Well, like most kids, our next guest
loves two things-- blues music and vintage cars.
From Oxfordshire, England, please welcome 13-year-old,
blues guitarist Toby Lee.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
You're 13 years old?
Yeah.
How long have you been playing electric guitar?
I've been playing since I was six, so seven years.
Wow.
And did you start out with acoustic,
or you started with electric?
I actually started with a ukulele
that my grandma bought me.
I've still got it.
And I've tried to play it, but it's got no strings.
Oh.
So it's not much use.
No.
You can just bat on it like a drum.
Yeah.
OK.
Sort of like that.
And then what made you get into the blues?
That's a weird genre for you.
I know.
I'm a 13-year-old boy.
I haven't had a wife left me yet, so yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
To be honest, I'm not sure, because when I was little,
and we were listening to the radio and stuff,
there wasn't much blues on the radio--
because there's never blues on the radio.
Yeah.
Right.
But it-- it sort of caught me.
I don't know why.
Where did you hear it?
I think it just came up once.
And I was like, that's cool.
Wow.
That's amazing.
So you just gravitated towards that.
That was just what you liked.
Yeah.
And so you love blues music, and you like vintage cars.
Aw, Yeah.
Don't get me started on vintage cars.
All right.
I won't.
But I have to keep going.
So what kind of--
do you have vintage cars?
You're too young.
Well, I do.
What do you have?
I have a 1965 Volkswagen bus.
You do?
Yeah.
In School of Rock, I did that for a year.
And with the money I earned out of that, I thought,
what's something that I can get that's actually useful in life?
So I thought, ding, Volkswagen bus.
Yeah.
That's cool.
What color is it?
It's in sea blue.
It's-- there it is.
Oh, that's it.
Yeah.
People call it Phantom of the Opera,
because half of the front end is missing.
[LAUGHTER]
Does it even drive?
It's got no engine.
The engine fell out, because it was rusty.
And, yeah, pretty much everything--
I'm going to call it Buddy, because its name is Buddy.
It's Buddy the Blues Bus.
And my aim out of it is to be able to do my Sunday
jams in it every week.
Well, I got you some stuff.
I didn't know that you had--
I would thought you were going to put it in where you got it.
But I got some stuff for your car.
And it's over here.
Come see.
[GASPS]
Oh my gosh.
[APPLAUSE]
Oh my gosh.
Look at that.
There's some seats for you.
It seems like you'll need those.
And of course--
Oh my gosh.
-- you want.
There's an amplifier, so you can actually play in there.
And there's some maps, if you're going to go anywhere.
And of course, everyone needs a plant in their car,
so you got that.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, Toby.