I do, and I respect that

I told my brother this like 5 seconds ago :-) Great musicians all of them!

This blew my mind tonight 😂

Joseph Williams ain't no Bobby Kimball and never will be. 2001 is long gone.

​@@m.hughes2521He's not Bobby Kimball but Joe fits the band very well, he sounds like toto !

My favorite Toto singer. He did lose his voice due to drug abuse (just like a certain someone who was fired in 1982 😂). But, he gained it back later, unlike Bobby.

My favorite lead singer of Toto is it's lead guitarist, Steve Lukather.

Steve Lukather is such a multi-talented musician...vocals, guitar and? He's awesome.

Best singer is Luke.

When Bobby Kimball was on, he was awesome !

Just as good as 4

Bobby kimball is the gold standard of TOTOs singers and TOTO has six Grammys during Kimballs first tenure to solidify his stamp on the band. In case you didn't know Kimball has FRONT TEMPORAL DEMENTIA and most of his memory of the bandmates, music even his ability to play keyboards himself is almost completely wiped out from the disease. His daughter Allison confirmed this in 2018. He's hasn't performed for years.

Douglas Roth I know and I had to prove to my family and friends about it as well.

Oh, good info!

Saw Toto here in L.A. last month...it struck me that somewhere in the middle of "Africa", Joey should break out a little riff on "Hakuna Matata"...

Has he ever sang any Simba song in a TOTO concert? I can't seem to find any footage of it. It would be cool if he did.

Agree. He's handsome in that time.

I do think his voice got better with age

English Countryside he is primarily a guitarist. One of the best in fact.

James Reeno Who btw. sang more songs in Toto than everyone else all in all. ;)

Unless it’s young, late 70s Steve Lukather. ;-)

Yes,he was so hot

@@xoxxx998 yeaaaah he is.

Tell your bc to relax. Steve is 63 now with grown kids. If he is jealous about a dude 40 years older he will be jealous about a lot more things

Did you see him in the Tokyo concert footage 1980? Red pants. Be still my heart. @DaneCombs

Tried telling him tho.😭

jptravers I love Endless.

Endless is one of my favorite songs by any band ever.

agreed...Isolation for me..their best album..and best vocal performance

Yeah I enjoyed Fergie's contribution. I loved "Carmen" but Steve and Joseph will always be my favorite. I forget the first lead with the massive head voice. Loved him too

And Bobby Kimball

Totally agree!!

Absolutly!!!

Joe is the man

Fahrenheit is great. But, Isolation might be my favorite Toto album. Luke makes it look like 1 million records is nothing, Some band's today don't even get that much 😂

Its not talked about much but Bobby Kimballs voice is on 3 tracks on Isolation Im almost certain its him in the chorus of "Mr. Friendly" plus "Holyanna", and if you listen carefully it's his voice carrying the Chorus on "Stranger in town" . Kimball said they left his voice on a 3rd of that album. The ad lib at the end is Fergie but that chorus is Kimball and on KZfaq theres a demo version with Kimball singing " LION". Also Fergie Fredericksens voice is in the chorus of some songs on Fahrenheit, which tracks I dont know, I didnt like that album very much. To be honest

their best!! Lukathers comments here were bollox

@@mccartney2 Perhaps it was difficult to top the success of Toto IV ? Is it fair to say they had three successful albums and then went into oblivion ?

Hard not to feature him or his singing. I think they’ve had the most top 40 his with him singing lead

Mark, it is such a great album. I loved it then I love it now. LION, Angel, Carmen, Mr Friendly...Isolation and Endless my 2 favorites. Such a great album

Luke is basing his crass comment purely on sales..... for fans of hard edged AOR ..its by far their best

WOW. I did not know that, and I hadn't encountered that information yet in my current deep-dive of all things Toto!

