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Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band Announce Second Leg Of 2022 Tour Dates

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COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 23 IN BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT AND CONCLUDING OCTOBER 20 IN MEXICO CITY BAND INCLUDES LONG TIME ALL STARR’S STEVE LUKATHER, COLIN HAY, WARREN HAM, HAMISH STUART AND GREGG BISSONETTE   AND WELCOMES BACK ALL STARR ALUMNI EDGAR WINTER

Monday, April 11, 2022 – Today Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band –  Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart  and  Edgar Winter –  announce additional shows for 2022.

This is the second leg of tour dates initially planned for 2020. As previously  announced  Starr will commence the first leg of shows this Spring on May 27 in Canada at Casino Rama concluding on June 26 in Clearwater Florida. The tour will resume in the Fall on September 23 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and end on October 20 in Mexico City. 

Ringo affirmed “It is so great to finally announce all these shows we had planned for 2020, and I am  really  looking forward to  playing  them!” He continued, “How great to start at Casino Rama, where we’ve begun 5 All Starr tours, and then to go back to the Beacon, and to the Greek, which was the last show we played in 2019 on our 30th Anniversary tour. I can’t wait to see all our fans and until then I’m sending everyone peace and love and see you soon!”

During these two years Starr has kept very busy and released two EPs,   Zoom In  and   Change The World , as well as two books including the limited-edition retrospective hardcover book titled “ RINGO ROCKS : 30 YEARS OF THE ALL STARRS 1989-2019,” and the newly announced limited-edition retrospective “ LIFTED : FAB IMAGES AND MEMORIES OF MY LIFE WITH THE BEATLES FROM ACROSS THE UNIVERSE,” both are published by Julien’s Auctions, the world record-breaking auction house to the stars. 

While the Spring tour has the All Starrs primarily on the Eastern seaboard, the Fall will see them head West including shows in British Columbia, Seattle, Portland, San Jose, Paso Robles and Los Angeles.

Here are the tour dates for both the Spring and Fall legs, with more shows to be announced soon, so check Ringo’s website for updates: 

May 27, 2022 Rama, Ontario –  Casino Rama

May 28, Rama, Ontario –  Casino Rama

May 30 Canandaigua, NY –  CMAC

June 2 Boston, MA –  Wang Theater  *With The Avett Brothers

June 3 Worcester, MA –  Hanover Theater

June 4 Gilford, NH –  Bank of NH Pavilion  *With The Avett Brothers

June 6 New York, NY –  Beacon Theatre

June 7 New York, NY –  Beacon Theatre

June 8 New York, NY –  Beacon Theatre

June 10 Red Bank, NJ –  Count Basie Theater

June 11 Easton, PA –  State Theater

June 12 Providence, RI –  PPAC

June 14 Baltimore, MD –  Modell Lyric

June 15 Baltimore, MD –  Modell Lyric

June 17 Lenox, MA –  Tanglewood

June 18 Pittsburgh, PA –  PPG Arena

June 19 Philadelphia, PA –  Metropolitan Theater

June 21 Richmond, VA –  Virginia Credit Union Live

June 22 Atlanta, GA –  Cobb Center

June 24 St Augustine, FL –  The AMP

June 25 Hollywood, FL –  Hard Rock

June 26 Clearwater, FL –  Ruth Eckerd Hall

September 23 Bridgeport, CT – Hartford Healthcare Amp

September 24 Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Etess Arena

September 26 Montreal, Quebec – Place Bell

September 27 Kingston, Ontario – Leon’s Centre

September 30 Mt Pleasant, MI – Soaring Eagle Casino

October 1 New Buffalo, Mi – Four Winds Casino

October 2 Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Casino

October 4 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Canada Life Centre

October 5 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Sasktel Centre

October 6 Lethbridge, Alberta – Enmax Centre

October 8 Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre

October 9 Penticton, BC – South Okanagon Events Centre

October 11 Seattle, WA – Benaroya Hall

October 12 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Hall

October 14 San Jose, CA – San Jose Civic Center

October 15 Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amp

October 16 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theater

October 19 Mexico City, MX – Auditorio Nacional

October 20 Mexico City, MX – Auditorio Nacional

For more information please visit:

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Throughout his career, Ringo Starr has received nine GRAMMY® Awards and has twice been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — first as a Beatle and then as solo artist. Between 1970 and 2020, Ringo has released 20 solo studio records and 2 EP’s in 2020 and 2021. He has acted in over 15 films, received an Academy Award®, and has been nominated as an actor for an Emmy®. Ringo has published 8 books; had a stint as a male fashion model, and that same year went behind the lens as the photographer for some Foo Fighters PR photos. In 2018, Ringo was knighted and in 2019 he celebrated 30 years of touring with his All Starr Bands. For all his many creative successes, Ringo is and always will be first and foremost a musician, a drummer. Ringo’s candor, wit and soul are the lifeblood of his music. Peace and love are his life’s rhythm and melody, and he propels this universal message in everything he does: his evocative artwork, his enthusiastic live performances, his legendary songs, all imbued with the joy, reflection, and wisdom of the music icon the world knows and loves simply as “Ringo.”

