139 - Jeff Tamelier

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This episode presents a one-on-one IN-PERSON funk throwdown with guitarist/producer JEFF TAMELIER (Tower of Power, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Starship feat. Mickey Thomas). That’s right — live jams are back! Sure, during the pandemic, guests on No Guitar Is Safe played a ton of guitar for you and showed you a lot of playing approaches over Zoom, etc., but the latency and other restrictions of internet audio meant there could be no real jamming between guests and me, your humble host. But when I started No Guitar Is Safe back in 2015, live jamming was one of the cornerstones on which the show was built. Now that the world is opening up again, we can do in-person episodes more and more often, and the jams can resume. And what a perfect guest JEFF TAMELIER is to kick off the return of the jams with. Super tasty and soulful, Jeff will teach you to “turn off your brain and just go for it” as a soloist, and also remind you of ways you can elevate your band’s sound by playing great rhythm guitar. — JUDE GOLD, host, No Guitar Is Safe podcast. This episode is presented by GUITAR PLAYER magazine. Guitar Player: Play better, sound better.

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0:00.0	Oh man, that is safe.
0:07.0	Oh man, that is the funky sound of Jeff Tamalear.
0:14.0	Folks, I'm live in the room right now.
0:18.0	You know we did a lot of COVID-19.
0:23.2	A lot of pandemic stuff over Zoom.
0:26.1	It feels so good to be back in the room with a great guitar player jamming.
0:28.3	I got a guitar too. I got a guitar too. We're keeping it.
0:46.3	We're keeping it funky. The That funky Wawa pedal is Jeff Tamalear, folks.
1:26.3	He's played with Tower of Power.
1:28.0	He's played with Mickey Thomas and Starship featuring Mickey Thomas.
1:32.0	Featring.
1:32.8	We've got that sort of Jefferson Starship Starship thing in common.
1:35.6	He's got funk books out, Jeff Tamalear, one of my favorite players that I've gotten to know recently.
1:41.3	Man, we're at your studio here, and it's only 109 degrees outside but it feels so good to be
1:46.7	playing music in a cool air conditioning. Air conditioning studio. It's only 100 in here. No, it's cool
1:54.0	in here. Beautiful place. Thanks for having me over and it really needs a lot to be jamming after
1:59.3	basically a year of doing this all over
2:02.7	the web using Zoom and so you're the first live victim again I'm honored thank you and I've been
2:10.4	admirer of your playing for a long time and can't believe we actually just met what a couple
2:14.8	weeks ago and in person but nowadays everybody knows each
2:18.2	other on on the socials unfortunately yeah and you know my brother donnie baldwin from
2:25.2	Jefferson starshow 40 years now those uh we had a band a little gadget in the soulful twilights
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