert flute and Roland Aerophone EWI Roger McLachlan - electric bass Robin A. Smith - acoustic piano Simon Oslender - acoustic piano Pamel ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a multi-instrumentalist, touring and performing musician, a composer, producer, music educator and studio owner based in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee in the USA. Steve Dawson was born in Canada but has spent the last decade of a 25 year long professional career in music based in Nashville, one of the world's true centers of the music industry. In this conversation Steve discusses highly valuable topics including what it takes to make a living as a musician in the highly competitive Nashville scene as both a musician, and as a ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a classical guitar virtuoso who was born in Germany but moved to Australia with her family at the age of 8 years. Karin Schaupp is the current head of the classical guitar program at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music based in Brisbane Australia. She has performed solo, in duets, quintets and with symphony orchestras internationally.  Her recorded output includes more than 15 CD albums including music recorded by The Australian Broadcasting Commission and major music labels such as Warner Music. A multi-award winning art ..read more

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a #1 Billboard Jazz Chart topping saxophonist, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, recording and performing artist and record label owner. As if that wasn't enough she is also a world-class visual artist whose music related paintings capture the magic vibe of music and musicians in a way that is seldom achieved. Pamela has toured internationally and recorded with Patti LaBelle, Teena Marie, Babyface, Sheila E. and appeared on the same bill as top line artists such as George Benson.   She has featured on vid ..read more