Peter Asher

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Peter Asher is a British musician, record producer, and manager. After starting his music career in the 1960s as part of the British pop duo Peter and Gordon, Asher ran A&R at the Beatles’ Apple Records. Over the course of Asher’s prolific career as an executive and music producer, he’s worked with artists including James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Cher, and Bonnie Raitt. He’s won two Grammy’s for Producer of The Year, Non-Classical (Simple Dreams, JT and Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind) and one for Best Spoken Comedy Album (Live 2002, Robin Williams). ------- Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Manna Vitality https://mannavitality.com/ ------- LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Get a free LMNT Sample Pack with your order. ------- House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra Get a free box of Dry Roasted Namibian Sea Salt Macadamias + 20% off Your Order With Code TETRA

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton.
0:05.0	Tetragrammaton.
0:07.0	Tell me about doing gigs with Peter and Gordon, just what the world was like then.
0:27.5	Well, the beginning, you know, would have been us walking into coffee bars and stuff and saying,
0:32.9	do you ever have entertainment or spotting one that did and saying, can we do one night for nothing?
0:37.7	And you see if you like us. So did a pub a couple of pubs coffee bars a place called Tina's bar we used to
0:44.9	do at lunchtime we got a at lunchtime lunchtime we had a lunchtime gig and uh we would get a free meal
0:52.5	and a free pint of beer and a pound each,
0:55.0	which was a pretty good deal.
0:56.5	And we kept all of it. That was the difference.
1:00.3	And then eventually, of course, post-Peter and Gordon, a post-hit record,
1:04.5	you'd be playing all kinds of places.
1:06.8	In England, suddenly you'd be on package tours, you know, same as America,
1:10.2	but not as much, not as exciting.
1:12.5	So how long would a set be on a package tour?
1:15.0	15 minutes, 20 minutes.
1:16.6	Wow.
1:17.2	So three or four songs?
1:18.7	Three or four songs.
1:20.0	Well, they varied because when we were, like,
1:23.1	the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars, which was a big one,
1:26.3	is memorable. You know, a lot of acts on the bill, which was a big one, is memorable.
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