S10E10: Steve Lukather joins the Rockonteurs
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt welcome the brilliant Steve Lukather to the podcast.
Luke, as we call him, is the very definition of an artist. He’s a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. He’s recorded on literally 1000’s of tracks for 100s of artists from Boz Scaggs to Ringo Starr and Michael Jackson. He is also the last founding member of Toto and he talks to Guy and Gary about his influences, his experiences and his passion for music that continues to drive him daily.
Find out more about Steve here: http://www.stevelukather.com/
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| 0:00.0 | If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. |
| 0:05.7 | So hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, Gary. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello, Guy. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, apparently, you're not your usual high fidelity self today. |
| 0:16.0 | The Wi-Fi has gone down in my pad, my drum. |
| 0:21.1 | And I'm obviously blaming... |
| 0:23.3 | My crib. |
| 0:24.0 | My crib. |
| 0:24.9 | Blaming Virgin Media who have been outside trying to fix it. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm not the only one in the street. |
| 0:32.1 | And yeah, so I'm sort of working very low-tech today. |
| 0:36.2 | I knew you shouldn't have pushed Richard Branson so hard when we interviewed him. I knew it. Now you're paying the price. He's come at me. But you know what a perfectionist I am guy? I do, Gary. I do. You've worked with me. You know, if one thing goes wrong, I'm totally in a fluster, aren't I? You are, you are, yeah. |
| 0:55.3 | My ducks have to be in a row. They do. And to see you with the world not bending to your will. |
| 1:03.3 | Have you been out? I was out a lot. I went to, um, it's annoying, up in London, annoyingly, it's all the way up in highgate it's elicoustique |
| 1:12.4 | elic who are the company who actually make all everyone will have heard their stuff because they make |
| 1:17.9 | all the big sound systems for the big festivals for the isle white for reading for all those things |
| 1:22.8 | but then they have this incredible listening room with the most amazing atmos system which is |
| 1:30.9 | which is very much the place of choice there or dolby are the two places that you know you get |
| 1:35.1 | invited to these atmos playbacks and there were two in a row both stephen wilson of course |
| 1:40.1 | i don't go if it's not him i just don't go uh invite goes in in the bin. No, it's not Stephen. And the first one was welcome to the Pleasuredome, which was amazing, as I'm sure you can imagine. Yeah. I mean, you know, the idea, Stephen Wilson coming together with Trevor Horn is always going to be good, isn't it? Exactly, yeah. And then the next day was, who are you? |
| 2:02.1 | Which was, I just, pardoned it, a little bit of tribute. I don't call it that. What do you call it? I don't call it, who are you? And you call it, who are you? I call it, who are you, yeah. It's rather sort of like, you know, a bit offensive, really, isn't it? Or is it, is my version the really offensive version? |
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