Kenangan aku dengan band ni tak lama. Bermula bila aku selalu ikut member aku pergi praktis dengan band dia untuk masuk kontrak main dekat Pub. Drummer band tu selalu minta nak main lagu band ni. Aku ingat antara kata-kata dia "band ni mantap dari segala sudut. Semua genre dia main. macam band Pub yang buat album".
Antara album yang direkemen ialah "Tambu". Jadi bila aku ada duit, aku cuba untuk cari cd band ni. Jumpa la pulak dan terus aku sambar. 1st impression aku "wow,!". memang band yang mantap. Sound yang sedap. Ada pulak ciri-ciri gitar hero tapi tak keterlaluan. Groove bass & drum yang "melekat"..huhu
Aku kemudian cuba mencari dvd "live" band ni pasal aku memang yakin kalau band-band otai luar negara ni kalau "live" dia lagi menarik dari album (contoh: Pink Floyd Pulse, Led Zeppelin The Song Remain The Same). Kebetulan jumpa dekat Subang SS15 dan kesimpulannya, memang "world". TOTO 25th Anniversary "Live in Amsterdam" memang betul-betul membuatkan aku mula mencari versi audio pula..
Tapi pagi ni bila aku buka blog Deaf, takde perkataan yang mampu aku luahkan. Apa yang aku baca macam seolah-olah mimpi. Kebetulan aku baru khatam untuk kali ke 3 filem "Almost Famous - Untitled (director's cut). Seolah-olah apa yang aku baru tengok tentang pergolakan dan perpecahan dalam band "stillwater" tu dah jadi kat TOTO.
Apa nak buat. Keputusan sudahpun di buat. Lukather telah pun umumkan secara rasmi dalam site beliau. Berkuburlah lagi band yang telah menyerikan arena rock dunia dan syukur aku tergolong antara yang bertuah dapat tengok dorang perform secara "live" masa tour dorang kat Cyberjaya dulu (walaupun tanpa 2 original line-up). So...Farewell TOTO..
p/s:artikel dibawah diambil dari blog deaf yang dipercayai diambil dari website lukather.net.
Antara album yang direkemen ialah "Tambu". Jadi bila aku ada duit, aku cuba untuk cari cd band ni. Jumpa la pulak dan terus aku sambar. 1st impression aku "wow,!". memang band yang mantap. Sound yang sedap. Ada pulak ciri-ciri gitar hero tapi tak keterlaluan. Groove bass & drum yang "melekat"..huhu
Aku kemudian cuba mencari dvd "live" band ni pasal aku memang yakin kalau band-band otai luar negara ni kalau "live" dia lagi menarik dari album (contoh: Pink Floyd Pulse, Led Zeppelin The Song Remain The Same). Kebetulan jumpa dekat Subang SS15 dan kesimpulannya, memang "world". TOTO 25th Anniversary "Live in Amsterdam" memang betul-betul membuatkan aku mula mencari versi audio pula..
Tapi pagi ni bila aku buka blog Deaf, takde perkataan yang mampu aku luahkan. Apa yang aku baca macam seolah-olah mimpi. Kebetulan aku baru khatam untuk kali ke 3 filem "Almost Famous - Untitled (director's cut). Seolah-olah apa yang aku baru tengok tentang pergolakan dan perpecahan dalam band "stillwater" tu dah jadi kat TOTO.
Apa nak buat. Keputusan sudahpun di buat. Lukather telah pun umumkan secara rasmi dalam site beliau. Berkuburlah lagi band yang telah menyerikan arena rock dunia dan syukur aku tergolong antara yang bertuah dapat tengok dorang perform secara "live" masa tour dorang kat Cyberjaya dulu (walaupun tanpa 2 original line-up). So...Farewell TOTO..
p/s:artikel dibawah diambil dari blog deaf yang dipercayai diambil dari website lukather.net.
Steve Lukather - The end of Toto
In several interviews and blogs Lukather made some (little) allusions to the end of Toto. The die heart fans got the message, BUT a lot of people didn’t got the clue and wouldn’t believe that Toto is over before they read it loud and clear from Steve Lukather himself. Here's Luke's announcement about the end of the Toto era.
Steve Lukather: "I would like to make a formal annoucement as I have been barraged by e-mails and speculations on various websites.
The fact is yes I have left Toto. There is no more Toto. I told the guys before the last leg of our tour.
We had some differences in how business was being done. The other fact is that I have been the only guy who was at the first rehearsal till the last gig a month or so ago. When Jeff died part of us all died with him. We pursued it and had some great times. Simon was a champ replacing Jeff at a most difficult time. Bobby was out of the band for 16 years and then came back and you know the other singer stories. Other than Bobby, Joe was the only guy that really fit with us cause he was a high school buddy as well. No offence to Bobby at all.
When Dave retired that was REAL hard for me cause we started the band together. Hell its 35 years if you count High School where the core all met. When Mike fell ill and had to leave that was it for me. If there isnt a Paich or at least one Porcaro how can we even call it Toto? It was bittersweet cause I finally got to tour with my dear friend and musical legend Leland Sklar whom I have known since I was 19 years old. We had some laughs and great times.
