is an American different rock band developed in 1986. Lock didn"t have a tape name and their first gig was approaching. They decided the name "Toad the Wet Sprocket" together a joke and temporary. Yet vocalist valley Phillips later dubbed it "a joke that went on as well long."But the real beginning of the name comes from a Monty Python
comedy sketch. The little bit was called "Rock Notes" and also was around a newscaster moving a nonsensical music news report:Pythoner Eric Idle
, the sketch"s initial performer, said in 1999 that once he created the sketch about rock musicians, he tried come think the a surname that would certainly be so silly nobody would ever before use it. He to be shocked once he to be driving in Los Angeles and also heard a DJ say the a song was perform by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
The band is made up of:Glen Phillips – command vocals, rate guitar, keyboards, mandolin Todd Nichols – lead guitar, mandolin, backing vocals Dean Dinning – base guitar, keyboards, backing vocalsRandy Guss – drums, percussion The band broke up in 1998 come pursue various other projects yet in 2006 began touring the United claims as a band again. Eric Idle talks around Toad the Wet Sprocket in a concert