Frogtoon Muziek

Africa by Toto

Biografie van de kunstenaar Toto

Toto Is A Grammy Award Winning American Rock Band That Was Formed In Los Angeles California In 1977 By David Paich Steve Lukather Bobby Kimball Brothers Jeff Porcaro And Steve Porcaro And David Hungate. The Band Members 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. Composed Entirely Of Seasoned Studio Musicians Toto Seemed To Come Out Of Nowhere. They Did Not Get Known First On The Club Circuit As Nearly All Bands Do Prior To Being Signed By A Label. Their Reputations In The Studio Were Enough. For Example Paich Hungate And Jeff Porcaro Wrote Songs For And Performed On Boz Scaggs' Album Silk Degrees. Toto Released Their Debut Album Toto In October 1978 Selling Two Million Copies Based On Their Top Ten Hit Hold The Line. The Next Two Albums Hydra And Turn Back Had Little Success But Toto IV Released In 1982 Featured The Number One Hit Africa As Well As The Top Ten Single Rosanna. Toto IV Went Multi-Platinum And Earned Several Grammy Awards Including 1983 Album Of The Year And Record Of The Year For "Rosanna" . Their Only Film Work To Date Was For The 1984 David Lynch Science Fiction Film Dune. In Addition To Their Own Score They Also Recorded The Prophecy Theme Composed By Brian Eno. After The Release Of Toto IV Mike Porcaro Brother To Jeff And Steve Joined The Group On Bass Replacing Hungate. In 1984 Bobby Kimball Left The Group After Being Arrested For Selling Cocaine And Was Replaced By Dennis Frederiksen Aka Fergie Frederiksen Who Was Replaced Not Long After By Joseph Williams. Steve Porcaro Left The Band In 1988 However He Still Contributes As A Sideman. In 1990 Jean-Michel Byron Replaced Williams For The New Recordings On Past To Present 1977-1990 Then Left With Lukather Becoming The Group's Lead Singer. On August 5 1992 Jeff Porcaro Died Of A Heart Attack Days After Completing Work On Kingdom Of Desire. The Group Considered Disbanding Before Adding British Drummer Simon Phillips For The Subsequent Tour. In The Years Since Porcaro's Death Lukather Has Seemingly Succeeded Paich As The Band's De Facto Leader. In 1999 Bobby Kimball Returned To The Lineup After A 15-Year Absence. Greg Phillinganes Joined The Lineup In 2004 To Fill In For David Paich During A Tour Then Officially Joined Toto In 2005. After A Period Of Rumours And Some Allusions On June 5th 2008 Steve Lukather Made An Official Announcement On His Website Stevelukather.Net Stating "The Fact Is Yes I Have Left Toto. There Is No More Toto." Lukather Further Stated That After 31 Years Of Recording Producing And Playing With Toto Without Even Missing One Single Gig He Couldn't Do It Anymore "I Just Can't Do It Anymore And At 50 Years Old I Wanted To Start Over And Give It One Last Try On My Own." With Lukather Being The Only Original Member Left In The Band Bobby Kimball Was Also An Original Member But Was Out Of The Band From 1984-1998 There Was