Toto Live at the Agora Ballroom 1979 - No japanese voice over !
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- Maybe one of the best live gigs of young TOTO band !!
Steve was 21, Jeff was 25 ...
The energy of youth and already playing like gods !
Mix from Radio Edit ("Vladix123" for the sound)
and video 720p 60ips (from "boomer").
Sound and video had to be re-synchronized
(sound tape from Radio Edit went faster than video ...)
and a little remaster was made on the audio,
but no miracles, the sound was a little bit "washed" by years.
Venue: Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
Date: February 2, 1979
Recording audio: FM Broadcast
Setlist:
00:00 - 01 Intro
00:22 - 02 Girl Goodbye
06:43 - 03 Manuela Run
10:37 - 04 Tale Of A Man
14:24 - 05 Rockmaker
17:43 - 06 I'll Supply The Love
22:00 - 07 Hold The Line
29:50 - 08 Hey Little Girl
34:54 - 09 Georgy Porgy
40:05 - 10 All Us Boys
Bobby Kimball - Vocals
Steve Lukather - Guitar & Vocals
David Paich - Keyboards & Vocals
Steve Porcaro - Keyboards
David Hungate - Bass
Jeff Porcaro - Drums
Tom Kelly - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Lenny Castro - Percussion & Backing Vocals - เพลง
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Jeff Porcaro and David Hungate amazing rythmic section
I entirely agree with you. The combination of Jeff and David is like God.
no backing tracks, no ghost vocals, no lip synch, no sample loops, no midi, no click track back then, just 100% raw explosive energy talent from the beginnings of the best real deal live pop rock band around, hands down, Amen!
And the geniuses at rolling stone declared they were not good for music simply because they were so talented that other musicians hired them to play on all the other records. LOL but R.S. never was known for intelligence.
@@wolflover789 drummer Taylor Hawkins dies with the stereotypical blame on rock drummer drug abuse, just as fakestream media did to Jeff Porcoro, they blamed his death on cocaine abuse even when his widowed wife adamantly proclaimed that he did not use cocaine and that he died from accidental pesticide spray inhalation (anaphalaxis) while herbiciding his garden:
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@@wolflover789 Intelligence ? Lol, Rolling Stone Magazine gave the Boston bomber more respect than they ever gave to Toto. The band was smart to turn those fiends down on being put on the cover of their commie Magazine after winning those 6 Grammys in 1983.
@LvLeigh11 They didn't tour big in the states because after TOTO IV came out (1982) and after they won 6 Grammys in 1983 for that album , their popularity steadily declined in America for years. They didn't repeat big success with Isolation (plus Kimball was gone too) and even bringing Joe Williams after Fergie Fredericksen didn't save them , Steve Lukather a co-singer sang on the singles "I'll be over you" and Paich written "Without your love" despite Williams being the "new lead singer" so Fahrenheit and The Seventh one with Joe Williams singing "Pamela" and "Stop loving you" the latter song was a hit overseas but their popularity was still declining in America . You know what happened with Past to present-,1977-1990 and Byron so I won't start on that disaster drama . Their consistent popularity overseas is why they're still around, impossible to recapture in America once you slip in your prime .
@LvLeigh11
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I'll tell you back then no lead singer could come close to Bobby Kimball and the way he could hit those high notes was unbelievable and my favorite tune was I'll Supply the Love and still is..😎
Great song indeed!!
No one can sing like Bobby. I work on 2 Toto records. He did most of the vocals in one take.
@@midlifemotox 👍
@@squonk86 I worked on 2 Toto records,, Not "work". Duh,,, ,,, I was working with Luke,,, one of the best musicians I have ever encountered.Bobby and I came up in Louisiana,,,We both wisely left because of the toxic music scene locally. Bobby was always crazy, but other than Steve Parry, Billy Trudel, and a few others, no one could touch him. He is on a lot of records doing backgrounds and goast vocals, that no one knows about. Listening to that stuff still blows me away, and I was there.
