I have been preaching this for years. People like to rag on Toto...why.? Because of the name? They were\are all TOP notch studio musicians who decided to form a band. They have won multiple Grammy awards. They have a bunch of great songs....and of course played all the instruments on Thriller. Human Nature is a Toto song. I haven’t even watched this video yet but I’m so happy the good Professor is finally telling the world this. Thank you sir. Much appreciated
Toto are awesome, it’s just a pity they changed styles so much. I love bobby Kimball voice in the studio, but he could not sing at all live. One of the worst singers live, whether it was too much alcohol and coke, or just singing impossibly high notes that required 50 takes, I’m not sure,
I love “Human Nature” so much. The songs on Thriller will never get old. Michael’s music just appeals to all people of color, ages, gender, religion, culture, and background.
Andreas Thorsen But MJ sang it so perfectly. No one could sing it perfectly but him. He delivered it so smoothly and effortlessly. He sang it with so much heart and soul. His voice’s as smooth as silk, soothing, and calming.
I LUV LUV LUV ‘Human Nature’ so much. It’s my favorite track off of ‘Thriller’. With Toto on all the instruments 🎻, it could’ve very well been a Toto song! I LUV Toto! This was so great interview! Wish it was longer tho! 🙂
I actually really liked The Girl Is Mine. It came out when I was young and even at that point I remember the guitar sound on that song being really cool. Steve L and Toto are legends.
everytime i hear those rare MJ stories it almost feels like hitting the jackpot ... those stories are soooo rare, i could listen to them all day long .. way too few stories available if you consider that MJ probably worked with almost anybody in the record industry ... too bad we probably never will see him really working in the studio and recording his hit songs ....
I knew that Toto wrote/produced "Human Nature". Did not know that they had their hands on 5 tracks from "Thriller". Professor, thank you posting this. I am loving your channel.
@@richardkovacs2006 Yes but they don't get enough credits and appreciation, they were much more involved and should have been getting more credits (arrangements and contributing to the songwriting). So maybe Jackson and Jones were a bit greedy. But that doesn't mean that this only happened to Toto. It was more or less a culture in which musician's attributions were not measured in the way they should have been and musician's also should have been better business men.
So awesome that you got to do this!!!! Generations must know of their work. Lukather is my absolute favorite musician of all time. I appreciate all of Paich’s contributions to music as well. Can’t wait to see more!
This is awesome! I absolutely love Toto and I used to have the Thriller album on vinyl back in the 80s! Amazing album no doubt. Hard to choose a favorite but I really like “ Baby Be Mine” and “ The Lady in My Life”
Love those two guys. And love that we are hearing their stories. So much music history they have to share. Same for Carol Kaye, bass/guitar player for the wrecking crew. Steve tells a story of how at a party Jimmy Page and he bonded because they were both session musicians.
Tubes-“Talk to ya later” is my favorite Lukather guitar song. I always thought it sounded killer and when I found out it was him I was like ..”of course!” Jeff Porcaro was all over the place too ... even Pink Floyd’s song “Mother”. Nick Mason had trouble with the odd time signature and Jeff got the call. Those TOTO guys were pretty much the 80’s version of the Wrecking Crew.
I also can't understand. In Finland Toto is still huge with countless of fans. The guys of Toto (including Jeff, Mikey etc.) were and are absolutely great personalities; not big-headed, strangely humble despite being incredibly enormous talents, they cherish their fans, respect other musicians... There are still some critics who just can't let go. I once even read about one Finnish critic writing something like if your daughter's boyfriend listens to Toto, you should get rid of him... I love Toto, I've loved them from the end of the 1970s and I still do. So do more people than we probably even can imagine. 💖
I watched a video the other day with Susanna Hoffs and John Taylor on video chat. And Susanna was talking about how she acquired the song, Manic Monday from Prince. Although I am old enough to remember the day all of these 80s greats reached radio status, I was today's day old learning that the 80s music industry was a huge team effort. I absolutely love that we got that amazing decade of music by most if not ALL of the musicians that were helping out others along the way. They all were a gift! I will forever cherish that decade!
