Golden State Theatre presents Toad the Wet Sprocket on Thursday, October 8 at 8pm. Tickets are $54-$268. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

About Toad the Wet Sprocket

Many of Toad the Wet Sprocket’s earliest champions were record store clerks who put the Santa Barbara quartet’s early albums into unsuspecting listeners’ hands, convincing them to overlook their unusual band name and give them a shot, perhaps comparing them to R.E.M.

And that’s all it took. Lead singer Glen Phillips’ heartfelt, introspective lyrics expressed in his deep, buttery croon backed by the earnest instrumentation, catchy melodies, and vocal harmonies of guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss had fans hooked from the outset.

Even with everything that’s changed over the last few decades, one of the band’s main drivers has remained the same since they first started performing together in high school: bringing people together to experience music as a binding force and to help them feel like they belong.