Artist.......: Toto
Album........: Toto XIV Tour (Basel - Switzerland)
Label........: King Record
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2016-03-13
Str.date.....: 2015-11-12
Quality......: 237kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://totoofficial.com
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1. Toto XIV Tour (Basel - Switzerland) 69:18
* Running Out of Time
* I'll Supply the Love
* Hydra
* Hold the Line
* Afraid of Love
* Pamela
* Without Your Love
* Orphan
* Rosanna
* Africa
Runtime 69:18
Size 117.67
Release Notes:
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The original members of Toto were L.A.-based session men who had played with
everyone from George Benson to Boz Scaggs and wanted to create something they
could call their own. They scored a hit straight out of the gate with the album
rock hit "Hold the Line" from their 1978 debut. Their biggest success, however,
came in the early '80s with a pair of smash hits, "Rosanna" and "Africa," plus
the breakout, six-Grammy success of the Toto IV album. The band endured some
major personnel shake-ups over the years, and in 1992, founding drummer Jeff
Porcaro died unexpectedly, but Toto continued working, even as the individual
members kept their lucrative session careers going.
Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by David Paich (keyboards, vocals), Steve
Lukather (guitar, vocals), Bobby Kimball (vocals), Steve Porcaro (keyboards),
David Hungate (bass), and Jeff Porcaro (drums). Paich was the son of arranger
Marty Paich; the Porcaros were the sons of percussionist Joe Porcaro. The
bandmembers had met in high school and at studio sessions in the 1970s, when
they became some of the busiest session musicians in the music business. Paich,
Hungate, and Jeff Porcaro wrote songs for and performed on Boz Scaggs' Silk
Degrees, the multi-million-selling 1976 album that combined pop, rock, and disco
elements into a slick combination which heavily influenced mainstream pop music.
Toto released its self-titled debut album in October 1978, and it hit the Top
Ten, sold two million copies, and spawned the gold Top Ten single "Hold the
Line." The gold-selling Hydra from 1979 and Turn Back from 1981 were less
successful, but 1982's Toto IV was a multi-platinum Top Ten hit, featuring the
number one hit "Africa" and the Top Tens "Rosanna" (about Lukather's girlfriend,
movie star Rosanna Arquette) and "I Won't Hold You Back." At the 1982 Grammys,
"Rosanna" won awards for Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and
Best Instrumental Arrangement with Vocal, and Toto IV won awards for Album of
the Year, Best Engineered Recording, and Best Producer (the group). In 1984, a
third Porcaro brother, Mike joined the group on bass, replacing Hungate. Lead
singer Kimball quit and was replaced by Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen.
Toto's fifth album, 1984's Isolation, went gold, but was a commercial
disappointment. Frederiksen was replaced by Joseph Williams, the son of the
conductor/composer John Williams, for 1986's Fahrenheit. Steve Porcaro quit in
1988, prior to the release of The Seventh One. In 1990, Jean-Michel Byron
replaced Williams for the new recordings on Past to Present 1977-1990, then
left; Lukather became the group's lead singer. Jeff Porcaro died of a heart
attack in 1992, but was featured on the group's next album, Kingdom of Desire.
By this time, Toto was far more popular in Japan and Europe than at home. The
group added British drummer Simon Phillips. Tambu, released in Europe in the
late fall of 1995, appeared in the U.S. in June 1996. For 1999's Mindfields,
Bobby Kimball returned to the lineup after a 15-year absence.
The group kept active during the 2000s, releasing the 2002 covers album Through
the Looking Glass and a 2003 live album to commemorate their 25th anniversary.
Following 2006's Falling in Between, their first set of originals since 1999,
and an accompanying live double album, Lukather announced that he was disbanding
Toto. Barely any of the original members remained with the group, and he felt it
was time to focus on his solo career. In early 2010, Toto re-formed to play a
short European tour benefiting bassist Mike Porcaro, who suffered from ALS. The
lineup included Lukather, Paich, Steve Porcaro, Simon Phillips, and Joseph
Williams. Feeling reenergized, the group announced both a 35th anniversary tour
in 2013 and plans for a new studio album. Harking back to their early years both
in title and sound, Toto XIV arrived in March 2015, just days after the death of
Mike Porcaro.
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