"TOTO XX"
Toto's been promising their fans a rarities record for years, but finally "Toto XX: 1977-1997" has been released.
David Paich: Well, our manager Mark Hartley thought it would be great to put out some of the old stuff, cuts that were left off records, 'cause in the old days there was only so many cuts that could be on a vinyl record, so we always had like 10, 11 to 12 cuts that never got on there, so we started going through the old phase and we started digging up things and digging up things, and finally we started finding a whole album full of that stuff instead of just like putting one or two or a few cuts on. And some of them had Bobby on them and they weren't too bad, you know. So to promote it we went to Europe and just put together - just as a promotional thing - for the one album. And all of a sudden this chemistry clicked and we just looked at each other and said: "Geez, we're stupid not to continue on with this."(quote from a Frank Achmann interview, 1999)
Toto went through twenty years of demo's and live performances and selected 13 tracks for "Toto XX". They didn't have to alter much to the demo's, most of them were completed. Bobby's vocals on "Tale of a man" were a bit modified, new background vocals for "Last night" were added and Steve Lukather recorded a new (guitar)solo.
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