That was a great conversation. JT is really gifted as an interviewer-I loved the questions he asked. It was cool to hear actual artists talk about things that are important to them. Gives us a little window into that creative world.
Hola Professor, ante todo muchas GRACIAS por tu tarea de divulgación y rescate de grandes artistas y canciones. No sé si te lo contaron en esta entrevista, pero Lukather ha comentado en alguna ocasión que en esa jam session previa a grabar TGIM, tocaron una versión improvisada de «I was made for loving you» de Kiss, con McCartney y Jackson alternándose en las voces. Según los presentes, esa versión fue espectacular, y está grabada. ¿¿Quién tendrá ese registro?? Fuerte abrazo desde Argentina! Rodrigo.
This is unbelievable. I missed this video, hence I've kinda underestimated the brilliance of this channel and it's content creator. Next time, I'll do my homework before I start blabbing. All apologies.
Even great players like Luke and Paich get starstruck! Obviously the Beatles were the reason Lukather wanted to be a musician and probably the rest of Toto felt that way! Great session great song and album! Quincy Jones production always quality! David foster and Dean parks were on the track also on synths and guitar respectively!
3 Chords and the truth. 6 LPs and a T-shirt: 1 - The Smiths "Hatful of Hollow" 1984 2 - Return of the Jedi OST 1983 3 - Marvin Gaye "I Want You" 1976 4 - Is that Barbara Steisand? Can't tell 5 - Toto "Isolation" 1984 6 - Adam is wearing a Brian Wilson 2019 Tour shirt. GGGWY!
I'm so sad that I currently live very far away from ever seeing Toto live and now that they *WERE* a band, I'll never get to see the greatest band and studio cats of all time. I've also read somewhere that The Girl Is Mine session was an enjoyable and very crazy one. All musicians were present to cut the track and some came to visit them (if I remember correctly).
Toto were Boz Scaggs backing band , so they were used to playing second fiddle. How about Roseanna Arquette who had both Toto frontman & Peter Gabriel ✍ songs about her.
I wish I could get a firm date/dates for when EVH recorded the “Beat It” solo and when Luke, Porcaro and Paul Jackson Jr. tracked their parts? It’s just a nebulous time between April 14, 1982 and November 8, 1982.
I have and on Michaels platinum record award for the girl is mine. I also have one of his jackets from the victory tour. I almost feel like maybe I should give that award to one of the members of Toto. Just for something cool to have in their own studio or something. I wish you could post pictures on TH-cam, so you guys could see it. I may post a video and put a link in this comment. It’s just odd to be able to walkPast these two items every day and realize what a piece of history they actually are and that they are in my possession. They are a Main stay in my own recording studio. I also have the platinum award for wham make it big that was given to one of the producers, I believe. It’s the only piece of Wham! major memorabilia I’ve ever seen come to the market. I wish I could get something of George’s.
Lukather had a hilarious line in another interview where he said 'I didn't see anything weird with Michael...okay, maybe it was a little strange that he was carrying Webster around with them everywhere"
Why no rock and roll hall of fame ? And by the way just found your channel good stuff an d you really know your stuff I’m probably 10 years late to this that’s how I roll
Record sales use to be so huge. Do record sales just suck now? I would have thought with the internet there would be no way an album from the 80's would still be the biggest seller of all time.
Millenials and Zoomers don´t buy physical media anymore,they mostly stream. (Hell,they don´t even pirate music via torrents anymore,because they´re too dumb/lazy to do it.) They just get a Spotify subscription with their mommy´s credit card and stream entire back catalogues for literall pennies.And Spotify and the other music streaming platforms pay the artists practically nothing. Musicians are getting screwed even worse than back in the day. That´s why Taylor Swift was so up in arms about the whole streaming revenue thing.(not that she needs any money,coming from a wealthy family who practically bought her music career,but I degress...) The funny thing is,when Millenials & Zoomers do buy a physical copy of a music album these days,they mostly buy a classic 60s/ 70s/80s album like "Thriller" or something in that category.
