46 - Toshi Yanagi

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

TOSHI YANAGI came to America with no English skills and nowhere to stay. But he had a dream. Now, he is the house guitarist on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, and has released stellar solo albums under his own name, and his dream of becoming a pro musician has been realized. On this episode, Toshi visit's host Jude Gold's house, bringing with him a killer pedalboard full of sounds, and the pair jam on a variety of grooves. Toshi also recalls funny skits he has filmed with Kimmel and remembers how when he first arrived in California in the late '80s, the late Johnny Nitro "opened a door for him" — which is ironic, because Nitro's band was called the Doorslammers.

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0:00.0	No, guitar is safe.
0:07.0	Hey, what can I say? Another very inspiring guitar story coming at you momentarily.
0:12.0	We're going to hang out and jam with Toshi Yanagi.
0:15.0	This guy, man, he came to America with zero words of English and no place to stay, just a teenager.
0:22.6	All he had with him was a dream of becoming a pro player. And he did it.
0:43.3	For the last 14 years and counting, he's been the house guitarist with Clayto and the claytones.
0:48.3	Better known is the Jimmy Kimmel Live house band.
0:51.0	That's right.
0:51.4	He's got so much national TV exposure from this great gig. He's played
0:55.7	on other TV house bands as well, I think like the Wayne Brady Show and others.
1:07.2	And he's got all kinds of cool solo records out, too. That last song was called Assassin. This is called Cowboy. This Sunday night, if you're in Southern California, you got to go to the baked potato and catch Toshi and the Buzz Wizards playing live two sets Sunday April 2nd We'll be recording a new album live too which Toshi will take to Japan with him
1:58.6	and it will be available everywhere else.
2:01.6	If you're in Japan this summertime, July 7th, 8th, and 9th, Toshi will be at the Blue Mood in Tokyo.
2:15.6	You can also catch Toshi live May 20th at the Malibu Guitar Festival here in sunny
2:21.7	SoCal.
2:25.5	What an inspiring cat.
2:26.9	We get into some great jams, Toshi and I, on this show, on this episode.
2:31.9	Episode 46.
2:36.4	I got to say, Toshi's just a blazing player with killer tone and killer pocket.
2:41.5	I love hearing from you guys.
2:43.1	Most of you write me on Facebook, which is great.
2:46.6	On the old no guitarist safe Facebook page, my name is Jude Gold.
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