36 - Mike Keneally

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2016

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Guitarist/composer MIKE KENEALLY earned the respect of prog rock fans worldwide when he became Frank Zappa's "stunt guitarist" in the late ’80s. Since then, the prolific guitarist/keyboardist has released a string of solo albums, as well as enjoyed tenures with Steve Vai, Dethklok, and his current bandleader, Joe Satriani. On this episode, Keneally plugs in with Jude to share his amazing musical journey, play bunch of guitar, and discuss his new album, Scambot 2.

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0:00.0	No guitar is safe. Well, hello and welcome. It's No Guitar is Safe. Episode 36. How are you doing? Pickers, Poppers, pluckers, what are these? Strummers? Sloppers? All y'all. Thanks for listening. Hope the guitar has been treating you well.
0:22.7	My name is still Jude Gold, and today we are going to get in the copter and cruise over to Swinghouse Studios, just east of Central L.A., kind of like in the Glendale area.
0:35.3	Amazing facility.
0:37.1	My gosh, it's run by Phil Jargwee and he is just a cool cat making
0:42.0	things happen on the scene, giant rooms, medium-sized rooms, smaller rooms, whatever you need.
0:47.9	You could be a baby band or you could be Aerosmith and the Chili Peppers, two of his clients
0:53.1	in the past.
0:55.1	It doesn't matter who you are.
0:56.3	It's a great place.
0:57.2	It's a community.
0:58.0	It's your home turf.
0:58.9	And I thank Phil so much for getting us a room at Swinghouse where I could do today's
1:03.4	interview with the amazing.
1:06.4	I'm going to use the B word.
1:08.0	The brilliant Mike Kenealy.
1:20.9	Thank you. use the B word. The brilliant Mike Keneally. Yeah, I don't usually throw around the B word lightly, but gosh, with Mike, well, first of all, calling Mike a guitar player, that's kind of like calling
1:25.7	Johann Sebastian Bach a harpsichordist.
1:28.1	So much more to the story.
1:30.1	I might even use the G word on Mike.
1:33.0	Genius.
1:34.4	Guy's kind of a genius.
1:38.4	He does stuff I don't comprehend.
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