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  • Peop;e that like this should look into Long Ryders, Dream Syndicate, Dreams So Real. Guarantee you'll like them.

  • Great sustain on the break.

  • Dude seriously can you imagine watching music award shows today and seeing a performance like this? Four guys on stage playing instruments.They would not get booked. Because today's audience does not not have the attention span to just listen to well played music.There would have to be dozens of back up dancers .This performance is only about music and who wants that?

  • Whats the first name he says?

  • @moderaudi - frog the wet bracket

  • just compare this billboard award show to a billboard show now. Holy shit it would be hard to find a single guitar behind stage now.

  • @sixrivers1 Wow this sounds like something I would say. I could not agree more.

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  • These guys have been one of my favorite bands for years - and I finally got to see them last week. . .amazing. I do not agree with the comment that everything today is crap - there are lots of great bands today, putting out some good music - you are just not going to hear it on the radio anymore. Try Radio paradise.com They have a mix of old and new (and they do play some Toad)

  • saw them at the Beach Club several times off Anacapa st in SB, where they are from. Awesome band!!!!

  • See all you have to do is look at how few people are on the stage to determine that this is real music.There are no sythesizers no DJs scratching records no dancers on stage. Just musicians playing guitar bass and drums. It's amazing how much bullshit todays performers need.

  • I missed them in Fort Collins and was sooooo sad! dang!! love this band!!

  • Love the Toad , we saw them last night in St.Louis, it was awesome! HUGE CROWD!

  • Most underrated band of the 90s..... 

  • @OnTheCornerofGrey friend is true, this band was not assessed, now a quarter of what he produces this band renowned artists, a taste for this kind of music is disappearing, Greetings from Latin America

  • Yeah now is ONLY HIP HOP AMERICAN IDOL RAP CRAP

  • Yea, and radio stations actually had live people on the air giving it some personality and talking up great music like Toad.

  • God, all the comments about "real music has disappeared." Old people were saying the same thing about music from the 60s and 70s in the early 90s!

    And by the way, good, "real" music is still there, it just doesn't get as much mainstream play as it used to. Try to look a little deeper.

  • '94? Was Dennis funny then? How did he get to host?

  • I see the standard for garbage hasn't changed much in the last 20 years.

  • @ebusive

    Hard to tell. There is nothing but garbage today.

  • @ebusive Are you saying this is garbage? Just curious.

  • @stairwaygoddess that's exactly what I'm saying

  • I will always love this song! Just a cool tune!

  • My #2 favorite Toad song. Forgot that he performed on Dennis Miller. Remember, the Dennis Miller show. Unfortunately, DM´s career went down the tubes. I guess it was because he wasn´t funny anymore and started saying stupid things. Toad is one of my favorite all time bands from my college days!

  • Wow! Is that dennis miller? Man this band could always jam.  Think it has to do with glenn not wearing shoes. This band is way way better than crap like Lady Gaga and todays crap....

  • i think everything from the ninties, and so on dissappered

  • The Billboard Hot 100 the week Dulcinea came out was topped by Ace of Base, Tevin Campbell, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and lots other soulless crap. Bad music is not new, you whiners are too just old and lazy to find anything good.

  • @joynthis I can't upvote this enough. I'm 26 and I dread the day I stop listening to new music.

  • @joynthis YOU SAID "The Hot 100 the week Dulcinea came out was topped by Ace of Base, Tevin Campbell, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and lots other soulless crap".OK,but Ace of Base was good europop,Tevin Campbell was a good r&b singer and Mariah and Celine were divas.You forgot to think that MUSIC was still involved that day.Now all we have is a 17yo stupid hair twat with a 12yo voice who claims to be a latin lover and a Madonna/Missing Persons looter with meat dress and a bra spitting fire.

  • He looks like Steve-o....

  • just saw them in a squared and they were incredible...

    VOX + Falcon = HEAVEN

  • Glen still sounds amazing live, they changed the key the songs are in though so they sound a bit different now. I actually think he sounds far better than this performance now

  • Has Glen lost his voice on the current tour? I heard a live cut and he just didn't seem that strong...not like here.

  • Man I miss the 90's music.

  • Fuck!!! Por fin encontré a esta banda y a esta canción de hace años... Yesssss!!!!

  • lol, when everyone wore flannels, I used to rip mine and patch them with the same flannel.

