{"id":3614,"date":"2018-09-20T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mi.edu\/?p=366"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:52:43","slug":"tbt-jeff-porcaro-of-toto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/tbt\/tbt-jeff-porcaro-of-toto\/","title":{"rendered":"#TBT: Jeff Porcaro of Toto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this weeks #TBT post, we bright back this gem from the Musicians Institute vault, a special clinic from Jeff Porcaro, one of the most revered drummers in modern music. MI is lucky to have this footage, as his life was tragically cut short when he was only 38 years old in 1992. Porcaro is perhaps most widely known as the drummer for legendary rock band Toto, and is also widely considered to be one of the most recorded studio musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and in thousands of sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Along with playing with Toto and being the drumming on Steely Dan&#8217;s album, Katie Lied, Porcaro worked with an epic list of artists, including Boz Scaggs,\u00a0Paul McCartney,\u00a0Dire Straits,\u00a0Pink Floyd,\u00a0Michael Jackson,\u00a0Stan Getz,\u00a0S\u00e9rgio Mendes,\u00a0Lee Ritenour,\u00a0Christopher Cross,\u00a0Barbra Streisand,\u00a0Donna Summer,\u00a0Diana Ross, Eric Clapton,\u00a0Miles Davis,\u00a0Bruce Springsteen,\u00a0Elton John,\u00a0Michael McDonald, David Gilmour and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our special clip from the MI Vault below!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQ6tzbKsKKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this weeks #TBT post, we bright back this gem from the Musicians Institute vault, a special clinic from Jeff Porcaro, one of the most revered drummers in modern music. MI is lucky to have this footage, as his life was tragically cut short when he was only 38 years old in 1992. Porcaro is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6567],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2743,5551,68,6898,6900,6899],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}