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Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Finally Set to Return to the Road This Spring

By Jon Blistein

Jon Blistein

After two delays, Ringo Starr will finally launch his tour with his All Starr Band this spring.

The trek is set to launch with two nights at the Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario, May 27 and 28. From there, Starr will make his way around the East Coast — including three nights at the Beacon Theatre in New York City — then down south. The run wraps on June 26 at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida.  

Tickets for all shows are on sale now. Complete information is available on Starr’s website .

For the 2022 tour, the All Starr Band lineup will boast regulars Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, and Hamish Stuart, while the group will also welcome back previous collaborator Edgar Winter. Starr and Co. were originally slated to tour in 2020 and 2021 , although both runs were postponed because of the pandemic.  

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“I can’t wait to get back out on the road and play,” Starr said in a statement. “This is the longest I’ve been off the road in years — up until 2020 I was touring every year with the All Starrs — and I’ve really missed it. Making music in the studio has been great, and it certainly saved me during the pandemic, but nothing beats playing live with great musicians in front of an audience. I love my fans and they love me and it’s going to be wonderful to be peace and loving and playing for them again.”  

Starr has kept busy during the pandemic, releasing two EPs last year , Zoom In and Change the World . He also taught his own MasterClass course , released a retrospective book, Ringo Rocks: 30 Years of the All Starrs 1989 – 2019 , and has another book on the way, Lifted : Fab Images and Memories In My Life with the Beatles From Across The Universe .  

Ringo Starr and the All Starr Band Tour Dates

May 27 – Rama, Ontario @ Casino Rama May 28 – Rama, Ontario @ Casino Rama May 30 – Canandaigua, NY – CMAC June 2 – Boston, MA @ Wang Theater *With The Avett Brothers June 3 – Worcester, MA @ Hanover Theater June 4 – Gilford, NH @ Bank of NH Pavilion *With The Avett Brothers June 6 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre June 7 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre June 8 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre June 10 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theater June 11 – Easton, PA @ State Theater June 12 – Providence, RI @ PPAC June 14 – Baltimore, MD @ Modell Lyric June 15 – Baltimore, MD @ Modell Lyric June 17 – Lenox, MA @ Tanglewood June 18 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Arena June 19 – Philadelphia, PA @ Metropolitan Theater June 21 – Richmond, VA @ Virginia Credit Union Live June 22 – Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Center June 24 – St Augustine, FL @ The AMP June 25 – Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock June 26 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall

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Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Return on Tour in 2022

by Tina Benitez-Eves February 7, 2022, 10:09 am

Ringo Starr is returning on tour with his All Starr Band for a run of North American dates running May through June 2022.

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The All Starrs will include musicians Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart, and a return of Edgar Winter. The tour will kick off in Ontario at Casino Rama on May 27 and conclude on June 26 in Clearwater, Florida. This will mark the fifth time Starr has started a tour from Ontario, with previous tours in 2001, 2003, 2006, and 2014 kicking off in the Canadian hub.

The tour will move around New England with shows in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and three nights at the Beacon Theater in New York City, in addition to going south with shows in Virginia, Atlanta, and Florida. 

Starr’s first time on tour since the pandemic halted touring plans in 2020, the former Beatle has kept busy within the past two years releasing the EPs Zoom In and Change The World , in addition to two books, including the limited-edition retrospective hardcover book titled Ringo Rocks : 30 Years of All Starts 1989-2019 , and the limited-edition retrospective Lifted : Fab Images and Memories of My Life with The Beatles From Across the Universe , both published by the auction house Julien’s Auctions.

“I can’t wait to get back out on the road and play,” said Starr in a statement. “This is the longest I’ve been off the road in years—up until 2020 I was touring every year with the All Starrs—and I’ve really missed it.”

He added, “Making music in the studio has been great, and it certainly saved me during the pandemic, but nothing beats playing live with great musicians in front of an audience. I love my fans and they love me and it’s going to be wonderful to be peace and loving and playing for them again.” 

Starr’s Tour Dates: 

May 27, 2022 Rama, Ontario – Casino Rama May 28, Rama, Ontario – Casino Rama May 30 Canandaigua, NY – CMAC June 2 Boston, MA – Wang Theater *With The Avett Brothers June 3 Worcester, MA – Hanover Theater June 4 Gilford, NH – Bank of NH Pavilion *With The Avett Brothers June 6 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre June 7 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre June 8 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre June 10 Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theater June 11 Easton, PA – State Theater June 12 Providence, RI – PPAC June 14 Baltimore, MD – Modell Lyric June 15 Baltimore, MD – Modell Lyric June 17 Lenox, MA – Tanglewood June 18 Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Arena June 19 Philadelphia, PA – Metropolitan Theater June 21 Richmond, VA – Virginia Credit Union Live June 22 Atlanta, GA – Cobb Center June 24 St Augustine, FL – The AMP June 25 Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock June 26 Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall

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Ringo Starr Tour Sidelined As Edgar Winter and Steve Lukather Catch Covid

by Paul Cashmere on June 12, 2022

Ringo Starr has been forced to postpone his current Ringo Starr and the All-Starr Band tour after band members Steve Lukather and Edgar Winter caught Covid.

