No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
Live album by Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather
Released	March 20, 2001
Recorded	November 1998
Venue	The Blue Note (Osaka, Japan)
Genre	Jazz pop
Length	52:27
Label	Favored Nations
Producer	Steve Vai, Steve Lukather
Larry Carlton chronology
Fingerprints (2000) No Substitutions: Live in Osaka (2001) Deep Into It (2001)
Steve Lukather chronology
Luke (1997) No Substitutions: Live in Osaka (2001) Santamental (2003)

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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]

Track listing

1. "The Pump" (Hymas, Phillips) – 14:28
2. "Don't Give It Up" (Carlton) – 6:38
3. "(It Was) Only Yesterday" (Carlton) – 12:09
4. "All Blues" (Davis) – 14:06
5. "Room 335" (Carlton) – 5:06

Personnel

• Larry Carlton – guitar (left side)
• Steve Lukather – guitar (right side)
• Rick Jackson – keyboards
• Chris Kent – bass
• Gregg Bissonette – drums, percussion

Production

• Steve Lukather – producer
• Steve Vai – producer, mixing, editing
• Yoshiyasu Kumada – recording
• TakeshI Sasaki – recording assistant
• Mark Dawson – second engineer
• Neil Citron – mixing, editing
• The Mothership (Hollywood, California) – mixing location
• The Harmony Hut (Encino, California) – mixing location
• Ken Blaustein – art direction, art production, photography
• Gina Zangla – design, cover illustration
• Robert Knight – photography
• Kenju Uyama – photography
• Fitzgerald Hartley Co. – management
• Sonny Abelardo – album coordinator, sound mixer, tour manager
• Ric "Reg" Britton – guitar technician, stage manager
• Josh Henson – guitar technician, bass technician

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