That shuffle beat from Jeff Porcaro was so iconic before the first musical note was played. Love watching masters of their instruments playing together.
@librarylady137 ай бұрын
💖💖💖 More Toto to react to "Africa", "Hold The Line", "99", "I Won't Hold You Back" and "Stop Loving You".
@dopiaza20067 ай бұрын
Oh boy, you've hit a gem here! The Porcaro Shuffle on the drums is legendary.
@ohfour-seven62287 ай бұрын
To be honest, I never heard of the term, yacht rock before I started watching KZfaq reactions, and I definitely take it as diss. As for Toto, they were formed from some of the best session musicians around. Jeff Porcaro has played with the biggest names in music, Steve Lukather, on guitar, has played on over 1500 albums. The band is one of the best. So glad you liked this song!
@WMalven7 ай бұрын
The fact that a bunch of wealthy yacht owners have great musical taste shouldn't be considered a negative. A majority of the most talented musicians of the 70s and 80s--Supertramp, Loggins and Messina, Hall and Oates, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Seals and Crofts, Alan Parsons, etc., etc., fall into that category. The term is actually reverse snobbery, used by people who think anything that isn't banging your head against a wall is less than "proper rock music." Didn't know that about Toto. It explains why they were such a tight band with superb musicianship.
@ShawnSalvadori7 ай бұрын
Thanks for expanding on meaning, Will!
@MarkCucchiara7 ай бұрын
Yacht Rock now refers to a genre. SiriusXM has a station called Yacht Rock. So does quite a few others.
@ohfour-seven62287 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info. I didn't mean to imply I thought yacht rock was a bad thing, just that I assumed those who came up with the name did so as a negative connotation, not as a true rock genre. Which it looks as if it now is. I love all those bands and it seems that the term now means top tier artists, impeccable production and stellar performances. Which I'd rather call Super Yacht Rock! @@WMalven
@lauraallen557 ай бұрын
Yacht Rock is not intended as a diss as far as I know. Hall and Oates, for example were considered yacht rock and they were incredible. Daryl Hall has an amazing voice. In fact, he wrote Every Time You go Away and everyone knows the version by Paul Young, although H&O version is killer.@@ShawnSalvadori
@trishgorman64567 ай бұрын
Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes (Johnny and Penny from Dirty Dancing) both dance in this video.
@armandogarza61817 ай бұрын
The four members that formed the band were highly in-demand studio musicians. They were also the studio band for Steely Dan and Micheal Jackson. Nice reaction Shawn, cheers.
@jollyrodgers72727 ай бұрын
For Boz Scaggs, too.
@armandogarza61817 ай бұрын
@@jollyrodgers7272 fact...
@ShawnSalvadori7 ай бұрын
Thanks, Armando! Hope all is good
@billc.58617 ай бұрын
The great Jeff Porcaro on the drums doing that classic shuffle just keeps this song going Jeff’s younger brothers Mike on bass & Steve on the keys I believe this song was partially written about Steve Porcaro girlfriend actress Roseanne Arquette Bobby Kimball on vocals, David Paich on piano and Steve Lukather on guitar Of course it’s all about the drumming from Jeff.
@danbaranowski85807 ай бұрын
This is a good band to take a deep dive into. This is probably their most played song on the radio. A very good song, but they have a diverse body of work for you to check out. Great instrumentation. Multiple lead singers. Solid late 70s - 80s band. Yacht Rock was initially a derogatory term. Hopelessly romantic/cheesy songs that you listen to with your rich friends, Biff & Buffy. I believe Yacht Rock is more accepted today because people recognize the talented voices (no auto tune) and the variety of instruments used. Love and emotion were openly discussed back then, maybe not so much today.
@glassontherocks7 ай бұрын
I get the old West Side Story vibe here.
@jodyjackson54757 ай бұрын
For sure
@rozequinn15197 ай бұрын
Oh yes!!! When this came out I bought the 45 & played it on repeat... ❤️ (my name is Rosanne...every1 called me Rosanna)
@plantfeeder66777 ай бұрын
My favorite song by them. Real smooth with that great Jeff Pocaro shuffle beat. I was hoping you'd get this one requested for a while. Thanks again.
