Lots of Music! Steve Lukather & others play Cleveland tonight + Luke talks file sharing

Busy night tonight in the Cleveland music scene. As per usual, there’s no shortage of choices for live music!

Nine Inch Nails are at Quicken Loans Arena – I of course saw the show a few weeks back at Virgin Mobile Festival, and it ruled.

EDIT:

Just got word that Cleveland’s own Nicholas Megalis has been added to the NIN lineup as an opener. Praise Be Hype Machine, indeed!!

Detroit’s The Silent Years are part of a bill at The Matinee in Ohio City. I haven’t heard their latest album yet, but I LOVED their self-titled release, which I discovered earlier this year when they shared a bill with User Sets Mode+ and The Twilight at the Beachland.

Former Toto guitarist Steve Lukather is at The Winchester for an extremely rare Cleveland show supporting his new solo CD Ever Changing Times.

Seriously, I think that the last time Toto played Cleveland, was in the 90s at the old Peabody’s in the Flats. You know, back when the Flats was actually a cool place to go?

Lukather is only doing a short run of U.S. dates, several of which were cancelled last week when Luke took ill and had to rest his voice. Don’t miss your chance to see one of the most underrated guitar players in rock history!

I’m going to try to catch both Lukather and The Silent Years, all in one night.

Fingers crossed.

Speaking of Luke, here is one of his always entertaining email exchanges shared with Bob Lefsetz:

I think that “sharing” music is way cool. Its like loaning a record to a friend so he or she can dig it before they buy it. OR like taking a record and making a CD out of it. Mix tapes-Cd’s-MP-3’s are all good. It is just this is a dying business. It’s like the movie the Terminator. “It was all good till the machines took over”. Yeah, the f*cking machines. If you cant play or sing you suck. Bottom line. There is SO much cheating going on it would scare most of you. Yeah, I bought into that sh*t for awhile myself so *I* am full of sh*t too but NO more. It’s all real or I will kill myself. I am no longer with my old scene. I will die and would rather play in front of 500 people that dig the music than be a vibe sucking whore that FORGOT that music is an art form not just a f*cking business.

Read the entire thing here.

The Silent Years – Someone To Keep Us Warm