Omer Plays Bass . . . Toto - Child's Anthem (bass cover)

Описание: Omer Plays Bass . . . Toto - Child's Anthem (bass cover)
Bass by David Hungate
Bass Used in this Video: Dingwall Guitars Super PJ

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You've got to be pretty confident in your work if your opening move on your debut album on a major label is to open with an orchestral rock instrumental. Well, that is what Toto did in 1978 with ‘Child’s Anthem’, track one on their debut “Toto”. This album was very much the vision of David Paich as the band formed after the Boz Scaggs “Silk Degrees” tour that featured, along with Paich who co-wrote and played keyboards on the album and tour along with , adding seasoned session players and future Toto members Jeff Porcaro on drums and David Hungate on bass, and a couple of 19 year old’s going on the tour with Steve Porcaro on keyboards and Steve Lukather on guitar, finally adding Bobby Kimball on vocals to form Toto. For most of Toto’s career, until his health resulted in his retirement in about 2019, Toto was led by Paich and Porcaro, before his death in 1992, and the pace and configuration of the Toto albums, with experience undoubtedly learned from his arranger father, Marty Paich who worked on a number of Toto tracks, was an area that Paich excelled at. Along with writing great songs.

'Child’s Anthem’, the instrumental open to “Toto, was written by Paich while studying classical music at the University of Southern California with 1979 being the International Year of the Child. Paich says in interviews that the track provided a way to open the album which itself was a statement on the diverse and eclectic mix of music showing off the skills of the bad from straight ahead rockers, jazzy R&B, blues, pop and everything in between. It also made a great opening song at shows that Toto did touring to support the album - big, ostentatious and a real statement. Just like the opening of the album. The band was really on with the track - tight and aggressive. The parts are really cool and orchestrally thematic with the band just soaring with a big and bold parts the really shine. Hungate really locks in with Porcaro on the rhythm track with slight and subtle variations on the part as he is so good at doing. I did find an isolated track on the Internet and I got this really, really close to the original. Great opening song to one of my favourite records .
Disclaimer: I am not saying this is exactly how David Hungate played this song, but it is how I would play it if I was playing it at a gig.

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