Sender: toad@sprocket.silverplatter.com
From: GreggD <GreggD@silverplatter.com>
Subject: News from the Homefront.....

     
     Chris Blake called me last night (To see if I'd fallen off the edge of 
     the earth.  I hadn't spoken with him in a coupla months).  But he gave 
     me some good scoop.  There's not much with the boys in Europe but here 
     it is:
     
     1. Dulcinea went gold last week!  That means 500,000 copies
     
     2. "Somethings Always Wrong" single should be available at your local 
     record store as of this Tuesday.  The single is backed with 2 live 
     songs "Don't Go Away" and "Corporal Brown".  Joe, Chris' assistant, 
     told me that these live tracks were "nearly orgasmic".
     
     3. The video for "Somethings Always Wrong" starts on MTV on Monday.  
     This is the first video that is based on the ideas of the band 
     themselves.  They realized that a video was nothing more than a 
     comercial and so.....they parody the Home Shopping Network.  Some of 
     the things for sale are: the Perfect Mate, Unconditional Love, God, 
     the Perfect body, and....Toad!  Start watching.
     
     4. When the band gets back from Europe late this month, they'll take a 
     couple of weeks off to recupe then hit the road again.  The next tour 
     starts Oct 13 in Stockton, CA (probably...all this info is subject to 
     change, of course).  Other known dates are Oct 28 at Western Illinois 
     U in Macomb, Ill and Oct 29 at St. Olaf College in Nothfield, Minn.  
     The tour will take them all over the country ending in the Northeast 
     just before Christmas (UGH...I've got to wait until December to see 
     Toad again :(.  Chris is having luinch with a booking agent today so I 
     should have more towns, dates, and venues in the next couple of days.
     
     5.  The next single will be "Fly from Heaven".  No release date yet 
     ("S.A.W." just came out this week!).
     
     That's about it for now.  More when I know it!
     
     Gregg