Honestly I have just had enough. This is NOT a break. It is over. I really cant go out and play Hold the Line with a straight face anymore. I was 19 when we cut the record. I am 50 now.
I have only the deepest respect for the guys that have been in and out of this band over the years. We had a great run and I owe an awful lot to the experience and the success we had. We hung in there hard despite being the most hated band in the world by most so called "rock critics". We took the punches and kept going. Our old label President Donnie Ienner ruined us in the USA by not releasing our records and not letting us out of our contract for over 10 YEARS! And that really set us back. Why? You have to ask the man himself cause we never knew why. He just didnt like our music or us personally I guess. We will never know.
The USA turned there backs on us and it was very hard for me to keep smiling thru it all. It just sort of festered inside me and I was hurting myself in the process and eventually I had to be honest with myself and I was not happy at all. The guys in the current line-up could not be more different individuals and the only real thing we had in common was music. This was NOT the high school band of brothers that we started in the 70's. We had a magic thing and the same sense of humour and the same views on life. Somehow that was lost. Its not the new guys fault. It is what it is.
I just cant do it anymore and at 50 years old I wanted to start over and give it one last try on my own. As the only original member that had NEVER ever left or missed even ONE gig or recording I figured I might as well do it myself now while I can still get out and do it and have a new record that just came out and a new band that is unreal and a tour booked that will take me thru the end of summer 2009 and beyond. The title of my record says it all. Ever Changing Times.
Today I confered with my soul brother and founding member David Paich on this matter. He wrote me back and he said "We are FREE"! I laughed out loud. I dont think he thought this was Toto anymore either. There are no bad feeling from me to the other guys at all. I wish them only the very very best and all the good things in life and I am sure we will run into each other here or there and it will be hugs and all, hope so anyway. So, there you have it. I hope you will come out to one of my shows and thank you for 31 years of friendship."
stevelukather.net, June 5th 2008
Steve Lukather: "I would like to make a formal annoucement as I have been barraged by e-mails and speculations on various websites.
The fact is yes I have left Toto. There is no more Toto. I told the guys before the last leg of our tour.
We had some differences in how business was being done. The other fact is that I have been the only guy who was at the first rehearsal till the last gig a month or so ago. When Jeff died part of us all died with him. We pursued it and had some great times. Simon was a champ replacing Jeff at a most difficult time. Bobby was out of the band for 16 years and then came back and you know the other singer stories. Other than Bobby, Joe was the only guy that really fit with us cause he was a high school buddy as well. No offence to Bobby at all.
When Dave retired that was REAL hard for me cause we started the band together. Hell its 35 years if you count High School where the core all met. When Mike fell ill and had to leave that was it for me. If there isnt a Paich or at least one Porcaro how can we even call it Toto? It was bittersweet cause I finally got to tour with my dear friend and musical legend Leland Sklar whom I have known since I was 19 years old. We had some laughs and great times.
Honestly I have just had enough. This is NOT a break. It is over. I really cant go out and play Hold the Line with a straight face anymore. I was 19 when we cut the record. I am 50 now.
I have only the deepest respect for the guys that have been in and out of this band over the years. We had a great run and I owe an awful lot to the experience and the success we had. We hung in there hard despite being the most hated band in the world by most so called "rock critics". We took the punches and kept going. Our old label President Donnie Ienner ruined us in the USA by not releasing our records and not letting us out of our contract for over 10 YEARS! And that really set us back. Why? You have to ask the man himself cause we never knew why. He just didnt like our music or us personally I guess. We will never know.
The USA turned there backs on us and it was very hard for me to keep smiling thru it all. It just sort of festered inside me and I was hurting myself in the process and eventually I had to be honest with myself and I was not happy at all. The guys in the current line-up could not be more different individuals and the only real thing we had in common was music. This was NOT the high school band of brothers that we started in the 70's. We had a magic thing and the same sense of humour and the same views on life. Somehow that was lost. Its not the new guys fault. It is what it is.
I just cant do it anymore and at 50 years old I wanted to start over and give it one last try on my own. As the only original member that had NEVER ever left or missed even ONE gig or recording I figured I might as well do it myself now while I can still get out and do it and have a new record that just came out and a new band that is unreal and a tour booked that will take me thru the end of summer 2009 and beyond. The title of my record says it all. Ever Changing Times.
Today I confered with my soul brother and founding member David Paich on this matter. He wrote me back and he said "We are FREE"! I laughed out loud. I dont think he thought this was Toto anymore either. There are no bad feeling from me to the other guys at all. I wish them only the very very best and all the good things in life and I am sure we will run into each other here or there and it will be hugs and all, hope so anyway. So, there you have it. I hope you will come out to one of my shows and thank you for 31 years of friendship."
stevelukather.net, June 5th 2008
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dulu aku ada kawan main kat club, so dia akan dengar lagu2 Toto, nanti mulut dia tak habis2 kasi komen " ah dengar tu" " ah dengar ni part " ah ni part best " " ah ni lagu power " " dengar ni part "
Kawan ko tu macam kawan aku..huhu. Dari dia gak la aku belajar dengar TOTO.
Next target..complete the discography in cd's...
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