Steve Lukather is renowned for his virtuosic yet melodic playing with Toto. And then there are his numerous solo albums and prolific session work for Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire, Lionel Ritchie, and an unfeasible amount of the other albums and artists that emerged from LA during the late 70s and 80s.
Much of his skill was put to use creating memorable hooky parts on tunes such as Michael Jackson’s Human Nature, but Lukather’s first love was blues-based rock, with him citing Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, and Joe Walsh (among others) as primary influences.
