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Cover of Toto's Africa by Pete Savvides
The drums and bass are from Jeff and Mike's original track, all keys, guitars and vocals my own production

Toto - Africa (band cover)

A cover from mid 2018 of the great Australian Crawl track "Reckless" in songwriter James Reyne's cooled out acoustic style. With a mate of mine on acoustic guitar this was intended as a vocal duet but only got around to recording me on the vocal. ´

Australian Crawl - Reckless (Cover)

Cover of Vinnie Vincent's 1980s demo Young Blood, Young Fire. Blending some aspects of the two versions he released, one on a publishing tape with Jeff Scott Soto in 1988 which i particularly liked, and another more band-oriented one, in 2018 i put together a rough cover from scratch of this great tune. I've adapted some parts - I'm no great shredder by any means and had to bring the key down 7 semitones to a vocal range mere mortals can reach, but really enjoyed exploring all the elements VV built into this great composition that never saw as much focus as some of his others.

Vinnie Vincent - Young Blood, Young Fire (Cover)

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Acoustic cover arrangement of Toto's Africa. 
Originally composed by David Paich & Jeff Porcaro, 1982 www.toto99.com
Arranged for solo ac. guitar & vocal by Pete Savvides, 2010 www.petesavvides.com

#--------------------------------CHORD-FINGERINGS------------------------------#
[Aadd9]     577600      [D#m7]  x68676      [Fm9]   202200      [Esus4] 022200
[G#m9]      424400      [C#m7]  x46454      [Dsus2] xx0230
[C#m7no5]   x42450      [D#7]   x68686      [Aadd9] x02200
[Bsus4]     79980x      [G#m]   466444      [E]     022100
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5] |     |   x4
                        
[Bsus4] I hear the drums [D#m7] echoing to[G#m9]night, But [Bsus4] she hears only 
[Aadd9] whispers of some [C#m7] quiet conver[G#m9]sa - tion
[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5]

[Bsus4] She's coming [D#m7] in twelve thirty [G#m9] flight - the [Bsus4] moonlight wings
Re[Aadd9]flect the stars that [C#m7] guide me towards sal[G#m9]va-tion
[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5]

[Bsus4] I stopped an [D#m7] old man along the [G#m9] way, [Bsus4] Hoping to find some 
[Aadd9] long forgotten [C#m7] words or ancient [G#m9] mel-odies
[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5]

[Bsus4] He turned to [D#7] me as if to [G#m] say - "Hurry boy, it's 
[Aadd9] waiting there for you [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5] |     |

[Fm9] It's gonna take a [Dsus2] lot to drag me a[Asus2]way from [E] you [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] There's nothing that a [Dsus2] hundred men or [Asus2] more could ever [E] do [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] I bless the [Dsus2] rains down in [Asus2] A-fri[E]ca [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] Gonna take some [Dsus2] time to do the [Asus2] things we never [C#m7]ha-
[E]a--[Fm9]d [G#m9]ooo

[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5] |     |   x2
                        
[Bsus4] The wild dogs [D#m7] cry out in the [G#m9] night, As [Bsus4] they grow restless 
[Aadd9] longing for some [C#m7] solitary [G#m9]com-pa-
[Aadd9]ny      [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5]

[Bsus4] I know that [D#m7] I must do what's [G#m9] right, Sure as 
[Bsus4] Kilimanjaro [Aadd9] rises like [C#m7] Olympus above the [G#m9]Ser-enge-
[Aadd9]ti      [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5]

[Bsus4] I seek to [D#7] cure what's deep in[G#m]side, Frightened of this 
[Aadd9] thing that I've become...

[Fm9] Gonna take a [Dsus2] lot to drag me a[Asus2]way from [E] you [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] There's nothing that a [Dsus2] hundred men or [Asus2] more could ever [E] do [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] I bless the [Dsus2] rains down in [Asus2] A-fri[E]ca [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] Gonna take some [Dsus2] time to do the [Asus2] things we never [C#m7]ha-
[E]a--[Fm9]d [G#m9]ooo

[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5] |     |   x4

[Bsus4]     [D#m7]  [G#m9]  [Bsus4] 
[Aadd9]     [C#m7]  [G#m9]   
[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9]  [C#m7no5]

[Bsus4]     [D#7]   [G#m] | Hurry boy she's 
[Aadd9] waiting there for you [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5] |     |

[Fm9] Gonna take a [Dsus2] lot to drag me a[Aadd9]way from [E] you [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] There's nothing that a [Dsus2] hundred men or [Aadd9] more could ever [E] do [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] I bless the [Dsus2] rains down in [Aadd9] A-fri[E]ca [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] I bless the [Dsus2] rains down in [Aadd9] A-fri[E]ca [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] I bless the [Dsus2] rains down in [Aadd9] A-fri[E]ca [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] I bless the [Dsus2] rains down in [Aadd9] A-fri[E]ca [Esus4] [E]
[Fm9] Gonna take some [D] time to do the [Aadd9] things we never [C#m7]ha-
[E]a--[Aadd9]d [Bsus9]ooo

[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5] |     |   x4
[Aadd9]     [Aadd9] [G#m9] [C#m7no5] |     |   x4 (softer)

Toto - Africa (acoustic cover)

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