Deep Blue Something: Whatever Happened To The Band Behind 'Breakfast At Tiffany's"

Deep Blue Something: Whatever happened to the band behind the song 'Breakfast at Tiffany's?'

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Deep Blue Something would be best known for the hit single Breakfast at Tiffany’s and while the song shot the group to fame around the world, there history would be plagued with legal troubles and changing trends. Today let’s take a look at whatever happened to Deep Blue something.

Two brothers from Texas Toby and Todd Pipes would attend Sam Houston State University together in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Todd was the eldest of the two and It was during their time at Sam Houston State, the younger brother Toby wanted to change his major, but the program he wanted wasn’t offered at Sam Houston, so he transferred to the University of North Texas in Denton. Once Todd graduated from Sam Houston with an English degree. he would receive a call from his brother who told him how great the music scene in Denton was. For Todd it presented a great opportunity as his mother was after him to go to graduate school and going to University of North Texas would let him get that degree and join the music scene with his brother. Keep in mind this was the spring of 1991 so grunge wasn’t popular yet at the time. Initially Toby and Todd’s first musical outfit they put together leaned in a major electronic direction utilizing keyboards and drum machines taking inspiration from British groups like EMF, The Stone Roses, Happy Monday’s. Side note i’ve done a video on the stone roses, link is down below. Todd would front the band while Toby would play keyboards.

As the brothers started to look at booking live gigs they soon realized that they were an anomaly out of a lot of bands who were playing clubs and they couldn’t just go up on stage with a synthesizer and drum machine, so according to Todd who told backstage and behind he scenes youtube channel out of convenience the brothers changed their sound to be more straight forward rock n’ roll. Toby who only played keyboards at the time had to learn how to play guitar.

The brothers would enlist a drummer named john Kirtland who was playing in a band LoveSwing. They wanted to add a rhythm guitar but make it acoustic.. They would end up finding a guitar player named Clay Burgus who actually lived in their apartment complex. They decided to call their own band Leper Messiah not taking their name from the Metallica song but from a line in the David Bowie song Ziggy Stardust.

Frontman and bassist Todd Pipes would admit to Backstage and Behind the Scenes YouTube channel that because of the band’s name some people at their first several gigs thought they were a metallica tribute band. Of course the band’s sound was nothing even remotely close.. It was after a few gigs of not wanting to be mistaken for a metal band that the group finally changed their name. The band had written a 15 minute long unnamed song and they were at rehearsal one day when they were kicking around names. Drummer John Kirtland suggested Deep Blue Something not thinking that would be he name, insead thinking the word something would be replaced with another word but Todd loved the name and instead of using it for just the song they used it as their moniker going forward. By this point in time grunge had now taken over, and for the band’s they presented an alternative sound. The approach worked as they were soon selling out shows around Denton. Despite their early success Todd would tell backstage and behind the scenes even though they now made music their career they had no idea how to go about marketing themselves. They didn’t have band photos, they didn’t even have a demo, no bio or even a mailing list. Eventually the band started to learn the trick of the trade by talking to other bands and they would turn to a fan of there’s for financial help,

They would cut their first album 11th song in 1993, which was put out independently. It was by this time the band’s second guitarist Clay Bergus would leave the group. He would be replaced by Kirk Tatom. The band’s first album would contain the track Breakfast at Tiffany’s.