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The Band Toto Asia
Toto was expanding production facilities overseas, and was doing business in France and Germany, Indonesia, Korea and Taiwan, Thailand and the People's Republic of China. The company considered North America as a growth market for Washlet bidet seats and toilets, as opposed to its "base" markets of Japan and China.
Dhaniram Toto was documenting Toto words to ensure that the next generation could comprehend them. Many words were substituted with foreign ones. For example dui, which is Bengali for verandah, was used.
Origins
The company was founded in 1917 and its early years were a mirror of Japan's economic development. In the beginning, Toto manufactured products to meet the demands for modern, new urban housing. It was the first tunnel kiln in the country to continuously produce ceramics. It also pioneered the use of automation to control production, which allows for more efficiency and consistency.
In the late 1980s the company began to expand outwards to take advantage of sales and new markets. It created the Cera Trading Company, importing and selling other products of manufacturers to complement its own line of plumbing fittings and 토지노 커뮤니티 sanitary earthenware. This strategy boosted sales and increased the company's market share in the world.
In the 1990s Toto began to concentrate on research and development of water-related appliances. It also improved its distribution system to better meet the needs of its customers and to increase profits. The company employed the same just-in-time approach to its supply chain management as well as sales program. This resulted in a greater level of satisfaction of customers.
Toto has continued to innovate in the toilet technology. The latest toilet, for example is equipped with an extremely powerful tornado flush that is more eco friendly than conventional toilets. The company makes use of recycled water for its manufacturing process and also has a green purchasing policy. Toto also manufactures faucets, bathtubs and hand dryers with greater energy efficiency than conventional models.
The first museum of the company opened in the year 2015 It has exhibits on Toto's most iconic products and their development and its group companies (all related to ceramics) as well as the history of plumbing and other products like bath units and, in a separate gallery, Toto products sold around the world. The museum even has a bathroom that features a WASHLET toilet and other toilet-related innovations.
Before the formation of Toto the members of the group did session work for a variety of musicians. Boz Scaggs album Silk Degrees featured keyboardist David Paich as well as guitarists Mike Porcaro & Steve Lukather and drummers Jeff Porcaro & Steve Lukather. They also appeared on records by Steely Don, 먹튀검증 Seals and Crofts and Sonny and Cher.
Discography
It is common for a group with a name like Asia to be a prog rock group, but it is actually a pretty straightforward rock group. The group began as a quartet and recorded two albums: 1979's self-titled debut, and 1980's Armed to the Teeth. The band has a varied musical background but their biggest success came in 1982 with Toto IV.
The album was a major blockbuster, but not without its share of issues. The record companies placed Toto under pressure to deliver the top single or they would rescind them. Luckily for Toto they delivered, with the help of the smash hit single "Africa."
Toto's musical mastery is the result of their prior experience. Before joining the group, the band members were session musicians for artists such as Boz Scaggs. Steely Dan and Seals and Crofts. Their sonic trademark has become the standard for 1980s music, and has inspired a lot of contemporary artists.
The album opens with a strong and pounding sound with songs like Running Out of Time and Unknown Soldier showcasing the bands ability to write fantastic AOR songs that slowly work their hooks into your. But the album also contains some slower, more jazzy tracks like The Little Things and Chinatown. The album ends with Great Expectations. This song is a mix of folk and distorted AOR that could sound completely wrong but actually works extremely well.
After Toto IV, the band's fortunes changed to the downside. David Hungate left the band to pursue a solo career. The band had several drummers. In 1984, Bobby Kimball was fired from the band in the aftermath of drug-related charges. However, the group continued to perform as a trio with Michael Porcaro and Steve Lukather.
Despite the turmoil, Toto forged ahead and released Isolation that was not as successful as IV. However, the band still had a successful chart-topping album in 1992 with Kingdom of Desire. This album marked the end of Toto's lineup and the debut of Simon Phillips, a new vocalist.
Tours
The band has performed for millions of people across the world, with sold-out shows across Europe, North America and Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. The band's repertoire is huge and their catalogue has amassed over billion streams on streaming services across the globe. The band's music has inspired generations of fans.
Steve Lukather and Joe Williams have formed a strong, 토토사이트 colorful friendship that thrives professionally on a worldwide basis. In 2018 the duo celebrated 40 years of Tours Around The Sun by a hugely profitable global tour. The album with the same name landed at #5 on the Billboard 200. The new tour of the band features their greatest hits and rarely live cuts, along with some of the songs from Lukather and Williams' individual catalogs.
TOTO has a customer satisfaction rating of 20 based on its Net Promoter Score which measures how likely its customers are to recommend the brand. Promoters are those who praise the company and actively encourage others to make use of their products or services. Detractors rate the company negatively and actively discourage others from using its products or services.
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Line-up
Turn Back, the band's third studio album is an attempt to return to the classic sextet format, and a more consistent, stronger effort with a harder edge. Its edgier sound reflected the maturation of the group and included drummer Bobby Kimball's greater ability on the drums and a more mature, confident vocal delivery by singer Joseph Williams. Keyboardist David Paich's work was sharper, more intricate and less cloned earlier performances.
After touring to promote their album, the band recorded an Amsterdam live show that was released by Eagle Records as a 2-CD set entitled Falling In Between. A new studio album was released just a few months later and the group embarked on a long-distance tour in support of it. In this time keyboardist Greg Phillinganes replaced Paich and bassist David Hungate quit the group to spend time with his family.
In 1998, Paich & Lukather began looking through old tapes and demos to find songs that had never been recorded prior to. It was completed as a double album titled Then And Now in 2001. It was the band's first album without a single song titled "A". The album also contained a previously unreleased track titled "Kari-Anne".
By 2003, Toto had begun to decline in popularity. The fourth album, Old Is New, was a commercial failure and vocalist Williams was suffering from a serious laryngitis infection which hampered his singing. Hungate also returned to Nashville and Leland Sklar's drumming duties were replaced by Shem Von Schroeck.
Downes, Wetton Palmer and Howe, the original members of Asia were in England in the early part of 2006 to discuss the possibility that the group could be revived. This lineup, minus Howe who was working with Yes at the time, was renamed Toto XIV. They toured extensively.
In 2010, the band reunited for another reunion tour with a slightly different line-up, including guitarists Mike Porcaro and Steve Lukather, drummer John Pierce, bassist Shannon Forrest, and 안전놀이터 추천 multi-instrumentalists Warren Ham and Dominique Taplin. The group also had a guest appearance by singer Michael McDonald, and a backing singer named Mabvuto Carpenter.
