Steve Lukather - Jazz related rock, pop/crossover
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Topic: Steve Lukather - Jazz related rock, pop/crossover
Posted By: Asmodean
Subject: Steve Lukather - Jazz related rock, pop/crossover
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 1:33pm
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many of his albums are jazz fusion or psychadelic fusion , with great many fusion artist on his albums like David Garfield, Pena, Porcaro, Carlos Vega, Los Lobotomys, Larry Charlton his diskog http://www.stevelukather.net/Discography.aspx" rel="nofollow - http://www.stevelukather.net/Discography.aspx
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Posted By: Asmodean
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 6:46pm
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 4:56am
| Steve is a great guitar player who is capable of many styles including the ones you suggested. Let me check what the main output of his solo albums centers around. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 5:05am
| I think we'll pass on Steve for now, he could be a jazz rocker if he wanted too, but the majority of his solo work tends to center around mainstream rock. |
Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 5:16am
| The opinion of John might be all as the result though I recalled this. |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 5:39am
| I agree with John there, as much as I know Lukather's solo and collaborations work, what he plays is mostly quality instrumental rock. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 6:07am
| El Grupo should be added under Jazz-Related Rock, I think. That remains the closest to fusion project I heard SL do. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 6:09am
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If you go through his solo albums over the years you get a lot of really mainstream pop/rock with generic vocals, Its a shame because he is an incredibly talented guitar player.
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 6:10am
| ^ above post came before Alex's post, I'll try to check out El Grupo. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 6:34am
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Hmm, I remember that at some point back in time all the El Grupo album was streaming on YouTube, but I can't find it anymore, just some cover numbers: El Grupo is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_fusion" rel="nofollow - jazz fusion band founded by session musician and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toto_%28band%29" rel="nofollow - Toto guitarist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Lukather" rel="nofollow - Steve Lukather . The band also features http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Weingart" rel="nofollow - Steve Weingart on keyboards, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oskar_Cartaya&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow - Oskar Cartaya on bass, and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joey_Heredia&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow - Joey Heredia on drums. The band primarily tours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" rel="nofollow - jazz clubs in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow - United States and Europe and is known for highly improvisational sets that vary widely from show to show. El Grupo recorded one album, in 2005, entitled El Grupo Live. http://www.amazon.com/Live-El-Grupo/dp/B000QQZ5F8/ref=sr_1_1_digr?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1302348839&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow - http://www.amazon.com/Live-El-Grupo/dp/B000QQZ5F8/ref=sr_1_1_digr?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1302348839&sr=1-1 |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 10:06am
Possibly I'm too critical, but above samples sound as instrumental rock for me  There are some short examples of almost every song from Al Grupo only (live) album, few samples are possibly close to fusion, but in whole I see this album as more instrumental rock release: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elgrupo" rel="nofollow - http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elgrupo In my best - JR related (not sure), but really no way classic fusion. |
Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 10:24am
I do not think that Slava means the criticism. We are convinced that the quality of the site can be maintained by discussing music in recognition and the borderline. 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 2:55pm
Yes, I didn't find on YT any of the pieces that were more fusion-ish. I'll have to dig up the album (if I still have it) and listen to it and see if it's actually as fusion-ish as I remember it. |
snobb wrote:Posted By: js
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 4:47pm
| I'm going to add El Grupo to JR/Rock, they are very close to fusion. I' found more samples to listen to. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2011 at 6:09pm
Cool, and good to know my memory and discernment are not disposable... yet. 
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