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TOTO TOTO AT 40 Pop-rock outfit celebrates its history BY PETER LINDBLAD giving the 2019 leg of their “40 returned for a 2010 reunion tour to Trips Around the Sun” tour, benefit his brother and Toto bassist Out of nowhere, seemingly, Toto’s which began in January, a boost Mike Porcaro, who had been smash-hit “Africa” experienced a for the arena-rock veterans and stricken with amyotrophic lateral rebirth of sorts in 2018. keyboardist Steve Porcaro. sclerosis, or ALS – also known as Weezer, who had previously “It’s been amazing for us to last Lou Gehrig’s disease. covered Toto’s “Rosanna” as a lark, this long,” said Porcaro. “I mean, Mike died in 2015, but Steve did a 2018 remake of “Africa” that I personally needed to take quite has continued on with Toto, who went viral, soaring to the top of a break in the middle there, but will roll into Madison Sept. 29 to Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart. these last 10 years, being back with perform at the Orpheum Theater Toto responded by doing their own the guys, after being with them as their “40 Trips Around the Sun” version of Weezer’s “Hash Pipe.” the first six albums, has been a touring cycle nears its end. It was all in good fun, and complete ball.” “They just wanted me to do the tidal wave of publicity the Wanting to focus more on one tour, one summer tour, to tit-for-tat recordings generated creating music for film and TV, benefit my brother Mike,” said hasn’t completely subsided yet, Steve Porcaro left Toto in 1987, but Steve Porcaro. “That’s how it was 4 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com TOTO presented to me, and now, it’s like nine and a half years later (laughs). It’s been a lot of fun.” Although he’s enjoying playing live onstage again, touring was always drudgery for Steve Porcaro. “I’m more of a homebody,” said Steve Porcaro. “I like being in my studio and tinkering away with my synths and all that kind of stuff. I Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro love all that stuff. Luk (famed Toto (left) shares a word with guitarist Steve Lukather) is the guitarist Steve Lukather (right) polar opposite. He’s a player and during a live performance. he wants to be on the road playing. Photo Credit Kevin Albinder So, it’s like the two hours onstage, I would pay them for. What they his element musically. returned from Scandinavia. pay me for is the other 22 hours “It was a challenge knowing For Toto, that realization of – the buses, the hotels, the lousy that it was going to be a guitar- all they’ve accomplished is just food and whatever … missing your driven score, and I don’t play one starting to sink in. family and stuff. That’s what they note of guitar whatsoever,” said “We feel a little more of that pay you for. The playing part is a Steve Porcaro. “So, you really have now, yeah,” said Porcaro. “Now blast. That’s pure joy.” to put your composer’s hat on, that all this time has passed, you Keeping the Toto reunion going and luckily, I had my friend Marc feel that more. People are online a required a certain amount of Bonilla help me out quite a bit. It lot and reading about their favorite flexibility and sacrifice for a time. was a real challenge as a composer songs. They go on to Wikipedia to “Towards the end of that [2010 and guitarist … also, a lot of things see who played on them, and we reunion] tour that went so well, it were just written as guitar sounds were all too close to it for really was like, ‘Hey, do you want to do it on samples and put into the long, so that never really hit us … I again?’” said Steve Porcaro. “So, I computer and stuff, but the way I don’t think about any of that stuff was doing the TV show ‘Justified.’ composed to get those sounds was – career, body of work, any of that [Toto] couldn’t go full out, you on the keyboard.” stuff. Now that I’ve been touring know. They couldn’t go full on Porcaro’s work on “Justified” is with the guys, yeah, I can see that with it with me for five years, but just one example of the enormous and I’m aware of it because people then as soon as I stopped doing and almost incomprehensible are telling us that, what our body ‘Justified,’ they started booking impact the band has had on of work is.” everything, during the winter popular music the last four It all started at Grant High months, too.” decades.