Toto: Rosanna cover

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Quote from Monkey_Man

Lovely job with the lead break, Steven.

Toto's always been my fave band (since age 10 or something), and IMHO it's a brave set of individuals who dares to cover almost any of their songs. Tell me, was omitting the jam-out at the end an artistic decision? I'm kinda kidding 'cause if you didn't want to tackle Steve's epic stint, I wouldn't blame you. Judging by how you handled the lead-break proper 'though, I reckon you just might've been able to pull it off. Personally, I wouldn't even attempt one note.

Tough to replicate the impact of the accents and cuts too, as you'd no doubt have noticed.

Well done to you and the boys, man. Excellent effort for a tricky tune.

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Thanks for the kind comments. Who can argue that Toto are one of the most highly respectable bands of all time?

It was a bold move to attempt taking on this song and hopefully do it some justice. The decision to omit the end part was owing to the fact that it might appear a bit too "self indulgent" from a musicians point of view and make the average (non musician) listener get fed up with the length of the song. I must admit, the end solo is more challenging than the main solo so it would a big task and possibly end up being semi-improvised. (i've not cracked it yet) One day maybe but in the meantime i need to work on smiling when playing a bit more...

An easier track we covered before this one was Africa: