I Found The Sun Again Steve Lukather

• 1 Along For The Ride 04:56
• 2 Serpent Soul 04:55
• 3 The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys 10:35
• 4 Journey Through 05:54
• 5 Welcome To The Club 05:57
• 6 I Found The Sun Again 06:18
• 7 Run To Me (feat. Ringo Starr, Joseph Williams) 03:17
• 8 Bridge Of Sighs 08:24
• Total Runtime 50:16

Info for I Found The Sun Again

Der TOTO-Mastermind Steve ‘Luke’ Lukather veröffentlicht sein neues Soloalbum “I Found The Sun Again”. Und es kommt als Double-Feature mit dem Soloalbum seines TOTO-Kollegen Joseph Williams, der am gleichen Tag “Denizen Tenant” veröffentlicht. “I Found The Sun Again” wurde von Ken Freeman mit produziert und abgemischt. Unter den Musikern auf diesem Album finden sich Wegbegleiter die seit Jahrzehnten in Lukathers Leben eine Rolle spielen. Unter ihnen sind der Schlagzeuger Greg Bissonette, der Keyboarder Jeff Babko und die Bassisten Jorgen Carlsson und John Pierce. Lebenslanger Freund und Bandkollege von Toto, David Paich, spielt auf dem gesamten Album Klavier und Orgel, während Joseph Williams auf mehreren Titeln sang und für den Song “Run To Me” Streicher- und Bläserarrangements schrieb. Sowohl Paich als auch Williams schrieben diese spezielle Komposition gemeinsam, während der Freund und Bandleader der All-Starrs, Ringo Starr, auf der Aufnahme und im Video einen besonderen Auftritt hat. Weitere Co-Autoren sind Stan Lynch, Jeff Babko und natürlich Joseph Williams.

Luke über die Aufnahmen: “Ich hatte noch nie in meinem Leben so viel Spaß. Painless, fun and easy”. Das Repertoire umfasst fünf neue Originalkompositionen und drei von Luke persönlich ausgewählte Cover. Das sind Traffic’s “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys”, Joe Walsh’s “Welcome To The Club” und Robin Trower’s “Bridge of Sighs”.

Steve Lukather, Gitarre
Gregg Bissonette, Schlagzeug
David Paich, Klavier, Keyboards
Joseph Williams, Gesang

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." ‘

This album contains no booklet.