Absolutely the best group of the very best and talented musicians ever !!!!!!!!
This BEGS to be released as a DVD.
Or better, BluRay
Yep. But it took thirty years just to get this.
Tale of a Man is a great song.
Tale Of A Man....switches effortlessly from rock,to cinema soundtrack ,to funk...... outrageous.....
My personal fave.
It has ALL.
THIS is the TOTO I saw and will always remember. The first tour was totally bad ass ! The guys were having a blast and just kicking ass ! Steve was putting on a show all by himself behind his keyboards. Remember it like yesterday. TOTO forever !
Any Toto fan who hasn't read "The Gospel According to Luke" by Steve Lukather, needs to do so ASAP. I've been a fan of Toto since the early 80's but that book made me appreciate them even more!!! He tells the story of how he got the very Les Paul he's playing on "Hold the Line" in this video.
I remember when my older cousin was old enough to go to concerts and I wasn't, he would always come back and tell me about the experience. He saw bands like The Scorpions, Accept, ZZ Top, etc.... but when he came back from seeing Toto, he said it was the best concert he'd ever seen! Even has an adolescent, I knew that comment, in the context of what he normally liked and listened to, was a huge testament to the guys in Toto!
24th Street Agora. Ahhh! The place had a huge fireplace in it with a sign in old english lettering "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action". It felt like a ski lodge in the middle of downtown. For a concert venue the ceilings were low but the sight lines were amazing. HUGE sound system, HUGE light system, HUGE arena size stage, 2 big bars, cheap beer. A large trapdoor in the lobby that hid a stairway that led downstairs to the other agora club called the Mistake, later the Pop Shop". 7 nights a week of great bands. A 24 track MCI recorder with a 26 input Audiotronics studio mixing board and all the latest outboard gear upstairs. The place also was hardwired to the WMMS radio station down the street for live broadcasts. Best of all, the parking lot exit-- go straight out across 24th street and you were on the Innerbelt freeway- hard for cops to pull anyone over. 1 block from a 23,000 student university - Cleveland State. The Agora was and is a world class bar/club and it caused other Cleveland concert bars to "step up" to compete at a really high level.
The original line up always be the best. Jeff's drum kit sounds amazing too.
This is the TOTO I know. These guys are hitting on all cylinders this night. The energy & joy is expressed on all their faces. They are on fire & they know it.
The best incarnation of this legendary band.
Ever.
The line 'We're getting older, and acting bolder' from All Us Boys were a prediction to the state of this band 43 years later..
It would be All Us Men now.
I mean, Holy Hell. This is just from another planet. The vocal range is unreal that Bobby is singing this hard live and hitting the notes like that. My face is numb. :) Example: 3:34. If most normal folks tried to hit those notes, their chords would snap.
I remember when i was able to sing that high then my balls dropped. Bobby The Beast had a such a range back then and had excellent control of it too.
@@jaggass LOL So true!
@@jaggass I don't know very much about singing but it's always been said that David wrote songs which were slightly above Bobby's range. However, I've heard a lot of singers with extremely high ranges like Fergie and Freddie Curcy, but IMHO, Bobby's high notes had a more rich body to it.
@@drumsport On Rosanna David had to switch keys for Bobby as it was too high for him to sing. The key change does work though.
@@jaggassActually David Paich wrote a portion of ROSANNA and he hit a "writers block" on where to take the song after Steve Lukathers part. Paich said it was Kimball who suggested to David, "Turn it into a duet" and that very completed the song, with Lukather and Kimball singing their registers in one song 🎵 by a wisely done key change. That's how everything came together. 😊
Kimball singing, hell yeah !!!
But Paich singing is great too, the whole vocal duties are perfection, so much harmonies.
And Jeff of course, rest in Peace you Legend.
