Alternative Rock Singer On Hit That Shook Pop Radio To Its Core | Professor of Rock

Glenn Phillips on the story of Toad the West Sprocket’s classic 90s hit All I Want from their masterpiece album FEAR. How the band formed and was named after a Monty Python sketch, all in our toad the wet sprocket interview. We Have New MERCH! https://bit.ly/ProfessorsMerch Thank you to this Episodes Sponsor, Zenni Optical Incredible Prices on New Glasses - https://bit.ly/ZenniOpticalShop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Moon Comix, Greg Arends, Walter O. Wright II, Zachery Perry, Jason White, Jack Mongan, Kevin Kirschenmann ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out My Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's 80s Store - 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 - Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ - 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX - Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk - Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access To Backstage Content Become a Patron - http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Purchase The Albums Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent​ https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_...​ https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of...​ ​#Alt #Rock #Story Hey music junkies and vinyl junkies Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest 90s songs of all time for the music community and vinyl community. If you’ve ever owned records, cassettes and CD’s at different times in you life or still do this is your place Subscribe below right now to be a part of our daily celebration of the rock era with exclusive stories from straight from the artists and click on our patreon link in the description to see our brand new show there. One of Professor of Rock 90s great years, 1991, a monumental year in music… It seemed like everything changed overnight. College rock went mainstream, although it was packed into the catch all moniker Alternative along with many other sub genres. It was quite a time… REM released Out of Time which turned the band into megastars on parallel with U2.. Perry Farrell of Janes Addiction co founded Lollapolooza, and later in the year Nirvana went to #1 with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden not far behind. Goodbye Glam Metal hello Grunge and Alternative. It was a really interesting time as really the culture completely changed. in 1990 and even part of 1991, the 90s were’n’t really the 90s yet. It was still the 80s as far as music was concerned and it wasn’t the good 80s.. it was the bad 80s. Before all of these changes it seemed like the 90s would be completely different. I remember being in high school at this moment and really coming of age with what was going on in the world it was eye opening. Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones nailed it when He sang I Saw the decade end when it seemed the world could change in the blink of an eye. It was a cool time because Technology hadn’t completely taken over yet and there was still some wonder left in the universe. I can hear a song from that time and it doesn’t just take me back to a specific memory, sometimes I can remember everything about a certain down to what I ate for breakfast. I’m exaggerating a little but not much. It was during that time where anything seemed possible with our whole lives ahead of us. Their were a lot of bands that were part of this musical take over. Toad the West Sprocket also rode in with the Calvary, that year and I was an instant fan. They crawled out of the underground with their platinum selling album Fear. The band had formed in 1986 and consisted of lead signer guitarist Glen Philips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning and drummer randy Guss Toad the West Sprocket took its name from a Monty Python comedy sketch that was entitled "Rock Notes”, where a journalist delivers a nonsensical music news report: where they said: Rex Stardust, lead electric Triangle with Toad the Wet Sprocket, has had to have an elbow removed following their recent successful worldwide tour of FINDLAND: Flamboyant ambidextrous Rex apparently fell off the back of a Motorcycle "Fell off the back of a Motorcyclist most likely,”

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