"YOU GOT ME"
This song was originally a demo that David Paich wrote for Whitney Houston. Jeff Porcaro in a 1988 interview with Modern Drummer:
That track ["You got me"] was a demo that David wrote for Whitney Houston. We heard the song and said, "We should do this in Toto." The song felt great; it was all electronics, drum machine, and stuff, and we decided to add real drums, percussion, real horns, guitar, etc.
Because Paich keeps a 48-track studio up and running at his home, and because other members of the band have their own studios as well, demo versions of songs for the albums can get quite in depth. "Actually, 'You Got Me', which is the second cut on the new record ['The seventh one', DH], is basically the demo from my studio," Paich recalls. "That is for exeption of drums, guitar, and the horn parts that we added later. The rest of it is all Linn 9000 playing my sequenced parts. It's one of the few track that are sequenced because it was supposed to be the demo. But it turned out so well that [drummer] Jeff Porcaro said, 'Just let me overdub my drums on it'. My two 24-track machines act as big cassette players. I have them striped with time code, just in case we get the magic during the demo recording."
(From an interview with David Paich in "Keyboard", may 1988)
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