106 - Jimmy Vivino

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

JIMMY VIVINO may be best known as Conan O’Brien’s Fedora-wearing musical director, but — speaking of hats — “late-night guitar hero” is just one of the “hats” Jimmy wears on a regular basis. An in-demand bandleader, Jimmy’s latest gig was last week at the NAMM convention in California, where Gibson hired Jimmy to lead a stellar ensemble backing Slash, Don Felder, Elliot Easton, Celisse, Lzzy Hale, Jared James Nichols, Richie Faulkner, Billy Gibbons, and others. On this episode, Jimmy plugs in with host JUDE GOLD, shares a revered Magic Sam guitar breakdown (as well as licks and approaches behind his concert album, 13 Live), and reflects on adventures spanning everything from the Gibson event and the Conan show to his stints with Hubert Sumlin, Chuck Berry, and other guitar legends. Brought to you by GUITAR PLAYER magazine and GUITARPLAYER.COM

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0:00.0	No guitar is safe.
0:07.0	Hi everybody, I'm still Jude Gold. Thanks for listening to No Guitar is Safe. I hope you enjoyed Phil X from Bon Jovi and the Drills on the last episode.
0:18.0	And what another amazing episode we have today of a totally different
0:23.6	flavor. It is episode 106 of No Guitar Is Safe, featuring the amazing solo artist, bandleader, singer,
0:32.2	and of course, guitar player, Jimmy Vivino. Man, I've been wanting to have Jimmy on for quite some time, folks.
0:39.4	Of course, a lot of you have seen him on TV on the Conan Show. He's been Conan O'Brien's musical
0:44.5	director forever. He was in the New York band and he moved out when they all moved to L.A.
0:49.5	He also has an incredible Beatles tribute band called the Fab Fou, F-A-U-X, and he completely rocked the house
0:57.6	at NAM playing with Billy Gibbons, Slash, Elliot Easton, Lizzie Hale, Siles, she's a guitarist
1:05.2	from Lizzo.
1:06.2	Love both of those artists.
1:08.0	Richie Faulkner from Judas Priest, Don Felder from the Eagles, all of them, and he was just
1:12.4	ringing like a bell on every single tune.
1:15.1	Jimmy Vovino, what a wonderful musician, and that event was the Gibson event.
1:21.4	So thanks to Gibson for helping make this interview happen, even though I have talked to Jimmy
1:25.8	before in print.
1:28.3	This was just the perfect timing because that was such a crazy night at NAM I did survive
1:32.7	NAM folks but I do have a touch of the NAM Thrax as they call it when people
1:37.3	come back from NAM with the sniffles you know how it is you go to NAM you're
1:41.5	like okay this year only fist bumps. Maybe a couple
1:44.4	elbow bumps. No shaking hands. No hugs. But, of course, that lasts about half an hour. Next thing you
1:50.1	know, you come home with NAM-O-N-ya. God, I hope not. But I hope my voice is all right here as I do
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