I Won't Hold You Back (acoustic Toto cover) - Mike Massé feat. Bryce Bloom
"I Won't Hold You Back" by Toto, an acoustic cover by Mike Massé featuring Bryce Bloom. This is for Luke.
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Liner Notes:
I thought I might try some Toto for a change.... If you aren't familiar with it, this beautiful ballad is on "Toto IV," the same 1982 album that had "Rosanna" and a little ditty called "Africa." Oh, and it won a Grammy for Album of the Year, so there's that.
The original arrangement features piano and a lot of orchestration. So the challenge was condensing all of that energy into an acoustic performance. Not to mention capturing the gorgeous lead vocal, and those epic harmonies originally provided by Timothy B. Schmidt from the Eagles.
Because of the success of my acoustic cover of "Africa," I've actually had the pleasure of meeting Steve Lukather, the guitarist from Toto who wrote and sings this song. I emailed him some questions I had about the vocals, but I didn't mention that I was recording an acoustic cover. With his permission, here's some of our exchange:
MIKE: Hey Luke, I thought I might as well go to the source on this, if you don't mind. Is the lyric at the end of the second verse:
"But it gives me time to realize that you're the one who's there"
OR
"But it gives me time to realize that you're the one who's sad"
I hear it as "there", but the internet has it as "sad" everywhere. I've watched a few of the live videos of Toto on YouTube (nice work, btw!), and I'll confess that none of them settle the issue in my (admittedly fading) ears. I'm still betting on "there" though. By the way, your vocal is just killer on that song. You don't get enough credit for your singing. You sound so great with Timothy B. Schmidt.
LUKE: "You're the one instead."
MIKE: Lol. None of the above. Duly noted, thanks. I'm guessing they sped up the tape a little after you recorded it, because it's at around 444 Hz instead of A440.
LUKE: Back in the day at mastering, often Jeff or Dave...or any of us...might say "Let's bump the tempo up a taste and see how that feels," PRE digital read outs. As this was a SLOW song, I am not surprised. I don't remember either, really....
We had a UK string section--cats from London Symphony section--so they tune to 442. So...it could be anything. hahaha It's CLOSE to A 440, anyway.... lol
MIKE: Yeah, I figured something like that. By the way, I can clearly hear "instead" now, but I'm glad I asked.
LUKE: Haha All good man.
I next asked Luke about what mic he used, because I was using a Townsend Labs Sphere L22 modeling microphone, which gives you various vintage mic options, all emulated digitally (it works!). I had settled on a Telefunken 251 model as the closest match to the original tone. So I was happy to see that it was among the likely candidates (see below). And I was experimenting with various reverbs, wanting to get the right vibe (and verb). Luckily the reverb he mentions, the EMT 140, is among the reverb emulations I have with my Universal Audio Apollo/UAD gear. Yes, I get how surreal it is to have Steve Lukather guiding my Toto cover!
MIKE: Any memory of what your vocal mic might have been? Did you have a go-to back then?
LUKE: [AKG] C24...or [Telefunken] 251.
MIKE: Do you remember what reverb unit you likely would have used on the vocal?
LUKE: It would have been an EMT, I am pretty sure. A real one, not the robot-looking thing. Not the 250.... Old school. We mixed at Record One, so.... it was 1981-82.
I later sent Luke an mp3 of a rough mix with this message:
Hey Luke,
I wanted to share this with you. It's my acoustic cover of "I Won't Hold You Back." (You may have guessed I was working on a cover of the song.) It's a home studio recording, and this is my latest mix. It's still pre-release, but I wanted you to be the first to hear it. I really hope you like it. As a guitarist, you deserve an all-guitar rendition of this lovely song. This recording is my personal way of saying thank you for the music, sir. It was the best I could do, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I owe that largely to the source material.
Luke's response:
This is so killer! Thanks, man. Love it all. And the solo section was a refreshing take with great vocals! I am honored, man. Thanks a lot. Hope you make some big noise with this like this last one! It's A GREAT version! - Luke
So Luke likes it. Mission accomplished. :) I hope you like it, too.
Thanks to Bryce Bloom for contributing the great bass part.
Thanks to Nathan Mitchell for filming. The video looks great.