The tour started on 27 May. The 12 remaining dates have been postponed until September.

Ringo was two nights into three sold-out shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre when Winter caught Covid and at that point the band planned to continue without him. But when Lukather went down, so did a chunk of the setlist.

The All-Starr Band 2022 is Steve Lukather (Toto), Colin Hay (Men At Work), Warren Ham (Kansas, Toto), Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart (Average White Band ) and Edgar Winter (Edgar Winter Group).

The Ringo Starr & The All-Star Band Setlist 2022 is:

Matchbox (Ringo Starr) It Don’t Come Easy (Ringo Starr) What Goes On (Ringo Starr) Free Ride (Edgar Winter) Rosanna (Steve Lukather) Pick Up the Pieces (Hamish Stuart) Down Under (Colin Hay) Boys (Ringo Starr) I’m the Greatest (Ringo Starr) Yellow Submarine (Ringo Starr) Cut the Cake (Hamish Stuart) Frankenstein (Edgar Winter) Octopus’s Garden (Ringo Starr) Back Off Boogaloo (Ringo Starr) Overkill (Colin Hay) Africa (Steve Lukather) Work to Do (Hamish Stuart) I Wanna Be Your Man (Ringo Starr) Johnny B. Goode (Edgar Winter) Who Can It Be Now? (Colin Hay) Hold the Line (Steve Lukather) Photograph (Ringo Starr) Act Naturally (Ringo Starr) With a Little Help From My Friends (Ringo Starr)

In a statement Ringo said, “We are so sorry to let the fans down. It’s been wonderful to be back out on the road and we have been having such a great time playing for you all. But as we all know, Covid is still here and despite being careful these things happen. I want to thank the fans for their patience, I send you all peace and love, and we can’t wait to be back in the Fall”.

New dates for the rescheduled shows are still being worked out.

The tour is now looking like:

TBD September/was June 11 Easton, PA – State Theater TBD September/ was June 12 Providence, RI – PPAC TBD September/ was June 14 Baltimore, MD – Modell Lyric TBD September/ was June 15 Baltimore, MD – Modell Lyric TBD September/ was June 17 Lenox, MA – Tanglewood TBD September/ was June 18 Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Arena TBD September/ was June 19 Philadelphia, PA – Metropolitan Theater TBD September/ was June 21 Richmond, VA – Virginia Credit Union Live TBD September/ was June 22 Atlanta, GA – Cobb Center TBD September/ was June 24 St Augustine, FL – The AMP TBD September/ was June 25 Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock TBD September/ was June 26 Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall September 23 Bridgeport, CT – Hartford Healthcare Amp September 24 Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Etess Arena September 26 Montreal, Quebec – Place Bell September 27 Kingston, Ontario – Leon’s Centre September 30 Mt Pleasant, MI – Soaring Eagle Casino October 1 New Buffalo, Mi – Four Winds Casino October 2 Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Casino October 4 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Canada Life Centre October 5 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Sasktel Centre October 6 Lethbridge, Alberta – Enmax Centre October 8 Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre October 9 Penticton, BC – South Okanagon Events Centre October 11 Seattle, WA – Benaroya Hall October 12 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Hall October 14 San Jose, CA – San Jose Civic Center October 15 Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amp October 16 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theater October 19 Mexico City, MX – Auditorio Nacional October 20 Mexico City, MX – Auditorio Nacional

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Interview with Steve Lukather

Toto’s Steve Lukather, aka “Luke,” chatted with us about what he’s been up to since all touring came to an abrupt halt last year.

As with other touring musicians, self-confessed road dog, Steve Lukather was grounded when covid lockdown restrictions hit early 2020. But not one to sit around on his laurels, and unable to sit still for any length of time, he didn’t let something like a pandemic get in the way of creating and performing music.

It had been nine years since Lukather last released a solo album, so the forced downtime was the perfect time to complete work on his long-awaited follow-up.  I Found the Sun Again  was recorded live with some help from his friends. Lukather’s 45 years of working as a professional and session musician has conditioned him into hitting the record button and making the grade first time. This album was no different, I Found the Sun Again  was recorded live in eight days, start to finish:

“We’re doing as much as we can. Joseph and I have solo records that just came out, which I made the month before lockdown. I made my record in eight days and then we mixed it. It was all live except for the vocals, you know. And then we overdubbed a quick double track of riff or added an acoustic but all the vocals and everything was done. A song a day, finished, ready to mix and I did that in eight days and that was done. I did all the solos live. I wanted to see if I could still do it. So it’s a bit self-indulgent, sure but that’s what solo records are for. 

