Vergeat went on a solo career, releasing many albums over the years. He then formed and toured with his own band, the Vic Vergeat Band. He died on 1 November 2023 from an undisclosed cause. The other former members went on to other groups or retired from the music business.
In 1993, Toad released the studio album Stop This Crime . Following its release, drummer Lampis departed from the group and was replaced by Claudio Salsi, who remained until Toad broke up. Lampis went on to create a school in Sardinia . In 1994, Toad played a concert in Brienz…
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The band never achieved great success outside of their own country, but were influential on the Swiss heavy metal movement during the 1980s, influencing Krokus and Celtic Frost . They saw renewed interest in the early 2000s among the European hard rock scene. Their albums have been re-released and remastered…
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Their history after that is largely undocumented except for a live album recorded in Geneva during 1978 and a studio album released in the early 1990s with different versions of the band. The rest of the 1970s and 1980s were spent appearing on a few compilations, releasing live albums and…
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In 1975, they released their third album, Dreams , which contained all original songs, a mix of hard rock, progressive rock and blues rock. They also released a cover version of the Hendrix composition ” Purple Haze ” on a single with a B-side of Toad original “Making You Feel…
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In 1972, the band released Tomorrow Blue , which was in a more blues direction and without a lead vocalist (with Vergeat and Fröhlich taking over vocal duties). It also was engineered by Birch. It included Helmut Lipsky on violin , who played prominently on the tracks “Blind Chapman’s Tales”,…
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Toad was formed in 1970 by guitarist Vittorio ‘Vic’ Vergeat, bassist Werner Fröhlich and drummer Cosimo Lampis. Vergeat had been in the British space rock group Hawkwind briefly. Fröhlich and Lampis had left European psychedelic rock band Brainticket after the recording of their first album, Cottonwoodhill . Toad wrote and…
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