Steve Lukather PROTOTYPE LUKE - 1993......you guys seen this? Maple fretboard...

[robelinda2]

Any old stories about this one? Seymour Duncan humbucker apparently, and looks to be a Silo Special neck.....

 

[Gio_Force_One]

Heres another luke i found on a site , Luke neck with an axis body

 

[robelinda2]

Ive got a video of that Luxis somewhere!

 

[Gio_Force_One]

Ive got a video of that Luxis somewhere!

really how old is the video?

 

[robelinda2]

Dont remember, some time in the 90's, people have posted it before.

 

[Gio_Force_One]

Dont remember, some time in the 90's, people have posted it before.

i will have to try and find it

 

[kimonostereo]

I think that Luke + Axis was signed by Jeff Beck and his guitar tech or someone wiped off the signature by accident or something....

 

[threeminutesboy]

that particular Axis SSS was used lived on the Mindfield Tour during the song "Cruel" I guess if you do a search on Youtube you could hear it, there is a famous bootleg DVD of a show in Yokohama

As for the proto, nice find Rob

 

[robelinda2]

YouTube - ‪Toto - Cruel Live‬‏

 

[dav]

seemed to be really nice!!! a luke with a maple fretboard!!!

for the other , i saw it in action in 99 for the mindfield tour , he played it for "cruel"!!!

 

[slukather]

here's another video YouTube - ‪STEVE LUKATHER - Beck's Guitaro‬‏

Nice find Rob, l've seen that pic before, but never noticed the pickups or neck.

Scottie.

 

[Danserrano]

The amount of Birdseye on the hdstk is awesome.

 

[lukather101]

YouTube - ‪Toto - Cruel Live‬‏

Awesome , classic Toto.

 

[Big Jazzer]

That's a gap in the MM line I'd like to see filled - direct-mount H/S/S, traditional pups, Floyd.
If Luke is moving away from EMGs, who knows, maybe it'll come in time.
Or they could simply do an H/S/S Axis.

 

[robelinda2]

Some more pics I found today

 

[Colin]

nice find Rob

 

[ba2m]

Hi Guys,

Anybody knows what was the white humbucker pickup Steve used on the blue luke?
I don't know that there was a time Steve lukather prefers to use passive pickup on his guitar, are those dimarzios?

 

[robelinda2]

seymour duncan humbucker the article says.

 

[ba2m]

seymour duncan humbucker the article says.

thanks rob!
btw how did you know that maple neck was a silo special's? any sign of it?

 

[applemacintosh]

I'm pretty sure there's a vid of Luke playing the Axis on one of the Toto CDs... Yup! Checked it toto02.mov on the Livefield Bonus Disc.