I did it, and it was fun. And it was really satisfying to know that I did all of that. I did no computer trickery. All the solos, all that interplay, there were no rehearsals, no demos, or none of this. Just show up, here’s some charts, let’s run it through once, make sure the charts are right and explain, go over anything difficult. Take two was the whole record. You hire musicians like Gregg Bissonette, David Paich, Jeff Babko, Jorgen Carlsson, John Pierce, Ringo Starr – they know how to work in a studio. It’s what people don’t do anymore. It’s live. It sounds it. And there’s a few warts here and there that I kept because it’s real. People are real. Everything’s so buffed out now. They used to say Toto were slick. We’re like the Sex Pistols compared to people these days. We actually played that shit, all at the same time, because we had skill. You know, that’s looked down upon in the hipster rock press.”

One of the highlights on the album is the instrumental track, “Journey Through,” which has Steve’s guitar taking on vocal duties. 

“Jeff Babko wrote that one for me. It’s sort of a homage to Jeff Beck and all that stuff. Any guys that play majestic melodies. Satch and Via and all those guys that we love so much. That’s one take, man. We ran that and that’s the take. I go, ‘Did you get that?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ I go, ‘We’re done. Ok, we can take the rest of the day off.’ I stayed and did a couple of vocals on a couple of tunes with Joe because we got it, the session was over in a half-hour.

When I started, you had to deliver every day. That was the job. I work well under pressure. If I’ve got all the time in the world, I’ll take all the time in the world. Some of these Toto records took six to nine months. I do a record in a week and I go, ‘Boy, we should have done it like this!’ All that money we saved, all the time. But at the time we were doing something we couldn’t do now, so all roads lead to now.”

I Found the Sun Again includes a mixture of original songs and covers. 

“I had the covers before I had anything else written. Because I wanted to do something like 1971, 1972 in 2020. That’s the way they made records then. You had to do your solos live, you had to do everything to get the take. Not a lot of people can have the chops to do that anymore because everything’s been made so easy. ‘Ah man, just use Pro Tools, you can fix anything.’ I just use Pro Tools as a tape machine.

We knew the last version of Toto was ending after the last gig in Philly, October 20th. Joe was working on a solo album. I said well, I’ve got one on deck, man. I’m going to do one because I haven’t done one in like nine or ten years or whatever. I’ve been so busy with Ringo, Toto, Ringo, Toto, Ringo, Toto. It’s been very busy and very lucrative so why would I do that? So when the time opened up, I knew I wanted to do something different. I’ve been doing the Toto thing, the Toto way for a while. I wanted to do it like we used to do it in the seventies and eighties and play.”

Toto  will release  With A Little Help From My Friends   on DVD and Blu Ray on June 25. The release captures a live stream performed on November 21, 2020. It was the first time Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams, and David Paich appeared with the new line-up of   Toto.

“We made a live stream that’s coming out as a DVD this summer due to popular demand. It has interviews with everybody – me, Paich, Joe, and the new guys. It explains why we’re doing this and what’s the point in doing this. It’s all going to be spelled out and everybody’s going to get a look inside. Visually, it’s not very good because it was done in a f*cking rehearsal room with no people. At the end of a song, you hear like ten people at the back clapping. They’re all our relatives and wives. 

“Sput” (Robert Searight) from Snarky Puppy and Ghost-Note and then John Pierce on bass, one of my oldest friends in the whole world, from Huey Lewis. We played together in Junior High School and shit. H im and Mike Landau. We were in high school bands together. We’ve doing this music thing since we were little kids, so it’s great to be in a band with him. And then my son Trev found us this incredible second keyboard player that has all the super high part vocally. Him and Warren Ham, our utility guy and horn player and percussion.

It was weird. We rehearsed, we were safe in masks and all that stuff, but you can’t sing with masks on so we just made sure everyone was vaccined up and we were cool. We went in there with no audience and it was very safe because only family members were in there and we’re all safe. So nobody got sick, that’s the good news. I put together the band in 10 days. Never played together. So everybody learned their shit and we only had a handful of rehearsals and a couple of these guys had never played the music before so it was a real experiment to put this together, you know.

It was done in 10 days from scratch. These guys didn’t know all the material, they had a lot to learn. And they did. They’re brilliant guys.”

Toto’s lineup has changed over the years, which is not surprising for a band with such longevity. It must be a daunting task for new players to come into the fold with such seasoned professionals. 

“We auditioned the guy, Steve Maggiora, and he passed with flying colors. And we knew Sput, forget it. We’ve seen him play. It’s ridiculous. And John Pierce is, like I said, I know what he can do. I want a bass player that’s going to stand there and play bass, you know what I mean? I don’t need a ballerina.

