Steve Lukather: Hilarious Prince Stories@ Sunset Sound Recording Studio. Sunset Sound Roundtable 

One of the BEST lines I’ve heard out of Luke was his take on todays music. He said something along the lines of, “if you took away the pro tools, the backing tracks, and the dancers most of them would sound like they were in their first night in prison.” Hahaha.

How could anyone not want to hang out with Steve Lukather? Coolest cat on the planet. Supremely talented.

Luke's book "The Gospel According to Luke" is a GREAT read. Highly recommend!

Ya gotta love Steve! Legend!🔥

The stories Luke has, and more importantly, can recall, sound fantastical but totally believable. I HIGHLY suggest reading his book if you haven't already. It's wildly entertaining.

How can you not love Luke? That dude his hilarious 😂

Steve is a living legend, hoping he gets all recognition while he is still with us.

Musicians stories about other musicians/artists are always hilarious

This dude must have so many, many musicians stories. God!

i could listen to lukather tell stories 24/7 + love the god light behind him

An avid fan from the Philippines Luke, my day is incomplete without listening to Toto songs...amazing musician

As a guitar/music nerd I've always been a huge Luke fan. It's so awesome seeing him kinda get a second wind of appreciation. His Transition pickups are perfect

Luke is an amazing storyteller. I bet he’s got tons of Van Halen stories… wink wink nudge nudge… ;)

Curaçao is a Dutch island one of the ABC islands just north of Venezuela. Steve is not only one of my guitar heroes, he’s great at telling Rock and a Pop Legends’ back stories like they’re yesterday.

Love Luke’s storytelling😆

Steve is so cool. Steve is the high school big brother I wish I had growing up in the 80's LOL Itd be a dream come true to just chill, play guitar and listen to him tell stories. Such an amazing guitarist.

Love Steve as a musician and he's so kool...Love Prince too, and this clip is HILARIOUS.

Lukather monster guitar player you could have a beer with,maybe he doesnt drink anymore,and listen to his stories all night!

Incredible musician, and such fun. Seems like a great guy too.

Cool.

Cant Wait for the full interview tonight at 6pm

I find myself constantly coming back to watch, day after day ..all the snippets and the full one...EPIC LUKE 👏🙌❤️

I would love to hear a lot about the Toto sessions. In high school I emulated(attempted to) have an 80’s mullet like he had back in the day😂😂😂👍

Magnifico.👋👋👋👋👋👋

Luke is a great, natural storyteller. He should be Scottish or something.

So a couple of interesting stories to add onto these. I grew up in the Minneapolis area and while “Purple Rain” was filming my sister was working at a local Holiday Inn where some of the cast and crew from the movie were staying. Prince would come by occasionally and roar up and down the hallways of the hotel on the purple motorcycle that Luke mentioned in his story. Suffice to say Holiday Inn management was not impressed……😂 The second involves the Prince bodyguard that Luke mentioned. This guy would occasionally come into the Sears store where I worked as a college kid and every time he did it was quite the scene! As Luke described, the guy was HUGE and had this mane of very distinctive white hair. Whenever he came into the store, everybody would literally stop what they were doing and stare, for one because of his huge size and also because he carried himself in such a way that it was almost as if the circus was coming to town! From what I remember, he was always accompanied by an entourage that I assumed was his family - a wife and two teenaged daughters. Now all three of these girls were attractive and equally distinctive in appearance as their father, and I was always very careful not to get caught checking out his daughters lest he take it the wrong way…….😂 The one thing always struck me about this guy was that although he was incredibly flamboyant and very intimidating in appearance, when you would check him out at the till he actually was very quiet and soft spoken - a very strange dichotomy between personality and appearance!

When Steve talked about Prince and his bodyguard playing bb, i taught about the Dave Chappelle sketch 🤣😂🤣😂

Steve is such a great guy, I could listen to his stories all day, fascinating and funny, and he is an amazing guitar player too.

//: I love these Prince stories good and bad lol.

Curacao is a dutch colonial island, i saw the north sea jazz show with prince back then on my native island

I love you Luke! You’re so genuine and funny.

It's so cool to hear all these Prince stories, you get to see the side of him no one talks about. When he was still with us, you'd hear the "rumors" that he was a little weird, but a musical prodigy, now that we actually hear these stories they kinda line up with the rumors. He is truly missed, God melted the mold when He made Prince!!

I moved to mpls in 1980. Bars/music scene was awesome.

Great teaser! Can't wait for the full shebang! Whoop!

And this is why I sub’ed. great stories! X10 thumbs if they would let me! Haaa

do tell MO ! 💜🐾

Great series could listen to Steve all day.

A danish island Curaçao. He means a Dutch island

Oh My God!!! This is Awesome! How do I watch The full interview?

Luke is the man. my generations Beatle

Prince was not jealous. He was observing. The guy always wanted to learn but didn’t want to talk. He was out there. If he wasn’t a singing or playing. He wasn’t communicating

Prince was either trying to hard to be cool or intimidate by Lukather. Prince is a great guitar player, but Lukather is a phenomenal guitar player. Lukather is the kind of guy that guys like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson bring in to make their songs hits. Both amazing musicians, song writers, singers, etc. I would guess Prince wasn't intimidated, but he was a weird cat.

I met prince and he was cool. This was 2004ish. He had probably mellowed by that time, and also I wasn’t just a dude so he didn’t feel like he had to impress me or compete or whatever.

3:35 Is that Luke or Russell Crowe in character, preparing for a Toto biopic on Netflix? ;-) Great stories!

