TOTO
Budokhan Hall
Tokyo, Japan
May 18th 1982
First four TOTO albums were very good.
Hydra is my favourite by far as it has more proggy elements.
Funnily enough the 15 minute plus version of Africa here
(which has a slight cut) is very proggy.
i know they have an almost cult following to this day
but I lost touch with their later output.
I was the guy at school clutching the first album on release
who was ridiculed by those Sabbath fans (bastards).
I once recorded a cover of English Eyes.
All went well until I tried to sing
the "english eyes" refrain after the bridge.
Listened the original and realised Bobby Kimball sang those two words.
He is Good!
This is a well circulated soundboard recording
but I am happy to further circulate it.
Love the Steely Dan reference in Million Miles Away
(can you spot it?)
Wish they had played White Sister and St. George
but hey you can't have it all.
Footnote...99 is an ice cream in the UK (with a flake in it).
regards
Titus
Disc 1
01 Girl Goodbye
02 Child's Anthem
03 I'll Supply the Love
04 Live for Today
05 A Million Miles Away
06 Georgy Porgy
07 Good for You
08 Africa
09 Hydra
10 99
Disc 2
01 Goodbye Elenore
02 guitar solo
03 Gift with a Golden Gun
04 Make Believe
05 Rosanna
06 English Eyes
07 Afraid of Love
08 Lovers in the Night
09 Hold the Line
10 band introductions
11 Runaway
Always been in trouble with the band Toto as their music sound so polished, so perfect without real wildness, harshness, rock'n'rollness... and still they're such good musicians you would forgive them ! A kind of band you love to hate and to love again.
ReplyDeleteReally, I'm not talking about my lovely wife at all :)
Hey Derek. Kinda like that myserlf but they were good around this period. Mrs. Derek can always find a nice Engish gut like Titus.
ReplyDeleteBTw make sure you stock up on croissants/frogs legs before 9pm. wouldn't want you to get arrested
ReplyDeleteNo croissants, no frog legs, no camembert, no red burgundy wine, nothing anymore until the end of the lockdown under a cold november rain ! Sounds desperate, isn't it ? But bootlegs and music still exist !!! Thanks for being there over the internet,
ReplyDeleteWe are going the same way here on Thursday (no curfew yet) I wondered if panic buying was only a national sport in the UK? Can someone upload toilet papar and send me the link? :)
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