I’m not going to go out on the road with a shitty band. Come on, man. I know the high level of the standard. Somebody plays it with a little different flavor and somebody doesn’t like that flavor, well hey… A lot of people get locked into it’s not Toto, you could arguably say it’s not Toto after David Hungate split. Or Jeff died. And then Mike died. Two guys are gone, you know. We can’t do that. Another doesn’t want to do it and then David is medically unwell to do it but he can show up in LA. He’s still a part of the band. You never know when he may show up. He can’t change time zones because he’s on very strict medical…. He has to take certain things, changing even to an hour difference f*cks up his whole thing. He’s happily being our Grand Poobah leader from afar. Me and him talk almost daily about all the business and everything like that.”

Steve has been friends with Joe since they were kids. Not only have they worked together throughout their time in Toto, they also worked on each other’s solo albums. Joe’s album is impressively produced with layered vocals and multi-part harmonies.

“He was 14, I was 17. I was in a band with his brother John Pierce and Mike Landau.

He’s so f*cking talented. He was able to do that because he’s got a studio at this house. He stays up at night by himself and he meticulously does all this stuff. And that was his statement. That’s like his Peter Gabriel  s o   as far as I’m concerned. It’s brilliantly done. And we worked on each other’s records and that was fun. He’s one of my very closest brothers of all time. He’s one of the few people allowed in my house because he tests up with us. He lives down the street. He’s got a four-month-old grandson so he can’t mess around. I got a ten-year-old autistic son so I can’t mess around. We’re all safe so far but, you know, he just got vaccined up because of the baby and all that. I’m waiting for my shot next week I think.” 

Covid lockdown restrictions took their toll on everyone in their own way. When Steve isn’t on the road with Toto, he tends to be on the road with Ringo Starr or in the recording studio. All of a sudden, everything came to a screeching halt.

“It was like driving into a wall at a thousand miles an hour at the height of everything going great. We were ready. We had a whole tour booked. We had to move it to 2022. I’m hoping even then we’ll be ready.

I’m hoping I can get back into my life again. It’s weird.  It’s the human touch, human contact. Everybody’s afraid of everybody. God forbid you cough or fart, you know. Everyone thinks you’re f*cking diseased. Businesses are dying, my favorite restaurants are going under. It’s really sad.

I think it’s going to be one of those things they’re talking about – the vaccine passport and then you have to pass the automatic temperature check. It’s just going to be one of those pain in the asses like it used to be fun to go flying. But now you’ve got to take off all your clothes because one idiot some 20-odd years ago had a pack of matches in his f*cking shoe. If that’s what happened with that….. This is going to be more extreme. And then you have the assholes that won’t wear the mask because they think it’s a political thing. I mean, why does your doctor wear a mask when he’s operating on you? Because germs come out of your f*cking mouth! Japan has been doing this forever. They’re not going to let anybody but Japanese people see the Olympics. I’ve been to Japan every year at least once since 1980 and it’s weird for me not to be there. I have a gig they’ve paid me for. Great gig, solo jam band stuff. Yeah, we do real well. We broke the Budokan sales record the last time we played. We oversold it, the whole thing. It was really magical, it was great.”

With all of the years of being exposed to loud music when performing live and in the recording studio, it’s no wonder the toll it’s taken on both Steve and John Pierce’s hearing.

“I wear hearing aids. After 55 years of trashing my ears, you know. Especially all of those years in the studio wearing headphones for 14 hours a day and feedbacks and all kinds of mispatched bummers where you get [makes screeching sound]. In the early days, you didn’t have the individual mix, man. You just had to power through. With a click track going ding, ding, ding, ding! That’s what f*cked my hearing.” 

Steve’s son Trev is part of a three-piece band, Levara. It’s not surprising growing up with Steve as his father, that he got the taste for music at a young age. 

“I took him on the road and I ruined his life when he was about 12 or 13. I let him come out on stage and he got the bug. He started out on drums like everybody does, and then he went on the road with me and saw the guitar thing. He was already asking, ‘Show me the guitar.’ So I showed him a dropped D and turned him onto it. I told him to go into his room and write a couple of things and he did. He took to it. I didn’t give him any lessons. He did all the hard work himself and developed his style on his own. He’s an incredible songwriter and producer. I’m really proud of him.” 

Toto’s With A Little Help From Friends is available to pre-order on LP, CD+DVD, CD+Blu-Ray and digital. Pre-order your copy here .

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Watch Alex Skolnick demo Steve Lukather’s live rig and reveal what’s on the Toto guitarist’s pedalboard

Testament and Toto were rehearsing in the same facility in Hamburg, so Skolnick tip-toed over and tried Lukather's signature Ernie Ball Music Man on for size

When Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick discovered his band were operating right next door to Toto while preparing for their recent set at Germany’s RockHarz festival, he wasted no time in heading over to have a glance at Steve Lukather’s current guitar rig.

Toto’s crew were prepping gear for the commencement of the European leg of the band’s Dogz of Oz tour, and while Luke himself wasn’t present, his guitar tech Jon Gosnell was on hand to show Skolnick around.