And was the singing voice of Simba in the original “Lion King” movie

Absolutely right, Michael. Joe is the man now because he got his shit together. Difficult for singers to get older, but he's managing it ... ;)

Good voice

No you 100% nailed it. Jean Micheal Byron doing dance kicks...Steve and Jeff about fell off the stage

If you have noticed Joseph was brought back in 2010 (If my memory serves me correctly) and he and Luke are planning a livestream on the 21rst of this month.

agree totally

Que é Fergie?

Italo Nascimento Better known as Dennis Frederiksen. Before joining Toto he was a member of the band Trillion (with Pat Leonard, amongst others) which was infact the genesis of the 'pomp rock' genre. Died from cancer, the poor sod.

Jonas Carlsson Obrigado

Jonas Carlsson he was a member of a band called le roux in 1983 .

+DragonlordXV and he ruined them. They went from "New Orleans ladies" and "Nobody said it was easy" to a mainstream pop band with Fergie. End of LeRoux.

i don´t think so, but its a classic, when in house we played VHS videotapes

Yeah.. lukather rules Toto...

Faccela vedere!

Couldn't agree more, such a great singer. Isolation is one of totos best albums for sure.

+Milko Vilja Fergie was awesome! Angel Don't Cry is still one of my top favorite Toto songs!

+Milko Vilja Fergie was never a great rock singer. He could hit the high notes but for a band like Toto the vocalist must do more than hit the high notes, he has to sing with some feel, some soul, and Fergie never did. Before Toto Fergie was in LeRoux, a Louisiana band that sounded a little like Little Feat, a little like Poco. CBS wanted LeRoux to add AOR punch and they brought in Fergie and it pretty much killed any momentum the band had built and they never recovered. I'm willing to bet the same happened with Toto. If you listen to Fergie's vocals it sounds a little like he has something in his throat. For a band that had recorded "Hold the line" and "Rosanna" this voice was such a mismatch and thankfully Joe Williams came on board who could hit the high notes and and play with some feeling and touch. That moved saved Toto because with Fergie or Jean Micheal they were doomed unless Luke or Paich takes over on vocals.

I disagree, because Fergie has proven to be a fantastic rock singer in and out of Toto. The man killed it in a live setting and had the skills to work a crowd as a proper frontman. Just look at the time frame when this album came out. AOR was huge and Fergie was a no-brainer for that type of sound. If any other band had recorded "Endless", it would have been a hit, no question. Still don't understand why CBS never pushed that as a single. The problem was literally what Lukather said, the die-hard Toto fans wanted Part 2 of their 4th album and then got smacked in the face by Isolation's heavy-hitting AOR sound.

It's funny. For a band that had a rotation of "lead singers," they already had great singers in Paich and Lukather. Just, I guess they felt that certain songs needed that high tenor. *shrugs*

Without your love from Fahrenheit

Michael Langley So true! i don't like him too.. he got a good voice but not suit for TOTO band..

Lukather hated him, too.

Lukather is asshole

yeah, I've noticed that. what's up with that

Foi o Steve

Steve Lukather on lead vocals and Michael McDonald on backing vocals in the chorus. ❤👍

Steve Lukather la canta

Well, I thought Isolation was a very well written album and much better than 4 which was their most successful via album sales...And I loved Bobby, Fergie and Joseph as they are all great with their own style...Jean Michael Vincent was an actor and his style was not compatible with TOTO'S in 1990...He he he...Not a good choice and why Steve assumed vocals exclusively till 1999

Only problem being that he couldn't sing in the studio! Read Luke's book and you'll get some insight. TOTO probably had the worst luck with leaders singers than any other band.

@@TA-to7kt They should have brought in Richard Paige ?

Kalenmpong

you got it...awesome album

Joseph got kicked out of the band because of his cocaine usage, and during their tour of "The Seventh One", he lost his voice, and they had to fire him

You have a point about Lukathers attitude.

He is one of the best guitarists in rock history.

James Martin "Till the end" was a single. A video exists too.