Bridges Steve Lukather

• 1Far From Over03:58
• 2Not My Kind Of People03:56
• 3Someone04:08
• 4All Forevers Must End04:20
• 5When I See You Again04:55
• 6Take My Love05:22
• 7Burning Bridges04:00
• 8I'll Never Know05:04
• Total Runtime35:43

Info for Bridges

Over the course of five decades Steve Lukather has placed an indelible stamp on pop culture. Alongside his tenure as the only member of TOTO to never take a hiatus from the band, he has performed on thousands of albums as a session musician. Amongst these musical contributions are some of the most successful, influential and enduring records of all-time including Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Additionally, he released a memoir titled The Gospel According To Luke which was a global best-seller. He continues to be TOTO’s band leader, a member of Ringo’s All-Starr Band, and a solo artist.

TOTO has enjoyed a celebrated global resurgence over the last decade. Through 2022-2023, the band will perform in front of close to a million fans. Their repertoire has 3 BILLION+ streams at Spotify alone, with “Africa” counting for one billion plays on its own. Album sales exceed 40 MILLION copies. TOTO is one of the few 70’s bands that have endured the changing trends and styles, and 45 years in to a career enjoy a multi-generational fan base and still selling out shows around the world.

Luke's ninth solo album, titled BRIDGES, could not be more accurately titled. He shares, “I see it as a bridge between my solo music and TOTO music. The fact that Joseph Williams, David Paich and I wrote most of the record, and the fact I invited many of the old ToTo gang to come and play, co-writers like Randy Goodrum and Stan Lynch brings all this together. It also proves that most of my old pals and I are still great friends, and I wanted to do a record ‘in the style of,' as TOTO will never record another studio album. This is as close as we will get.”

"Bridges presents deep roots and branches from ToTo’s family tree. Past and present members contribute on both the writing and performance side. Joseph Williams has writing credits on six of the songs, while David Paich does on four. Williams performs on all recordings contributing background vocals, synths, percussion or keys pending on the track, while Paich plays keyboards on five. Drummer Simon Phillips performed on “Far From Over,” “Not My Kind Of People,” “When I See You Again,” and “Burning Bridges.” While Shannon Forrest returned to play on “Someone,” “All Forevers Must End,” “Take My Love” and “I’ll Never Know.” Both old friend and former member Lee Sklar and Gov’t Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson perform bass on a couple of tracks, while Luke himself performs on several others. On “Far From Over,” Trev Lukather performs guitars, bass, background vocals, and synths. Current ToTo keyboardist Steve Maggiora co-wrote “Take My Love” and performs all keys alongside singing background vocals on that track."

Steve Lukather, guitars, bass, vocals
David Paich, keyboards
Joseph Williams, keyboards, backing vocals
Simon Phillips, drums
Steve Maggiora, keyboards, backing vocals
Shannon Forrest, drums
Lee Sklar Jorgen, bass
Carlsson Trev Lukather, guitars, bass, synthesizer, backing vocals

Steve Lukather
Versatile musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and arranger Steve Lukather was born in Los Angeles on October 21 in 1957. Before his father bought him a guitar (a simple Kay acoustic) and a copy of Meet the Beatles at the age of seven, Luke started to play drums and keyboards. "I love keyboards, I write all my songs on keyboards except for the real obvious 'burn' tunes. I find it much easier, you have all these great synth sounds and you play a C chord and it's sounds like God, and you start thinking melodies as opposed to chops." (Lukather, 1986).

Lukather was Toto’s lead guitarist, but he also sang and composed a lot. When the band started out, Jeff Porcaro was the band leader, and he wrote most of the songs. Later Lukather’s role started looking more and more like Porcaro’s. When Porcaro died, Lukather stepped up and made sure the band kept going.

After firing their vocalist Jean-Michel Byron in 1990, Toto had no lead singer from 1990to 1997. Lukather did most of the vocal parts for the band in that time. He provided lead vocals in every track on 1992’s Kingdom of Desire and 1995’s Tambu except for two instrumental tracks. The Tabu single I will Remember reached the 64th place on the UK charts. Despite the success of the song, reviewers noted that he struggled with the vocals. Toto had to bring their former lead singers Joseph Williams and Bobby Kimball for the collaboration Toto XX in 1988, that’s when Lukather could stop doing the lead vocals.

Lukather’s song writing contributions have grown along the way, and it’s noticeable that only one of the earlier Toto songs was written by him, namely I Won’t Hold You Back. He also admits that lyric writing isn’t his strong point, so he collaborated with other band members to get his musical ideas into hits.

In June 2008, Lukather decided to leave Toto. This also lead to the break up of the band. Steve was already 50 years old and he really felt like his Toto time was over. ‘ "I just cant do it anymore and at 50 years old I wanted to start over and give it one last try on my own." ‘ and:’ "Honestly I have just had enough. This is NOT a break. It is over. I really can't go out and play Hold the Line with a straight face anymore." ‘

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