Toadies

Tower Theatre OKC

Toadies at Tower Theatre in Oklahoma City on May 30.

Tower Theatre 

DOORS AT 7 / SHOW AT 8Balcony - Reserved SeatingGA - Standing Room ONLYVENUE INFO<ul><li>Box office and will call open 30 minutes before doors</li><li>Free parking lot directly south of the theatre across 23rd street</li><li>Full bar inside venue</li><li>ATM in the lobby</li><li>No weapons of any kind are allowed in the building</li></ul><a href="http://www.towertheatreokc.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Visit our website for more information! </a> ARTIST BIOIt’s been 26 years since the Toadies started playing rock music in FortWorth, Texas. Through lineup changes, shelved albums, memberdepartures, band break-ups, one-off reunions and full-on reformations, theToadies are an act that has experienced nearly everything.After bursting onto the national scene in 1994 with their breakthroughRubberneck album, which begat their signature single “Possum Kingdom,”the successful follow-up single “Away” and the immense fan favorite “Tyler,”the Toadies returned to the studio in 1998 with the pressure of trying tomatch their first album’s success. That success didn’t translate to labelsupport when the Toadies submitted their second album, Feeler. Perhapsaptly, things in general just went wrong. “We got approval for a record,”says Vaden Todd Lewis, “and somewhere in the process of handing over themasters to get mixed, it got unapproved. So we went back to the drawingboard.” Eventually some of the Feeler tracks made it onto Hell Below/StarsAbove—a sophomore offering that came seven years after Rubberneck.Disappointed and dejected, the band dissolved just a few months after thatalbum’s release.Coming out of the Toadies, Lewis, guitarist Clark Vogeler and drummer MarkReznicek were disillusioned. Vogeler went to work as a film editor beingnominated for 3 Emmy Awards, Rez hooked up with the country-westernband Eleven Hundred Springs. Lewis initially thought, “Fuck this wholebusiness. I’m gettin’ out. I just wanted to do anything else.”Toadies fans stuck with them though, often inquiring as to the band’sactivities. Says Lewis, “People just asked me “So, what are you doin’ now?”Soon it occurred to him that music was all he wanted to do. “I’m a musician.That’s what I do, and I’m not happy not doing it.”Meanwhile, “Possum Kingdom” never left the airwaves, enjoying constantrotation at major modern rock stations. Fans clamored for a Toadiesreunion. “The band never went all the way away,” says Lewis. A one-off show in Dallas in 2006 became a full-fledged reunion with theaddition of former Hagfish bassist, Doni Blair. Ever since, the Toadies havesteadily built momentum. A third album, No Deliverance, came in 2008 andsaw the band selling out shows nationwide while also playing Lollapaloozaand ACL. The “lost album,” Feeler, finally materialized in 2010 followed byPlay.Rock.Music. in 2012. Highly successful national tours followed eachrelease. The band’s annual Dia de Los Toadies festival now in its 8th year –has featured the likes of Gary Clark Jr., Ben Kweller, Old 97s, Mariachi ElBronx, Helmet, The Black Angels, Centro-matic, Sarah Jaffe, The Sword andBlack Joe Lewis.In 2014, Toadies celebrated the 20th anniversary of Rubberneck by playingthe album front to back for the first time ever on a U.S. tour. With 20 yearsand thousands of shows behind them, the Toadies sound even better. Lewissays “Performing these songs will never get old for me so long as I'm able tolook out and see smiling, sweaty faces looking back,” says Lewis.

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