"SPANISH STEPS"
This song was a bonustrack on the Japanese version of => "Mindfields" and also released on the dutch cd-single of "Melanie". A very un-Toto-like song:
Spanish Steps... when I first sang that down low, people were looking at me like I was crazy. I'm a big fan of Mark Knopfler from => Dire Straits. I like his lyrics, I like that kind of singing. When I started singing down low I was inspired to write that song, I wrote the lyrics in one night. Very different approach for me but I really like it. I was in Rome, I wrote the lyrics in one night, and I put the music to it and it just came out like that. And it's one of my favorite songs that I've ever done. When the guys listened to that they said "Why don't you sing up higher, why do you sing so low?" I had a lot of different influences, I was in Neil Diamond's band. I like Neil Diamond, Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan. (David Paich, Toto99.com 2002)
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