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On October 29th the South-America tour of Ringo Starr's All Starr Band started in Sao Paulo in Brazil. After playing Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru & Mexico, the tour will ned in Las Vegas on November 22 & 23.
Next Sunday, October 27, Rock City Radio Berlin will air an interview with Steve Lukather. Steve talks about his latest record Transition, Toto, his life and Ringo Starr.
The interview is recorded on April 10th, when Steve played in Berlin. The part with Steve is about 30 minutes long (including music).
On October 17th 2013 Steve Lukather will play the Rock against MS All Star Concert in the Whisky A Go-Go.
Toto played a Show near the end of their U.S. 2013 Tour at the historic Fox Theater in Visalia, Ca. Built in 1930 this venue oozed with atmosphere and only stands open due to much love and hard work from the local community. They had to reinforce the roof specifically for this show as Toto literally blew the roof off of this 83 year old building!
Steve Lukather, no surprise, loves to talk guitar. This interview, conducted at the
guitarist’s Los Angeles home in May of 2013, went over three-and-a-half hours in
duration. And Luke, as he is known to his fans and friends, talks a lot—and fast—
so it all translates into a lot of text. What follows is some of the extra Q&A not
included in the print version of this interview. And some of the questions herein
were asked by you, GP readers, via Facebook, the day of the interview. (Lukather
begins fielding these questions at about the halfway mark of this transcript.)
By Jude Gold, 9 July 2013 (JudeGold.com)
After the first (Europen) leg of the Toto Anniversary Tour, Steve Lukather will be performing with his band on Frampton's Guitar Circus Tour from July 13th till July 23rd in the USA.
Steve Lukather and Reinhold Bogner met up at Toto's rehearsal for the start of their 35th Anniversary Tour, to discuss a range of topics including his use of Bogner Ecstasy 101b amps in a 10 minutes video.
Enjoy the tasteful result at the videos section.
Lukather: "Thank you Luxembourg! 6000 strong, you were an amazing crowd. We had a blast. Keeps getting better. Off to Germany for the Hi Rock fest." (May 31st)
Steve Lukather will be performing with his band on Frampton's Guitar Circus Tour featuring Peter Frampton on July 13 in Durant, OK; July 16 in Cropus Christi, TX; July 19 in Quapaw, OK and July 20 in Dubuque, IA.
Luke will also be the Special Guest sitting in with Peter's band on select dates of "Frampton's Guitar Circus": July 14 in San Antonio, TX; July 21 in Minneapolis, MN and July 23 in Beaver Creek, CO.
Ringo has been having so much fun with this incarnation of the All Starr band, with whom he just wrapped up a tour in the Pacific Rim including dates in New Zealand, Australia and Japan, that he has announced another leg of tour dates in South-America and the USA.
Steve Lukather presents an in-depth video guitar lesson on the subject of advanced blues soloing skills, in which he covers a number of useful techniques. He also offers some sage advice.
Welcome to the brand new official website of Steve Lukather! After almost ten years of working with the "blue" website (made by Kay and Arend Slagman) it was time to say goodbye to SteveLukather.net and hello to SteveLukather.com with a completely new design and technique (made by Robin and Arend Slagman).
In the interview below Steve discusses his darkest days that included divorce, death of a loved one, a dying friend and Internet bullying. He talks openly about what happened four years ago that made him take stock of his life and change. These changes are reflected in the music on Transition. Gone are the guitar heroics, replaced by subtleties, melodies and musical nuances. The result is an album of songs written by Steve that both share his innate tastefully, heartfelt playing along with nods to his influences, which he proudly wears on his sleeve.
Foto: Lee Sklar, CJ Vanston, Steve Lukather, Ross Hogarth
Lee Sklar is probably the most prolific bass player of our time. He has played on well over 2,000 albums. The instantly recognizable session cat and live player is most famous for his four decade plus stint with James Taylor and long run with Phil Collins. He did a Tour and DVD with Toto and has been a life long friend of Steve Lukather. If you have ever listened to the radio, watched TV or seen a movie you have most certainly been touched by Lee or "Sklar" as his friends and band mates call him. He was gracious enough to spend some time talking to me about his amazing career and relationship with Luke.
Steve Weingart and Renee Jones are a musical duo, a married duo and one half of Steve Lukather's band. I sat down up close with a chance to talk to both of them their new album "Obeservatory", music and muisicians.
Don Felder was a huge part of The Eagles amazing success story. He recently released his first solo album in three decades. He has been running wild doing interviews, live shows and appearances promoting his fantastic release "Road to Forever". In Los Angeles I saw him at the Grammy Museum in a question and answer session hosted by Scott Goldman and short live Felder only performance. I also saw him up close with a full band at the Troubadour, also in Los Angeles. Both performances were great. Since Steve Lukather and Toto cats David Paich and Steve Porcaro played on the new release I figured it would be a good reason to interview Don. Don was able to squeeze me into his tight schedule as he just finished an interview, then did his interview with me with me and was doing the Nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" later that night.
CJ Vanston is a keyboard player, producer, song writer, arranger and man of many talents. He is also Steve Lukather's main musical compadre on his latest project "Transition". "Transition" is Luke's new CD release available January 21st 2012.
Steve Vai was busy on the road touring to promote his new release "The Story of Light", but was kind enough to take some time to do an interview with me to show his support for his musical brother Steve Lukather.
