  Remove Images  Arts and Entertainment Toad the Wet Sprocket
by Anuhea Yagi  May 05, 2011  We were in danger of becoming
strictly nostalgia, so it's been great to feel like we're a band
again," says Glen Philips, frontman of Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Though they officially disbanded in 1998, none of the group's
four members (Philips, bassist Dean Dinning, drummer Randy Guss
and guitarist Todd Nichols) stopped pursuing music. Toad began
"tentatively" playing out a few years ago (their Web site
tagline is "quality music on and off since 1986"), and recently
reformed to hit the road with earnest. Now that they're touring
and writing new music, Philips says ,"it's not all about the
past."  Paying homage to British phenom Monty Python, the band's
name references a sketch that lists what Philips calls, "really
ridiculous band names [where] Toad the Wet Sprocket was
basically the worst of them all." He says the band had a gig—but
didn't have a name—and "figured it be hilarious to see [Toad] in
print and have it be u