Musicians Hall of Fame Backstage: Steve Lukather Part 1
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- čas přidán 15. 09. 2019
- Join us for "Musicians Hall of Fame Backstage", where Joe Chambers will sit down and have casual conversations with some of music's most iconic personalities. On today's show we talk to Steve Lukather . You can watch Saturday nights at 7:30 on NewsChannel5 plus.
I wonder if Lukather knows there are a ton of people that hold him in the same regard that he holds all the legends he mentions?
Beautiful cat. The classic (and classy) example of a guy who's gone full circle in the Wisdom of Life journey. I'd always watched and listened to his interviews and wished he'd someday write a book, so I bought his "The Gospel According To..." book which I enjoyed immensely. Get the audio version for the full effect. Lol!
Luke is Luke...most down to earth cat...raw, edgy, real...put a guitar in his hands and magic happens. Gifted. Talented. Luke was the cat who nailed the solo in the 80s hit record after hit record...first take...Beat It guitar and bass parts...first take...got it...done. How many of us played with guys who took three hours to figure out on chord? Luke finished an LP by that time and it was great! That is his gift...fast to the point.
Steve is simply a LIVING LEGEND!!
Luke has a wealth of knowledge and experiences. He could fill a dozen books with meaningful stories from his life lessons. He had my eyes watering talking about how his dad sacrificed the family budget to buy him a guitar that his dad knew would further motivate his obviously talented son. He proved himself to his dad before he proved himself to so many great musicians on studio gigs.
He teased a second book, recently. I'm definitely excited
I've been a Toto fan since I heard Porcaro on Hold The Line when I was 15. Being a wanna be drummer at the time I was just enamored by Jeff's groove. Through the years I have grown to be blown away by Luke's playing and most of all his infectious personality! I have seen so many of his interviews and I've heard most all of these stories and they never get old! He is a musical national treasure!
I can go one better...my first 45 Hold The Line.....age 9. Nine year old these days are just staring at their phone.
And he's still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for his individual accomplishments, or collectively with Toto. No question Toto should be in there, decades ago. But I would love to see Luke be inducted individually as well. He is so humble, but when he talks about God reaching down - that's Luke's genius. He was born to be this gifted, and to contribute and play and bring joy. And Jann Wenner should feel honoured to be able to put someone like Luke in the hall of fame. So awesome that Luke has been recognised by the Musicians Hall of Fame. There has been no greater, or more deserving, musician than Luke. xx
AMEN
I hope the Musicians Hall of Fame makes a section at the museum one day soon of TOTO and their history going into serious detail on just how many artists all the members played and collaborated with. They stand alone as a band. I just toured the museum last Friday and it was fabulous!
To me, the highest compliment that someone as great as Steve Lukather can receive is, “He seems like a regular guy.” Well, he does. I watched the interview out of order and I am more amazed by Part 1 than I am Part 2. What a fabulous interview with a fabulous man. Great work!
Ive met him a few times and he's passionate about music and fun to be around plus a killer player!
I was at some of those early Boz Scaggs rehearsals when I worked at SIR in 1977 for just 3 months. I remember Luke there with the rest of Toto...Jeff , David etc and they were rehearsing in one of SIR's larger rooms in the back...the same room the Beach Boys and Fleetwood Mac used back then.
I’m a bassist. But the guitar players that I made sure that’s on my listening playlist is Prince, Ernie Isley, and STEVE LUKATHER! Steve’s work with TOTO and other artists were nothing short of amazing. I love the solo he did for Lionel Richie’s Running with the Night. I called PT. 1 & PT 2. Glad’s he’s still here doing it!!😌👍🏾🎸
Steve has a Pori Jazz t-shirt on. Finland loves Steve, so do I! I love his talent and his music, but I absolutely adore his story-telling talents. I could listen him for hours and hours.
Could listen to Steve all day, such a great talent and a wonderful human, thanks for the great interview
Every member of that band is a legend. Not a single one of them can be overlooked or replaced, even though they have all been vital to the history of Toto
Steve (aka. Luke) Lukather is definitely one of the coolest and most humble musicians I've ever listened to and he was an absolute joy to meet in person. Such a consummate performer as well.
