Arteconciencias: Steve Lukather: “I played Jeff Beck and Eddie Van Halen’s guitars... some of Jeff’s guitars were set up so strangely only he could play them”

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March 8, 2023

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Editor's Note

Beck's strange setups...

By now, you've probably read a few "Guitarist A played Guitarist B's guitar and said, 'gee whiz, I don't sound anything like them at all!'" stories.

Indeed, over the decades, session king and Toto man Steve Lukather has played plenty of other people's guitars, including the personal six-strings of guitar heroes such as Eddie Van Halen and Jeff Beck.

Unsurprisingly, he told Guitar World in a previously unpublished interview, Lukather still sounded just like himself when playing them. However, some guitars from Beck's collection, in particular, confounded Lukather.

"Some of Jeff’s guitars [were] set up so strangely – only he [could] play them,” he told us. Read on to find out what exactly he meant...

Jackson Maxwell – Associate Editor, guitarworld.com

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