Isolation (Remastered) Toto

• 1 Carmen 03:25
• 2 Lion 04:47
• 3 Stranger In Town 04:49
• 4 Angel Don't Cry 04:21
• 5 How Does It Feel 03:50
• 6 Endless 03:42
• 7 Isolation 04:05
• 8 Mr. Friendly 04:22
• 9 Change of Heart 04:08
• 10 Holyanna 04:17
• Total Runtime 41:46

Info zu Isolation (Remastered)

Isolation is the fifth studio album by Toto, released on October 18, 1984. This was the only album the band made with Fergie Frederiksen as the primary vocalist, as he was let go following the album's world tour due to ongoing vocal problems. Isolation failed to achieve the popularity of its predecessor, Toto IV, although it achieved gold record status and gave the band their highest charting mainstream rock single "Stranger in Town" (No. 7).

After the succes of Toto IV, Bobby Kimball left Toto as lead singer and frontman. He was replaced by vocalist Fergie Frederiksen, who only managed to survive the album Isolation.

"Bobby's lifestyle wasn't suited to us anymore. When you become famous you simultaneously have a lot of responsibilities, especially in Toto's case. We're not Guns 'n Roses where each individual can live out his own ego trip as and when he likes or can play the party animal endlessly and jet of here, there and everywhere. If recording sessions are fixed then everyone has to turn up and not be half way across the other side of the world! Bobby simply just didn't take the whole thing seriously, and we did all the more." (Steve Lukather)

Lukather in 2004 about Fergie: "We were mixing the tracks [of Isolation] while he [Fergie Frederiksen] was still trying to gag out a vocal. It was painful, punching one word in at a time. I wish we had Pro Tools back then bro. You know, and like he was good for like two nights in a row and then he'd get sick, he's get sores all over his face, he was so nervous and he'd get all freaked out and shit. Just doing the back flips and shit. You know, once we lost Bobby, we lost the integrity of the band and we were trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. That's why we kept going through them and going through them.

Jeff kept pretty much backing to Fergie. So we said OK, Jeff, he was always our spiritual guru and our big brother. To all of us. So we went with that. As it turned out, he was very difficult but we made a pretty good record. But all of our shit was done, we were trying to implement him into this, and it was very nerve-racking for him. The myth about Bobby singing the whole record and then replacing every song with Fergie, is just that, a myth. Bobby sang on about 3 or 4 things and it was really hard because he wasn't in good health, and then he wouldn't show up, he was in a bad way. Like I said, he's nothing like that anymore either or he wouldn't be in the band."

For most of the fans and Toto watchers Isolation is one of the heaviest albums, together with Kingdom of desire. On the album we hear lots of influences of David Foster and Fee Waybill (Tubes). The reason is quite simple. During the period from 1981 till 1984 the Toto boys worked a lot together with them. In 1981 Lukather co-wrote the raging rock classic Talk to ya later (produced by Foster) together with the Tubes. In 1982 almost the whole Toto crew showed up at the album Chicago 16 and in 1983 on the Tubes album Inside outside, both produced by Foster again. In 1984 especially Lukather worked and wrote a lot together with Fee Waybill for his first solo album Read my lips on pretty heavy songs.

On Isolation the group song Mr. Friendly showes up as a mirror song of the Tubes rocker Mr. Hate, from the album The completion backward principle (1991). On Stranger in town Tubes technician Mike Cotten is helping out with some un-Totoian keyboard sounds.

Fergie Frederiksen, lead vocals (except on "Stranger in Town", "How Does it Feel" and "Holyanna"), backing vocals
Steve Lukather, guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "How Does It Feel"
David Paich, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Stranger in Town" and "Holyanna", co-lead vocals on "Carmen", orchestral arrangements on "How Does it Feel" and "Change of Heart"
Steve Porcaro, keyboards, electronic sounds
Mike Porcaro, bass guitar
Jeff Porcaro, drums, percussion
Lenny Castro, congas & percussion
Joe Porcaro, percussion
Mike Cotten, additional synthesizer on "Stranger in Town"
Chuck Findley, trumpet
Jerry Hey, trumpet, horn arrangements on "Lion"
Tom Scott, saxophone
Tom Kelly, backing vocal on "How Does it Feel"
Richard Page, backing vocal on "How Does it Feel"
Gene Morford, bass vocal on "Stranger in Town"
Bobby Kimball, additional backing vocals
The London Symphony Orchestra
James Newton Howard, conductor
Marty Paich, conductor

Digitally remastered

Keine Biografie vorhanden.

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet