Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:37:07 -0500 From: Ameena Azzouni Subject: toad on the difference! To: Multiple recipients of list TOAD Hi everyone! This might be kind of convoluted, but please bear with me... I love Toad, but I'm also a huge Todd Rundgren fan. Todd does this syndicated radio show called "The Difference" that's on all over the country - except Phoenix, which is where I live. Another huge Todd fan named Roger has a web site all about "The Difference", and occasionally I check it out to see what I'm missing. Of course, I missed Toad! They were the featured artist on December 10 - Todd played a bunch of Toad songs, & aired an interview. After minimal begging & pleading by me, Roger (the fabulous guy that he is) e-mailed me this transcript of the interview: >[TR] > Eric Matthews from his Subpop debut "It's Heavy In Here" - that was > "Fanfare" and Reckless Eric from "The Golden Age of New Wave" - > "Whole Wide World" and Julian Cope, "Try Try Try" live for The > Difference. Julian has a brand new album out called "20 Mothers." > Check it out! > > Coming up: which one is Pink? Which one is Toad? We talk with our > good friends Toad The Wet Sprocket after the break. > > I'm Todd Rundgren. > >0:25:04 Commercial Break >0:29:02 Intro > > Welcome back, I'm Todd Rundgren, it's The Difference. >> >0:29:05 Toad The Wet Sprocket: "Good Intentions" (from 'In Light Syrup') >0:32:28 Song ID/Interview with Toad The Wet Sprocket > >[TR] That was Toad The Wet Sprocket. You know Dave Letterman put > them on the strangest band name list along with Hootie and the > Blowfish so where did they get that name? > >[Toad The Wet Sprocket] > > You know, what it actually is, it's a reference, um, to sort of an > obscure Monty Python sketch of theirs called "The Contractual > Obligation Album," um, kind of their version of the MTV News thing > and they have a lot of, you know, humourous band names and things > like that and the first line pretty much goes like this: "Rex Stardust, > lead electric triangle player for Toad The Wet Sprocket recently had to > have an elbow removed following their recent worldwide tour of > Finland." And so we kinda lifted it from there, never intending to > keep it but we were going to think of another name and by the time we > did, it was too late. > > I think our main goal with the name was just to see it in print once in > our hometown and we kinda backfired. > > People have stopped misspelling it, which is kinda sad. It used to be > fun to go to every town and see "Todd and the Wet Sprockets" or, > you know, some excellent variation. > >0:33:28 Toad The Wet Sprocket: "Fall Down" (recorded live for 'The Difference') >0:36:35 Song ID/Interview with Toad The Wet Sprocket > >[TR] Toad The Wet Sprocket, live for The Difference, "Fall Down." > > Toad The Wet Sprocket contributed a track to the new John Lennon > tribute album "Working Class Hero." We'll hear it in a moment, but > what other bands did they listen to growing up? > >[Toad The Wet Sprocket] > > Sex Pistols, Black Flags. Black Flags. No, we never listened to punk. > > I did! > > Well, if you call Husker Du punk and the Replacements punk. Dead > Kennedys. > > Well, I guess we... we're into the post-punk bands, you know. Yeah we > kind of came around that era. The Police, they're punk. [heh heh heh] > Yeah, they were punk. U2, you know, that kinda stuff. Blondie was > punk. Crass was good. I liked Blondie. > > I think what you end up hearing is just a generation of people, you > know, playing music that they used to listen to in the modern form. > And that's what we used to listen to. That's what our generation > listens to. At least some of our generation. So there! > >0:37:25 Toad The Wet Sprocket: "Instant Karma" (from 'Working Class Hero') >0:41:28 Gary Glitter: "Rock And Roll Part 2" (from 'Jock Rock') >0:44:25 Song ID > >[TR] > Rock and Roll! Gary Glitter, sports fans. That can be found on the > Jock Rock collection, along with a certain drum-banging song by a > certain radio host. And matching almost beat for beat, Toad The Wet > Sprocket - their version of "Instant Karma" from "Working Class > Hero," the John Lennon tribute album. > > And yes, ladies, he's here, Chris Isaak... I'm guessing that Roger's not into Toad, because he didn't know what member of the band was speaking at any given time. Let me reiterate, he transcribed the interview just because I asked him to. What a guy! If anyone taped this show, please let me know - they performed "Fall Down" live. Sorry that this is so long - I left in some of the incidental comments so that everyone could get an idea of what the show is like. I don't recall anybody posting anything about this - if it's old news, please accept my apologies! Ameena Scottsdale, AZ 84 degrees & sunny