“I was definitely doing too much Bolivian marching powder.” Hollywood star Rob Lowe reveals that he once “cut a demo” with AOR superstars Toto, which might just be the most ’80s thing ever [Video]

Hollywood actor Rob Lowe has revealed that he once recorded a demo with Californian AOR giants Toto. Sadly, this no-doubt-wondrous slice of ’80s cultural history has yet to make it into the public domain.

Lowe’s revelation came during an interview with journalist Bill Simmons, the CEO of sports and culture website The Ringer, on the actor’s SiriusXM podcast Literally! With Rob Lowe.

The pair go deep on a discussion of Yacht Rock, as Simmons has an executive producer credit on Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary, a recently-released HBO documentary focussing upon chronicling “the rise, fall, and rise again of the soft rock epitomized by artists such as Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan, and Toto in the late 1970s and early 1980s.”

During the conversation, Lowe reveals that he first heard the term ‘Yacht Rock’ from actress Rashida Jones (daughter of the late Quincy Jones) who suggested that Lowe was “a Yacht Rock guy”. He and Simmons then …