Half the Effort Twice the Effect was very much geared towards the U.S. market, hence the very west coast sound, beautifully crafted by the wonderful Louie Shelton.

The band had been together for a few years by this stage, and was very settled. Boasting the talents of David Hircsfelder, Virgil Donati, Ross Inglis and Brian Hamilton, made it an absolute dream for me every time we played.

Now having this out on CD means that a lot of people who were not around at the time or aware of this band, can finally discover the PCB.

Peter's new album 'bac2basix' is a slight diversion from the slick soulful sound we have come to love and expect from Peter.

Peter has gone back to his roots, as a boy growing up in country, Peter's influences both musically and lyrically are the overwhelming sentiment of this record.

Peter say's its all about the songs; this is much more a singer/songwriter album, with the inference being on simplicity, basic instrumentation and a story to be communicated.

After not hearing this album for many years, it's amazing how the studio memories come back. Tommy Emanuel's heart wrenching solo on 'Never know what you got', Roger McLachlans ripping bass riff on 'Fear of thunder', David Hirschfelder and David Jones in full flight on 'Here we are', the late great Mike (Kelly) Clarke, the James Jamieson of Australian bass playing.

After doing four albums with 'Stylus, this was my first solo record. Stylus was a wonderful journey and musical outfit, but I was keen to expand musically with this project, in hindsight I probably expanded too much, as it was a difficult record to promote. It didn't seem to fit into any of the pigeonholes. Polygram US said it was a publishers dream and a record company's nightmare, anyway that's all history now, as always you will have the final say.

Track Listing
1. Down Under
2. Slipping Away
3. Howzat
4. World Of Make Believe
5. Friday On My Mind
6. Don't Dream It's Over
7. Absolutely Everybody
8. Truly Madly Deeply
9. Rain
10. The Road To Gundagai
11. Solid Rock
12. You're The Voice
13. I Still Call Australia Home

Home Grown is the current CD Peter has out. It came about by a suggestion from Rick Price that he do a CD of his own arrangements of other people's songs, as he had always enjoyed the unique-ness in which Peter had treated other performers songs.

Now this is no new concept, as many artists have recorded such records, but what makes this unique, is the fact that all the songs on this CD are great Australian songs, icons of the Australian music industry, songs that have become part of our Australian society, songs that have a definite place in our musical history, songs that represent the Australian way of life, the way we think, the way we feel, the very fibre that makes us what we are.