Abe Laboriel Jr, Bill Champlin, Greg Mathieson, John Pierce, Joseph Williams, Leland Sklar, Lenny Castro, Randy Goodrum, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcaro, Trevor Lukather
Ever Changing Times was released on February 22, 2008, is a collection of songs Steve Lukather recorded in 2007 between Toto tours. The album contains contributions from fellow session musicians Bill Champlin, Abe Laboriel Jr, Leland Sklar, Steve Porcaro, and many others. Steve Lukather’s son Trevor contributed as well. Joseph Williams provides backing vocals on five of the tracks. Lukather wrote the songs for the album in a hotel room with his son and a handful of other musicians, using basic equipment. His song-writing philosophy is that if a song sounds good with only guitars and vocals, it will likely sound good after a full production.
Lukather collaborated with Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Steve MacMillan on the project, with the goal of introducing some new methods and techniques into the recording process. Lukather described the final tracks as “perfectly imperfect”, preferring to record with the five-piece backing band in one room and in one take. MacMillan encouraged Lukather to use “organic, vintage tones”. As a result, Lukather eschewed effects and played the guitar parts directly through tube amplifiers manufactured by Marshall, Vox, and some boutique brands. Lukather commented that MacMillan served as a valuable “second set of ears” in the studio, often encouraging him to keep parts that he normally would have discarded. As Toto had recently disbanded when Ever Changing Times was released, Lukather embarked on a solo tour to promote the album. The shows featured a mixture of songs from the album, songs written for other side projects, and “a few Toto obscurities”
Tracks
1 Ever Changing Times (Steve Lukather; Randy Goodrum) 5:29
2 The Letting Go (Steve Lukather; Randy Goodrum) 5:52
3 New World (Steve Lukather; Randy Goodrum; Trevor Lukather) 4:32
4 Tell Me What You Want From Me (Steve Lukather; Phil Soussan; Trevor Lukather) 5:13
5 I Am (Steve Lukather; Randy Goodrum) 3:14
6 Jammin With Jesus (John Sloman) 5:55
7 Stab In The Back (Steve Lukather; Randy Goodrum) 5:59
8 Never Ending Nights (Steve Lukather; Randy Goodrum) 5:35
9 Icebound (Steve Lukather; Randy Goodrum) 4:19
10 How Many Zeros (Steve Lukather; Jeff Babko; Stan Lynch) 4:33
11 The Truth (Steve Lukather) 3:50
Musicians
1 Ever Changing Times
Bass | John Pierce |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Steve MacMillan |
Synthesizer | Randy Goodrum |
Synthesizer | Jyro Xhan |
Background Vocals | Joseph Williams |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
2 The Letting Go
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Randy Goodrum |
Percussion | Lenny Castro |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
3 New World
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Guitar | Trevor Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Steve MacMillan |
Background Vocals | Bernard Fowler |
Background Vocals | Joseph Williams |
Background Vocals | Trevor Lukather |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
4 Tell Me What You Want From Me
Bass | Phil Soussan |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Guitar | Trevor Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Jeff Babko |
Background Vocals | Phil Soussan |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
5 I Am
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Steve MacMillan |
Synthesizer | Randy Goodrum |
Synthesizer | Jeff Babko |
Background Vocals | Randy Goodrum |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
6 Jammin With Jesus
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Organ | Greg Mathieson |
Synthesizer | Jeff Babko |
Percussion | Lenny Castro |
Background Vocals | Bernard Fowler |
Background Vocals | Bill Champlin |
Background Vocals | Sharolette Gibson |
Background Vocals | Trevor Lukather |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
7 Stab In The Back
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Organ | Greg Mathieson |
Fender Rhodes | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Steve Weingart |
Synthesizer | Jeff Babko |
Background Vocals | Tina Lukather |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
8 Never Ending Nights
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Olle Romo |
Percussion | Lenny Castro |
Background Vocals | Joseph Williams |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
9 Icebound
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Steve Weingart |
Synthesizer | Steve MacMillan |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
10 How Many Zeros
Bass | Leland Sklar |
Drums | Abe Laboriel Jr |
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Jeff Babko |
Synthesizer | Randy Goodrum |
Background Vocals | Bill Champlin |
Vocals | Steve Lukather |
11 The Truth
Guitar | Steve Lukather |
Keyboards | Steve Porcaro |
Liner Notes
Producer – Steve Lukather, Steve MacMillan
Producer (Executive) – Randy Goodrum
Producer (Executive Ride Records) – Yoshuhiro Ricky Miyagi
A&R (Ride Records A&R) – Micky Suzuki, Naoki Nomura
Coordinator (Album Coordination For Sonny Abelardo) – Amy McGuire Lynch
Coordinator (Album Coordination For Steve Lukather) – Rhoda Neil
Engineer (Assistant Engineering) – John Silas Cranfield, Ken Eisennagel
Mastered By – Stephen Marcussen
Mixed By – Steve MacMillan
Recorded By – Steve MacMillan
Art Direction (Creative Director) – Ricky Rodriguez
Design (Cd) – Satoshi Hasegawa
Photography – Maryanne Bilham-Knight, Robert Knight
Pressed By – www.multimediapress.it
Licensed To – Frontiers Records
Mastered At – Marcussen Mastering
Recorded At – Steakhouse Studios
Mixed At – MacMan Digital
September 20, 2016 @ 09:15
I just listened to this CD about a week ago. Love it.