Remember Toad the Wet Sprocket? Financing new album via Kickstarter
 

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":



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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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.

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.

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

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





1998 on Lettermen:



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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.

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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Nice description and review! :thumbsup

Some great songwriting:





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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... :smokin

One of those hippy dance songs:



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