Tony MacAlpine on The Tonight Show 1993

Tony MacAlpine sits in with Branford Marsalis and the Tonight Show band on January 22, 1993, playing into and out of commercials during the promotion of the "Madness" album.
Included are the jams played between commercial breaks that only the studio audience could hear... until now!
In the video, Tony plays his white Washburn MG series guitar he used to record both "Madness" and "Premonition".
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[@5zazen]

Unlike many other guitarists who originated in the 1980's, Tony has adapted over the years in music and appearance. The man is in a class by himself. Keep it coming Tony.

[@alaneberle]

One of the most UNDERRATED guitarist /musician ever.

[@xfernan22]

The great thing about this, is that even when he's shredding, he sounds so clean and soulful. Guy has great feeling; Leno, on the other hand, as usual, comes up with his childish, stupid antics in the last segment. He should have shown the real cover to Madness, I mean, that was the main reason Tony was on the show, promoting his new record!!! Anyway, gotta thank NBC for giving T-Mac a chance on live primetime TV.

[@AweeRB26]

Tony MacAlpine is always the best! Greetings from KK Sabah,Malaysia🇲🇾😉👍👊👍🇲🇾

[@ducky811]

I have an identical white Washburn MG90 to the one Tony is playing here. So awesome to see a video of him when he played this guitar!!!

[@xfernan22]

Dream come true! I've been searching all over the net for this video, and here it is. The Man Himself on top form!!!

[@sagatuppercut2960]

Wow, I didn't know Tony was on TV. This is awesome!

[@brahmsnliszt]

Glad you found that from the past.

[@TheSonsofHorusx]

the best this show has ever been lol

[@senampalmer9243]

i adore how much Jeff Beck they played for these jams, so fucking sick

[@tobeortobe77]

man, i'm really happy i found this! excellent! bloody excellent!

[@eightguitars]

Thanks for sharing! Great to listen to early in the AM.

[@ricaard]

@macalpinetony That was in-friggin-CREDIBLE!! Thank you so much! Now I gotta see the whole movie! Now, if we could get to see you do a film portraying Andre Watts doing some Liszt, we'd be in heaven! Or better yet, a concert of your own with Chopin pieces! Happy Holidays to you, man!

[@spiderfingersaram]

pretty sweet stuff thanks for sharing!!

[@videojockeysword]

No where NEAR how famous he should be...

[@thrashmetalfiend]

Tony totally rules.

[@54NT14G0]

awesome!

[@njkeyboard]

Very cool!

[@gtrlw11]

Holy shit. They should have put out a fusion album together.

[@RilesBell]

Very cool

[@Acousticeg]

Any chance some of these great tunes could find their way to a new CD...

[@PaulC39]

I didn't know Tony MacAlpine was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I can hear them playing Led Boots by Jeff Beck.

[@marleysheredder]

Great man what a nice tone, I would like to know more about that gear for sure.

[@ricaard]

Never saw THAT cover for Madness! Friggin' COOL! While we're on the subject of obscure MacAlpine stuff, does anyone know of the movie where he portrayed Wes Montgomery?

[@shadowknight132]

Tony's tone reminds me a little of Frank Gambale's old tone.

[@deimosanomaly2579]

@@gustavoschuster2665 Frank Gambale is still alive?

[@gustavoschuster2665]

Quite a lot indeed. Two sounds that evolved later in two different and fantastic ways.

[@gustavoschuster2665]

@@deimosanomaly2579 yeah! I think hes over 60 years!

[@ChristophMikael]

@AtanasovPetar Virgil and Tony play together in Tony's new band, Seven the Hardway. That band also has Mark Boals on vocals.

[@brahmsnliszt]

I recognise that guitar....

[@edge2991]

brahmsnliszt peavy? Bc righ?

[@AtanasovPetar]

@rmsolympic1 Great to hear that.Thanks for the info.

[@ab9957]

that tune at 2:20 was a jeff beck

[@TheMidst]

Awesome!! Jay Leno, woohoo.

[@ricaard]

@irvan36mm Thanks!

[@rmsolympic1]

@AtanasovPetar Tony said in a recent interview that a new Planet cd is in the works. Anyway, Tony is going to be on Sherinians new solo record.

[@robibm2003]

The thing that really made me crazy about Branford being the band leader is that Leno basically ran out on him when the network brass started complaining that the band wasn't playing mainstream enough music. Totally gutless on Jay's part. I mean, Crikey, this is Branford Marsalis. one of the best jazz saxophone players ever and they wanted him to basically be Kenny G. What a joke that was.

[@LucOggel]

That's a great tight band for sure, and Tony's leads are insane. Are those improvisations? Or Tony's songs?

[@irvan36mm]

@ricaard It was on a movie called "Crazy". Steve Vai played Hank Williams in that,too. recordmymindDOTcom/blog/?p=601

[@AtanasovPetar]

I hope Planet X come back together.As far as i saw Derek is on tour with Grenn Hughes and i have no idea what Virgil is doing.

[@plisskenationbackfromthede3657]

Dude was that the hypnotoad?!

[@elitejams]

i feel bad for the house guitarist...how u gonna go to work after that?

[@AtanasovPetar]

@ChristophMikael mhm

[@edge2991]

What kind of guitar here? Peavy? Bc rich?

[@Ch0yc3z]

Washburn MG

[@ricaard]

@xfernan22 What?? Soulful while playing fast at the SAME TIME?! NOT POSSIBLE!!!

[@misko1961]

sounds as if they played togrther for years

[@KurtStoffer]

Whalin'