"MINDFIELDS"
The studio-album which was Bobby Kimballs come-back with Toto. Released in Europe in february 1999. The album features vocals by Steve
Lukather and Bobby Kimball. Joseph Williams did some backing vocals on the new album and Steve Porcaro joined the band for some keyboard parts..
Bobby Kimball answered this, when asked to explain the unusual title:
"I would imagine it to be little explosive points in the chain of
memory, and deviations from the "normal"." The title finds its roots in the design of the => album cover,
since the work title was 'Minefields and miracles'.
Tracklist:
1. After you've gone [Lead vocal: Steve Lukather]
2. Mysterious ways [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
3. Mindfields [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
4. High price of hate [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
5. Selfish [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
6. No love [Lead vocal: Steve Lukather]
7. Caught in the balance [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
8. Last love [Lead vocal: Steve Lukather]
9. => Mad about you [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
10. One road [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
11. Melanie [Lead vocal: Steve Lukather]
12. Cruel [Lead vocal: Bobby Kimball]
13. Better world [Lead vocal: Steve Lukather]
14. Spanish steps (bonus track on Japanese and USversion) [Lead vocal: David Paich]
In an interview with Guitar Player (June 2000), Steve Lukather talks about the sound of this album:
"For 'Cruel,' I tuned down to C# with .010s on my guitar," he explains. "The light string gauge made me bend way too far, but everyone
liked how the lead break sounded, so we kept it. For that track, I used a Music Man with DiMarzio single-coils for a cool, clicky top end,
and the subwoofer cabinet on my Rivera Bonehead added a real thump to the lows."
Mindfields also displays a stripped-down sonic approach. "I really don't use that many effects anymore,' says Lukather. "A little delay is about
all I'm guilty of The Leslie sound on the 'Last Love' solo was actually achieved by double-tracking the lead lines and playing with the tape-speed
control on the multitrack. And the backwards-sounding guitars on 'After You've Gone' were recorded with a technique I learned from Jeff Beck.
I hammer with my left hand, while hitting the bridge with my right. It gives parts the illusion of being played backwards because the bends don't
sound humanly possible."
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