Thanks to Wild Dog Stomp pedals out of Australia for providing the awesome stomp. Here's my model: https://www.wilddogstomp.com/products/bunyip/
Love,
-Mike
Видео I Won't Hold You Back (acoustic Toto cover) - Mike Massé feat. Bryce Bloom канала Mike Massé
Get on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/album/1451234775
Get on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=B7b2peawgcqay6ag5ytqjbktqay
Get on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N9MJ515
Follow on Spotify: https://mikemasse.com/spotify
Liner Notes:
I thought I might try some Toto for a change.... If you aren't familiar with it, this beautiful ballad is on "Toto IV," the same 1982 album that had "Rosanna" and a little ditty called "Africa." Oh, and it won a Grammy for Album of the Year, so there's that.
The original arrangement features piano and a lot of orchestration. So the challenge was condensing all of that energy into an acoustic performance. Not to mention capturing the gorgeous lead vocal, and those epic harmonies originally provided by Timothy B. Schmidt from the Eagles.
Because of the success of my acoustic cover of "Africa," I've actually had the pleasure of meeting Steve Lukather, the guitarist from Toto who wrote and sings this song. I emailed him some questions I had about the vocals, but I didn't mention that I was recording an acoustic cover. With his permission, here's some of our exchange:
MIKE: Hey Luke, I thought I might as well go to the source on this, if you don't mind. Is the lyric at the end of the second verse:
"But it gives me time to realize that you're the one who's there"
OR
"But it gives me time to realize that you're the one who's sad"
I hear it as "there", but the internet has it as "sad" everywhere. I've watched a few of the live videos of Toto on YouTube (nice work, btw!), and I'll confess that none of them settle the issue in my (admittedly fading) ears. I'm still betting on "there" though. By the way, your vocal is just killer on that song. You don't get enough credit for your singing. You sound so great with Timothy B. Schmidt.
LUKE: "You're the one instead."
MIKE: Lol. None of the above. Duly noted, thanks. I'm guessing they sped up the tape a little after you recorded it, because it's at around 444 Hz instead of A440.
LUKE: Back in the day at mastering, often Jeff or Dave...or any of us...might say "Let's bump the tempo up a taste and see how that feels," PRE digital read outs. As this was a SLOW song, I am not surprised. I don't remember either, really....
We had a UK string section--cats from London Symphony section--so they tune to 442. So...it could be anything. hahaha It's CLOSE to A 440, anyway.... lol
MIKE: Yeah, I figured something like that. By the way, I can clearly hear "instead" now, but I'm glad I asked.
LUKE: Haha All good man.
I next asked Luke about what mic he used, because I was using a Townsend Labs Sphere L22 modeling microphone, which gives you various vintage mic options, all emulated digitally (it works!). I had settled on a Telefunken 251 model as the closest match to the original tone. So I was happy to see that it was among the likely candidates (see below). And I was experimenting with various reverbs, wanting to get the right vibe (and verb). Luckily the reverb he mentions, the EMT 140, is among the reverb emulations I have with my Universal Audio Apollo/UAD gear. Yes, I get how surreal it is to have Steve Lukather guiding my Toto cover!
MIKE: Any memory of what your vocal mic might have been? Did you have a go-to back then?
LUKE: [AKG] C24...or [Telefunken] 251.
MIKE: Do you remember what reverb unit you likely would have used on the vocal?
LUKE: It would have been an EMT, I am pretty sure. A real one, not the robot-looking thing. Not the 250.... Old school. We mixed at Record One, so.... it was 1981-82.
I later sent Luke an mp3 of a rough mix with this message:
Hey Luke,
I wanted to share this with you. It's my acoustic cover of "I Won't Hold You Back." (You may have guessed I was working on a cover of the song.) It's a home studio recording, and this is my latest mix. It's still pre-release, but I wanted you to be the first to hear it. I really hope you like it. As a guitarist, you deserve an all-guitar rendition of this lovely song. This recording is my personal way of saying thank you for the music, sir. It was the best I could do, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I owe that largely to the source material.
Luke's response:
This is so killer! Thanks, man. Love it all. And the solo section was a refreshing take with great vocals! I am honored, man. Thanks a lot. Hope you make some big noise with this like this last one! It's A GREAT version! - Luke
So Luke likes it. Mission accomplished. :) I hope you like it, too.
Thanks to Bryce Bloom for contributing the great bass part.
Thanks to Nathan Mitchell for filming. The video looks great.
Thanks to Wild Dog Stomp pedals out of Australia for providing the awesome stomp. Here's my model: https://www.wilddogstomp.com/products/bunyip/
Love,
-Mike
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