Toto guitarist insists things 'got weird' with Weezer
NJ.com · 10h
Legendary rock guitarist didn’t like his band’s biggest hit being covered by Weezer. Here’s why.
It seemed as though the cover was all in fun. Toto even returned the favor by covering Weezer’s 2001 hit, “Hash Pipe ” that same year. But Toto guitarist Steve Lukather feels otherwise. In an interview with Matt Pinfield’s radio show New & Approved, the guitarist questioned Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo’s affection for “Africa.”
People · 1d
Toto Guitarist Says He Tried to 'Be Friendly' with Rivers Cuomo After Weezer Covered 'Africa' but 'It Just Got Weird'
"I don’t know about him loving the song, man," said Steve Lukather of Toto about Rivers Cuomo's feelings toward the 1982 classic hit "Africa," which Weezer covered in 2018.
Stereogum · 1d
Toto Guitarist Wasn’t Thrilled With Weezer’s “Africa” Cover, Says “It Just Got Weird” With Rivers Cuomo
In 2018, in response to months of campaigning by an Ohio teenager named Mary, Weezer famously covered Toto’s 1983 chart-topping hit “Africa,” yielding a fun music video with Weird Al Yankovic and becoming Weezer’s biggest hit in years.
pajiba · 19h
Rivers Cuomo Made Things ‘Weird’ With Toto’s Guitarist Over Africa Because of Course He Did
I love plenty of “weird” things, like the guy dressed up as Rivers in the header. The word weird has been used to describe me more times than I could count, and I have embraced it. So, when I say that Rivers Cuomo can be a little weird,
Exclaim! · 1d
Toto's Steve Lukather Says Weezer Only Covered "Africa" to "Take the Piss Out of It"
Writer Dan Ozzi claims responsibility for getting the @weezerafrica account — created by Mary, a teenager from Ohio — on the band's radar, and its mission was successful: after originally yielding a teasing rendition of Toto's (ahem, superior) hit "Rosanna," Weezer finally obliged Mary — and got "Weird Al" Yankovic to star in the music video.
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