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Origin | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
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Discography | Toadies discography |
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Members | Vaden Todd Lewis Mark Reznicek Clark Vogeler Doni Blair |
Past members | Charles Mooney III Lisa Umbarger Guy Vaughan Terry Valderas Michael Jerome Matt Winchel Tracey Sauerwein Darrel Herbert Mark Hughes |
Website | http://www.thetoadies.com/ |
Toadies are an American rock band formed in 1989 in Fort Worth, Texas, best known for the song "Possum Kingdom". The band's classic lineup consisted of Vaden Todd Lewis (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Lisa Umbarger (bass guitar), Darrel Herbert (lead guitar), and Mark Reznicek (drums). The band released two studio albums before disbanding in 2001 after Umbarger left the group. The band reformed and released the album No Deliverance in 2008. In 2010, they re-released the album Feeler with Kirtland Records (the album's original release had been denied by Interscope in 1997). The band's most recent album, The Lower Side of Uptown, was released in September 2017.
Few would argue that Rubberneck is the most influential album of the '90s, but it is distinctly grunge, and it is distinctly Texan.
Lewis had left his mark on the early 1990s grunge scene with the Toadies, but the group broke up in 2001 after recording only two studio albums.
The Toadies were one of the hotter prospects in the major label grunge wars of the early/mid-1990s, but their lengthy waits between albums and internal dissention eventually broke apart the band after the release of their 2001 album.