“And we added a couple of our kitschy little things to it, which I hope that they laugh. We wanted to do our thing to it, but still pay respect to it,” he says. I wanted to show everyone what a good rock ‘n’ roll band we can be.” According to Steve Lukather, “Hash Pipe” has a “better melody,” and “he loved the message of the song.” (Spoiler: There isn’t much of one.) “We wanted to do it justice. Porcaro tells KROQ: “But you know what? We wanted to make it different, but we wanted to do something rock ‘n’ roll. Toto were originally going to cover “Beverly Hills” with an “Africa” spin (picture it), when their hearts led them to the Green Album instead. “We figured since we were smoking hash since before they were born, that’s the one we should do,” Steve Lukather said before the performance.īut, of course, there’s an even better backstory to their choice. Toto have now returned the favor and covered, of all possible Weezer songs, 2001’s “Hash Pipe” at their show in Vancouver last night, with plans to record it.
The lovefest began when one persistent fan spammed Weezer for months on Twitter asking them to cover Toto’s “Africa” because, why the hell not? Weezer eventually obliged, and it then went on to become their biggest hit in a decade they even performed it with Toto’s Steve Porcaro on Kimmel. Toto is currently touring North America in support of the band’s recent release 40 Trips Around The Sun.We should’ve always known that the inexplicable but perfect Toto-Weezer union would ultimately conclude with Toto willingly taking on the most contested lyric in Rivers Cuomo’s songbook. For more details keep an eye on Toto has partnered with Universal Germany on the release of “Hash Pipe.” The company will be spearing the global release of the recording. On Friday, August 10, Toto’s rendition will be up on all streaming services, and delivered to radio for airplay globally. Los Angeles alternative juggernaut KROQ placed Toto’s recording of “Hash Pipe” on-air to break the story of the new track’s existence. At radio, total plays have reached 6269 in The U.S., and while it is a hit at Alternative currently sitting at #2, the track is hitting Hot AC and Pop now making strong moves up the chart. At Spotify, the cover hit #1 on the viral chart. At iTunes, the recording peaked at #1 in sales and continues to show strong movement. Singer Joseph Williams cannot be reached at this time as he is too high on hashish, but previously when asked about “Hash Pipe” shared simply, “Yeah.”įrom the moment of release, Weezer’s version of “Africa” was embraced overwhelmingly by the public and music industry. That stuck with me when it came time to decide.” When I asked my neighbor, a huge Weezer fan which record we should cover, he rattled off about five of their biggest hits, but then he smiled and said ‘but there’s nothing like driving down the freeway at 80 miles an hour with ‘Hash Pipe’ cranked’. Keyboardist Steve Porcaro offers, “Covering Hash Pipe was an absolute blast. Ours drops Aug 10 th, and I hear KROQ is getting thousands of requests from the teaser we recorded the other day – who knew? Kudos to Steve Porcaro for running with this as the Producer.” Gratitude to the fans for embracing this fun little accident. Now I guess we have to do some crazy mash up live someday. Thanks to Weezer, their manager Jonathan, and their fans as they have been really nice to us…and they didn’t have to be.
It is an unlikely collaboration, but some of the best ones are unexpected. We give you our version - with a little of our thing on it like they did their ‘thing’ to ours. Maybe next time we’ll use vapes and purchase some liquids from they have such good flavours. The irony that we were smoking hash before these guys were alive was not lost on us, and the other is it has a killer melody and a great groove.
My 30 something kids were flipped over Weezer recording two of our songs as they are fans and we picked ‘Hash Pipe’. It seemed only right that WE – Toto did a version of one of their songs so we started digging around, listening to a bunch of their music, which I have grown to like a lot. They did two of ours and ‘Africa’ took OFF. It was all started by a sweet 15-year-old girl named Mary. They did a good job too, but we never saw hit records coming from it. Toto’s guitarist Steve Lukather shares, “We were blown away at the response Weezer got doing our old songs. Toto have recorded their personal interpretation of Weezer’s “Hash Pipe.” The smoking rendition of the song is a direct response to the run-away success being witnessed globally for Weezer’s covers of the hits “Africa” and “Rosanna.” TOTO ANSWERS WEEZER COVERS OF “AFRICA” AND “ROSANNA” WITH A SMOKING RENDITION OF “HASH PIPE”
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