Steve Lukather's Studio Stories
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The loquacious legend talks about what it takes to be a first-call player and why he kept a banjo within arm's reach.
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? |
| 0:02.2 | Welcome to Wongnodes podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | This is the final episode, the bonus episode for season two. |
| 0:08.8 | I really appreciate you guys listening. |
| 0:10.4 | This year we did 24 episodes. |
| 0:13.0 | That's really fun. |
| 0:14.4 | I started this podcast at the beginning of the year. |
| 0:16.7 | It's been really fun to interview some of my heroes. |
| 0:19.7 | And you know what? |
| 0:20.8 | If you're digging it, make sure you smash that subscribe button because next season I've also got some really great guests lined up. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm going to take a couple months off here from the podcast because I have a project that I'm working on finishing up. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm going to put out at the beginning of the new year. 2020 was just a warm-up, baby. I'm stoked about what I'm going to be doing in 21 |
| 0:45.2 | and just trying to keep the thing moving. You know what I'm saying? Speaking of keeping things |
| 0:50.0 | moving and an insanely prolific career, Steve Lukather. Now, if you're guitar players, you probably |
| 0:56.8 | know about Luke. You've heard him on thousands of records. You probably know about his band Toto. |
| 1:02.9 | He plays with Ringo Starr and his All-Star band. He was on a bunch of Michael Jackson stuff. |
| 1:07.9 | Buzz Skaggs, Steely Dan. I mean, and honestly, it's like unfair. It's like, |
| 1:13.4 | oh, I only mentioned those. I didn't mention George Harrison or Eric Clapton or all these other |
| 1:17.7 | insane artists that he's worked with. I could just go on and on talking about his accolades. |
| 1:22.4 | Anyways, Steve Lukather, amazing session musician, writer, producer, band leader, and also a fun author |
| 1:31.3 | to read. I read his autobiography. It's really a fun read. I had a good time reading the stories and |
| 1:38.2 | just kind of hearing the firsthand accounts of some of his life experiences. And as he says in the |
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