Toad the Wet Sprocket finally achieved fame with their third album, 1991’s fear . The album’s singles ” All I Want ” and ” Walk on the Ocean ” reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 . The album became the band’s first RIAA-certified platinum album .
The follow-up to Bread & Circus , Pale , was released in 1990, and saw Toad the Wet Sprocket’s sound mature. During the recording of the album, the band signed to Columbia Records while declining the opportunity to re-record Pale but negotiating to have Columbia Records reissue Bread & Circus…
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Toad the Wet Sprocket’s first album was released in 1989. Bread & Circus was self-financed through their label, Abe’s Records. The album spawned the singles “Way Away” and “One Little Girl”, which made the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart but received little attention.
Toad the Wet Sprocket was formed in 1986, with the members having known one another from San Marcos High School just outside Santa Barbara, California . Singer/songwriter and guitarist Glen Phillips was only 15, while guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss were 19. Phillips was a…
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As their first gig approached, the band still had not chosen a name. The members facetiously adopted “Toad the Wet Sprocket” because they thought it would be “hilarious”. Vocalist Glen Phillips later called it “a joke that went on too long” and, according to their website, “it was probably meant…
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