Back and Blue

�Breakfast at Tiffany�s� made a lot of people sick to their stomachs. Can Todd and Toby Pipes make them forget?

A A A Comments By Shannon Sutlief Thursday, May 22 2003

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The fact is, Todd and Toby have left their fingerprints on a new generation of Dallas bands, shaping the scene that gave birth to them and then dumped them from the nest. They are still hanging around--whether people want them to be or not. They're there for bands that need an engineer, a producer, a kick in the pants to get in the studio and finish some tracks, book a show, get the album artwork done. Maybe just a shoulder to cry on. Whatever might happen to a musician in this town, you can believe the Pipes brothers have already been through it.

"If we had just continued recording like we were doing when we were teen-agers, then we never would have had that perspective of being in a band and knowing that you can't listen to yourselves," Todd says. "So, I think that the best thing we got out of it--beyond the technical knowledge we gained by working with the people that we did--was that we know how it feels to be in a band."

Mark Graham

Todd and Toby Pipes didn't get lost in the maze of success surrounding "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

Judy Walgren

Deep Blue Something, circa 2001, does the "band members walking, not looking at the camera" pose for Aezra Records.

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More to the point, they know how it feels to be in a band that people, for whatever reason, hate. And, as Whittington says, they know how to laugh it off.

"Deep Blow Someone?" Todd says, smirking. "There are lots of better things you could do with our name."

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