In a recent interview with Smashing Interviews Magazine, Toto guitarist Steve Lukather detailed the backstory behind a viral video showing him taking revenge on a neighbor’s noisy leaf blower by playing insanely loud guitar riffs at seven in the morning - topped off by him shouting, "Good morning!" Lukather was asked by the magazine if his axe battle was still ongoing.

"(laughs) Well, he cooled down, that’s for sure. We’re fine. My girlfriend’s like, 'We have to make peace with these guys.' She talked to the wife, and they were fine. It started out as a new neighbor cutting down all my shrubs, my covering in the backyard. I was on the road and came home to a bald yard. That was 40 years of growth for my privacy and shit. So that got weird. Then he called the police on my then seven-year-old autistic son, who got out and got on the roof because that’s what they do sometimes. He called the cops on my kid," Lukather said.

"I live in the Hollywood Hills, and the houses are nice but they are closer together. So when the leaf blower started at seven AM in the morning, it was almost like the guy was purposefully egging me on. I said, 'I’m going to get my amp and blow this guy up.' Then I said, 'Nah.' My girlfriend said, 'You’ve got to do it!' I said, 'I don’t want a hassle. Just, whatever.' She was like, 'No, do it! I dare you!' I go, 'You dare me?' (laughs) Then I got the amp out, put it up on the trampoline so it wouldn’t shred the dog’s ears, and I cranked it up. I didn’t even know my girlfriend was filming it. She put it up on Instagram, and it went viral around the world. It was crazy and the most press I’ve ever gotten (laughs). It got a lot of looks."

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