“I had a fun time being shown around the rig of the great Steve Lukather,” Skolnick says in a new Instagram post, in which he can be seen playing the Toto guitarist’s Ernie Ball Music Man signature guitar , the Luke III .

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The rig is completed by a pair of Bogner Helios guitar amps , mic’d using a pair of Shure SM57 dynamic microphones , and a fully-stocked pedalboard housing an MXR Phase 95, TC Electronic Flashback delay and a Jam Pedals Wahcko wah pedal – all also featured on Skolnick’s current rig – among other Lukather staples such as a Strymon Lex rotary speaker sim, a TC Electronic SCF Gold, and a Tim Jauernig Bombastortion.

Lukather also stocks a Strymon BlueSky reverb pedal, an MXR Smart Gate, an MXR Uni-Vibe, a pair of DigiTech Hardwire delay/loopers, a Boss FV-500L volume pedal, his signature Rodenberg Gas 789 overdrive pedal , and the Gurus Echosex, which typically Lukather likes to leave on all the time. 

And no 'board would be complete without a guitar tuner . Here, Lukather uses a DigiTech HT-6 polychromatic tuner.

Skolnick mentions that playing Lukather’s rig marked the first time he played Bogner amps, adding that he “approves” of them.

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The Testament guitarist includes two videos of him playing the rig: one in which he plays the solo for Toto’s Hold the Line – which he also played in an episode of metal-themed YouTube chat show Two Minutes to Late Night in August last year – and another of him jamming Jeff Beck’s The Pump .

“Luke’s super-responsive tone brought to mind a fine tune by Jeff Beck, from 1980 (a time long before his name was all over the tabloids due to a certain celebrity buddy’s divorce trial and the timing of their recent tour),” Skolnick writes.

“The first time I’d heard it, it was covered live and completely nailed by Stef Burns, shortly before his (1991 – 1995) Alice Cooper stint.”

Skolnick concludes the post: “Thanks to Luke (from afar) and especially tech wizard and fellow guitarist Jon Gosnell for showing me around. [I] had a blast!”

In other Skolnick news, the Testament guitarist joined Steve Stevens, Richard Fortus and others back in April to perform Yes’s Starship Trooper in an epic all-star ensemble for Roadie Relief.

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• 24 Jun 2022 St Augustine USA The AMP Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
• 25 Jun 2022 Hollywood USA Hard Rock Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
• 26 Jun 2022 Clearwater USA Ruth Eckerd Hall Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
• 11 Jul 2022 Tilburg The Netherlands 013 TOTO
• 12 Jul 2022 Tilburg The Netherlands 013 TOTO
• 14 Jul 2022 Bonn Germany Kunst!Rasen Bonn Gronau TOTO
• 15 Jul 2022 Amsterdam The Netherlands Ziggo Dome TOTO
• 16 Jul 2022 Halle Germany Freilichtbühne Peißnitzinsel TOTO
• 17 Jul 2022 Ulm Germany Münsterplatz TOTO
• 19 Jul 2022 PRATTELN Switzerland Z7 TOTO
• 20 Jul 2022 TÜSSLING Germany Schlosspark TOTO
• 21 Jul 2022 MIDDELKERKE Belgium Proximus Pop-Up Arena TOTO
• 23 Jul 2022 VITROLLES France Domaine de Fontblanche TOTO
• 24 Jul 2022 Vienne France Theatre Antique TOTO
• 25 Jul 2022 Verona Italy Arena Di Verona TOTO
• 27 Jul 2022 Hamburg Germany Stadtpark Freilichtbühne TOTO
• 28 Jul 2022 SCHWETZINGEN Germany Schlossgarten TOTO
• 29 Jul 2022 Graz Austria Messe Graz Open Air TOTO
• 31 Jul 2022 Warsaw Poland COS Torwar TOTO
• 02 Aug 2022 TALLIN Estonia Rakvere Kultuurikeskus TOTO

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A Conversation with Toto Guitarist Steve Lukather

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Legendary rock band Toto is back with a new lineup and a new live record called With A Little Help From My Friends . Guitarist Steve Lukather first stopped by MisplacedStraws as Toto was preparing for the live show that this record documents, he is returning now to talk about the show, the live record, and the future of Toto.

