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WATERS, ROGER

During the recording of Toto's "Kingdom of Desire", Roger Waters was in the same studio-complex working on "Amused to Death." Toto had the idea to let Waters participate on their album (maybe because they played some session with him in return ?), and have him do some sort of short speech in the middle part of "Jake to the Bone". Unfortunately both Toto and Waters never realised that idea...

Roger Waters commented on working with Jeff Porcaro in a Rockline interview:
Yeah. In fact he was, that was the very last piece of recording we did. As I mentioned before, we re-recorded, um, "It's A Miracle" and uh, it suddenly felt, it got, um, we reduced the tempo and made it much quieter. It's just a one piano, one synth and the voice, really, and um, we decided that it should have bass and drums in the middle and Jeff was working with Toto in the uh, in the studio down the hall, so we asked him to come in and do it and he did. Sad...