Tout n'est pas vraiment fini, mais si retour il y a, ce n'est pas pour demain !
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AAM: What kind of commercial success are you expecting from this album? And speaking about the tour, what size venues are you looking at playing?
SL: I’m looking at like 500-seaters, 500 to 1000. I haven’t done this before and I’m not Mr. Toto, I’m not going to play “Rosanna” or “Hold the Line” or any of those hits. I’m really separating myself from that. I just have other things that I want to do musically and artistically. I may play a couple of classic album cuts that I wrote, sang, produced and played. But I don’t want to do the other stuff. I’ve been doing that for 32 years and there’s a reason why I left the band and there’s a reason why I want to separate the two things. Toto was very good to me; we had a great run, no question about it. But I just felt like…I was the only one left standing since we started the band. I’d look around and see everybody’s a replacement. Even Bobby, the original singer, was out of the band for 17 years. I just felt like, if there’s not a Paich or Porcaro in the band, how can I call it that [Toto]? I might as well go do it myself. Maybe in 10 years, if any of the original – original – guys want to do it, then…maybe. I don’t know. We’re all still friends. It didn’t end like, “I hate you.” I just got to the point where some of the business things and some of the way things were being dealt with didn’t feel good to me anymore. I have a record in the can and I have the ability to go out and tour the world with my own stuff. So I figured I might as well. Now is the time. I’m not getting any younger, but I still have a fire lit under me to prove something to myself and I want to go out and play. Toto became this huge machine that was too expensive. We needed too much money to break even. My band now? Throw us up on the stage, we’ll play. I’d rather be humble and start out small and prove myself and show what a kick-ass band I’ve got, that I’ve got something to give here, and there’s enough people out there who would come out to see me. Even if it’s just musicians there, out of curiosity, [that’s great] because I’ve never done that. They may not have seen me since 1983 or something. My new record is coming out next week and I’m getting great reviews and I’ve got a great P.R. guy, new management, a new band, a new lease on life, so I’m ready to kick some ass!
