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I like them. No wait I love them. I think besides Pearl Jam they are my favorite band. Maynard has a wonderful ability to make me feel... and usually (this might be hard to believe) Their music puts me into a good mood. I mean it takes me out of a rut. I love to sing while listening too... I would do Tool karaoke but it just doesn't seem like the type of music you would hear at a karaoke bar... My favorite album is Aenima, but I couldn't tell you what song is my favorite that album is good from front to back. Anyone else appreciate them? Or like A Perfect Circle Even? Please discuss... feel free...
Here by my side, it's heaven.
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A Perfect Circle: Love Them. Saw them 5 times, 3 with the first band, twice with the new incarnation. The first album and first band was better. They need Paz back. She's way more solid of a bass player than Jeordie. Plus she plays violin. Emotive sucked, and Thirteenth Step was good, but too heavily influenced musically by maynard. Billy need to take the band back and just make maynard sing like they did with the first album. Too much maynard = musical inferiority.
I have yet to see tool...
even if you paid to see Tool, you still wouldn't. Now they just stand in the dark and play you shitty 5 second animations on a loop on a massive video screen to hold your attention.
No stage presense.
Which is a shame, because they used to be all about stage presense. Now they are the rock equivilent of a dead fuck.
Of course I disagree. Lateralus is my favorite album, and I enjoyed thier 01/02 tour regardless of how much they moved around. And besides, I have a Tool show from 96, and Maynard is the only moving around. The others just stand there, and they don't move any more than they do on some of my Lateralus tour dvds. In fact, Maynard moves around more on some of those dvds, than the dvd I have from 96. I can't wait to see them live, regardless of how much they move on the stage. The Grateful Dead don't run around the stage, but they are still awesome live.
have you heard the bonus track from salival? the one w/the interview w/ adam jones about how if you go to the show to see them whip their hair around you are missing the point....
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
yeah, and i think Tool are a little full of themselves.
Unless you go to Toolband.com every single week and read the books on their suggested reading list, you really don't know fuckall about what the songs are about anyway.
So you'll have to excuse me if maybe i don't feel like doing 6 hours of research just to understand what the fuck maynard is talking about when he stands in the dark and refers to the "collective unconscious" a dozen times throughout the set.
Play the damn music and give the people their money's worth, that is all i ask. and that doesn't mean you have to do fucking backflips. but at least pretend you want to be there.
well, i guess it all depends on what you want out of a show...as adam said in the interview; did him not thrashing hair around make the music any different? godspeed you black emperor don't have much interaction w/ the crowd during their shows and i still think they put on one of the best shows i've ever seen. they like being anonymous, nothing wrong w/ that....pink floyd wasn't running around being visible during their shows and they are considered one of the best live bands to see....
and lastly, i don't need to read any books to know what a 'collective unconscious' is
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
And I hear Godspeed is excellent and they just play in the dark... I would like to see them for sure...
it was pretty much dark...the place i saw them the stage was in like a cove type thing...so in front sorta and above was a wall where they played projections and short films looped and drawings, whatever....i think the only thing they said was 'good evening' and 'thank you, take care of yourselves and each other'
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Do they only play in Monteal?
Please fill me in Ive had it nearly 4 years and with most CDs I have Im usually aware of bonus tracks.
Ta
And the Grateful Dead as well. Most of those jam bands just stand there and play music. At least Tool has visuals, and it's not like Mayard never moves.
i dunno, i downloaded mine from a peer to peer network...it only said 9 - Bonus Track
just checked a tool faq and it's nto an official part of the release
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
I consider them my two favorite bands, with a couple more close behind. Being a great live band is key to me. I actually saw Tool 8 times (all on the Lateralus tour) before my first Pearl Jam concert. Sometimes I think back and try to remember what it was about Tool that made their shows so incredible because they're so different from PJ, and it's hard to explain. No, they don't interact with the crowd, Maynard says the same thing every night and now he just does his thing at the back of the stage in the dark, but they are similar in energy that they generate from the crowd. It's just an intense experience. One good thing about Maynard stepping back this last tour was that it brought the focus more to Danny who's just a monster on the drums.
I only got to see APC once (opening for NIN) so I can't comment too much on their live show. They're decent based on the recordings I've seen. As far as their albums go, Mer de Noms was great but I'm not a big fan of Thirteenth Step.
ha, they, and their side projects do play there a lot, but it is their home town so...when i saw them in '01 the closest they camewas 8 hrs away in ohio
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
I've got about 15 bootlegs or so from that tour...he doesn't say the same thing every night....at least not on the bootlegs I have lol.
When you look at it, theres NO difference at all between the bands movement during earlier tours compared to the Lateralus tour. Maynard on earlier tours was right up front moving around in a small area, and on the Lateralus tour, hes moving around in the back in a small area.
I don't have the interview on my Salival either.
I do enjoy the hidden track after LAMC that's called "Maynard's Dick".
(and LAMC is a laugh riot unto itself).
... oh yeah, and OPIATE rules all.
started listening to tool around the time aenima came out but didn't see them on that tour, despite only being 13 at the time i'll forever regret not being there. did see them 3 times on the lateralus tour though, melbourne 2001, melbourne and adelaide 2002, and had the amazing good fortune of getting my hands on a backstage pass in adelaide. maynard is without compare and danny carey is just... danny carey, say no more
aenima is the greatest album ever recorded, end of story, and needless to say untertow lateralus and opiate are classics also. thirteenth step is brilliant, even better than mer de noms, and apc were nothing short of breathtakingly beautiful live.
i know better than to hold my breath waiting for the new tool album but nonetheless cannot wait to hear it
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2522
Go down about halfway to the long post by Bruce.
I don't know if they are full of themselves but I agree toolband.com is full of a lot of worthless shit. Just let me know when the album is coming out!
That's what the band said on an online chat last month...
He often did the thing where he'd call the city's name a couple of times, wait for everyone to cheer then say "Sounds more like <insert nearby city's name> to me."
Before Lateralus, he'd tell everyone to go home, curl up in front of the fire and masturbate to Caligula/softcore porn.
"See you on the other side"
The "think for yourself, question authority" speech followed by "never repeat what other people say" in the earlier legs of the tour.
Yeah, he sure did repeat himself a lot, when he spoke at all.
Don't get me wrong, I love the band and their shows. Making different random comments each night just isn't their thing.
Goals for 2006
1) see PJ as often as possible
2) see Tool as often as possible
3) purchase a really good pair of headphones, smoke a fatty and listen to Aenima and 13th step.