Toto - Kingdom of Desire
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Free Music Review: Tribute to Jeff
Hit: 5 Stars
This indeed was Jeff's last TOTO recording and one of his best! Yes, this music is a departure from TOTO IV. Any real TOTO fan is deathly ill from those who only refer tothis great band from their landmark Grammy winning fourth album. If this band has any odd LP's or departures from their sound, it has to be Turn Back (3rd) and Isolation (5th).
When lead singer Bobby Kimball left after TOTO IV, they reached with Fergie Frederiksen for the one LP and then went with two sporting Joseph Williams (Fahrenheit & The 7th One). Williams was great. After a break period, Kingdom of Desire and Tambu
had Lukather with lead vocals. Bobby's back with Mindfields and it's TOTO IV all over again. So those who love IV will love Mindfields. I always hear tunes from Kingdom as intros to the Guitar Center ads... If you are a TOTO fan, this is a MUST. Clearly TOTO is the most versatile band alive. Jeff was a master of the shuffle (MAMA on Hydra), the jazz shuffle (Pamela on The 7th One), 16th note groove (Lion on Isolation and the classic, 99
on Hydra), Triplet (Hold the Line on TOTO I). He played every note to count and his time, feel, and groove were the best for pop rock music. Check out TOTO's web site; TOTO99.com and see the discography for this session monster. Also, check out the tribute CD to Jeff by Daiid Garfield and Friends titled,Tribute to Jeff on Zebra Records. Most of today's session drummers are on this CD; Ferrone, Erskine, Weckl, Hayward, Keltner, Imboden, Bissonette, Colaiuta, Joe Porcaro, Laborel Jr, Hamphrey, Gadd, and Phillips. Same is true of percussion, bass, guitar, and vocals. It really is a who's who on one CD.
Free Music Review: One of their best
Hit: 5 Stars
To me it is pretty obvious.All post Jeff Porcaro albums are just pretty bad. Simon is good in his own right. But the magic died with Jeff. Mindfield was just embarrassing.
I saw Jeff play in clubs and as well with Toto many times. The air was just the most vibrant and Jeff IS the gruuv. Not a technical player per se. It's all heart. And hey, I'm a guitar player. I'm just putting in my 2 cents.
This shows another side of Jeff's diverse musicmanship. Hard, Zeppelin style drumming. And House of the holy was one of his biggest inspiration.
In comparison if you listen to Jake to the bone. You hear him playing straight eight notes on the hi-hat while the rest of the band kinda swing. I went to the Jeff tribute concert at Universal Amphitheather in L.A to see Simon in the hot seat. When the time came for Jake to the bone. He totally destroyed the groove by playing swing on the hi-hat. Totally ruin the whole thing. Is it just me being oversensitive or?
Ok. Enough about Jeff. This was their final album as I'm concerned. I just don't get Tambu, Mindfield and even worse. Through the looking glass. Great idea, but so poorly executed. They should have choosen more obscure stuff, more r&b stuff that they can do so well. More loose and jammy. But tackle icons like While my guitar gently weeps, then it's just failure.
Again. Sorry to bash them, because I love them as musicians.
This is an awesome album. Buy, buy, buy. It's Jeff's swansong.
Free Music Review: Toto as hard Rock Gurus!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is Toto's hard Rock album....Easily as good as any creed, Van Halen and Def Leppard. If you like any of the forementioned ... then go out and get this album! It has great guitars delivered to us by guru Steve Lukather and on top of that there are great keyboards, organ and piano parts by David Paich and excellent drums by Jeff Porcaro. In between the excellent rock riffs there are some beautiful ballads, three of my favourites 'Two Hearts', 'Only You' and 'The Other Side'.Great song writing by the band and some other contributers include Fee waybill (an excellent song writer) and Danny Krotchimar (I like his songs too). Highlights of the album include 'Kingdom of Desire' and 'How many times'. The words indicate a heartfelt look at life, also with 'never enough' and 'kick down the walls' comes that break free feeling. 'She knows the devil' sounds abit like Australia's INXS, a very cool, groovy slightly naughty song. And let's not forget the instrumental 'Jake to the bone' ... this is rock fusion that shows the boys can really play their instruments! Get this album if you love great music, it Rocks :-)
Free Music Review: Darkest album of them all, and really, really good
Hit: 5 Stars
When you dig up God's little acre, you lose all peace of mind, you stare into the distance looking for a sign, but the sign it never comes, babe, your wishes won't come true, praying for the rain .......while the sun beats down on youToo bad this was the only song not written by Toto on the whole album, yet they named the album after it. It's impressive stuff. I find a lot of what they do here to have a grunge edge that they never had before and didn't go back to after the late great Jeff Porcaro passed on. Lots of the guitar work is like today's CREED... but Steve Lukether is unmistakeable. A true original.. didja know he did the lead on "physical" years ago? Or the rythem for "Beat it?" He also sang the vocals on "Sugar Sugar".. but maybe I go back too far for most of you. If you can forget about Don't Chain My Heart, a song that doesn't belong here, and you like wild, hard dark stuff.. like if your into goth or something, pick this up... but if you want something along these lines but more of a thirty something album, go with "Tambu".
Free Music Review: A good opportunity for Steve Lukather
Hit: 5 Stars
Steve Lukather, the guitarist of the group Toto, hasn't had any real occasion to show his talent during these 15 years in the band. But we must admit that Toto wasn't an hard rock band, so there wasn't any room for guitar riffs. So this is the occasion for him to express himself, on both guitar and vocals.4 singers have been in Toto from 1977 to 1992, but I'll give you a honest opinion : none of them were -to me- as talented as Steve Lukather. He has a great emotional and strong voice.
And this album is huge change in Toto's carrier. You can forget the past pop albums; this one is hard rock.
The main highlights are two great ballads "Don't chain my heart", "2 hearts", two great rock songs "gypsy train", "never enough" and the tribute to Jeff Porcaro "wings of time", the drummer who recently died.