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On whether working with the new Toto lineup met his expectations -It surpassed actually, I was the most nervous one up there going, “Is everything going to be OK?” And that affected my playing. I was like, “All right, I got to play, too”. But the point was to showcase the new cats and see if it will work. I had 10 days to get the guys together from scratch. Now, some of the guys from the old band were there and they knew their stuff. But integrating a new rhythm section and a new keyboard player that does all the vocals, you have to go over all the vocals. It was quite a task to do in a short period time, and it was an overwhelming reaction. We did really, really well and. (We’re releasing it) by popular demand, it’s going to buy us some time until we can tour in 2022 which has been in the works right now. There’s also comes a companion DVD with David Paich, myself, and Joseph (Williams) just talking about the whole why we’re doing this and how this has morphed into this, and because it wasn’t it wasn’t going to happen. Then Joe and I made records and we were going to tour together and it just came up. We dealt with the legal aspect of it. We have to give up percentages to people that aren’t on the road. But that’s the price of doing business. So we had to take the whole thing and scale it down in order for Joe and I make any money. David can’t tour. But he’s still very much in the band. He’s still the leader. We still talk every day and like six or seven in the morning. It’s pretty fun. We used to go to bed at that time. I always refer to him and how he feels and, “What do you think, Dave?” He comes to rehearsals and musical directs the band. It’s actually very interesting because he can listen to it from a point of view that he’s never been able to, and it really helps tighten the band up. You never know when he’s going to show up. In L.A. he’ll definitely show up. If he’s feeling good, he’s got to be very careful how he travels, how far he travels because of a medical thing. He’s not in it anymore, and the rest of us really want to play, so we’re going to give it a go and see how it goes. :54

On David Paich’s role – He’s still got his ears, man, and they’re very big. He really has a great voice. It was very helpful because he wrote some of our biggest songs, all of our biggest songs. So it’s like we’re going to put David Paich Presents on all posters to cool everybody out. Things change in life and you have a right to change your mind. The downtime we’ve had is really made one relook at life and what the opportunities that you’ve had and ones you don’t want to throw away. At this point after 45 years (of) me being in this business 44 with Toto, it just made sense. We want to play our music. We’re the only ones left to do it. 3:17

On picking the new setlist – We picked Toto songs because that’s what we figured people were going to judge the band on. Can they play this stuff? There’s always the purists that are going to say, “Toto was over when Jeff (Porcaro) died. They may be right. It changed and there’s no question about it. Then it changed again, like 15 times. I’ve been the only guy there the whole time. The last version got a little tense and weird. We hit the wall. There are some great cats and there are some not great. I’m not gonna get into it. It just had become (a fight every night). Life is too short to be bummed out every night. . So Joe and I and the promoters and the agents said “Use it”. David said “You got to do this”, try to make our money back that we lost on the lawsuit. Just getting out there and playing again, I’m not going to get in the back of a van and do this again. I’ve spent enough time on the road and all the reaction has been like, “Guys, go”. We did what we’re hearing. Every time we made changes in the band, there was always the same push back, “Oh, it’s not Toto anymore”. They may be right, but we made it. In the end, we change people’s minds and I want to keep doing this, there’s tribute bands. Why shouldn’t we do it? 4:18

On playing in Toto with no Porcaro brother – I’ve done this many times. Steve was out of the band for twenty-five years. Paich had some medical issues, his sister was dying and we had some replacements for him. Mike (Porcaro), after he got ALS, had three, four replacements, drummers, we’ve had four or five. It changes. Yeah. But Joe’s voice, my guitar, and the songs played by great people give it the sound. It’s different. It’s always sounded different. The last band sounded different than the first band, people grew to like it. I’m hoping people go like this. Give me a month with these guys and it’s going to be ridiculous. 6:00

On playing his studio guitar parts live – What I do is I take the parts of the record and I kind of arrange them as one part on the guitar. I just do the key stuff, you can’t do twenty overdubs. We had a lot of fun in the studios back then. Let’s quadruple everything. I feel good about moving forward. It’s different, but life goes on. A lot of things in my life that I thought would last forever didn’t. It’s hard to carry on. It’s like being divorced from people after forty-five years. There’s so much history. It’s hard to get past. Some people have really bad feelings and that makes it hard. 6:59

On recent solo records from him and Joseph Williams – Mine got like two million streams. That sounds great, but I make forty dollars. But it’s done really well, in terms of being received and great reviews for me, and that gives me a chance at selling. That’s what you hope for in this day and age. It is the vehicle to get people into us being able to do the Toto hits, what everyone wants to hear, some really deep cuts, different ones than we did last time, and a couple of solo things from Joe and me to spice up the set a little bit, freshened it up. That makes sense to me when. Joe and I are working on something new with David, doing a little EP. Got some cool shit. So, it’s nice to see him getting back in the studio and doing it. So he’s feeling better and that makes us all feel better. We’ll help him out there a little bit because that’s what we gotta do. He helped me. I got to help him. 8:38

On his record being rock while Joe’s is more lush – That was the intention. I can’t speak for him, but I think his album is so brilliant. It’s so layered in such ways, in such detail. But mine is just like, “Come on, here’s the chart. Let’s do this, live solos and everything”. No fixes unless you really shit the bed, and everybody really nailed it. It was really great fun to make a record like this because that’s the only thing I knew I could bring to the party is do something that nobody else is doing, which is playing live in the studio and that’s it. Making a record like from 1971 or 1972 and doing it in 2020. I had a blast, definitely a vanity record for me man. I wasn’t trying to write the next hit single and nothing like that. I just wanted to make some new music with some friends, raw, and make myself keep everything. So I came to it playing-wise from a completely different angle. I thought, “Oh God, I’m got to play some shit here or I’m going to I’m going to break my own rules”. So I didn’t I was real proud of myself for that. I just played I didn’t think I could do this again or I got 100 chances to fix this in Melodyne or something like that. There’s no Melodyne on the record. Just some nice delay, a big fat delay on the voice. 9:43

