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re: It blows my mind Steve Lukather or Toto aren’t in the Rock ‘n Roll HOF

Posted on 8/15/26 at 1:03 pm to
Posted by johnqpublic
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Posted on 8/15/26 at 1:03 pm to
Went to see Toto last night in Long Beach. My buddy knows the young keyboard player in Toto (Dennis's first gig as a kid was in my buddy's band). So we got great seats and got to hang out backstage. Saw Paich (he only came out to sing Africa), hung out with Dennis and got to meet Luke. He is exactly as you see him in interviews.

Dude is amazing.
Posted by johnqpublic
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Posted on 8/15/26 at 1:06 pm to
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I could be wrong but I don’t think he played on Edge of Seventeen. I think that's Waddy Wachtel.


You are correct. Waddy has been Nicks's guitarist for decades. Just don't look up his "legal problems".
Posted by johnqpublic
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Posted on 8/15/26 at 1:12 pm to
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David Paich the pianist for Toto father Marty Paich was one of the greatest arrangers ever.


The Paich and Porcaro family are both established L.A. Musicians. Marty was a fantastic composer, arranger etc and Joe Porcaro (dad of Jeff, Mike and Steve) was an amazing jazz/session drummer.

Even with the singer Joe Williams, his dad is kinda famous. You may have heard of John Williams... yes, THE John Williams.

Luke is kind of the only one of the L.A. guys who wasn't a second generation musician. His dad worked on TV Shows as a assistant director
Posted by geauxbrown
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Member since Oct 2006
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Posted on 8/16/26 at 11:20 pm to
Just professional musicians all around. Bobby Kimball from Vinton is one of my all time favorite singers and he was responsible for a lot of the way they sounded.

Their early stuff rocked.

Luke was like 19 when they recorded their first album.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 8/17/26 at 12:21 pm to
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They started appeasing thr boomer casino circuit a while ago.


What does this have to do with their work in their prime?

Would they have been better off dying of drug overdoses in the 80s, and be forever young? One member did die early of suspected drug use.
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
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Posted on 8/17/26 at 1:02 pm to
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You are correct. Waddy has been Nicks's guitarist for decades. Just don't look up his "legal problems"


Yea, he's a scumbag.
Posted by wareaglepete
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Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 8/17/26 at 2:50 pm to
Lukather was a bit mad at his neighbor for using his leaf blower early in the morning.

Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
38429 posts
Posted on 8/17/26 at 4:34 pm to
Lukather suffers from the fact that he gets pigeoholed as a "session" musician and Toto a studio band.
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