UC San Diego is where it all started for Nathan East, under the mentorship of Bert Turetzky and Cecil Lytle. Nathan describes his mentors as not just musical colleagues; they were more like friends and family to him, helping nurture a very successful musical career. He also narrates the environment that he grew up in, which was essentially a huge family, where his brothers and sisters would get together and play music, and there was hardly a dull moment at home. Back in the day, there was a lot of Motown, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Beatles playing in the neighbourhood, and this is the spirit which he carries with him to this very day. His take on perfection is to let the heart sing and dictate over technical virtuosity, and it is quite blissful when the music can penetrate through one’s soul. He likes to believe that there is no prediction mechanism when it comes to reception by an audience. His musicality has evolved being associated with some of the industry greats for several decades now and Nathan puts in the same amount of energy into his musical process to this very day. Nathan has had quite a long association with “God Of Guitar” - Sir Eric Clapton, he speaks about meeting him on a couple of occasions before his debut collaboration with him on the album Behind the Sun. This particular brotherhood between Eric Clapton and Nathan East was written in the stars and is embarked in the history of Rock music.