No Other Option Than To Call It Quits. As The Main Motivation For His Decision Lukather Said "When Dave Retired That Was REAL Hard For Me 'cause We Started The Band Together. Hell It's 35 Years If You Count High School Where The Core All Met. When Mike Fell Ill And Had To Leave That Was It For Me. If There Isn't Paich Or At Least One Porcaro How Can We Even Call It Toto?" Luke Also Stated "Honestly I Have Just Had Enough. This Is NOT A Break. It Is Over. I Really Can't Go Out And Play Hold The Line With A Straight Face Anymore." The Break-Up Of Toto After 31 Years Received Mixed Reactions From The Fans But In General The Decision Was Understood And Many Agreed With Lukather's Reasons To Quit The Band. On April 5th 2008 Toto Played What Would Be Their Last Show Ever In Seoul Korea As A Part Of Their Falling In Between Live Tour. This Left Lots Of Fans Without A Real Farewell Tour. On February 26th 2010 Steve Lukather Announced On His Twitter-Account That Toto Are Reforming For A Brief Tour In Europe In The Summer Of 2010 To Honor Bass Player Mike Porcaro Who's Suffering From ALS Syndrome. Line-Up Will Include David Paich Steve Lukather Steve Porcaro Simon Phillips Joseph Williams And Nathan East. Toto Released Their Fourteenth Studio Album And Their First In Nine Years Titled Toto XIV On March 20 Europe March 23 UK And Oceania And March 24 2015 North America . To Promote The Newly Finished Project The Band Started A World Tour Running With An Extensive European Headline Arena Tour Including Appearances At Key Festivals Along With A North American Tour To Follow In The Summer Of 2015 And Asia Later That Year. 43 44 On March 15 2015 Former Bassist Mike Porcaro Died Due To Complications From His Battle With ALS In His Sleep At His Home In Los Angeles. 45 On 6 April 2015 Toto Announced That They Would Embark On 7 August 2015 In Mashantucket Connecticut With Veteran Progressive Band Yes On A Joint Summer Tour Of North America Due To End On 12 September 2015 In Coquitlam British Columbia. 46 47 48 Shannon Forrest Has Continued To Perform As The Band's Drummer. On 29 September 2015 Toto Announced The First Leg Of Their 2016 Tour In Support Of Toto XIV Consisting Of European And Japanese Dates. Leland Sklar Who Joined Them On Their 2007 And 2008 Tours Replaced Founding Member Hungate. 49 Sklar Left Toto In Early 2017 And Was Replaced By Shem Von Schroeck. Toto Will Release Their Anniversary Album "40 Trips Around The Sun" On February 9 2018. Then They'll Embark On Their World Tour Promoting Their Album And Celebrating 40 Years Of Music. The Original Lineup 1978 * David Paich - Vocals And Keyboards * Steve Lukather - Guitar And Vocals * Bobby Kimball - Vocals * Steve Porcaro - Keyboards * David Hungate - Bass * Jeff Porcaro - Drums The Last Lineup 2017 * David Paich - Vocals And Keyboards * Steve Lukather - Guitar And Vocals * Joseph Williams - Vocals * Steve Porcaro - Vocals And Keyboards

