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Chargement... The Gospel According to Luke (édition 2022)par Steve Lukather (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Gospel According to Luke par Steve Lukather
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Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant sound of the late '70s and '80s was not punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B first staked out on Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees. That album was shaped in large part by the founding members of Toto, who were emerging as the most in-demand elite session crew in LA, and further developed on the band's self-titled multi-platinum debut. A string of massive hits followed for Toto while Lukather and bandmates David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, and Steve Porcaro also served as creative linchpins on some of the most successful and influential records of the era, including Michael Jackson's Thriller. In this incisive memoir, Lukather tells the complete Toto story. He also lifts the lid on what went on behind the closed studio doors, shedding light on the unique creative processes of some of the most legendary names in music: from Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, and Elton John to Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Roger Waters, and Aretha Franklin. Lukather's extraordinary tale also encompasses the dark side of stardom and the American Dream. Frank, engaging, and often hilarious, The Gospel According to Luke is no ordinary rock memoir. It is the real thing. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Maybe that's also the reason, why i was disappointed with this book. When it comes to musicians books, i guess there are two ways: Either you it like Mötley Crüe and just dish out "The Dirt" on everybody or you talk about the music and what went on in the studio.
This book is neither really. Lukather calls everybody a "great cat", with mentioning only one bad experience - but not going into any details. He talks about his own drug usage, with the funniest story being about him doing shrooms and being so fucked, that George Clooney had to drive him to his home (while he was busy in the back seat with a girl) but outside of that, there are no really dirty story. On the contrary, large portions of the book are spend on defending Jeff Porcaro's death from a cocaine overdose, something the Band Toto still doesn't accept as reality. It's kinda funny though that Luke says Jeff was "a little Ozzy Osbourne" on the road, only to go "he never really did drugs" (then again, singer Joseph Williams for example openly talked about the fact that it was Jeff and David Paich who got him hooked on drugs...)
I can understand that you want to defend your friends and Luke and Jeff were really close, but it gets quite ridiculous.
He sadly also never really gets into interesting details about the music. Here we have a guy who play on who knows how many albums (2,500 to 3,000 or something like that), who played with some of the biggest names in music, who play on and co-wrote hits - but he rarely talks about it. It's a bit about Toto (and a lot of complaining about CBS and music critics) and a bit about Michael Jackson. Personally, i would've loved to hear some stories from his experiences with the likes of Alice Cooper (On the Inside, Luke even co-wrote one song there), Eric Clapton or Don Henley.
So, even as a very big fan of his work, i have to say i'm quite disappointed about this book. (