Hands down, one of the greatest guitarists of the modern era...I've followed his career since the 70's....he only gets better with age. Thanks for this interview!
These guys were rocking when I was 12! I'm now 53 and still love the music.
Met him and the band a few weeks ago. What a down to earth person he is. He's the sort of person one could just imagine hanging out with.
Steve plays from the heart. He wants all. He plays all. Incredible human.
Just to think of all the great musicians Steve's recorded with shows the incredible talent he possesses.
Really enjoy and appreciate his musicianship!! 🎸🎸
Great interview! Luke is the best. He has so many stories to tell. It's just amazing.
Thanks for this interview 🙏🙏....Love listening to Steve Lukather...
Awesome interview Luke, Love the way you show respect for your parents :-)
Awwww, so true and sincere as always. Love you Steve!
Fantastic musician and ever better human being. Finished his book recently and found so many life similarities. Especially the moment his dad bought the Les Paul and VT. Big memory from my life as well when my dad bought stuff for me on the fly. Wish I could meet him and talk. Class act.
i could listen to this stuff all day long ;O)
what a humble talented man
Love this man!My favourite musician. Beautiful moment @18.56 . I started welling up myself! Great interview! Thank you
19:01 peeling onions moment . Wow, great interview !!
The band, and Luke , were on fire last weekend in Des Moines.....the best!
LUKE IS A LEGEND, He 'changed my world'.
Great Interview!..Luke has a quite the musical history under his belt...One of my heros!
Great interview. Thanks.
Great interview! Thank you! Luke you are the BEST man! 🤘🏻
I am in love with him. Oh how lovely it would be to meet him.
Come down now Cynthia ….. ;)
Steve looks great! Thanks for this awesome interview. All the way from France
This was 10 years ago!
@@fanmaxis3004 nope. 2019.
TOTO .........they should be in the rock & roll hall of fame , my name is Stephen , born on the same day as Steve Lukather but a yr earlier Oct 21st 1956 , also with my two brothers and sister , yes quads , i was not alone , ....i have loved this band since they started , their music is absolutely brilliant, especially the live stuff , live on forever you guy's
What an awesome person. Loved the story about his father and parents.
One of my great guitar heroes!
Maybe even the greatest...
Great player. Great guy.
Thanks guys that was very inspiring!
Great musician, great guitarist, seems like a great guy and a great hang. Thx for posting.
absolutely awesome, Steve is a living legend and a great guy, love his work, love TOTO, incredible talent.
His book (Gospel according to )is so cool!! Hope there will be a part 2 !!
He is writing it now I think!
Great interview with the Legend that is Steve Lukather, Joe Chambers looks like the Yeti, Lol
great interview.
What a great guy!
@19:02 If your a guitarist of any sort , you can relate with him here . You don't very often get to hear the greats tell these kinds of stories of there early days .Steve Lukather sits in the top 5 of my fav guitarists of all time !
Pori loves you Luke!
Luke is a true hero, both as a musician and as a great human being!
Steve kills it every time he gets on the stage and Pori Jazz festival last summer was no exception. He's wearing the festival T-shirt! Go Finland!
Iam very insensitive but i almost started crying when his dad siad grab your guitar& amp.
2:54 A good moment to mention the guitarist of that famous part, Hilton Valentine, who passed away 29 January. One thing that most 50plus guitarists have in common is that they started off by learning House of the Rising Sun, no matter what they achieved later on in life with their playing.
Luke seems like a genuinely great guy 👍🏼
Great guy. I really like him a lot. He had me laughing.
Steve lukather ♥️🇨🇱 que lindo 😍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Luke ❤
he is the soul of toto, grat musician
un TRES grand guitariste …
He has a finnish shirt on btw😍
Did Steve do the solo on the song Sensations by the band "The Producers"?
Edit: I've never heard SL interviewed before. What a mellow dude.
😇♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😍
Wow!
Some read better then others some dont read at all some cant improvise and some can and dont know that they do it already.
The classically trained players can only play whats written someone self taught or even who learned from lessons or Tab
can in fact learn how to read music after the fact and reverse engineer the tab to the written staff .. But form and proper fingering
and where the notes are matter if no one has ever shown you that or told you its impossible to just snap your fingers and get it...
