Remember Toad the Wet Sprocket? Financing new album via Kickstarter

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

I was picking up tickets for a totally different concert and ended up getting tickets for an old band I hadn't heard about in a long time, Todd the Wet Sprocket, that will be playing at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga next month, one of my favorite Bay Area venues.

I was going just for the nostalgia trip, since I loved their song Walk on the Ocean:



While checking out what they've been up to, I learned that they are set to release a new studio album (their first since 1997), and they are releasing it independently using Kickstarter as a funding source:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...e-wet-sprocket

Their initial goal was a modest $50,000 (which is not much to produce a good album these days), and they have already far exceeded that at just over $184k and counting.

New song performed live last month by Toad the Wet Sprocket "New Constellation":

Alternative-rockers Toad the Wet Sprocket will release New Constellation, their sixth studio album ? and first since 1997's Coil ? on September 17th on Abe's Records. Now you can take an exclusive first listen to the album's title cut, which rides a simple guitar and vocal melody adorned with chimes into a shimmering, devotional chorus that recalls the halcyon days of college rock sing-alongs.

"'New Constellation' was the very first new song written specifically for the band," frontman Glen Phillips tells Rolling Stone. "After a decade in the folk/singer-songwriter world, it was exciting to write with the band in mind. I wanted to come up with material that would respect our origins but also respect everything we'd learned in the intervening years. The lyric veers from outer space to patron saints to depression to heroic gestures of love in a quick, three-minute pop song."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz2ZLlnz7PR

I think that TtWS may be able to catch on again with the current revival of folk-oriented rock.

One more oldie (1994), Fall Down:



The opening band will be Grant Lee Buffalo, an under-rated 90's band, that had some trippy tunes:



What small shows are you going to this summer?



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[Arnox]

This song was used on some playstation game I used to play, I think. I can't remember where it's from, but I remember the name.

That's my story.

[deltav]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

The opening band will be Grant Lee Buffalo, an under-rated 90's band, that had some trippy tunes:

Yup, Grant Lee Buffalo's first record Fuzzy still holds up today IMO. So much 1990s alt-rock did not age well at all but that's an exception.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Arnox

This song was used on some playstation game I used to play, I think. I can't remember where it's from, but I remember the name.

That's my story.

I don't play video games, so I dunno.

Another Toad tune I used to enjoy a lot while chilling:

Originally Posted by deltav

Yup, Grant Lee Buffalo's first record Fuzzy still holds up today IMO. So much 1990s alt-rock did not age well at all but that's an exception.

1998 on Lettermen:





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[kane]

Originally Posted by deltav

Yup, Grant Lee Buffalo's first record Fuzzy still holds up today IMO. So much 1990s alt-rock did not age well at all but that's an exception.

Fuzzy is a good record, but their album Mighty Joe Moon is a classic. It is one of my all time favorite albums. Grant's voice wails like a howling wind across the dried, cracked desert and the sparse, brilliant song writing aches.

If I was told I could only listen to five albums for the rest of my life Might Joe Moon would be one of them.

Grant has gone on to do some really good solo work as well.

[Pipecrew]

At first I was like "who the hell is this group i've never heard of" and "what a horrible name" but then i started listening to the songs and remember/liked each one of them.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Pipecrew

At first I was like "who the hell is this group i've never heard of" and "what a horrible name" but then i started listening to the songs and remember/liked each one of them.

Lol, yeah, they're one of those kind of bands:

From their last gig in SF:



Another new song, "California Wasted" recorded live last month that sounds pretty good (acoustic):





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[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by kane

Fuzzy is a good record, but their album Mighty Joe Moon is a classic. It is one of my all time favorite albums. Grant's voice wails like a howling wind across the dried, cracked desert and the sparse, brilliant song writing aches.

If I was told I could only listen to five albums for the rest of my life Might Joe Moon would be one of them.

Grant has gone on to do some really good solo work as well.

Nice description and review!

Some great songwriting:







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[Biggy]

I remember seeing TOAD at the HORDE festival in Holmdel NJ when I was 12 with Neil Young / Crazy Horse, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and more.

I remember being 12 and seeing all these hippies doing their hippie dance to Neil Young, telling me how amazing it was to trip acid and listen to him in the 70s.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Biggy

I remember seeing TOAD at the HORDE festival in Holmdel NJ when I was 12 with Neil Young / Crazy Horse, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and more.

I remember being 12 and seeing all these hippies doing their hippie dance to Neil Young, telling me how amazing it was to trip acid and listen to him in the 70s.

Sounds like a great show. I was at some of those 70's Neil Young shows...

One of those hippy dance songs:





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