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Episode 247 - David Paich

Sodajerker On Songwriting

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How to Make Toto's Music Danceable

So much of your work is no, not only those sort of funk jams that you were pumping out back then, but the toto stuff. Jeff Picaro's drum parts are like hooks in themselves aren't they on a lot of those songs? They really are, you know? When I start looking back and I see low down, the intro to low down and Jeff starts out the Lido shuffle and then he starts out Rosanna...I'm no fool. You just have Jeff Picaro play in the beginning of the record. So we've been through a lot of school.

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