| “TOTO MAN RIDES BACK WITH HIS BEST SOLO ALBUM IN 25 YEARS” – (CLASSIC ROCK) AOR MAGAZINE MASCOT LABEL GROUP ANNOUNCES JANUARY 25 RELEASE DATE FOR STEVE LUKATHER’S NEW ALBUM ‘TRANSITION’ The Mascot Label Group has announced a January 25, 2013 release date for Steve Lukather’s new album Transition, which will be released in Australia through ADA/Warner. Pre-orders of Transition are available at http://stevelukather.mlgmerch.comThe legendary guitarist has been kept busy since the release of his last solo album All’s Well That Ends Well; thoroughly enjoying his current role in Ringo Starr’s All Starr touring band (upcoming Australian tour dates below), continuing his appearances across the globe as part of the hugely successful G3 tours with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, and bringing his reunited band Toto back for arena performances overseas, slated for later in 2013 after a planned European tour to promote Transition.
Transition finds Lukather delivering the perfect balance of style, power and imagination he is renowned for while continuing to take risks and challenge 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, stadiums and arenas. Lukather shares, “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.” Over the previous decade a series of trials including divorce, the death of his mother and business hassles had dampened his joy in music making — a passion that drove Lukather to excel since seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show as a 7 year-old growing up in San Fernando Valley. But today this high-wire artist of the six string is happy, healthy and strongly reconnected to his muse, and the lushly expressive Transition, his second Mascot album, finds him at a creative pinnacle. Lukather offers, “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.” Transition’s heavenly sonic architecture — erected with the help of such A-list musical friends as Def Leppard’s Phil Collen, superstar bassists Lee Sklar, Nathan East, John Pierce, and Tal Wilkenfeld, live band members Steve Weingart, Renee Jones, and Eric Valentine, along with mega-drummers Gregg Bissonette, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tos Panos, and Lukather’s longtime keyboard foil and co-writer/co-producer C.J. Vanston —weaves a richly detailed tale of redemption. Beginning with the snarling rhythmic heartbeat of the cutting ‘Judgment Day’ and the evil kiss-off blues ‘Creep Motel,’ the album builds to the pivotal title track. Lukather reveals, “‘Transition’ is a turning point for the album and a turning point for me. As we were writing the songs, I was thinking about everything I’ve seen — all the people I’ve lost in my life, the great and the difficult experiences I’ve had, and how ultimately it was time to get it together and embrace things for what they are, because we’ve only got one life to live and we’ve got to make the most of it.”
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