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What I loved about Toads Place is that they let you do more than just show up and set your band up and play. You could actually curate some kind of show that was interesting to people, different.Cyndi Lauper Read more The story of Toads place is the story of two people. When Brian Phelps told me in the fall of 2019 that he was working on a book that would tell the amazing storied history of Toads Place, I suggested he bring me on board for a collaborative effort. I was gratified he quickly agreed to forming this partnership. The Toads story is how two partners, Brian Phelps and Mike Spoerndle, used their passion and skills to make Toads nationally known as a major music venue despite holding only about 750 people. Randall Beach, Preface Read more Toads hosts music legends and local favorites alike Read more Toads has a special energy to its shows When the big acts performed, I had developed a habit of scanning the crowd to see if people were excited and involved. If the performance progressed nicely with a slow but distinct build-up, I knew it would get people back in the club. At the end of a song with a long duration, if the band did it just right, and as the last note would play, the people would yell simultaneously. It would seem as though the crowd had synchronized with the performance. Whenever this happened, the show was a success.Brian Phelps, Chapter 2: Toads Goes National Read more Excerpt Chapter 8: The Local Bands Long before we imagined we could ever bring superstar acts like Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones to Toads, local bands were our lifeblood, helping us pay the bills and keeping us in business. Even after we began booking nationally known bands, we continued to offer our stage to local musicians, often as opening acts. We learned our audiences didnt demand acts who were on the cover of Rolling Stone to spend an evening with us; they were happy to enjoy the homegrown talent we shared with them. Peter Menta formed the Ten Years Late Jug Band in 1975 (our first year), but he also booked bands for us from 1975 until 1978. We were the house opening act for Toads, Menta said. We got in from the ground up. We opened for the heavyweights of that time: Willie Dixon, Aztec Two-Step, NRBQ, and George Thorogood. In the early days, the local bands were important to the survival of Toads Place, he recalled. Local bands had draw. The members of some of the first bands to perform at Toads laugh as they recall the conditions back in 1975. We played on a stage that, to my memory, was plywood up on some cinderblocks, or some such primitive thing, remembers Christine Ohlman, called the Beehive Queen because of her amazing tower of platinum blond hair. She was a founder of the Scratch Band, described by Dave Marsh in Rolling Stone as playing contemporary rock R&B. Rob Jockel, co-founder and singer of Eight to the Bar, recalls the night Big Mike told the band, after they played their four forty-five-minute sets, that Toads was closing for a couple of weeks to do some renovations. Were expanding into the back warehouse space, he said. The bands had been using that area as a dressing room. When the doors closed and the patrons left, Jockel adds, we were all given hammers and large tools of destruction and told we could help tear down the walls and get them started on the new room. I have no clue why we were game, but we did chip in. There was plaster, wood bits, and dust all over the place. We stayed a few hours, drank beer, and left around 3 a.m.

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🗸 Author(s): Randall Beach
🗸 Title: The Legendary Toad's Place: Stories from New Haven's Famed Music Venue
🗸 Rating : 4.7 from 5 stars (104 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
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