Steve Lukather to Tour with Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus

In the midst of these appearances, Luke will stage a headline show at the House of Blues in Dallas in the Cambridge Room on July 17.  He offers, “Coming off a very successful European tour with packed houses and a new record and we are ready!”  On January 22, 2013 Steve Lukather’s Transition (Mascot) was released, receiving raves from critics across the Globe.  This week, in a “Mid-Year Best Of 2013” Something Else Reviews’ Nick DeRiso placed the album at #2 publishing, “A sense of perseverance feels like the broader message of Transition, something embedded in its very title. Having established himself apart from the legendary band he co-founded, and all of the many sideman gigs that helped bolster his career, Lukather seems ready finally to write with the same revelatory honesty that has always marked his guitar playing. The results are a triumph — over adversity, over expectations, over time. Steve Lukather may have just made his best record ever.”

Since the release of his last solo album All’s Well That Ends Well, Lukather has been a busy man.  Enjoying current tenure in Ringo Starr’s touring band and G3 with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, alongside the worldwide 35th Anniversary World Tour for Toto which hits North America this Summer, the new album finds Lukather delivering that perfect balance of style, power and imagination as he takes risks and challenges himself as he has for  nearly four decades, as his career has gone from the studios of Los Angeles to the world’s biggest concert halls.  He recently revealed, “I’ve got a lot to be thankful for, and now is a perfect time for me to take stock of that, which is part of what Transition is about…I equate recordings to paintings and I wanted to make Transition a big, beautiful album with lots of fine details and shadings and colors. That’s what I do and what my favorite albums — Sgt. Pepper’s, Dark Side of the Moon, Electric Ladyland,Goodbye Yellow Brick Road — are all about. So if it’s a sin to make massive sounding records with huge production values, then I’m going to Hell.”

A five-time Grammy Winner and member of the Musicians Hall of Fame, Lukather has worked with an A-list of fellow guitar giants: Eddie Van Halen, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, and Joe Bonamassa among them. He’s also co-led Toto with fellow founder David Paich through every twist of the band’s platinum lined history while playing on albums by Michael Jackson, Warren Zevon, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Miles Davis, Roger Waters, Cheap Trick and other rock and pop royalty. And he’s done all that while writing hits for the Tubes and George Benson, plus maintaining a parallel solo career of his own that began with his 1988 solo debut Lukather.

Luke will appear on the following Frampton Guitar Circus :

7/13     Durant, OK                  Choctaw Casino & Resort                                 Luke Ensemble Opens

7/14     San Antonio, TX          Majestic Theater                                                 Guitar Circus Sit-In

7/16     Corpus Christi, TX       Selena Auditorium At American                       Luke Ensemble Opens

7/17     Dallas, TX                    House of Blues – Cambridge Room                   Luke Headline Show

7/19     Quapaw, OK                 Downstream Casino Resort                             Luke Ensemble Opens

7/20     Dubuque, IA                 Diamond Jo Casino                                         Luke Ensemble Opens

7/21     Minneapolis, MN         State Theater                                               Guitar Circus Sit-In

7/23     Beaver Creek, CO        Vilar Performing Arts Center                          Guitar Circus Sit-In