Hollywood actor Rob Lowe has revealed that he as soon as recorded a demo with Californian AOR giants Toto. Sadly, this no-doubt-wondrous slice of ’80s cultural historical past has but to make it into the general public area.
Lowe’s revelation got here throughout an interview with journalist Invoice Simmons, the CEO of sports activities and tradition web site The Ringer, on the actor’s SiriusXM podcast Actually! With Rob Lowe.
The pair go deep on a dialogue of Yacht Rock, as Simmons has an government producer credit score on Music Field: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary, a recently-released HBO documentary focussing upon chronicling “the rise, fall, and rise once more of the mushy rock epitomized by artists corresponding to Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan, and Toto within the late Nineteen Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties.”
Through the dialog, Lowe reveals that he first heard the time period ‘Yacht Rock’ from actress Rashida Jones (daughter of the late Quincy Jones) who recommended that Lowe was “a Yacht Rock man”. He and Simmons then dive into an evaluation of artists labelled Yacht Rock, with Simmons stating how lots of the hottest acts had been regarded down upon by ‘severe’ music followers and critics on the time.
“I acquired one for ya,” Lowe chips in. “There was a minute within the 80s the place I used to be positively doing an excessive amount of Bolivian marching powder and simply being a fucking lunatic and [it was] additionally coming on the time in a younger actor’s profession the place they’re too previous to play the roles they’ve been taking part in, however they’re too younger to play the roles that may final you the remainder of your life, that are actually the good ones. And you may type of really feel it.
“I really like music a lot, as evidenced by this speak and all of that, that I acquired it into my head that perhaps I ought to assume extra about music and I lower a demo with Toto.”
Sadly, Simmons declines to grill Lowe on this sudden revelation, and the dialog strikes on, with none extra particulars of this considerably unlikely collaboration being revealed.
We demand to know extra!
Watch the interview beneath.