Toto Album: “Falling in Between Live”

Unlike the Amsterdam live DVD, Toto included more recent album songs on this live album. There are tracks from Mindfields and Kingdom of Desire, as well as the newest album they are promoting. There is even a selection from a Luke solo album. I would have selected songs like or "High Price of Hate" from Mindfields, which features a Beckesque Luke guitar jam echoed by Paich on organ---incredibly cool---amd would be a highlight live, but the songs they chose are good ones. "White Sister" is on Amsterdam Live so I won't complain about it's omission from Falling in Between Live.

The live sound is top-knotch, and of course the performance is outstanding by a talented band. It has meatier versions of Falling... tunes, which wakes them up. I wasn't a big fan of Falling in Between, which to me sounded too calculated. When Toto is best is when they are more a rock and roll band, and less a prog- or arena band, as they say. The live mix, here, has a rock and roll band feel to it.

This is a refreshing new album from a great band. There is a DVD from this performance to be released sometime next year, as well as a Steve Lukather solo album.

I've seen Toto live twice in the past two years and this CD does a great job of capturing the essence of what I experienced both times. The live versions of the 3 Toto staples of classic rock radio (Rosanna, Hold the Line and Africa) are all superior to the recorded versions, each injected with new life by a supremely talented but 'not-very-close' version of the band that originally laid down these tracks more than 25 years ago. Especially pleasing on this set is the inclusion of three cuts from the hugely under-rated 'Kingdon of Desire' album, from 1992. The quality of Toto's friends is clear for all to see as chief songwriter, and founder, David Paich, and long time bassist, Mike Porcaro, are barely missed with Greg Phillinganes and Leland Sklar both proving high class replacements. The 4 cuts from the band's latest album 'Falling in Between', stand up very well against a deep and classy back catalogue.

Excellent voices, excellent musicians....great music. Not just the old popular Toto songs, very new and still going on. I'm an avid music lover and this is my favorite right now, I'm literally wearing it out. Steve Lukather is just as great now as he was years ago, same with Bobby Kimball, what a voice. Greg on keyboard and Simon on Drums fantastic, educated musicians. Speaking of educated musicians, Leland Sklar, bass who has been with James Taylor, Phil Collins sat in for Mike...this guy has been around for so many years and is so terrific. This is definitely a 5 star live show.

This is an excellent compliment to the DVD of the concert. Sound quality is great and the song selection is wonderful!

I bought this CD along with the live Tull CD. First watched the concert on the 101 Network. i thought Toto was only a studio band. Was in my car changer with the live Tull CD for three months which is unheard of for me. On my IPOD and gets a lot of play time. A well recorded live CD.