re: Opinion on TOTO

Another (essentially) forgotten project involving members of Toto is the i-Ten record (Taking a Cold Look). This was the "band" fronted by Hall of Fame songwriting team Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg and is most remembered for the track Alone, later to be covered as a monster hit by Heart on their Bad Animals album. Although the drums were by Mike Baird, Luke, Paich and Steve Porcaro contributed heavily to the instrumentation of that album (ETA: And Lenny Castro played on one track). Keith Olsen and Luke produced the record as well.

Other hits (for other folks at least) written by Kelly and Steinberg include - True Colors (Lauper), Eternal Flame (Bangles), I Touch Myself (Divinyls), Like a Virgin (Madonna), and So Emotional (Whitney Houston).

(Side note - I saw Heart in the PMAC in October(?) 1987 for their Bad Animals tour. Not only was it a great show, during the warmup they played an album, in its entirety. That album was Def Leppard's Hysteria. I only knew the name of the album and didn't figure it out until the title track played near the end.)