Well I can tell lighting was minimal, they were going for that sleek sting bring on the night jazz era. I see seventies sesame street horn section. I know they had master musicians, i mean MASTERS, youd think theyd use better quality video. I can tell the room was hot. They used in house audio with a mix, for depth. I could only imagine how many tracks there were. I bet this took forever. Great video
Scotty Page doing his best Larry Williams impersonation..........I suppose. It’s always awesome to see Luke and Jeff playing. No matter who they’re with.
How laid back is Jeff on the ballad?!!!! Proof that sometimes, it's what you DON'T play that speaks the loudest! Why did he have to leave so soon?!!!! 🤕😭😭😭😭
Push Back The Walls was my first expérience as an artist graphist in live music video with my friend Scott Page And spécial guests. This unique performance from 1985 has been presented Saturday May 9th 1987 inside the guitar shop Guitar Center Hollywood on Sunset boulevard just in front of the fameuse memorial of the Rockwalk created two years earlier. It was also, in May 9th 1985, there, my first and Last exibition of my originals presented in Northern America. This exibition and this revolutionnary live video were combined with the start of two company : Advanced Visual Communications and Visual Sound . I am very proud to have start my career overseas with such stars or underground figures as the team of Scott Page and friends.
OMG! Can't even believe I found this! Jeff and Luke together doin studio work, I'm guess a few yrs before Toto took off. Plus Lenny on perc (the best ever!) Sure miss that Porcaro/Lenny Castro combo as it was like magic! And then 1/2 way thru the 1st song ol Luke just takes off (takes over the show!! lol) and just starts blazing like he does today and he was what 20?? No info here as to when this was. Jeffrey RIP looked so young too! So far TOTO's newest drummer Shannon DeForest is the only drummer that sounds even close to Jeff; style wise and doin a great job! Hard to find drummers that can groove and funk everything up like Jeff! 1 in a zillion! (Thank God they had Simon Phillips all these yrs!) Toto's still and always be my fav band EVER! Just checkin out Luke's kid Trev's new video! Anyways, a RARE and golden find here!
The session happened after "Isolation period" or in some break of that tour, think this is '86. Scott performed with Toto, while late Fergie was lead vox.
1985, probably summer or fall, after the Isolation tour. Touted as Scotty Page's solo album at the time, if I remember correctly, though I never think it saw the light of day (in fact I do wonder if this video was ever given an official release).
Enhanced by the philanthropic energy of Scott Page and his famille and his friends, all mentioned in the cast at the end of this unbelievable video adventure, I had been starting à New life with some californian outputs in my career. I owe them so much time, means and attentions. Thank you Mr Page and congratulations !
Scott is a stand-up sorta dude. Many phone conversations with him during the days of Toto Network. He's truly one of the nicest guys in the biz. MONSTER player!
Haha!! It 's probably the same thing he does at 0:32 in this video: th-cam.com/video/IJBdi6i20n0/w-d-xo.html It was probably a joke he used to do. I always wondered what happened in that video I linked to, and now I think I know :)
Cool to see this! I’m just curious; what was this for? Was this just them jamming or was it for something? And that groove Jeff’s playing at 17:17 kind of reminds me of Mushanga a little bit.
This was a demo project produced by Scotty Page. It's purpose was to immerse live to 2-track sound to live video. We used several techniques including mounting a Sennheiser binaural head onto an Ikegami camera on a Luma Crane. This gave you a live in your face sound while the rig zommed in. There was a Push Back The Walls II @ The Guitar Center in Hollywood, but no one wanted to cover the production cost. So the tapes remained with the video company. As it turned out that performance turned out as an audition for Scotty Page for Pink Floyd. David Gilmour was invited and showed up for the second performance. He was very impressed and hired Scotty Page to play sax on the '87 tour.
I was with Scott on the Supertramp 85-86 tour when he was putting this together. Holiday was always a fav and I'm doing a new version!!! I teach at Berklee in Boston, my LA studio ensemble is going to try to replicate this in about a month. Stay tuned.
Boomers and millenials are gonna fight over this. Keith, you might have to disable the comment section so that the video is enjoyed better than ranting. 😂
Haha! Great players of course. Jeff Porcaro and Lenny Castro are grooving like hell! That said, this is a good reminder that everything wasn't better in the past. I mean, the synths are just terrible, and Luke's playing and sounds are just.. well let's say typical of the 80s extravaganza. I mean, there is music that is made with these sounds in mind. But, when it spills over into everything they are playing it's just ridiculous. It does not matter whether they are performing a blues song, a classic or some Latin inspired music. It's all drenched in ludicrous synthesizer sounds and guitar effects.
