A musician who is sometimes called the “father of Toto” is coming to San Diego.
Boz Scaggs was born in Ohio and raised in Texas, and is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer. Early in the 1960s, he was in the Ardells where he was a bandmate of Steve Miller, and from 1967 to 1968, he was with the Steve Miller Band.
He went out on his own in 1969, but he was unable to break through until 1976, when he dropped his album “Silk Degrees,” which climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and spawned both “Lowdown” and “Lido Shuffle” singles. The hit album was rated 5x Platinum by the RIAA, 6x Platinum by ARIA, and Silver by the BPI. Scoggs’s next two albums “Down Two Then Left” (1977) and “Middle Man” (1980) were also certified Platinum.
His work on “Silk Degrees” helped in the creation of Toto. He picked Jeff Porcaro, David Hungate, and David Paich, who often worked together, to play on the album. They started a band and Columbia offered them a contract without auditioning them. Paich said he wasn’t sure if Toto would have formed as quickly, or in the way it did, without “Silk Degrees.”
Although Scaggs had his biggest successes in the 1970s, he has continued to record and tour, and Boz Scaggs – Rhythm Review 2025 will be at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay on October 22. When they need to advertise events like this, organizers often turn to poster printing.
