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Peter Walker Guitarist

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  • Peter Walker

  • 63 / Male
  • WOODSTOCK, New York, US
  • Last Login: 7/16/2009
  • Online Now!
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Interests

  • General

    Guitar, fretboard theory, kinartic music, Calo Gypsie oral traditional music,,, folk music of all counties,,,people,,places,, building things like rooms onto houses,, solar roofs,, eco-friendly house designs,, portab le living structures,,noncodehousing,,study,,,spending time in my Law Library,,,,,trvel to study,, travel to perform and compete,,travel for health, quiet, and practice.

  • Music


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    Check me out!     Indian ragas,,Flamenco forms,,,scales and exercises, recording,, touring 28 cities in 5 weeks next month,,new record out ,,,next one "in the can" and beautiful,, all flamenco/raga(they are connected historicaly) based hauntingly beautiful compsitions. I love to play,, it shows,, in my music,,I am so greatful to my teachers Mike Jingles, Antonio Maya,, Antonio Carmona, Fernando at Anselma's de Triana, Ravi Shankar,and, most of all, Ali Akbar Khan (Khansahib)I ne ver could have achieved my present level of Mastery without them. "Une Mille Gracia"

  • Movies

    Dances with wolves,, Sequesto expresso (remind to tell my agent to cancel that gig in Carracas)Forest Gump,,,Lake House,, Anything based on a true story I find interesting.

  • Television

    George Bush is not allowed in my castle. No Cable no Antenna,, no oprah no rewriting of history channel,,no evening partyline no news bs,,life is more peaceful that way,,leaves a little time to spend in the garden or library, or Writing, or playing,, or living

  • Books

    well lets see, pauses to look at shelves, yup,,,theres at least 80 feet of them,,,a lot of law books, health books music books, reference books. but im weeding out them to make room for more favorite stories. As in Movies I like any true story, and collect a lot of them. odd reference works too,, my father used to call it "Grist for the mill"

  • Heroes

    My Mother and Father, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Joan Baez, The Greatful Dead, Dr Timothy Leary Phd. Robert Depew Reynolds, my dogs Foxmire, Pepper, Robert Dacey, all of them faithful to a vision "above and beyond the call"

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Woodstock
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Body type: 6' 3" / Average
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Religion: Other
  • Zodiac Sign: Cancer
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Smoke / Drink: No / No
  • Education: Post grad
  • Occupation: Concert Artist

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About me:

To Buy Peter's Music: http://cdbaby.com/cd/walkerpeter3

QUOTES ON PETER WALKER AND HIS MUSIC

“The new American Folk Music” Robert Shelton, Music Editor, New York Times

“The new American Folk Music” Crawdaddy Magazine

“ Five Stars, plays Celestial Strings on the DNA of musical being, an overlooked yet clear underground favorite in the realm of raga guitar style musicians” Dr. Josua Williams ”Pick It Wilson” Amazon Reviews

“His music is priceless” Richie Havens

“Perhaps the greatest guitarist in the world” Derek Taylor, Beatles press agent, Open City L.A.

“ I loved your album” George Harrison, classmate of Peter’s at Ravi Shankar’s “Kinnara School” in Los Angeles 1967. Peter went on to study Sarode with Ali Akbar Khan and Flamenco in the caves of Spain

“Four Stars” All Music Guide

“A kickback Woodstock musician” Barbara Lumpkin,USA Today

“Peter Walker plays on the ancient Protean Strings of the genetic code” Dr. Timothy Leary

“A proven Visionary” Mathew Greenwald, All Music Guide

“Intricate virtuosity, a stylistically elite musically esoteric artist holding steadfastly to a unique musical vision, a distinctive sound which might well be the basis for a new form of dimensional music.” Thomas Heinitz, Saturday Review

“Inspired and versatile, a unique artist who deserves to be heard. One of the most original practitioners of contemporary music. His music is Beautiful” Larry Coryell

“A miracle, hands of silver, clear evidence of gypsy blood, heart, spirit and soul.” Anselma, Casa Anselma, Barrio Triana, Seville, Spain

“The best music to make love to since Bolero” LA Free Press

“Remarkable music, an instrumental guitar legend” Tom Colvin, Puerto Vallarta Today

“Spanish sunlight on green/blue water rippling at noon, a happy moving out wind/wave dance, swirling devilwind gusting over white sand, dunes shifting in midday blinding heat, relentless and inevitable, rush hour on a Spanish road, pictures of pieces of the universe told by a sensitive hand direct to your inner ear exploding like bubbles on a stream.” Tony Glover, Crawdaddy Magazine

“Non-Verbal Medicine, a great trailblazer, elevates spirits and eradicates ailments” David Pullar, Stylus Magazine

“A great guitarist who singlehandedly invented American Folk Raga. Plays his heart and fingers to pieces” Marcel Coopman’s Rare Records

“Not to be missed” New York Times

Who I'd like to meet:

Other musicians who have world peace through world music as their goal. To network with, Anybody nice, honest and sane, who likes the same music. To be friends with.

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