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”
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
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
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
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