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Wong Notes

"Captain" Kirk Douglas: From "Wheels on the Bus" to the Tonight Show

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Roots guitarist “Captain” Kirk Douglas talks about his background as a pre-school teacher, the role of the guitar in hip-hop, and gives the definitive take on his Prince story.

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger

Presented by DistroKid

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. My voice sounds a little weird today because I'm working with some dry bus air. I'm on tour right now in the West Coast and the bus that I have that I travel in, the air is just really dry at night. and this morning, my voice sounds like this.

0:22.4

Whatever.

0:23.8

But, like I said, I'm on tour in Portland tonight.

0:27.1

It's going to be slamming.

0:28.6

The band is sounding as good as ever.

0:31.1

So if you live on the West Coast of the U.S. or actually anywhere in the U.S., I'm touring over the next few months.

0:36.8

Come check out the band band because it is killing.

0:39.4

Speaking of being on the road a few months ago, I met Captain Kirk Douglas when we were both

0:45.7

playing at Hollywood Bowl. And we got to know each other a little bit there, just kind of in passing.

0:52.2

And finally we're like, ah, we got to find a time to

0:55.0

do the full hang and whatever. And then we're like, you know what? You should come on the

0:59.6

podcast. And I have tons of things that I want to ask you. So if you're fun, familiar with Kirk,

1:04.0

he is the guitar player of the roots. You see him on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,

1:09.4

incredible guitar player, writer, producer.

1:12.5

Please welcome Captain Kirk Douglas.

1:19.0

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