Tom Hamilton - Carlton & Lukather in Japan
Editorial - By Arend, Apr 3, 2001 12:00 AM
From very aggressive to creamy quiet. I went in expecting to hear all the notes I don't know but was surprised at how rock the thing was.
News & Articles
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Willie G. Moseley - Steve Lukather
Interview - By Arend, Nov 1, 2000 12:00 AMA full plate for more than 20 years: Native Californian guitarslinger Steve Lukather has been a mainstay on the Left Coast studio and concert scene for longer than you think. He’s best noted for his longtime association with platinum-selling Toto, which has sold 30 million albums worldwide since its first single, Hold the line, hit the top 10 in 1978. -
Richard Hallebeek - Bob Bradshaw
Interview - By Arend, Sep 1, 2000 12:00 AMThis interview with Bob Bradshaw (Steve Lukather's main technician) took place at the Custom Audio Electronics store at Magnolia Boulevard, L.A., Sept. 2000. Antti Kotikoski was there also and asked some questions here and there too. Bob is a great story teller, so Richard Hallebeek decided to keep the interview unedited. Long, but nevertheless interesting, here's it is...
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Arend Slagman - Odd Couple at North Sea Jazz
Editorial - By Arend, Jul 14, 2000 12:00 AMLuke's and Edgar's presence to the 25th anniversary of the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Holland, was as much unforgettable as it was risky. "Of course we knew that we were playing at an honourable jazz festival with honourable jazz lovers," Luke stated right after the concert, "but in the end we felt we had to do our own gig.
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Robyn Flans - Simon Phillips, Reflections on…
Interview - By Arend, Jun 1, 2000 12:00 AMPhillips is reflecting on the influences, techniques and characters of drummers like (…) Jeff Porcaro.
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Jeb Wright - Steve Lukather
Interview - By Arend, May 1, 2000 12:00 AMI've been doing this for over 25 years. I learned from the best. Before everyone had drum machines in their house, you had to hire a full rhythm section. I got a chance to work with the greatest musicians at the time. The great producers and engineers. -
Ewan Smith - Steve Lukather blues
Editorial - By Arend, Feb 1, 2000 12:00 AMFor all his versatility I tend to think of Steve as a turbo-charged blues player: all the standard blues ideas are present - bends, vibrato and pentatonic scales - but they're played with a modern tone and some serious bursts of tricky alternate picking. -
Jason Sidwell - Steve Lukather
Interview - By Arend, Feb 1, 2000 12:00 AMAs a guitarist's guitarist, Steve Lukather defined the '80s American rock sound. With a rejuvenated Toto, he spoke to Jason Sidwell about the band, his career and influences. -
Hans Nijs - The two Toms and a lost record
Editorial - By Arend, Apr 1, 1999 12:00 AMAbout 25 years back Tom Jans was as much an artist's artist as Tom Waits. -
Darrin Matteson - In terms of two, The amazing similarities between Chicago and Toto
Editorial - By Arend, Jan 1, 1998 12:00 AMEssay about the musicians scene around Toto and Chicago. -
Ine Bodewes - I've just grown really critical
Interview - By Arend, Jul 1, 1997 12:00 AMIn July 1997 Ine Bodewes interviewed Steve Lukather for the Dutch Toto & Los Lobotomys fanclub. Lukather, who was in Europe during the Luke Tour 1997, talked about his third solo album, his personal (love) life and more... -
David Vousden - Steve Lukather (Fastlane)
Interview - By Arend, Dec 1, 1996 12:00 AMThe following interview was originally published in Issue 3 of ‘Fastlane’ a UK based fanzine in December 1996. As most of the copies of said magazine are sitting in a dusty garage somewhere in darkest England it seemed the time was right for a second look. -
Chris Standring - The essential studio guitarist
Editorial - By Arend, Jul 1, 1994 12:00 AMThe essential studio guitarist offers an insight into the studio guitar world. This book is not for the beginner guitarist. It has been compiled for the intermediate/advanced player who is ready to take a leap into the music profession. It is also for the player who has been in the profession for some time and is thinking seriously about the next step.
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Edward Van Halen - EVH interviews Luke
Interview - By Arend, Sep 1, 1993 12:00 AMSteve Lukather and Eddie Van Halen are best friends. They bring out the goofy, little kid in each other and remind one another how to keep celebrity at bay. But from a musical outlook they are about as different as it gets.
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Robyn Flans - Jeff Porcaro: a special tribute
Interview - By Arend, Dec 1, 1992 12:00 AMA few months after the death of Toto and session drummer Jeff Porcaro, Modern Drummer released a special tribute. Besides an editor's overview, several readers' memories and an tribute introduction by Robyn Flans, there's a huge list of friends who participated in this tribute: David Paich, David Hungate, Lenny Castro, Boz Scaggs, Jim Keltner, Gary Katz, Paul Jamieson, Mike Baird, Vinnie Colaiuta and of course Steve Lukather.
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Mo Nazam - Toto recall
Interview - By Arend, Feb 1, 1991 12:00 AMThe cream always rises to the top. It'a a crass saying, no mistake and when applied to the music business it makes one wonder. About the charts for instance, where it's not so much the cream that rises as the de-hydrated milk powder. However, in some instances there's a ring of truth to the saying. Take the ultra-competitive L.A. session scene. To make the initial break into the studio network in Tinseltown takes a combination of ability, attitude, state of the art gear, versatillity and liberal helping of luck.
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Neville Marten - Cool hand Luke
Interview - By Arend, Dec 1, 1990 12:00 AMFor Steve Lukather to use the words 'taste' and 'feel' to describe another player (bearing in mind that 'Luke' himself is seen by many of the world's best as the paragon of those virtues) is one big compliment. Toto's guitarist - whatever your opinions of the band - has a playing style that could be used as the role model for modern rock playing. He's fast, he's smooth, he has recognisable touch and tone and is as capable of pinning down a track with a simple riff.
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Matt Resnicoff - Sure beats working
Interview - By Arend, Sep 1, 1988 12:00 AMAgain, there's no substitute for experience. "With any amount of success you have," Lukather cautions, "there's always the disappointment factor. If you haven't gone through that yet, you will, and that's where you learn. You learn humility, you learn what it's really all about, and you earn longevity, I just want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a 'Whatever happened to...,' you know?"
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Rhythm - The reluctant hero
Interview - By Arend, Jun 1, 1988 12:00 AMOne of the founding members of Toto, drummer Jeff Porcaro, speaks frankly on money, talent, and the luck it takes to make it in the game called the music business... -
Jas Obrecht - Steve Lukather
Interview - By Arend, Apr 1, 1984 12:00 AMSteve Lukather, rock sharpshooter. He's best known as the guitarist, singer, and co-composer for Toto. But in Los Angeles, a town known for its scores of guitarists, he holds the reputation of being one of the first (perhaps the first) guitarists to call when a screaming solo or crunchy rhythm part is needed. The list of artists he's worked with reads like a who's who of the top of the charts.