  • Always loved the Toad. I got to see them in St. Louis, a few years back, in a club called Mississippi Nights (it's not there anymore). Drove from KC to see them. I wish I could have seen them back in their heyday, but at least I got to see them play live once. Hopefully, I'll get another chance someday. Everything they did, from Fear onward, was great IMO.

  • Vocals are so smooth in every one of their songs.

  • The 90' Soundgarden, Stone temple pilots,Pearl jam,Nirvana,etc ,etc today: Nothing

  • @09541745 There are still good rock bands (Anberlin, Dead Letter Circus, Alter Bridge) but I agree with you that the 90s was an incredible decade for grunge/rock/folk

  • glenn phillips still tours around, he's amazing solo and plays with a couple of groups right now I think. and I saw reunited toad a couple of years ago, they rocked. highly recommend.

  • What ever happened to these guys?

  • too cool. frog the moist bracket... excellent tune one of my favorite 90s songs.

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  • @CollectorOfMusic They are on tour now. Check your local ticketmaster or go to Toads website They are great live.

  • @CollectorOfMusic Well said!

  • @CollectorOfMusic they are still touring you know...

    there still is time... i'm seeing them tonight in philly.

  • Love the solo at 2:04; sounds waaaay better than the original on the album

  • @justbuch1 Yes i agree. This is an excellent live performance.

  • It's pretty much the same solo, only different guitar tone.

  • Yeaaaa!!! Love them!!!!!

  • Where can I find the whole upload of the 1994 Billboard music awards??? I even want the old commercials.

  • I always liked that part of that movie Drop Zone when they were practicing on that Air Flow machine and this song was playing! Rite on!

  • This song really takes me back... love it.

  • Fantastic band. Better performance than most of the headliners that night, if I remember correctly.

  • lol

  • @coldbluerain They Do! Glen use to travel extensively. Totally underrated. They kick it!!

  • They wrote great songs! That will always have influence! Love you Toad!!

  • Singer looks like a young StevO.

  • Met these guys back around '96 when they recorded an acoustic set at a recording studio I worked at in Atlanta. . Did an amazing set and then hung around to talk to the 30 or so fans that won a chance to be in the audience. Super super nice guys, and funny as hell. I still have the recording and listen to it.

  • We need a new album!!

  • remember that hootie and the blowfish started as a toad cover band.

  • hootie started as a cover band, not specifically a toad cover band.

  • that's not what i've heard hootie say in interviews.

  • @honestresponse These guys rip hootie and his blowfish to shreds.

  • i've listened this band in 1995

    saludos loreto-peru

  • Miller ripped the frog reference off from Pinkey and the Brain,its 'Frog the dry widget'.

  • I would of given the video 5 stars if it weren't for that annoying troll Dennis Miller. He irritates my rash.

  • Lol...

  • You mean musicians used to actually play music?

    Amazing

  • Cool! Saw them in Nov. of '94 in Colorado, must have been same tour. Sounded awesome then too, memories!!

  • who are toad the wet sprocket??

  • agreed...The older I get, the more relevant 'Toad' seems. I've loved Counting Crows since I was a kid...it's too bad this band couldn't have REALLY broke through like 'CC' did

  • While I haven't listened to them since elementary school, the more I look into their music, the more poignant their lyrics seem

  • These guys have always been cool, and they've been around 5 years longer than counting crows....helllooo lol

  • LMAO at Frog the Moist Bracket.

  • Buenos tiempos estos, ahhh!!!!

  • fucking 90's

  • best drumming by a troll ever

  • Awesome video awesome music

  • que cancion y que recuerdos!

  • you got good taste!! good times good music thanx for share this memories!

  • fuck dennis miller

  • dennis miller is the hippest, coolest cat this side of sammy davis, jr., can you dig it, babe? so what if his political views have matured along with his body?

  • Love that TOAD!

  • Toad is touring again. They're coming to Atlanta soon but I don't think I'll be able to go

  • The 90s were so much better than today. Real bands getting record deals and writing their own music. No TV shows to make fake rockstars. People today are so stupid to fall for that nonsense.

  • kill your tv.

    listen to indie music.

  • @reller83 Well said!!!

  • @reller83 remember new kids on the block? they were an overproduced, overpopped boy band from the 90s. there was great music from the 90s but there was also a ton of crap, generic 'alternative' bands coming out of the woodwork. every era has great stuff, every era has crap. that's just the way it is. to quote billy joel, "the good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems..."