Frogtoon Muziek - Nummerinformatie: Africa

The Song Was Included On Their 1982 Album Toto IV And Reached Number One On The Billboard Hot 100 Chart In February 1983 And Number Three On The UK Singles Chart The Same Month. The Song Was Written By The Band's Keyboardist David Paich Who Also Sings Both Verses Of The Song And Drummer Jeff Porcaro. Bobby Kimball Sings The Chorus. The Song Almost Cut From The Toto IV Record Prior To Its Release. Having Spent An Incredible Amount Of Time Producing The Tune The Band Became So Tired Of The Song That They Didn’t Want It On The Album. The Song Itself Was Very Different From Anything The Band Had Done Before And Some Members Felt That It Didn’t Sound Like Toto. “I Didn’t Think It Was Very Good ” Said Steve Lukather Classic Rock Revisited 2003 . “That Tells You What Can Happen When We Pick Our Own Singles!” David Paich Who Co-Wrote The Song With Jeff Porcaro Said That It “could Have Been The Beginning Of A Solo Project For Me Because It Was So Different. I Thought I’d Save It… Because World Music Wasn’t Around Then.” The Initial Idea For The Song Came From David Paich Playing On His Piano. Jeff Explains The Idea Behind The Song "... A White Boy Is Trying To Write A Song On Africa But Since He's Never Been There He Can Only Tell What He's Seen On TV Or Remembers In The Past." Musically The Song Took Quite Some Time To Assemble As David And Jeff Explain Below. David Paich On The Yamaha Keyboards Used "On 'Africa' You Hear A Combination Of Marimba With GS 1. The Kalimba Is All Done With The GS 1 It's Six Tracks Of GS 1 Playing Different Rhythms. I Wrote The Song On CS-80 So That Plays The Main Part Of The Entire Tune." Keyboard 09/1995 Jeff Porcaro Reminisces About How The Song's Iconic Drum Track Was Created I Was About 11 When The New York’s World Fair Took Place And I Went To The African Pavilion With My Family. I Saw The Real Thing I Don't Know What Tribe But There Were These Drummers Playing And My Mind Was Blown. The Thing That Blew My Mind Was Everybody Was Playing One Part. As A Little Kid In Connecticut I Would See These Puerto Rican And Cuban Cats Jamming In The Park. It Was The First Time I Witnessed Someone Playing One Beat And Not Straying From It Like A Religious Experience Where It Gets Loud And Everyone Goes Into A Trance. I Have Always Dug Those Kind Of Orchestras Whether It Be A Band Of All Drummers. But I Just Love A Band Of Guys Saying One Thing. That's Why I Loved Marching Band And I Said "Gee Someday There's Going To Be A Little Drum Orchestra Where Everybody Plays One Thing And You Don't Stray From It. You Do It Until You Drop. You're Banished From That Land If You Move From That One Part. So When We Were Doing "Africa" I Set Up A Bass Drum Snare Drum And A Hi-Hat And Lenny Castro Set Up Right In Front Of Me With A Conga. We Looked At Each Other And Just Started Playing The Basic Groove.... The Backbeat Is On 3 So It's A Half-Time Feel And It's 16th Notes On The Hi-Hat. Lenny Started Playing A Conga Pattern. We Played For Five Minutes On Tape No Click No Nothing. We Just Played. And I Was Singing The Bass Line For "Africa" In My Mind So We Had A Relative Tempo. Lenny And I Went Into The Booth And Listened Back To The Five Minutes Of That Same Boring Pattern. We Picked Out The Best Two Bars That We Thought Were Grooving And We Marked Those Two Bars On Tape. We Made Another Mark Four Bars Before Those Two Bars. Lenny And I Went Back Out I Had A Cowbell Lenny Had A Shaker. They Gave Us Two New Tracks And They Gave Us The Cue When They Saw The First Mark Go By. Lenny And I Started Playing To Get Into The Groove So By The Time The That Fifth Bar Came --Which Was The First Bar Of The Two Bars We Marked As The Cool Bars We Liked-- We Were Locked And We Overdubbed Shaker And Cowbell. So There Was Bass Drum Snare Drum Hi-Hat Two Congas A Cowbell And A Shaker. We Went Back In Cut The Tape And Made A One-Bar Tape Loop That Went 'round And 'round And 'round. The Linn Machine Was Available To Us. Maybe It Would Have Taken Two Minutes To Program That In The Linn And It Took About Half An Hour To Do This. But A Linn Machine Doesn't Feel Like That! So We Had An Analog Groove. We Took That Tape Transferred It Onto Another 24-Track For Six Minutes And David Paich And I Went Out In The Studio. The Song Started And I Was Sitting There With A Complete Drumset And Paich Was Playing. When He Got To The Fill Before The Chorus I Started Playing The Chorus And When The Verse Or The Intro Came Back I Stopped Playing. Then We Had Piano And Drums On Tape. You Have To Realize That There Are Some Odd Bars In "Africa" So When You Have A One-Bar Loop Going All Of A Sudden Sometimes Lenny's Figure Would Turn Around. So Lenny Went In And Played The Song Again But This Time He Changed His Pattern A Little For The Turn-Arounds For The Fills For The Bridge For The Solo. We Kept The Original Part And The New One. Then We Had To Do Bongos Jingle Sticks And Big Shakers Doing Quarter Notes Maybe Stacking Two Tracks Of Sleigh Bells Two Tracks Of Big Jingle Sticks And Two Tracks Of Tambourine All Down To One Track. I Was Trying To Get The Sounds I Would Hear Milt Holland Or Emil Richards Have Or The Sounds I Would Hear In A "National Geographic" Special Or The Ones I Heard At The New York World's Fair. -- "Modern Drummer" November 1988 Since "Africa" Was Released In 1982 It Has Been Played On Every Single Tour.

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