TOOL - C/D!?

The other day my coworker and I were getting something to eat on a quick break and we heard "Schism" floating from a car stereo. We approved.

But what if you got into them when you were 22 in 1993?

As for being metal or not, my ex said they reminded her of late eighties Metallica most of all.

chuck eddy alert! lol.

anyway, yeah, technically they're more post-"grunge"/Jane's Addiction/Soundgarden/Helmet/alt-rawk or whatever. But seriously if they had first dropped in the 80's they WOULD be called metal, probably lumped in with proggy thrash like Voivod or something.

i've never found Tool 'lifeless' as Siegbran does. i think the main thing with the band is that even though they are a heavy rock band, they are very precise and controlled. there is very little chaos and anarchy in their sound. maybe that is why they can sound 'clinical', and that's probably too stick-up-the-ass for some people. but i think thats underestimating them as they can be surprisingly melodic and cathartic when you least expect them to be (at least for me).

but i enjoy tool probably now a lot more than i did when i was heavily into them as a teenager, because with listening to them now it's not so tied up with them as 'my band' and how that reinforces my identity.

annnnnyhoo, just giving my two cents worth.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt!

(Dud.)

"Well DUH, who wouldn't know the reference by the 19th century Serbo-Croatian author Djilas Vrensic."

"Uh..."

...

It was indeed gone, but now it's back!

03 Mar 06

JUST IN CASE YOU'RE INTERESTED...
The artwork for the upcoming Tool album is going to the separators/printers today, therefore it will eventually be leaked out that the name of the album is (drum roll.......) ' 10,000 days '

... so there it is.

Vicarious
Jambi
Wings For Marie (Pt 1)
10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)
The Pot
Lipan Conjuring
Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)
Rosetta Stoned
Intension
Right In Two
Viginti Tres

(Gentlemen, start your speculengines!)

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s527757.jpg

http://www.toolband.com/news/images/xmdays_mini_art.jpg

Plus 10 new promo shots of the band here. (!)

http://toolshed.down.net/pix/10k_promo/02.jpg

tool fans= the uber-dud of all duds! make ICP fans seem like low-key intellectuals.

I didn't really know who this band was or what their deal was but now that I feel like I do it seems more shocking; like they're not some shock band, those look like a bunch of fairly serious professional musicians to me.

Also I have always been under the impression that maynard was extremely critical to the band and that he wrote the music and lyrics. if he doesn't actually write the music then he could easily go. I guess he kind of does that anyway since Pucifer is 10X more prolific than Tool.

I thought guitar riffs and bass lines are how Tool songs start out, then drums get written, with vocals being the last?

Pretty sure Maynard is indeed the last thing added and has nothing to do with the music. They accumulate guitar, bass, drum ideas, refine and cobble them together over many months, then he adds vox and lyrics and song titles. I've seen a few interviews with the band where they admit they have to walk him through some of the tricky stuff to help him come up with lyrics and melodies that fit, and interviews with him where he'll finally come up with something but by the time he brings it to the band they've changed or otherwise rearranged the music. Sounds like a tough slog.

From what I understand about Rush it was almost the opposite. Neil would accumulate lyrics, Geddy and Alex would accumulate riffs and songs, Neil would give Geddy some lyrics, Geddy and Alex would collect their riffs and stuff and arrange them into songs, with Alex programming drums, then Neil would come in toward the end, listen to the demos and come up with his own drum parts. Then I think the band and producer would tinker further with arrangements. More of a full, equal collaboration.

Oh man Danny Carey pulled a cake boss pic.twitter.com/Fauu0rBQfu

— the ghost of txtmas past (@metaltxt) December 14, 2021

Tool has a drummer?

"But I'm a tool!" "yeah buddy, arms behind your back"

this tour's setlist feels so refreshing after years of Schism/Stinkfist/Aenima/46&2/Parabol etc : https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tool/2022/smoothie-king-center-new-orleans-la-b88396e.html

(I love those songs, don't get me wrong)

Part of the last rehearsal before the tour was streamed on instagram on "crap gear" & without Maynard: The Pot & The Patient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6iJlmb-EcY

They should do a club tour of just the three of them rehearsing on crap gear.

^

The video of Danny Carey playing The Pot with those young music students is very endearing.

then sharing The Pot with them afterwards

https://store.toolband.com/store

Fine art Foetus In Skull coming Dec 16th

https://www.fourtheye.net/2022/12/tool-fetus-in-skull-maquette-coming-soon/

I'm betting on "hella expensive"

The Beato interview with Danny Carey is great. It's remarkable that, according to Carey, he's never done any Tool drum tracking to a click, but I guess it makes sense, because how would that even work? He also offers the flipside to old people complaining about computer-perfect tempos in contemporary recordings, that some young people raised on quantized grid perfection might find the varying tempos of old stuff (from classical to classic rock) equally frustrating. I wonder.