🎸 STEVE LUKATHER: Toto's FIRST ALBUM & 'HOLD the LINE' was Recorded BEFORE any LIVE GIGS! 🌟 

Considering I see this dude on many interviews on RU-vid and people claiming he doesn’t get enough credit, I think he gets enough credit.

@@hymeflymaybe with guitar aficionado’s but he’s not recognized nearly enough as one of the best guitarists of his generation. Ask a non guitar player who EVH is or who Santana is and they would know. I think this is what the original commenter probably meant and he has a point.

Look at his house.....he's well recognized.

Rosanna and Make believe were singles released in 1982 before AFRICA. No way Africa whether video or song was played in 1981 . Toto IV was being recorded in 1981.

Hey, I’m in my late 50s, so go easy on me and my brain! 🤣

@@luvbasses5487 OK!! 😆 🤣 😂 😹 but I'm 61 and I remember that period really for this reason 👉 I was wearing out my TURN BACK LP in 1981 going into 1982 and actually at the time TOTO IV came out (I bought the album months later), I actually liked TURN BACK much better because it rocked. I remember how I felt .That was it.

"Africa" took a long time to be recorded, it was added to the IV album at the last minute, hence probably its position as the last song in the album. It appeared on the radios by the fall of 1982, and became number 1 worldwilde by early 1983.

@@aubindemontfalcon5967 Africa came out at the right time. Toto (at that point) needed some hits. Even beggars can't be choosy when they're hungry.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Many people made a parallel between Toto and Foreigner. Although the two bands are of the same generation, they don't sound that much similar. Toto is far more versatile, subtle and maestro musicians. Toto's music is more interesting than Foreigner which is a more basically rock / ballad band, with less originality. And Foreigner's former drummer sounds as original as a drum machine, boring as hell...

@@aubindemontfalcon5967 I did not make a comparison at all on how the two bands sounded. Read my post again please. Fact is neither band played in a club or any concert before their first singles or albums came out. Also because I was around back then Toto was actually compared to Boston and if you look at the cover of those two bands debut albums Boston had a guitar with a city inside it in space. Toto had a beautiful sword pictured in space. The back covers of both albums had Tom Scholz almost in the same pose as David Paich. Bobby Kimball almost in the same pose as Brad Delp. I bought Boston, Foreigner and Totos debut albums in that order when they came out yep, 1976, 1977 and 1978 . I was there and I take back nothing I posted.

As a middle age male, there has never been any time when what a band looked like affected whether I dug them or not. Just sayin...cuz maybe that's a factor for women, I don't know.

Except maybe for KISS? Maybe?🤔 And GWAR😂

Especially Toto, lol.

Yeah, I know. Ya figure it has to be considering how prolific he's been.

I like his clown wigs 😂😂 He switches to the gray one also Like nobody notices he's wearing a wig 😂🤣😂

@@jimmypage9198 As a middle age male who has worn hair replacements for 30 years, I'd bet that's always been his real hair. It's called "hair coloring," you may not have heard of it.

He was producer on a lot of great bands/musicians records, Thriller by Michael Jackson being the heavy hitter. $90,000,000!

It was hair dye.​@@jimmypage9198