Post by Neverending on Aug 28, 2024 12:38:48 GMT -5
By his own admission, Steve Lukather is an open book. “I’m painfully honest,” he says when we start our conversation. “Be careful.” But there isn’t any need to proceed with caution. Lukather has a story for just about anything — often with a laugh or self-deprecating quip — whether it’s the thousands of songs he’s played on as a session guitarist or the exploits of his yacht-rock brothers, Toto. Lukather’s band has blessed the rains for nearly five decades with a finely tuned pop-rock sound, which they’re bringing to the Hollywood Bowl with a headlining show on September 1. “We’re getting more action than anybody fucking knows,” he explains. “People are showing up and it’s not a bunch of people with my color hair. There’s a few of us old fuckers out there, but mostly you look out and it’s like every basic younger audience.”
Lukather believes that the perception of what Toto represents and what they’ve accomplished have been getting another look — a kinder one — within the last few years. “People are going, ‘You know those guys, we were wrong, they ain’t so bad,’” he puts it. “Toto is a stupid name, I’ll give you that. But we contributed to a lot of music from the ’70s and ’80s to the early ’90s. Every record out of Los Angeles had at least one of us on it.” He’s unsure why, exactly, the waiting game has paid off after all this time, and he’s choosing not to overthink it. “I didn’t want to die with us being a chuckle,” Lukather adds. “I don’t need any awards or nothing. We’re just getting some respect before the last curtain call.”
FULL ARTICLE:
www.vulture.com/article/steve-lukather-toto-best-worst-music-thriller.html
Lukather believes that the perception of what Toto represents and what they’ve accomplished have been getting another look — a kinder one — within the last few years. “People are going, ‘You know those guys, we were wrong, they ain’t so bad,’” he puts it. “Toto is a stupid name, I’ll give you that. But we contributed to a lot of music from the ’70s and ’80s to the early ’90s. Every record out of Los Angeles had at least one of us on it.” He’s unsure why, exactly, the waiting game has paid off after all this time, and he’s choosing not to overthink it. “I didn’t want to die with us being a chuckle,” Lukather adds. “I don’t need any awards or nothing. We’re just getting some respect before the last curtain call.”
FULL ARTICLE:
www.vulture.com/article/steve-lukather-toto-best-worst-music-thriller.html
