Pete explains how his good friend Cliff Stocker liked Petes song 'long time gone', Pete tells how Cliff and his band 'Slack Alice' recorded their own version of the song utilising only two of the 4 or more verses. The drummer in the band Liam Barber had played with Pete in various bands that Pete had put together over the years. Liam went on to play in Petes band for a special BBC event for the County of Lancashire where Pete would typically decide what song to play next, the BBC event was supposed to be 40 minutes, it went down so well the band played for 2.5 hrs! Liam had described playing drums for Pete was a baptism of fire! Another local musician in the north of England a certain Andy Nutter joined the Band for the BBC event on Congas, he was a one man show in himself. Pete talked about the fact he had so many songs of differing styles,that he could play for up to 6 or 8 hours never repeating a song. On one or more occasions Pete was required to play for an open air summer festivity in Mittersill at his base Pletzers Cafe https://www.konditoreipletzer.at/ with many hundreds of people milling out the front of the premises being entertained by Pete whilst sitting and enjoying the sun consuming Pletzers cold drinks, icecreams and cakes, Pete explains how a planned 4 hours playing turned into a marathon 8 hrs! During one of Petes outside Pletzer performences in Mittersill, a young lady came up to Pete asking whether he could play a Townes Van Zandt song https://youtu.be/j54Yk3xSYx4 for her father a former Mittersill resident now based in Houston Texas, Pete being influenced by what was going on in America it didnt take long to discover and play Van Zandts great music one of Petes favorite artists. The final section of the Podcast dwells on the adventures and people Pete met whilst in the USA for a period of three months. Pete was based for a period of time in Willits California https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willits,_California where he was a guest at Bill Meyerhoff's ranch where Pete had been given use of a ranch cabin by helping the Meyerhoff family with certain duties on the ranch. During one of his several visits to the USA, Pete had driven to the Smoky Mountains in Tennesee and had met some ethnic country blue grass musicians and had even sat in on one of their sessions to sing and play guitar. Most people are intrigued by Petes Yorkshire accent wherever he happens to be, these people in Tennesee and Willits California were no exception! These were members of the Willy Nelson Band https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(Willie_Nelson%27s_band) who Pete had met at Kinocti Lake in California, one of the band who Pete briefly chatted to was Michael Raphael the Harmonica Player, Willy Nelson himself was never present. Whilst in Willits on his initial visit to the town, Pete had net someone who invited him over to a house opposite Andy's bar where a recording studio was based, Pete saw a lovely Fender Stratocaster on a stand and asked who the guitar belonged to, it belonged to Gene Parson's a former member of the Pop group the Byrd's who Pete then met. Pete explained to Gene where he came from and where he was staying in Willit's, Gene immediately knew who the people were, and even knew the man that Pete had met on his first visit to Willits a certain Lloyd Gullick https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34485439/lloyd-gullick-obituary/ Gene knew everyone it seemed, in fact he was to tell Pete that his father used to drive cattle down from Oregon to California via the Drover's roads with non other than Lloyd Gullick a local rancher and Cowboy! Whilst at the Meyerhoff ranch Pete was asked by Bill if he'd like to join him in a long drive into the mountains to collect two wrought iron gates that somebody had sold to Bill, the owner of the gates made of Bronze was non other than actor Steven Seagal Bill had had no idea who he was, and Pete only realised who it was when they got back to Meyerhoff's ranch!
