The Hundred Inevitables

"...the hundred Inevitables hide their predictions & go to bars & drink & get drunk in their very special conscious way..." - Bob Dylan, 1965Although the idea was born on tour in the USA and first mentioned on a bus in Germany, The Hundred Inevitables are really the product of the relatively unknown Dallas music and recording scene.Toby Pipes is half of The Hundred Inevitables' songwriting team and fronts the band as lead singer and piano player. He works as a record producer and engineer at Bass Propulsion Laboratories (BPL) - the downtown Dallas studio that he co-owns with his brother Todd. Toby toured the world in the 1990s as a guitarist for the pop-rock band Deep Blue Something, and that's when he first began hanging out with guitarist and singer Jeff Whittington.Whittington, who handles the other half of the Hundred's songwriting duties, began his music career as the singer and guitarist for Denton, TX band Adam's Farm which supported Deep Blue Something on several national tours in the mid '90s. He'd often join Deep Blue onstage for their encores which included the Beatles tune "Dear Prudence" - with Toby on lead vocal. An idea quickly followed and Jeff and Toby discussed forming a new band. A couple of years later - The Hundred Inevitables finally came together.The band released an early CD in 2000 called "Studder," but their most promising work to date has been with producer and engineer Stuart Sikes. Sikes, who's worked at the famous Easley Studio in Memphis, has recorded projects by The White Stripes, The Walkmen, Modest Mouse and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. He mixed the Jack White-produced, Grammy Award-winning Loretta Lynn album "Van Lear Rose". Stuart recorded, mixed and co-produced the forthcoming CD by The Hundred Inevitables beginning in summer 2003. Taylor Young, who joined as the band's full-time drummer for the recent recording sessions, has toured extensively in the UK, Europe and Australia with P.W. Long, Polyphonic Spree, and Young Heart Attack. When he's not touring, working as a Dallas session drummer or hanging with R&B singer, drummer and legendary band leader Buddy Miles, Taylor somehow survives on one-dollar margaritas, chips and salsa.Nolan Thies plays bass guitar and is the newest member of the group. He works as a recording engineer and session musician at BPL and other studios in and around Dallas.