Hahaha I agree with you. but being a 00's kid, I can't but love the sound of these 80's synths, as they are just sooo reminiscend of the vibe I get from the 80's. Man, I love these vibes
tone is a taste thing partner...that said, i dont think anyone here really cares about your personal taste. Most important part is that they are playing instruments and grooving...
Probus Excogitatoris, the 80's ... the taste was like that. I think that's why they chose these sounds. A lot seemed like plastic in this time. If you compare records like "Jarreau" and "High Crime" by Al Jarreau, there is a big difference in sound although only one year between them. The earlier one was quite natural (real rhodes, no DX7, nice strings, even natural ones) and the later has too much plastic and drum computers for my taste although the producer was the same (Jay Graydon). So I am with you about your taste, but in this time the musicians had a choice. Or may be the record companies forced them to use the "modern" stuff? May be the musicians were fascinated be new possibilities and applied them a bit too much? Even fusion-acts like Miles Davis, Weather Report, Steps Ahead or David Sanborn had these kind of sounds. Manhood develops, but not always forward. On the other side I love Michael Brecker with the EWI. ;) Also Toto walked this way in a certain period. For example on "Isolation" some drum-sounds seem quite unnatural to me. May be influenced by the Phil-Collins-thing, which was quite dominating in this time. I prefer drum-sounds on "Toto IV". Crazy eighties, funny times. Just regard the haircuts or the outfits ... :D
Ok, we get it. Maybe you don’t like this, but you don’t have to say stuff like this. You could’ve just said I’m not a big fan of this or something like that.
Im a huge Toto fan, but these songs are unfortunately garbage and very forgettable.. the only redeeming feature is Jeffs drumming. The guy on the sax needs to lay off the devils dandruff👍
Lol this idiot actually comes back over and over to watch this video and then add his own life-stealing worthless commentary. Glad you like the video so much bro. Keep watching.
Just wanted the cameraman to show more Jeff Porcaro.
Jeff Porcaro!
And Luke!
And Bob. And Lenny. And Bill P.
Its always, show More Jeff 😊❤️✌️
Wow I haven't seen or heard this in 30 years! (1985) I was a part of the crew. Thanks for posting this video. Great memories !!
mind sharing more about your experience here? this is great...
Agreed. Give us something man!
Well I can tell lighting was minimal, they were going for that sleek sting bring on the night jazz era. I see seventies sesame street horn section. I know they had master musicians, i mean MASTERS, youd think theyd use better quality video. I can tell the room was hot. They used in house audio with a mix, for depth. I could only imagine how many tracks there were. I bet this took forever. Great video
Better to comment that rather than ranting against young generations. You are the hero!
Wish we could have seen more Jeff Porcaro....
THE 3 TOTO MUSICIANS ARE HAVING A VERY GOOD TIME, STEVE LUKATHER, LENY CASTRO AND JEFF PORCARO.
Scotty Page doing his best Larry Williams impersonation..........I suppose. It’s always awesome to see Luke and Jeff playing. No matter who they’re with.
How laid back is Jeff on the ballad?!!!! Proof that sometimes, it's what you DON'T play that speaks the loudest! Why did he have to leave so soon?!!!! 🤕😭😭😭😭
Push Back The Walls was my first expérience as an artist graphist in live music video with my friend Scott Page And spécial guests. This unique performance from 1985 has been presented Saturday May 9th 1987 inside the guitar shop Guitar Center Hollywood on Sunset boulevard just in front of the fameuse memorial of the Rockwalk created two years earlier. It was also, in May 9th 1985, there, my first and Last exibition of my originals presented in Northern America. This exibition and this revolutionnary live video were combined with the start of two company : Advanced Visual Communications and Visual Sound .
I am very proud to have start my career overseas with such stars or underground figures as the team of Scott Page and friends.
"Holidays" is a great tune. It's so much fun to see Jeff. amazing how relaxed he was...every move of him was a statement! He is so much missed!
is this heaven?
it is for a saxophone player!
Porcaro/Castro the Dream Team
I can't imagine today's so called pop stars doing something like this! This is so relaxed and yet so tight!
Are you in a mentally bullshit state to say that? 👎🏻😡
JEFF!!!!!!
Well this is real music so….. yeah
yeff porcaro genius on the drums
wow great... Jeff's rare video!
10:45 hahahahaha
Diz a lenda que Jeff fazia isso, quando pediam pra ele fazer algo com muitas notas. kkkkkk...
Que falta esse cara faz...
