Jim West

The numbers are 372-5806.

And that was guitarist, the Grammy Award winning guitarist, Jim Kimo West's.

actual phone number that he's played in that song.

So he revealed that to us on the podcast.

He actually looks like J.Y. Young, guitarist from Styx.

Jim West, guitars, since 1983. and Ruben Valaterra, keys from 1991.

That is pretty amazing that the majority of those guys have been with him almost since the beginning.

And now onto the concert calendar.

before? Yeah.

With the polkas, does that mean that Al is transcribing all of the horn parts? I don't know why I always just assumed that that was something that, like, Stephen Jay or Jim West was doing.

We know from experience that

Jim and Steve are both... arrangers right they can do that's why i always just assumed that yeah we've seen them do string and horn arrangements but al i assume is also i we'd have to go back and check the previous polkas for this i don't actually know but on polkas i've never seen steve or jim credited for anything other than just the instrumentation so i think al does do all of these arrangements on polkas that's crazy