Never gonna happen BUT there are two staves in music for Piano the F clef which is located below the G clef which is for right hand and is located on top of the F clef or above. Left hand below F clef Right hand above G clef..
in reading music for piano and looking at piano you can see the melody or all notes before you...
On Guitar though its upside down and facing away from you so you have to lean over the guitar and look from above down and over
the fingerboard to see where the notes would be on fretboard.......
Guitar is really dependent on feel and knowing where the notes above and below and to either side of you are at any given location on the neck.... If you can grasp where that is reading it on paper God Bless you cause you got me beat but if you cant you can in fact learn how...
But if you learn to read on piano first and guitar as 2nd instrument or lets call it 3rd then you learn to read both clefs both F below and G above
and you learn Bass for F clef below and Guitar for G clef above.
That means you could pick up a bass and locate where lo open e is and know that on the cleff or stave.
Same for guitar and you should now where middle c is on piano if you dont ask someone that does and remember it....
Piano keys are in patterns 2 black then 3 black keys 2 and then 3 always down the keyboard.
always to the left of the 2 black keys will be the notes b and c on the white keys side by side
and always to the left of the 3 black keys on the white keys will be e and f you note those white keys are side by side touching
where as all the rest of the white keys have a black key between them.. Those are the two musical half steps.. B,C & E,F..
the rest of the notes are whole notes apart and the black keys are called accidentals as they are always flat b or sharp #
So what is the first black keyed note to the right of C or F?
C# or F# what comes next D or G then what D# or G# and so forth going to the right
but what if I wanted to go the left from B or E well id be flatting the notes then
so the first black key going to the left of B would be Bb Bflat then A white key then Ab black key then G white key then Gb black key
then F White key then Eb is first black key left of white key E..
So if you back up over a nail you will get a flat tire... and if your moving forward you will come across sharp notes......
always be sharp and never Bb....
I once asked Eric Johnson if he knew theory and how to read music and he said not enough to hurt me..
He got that from Chet......
Even though Rit gave Luke the chart Luke still had to read and play it.
Which makes me ask the question was the solo written out for him or is he to improvise
knowing the progression blind on the spot ?
Scary great reader if thats the case ....
Rit is a cool cat I met him at hard rock in Dallas and he was in the wings to give a grammy to chet atkins
guess it was being filmed there live something I said are you going to play and he said now and I was visibly upset
lol he said no its for Chet and I said you flew all the way from LA just to do that for Chet ?
he said YEA... well of course you fly all the way and boy were his arms tired.....
He was ambushed by happenstance but I knew who he was and said LEE RITTENOUR ????! !!!!
Like what are you doing in Texas and when are ya playing or where ???
Capt Fingers is a reader and knows right where to play the notes...
You know how they did that ?
PRACTICE AND WANTING TO BE GOOD READERS AND NOT STARVE HAHAHAHHAHAH
IM PRACTICING READING NOW..
WHILE I STILL CAN...
suomi perkele! pori club haha.
Yes, but what does Luke's wig have to say about it? Just kidding love that guy. I'm just tired of all the "wig" comments and so is Luke
luke is the man TOTO is my goto
lucky us
"...bad news travails fast, they would rather kill you before than anoint you..." 28:00
I figured out who is Steve Luke at the reminds me of Kenny Powers😂😂👍🏿😂
That guy is scary
Why would anyone want to be Chris Gaines?
or did he go back to the chicken?
Not to sound rude but where did that guy's neck go?
Ahhh Brett. Great interview with a guitar legend and you're worried about the dude's neck? You're not really rude, you're just a dickhead.
@@rubicon-oh9km well that's a first someone name calling on the internet. I was curious to what his medical condition was.
Great player, not so great wig.
janibonneil get your eyes checked. Some old guys actually still have good hair.
@@hartleyroadmusic Looks like Paul Stanley's wig. Sorry to hurt your feelings.
janibonneil Again. An appointment with the eye doctor might be wise.
@@hartleyroadmusic I'll get right on that, fan boy.
janibonneil Perfect. Good luck. 👍