Human Nature - Michael Jackson (Steve Lukather GUITAR COVER)

Steve Lukather really did some jaw dropping things in the 70’s and 80’s (not even considering how young he was back then!). His part on Michael Jackson’s Human Nature, which was written by Toto band member Steve Porcaro, being one of them. It’s so simple, but so beautiful and yet very intricate.

“Quincy had said to me that he loved the track, but that he needed it to be funky. Or to be more accurate, he got inches from my face and urged me, “Come on! Make this funky for me!” It took me just a few minutes to come up with the part and to put it down. It just popped right into my head and I started to play along. Quincy was like. “That’s great - great!” It was just him and me and Svence in the room. Michael wasn’t there for that one. I perfected it over a take or two, and was plugged directly into the console - there was no amplifier. It has a very unique sound for that reason and I double-tracked it right away. I thought Steve would dig it, too, when he heard it, but he hated it. Once it was a hit, he said, “You know, that guitar part is not so bad after all. Ha-ha.””

A quote from ‘The gospel according to Luke’, Steve Lukather’s biography about the Human Nature session.
I didn't get it 100%, but I think I came pretty close. I used my Kauffmann Stratocaster and my Line 6 Helix for a pre-amp and compression simulation. In Logic I added a doubler effect and some Valhalla reverb.

- Leon Sibum is a guitarist from the Netherlands. He plays with artists, writes and records his own music, teaches guitar and runs a guitar podcast.
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