For episode 94 of No Guitar is Safe, we're going to plug in with Grammy-winning guitarist

Jamie Kime, who you might know from Zappa Play Zappa, Dr. John, Michelle Branch, Jewel,

and other acts, and also his great solo record Alley's, which we're going to hear right after

this short little helicopter ride.

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No, guitar is safe. What's up? Pickers and pluckers, strummers, sliders, tapers, slappers, and e-bowers?

How are you? Thanks for listening to No Guitar is safe. I got to tell you,

sometimes I feel downright guilty. I feel like I'm pulling a Tom Sawyer on people. I go over to Jamie's home studio, which he refers to as Madison Square Living Room. Here's a world-class

Grammy-winning guitarist, and he's giving me a great

guitar lesson and telling me about his life. And I'm getting paid for it. It should be the other

way around. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm not making fat stacks or anything. I do it for the

love of it. But maybe after 94 podcasts, I've become 100 air. So you know, that's a Greg Cock line, by the way.

Anyhow, I'm digressing.

Jamie Kime is a phenomenal musician.

I've had the pleasure of seeing him many times.

I've seen him on big stages, like the Greek theater in LA,

when with Zappa plays Zappa, they did a double bill with Dream Theater.

That was an epic show.

I also saw another epic bill where Dweasel and Jamie were opening the show with their band, of course.

Opening for Jeff Beck.

Again, that was like a co-headliner kind of thing.

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