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Luc de la Ruelle - Lukather gets a Nether lute

Editorial - By Arend, Jul 4, 2004 12:00 AM

On July 1st 2004, after the last Toto concert in Hardenberg, Don Willard, Lucky Luc de la Ruelle and Kim Lagarde went over to the hotel in Ommen and offered Luke a custom made Nether lute (Nederluit).

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Reggie Boyle - Lukather & Landau benefit

Editorial - By Arend, Jun 14, 2004 12:00 AM

It was a laid back night at the Baked Potato in West North Hollywood, Ca. There were no set lists just Luke & Landau playing whatever struck them as to their mood at the time.The combination of two amazing artists in such an intimate setting is always a nice treat.

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Robert Lloyd - Time of the Session

Editorial - By Arend, Apr 1, 2004 12:00 AM

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous. Most of the music you will ever hear will be played by people you will never see and whose names you will neither know nor think to ask. It will be recorded in windowless rooms, witnessed sometimes only by an engineer or producer, the now-ancient technology of the overdub making the presence even of other musicians unnecessary. For every superstar singer or guitar heroine whose name adorns a T-shirt or tattoo, there are hundreds whose work is done anonymously, or as good as. Who play their part, collect their pay and go home.

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Kenneth Sherman - Daryl Hall & John Oates, Suprising, amazing, experimental: WOW!

Editorial - By Arend, Feb 12, 2004 12:00 AM

When you mention Daryl Hall and John Oates, most people snicker while memories of cheesy videos and slick soul-tinged 80s pop dance around in their heads. Too bad no remembers this gem of an album, Along the red ledge. It’s an artistic triumph that reaches heights H and O never quite achieved again (although the two albums the proceeded it, X-Static and Voices came close). I was just a kid when Red ledge came out but even back then, I was blown away.

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Steve Lang - Steve Lukather Interview

Interview - By Arend, Feb 8, 2004 12:00 AM

Steve Lang made a long and deep interview for guitarhoo.com with Luke, right before he left for the Toto 2004 tour. Lukather on how he would like to be remembered: "HMM... I guess I just want people to say I was a nice guy with a good heart who was funny as fuck and a great father and husband and friend. Probably the same as anyone, and maybe I was a pretty good guitar player for a white guy. Hahaha."

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Night of the Proms figures

News - By Arend, Jan 7, 2004 12:00 AM

The Night of the Proms concerts in 2003 have been very successful. Never before Toto and the rest of the contributing artists were playing for such an amount of people as they did last year. In October-December more then 600.000 people came to see and hear the classical, pop and rock artsists in Belgium (330.953), Holland (147.945) and Germany (129.175). (Thanks to Reggie Boyle)

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Arend Slagman - Lukather & Dragon ball

Editorial - By Arend, Jan 5, 2004 12:00 AM

In January 2004 Luke told us that he, Mike Porcaro and Simon Phillips contributed to the music scores of Dragon ball video games on a regularly base. In this article we present a couple of soundclips.

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Andrea Schwarz - Lukather & Friends Christmas album

Interview - By Arend, Dec 7, 2003 12:00 AM

Toto... well we are on tour till Dec 22 in Europe. We are writing a new Cd of all original material and its gonna be a killer. We are really gonna go for it and give everyone THE BEST Toto ever. We will take a long time to get it right so dont expect it till late 2004 or early 2005.

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Paul Henderson - Steve Lukather

Interview - By Arend, Dec 6, 2003 12:00 AM

Anybody can be a rock star. Shit, man, that's easy. Being a musician's hard.

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Kathy - Interview with Steve Lukather 1 & 2

Interview - By Arend, Nov 4, 2003 12:00 AM

Recently Kathy from strikeabalance.net managed a deep and very personal interview with Steve Lukather. At the interviews section we made some striking quotes. Luke: "I mean we have survived: death, drugs, marriages, divorce, money stolen - accountants ripping us off, just you know beaten up by the press, getting older, happiness, elation, awards; all the shit you know, we’ve been through it all. We still love each other, yeah we fight sometimes, not much."

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Arend Slagman - Jimi Hendrix Files Tour

Editorial - By Arend, Oct 12, 2003 12:00 AM

The Hendrix Files Tour 2003, arranged by Phil Bee, took place from October 6th till October 12th in Hamburg (Germany), Harderwijk, Rijssen, Maastricht, Weert and Zoetermeer (Holland). In a three hours show the Swizz band More Experience, Jan Akkerman and Steve Lukather played interpretations of their fav Hendrix songs.

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Arend Slagman - Website launch Hengelo, Holland

Editorial - By Arend, Oct 9, 2003 12:00 AM

On October 9th 2003 more than 250 Lukather fans and friends joined the launch of the new website SteveLukather.net in De Kleine Kunst in Hengelo.

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Website launch SteveLukather.net

News - By Arend, Oct 9, 2003 12:00 AM

On October 9th 2003 the launch of the new version of stevelukather.net took place. After a short introduction and a cool explanation of the techniques behind the site by Kayb Slagman, Lukather launched the site. After the launch he did an overwelming unplugged set with a couple of songs he hardly played live before (Hate everything about you, Swear your love, Extinction blues, Hero with a 1,000 eyes, The gift of faith, The road goes on, Look out for angels and The Christmas song). Later on we'll add some cool pictures from the entire party. It was a blast for us to see how everybody enjoyed this afternoon. Thanks to everyone who participated in this project.

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Michael Popke - Toto: Live in Amsterdam DVD

Editorial - By Arend, Oct 4, 2003 12:00 AM

Anyone who thinks, says or writes that the guys in Toto are a bunch of wussies needs to plop their asses in front of this DVD for 103 minutes and change their minds. It won’t take long, believe me.

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David B. - Steve Lukather

Interview - By Arend, Aug 5, 2003 12:00 AM

Lukather: "When the record companies got all hip to ProTools, they went fuck it, we'll give you $50K and whatever you don't spend, you can keep. Which makes people greedy. So then they don't want to pay the "A" session guys. So they'll get some kid who has good ideas but who can't necessarily execute them well. And it doesn't matter because they can fix it all. It's a different era, man. The session scene is dead. It doesn't exist!"

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Reggie Boyle - Yardbirds & Lukather

Editorial - By Arend, Jun 25, 2003 12:00 AM

It was a celebration of the Yardbirds at the House of Blues in West Hollywood on June 25th 2003 with original members Jim McCarty (drums/vocals) & Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar).

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Jeb Wright - Steve Lukather of Toto

Interview - By Arend, May 1, 2003 12:00 AM

Jeb Wright had an exclusive interview with Steve Lukather for Classic Rock Revisited. Here's a part of that interview where Lukather talks about (future of) the music industry. You can read the entire interview on classicrockrevisited.com

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Reggie Boyle - Landau & Lukather & Friends

Editorial - By Arend, Mar 29, 2003 12:00 AM

On Saturday March 29th Steve Lukather and a couple of musical friends played three Artskan benefit concerts at the Baked Potato in North-Hollywood.

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Neville Marten - Reflections

Interview - By Arend, Mar 2, 2003 12:00 AM

This year Toto celebrate their 25th anniversary with a cd of tributes to friends and heroes. Their brilliant guitarist Steve Lukather talks us through the album, track by track.

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Jason Sidwell - Cool hand Luke

Interview - By Arend, Mar 1, 2003 12:00 AM

One of the most versatile guitarists of the '80s, Steve Lukather is famed for his superb session work and recordings with Toto. GT probed him for some star playing tips.

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