Bobby Kimball in his prime!!!! So great...thanks for sharing this! Damn they were a good band back then!!!!
I've seen more than 30 Toto concerts since this great night in 1979. Sweden, Norway, Las Vegas multiple times, and Atlantic City. This is still my favorite for sound quality, a small club of maybe 1200 fans, and a brand new band of superstars.
12:02 wow... Those vocals are just unbelievable😳😃
Georgy Porgy the Best song 😍😏💘😌👂🏻👂🏻🎸🎵🎶!
This set slams so hard from front to back. Such energy! What i wouldn't give for a time machine.
37:35 Jeff Porcaro. I rest my case
JEFF, 💥💪
A few years later, the second guitarist of this live, co wrote " like a virgin ", and "true colors" !
Walk like an Egyptian....👽
@@jasfan8247 oh yesss
@@top-voice1674 Eternal flame....? Guessing
Georgy Porgy: OMGGGG!!!! Steve Lukather was so handsome!!!
What a surprise to see Tom Kelly again on guitar and backing vocals as a supporting musician!😮
Ich war 18, mein Gott was für eine geile Band. Nie gab es bessere!
Toto just killed that lazy crowd.
Kimball has to be one of the greatest singers of all time.
Too bad the media (RS) killed Toto and especially Kimball.
That band is one of the best of all time - songwriting, performing, composing...
Thank you for sharing this true gem.
And to Mr Beato who seems to be one of the few music journalists who actually both knows and loves music.
Other journalists seem more interested in the color of the pillow case, the angle of the shoes and the attitude towards West German tennis.
I agree 100% especially about the great Bobby Kimball 👍 The media is the enemy of the people no what profession people may be in.
i wonder if this concert is simply among the best concert of toto don't you ? i think yes !!
One the best concerts I've heard ,by any one.....
Terrific!! My brothers and I were there for both concerts that evening. Stood outside in 20-degree temperature for almost two hours. Forty-two years later and I still do not know how this was televised in Japan. Would love to have a copy of the concert without the Japanese commentary enhancer. The Manager in charge of booking, etc. of The Agora Ballroom was a huge, huge John Bonham fan, and he was a local drumming ace himself. After this concert, I did manage to get him to admit that Jeff was "one of the best".
“Both” concerts?? What was the other show?
@@tomulator Toto played both shows. 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm as I recall. They played most of the tunes on their debut album, and threw in those gems "Tale of a Man", "All Us Boys", and "Hey Little Girl".
Can you remember if this video is of the first or second show?
@@Ophidian14 Sorry, as I mentioned, I have no idea how it was being taped. Perhaps Sony had some of their ace recorders there since it was Toto's first tour. The Agora was the premier venue for launching new artists like Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny, and Foreigner, so this small club had perfect acoustics and sound systems.
Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!! They are the best！！！ Miss Jeff so much....best drummer EVER
God, how I fucking love this band, they did All Us Boys and Hydra hadn’t even come out yet (I’m guessing this performance was before Hydra came out in I think September of 79). I live on Long Island, and they did not play the greater NY area til 92 (Kingdom of Desire tour, just after Jeff’s passing, they played at either Roseland or Irving Plaza in 92, I forget which venue). How I wish to God they toured here much, much earlier, I idolized them, I still do, but the original lineup was by far my favorite
Mind blown from this talent. One of the greatest musical uploads on TH-cam, ever!
I do believe that is that 500,000 dollar plus guitar Steve L talks about on some of his interviews 20 years from this show. And Jeff Porcaro 25 here but had been a master for 9 years in the business already. So young wow I'd like to go back.
It would have to be the les paul gold top which is a 1957. The sunburst les paul is a 70s les paul deluxe with mini humbuckers which is only worth a couple of thousand.