OMG! Can't even believe I found this! Jeff and Luke together doin studio work, I'm guess a few yrs before Toto took off. Plus Lenny on perc (the best ever!) Sure miss that Porcaro/Lenny Castro combo as it was like magic! And then 1/2 way thru the 1st song ol Luke just takes off (takes over the show!! lol) and just starts blazing like he does today and he was what 20?? No info here as to when this was. Jeffrey RIP looked so young too! So far TOTO's newest drummer Shannon DeForest is the only drummer that sounds even close to Jeff; style wise and doin a great job! Hard to find drummers that can groove and funk everything up like Jeff! 1 in a zillion! (Thank God they had Simon Phillips all these yrs!) Toto's still and always be my fav band EVER! Just checkin out Luke's kid Trev's new video! Anyways, a RARE and golden find here!
this is probably around the days toto had farenheit or seventh one out I guess... toto was doing pretty well by then ahahaha
The session happened after "Isolation period" or in some break of that tour, think this is '86. Scott performed with Toto, while late Fergie was lead vox.
1985, probably summer or fall, after the Isolation tour. Touted as Scotty Page's solo album at the time, if I remember correctly, though I never think it saw the light of day (in fact I do wonder if this video was ever given an official release).
It was 1985 :)
Luke got that guitar in 1984 6 years after Totos first album.
Enhanced by the philanthropic energy of Scott Page and his famille and his friends, all mentioned in the cast at the end of this unbelievable video adventure, I had been starting à New life with some californian outputs in my career. I owe them so much time, means and attentions.
Thank you Mr Page and congratulations !
Scott Page, genial.
Scotty Page is a badass! This is a legendary lineup...wow is all I got.
Scott is a stand-up sorta dude. Many phone conversations with him during the days of Toto Network. He's truly one of the nicest guys in the biz. MONSTER player!
It's cookin' for sure! Jeff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The most beautiful Valley art Steve had !
I love that song "Holiday", what a vibe !!!
Jeff...
Luke with his valley arts guitar! Also used on his starlicks video from the same year! Excellent!
And the king of groove and time machine is there. Awesome!
Young gifted and awesome!
Nothing in all the comments about the best keyboardist around, Bill Payne!
15:16 should be made into a gif. Such a great little cut by the editors!
10:45 would be a funny gif.
Picture quality is phenomenal!
Awesome, thanks.
WOW! Esto es puro oro! Hola desde Honduras.
This is phenomenal.
10:45, check that multiple-stick technique. LMAO :D :D
Haha!! It 's probably the same thing he does at 0:32 in this video: th-cam.com/video/IJBdi6i20n0/w-d-xo.html
It was probably a joke he used to do. I always wondered what happened in that video I linked to, and now I think I know :)
Signature shtick. LOL End of this B52s track that he played on as well. th-cam.com/video/uZsqnF3cc0M/w-d-xo.html
LUKE! (tone and playing is straight off his famous Star Licks VHS that was filmed around that time.)
PS: that is one saxy mullet...
VERY VERY COOL !!!!!
Thank you so much :)
steve 🔥🔥
Awesome! Thanks for sharing
WOW!!!!!! I love this, thanks for sharing, precious
Wow!
…unglaublich💪😎✌️🎶❤️
De lujo super músicos
Is this just a random super group or this an actual artist? It's incredible. lots of star power too.
I’m pretty sure this is one of the coolest most rad things I have seen in a while .
This video is brought to you by blow.
💀
All joking aside, Luke and Jeff are my heroes though 🔥
Scotty sounds like David sanborn! Not a bad thing!
13:25 Big Money Fill. There you have it.
Thanks! I came back to this video just to find that fill, and when I saw your comment, I had a feeling we were talking about the same fill! :)
That fill is so fun to play!
Cool to see this! I’m just curious; what was this for? Was this just them jamming or was it for something? And that groove Jeff’s playing at 17:17 kind of reminds me of Mushanga a little bit.
This was a demo project produced by Scotty Page. It's purpose was to immerse live to 2-track sound to live video. We used several techniques including mounting a Sennheiser binaural head onto an Ikegami camera on a Luma Crane. This gave you a live in your face sound while the rig zommed in. There was a Push Back The Walls II @ The Guitar Center in Hollywood, but no one wanted to cover the production cost. So the tapes remained with the video company. As it turned out that performance turned out as an audition for Scotty Page for Pink Floyd. David Gilmour was invited and showed up for the second performance. He was very impressed and hired Scotty Page to play sax on the '87 tour.
@@keithlewis9541 Wow. Thanks for the added back story.
so cheesy thats is good. specially with the master porcaro on drums.
this is amazing. what is it?
Three of the main guys from Toto and some of their closest friends jammin' for a video start-up company's portfolio.
Nice
I wish the sound had that 3d binaural sound in this video clip. Does anyone know if the original actually had some binaural qualities?
That is Steve Lucather isn’t it? In the dark?
Yes he is.
Yes Steve Lukather, and Jeff Porcaro on the drums.
this is so awesome haha, what to you call this kind of music?
Is that Loki on sax? Brutal song.
yep
Keith...lukather said in his book that people fought over ownership of the binaural head, and the fight was huge. Can you elaborate?
