Longtime L.A. studio guitarists and friends Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather lead a quintet rounded out with keyboards, bass, and drums on five instrumental tracks recorded live in Osaka, Japan. No Substitutions opens with the Jeff Beck tune “The Pump," featuring repeated guitar solos over a long, static bass groove of steady eighth notes. After a ...

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Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather: No Substitutions

by Glenn Astarita
May 1, 2001

No Substitutions – Live in Osaka marks the first live performance collaboration by these seminal Southern California-based studio guitarists and group leaders. Guitarist Steve Lukather’s long term involvement with the pop band, “TOTO” amid countless sessions has made him perhaps one of the busiest and most sought after musicians on the West Coast, as the same ...

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Words + Music

By Larry Carlton

Label: HighNote
Released: 2000

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Fingerprints

By Larry Carlton

Label: HighNote
Released: 2000

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Larry Carlton Collection Volume 2

By Larry Carlton

Label: GRP Records
Released: 1998

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Larry Carlton: Larry Carlton Collection Volume 2

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

It's cool. It's upbeat. It's danceable. It's the much accomplished Larry Carlton's Collection Volume 2, gathering the cream from his releases The Gift, Kid Gloves, Discovery, On Solid Ground, Alone / But Never Alone, and Larry & Lee (that would be Ritenour). Carlton is a superb guitarist. His phrasing is impeccable, his ear for melody sound. ...

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