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  1. Glenn Astarita - Inertia, Sherinian’s finest recorded hour to date!

    - By Arend, May 6, 2001 12:00 AM
    Keyboard whiz Derek Sherinian has made a living as a first call session ace, performing and recording with such disparate talent as Alice Cooper and Kiss along with his involvement with prog-metal bands Dream Theater, Platypus and the high octane Planet X. However, Inertia might represent Sherinian’s finest recorded hour to date!
  2. Willie G. Moseley - Steve Lukather

    - By Arend, Nov 1, 2000 12:00 AM
    A 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.
  3. Richard Hallebeek - Bob Bradshaw

    - By Arend, Sep 1, 2000 12:00 AM

    This 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...

  4. Arend Slagman - Odd Couple at North Sea Jazz

    - By Arend, Jul 14, 2000 12:00 AM

    Luke'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.

  5. Jeb Wright - Steve Lukather

    - By Arend, May 1, 2000 12:00 AM
    I'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.
  6. Ewan Smith - Steve Lukather blues

    - By Arend, Feb 1, 2000 12:00 AM
    For 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.
  7. Jason Sidwell - Steve Lukather

    - By Arend, Feb 1, 2000 12:00 AM
    As 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.
  8. Ine Bodewes - I've just grown really critical

    - By Arend, Jul 1, 1997 12:00 AM
    In 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...
  9. David Vousden - Steve Lukather (Fastlane)

    - By Arend, Dec 1, 1996 12:00 AM
    The 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.
  10. Chris Standring - The essential studio guitarist

    - By Arend, Jul 1, 1994 12:00 AM

    The 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.

  11. Edward Van Halen - EVH interviews Luke

    - By Arend, Sep 1, 1993 12:00 AM

    Steve 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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