On the future of Toto in the studio – There’s not going to be another Toto record. What we do is continue doing what we do. Joe and I can make records that have some of the cats on it. We can go out and play as Toto. We get the audience, we pay off the people that sued us and we go forward. I’m going to dig in. I don’t roll over easily. I’ve taken a lot of punches over the last 45 plus years. Whatever the hell it is, it’s a long time. I can take a punch and I’ve taken a whole lot of them on falsities, but that’s OK. It’s behind me now. I let it all go. Peace and love to everybody I don’t carry around any hate. I’m like, “OK, life changes. I’m sorry”. It broke my heart too. It’s like getting over a divorce, you got to get back on the horse again and do it. That’s what we plan on doing. There’s no malicious vibe or no, “I’m going to get even with everybody” or anything like that. It’s such a waste of time. I’m 63 years old, man. I don’t want to play the games anymore. 11:07

On his relationship with Ringo Starr – I love him so much! Joe & I just wrote a song for his new EP and then we wrote another one is for the EP that’s coming out in October, and that was thrilling. It came out great. But that song was actually written for Ringo’s 80th birthday because we didn’t have a party for him because of the pandemic shit. So everybody was going to make a video or they were singing a wish or playing a song. So David Paich, Joe, and I wrote a song for him and he dug and he wanted to play on it. So we worked on it. And then Joseph came to my house with an iPhone and we goofed off in my backyard making fun of being old rock stars. 12:34

On future touring with Ringo – I’ve been putting the Toto dates together first and then the Ringo things fell right, right in. I’m going to do something with him, hopefully, if all goes well. Maybe I shouldn’t be saying this. Let’s just say I’m going to be touring with him next year. I don’t have the right to make any announcements. He is a dear brother of mine. I see him a lot. He just loves to create. This guy is the greatest inspiration for getting older, man. He’s going to be 81 and he’s running on a treadmill (at full incline), it’s just incredible. Plus I just love him to death. He’s the most wonderful, interesting, enlightening human being I’ve ever met. and he’s fucking Ringo! on FaceTime, it’s Ringo, it never gets old…The reaction is different than if you meet anybody else. I’ve been with him now for nine years, and I worked with Paul (McCartney) and I worked with George (Harrison). We were friends and stuff. You get in the room and you know you’re in the room greatness, But they’re the nicest people you ever want to meet ever. That’s all I can tell you. You think they would have the right to be the biggest assholes, so far from it. No. That’s how to be, that’s all. There’s a great deal to be learned from all those guys besides their musical genius. That’s the way they handled their life in public like this for 60 years. 13:17

On his studio work – I don’t really do sessions anymore, I stopped about 25 years ago, I’ll do a guest spot on somebody, a friend of mine or something. Somebody wants to bring a stupid amount of money. Those calls don’t really call me anymore. I’m leaving room for the guys that are doing it. WhenI started out it was (Larry) Carlton, (Jay) Graydon, (Lee) Ritenour and all these guys, Ray Parker, everybody. The deal was you go for about ten years or so and then it’s time to move up to be a producer or artist or whatever and leave room for the next group of guys. Because with studio musicians, especially on records, they want different flavors. One time I was really popular and that was really some of the greatest times of my life. But I realized I started to hit a wall. I wasn’t as inspired as I was when I started out, and I thought it would be better for me to get out than turn into the bitter old guy. I always had so much respect for getting the chance to have that job that I wanted to respect it and also make room for some of the up-and-coming guys who were there. I was moving on to be a solo artist outside of Toto. So I was working double duty and I had plenty to do. 15:23

On Toto’s 2022 touring plans – There are more dates to be added (to the European tour). Some people want to hold it. If there is something missing, like there’s a block of four days missing, it’s getting filled…It might be March of 2022 (for US shows) and then again in the fall. Ringo may go out to so we’ll move around. 2023 is going to be full-on as long as everyone is healthy. 17:31

On the future – I love to do it all and I can’t wait. It has been nice to be home and find myself. I found out that I hate retirement. I’m not ready for right now. I’m still like I’m twenty-five years ago inside. I should look a lot worse considering, but I’ve been a good boy for almost 12 years. Records used to be (the main source of income) and then touring was to sell the record. Now, it’s records to sell the tour, we had to move with the times Our first album came out on eight-track. All my friends are dying, it’s time to do something. Your brothers start falling, I’m getting like one or two weeks now and then, legendary old dear friends of mine. And you just go, “Oh, wow, there’s a reality that the end is real”. You got to make the most of it. So I’m not going to sit in my house, with my lower lip hanging on my thumb up my ass. I’m going to get on the road. That’s what you do. 20:21

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