  • @mattmatthew I second that. Grunge was not about writing music.  LOL it was HORRID! But in every decade there are a "few" real rock bands you have to look hard to find. This was one.

  • @reller83 No kidding. I have a hard time getting the younger generation to even bother to listen to my music. I'm a REAL musician but they don't seem to care much. I remember seeing this video when it aired. One of the songs of the year for me. GOOD song!

  • @reller83 actually the 70s had the greatest bands, but I was just a baby back then so it's in retrospect.

  • @reller83 Well said

  • @reller83 It's good to see others that agree with me on the whole TV singing contest thing.Some of these contestants had never performed live.They had been singing into a mirror in their bathroom and because they can sing a cover of a pop song they deserve a record contract? Really? WTF.

  • this is one of the best bands, sounds of the late 90's they rocked

  • Man, they just don't fucking make 'em like this anymore! One of the two best bands during the best decade of the best century of American music!

  • The best decade of American music? Are you high?

  • R.E.M. and Toad the Wet Sprocket were the light at the end of the tunnel during the 90's for American music. Too bad we forgot about them when we got out of that grunge tunnel and instead went for another much worse tunnnel called teen pop and gangster rap.

    The 90's were grim for American music. But I'd take the 90's over the 00's anyday.

  • Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Pretenders, Pet Shop Boys, Radiohead, Seal, Jamiroquai, Nirvana, Sublime, Weezer

    There`s plenty of good bands from the nineties, bud. REM and TWS were just a drop in the bucket.

  • I said out of the AMERICAN bands, R.E.M. and TtWS were the only ones I thought were good during the 90's.

  • R.E.M are amazing, I like TWS but Gin Blossoms were more gritty lyrically and performance wise(in my opinion) then TWS. What I'm trying to say is.......Toad the wet sprocket is not the only bad that brougth the good in the 90's.

  • So half the bands you mentioned aren't American.

    But on the American bands, let's just agree to disagree. I am pretty sure that neither of us want to act like immature kids cussing each other out over the internet.

  • Fuck u f@gg0t!

    Heh, just kidding. But seriously, Nirvana was an amazing group. Even if they don't suit your tastes you have to at least acknowledge the skill Kurdt Cobain had as a singer/songwriter/musician.

  • Anyone heard of The Counting Crows? HELLO?....

  • I did. I hate their cover of Big Yellow Taxi.

  • @Chr0nict0wn well said amen

  • freakin sweet!

  • Wow I remember seeing this when I was in 9th grade on TV.

  • Toad the Wet Sprocket is my favorite band of all time!

  • wow, hard to believe this song is 15 years old! still great!!

  • Yes, I agree this song is still great.

  • both bands are good, Toad is just a bit better

  • good band, where did bands like this go?

  • Santa Barbara, California's finest. TWS rules. Santa Barbara the city and Santa Barbara County is the most awesome place in California. And TWS better than any crappy L.A. band.

    That's why all the L.A. idiots come up to SBC to escape.

  • I think toad ripped the proggression beat and some of the singing tone...

    from...

    Found Out About You ~ Gin Blossoms

    I still like this soooo much better. xp

  • If I remember correctly, the bands knew each other.

  • I think its a case of the man telling us what to like. the record companys seem to catch a new sound and send us several bands that sound the same, for example creed, nickleback, theory of a deadman, and maybe colective soul.

  • Gee, what came first....hmmm...Um, TWS has been around far longer than the Gin Blossoms. Not to mention Glen Phillips writes his own stuff. Just because a band has harmonies doesn't mean they're ripping each other off. This isn't even close to Gin Blossoms.

  • That doesn't matter. Found Out About You came out BEFORE Fall Down, dude. That's the relevance.

    Toad is far better in my opinion, but this song is definitely as similar to FOAB as Bad Girlfriend is to Fire Woman

  • Actually - I don't think roughly a year can be considered 'far longer'. Toad The Wet Sprocket formed in 1986 and Gin Blossoms in 1987.

    Just saying.

  • Not even CLOSE.

  • the intro? come on. Really similar song, man. And nobody's hacking on it, either. It's a good song. I think it's awesome, and i can still see the similarity.

  • 27 and I still can't believe it, but I am glad that I got to experience and have the great influences like this. I don't know if it's just resistance to change, but I hate almost all the stuff I hear on the radio today. I wanna go back at least in time, not so much age.

