‘Old guys’ Toto blown away by Tasmania’s Falls Festival crowd
Legendary rockers Toto have performed around the world but lead guitarist Steve Lukather says Sunday’s show in Tasmania was one of their favourite gigs.
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LEGENDARY US band Toto has played worldwide over the past four decades, but lead guitarist Steve Lukather says Sunday’s show in Tasmania was one of their favourite gigs.
Toto came together for the first time in about three months at Marion Bay to kick off a run of gigs at Falls Festivals around the country, and Lukather was “taken aback” by the local crowd’s reaction.
“They wanted a short, abbreviated set, we’re thinking ‘Wow, we’re playing to all these kids, I wonder if they’re going to like us,” Lukather told the Mercury this morning.
“We were kind of like ‘Oh boy, we’re going to be the oddball old guys’, so we started making fun of ourselves [but] we were like ‘We’ll bring it man, we’ll just go up there and be ourselves — f… it.
“We were absolutely blown away by the reception. We never expected that kind of reaction, it was one of the most outrageous shows we’ve done, I can’t believe it.
“It’s going to go down as one of our favourite shows of our career.”
Lukather said he was surprised even the younger festival-goers knew the words to all the songs — not just hits like Hold The Line and Rosanna.
“I started hearing this singing, and I’m going ‘That s..t ain’t in my [head]phones, that’s not in my inner ears, is that the crowd?’,” he said.
“First off, there was a massive amount of people, which was really cool for the turnout, but to get that reaction was just astounding.”
Toto’s set ended with a prolonged version of their smash hit Africa, which was released in 1982.
“We figured that’s everybody’s favourite jam, we might as well extend it a little bit,” Lukather said.
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