It's not the '59 burst
I've seen TOTO once, November 2018 in Charleston SC and the remaining members at the time were Steve L and Steve P. Paich was still with the band but decided not to do the North American leg of the tour for health reasons. Joe Williams was the lead vocalist and of course Lenny was still behind the percussion. The first lineup in this video will always be my favorite. If you do the wiki on the members it reads like a who's who of the music industry. The accomplishments they have achieved is immense and will probably never be repeated. This video is gold!
I think this is the concert I watched more often than any other show. The energy is incredible.
Legendary concert,Toto at the top of his game!!
This is a collector’s edition video that I would keep. TOTO at their very best !
Les musiciens sont tous aussi bons les uns que les autres .....Période où le talent l'emportait sur le paraître et le bling bling
look at lenny go on percussion !
Ali G
High energy and explosive talent. It was just a matter of time before they became superstars.
Saw them a week or two later on this tour. Won't forget those high boots Jeff wore, Luke far louder in the mix than on record, Kimball belting lyrics, etc. White Sister was the best song of the night.
The outro groove Jeff plays on Georgy Poorgy sums up his greatness. Most drummer would’ve rode the Ride cymbal, where’s Jeff stays with the hi-hat. Jeff didn’t just play for the sake of playing, rather he made points
Wow love the original Toto
Thanks so much for sharing this voice-over free version 🙏🙏👍
What an amazing performance!!!
Trop bien !!!!!!!!!!!!! J’en ai des frissons !!!!! Quelle époque épique !!!! Merci pour ce super document !!!!!! 🌟💫🌈🚀😃
My goodness. This is remarkable. Only 27K views?
Wow, what a rare concert find! The best songs of Toto that I've liked, they have the raw energy of a college band on stage, reminds me of how popular they were at that time while I was a senior in high school, and later their IV album--the definitive melodic rock album of the 80's along with Chicago 16 and 17 I felt.
Amazing performance!
🎯 The best, Klaus!
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@@klausjakobsen74
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Incredible ! Thank you for sharing...
I liked the voice-over. Listened to it for several years and now I'm kinda lost without it. Kinda built up the anticipation.
this is pure gold!
They were just fantastic♥️ I even think they didn’t really need a second guitarist… so crowded stage )))
Tom Kelly was also a high pitch backing vocalist
Bobby esta en su mayor pico de voz , increíble . ya ha llovido desde entonces .
Fuckkin hell,,, Bobby is so good.
Wow!..never knew this video even existed!....thanks a million! :-)
TREMENDOUS! Thank you. Loved it ...
OH MY GOD
Thank You so much for this brother
Thank you so much for this!
Oh my god !
Kind of a dream this video..wawwwww..
Thank you!
These guys were amazing. Wish I was of age to have seen
Amazing superband
Powerful!
Wahoouuu, Ray, thanks for the post !
I really was a big fan of Toto since their first Album, My firt bike had a plate with "Jeff Porcaro" on it ! I saw them multiple times in France (my home country) but missed the last tour, one year before Jeff passed away, so sad ...
I play drums, and sing in many bands on this Channel : Rosegang (70's covers, I do drums and lead vocals), LDDP (drums), J&G (drums), L' Ecole du Crime (Drums) etc ...
My main job is Audio/Video directing, recording and editing ... So the sound of my gigs should be clean enough, I hope. Note that LDDP band is only about improvising live, a nice exercice we really like to do, even if we may play some crap stuff sometimes.
Have a nice day !
That was the Band. Thanx 4 upload.
Luke is smokin' and Bobby the best as always, great reminder how they all paid their dues to be where they are now. Thanks for putting this together and making it available online ! Love it.
I didn't know Luke played a Les Paul Deluxe so much. See Hold the Line and others.
You can def hear a little of the Boz Skaggynes in there after all the work they did with him on his hit album !!!
SALUDOS DESDE LIMA PERÚ
Great time in music, Eddie money came to this place only a month later and that is also on TH-cam
jeff viene ripreso dalle telecamere praticamente mai....... !!!!!!!