Hello there !! Just subscribed ,greetings from Los Angeles California, have you done anything on how Clapton met bob Marley ? Or how he ended up putting “ I shot the sheriff “ on the map ? And opened the doors for the wailers ? Btw there’s many ppl who think Clapton wrote the song instead of Marley ..
Dog Gone Brilliant !!!
I think it’s spelled doggone. I would like to have seen their faces that day! Lol
Ha!!!!! I see what you did there. Hilarious.
I have been preaching this for years. People like to rag on Toto...why.? Because of the name? They were\are all TOP notch studio musicians who decided to form a band. They have won multiple Grammy awards. They have a bunch of great songs....and of course played all the instruments on Thriller. Human Nature is a Toto song. I haven’t even watched this video yet but I’m so happy the good Professor is finally telling the world this. Thank you sir. Much appreciated
Whomever rags on Toto has just outed themselves as a fool - with a tin ear...
They didn’t play all the instruments but they did do most of them.
@ShadowAngel Hey - wait - sounds like you have a new complaint...
Toto are awesome, it’s just a pity they changed styles so much. I love bobby Kimball voice in the studio, but he could not sing at all live. One of the worst singers live, whether it was too much alcohol and coke, or just singing impossibly high notes that required 50 takes, I’m not sure,
@@andrewreed1329 When Jeff passed part of the band did too. He was the leader and in my opinion the best drummer ever.
I love “Human Nature” so much. The songs on Thriller will never get old. Michael’s music just appeals to all people of color, ages, gender, religion, culture, and background.
Human Nature is actually Steve Porcaro's song. It became a MJ song by pure coincidence
Andreas Thorsen But MJ sang it so perfectly. No one could sing it perfectly but him. He delivered it so smoothly and effortlessly. He sang it with so much heart and soul. His voice’s as smooth as silk, soothing, and calming.
"Human nature" is a gem. Don't put your ideological trash in it.
Andreas Thorsen but the funk Guitar 🎸 it wasn’t written by Steve Porcaro
It makes me cry
I LUV LUV LUV ‘Human Nature’ so much. It’s my favorite track off of ‘Thriller’. With Toto on all the instruments 🎻, it could’ve very well been a Toto song! I LUV Toto! This was so great interview! Wish it was longer tho! 🙂
Toto
Incredibly talented and under appreciated
Toto is brilliant
Toto is one of the greatest bands of all time.
I actually really liked The Girl Is Mine. It came out when I was young and even at that point I remember the guitar sound on that song being really cool. Steve L and Toto are legends.
By far the best band in history! Love them
👍
most talented for sure...
@@Joesfosterdogs I would say the same, the most talented.
@AUTHORITY OF NEW HEAVEN God ́s Wisdom! You ok pal? These guys all had wives and children and were devoted to their families.
you mean Rush?
everytime i hear those rare MJ stories it almost feels like hitting the jackpot ... those stories are soooo rare, i could listen to them all day long .. way too few stories available if you consider that MJ probably worked with almost anybody in the record industry ... too bad we probably never will see him really working in the studio and recording his hit songs ....
th-cam.com/video/fpMrB0hpbFM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TheMJQuotes
lot of archive for invincible
I knew that Toto wrote/produced "Human Nature". Did not know that they had their hands on 5 tracks from "Thriller". Professor, thank you posting this. I am loving your channel.
If you include Greg Phillinganes in Toto, in which he was a member a short period before the break in 2008ish, they’re on every track.
I don't mean to be rude, but album credits are open data...
