Rock Hall Of Fame’s Snubbing of this Legendary Band Is LUDICROUS | Professor Of Rock

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An interview with TOTO on their 1982 masterpiece TOTO IV. Everyone knows the hits… Like the #1 smash Africa and the #2 hit Rosanna but what about he secondary hits like the top 10 hit I Won’t Hold You Back and Make Believe sung amazingly by Bobby Kimball. Up next Steve Lukather and David Paich tell the stories some of those secondary hits and how they came to be. Also how Michael Jackson wanted Steve Lukather to play on Thriller and when Michael called Steve, hung up on him several times thinking it was a crank call. Including an appearance with Steve Porcaro talking about his dark offering on Toto IV… It’s a Feeling. An interview with a legendary band that should be in the rock and roll hame.. All of the records they’ve played on have combined sales of half a billion!

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Up next… An interview with one of my favorite bands ever. Not only were they one of the biggest bands their time, their members were so prolific they played on some of the biggest albums of all time. Here they tell the story of their peak in the early 80s with an album that won multiple grammys when that mean something and ruled radio while influencing the biggest album ever. In fact when the biggest star on the planet called to ask them to play on his album, Today’s guest hung up on him several times because he though it was crank call. You’ll love these guys.

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Today we are starting a brand new show on this channel I’m going to let you decide what we call it. Let us know in the comments and whichever has the most votes we’ll use it. Or if you have a better suggestion for the title let us know. This show is going to about iconic artist’s biggest albums but with a curveball. We always talk about the hits on these big records but what about the secondary singles, the album tracks.. the lesser know songs… I was thinking of calling it either The Other ones, or Secondary Hits or the underdogs… You tell me which one you like and we’ll go with it. My first subject for this series is going to be Toto IV, one of my favorite albums ever.

Everyone celebrates the two big hits from this record, deservedly so… Africa which has now become one of the biggest songs of all time hit #1 and was the biggest hit from the grammy winning record and the #2 scorcher Rosanna the song that was inspired by a certain Hollywood actress who was dating keyboardist Steve Porcaro.

But what about the secondary hits from this huge album? After the first two singles Rosanna and Africa rocked radio there were three more singles and a few other songs that could’ve been singles that made this an essential record of all time. Make Believe was a secondary single that notched a #30 position on the billiard hot 100 as well as #19 cashbox.

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47 thoughts on “Rock Hall Of Fame’s Snubbing of this Legendary Band Is LUDICROUS | Professor Of Rock”

  2. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been a sham for awhile now. So many great 70's & 80's ROCK groups are still not in but JayZ, Public Enemy and NWA are. Gimme a break!
    Rap and HipHop deserve their own Hall, but they're not Rock & Roll.
    At least Dolly Parton had the good sense to refuse her nomination until they forced it on her! And Chet Atkins, who made great contributions to guitar musicianship, was never a Rocker but he's in the Hall.
    IMO, Rock, Rock & Roll, Hard Rock/Metal and R&B/Soul (because they're the foundation of Rock) should be the only genres admitted. No Rap, no Hip Hop, no Jazz, no Country. (Country and Jazz have their own Halls of Fame.)

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  3. Rock and Roll Hall Fame the inductee gets two tickets and if you have any guests or other immediate family member it will only cost $10,000 a ticket……yep lot of integrity there. Loved Steve Miller absolutely wipe the floor with RRHOF at his after event speech. Its on YouTube. Its priceless

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  6. Criteria to get into the Rock and Roll hall of fame states…Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. So maybe in time we'll see some of our faves in there

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  9. My cover band I was SOUNDMAN/LIGHTTECH for back then in LANSING,MI. covered this song excellently

    Always slowed down the mood in the house and never failed to pack the dance floor.

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  19. I bought Toto IV soon after release ON CASSETTE and fell in love with the WHOLE tape. EVERY song is good to great. I wore that tape OUT by '84. Thank goodness CDs came along!

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  22. Are you serious? One solitary Billboard #1 single, none outside the US. 26 singles up to and including their last Billboard hit Pamela in 1987, almost half of which (12) failed to chart in the US and only one of those 12 charted anywhere else. 33 singles since then, all of which flopped in the US and few were successful anywhere else.
    Of 14 studio albums only two hit the US top 10, neither went to #1, and 6 of their last 7 have failed to make it into the Billboard 200. The other one got to 98.
    If you think that's HOF performance you're setting the bar pretty low. The truth is they rode the AOR/softrock wave for 10 years, to the casual listener they were barely distinguishable from a lot of their contemporaries in the genre, and have done jack in the last 35 years. Maybe if they'd called it a day in 1987 they'd have a better rep, but HOF? Never.

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  25. I always thought that ROCK and ROLL HOF was stupid.- bands that NEVER played Rock music are in it.- rappers, electronic music, folk and country artists- STUPID, just plain STUPID. ANYTHING FOR A BUCK HALL OF FAME.

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  38. Often I agree with you but this one deserves to be snubbed. They never merited being in the Hall of Fame. They were boring. But then the 80's overall was boring, especially after the 50s, 60s and 70s. So much so, that it was cringeworthy to even call most of what was playing on the radio rock at all. It was all hyper manufactured and dumbed down to the lowest denominator and completely dominated by the mega corporations. At the time we thought rock was dead, killed off by naked corporate greed.

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  44. I think I'd go with your first band for this category and call it "The Toto IV Effect", or just "The Toto Effect". They are such phenomenal artists each and every one, and they've played with almost everyone, or inspired the rest. Toto emerged at the beginning of a very amazing time of my life and they are embedded as a huge part of its soundtrack.

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