A Thousand Years (Nashville, IN - Feb 25/2024)

[Marzdog]

Being played by TOTO for the first time ever this tour. Audio on this isn't the greatest, however, it isn't too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpBy7DGB5gk

[Andrew]

Great song.

[Sundet]

Years ago, Mark T. Williams provided a bit of background to the song:

I wrote the progression and groove one night in the summer of 1987. My brother and I had a flat together, and I was in a writing mode [after coming] home off the road with Crosby Stills and Nash, while Joe was recording with [Toto]. [He] came home from a session for "The Seventh One" and told me he thought the song would be something good for the record, which was funny to me because the original working title on the sequencer disk was "Something Good". He took a cassette to the studio the next day and played it for Jeffrey Porcaro, who loved it and said "We've got to have this thing". David Paich and Joseph wrote most of the lyric and I had only a few additions and fixes. I believe the words have a certain “save the planet” intention in mind. My version, I made after the release of theirs. I had my own tweeks on the arrangement once more, and the key had to come down, because it was too bloody high for me to sing! I prefer my take to be honest, however, I think Jeff Porcaro’s groove had a bit better feel than mine did. Jeff was one of the best ever and trying to beat a track like his was next to impossible.