#20 Corrado Rustici — Guitar, Production | Platinum-Selling Producer, Discovering Andrea Bocelli, Playing for Whitney Houston

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The Best Music Podcast #20 | Corrado Rustici — Guitar, Production | Platinum-Selling Producer

Corrado is a multi-instrumentalist, platinum-selling producer, and composer. His new album “ “Interfulgent” is available anywhere you get your music and his new single “The Singing Light” is available exclusively on Bandcamp

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Website: www.corradorustici.com

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Bandcamp: corradorustici-official.bandcamp.com

In 1979, Narada Michael Walden invited Corrado to join him in San Francisco to form a band and a production team, which later included Randy Jackson, David Sancious, and Walter Afanasieff. The group produced international hits for Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, George Benson, and many others. As a producer Corrado has also worked with: Andrea Bocelli, Clarence Clemmons, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Smith, Johnny Lee Hooker, Luciano Pavarotti, Sheila E, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Stewart Copeland. As a musician, he has played with: Aretha Franklin, Allan Holdsworth, Elton John, George Benson, George Michael, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Narada Michael Walden, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Zakir Hussein.

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0:00 Intro

2:15 Warm-up questions

4:25 Refining your own ideas without input

18:45 Signature pedal and guitar!

20:32 Producing with Narada for Whitney

30:32 Discovering Andrea Bocelli

33:01 Producing for Andrea Bocelli

42:06 Collaboration

48:47 Producing Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, John Lee Hooker

52:04 Single: The Singing Light

55:55 Finding a new sound for electric guitar

1:08:53 Lifestyle: Sleep

1:11:35 Lifestyle: Mindfulness & meditation

1:16:22 Lifestyle: Exercise

1:18:05 Practice: Time of day

1:20:04 Practice: Maximum effective duration

1:21:13 Creativity: Steps to stay creative

1:23:40 Creativity: Time of day

1:24:26 Burnout

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