Toto Comments on Rob Lowe’s Demo Story
A rep for Toto quickly shot down a claim from actor Rob Lowe about making music with them years ago.
“Toto as a band never did a session with Rob Lowe. The reporting is not accurate,” Toto spokesperson Steve Karas told Ultimate Classic Rock.
Karas added that while Lowe did hang out at the studio with band members David Paich and Steve Porcaro one afternoon, nothing came from it. The visit was just casual, and no music was ever recorded. Making matters clearer, guitarist Steve Lukather said he only met Lowe once, and that was in Japan back in 1985.
As previously reported, Lowe said in conversation with Bill Simmons on his podcast Literally With Rob Lowe that he recorded a demo with Toto back in the ’80s, when the actor was still using cocaine.
Lowe explained, “There was a minute in the 80s where I was definitely doing too much Bolivian marching powder and just being a f—ing lunatic, and [it was] also coming at the time in a young actor’s career where they’re too old to play the roles they’ve been playing, but they’re too young to play the roles that will last you the rest of your life, which are really the great ones … I love music so much, as evidenced by this talk and all of that, that I got it into my head that maybe I should think more about music and I cut a demo with Toto.”
The topic came up when Simmons, who heads HBO's Yacht Rock documentary, mentioned the genre’s huge impact. Their talk drifted to other artists like The Doobie Brothers, Christopher Cross, and Toto.