@@richardkovacs2006 Yes but they don't get enough credits and appreciation, they were much more involved and should have been getting more credits (arrangements and contributing to the songwriting). So maybe Jackson and Jones were a bit greedy. But that doesn't mean that this only happened to Toto. It was more or less a culture in which musician's attributions were not measured in the way they should have been and musician's also should have been better business men.
Pop music...what has become of you? Love this little documentary here. Incredible musicianship, real instruments on a pop record...I miss that!
So awesome that you got to do this!!!! Generations must know of their work. Lukather is my absolute favorite musician of all time. I appreciate all of Paich’s contributions to music as well. Can’t wait to see more!
Maybe some day Toto will get there due. These guys played on more records than I can count.
This is awesome! I absolutely love Toto and I used to have the Thriller album on vinyl back in the 80s! Amazing album no doubt. Hard to choose a favorite but I really like “ Baby Be Mine” and “ The Lady in My Life”
There is a reason why 99 is one of my favorite songs ever...
There is a reason I like bacon ... It's fucking bacon ... o.O
We need the tape of that jam session. The little tease we got of Michael singing Superstition was nuts!
This, so much this!
Love those two guys. And love that we are hearing their stories. So much music history they have to share.
Same for Carol Kaye, bass/guitar player for the wrecking crew.
Steve tells a story of how at a party Jimmy Page and he bonded because they were both session musicians.
The girl is mine🎶😜. No auto tune no swearing. Cool😎 stuff💯.
I always wondered why their catalog sold better in Europe and Asia than the US. The most musical talent in one group ever.
Love Toto, love the interview! Keep them coming.
Tubes-“Talk to ya later” is my favorite Lukather guitar song. I always thought it sounded killer and when I found out it was him I was like ..”of course!”
Jeff Porcaro was all over the place too ... even Pink Floyd’s song “Mother”. Nick Mason had trouble with the odd time signature and Jeff got the call. Those TOTO guys were pretty much the 80’s version of the Wrecking Crew.
Only better.
My heroes: Toto! Please more of them!
Still not in the rock and roll hall of fame... seems like they are ignoring them on purpose
And Jann Wenner is to blame.
I also can't understand. In Finland Toto is still huge with countless of fans. The guys of Toto (including Jeff, Mikey etc.) were and are absolutely great personalities; not big-headed, strangely humble despite being incredibly enormous talents, they cherish their fans, respect other musicians... There are still some critics who just can't let go. I once even read about one Finnish critic writing something like if your daughter's boyfriend listens to Toto, you should get rid of him... I love Toto, I've loved them from the end of the 1970s and I still do. So do more people than we probably even can imagine. 💖
Yet they have Abba and Bee Gees in there
@@klaseronen7535 yes! They need to be induced asap
There are lots more, Human Nature by Steve Porcaro, Beat It, The Lady In My Life, etc.
Please more videos with Toto and Michael Jackson!
Can you imagine? What an experience.
I watched a video the other day with Susanna Hoffs and John Taylor on video chat. And Susanna was talking about how she acquired the song, Manic Monday from Prince. Although I am old enough to remember the day all of these 80s greats reached radio status, I was today's day old learning that the 80s music industry was a huge team effort. I absolutely love that we got that amazing decade of music by most if not ALL of the musicians that were helping out others along the way. They all were a gift! I will forever cherish that decade!
That was a great conversation. JT is really gifted as an interviewer-I loved the questions he asked. It was cool to hear actual artists talk about things that are important to them. Gives us a little window into that creative world.
With all the myths being busted that bands were friends it great to see these two. Well done professor 👌
imagine recording in the same room with paul mcartney george martin and mj
Hola Professor, ante todo muchas GRACIAS por tu tarea de divulgación y rescate de grandes artistas y canciones. No sé si te lo contaron en esta entrevista, pero Lukather ha comentado en alguna ocasión que en esa jam session previa a grabar TGIM, tocaron una versión improvisada de «I was made for loving you» de Kiss, con McCartney y Jackson alternándose en las voces. Según los presentes, esa versión fue espectacular, y está grabada. ¿¿Quién tendrá ese registro?? Fuerte abrazo desde Argentina! Rodrigo.