Imagine being easily one of the few savant level musicians of your time, you are desired to be apart of nearly ever big name artist for their next studio album guaranteed to be a hit (in part due you being apart of the mix), and nearly 100% of the general public couldn’t pick you out of a line up because your desire is just to work and jam instead of being a star….sounds like a perfect candidate CIA if he was in any other line of work

Peggy McCreary was put through the ringer by Prince. I mean he gave her the Prince treatment, and it wasn’t good

Luke is the man! 🙌

I just have to say, being Dutch, that Curacao is a Dutch island, not a Danish island. Great story though.

Fucking Hilarious....only Luke can tell it like it is. Love Prince and i love Luke ,,,,,,they should've done an Album together HaHaHa "Luke & Prince" lol

Prince used to have assistants relay messages to & from his band members ...when they were literally 8-10 feet from each other. Weird guy.

Dutch Island!

Steve could come up with his 2nd book. The Gospel of Crazy Shit He Has Seen!!!! It would have to be no less than 10,000 pages!

In an earlier episode Peggy kind of threw shade at Toto and implied that something untoward went down between her and them back in the day. She said she didn't like that they all brought women (not their wives) into the studio openly.

Curaçao is Dutch Steve 💯✔️

Prince was a detached genius

very sinister story about a Prince encounter in Sinead O Connor's autobiography

Steve is funny 😀

Dari tempat yg jauh dan dari hati yg paling dalam, aku mengatakan aku sayang dan sukadgn musik dan dirimu, GBU

Luke gets the last laugh because he's still drawing breath....ahhhhhh

“He also screwed….” Sadly Luke didn’t finish the sentence 🤪

Curaçao is Dutch :)

I guess that Fred Armisen imitation from SNL was spot on.🤣

I don’t think Prince was a bad guy. I think he was just on a completely different wavelength. I think the genius thing just perpetuated more weird behavior. I find it all hilarious

I wanted him to tell the story that he pulled back from doing! He started to say that Prince screwed him over.... wonder what happened?

Prince is my favorite but there's more than enough content to let you know that he was an egotistical asshole. Lol Gotta love the Purple one. 🎸💯💜

Damm, Steve is growing a chia pet on his hair follicles. Einstein shit..

Steve I love you buddy but please put the can of hairspray down.

Curacao is Dutch ( Holland)😊

steves been in the studio with prince and michael

😄I know why Prince had issues with Luke -- not in 1999, in 1999 Prince was just weird -- but after that it was because Luke played on, and wrote music for Thriller! Michael Jackson and Prince had that weird love/hate rivalry and Thriller was not only Michael Jackson's biggest album, it was the biggest selling album of all time. Forever in Prince's bad books.

Curaçao Danish? Dutch man!

Lukather is the polar opposite of Prince's personality.

Dutch , Steve, not Danish ;) Curaçao is one of the four countries that make up The Kingdom of the Netherlands (the other three are the Netherlands, Aruba and St Maarten).

4:45 🤣 ...bring Luke back in for an exclusive Prince Humorfest. Please.

Curacao is an Dutch island

EVEN the "sh!tty" Prince stories are GREAT. We MISS that guy!

I really must know who does Lukather's hair.

Which Prince songs Lukather on? Nobody knows.

Prince did not die he incarnated into princess🤔🙃🤤

I f*cking love Luke..

Why do so many Americans mix up Danish with Dutch? 😄

Luke has 100X the talent that prince EVER had.

The first Story was the Best. So Prince really Played Basketball like in the Chapelle Sketch i thought that was made up.

Classic Prince, complete asshole but gifted beyond reason. He seems to chill in later yrs

Safe to say Prince was a weirdo 😊

Same guy that the other Sunset Sound engineer said was making fun of Prince and that engineer said they were assholes. Prince was told a journalist he had so much music in his head he did not always make time to talk people and that he was not trying to be rude he just found the stuff in his head more interesting.

Luke is the man, Prince, like all of us, was just jealous . Much Love to Brother Luke!

Steve is so😊 huge he can get away with making fun of Prince.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Curacao a Danish Island 😂😂😂😂😂😂

One has to admit Prince behaved oddly. Was he the Prince of Jelly?

The bronzer all over his hands 🤭

in other words, Prince was an asshole....cause Lukather is the nicest guy

Steve saw the freak for what he was. Freaky talented and........😳🤪😜

Sounds like Prince was wack. Not surprised .🎉🎉

Jimi Hendrix and Prince live rent free in sooooo many guitarists heads 😂😂😂😂😂

I love Steve but I wish he would have washed his hands before the podcast. His hands look like he just got done changing the brakes on a Nissan Pathfinder.

Steve is s fantastic player,but he looks to have small soft hands, rather unusable

He is a better raconteur than he is a guitarist 😂😂😂😂

Hmm. Prince was a musical genius but he sounds like he was a bit autistic as well.

This is EXACTLY the types of people who sarcastically use so-called humor to deceptively express their own personal interpretative dance display of low-key 🤔ENVY JEALOUSY/HATRED🤘🏻👹 for someone whom was painfully shy in certain situations. "AMERICAN BANDSTAND" equally examplfed his own personal behavioral traits. RESPECTFUL I went through this in my teenage years and even 20's later to learn about the things female would say like weird and stuck up...only later in my life. When I grew into my self becoming comfortable enough to not care about what people thought about me or my style of life. Manly I know that it was JEALOUSY because my parents give me everything enough to my my younger year an even my 20's college years comfortable successful. PS I'm a big fan of PRINCE ROGERS NELSON ever since his 8TRACK release of "FOR YOU" 1978.