David Hungate

But she's about to be known in this room as that lady from old Japantown who wore a blazer with nothing underneath on her album cover.

There's the album cover, David.

Have fun looking for her nudes.

Ooh.

Sent July 7th, 2026.

His world is small.

Uh, Steve, David, you guys are over 50.

Are you in the jar phases of your lives?

And they were founded as a sextet, that is to say, there were six of them.

We had Bobby Kimball on lead vocals, Steve Lukather on guitar and backing vocal, David Paik on keyboard and backing vocals, Steve Porcaro on the synth, David Hungate on bass, and Jeff Porcaro on drums.

Yes, Steve and Jeff were brothers.

There's different explanations for the band's name Toto.

I gave you the commonly accepted Wizard of Oz story.

However, it's also noted that the drummer Jeff Porcaro wrote Toto on all the band's demo tapes to tell them apart from other tapes in their studio.

And bassist David Hungate pointed out the Latin meaning of in toto, which was all-encompassing.

With the group's influences coming from pop, rock, soul, funk, blues, hard rock, jazz, he felt they really were all-encompassing.

And I already know the band is Toto.

Hey, everybody, and welcome back to Dave's Side 1.

I'm Dave, your host over here at Art of Listening Records, where every record has a story and every story starts on Side 1.

Today, I want to mess with one word, voice.

When we say the voice of a band, we usually mean the singer.

You can hear a guitar sound and know the conversation has changed before David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar says anything.

But Toto interests me because the identity is more distributed.

David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Lukather, Dave Hungate, and Bobby Kimball.

That's why I don't tell questions ahead of time.

I've got David Hungate from Toto coming in to record tomorrow, and he said, what are the questions? I said, you'll find out when you get here.

Yeah, this is pretty tough.

I don't know.

Looking forward to our guest today because he's a legend in everybody's world and we all know who he is.

This is David Hungate today.

We're going to talk to him about his music.

We're going to talk to him about his career and we're going to hopefully shine a light on some things that help musicians of all types, of all ages, you know, beginning and experience.

I think I'm going to just stop for a second here.

I'm going to play people a little bit of your album.

It's called souvenir and folks, this is David Hungate and his smooth jazz alter ego.

Thank you.

And Harry Stinson called me and said he wanted to add me to the house band because so it would be a slap bass player.

I think David Hungate might have been the house bass player there.

I don't know who was in the house band for that TV show, but lucky for me, Harry called and added me to back up Brian's part so I could do the rockabilly thing with him, you know.

So we did that show.