Toad the Wet Sprocket

• Dean Dinning - bass, backup vocals, keyboards
• Randy Guss - drums
• Todd Nichols - guitar, vocals
• Glen Phillips - vocals, guitar, keyboards

Toad's albums are:

• Bread and Circus (1989)
• Pale (1990)
• fear (1991)
• Dulcinea (1994)
• In Light Syrup (1995)
• Coil (1997)
• P.S., A Retrospective (1999)

Discography source: Toad the WWWet Sprocket, <http://kornfeld.kellogg.nwu.edu/toad/> Additional material supplied by Silverwrist.

Glen Phillips has continued to pursue his solo career, and has released one studio-produced album (Albulum), along with a few live recordings. Glen is also involved with a project called Mutual Admiration society - a combination of himself, Nickel Creek, and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.

The remaining members of Toad The Wet Sprocket continued together, forming the band Lapdog - who has released one album.

There's an interesting story tied up with the name of this band.

It came from a Monty Python sketch, yes, but more specifically, it came from one called "Rock Notes" which was basically a call-in show about the latest bands. All of the bands have silly names, but "Toad the Wet Sprocket" is the silliest. Apparently, the Monty Python members tried to come up with a name so obtuse that it would never, ever be the name of a real band.

According to Eric Idle, when he heard of the actual band on the radio, he nearly drove his car off the road.

Also: According to user atlas, Philips performed part of the Rock Notes sketch with a friend in high school and fell in love with the name then.

Sources:

• Eric Idle himself, during his "Eric Idle Sings Exploits Monty Python" tour.
• atlas