![]() ![]() ![]() “The band, playing-wise and crowds coming out - most successful tour we’ve had in our career,” he says. ![]() The 40th anniversary tour also has been a huge hit. The business changed, life changes, the planet changes, we have to change with it - even if we go begrudgingly.” “You would think, though - if that were terrestrial radio, I’d be talking to you from my space shuttle right now. “I mean, people think, ‘Wow! A billion - you must be stinking rich. “I mean, that’s impressive in terms of people listening to the music, but when it comes to paying my house off, it’s not doing me any good,” Lukather says with a laugh. The band has now collected more than a billion streams online, Lukather says. Its most recent studio album, “Toto XIV,” released in 2015, was its first disc of new material in nine years and the first to chart in 28. The irony, Lukather says, is that Toto is as popular as ever. Steve Lukather, best known for his work with rock band Toto, is a guitarist for the rock collective Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band. And that was a nice way to close the book - at least this chapter.” recently, played our first show with us, came out at the end. But he’s not built for speed anymore, you know what I mean? He came out in L.A. He’s up and about and he’s happy and he’s walking around. Apparently he pushed himself a little too hard and he fell, you know, so to speak. We went home and he had to retire from touring because of his health. “He had some sort of a seizure or something like that. ![]() “It was really the scariest thing ever,” Lukather says. The road already has claimed Paich, who co-wrote most of the band’s hits and sang “Africa.” Fifteen months ago, Paich “fell ill” on the bus after the tour’s first big European leg, Lukather says. And I’m not saying that we travel poorly, but it’s a burden to be away from your family 230 days a year, like me. “They just think that we float around from city to city magically and live a life of luxury. “This kind of lifestyle is way harder than people think it is,” Lukather says. It continued its success, having three gold or platinum albums through its 1990 greatest-hits disc “Past to Present 1977-1990.” It has released eight studio discs since. ![]()
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