No Substitutions: Live in Osaka is a live album by Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather, released in 2001 through Favored Nations. In 2002, the album won Carlton and Lukather, along with engineer/recorder Yoshiyasu Kumada and editor/producer Steve Vai, the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album. [2]

In 1998, Lukather received an invitation to tour Japan with fellow guitarist Larry Carlton after Japanese promoters requested that Carlton's annual tours each be different from the last. Lukather and Carlton exchanged some recorded material and decided that a …

Mar 20, 2001 · No Substitutions: Live in Osaka by Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at All...

Mar 20, 2001 · Recorded live November 1998 at The Blue Note Osaka. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "No Substitutions Live In Osaka" on Discogs.

Nov 14, 2023 · Lukather also discussed the players who most influenced him, one of them being Larry Carlton. The following is an excerpt from that interview, which originally appeared in the April 1984 issue of Guitar Player .

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May 1, 2001 · On No Substitutions: Live In Osaka two guitar heavyweights-Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather-go mano a mano before a live audience in Osaka, Japan. Support is provided by drummer Gregg Bissonette, bassist Chris Kent, and keyboardist Rick Jackson.

• Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather share the stage once again in this exceptional live recording at the famous Blue Note in Tokyo, Japan. • This 7 song concert features amazing tunes such as the famous Robert Johnson’s Crossroads and The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

The five songs here cover almost an hour that’s never boring and showcases the different talents of Carlton, who definitely is concentrating on his jazz roots on this and other projects lately, and Lukather, who’s a rocker, almost sometimes to the point of being a little too bombastic.