Steve Lukather
Total Guitar|June 2021
HE PLAYED ON THE BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME. HE’S THE DRIVING FORCE IN LEGENDARY ROCK ACT TOTO. AND HE JUST SO HAPPENS TO PLAY IN ANOTHER BAND WITH A BEATLE. IF ANYONE HAS SEEN AND HEARD IT ALL, IT’S STEVE LUKATHER. AND HIS ADVICE TO TG READERS IS SIMPLE: “YOU GOTTA BE CONSISTENT”
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Steve Lukather
When Steve Lukather talks guitar, you take a knee and listen. For over 40 years, the LA-born musician has been the one constant member of multi-platinum rockers Toto, and as a session player his unparalleled CV includes stints with an array of legendary artists including Aretha Franklin, Elton John and Michael

Jackson. On Jackson’s masterpiece Thriller, the biggest selling album of all time, it was Eddie Van Halen who played the solo in Beat It, but Lukather who laid down the song’s signature riff.

These days he is also a member of Ringo Starr’s All-Star Band, and Ringo is just one of the friends appearing on his latest solo album, I Found The Sun Again. “I have to pinch myself,” he says. “Ringo’s a dear friend, we Facetime every week. Yes, he’s one of the Beatles, but he’s also one of the most intelligent, funny, soulful and spiritual people you could meet. You just wanna be around him. We got half a million YouTube views for my Run To Me video with him, and 100,000 views for the title track. If people were still buying singles I’d have a gold record by now!”

As he adds with a knowing smile: “I’m not doing too bad for an old guy!” And this old guy has much hard-earned wisdom to pass on...

Keep your ears and your mind open.

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