Play It Forward Missed Opportunity With Joseph Williams From The Band Toto

-Missed Opportunity-
I love sharing conversations.  Hosting requires show prep.  
My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests.  What you don’t have access to are the missed opportunities. 
The show prep was completed.  The conversation didn’t happen.  
I keep all my notes! Paths will cross again.  
Let me explain Missed Opportunity.  It’s my questions and statements without their answers.  I’m leaving open enough space at the end of each question hoping they’ll download the talk and insert their answers.
Missed Opportunity is a lost piece of history.  Like a message in a bottle tossed out to sea. I hope to locate a destination… 
This week we’re putting focus on my missed opportunity with singer songwriter Joseph Williams from the group Toto.
Missed Opportunity.  A lost piece of history.  You know the questions.  Let’s locate the reactions.  The door is always open.  If you are or know Arlene Klasky please reach out to me at [e-mail] that’s [e-mail] Be brilliant!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Missed Opportunity. I love sharing conversations. Hosting them requires show prep.
My podcasting platforms feature thousands of guests. What you don't
see or have access to are my missed opportunities. The
show prep was completed, the conversation, it didn't happen. I
keep all of my notes, and the reason why is
because I believe that paths will one day cross again.

(00:21):
Let me explain missed opportunity. It's my questions and statements
without their answers. I'm leaving open enough space at the
end of each question hoping they'll download the talk and
insert their answers then shoot it back to me. Missed
opportunity is a lost piece of history. It's like a
message in a bottle that's been tossed out to see.
I hope to one day locate the destination. This week,

(00:44):
we're putting focus on my missed Opportunity with singer songwriter
Joseph Williams from the group Toto. Okay, Joseph Williams from
the legendary band Toto, which is pretty much studio musicians
that got together and became very, very famous. Steve Lutherker
and Joseph announced that they would release solo projects in

(01:05):
February of twenty twenty one. The invitation to talk with
Joseph arrived on November seventeenth, twenty twenty. It gave the
performers multiple months to get set up for promotional time.
The conversation would take place the next day, on the eighteenth.
That meant it was time for me to drop everything
that I was doing and dig in. We were in

(01:26):
the center of the COVID nineteen lockdown. The Dogs of
OZ tour would be a paid per view stream for
all fans. Although Steve Lutherker and Joseph were on separate
solo tours, they did what they do naturally, and that
is collaborate on their projects. The solo projects were something
of extreme uniqueness for the group Toto, yet they were happening.

(01:47):
Joseph Williams started his own career as a television and
commercial singer. Yeah, he was doing studio work before Toto.
He was the band's lead vocalist from nineteen eighty six
to nineteen eighty eight. He reunited with the band in
two thousand and he's been there ever since. Joseph Williams
is the son of the legendary music composer John Williams.

(02:08):
Can you believe that the show prep was ready it
was time to do the conversation, but there was a
total no show. A missed opportunity coming up next my
questions and statements for singer songwriter Joseph Williams from the
group Toto. Hey, thanks for coming back to missed opportunity.

(02:28):
My conversation is with Joseph Williams from the group Toto,
or maybe the lack of a conversation because it was
a missed opportunity. The one thing that happened during the
lockdown is that we were all connecting ourselves to the internet.
Dogs of Oz. That tour was something that was a
true connection to a lot of fans of Toto. Instead
of going to the concert, we checked into the concert online.

(02:51):
Music dreams never end. What would you like to accomplish
from this moment forward? The band Toto has always been
about bringing people together. All do it with your recording process,
your favorite Toto moment. There's got to be a billion
of them. In an age where radio is breaking down,
what is your main goal and how do you get

(03:11):
your music out there to the average person. Toto has
always been a major part of our soundtrack in life.
To release a solo album, it's got to be a
true step in exploration. Look, dude, I was there when
Toto released the song hold the Line. I bought it
as a forty five. You actually did a cover of

(03:35):
the Beatles song If I Fell. The album itself is
Dennison TenneT. You produced these songs. Was there a perfectionist
inside of you that kept saying no, no, no, no, no,
no no no, and then you finally had to say yes?
What about Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up? That's an exploration man.

(03:55):
Music has always been a part of your path? How
do you keep it? A lot? Love? The video never
saw You Coming? You call it a cool sexy love song.
And there you have it, my missed opportunity, a lust
piece of history. You now know the questions. Let's locate
the reactions. The door is always going to be open.

(04:16):
If you know Joseph Williams, or if you are Joseph Williams,
please reach out to me at erroc at gmail dot com.
That's a R. R Oe c at gmail dot com.
As always, be brilliant today