Q som do caralhooooo!
I thought I heard that sax tone before. He must’ve played lead sax melody on the Benny Hill theme song…
I was with Scott on the Supertramp 85-86 tour when he was putting this together. Holiday was always a fav and I'm doing a new version!!! I teach at Berklee in Boston, my LA studio ensemble is going to try to replicate this in about a month. Stay tuned.
Do you have any video of that now?
This is fucking rad ! Can some explain what is this ? Is it a jam session ?
Supposedly this was demo project that Scotty Page put together to test equipment or something like that. That’s all I really know.
Get your boogie on....
Boomers and millenials are gonna fight over this. Keith, you might have to disable the comment section so that the video is enjoyed better than ranting. 😂
A guilty pleasure for the Xers.
Was that Lenny Castro?
Jeff with two hand on hi hat???????LOL
He did it sometimes. He said if the music was to fast or if it fit the music better, he would use two hands.
what's the name of this show?
It’s called the Push Back The Walls sessions.
1985
The camera ma wild have to travel back in time
Apache done reggae style! Lol!
Not enough Scott Page!
I have total respect for Page's playing, but dang he's getting on my last nerve with that goofy acting prance!!
Also looks like someone had been passing around the mirror!
Amazing video. Too bad the metallic flanger like overall sound.
Lesson of the day: Lots of blow does not turn crap songs into good songs. Unfortunately.
You did said the truth. It still applies to today's standards, unfortunately.
The “worst” was definitively the haircuts 😉😉😂😂
All of these people are in jail now.
😂😂😂
Haha! Great players of course. Jeff Porcaro and Lenny Castro are grooving like hell! That said, this is a good reminder that everything wasn't better in the past. I mean, the synths are just terrible, and Luke's playing and sounds are just.. well let's say typical of the 80s extravaganza. I mean, there is music that is made with these sounds in mind. But, when it spills over into everything they are playing it's just ridiculous. It does not matter whether they are performing a blues song, a classic or some Latin inspired music. It's all drenched in ludicrous synthesizer sounds and guitar effects.
Hahaha I agree with you. but being a 00's kid, I can't but love the sound of these 80's synths, as they are just sooo reminiscend of the vibe I get from the 80's. Man, I love these vibes
tone is a taste thing partner...that said, i dont think anyone here really cares about your personal taste. Most important part is that they are playing instruments and grooving...
Probus Excogitatoris, the 80's ... the taste was like that. I think that's why they chose these sounds. A lot seemed like plastic in this time. If you compare records like "Jarreau" and "High Crime" by Al Jarreau, there is a big difference in sound although only one year between them. The earlier one was quite natural (real rhodes, no DX7, nice strings, even natural ones) and the later has too much plastic and drum computers for my taste although the producer was the same (Jay Graydon).
So I am with you about your taste, but in this time the musicians had a choice. Or may be the record companies forced them to use the "modern" stuff? May be the musicians were fascinated be new possibilities and applied them a bit too much? Even fusion-acts like Miles Davis, Weather Report, Steps Ahead or David Sanborn had these kind of sounds. Manhood develops, but not always forward. On the other side I love Michael Brecker with the EWI. ;)
Also Toto walked this way in a certain period. For example on "Isolation" some drum-sounds seem quite unnatural to me. May be influenced by the Phil-Collins-thing, which was quite dominating in this time. I prefer drum-sounds on "Toto IV". Crazy eighties, funny times. Just regard the haircuts or the outfits ... :D
@@funklover24 Very well, and intelligently said!!
@@scotabot7826 Thanks ;)
Thank god for cocaine
Sounds real funny hmmm. No idea w it is.
I agree! Cinematographic malpractice!!!
Bad music + enthusiasm + 80s fashion + 80s hair + a mountain of cocaine = this
Lmao! 😆
Ok, we get it. Maybe you don’t like this, but you don’t have to say stuff like this. You could’ve just said I’m not a big fan of this or something like that.
Or, although it would be a shock, he could've just left the video to go back to his playlist of estrogen-soaked acoustipop, mindless cRap and dubstep.
You might have mentioned "+ some decent talent"
Apache? Really? Wtf...
Im a huge Toto fan, but these songs are unfortunately garbage and very forgettable.. the only redeeming feature is Jeffs drumming. The guy on the sax needs to lay off the devils dandruff👍
Awful. Cheesy. Lame. Terrible.
Burn!
SAN YOU DO BETTER?
LETS SEE IT!!
Jay Careaga yes
Guy, I think you've watched this video more times than anyone else. You obviously love it.
Terrible.
Lol this idiot actually comes back over and over to watch this video and then add his own life-stealing worthless commentary. Glad you like the video so much bro. Keep watching.