Carlton’s six decades as a frontman and a valuable supporting player include recording sessions with Steely Dan, Joni ...

Legendary Toto guitarist Steve Lukather is looking back on how cocaine took hold of the Los Angeles rock music scene in the ...

My question of how he would have played Eddie Van Halen’s excoriating guitar solo on Michael Jackson’s Beat It – a track on which Lukather and the late Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro also ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Yacht rock isn’t about flaunting a fancy boat. With shades and smooth tunes, yacht rock is about owning an attitude. “It’s more about the vibe than it is owning a yacht ...

Toto formed in 1977 around a coterie of stellar Los Angeles-based session musos, led by 24-year-old Jeff Porcaro – “a great big brother, a fearless leader” – who’d been a pro since he 17 ...

There is even a website dubbed “Yacht or Nyacht?” where essential songs such as the Doobie Brothers’ “What a Fool Believes” is ranked as the most yacht rock while the Eagles ...