@ShawnSalvadori7 ай бұрын
Way more of an explosive sound than I could have imagined from the snippet I knew of it before. I see the appeal!
@rk41gator7 ай бұрын
These guys get a nice groove goin' on. Surprisingly jazzy.....and the solos were great!
@cden4097 ай бұрын
Patrick Swazey is a dancer in this the girl is Cynthia Rhodes- they were both in Dirty Dancing movie.
@RaynorBear7 ай бұрын
Yacht Rock was previously known by the term "Adult-Oriented Rock"... a style of rock music that is more liked by somewhat older adults than by younger adults or teenagers.
@flubblert7 ай бұрын
It's also got a kind of elitist feel to it. Hate it.
@sasapejcin35687 ай бұрын
Great song and stunning girl! 🥰
@amierikke62257 ай бұрын
I’ve always loved this song. Also Africa by them. I’d love to hear you do A-ha, Take Me On.
@rhondamcewananderson39687 ай бұрын
Fantastic! Toto! ❤️🎶
@jeffjones62217 ай бұрын
When you take the top studio musicians at the time and make a band, this is what you get.
@oldmanghost2197 ай бұрын
Toto! The Session group. They decided that they should get together and record their own songs so during down time in the studio, they started recording and to keep their tapes separate they marked them Toto. The name stuck. A couple of members didn't last long and they got another great session drummer that I have seen in other great videos with other people include jazz great Hiromi. I like the 35th anniversary concert.
@rogerdaly63267 ай бұрын
One of my favorite guitar solos by Steve Lukather.
@gregv47417 ай бұрын
I love Toto! So many more songs to do: Hold The Line, 99, Hydra, Make Believe, I’ll Be Over You, Pamela, Stranger In Town…
@mikefetterman67827 ай бұрын
written about Rossanna Arquette. She dated one of the band members, She also dated Peter Gabriel and he penned IN YOUR EYES for her. Making her the 2nd most written about muse in rock history, behind Patti Boyd (more than 6 chart toppers written about her,, Something, Layla, Wonderful tonight, For you blue, bellbottom blues...)
@jollyrodgers72727 ай бұрын
Admitted that was all hype, and she played along. She also claimed Gabriel's IN YOUR EYES was about her. Both Arquette sisters are bat-crap crazy.
@reddoxx47547 ай бұрын
David Paich said it was about more than one girl he had known when he was younger and he only used the name "Rosanna" because it fit the rhythm of the song.
@phillychick41966 ай бұрын
I. Am. In. Love. With this rare reaction ❤ YOU RADIATE JOY❤❤❤❤love YOU AND your reaction! You get a GEN FUCKIN X PASS❤❤❤❤
@rubbersole797 ай бұрын
Toto was a group made up of pro studio session musicians. One of them wrote this and brought it to rehearsal. After a cursory look the score, they recorded their first take. This is the what we are hearing now. Just like the legendary "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", the first run through was printed for ultimate release. Astounding.
@joelliebler56907 ай бұрын
As smooth as they come trying to impress Rosanna Arquette!if you like smooth and funk at the same time try reacting to Ambrosia when David Pack led the band with his sultry lead vocals . Songs like Nice, Nice, Very Nice, and Drink of Water!!
@mjhart687 ай бұрын
Yacht Rock is not a diss. It is the ultimate compliment.
@lauraallen557 ай бұрын
Toto's Africa! Being about Rosanna Arquette was just a joke that she went along with. The songs George Harrison and Eric Clapton (and even Keith Richards) wrote about Patti Boyd, now that was for real! Patrick Swayze, as mentioned by others being in this video, was not just an actor, but a dancer. Actually, dancer first as his mother ran a ballet studio. He started dancing when he was 2 years old!
@chitownlee7 ай бұрын
Really a great band, lot's of good song's.
@axandio7 ай бұрын
NOTHING wrong with Yatch-Rock! Glad you like it! Not sure this one actually qualifies but nevertheless, great tune.
@boosuedon7 ай бұрын
"Toto" is derived from Italian language used in the classics meaning "All", or "Everyone". On sheet music, if you see "toto" it means ; "all play".
@user-pf7jm9go6o7 ай бұрын
Actually, Latin. In Italian, it's "tutto"
@chitownlee7 ай бұрын
I've never heard that term until this year.
@jodyjackson54757 ай бұрын
So many great memories flood back hearing this again ❤
@impishsongster3334 ай бұрын
If you haven't already heard it, you definitely need to give, "Hold the Line" a listen. 👍🏼 Keep up the great reactions!
@FavoriteMovieDate7 ай бұрын
I would never have classified Toto as Yacht Rock, whatever the heck that is. Just great standard pop rock with incredible hooks and musicianship.
@lawrenceb52367 ай бұрын
Good reaction to a memorable tune.
@jaredsearle42787 ай бұрын
Congo is a country. Congas are a drum used by percussionists.
@Lionize7287 ай бұрын
I see TOTO I click.
@Noelle00267 ай бұрын
Home At Last is a great tune
@thegorn687 ай бұрын
This was way back when in order to get playing time on the radio or in mainstream music, you had to have this thing called TALENT. Those devices the group members of Toto are playing are called INSTRUMENTS.
@user-ph9wt3ue7c7 ай бұрын
Supposedly, this song was about actress Rosanna Arquette. The one with all shit in her face in Pulp Fiction.
@jollyrodgers72727 ай бұрын
yeah, she weirded out in the nineties, all pierced and tattered now. Sister Patty went mental, too. That was a rumor this was about her, and she played along. All fake like Hollywood is.
@mickgoddard7 ай бұрын
Jeff Porcaro is a great example of real life imitating art… He sadly died a Spinal Tap death, in a freak gardening accident..!
@aldo347 ай бұрын
I've been around a bit, and remember hearing this when it came out. I have never heard the phrase 'yacht rock'. This was MoR, or AoR at the time. Think 'yacht rock' is a bit of a made-up phrase after the fact. See also 'dream pop'!
@garyarnett12207 ай бұрын
About a famous actress a band member had been involved with for quite awhile. Not at all "Yacht Rock", way too hard rock for that catagory".
@jollyrodgers72727 ай бұрын
THE TERM "YACHT ROCK" IS A NEW INVENTION and totally disrespects bands like Steely Dan, etc. I like the music, NOT the genre's new name (try Boz Scaggs' HARBOR LIGHTS from the Silk Degrees album). Try the entire album Aja from The 'Dan. This was a big hit for TOTO - and the music video was in heavy rotation on MTV. Another band you might want to get to know is Booker T. & The MGs - they were the House band for STAX Records in Memphis and helped define the Memphis Soul sound in the early/mid sixties. Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald 'Duck' Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. backed more artists than I can mention - just know half of the group were the core of The Blues Brothers Band (Steve and Donald) - react to TIME IS TIGHT played Live at the Oakland Coliseum Jan. 31, 1970, and another classic, GREEN ONIONS.
@LGlifeisgood7 ай бұрын
He could of been your dad , you do look a little a like 👍🏽 😂
@krissybrowne84957 ай бұрын
You listened to the short version….
@robinweiss85907 ай бұрын
Hey that’s that Rhodes girl. Richard Marx ex.
@BringItMAGA7 ай бұрын
I think yacht rock is a term I would like to see disappear immediately.
@WMalven7 ай бұрын
Not a damn thing wrong with Yacht rock, but the pathetic reverse snobbery of its critics. Most of the best music of the 70s and 80s falls into that category, from Steely Dan, to Joe Walsh, to The Eagles, to The Cars, etc. The fact that a bunch of baby-boomer, yacht-owning, rich people have excellent taste in music isn't a negative to me.
@flubblert7 ай бұрын
"Yaht rock"... hmph! Has such an elitist feel to it. Hate it. Just a reminder that you never can judge a song by the chorus alone. Got to hear the whole thing. 👍👍
@lauraallen557 ай бұрын
Yacht Rock is not a diss, not at all, quite the opposite.