  • Do you every reazile how old you really are?, It kills me...

  • Im 13.

  • are you serios? some people are older than we are

  • Great Live Performance !!! Very Inspiring Indeed !!!

  • yes i remember, i love this band dude!!!

    hell yeaH!!!!!!!

    i'm mexican, from guadalajara the city of tequila yeah!!! i want to have friends tha enjoy this music!!!

  • Amazing tight performance!!...these guys are stil around...but we need new cd!!! ....please!!

  • Great song... but now go listen to message in a bottle by the police. The riff is almost a direct copy.

  • I love this performance and this song. I have been a fan of Toad for quiet sometime; I was hooked when I first heard, "All I Want"

  • saludos desde peru buenos tiempos desde radio doble nueve abajo los ochenta que ya aburren los 90s fueron cool

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  • bien me gusta toad lo q pasa q en los 90s todavia no descubria el youtube menos veia los videos asi q si tienes mas grupos q recomendar, pues encantado me los dices pór favor, me llego tu mensaje am i correo gracias

  • Drummer reminds me of the Kindergarten Cop principal. She don't play the drums as good, though.

  • Solid live band

  • lol i remember the days when you could get away with dressing like that...

  • I used to dress like that and used to have 15 flannels at one point in my life.

  • Thanks for posting this! Toad was my soundtrack for my college days. Good times. Cheers!

  • toad definitely did not get the recognition that they deserved. Unfortunately the songs that made it for them were the ones featured in all those bad WB TV shows from that time. check out "In light syrup" to hear some b-sides etc. As for

    colinmccarty2003 and

    djtrixen little exchange, this is toad and they are performing just 1 song on TV for the dennis miller show. pyros, stage dives? come on. you can't even compare toad with the heavy metal hard rock acts.

  • iirc, it was 2 songs. Fall Down & Woodburning (closing credits)

  • Nice find, awesome Band!!

    Are they still around....?

  • they split late 90's ish, bass player started a band called "lapdog", glen did solo touring and a couple of albums. More recently they did tour together again, last summer maybe.

  • fantastic song... thanks a lot...

  • wow.. back when bands with talent actually got media exposure. i miss the 90's. now we have nothing but rap, r&b, kate perry, britney spears, and other uninspired hyper sexualized tripe from hollyweird perverting the airwaves. they should call it lamestream media instead.

  • i heard this in a wesley snipes film i watched last night called dropzone

  • this song is awesome!

  • "They just stood arround and played. no action, no pyro, no stage dives, no shout outs, very slow"

    Go see Whitesnake instead, Hessian.

    I saw them touring for Fear, it was religious.

  • colinmccarty2003: What does a band that *doesn't* suck need pyrotechnics for? To me, I've always felt the pyro was there to distract the audience from the crappy performance of musicians who don't know how to perform live. Toad knows how to perform live and has no need for stage stunts. I made the mistake of seeing Metallica in '98 on the Reload tour. Needless to say, they had (and needed) plenty of fire on stage. I suppose a band like Whitesnake might need them too... lol ;D

  • I miss the ninetys

  • loser

  • You say you saw them at the end of Augest, eh? How were they? I would imagine they would be a good band to listen to at the end of the sommer, epeshully in Augest.

  • very tight live version

  • extremely tight! they are definitive a live band, well rehearsed.

  • k buena cancionnnnnnnnnn

  • love this tune,awsome.

  • I am gonna see them at the joint in vegas on 8/31/08. What is thier bigest hit song

  • my fav is good intentions but people really like somethings always wrong

  • My favirite song by Toad would is Listen. Its not one of their bubble gum songs

  • Ah that would be the

    infamous Dennis Miller

    4 the intro...this isn't

    about him though, ONLY

    this song, which I still

    love...anyway, Great post -

    nice flashback! <3 5/5

  • The man who talks at the beginning sounds like Top Cat!

  • I'm amazed at how well their music has held up, though I suppose I shouldn't be since good music never goes out of style. :P

    Still! This was one of my favourite songs in GRADE SCHOOL, and Dulcinea is still one of my top 5 cds.

    Also:  Go away Dennis Miller. You're not funny, and you're taking up time that could be used to show more TtWS. :P

  • Wow, what is Glenn, like 22 in this performance? Seems like so long ago... :-(

  • i MISS the 90's... grundge & flannel shirts.

  • Yeah!,and with Bill in the White House and everything else...