Those people in the crowd are dead, literally, there is nothing there. I would be screaming my head off.
Amazing...and really interesting to see that Steve L. did not play a major role in early years.
Huh??? Luke’s guitar is ALL OVER the early stuff…totally INTEGRAL to their sound/success!
Hey Little Girl needs an official release...
Toto's best peak specially bobby
Jeff with the concert tom Ludwigs … 😳
Toto with that extra guitar player they apparently kept in the basement …
Lenny Castro with way ahead of his time “woke” suspenders …
I too was wondering who was that extra touring guitarist? He surely held up well the rhythm guitar vamps on "HOLD THE LINE" while Steve Lukathur took lead on that infamous solo.
BCRadio
That’s Tom Kelley who went on to write many hits in the 80s including Like A Virgin, True Colors, Alone & Eternal Flame.
This is jam🔥
And they came out running as a Supergroup! Didn't make this concert, should have! I knew about it!
25:46 37:31
So nice to experience this without kamikaze pilots doing 6000 words per second.
Awesome!
If you watch the 1990 Paris concert, also available on this platform, you will be able to see how the band evolved beyond the tedious, loud rock band that can be seen here...
But this is the best version of Toto yep, in 1979 raw, not polished, hungry and new. In 1990 yes, better technology wise with Jean MIchel Byron who bombed and less than 5 years before him was, Joe Williams and Fergie Fredericksen . It wasn't the same TOTO after Kimball left in 1983-84 so any comparisons are pointless.
Tedious? Bore off!!
🎉 i prefer the gritty TO TO, BY FAR!
Jeff porcaro and david hungate 💥💪
Tom Kelly, the founder one, i havent heard notjhing about him, since this tour.
Wikipedias says about him : Kelly became a prominent session singer in Los Angeles, singing backing vocals for many recording artists. He accompanied Toto on their 1979 World Tour as a backing vocalist and rhythm guitarist, and sang background vocals on the Toto albums Toto IV, Isolation and The Seventh One. In 1981 he wrote his first hit song, "Fire and Ice", with Pat Benatar for her album Precious Time.
Coke was pure in 79, fortunately
You are so disrespectful
Not wrong
Just because a band is enjoying themselves on stage doesn't mean drugs are always involved. Plus these guys are playing and singing so accurate, the only thing they're running on in this concert is ADRENALINE !!.
Und die Zuschauer hocken nur da.
Never knew that Hungate went 🎃n the road. Scary.
No creéis que Pedro Pascal podría hacer de Bobby Kimbal en un Biopic de Toto ? es clavado.
😮 tienen un parecido
Awesome... Who is the rhythm guitar player right of Luke?
I would put this singer right up there with Brad Delp
#720p60
One of my favorites concerts. I’m not forcing to do anything, but I just want to know, there’s a Fahrenheit special from 1986, and there’s an annoying French overdub, I was wondering if since you did this you could remove that overdub. But it’s ok if you can’t.
I need another audio version without voice over to do the mix ... If you send me both links I will be happy to do it !
going to see them in a few weeks...whos still in the band? Steve and the main singer?
I hope you enjoy it. Really one of the greatest bands ever. The singer since 2010 is Joseph Williams, vocalist from farenheit and the seventh one works
Steve Lukather and sometimes David Paich
Somebody else..
Who is the extra guitar player?
bands with both a pianist and a keyboardist:
The Band
E Street Band (Springsteen)
Toto
Crosby Stills & Nash (2004-15)
Incredible talent and this one minus Japanese but terrific sound quality 😮. Listen to the others.. they sound much better
Also the Sex Pistols were scheduled to play there right after San Francisco but they broke up in San Francisco. Tickets? $4
David Hungate. someone knows the story of his presence in toto?
He was in Boz Scagg's albums and tours in the 70's where Paich and Porcaro played before Toto was founded, and he was then hired when the band recorded their first album. He always had a good soul groove in his bass parts.