I always had it mind to do something special for this song as it's become my favourite from TOTO, favourite from Steve Porcaro, and quite possibly, my favourite song of all time. I could talk about it for days but I won't bore you with that. Please allow me to present to you a full recreation of the song, with all instruments and singing recorded and mixed by myself. I tried to stay as faithful as possible with the backing track, using Arturia plugins to emulate some of Steve's favourite synths at the time. I used Oberheim Xa for the strings and flutes and Yamaha DX7 for the keys and bass. I even found a Rhodes sound that I think Steve used to use on his old TX816 racks.

For the guitar, I tried to do something different, mainly due to my limitations of not having a nylon string guitar, but it gave me a chance to try something unique. Going for a Luke and Landau type clean tone for the rhythm (Jackson), and also bluesy one for some of the sax parts and some Luke live embellishments (Charvel). Maybe in the future I can do a faithful cover of the nylon guitar as it's a lovely sound.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy and please excuse the miming but I had to put some 'interesting' visual for the song. It was really fun to learn, record and mix, and it's taught me more about Logic Pro so maybe I can get back to doing my own stuff now. @steveporcaro6136 thank you for such a beautiful song!

And to my own 'Lea' out there, "Inħobbok ħafna"

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