Best album in history
These two are so crazy gifted. So much good music👍😁❤️
These 2 guys r genius in every word.
The only band who have set a benchmark from Pop - to - Fusion is none other than TOTO
This is unbelievable. I missed this video, hence I've kinda underestimated the brilliance of this channel and it's content creator. Next time, I'll do my homework before I start blabbing. All apologies.
The cinematography is incredible.
That was some fascinating information you extracted from them!
Totos best stuff was in the 80s ! What a talented band ! Great Job PROFESSOR 👨🏻🏫
Did you catch their 90s stuff Wayland?
Their last studio album TOTO XIV which was released a few years ago was one of their best!
Rod Temperton!
This video should have well over a million views. I'd freaking love to hear those session tapes!!!
Binge watching this channel! ♥️
Even great players like Luke and Paich get starstruck! Obviously the Beatles were the reason Lukather wanted to be a musician and probably the rest of Toto felt that way! Great session great song and album! Quincy Jones production always quality! David foster and Dean parks were on the track also on synths and guitar respectively!
Steve is cool and funny as hell...
I would love to sit down with Adam to talk to him about talking with the greatest musicians of his/my time. I mean, how freaking cool!?
You Supposed to be Principal of Rock not Professor of Rock. Thanks Brother You are Sea of Knowledge, Greetings from India 🙏
More please! Too short! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember your Toto/Hall of Fame video, but after this....I had no idea. Only one Michael Jackson song on my phone and it's Human Nature.
This is so awesome, can't wait to see more from this
Absolutely love Toto! Sorry Jeff Porcaro is gone... he was amazing and a good interview.
OMG 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 THANK YOU!!! For doing little documentaries of music history!!! So important to pass it to future Generations!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Love your Channel
The Smiths record on the background 👍👍👍 i already like this guy👌
So many name drops! So cool.
3 Chords and the truth.
6 LPs and a T-shirt:
1 - The Smiths "Hatful of Hollow" 1984
2 - Return of the Jedi OST 1983
3 - Marvin Gaye "I Want You" 1976
4 - Is that Barbara Steisand? Can't tell
5 - Toto "Isolation" 1984
6 -
Adam is wearing a Brian Wilson 2019 Tour shirt.
GGGWY!
Love the girl is mine
I'm so sad that I currently live very far away from ever seeing Toto live and now that they *WERE* a band, I'll never get to see the greatest band and studio cats of all time.
I've also read somewhere that The Girl Is Mine session was an enjoyable and very crazy one. All musicians were present to cut the track and some came to visit them (if I remember correctly).
There's plenty of live footage on TH-cam for over the decades. 1990 in Paris is PERFECTION though.
@@cathybedwell1877 I know, but seeing them live would be a really beautiful experience, don't you think?
@@tonylancer7367 Yes. I saw them in Sydney last year, so I can attest to that.
Love this! I had no idea! Love Toto or in the wizard of oz... dog/god!! Brilliant!
Fantastic. What a great story to hear.
Amazing studio musicians!!!
Toto deserves to be more known
Thanks for the interview. Can´t wait for the others! :)
Toto were Boz Scaggs backing band , so they were used to playing second fiddle. How about Roseanna Arquette who had both Toto frontman & Peter Gabriel ✍ songs about her.
She dated Steve, toto's 2nd keyboardist and rosanna isn't about her, paitch mostly just liked the name.
A we need as studio cording's and camera from these sessions somebody needs to get those and put out a documentary
I wish I could get a firm date/dates for when EVH recorded the “Beat It” solo and when Luke, Porcaro and Paul Jackson Jr. tracked their parts? It’s just a nebulous time between April 14, 1982 and November 8, 1982.
Michael, McCartney and Martin!?!?! My head would have exploded by the mere mention of those names with mine!!!
This was short but great presentation..
Many thanks ❤️
Love your documentaries. Keep them coming! 👍🏼
The first thing ive noticed is your tshirt sir. Awsome.
Also, there is a video on TH-cam of Toto performing Human Nature live. Check it out!
Fantastic, Professor! Great interview and assessment.
Hi,
Think you so much for your video
👍👍👍
Please do the Beat It sessions... Omg. wow.
need to interview eddie for that one!
Would've loved to be there for that session. How awesome
I have and on Michaels platinum record award for the girl is mine. I also have one of his jackets from the victory tour. I almost feel like maybe I should give that award to one of the members of Toto. Just for something cool to have in their own studio or something. I wish you could post pictures on TH-cam, so you guys could see it. I may post a video and put a link in this comment. It’s just odd to be able to walkPast these two items every day and realize what a piece of history they actually are and that they are in my possession. They are a Main stay in my own recording studio. I also have the platinum award for wham make it big that was given to one of the producers, I believe. It’s the only piece of Wham! major memorabilia I’ve ever seen come to the market. I wish I could get something of George’s.
I guess the rains down in Africa!
What a tease!! Give me more!!
Yeah !! It's Awesome TOTO 👍👍
This is effing awesome! Thanks!
That's cool. Well done!!!
"The Girl Is Mine" and "Morning" by Al Jarreau are essentially the same song LOL!!!
Originally Michael thought he'd be working with his brother Tito, but he settled for Toto: th-cam.com/video/aqfbDrIOm0g/w-d-xo.html
Lukather had a hilarious line in another interview where he said 'I didn't see anything weird with Michael...okay, maybe it was a little strange that he was carrying Webster around with them everywhere"
That thick old dictionary?
@@Riazor1370 No, I mean the actor Emmanuel Lewis who played the character Webster. Michael was carrying him around at the sessions.
@@Riazor1370 🤣🤣🤣
Luke looks amazing
Why no rock and roll hall of fame ? And by the way just found your channel good stuff an d you really know your stuff I’m probably 10 years late to this that’s how I roll
Fantastic !!!
I am thumbs up #99...Wait, that's a title of a TOTO song!
Record sales use to be so huge. Do record sales just suck now? I would have thought with the internet there would be no way an album from the 80's would still be the biggest seller of all time.
Millenials and Zoomers don´t buy physical media anymore,they mostly stream.
(Hell,they don´t even pirate music via torrents anymore,because they´re too dumb/lazy to do it.)
They just get a Spotify subscription with their mommy´s credit card and stream entire back catalogues for literall pennies.And Spotify and the other music streaming platforms pay the artists practically nothing. Musicians are getting screwed even worse than back in the day. That´s why Taylor Swift was so up in arms about the whole streaming revenue thing.(not that she needs any money,coming from a wealthy family who practically bought her music career,but I degress...)
The funny thing is,when Millenials & Zoomers do buy a physical copy of a music album these days,they mostly buy a classic 60s/ 70s/80s album like "Thriller" or something in that category.
That picture at 4:16. WOW.
Is that a Zanotta "Sella" stool? Wow that would be a masterpiece.
AWESOME
So amazing I wish I could watch the rest but I’m probably not going to be able to buy premium
Beautiful!!!🤘🙏
LUK!!! Enough Said! 🎸😎
I've been Saying this all along, TOTO is responsible for the Success of the Thriller Album.
Hello there !! Just subscribed ,greetings from Los Angeles California, have you done anything on how Clapton met bob Marley ? Or how he ended up putting “ I shot the sheriff “ on the map ? And opened the doors for the wailers ? Btw there’s many ppl who think Clapton wrote the song instead of Marley ..
cool video...need the full length !
Need morrrrrrrrre
Toto 💙🇧🇷
Damn those guys are good!
Why are they not in the R&R Hall of Fame or Peter Frampton also