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Toad The Wet Sprocket is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Rose Chronicles. Those roots explain a lot about how Toad The Wet Sprocket arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Tonic, The Wallflowers and Collective Soul, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Smash Mouth, Tonic, The Jayhawks, Counting Crows and Vertical Horizon, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Toad The Wet Sprocket, reaching back through Rose Chronicles and forward to Smash Mouth. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Barbara, California, in 1986. The band at the time consisted of vocalist/guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss, who stopped touring in 2017 and left the band in 2020. They had chart success in the 1990s with singles that included "Walk on the Ocean", "All I Want", "Something's Always Wrong", "Fall Down", and "Good Intentions".
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Toad The Wet Sprocket connections
Toad The Wet Sprocket grew out of Rose Chronicles, shares an orbit with Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Tonic and The Wallflowers, went on to shape Smash Mouth, Tonic, The Jayhawks and Counting Crows. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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