Hey folks, I hope you enjoyed the rock deep dive last week with Fernando Perdomo. Epic Hang. Speaking of

epic hangs and epic careers. Wow, Jim Kimmo West is on the show. Kimo, to his friends, we're about to go

over to his studio where he's going to plug in no less than four amazing and totally different

guitars for you and demonstrate them. And of course talk

about his nearly four decades as lead guitar and sidekick and production partner with Weird Al Yankovic,

one of my heroes. And he's also going to show you his transcendent finger style steel string

playing that won him a Grammy recently, including all his cool tunings and

different approaches. And we'll also get deep into some Hawaii talk because he loves Hawaii.

And he'll even tell you how to stay safe there when you're next to a wild ocean or a potentially

dangerous waterfall. Interesting stuff that I didn't even realize.

And yeah, we go a little long on this episode today, but, you know, don't miss the last

four minutes, four or five minutes when he shows you the brilliant 251 from Hawaiian music

and his take on it.

Just transcendent stuff.

This episode's brought to you by Guitar Player Magazine and

GuitarPlayPlayer.com. Guitar player, play better, sound better. So yes, indeed, a wonderful hang,

having so much fun with Jim Kimo West that there's one point where we actually sound like we're

ending the episode, but then we just decide to keep going another half hour.

Good times. I should also mention that at one point we discussed the use of a starting gun

on stage as a prop or as a in a skit. Please know that this interview was recorded actually

mere hours before the news came out about

this tragic firearms mishap on the movie Rust while it was being filmed, starring Alec Baldwin

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