My Night with Toad

Tonight I'm getting in the Delorean and going back in time to hear one of my favorite bands of my youth.

Back in grade school I really got into Toad the Wet Sprocket. Like most people, I first heard them through their song All I Want, which was OK, but once I got the album it was filled with several other much better tracks. Hell, I liked them so much that I can admit to using one of their song lyrics in our 8th grade graduation book. We were supposed to only submit one lyric that we liked, but I wanted two, and since I was creating the graduation book as part of a class, I cheated. So alongside an Aerosmith lyric (of course), I used a Toad lyric, "Whatever happens will be." Wow, wasn't I deep at the tender age of 13? At least it was better than a couple other people's bullshit usage of Poison or Boyz II Men. Idiots.

Since then I bought every album and was bummed when they broke up. Never got to see them live, and I figured that was the end of it. They got back together, briefly, early in the aughts but I didn't hear about it until after it happened, which was a damn shame. Luckily they decided to get back together (again ... they like to break up and get back together A LOT ... kinda like UofL fans), and once I heard about the show I was first in line (well, online) to buy tickets.

I've got a setlist in my head of what I hope they play, but I'll just be happy to see them, and maybe hope they stay together long enough to make a new album.