Toto, “Caught In the Balance” from ‘Mindfields’ (1999): Toto Tuesdays
“Caught In the Balance” recaptures the magic from Toto’s formative years with exquisite musicianship and a superb performance by Bobby Kimball.
“Caught In the Balance” recaptures the magic from Toto’s formative years with exquisite musicianship and a superb performance by Bobby Kimball.
“On the Run,” which occasionally serves as Toto’s fast-paced concert opener, is actually the evolution of an instrumental Sheffield Lab recording from 1983.
Recorded in a period when Toto were in between lead vocalists, “Modern Eyes” finds the band totally chilled out.
Now in the home stretch of 1995’s ‘Tambu,’ Toto flexes their musical chops with another instrumental workout.
If there were any doubts about Toto’s future, they were resoundingly dispelled with the opening song on 1995’s ‘Tambu.’
The closer for 1992’s ‘Kingdom of Desire’ is a rare treat for long-time Toto fans: a full-blown instrumental workout.
Toto’s second-to-last track and title cut from ‘Kingdom of Desire’ powerfully closes the chapter on this era’s hard-rock theme.
“Wings of Time” now serves a bittersweet staple of the Toto live set, but Steve Lukather tells us that it didn’t start out that way.
Reduced to the core quartet, there was nowhere else to go really: Toto had their backs against the wall, and they came out swinging.
The combined performance of Toto and one-time frontman Jean-Michel Byron really sets this track apart from the other new ‘Past to Present’ tracks.