TOOL - C/D!?

don't cry for me, StanM! i'm doin just fine w/o em!
i FULLY realize that people DO ,not only, like em, but live/breathe/sleep/hypothosize/screw/eat cereal to em!!!

i simply don't see it...and man, i've tried.
lord knows, if one were to go by sheer volume of exposure, i should be a fan-o-matic. but, them, as with radiohead have not yielded fruits upon repeat ventures. they're all you, stanny boi!

The stage production on the next TOOL jaunt will be "more intense" than the band's last trip, with computer animation and props possibly being included.

The band is supporting its fourth album, "10,000 Days", which has sold 1.4 million copies since arriving last May. The CD's next single is "Jambi".

TOOL is currently headlining the Big Day Out festival tour in Australia and New Zealand.

Confirmed TOOL North American tour dates:

Mar. 15 - Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
Mar. 16 - Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
Mar. 18 - Reno, NV - Reno Events Center
Mar. 20 - San Diego, CA - Cox Arena
Mar. 21 - Tucson, AZ - TCC Arena - REV
Mar. 23 - Albuquerque, NM - Tingley Coliseum - REV
Mar. 24 - El Paso, TX - Don Haskins Center - REV
Mar. 26 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
Mar. 27 - Corpus Christi, TX - American Bank Center

well performed and tight, but it all seemed a bit poorly paced. wings I and II were the definite lowlight. nice to see that aenima and lateralus got a fair serve though plus, danny carey always keeps things interesting

HI DERE

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This band's fans crap their pants over them ENTIRELY too much. Calling a bunch of average soulless radio grunge that all sounds the same "the best music they've ever heard"... that's too much.

well

yes.

but opiate and parts of lateralus are dope imo.

Man, this StanM character you've got on here is annoying.

xxp: grunge?

average soulless radio grunge that all sounds the same

I suppose this makes sense if you think all grunge sounds like "Spoonman"

i like tool, but i think the deftones have eclipsed them as my "thinking man's guitar center" band of choice

i don't know why, i guess a slightly larger emotional range than tool, and chino's goth/new wave/post-punk vibe too

Traitor oh wait. (Both bands are great.)

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Bump for the Toolbaby.

That's a dope baby.

Gonna try to see them when they roll through Austin next time.

i hope they get back on the album bandwagon sooner than later. but i suppose another tour would suffice.

I think that's the only happy baby I've ever seen, no joke.

I can't speak for every Tool song, but this one is classic.

Saw them last night here in Sacramento: always surprises me how great Maynard still sounds, after 21 (!) years.

Jello Biafra's band opened (Guantanamo School of Medicine, I think?) - the drummer & bass player sat in for epic Lateralus session, which was pretty cool. Short setlist on paper, but they played for 2 and a half hours. Was a little disappointed at no Sober or Opiate on the setlist, but it didn't ruin my night or anything. As we were walking out someone was saying 'Wish Maynard wasn't hiding in the back in the dark'...and I thought, 'When is he ever not hiding?' I mean, even if he's up front, and he hasn't done that for a while I don't think, he's always in a wig or a catsuit or body paint. Oh and he was passing around a bottle of wine...guessing it's from the private stash, lol.

Honestly, as a concert venue Arco arena is a smoking crater of suck. Acoustics in there are awful.

He wore huge bunny slippers here in Austin a few weeks ago. And drank a bottle of wine by himself.

man I had forgotten what a massive tune "Sober" is

On the Lollapollooza tour in like 2003, he came out in a blond cornrow wig, and those horrible Adidas sweats with the button snaps down the legs.

I love this band, and I always thought as I grew up maybe I would get tirred of them. Hasn't happened yet. Blasting sober right now.

I got back into them this year. 10,000 Days was new to me. It's a funny album - mostly uninteresting except for this one massive song, "Wings for Marie"/"10,000 Days", which goes beyond anything they've done previously.

I suspect we'd have a new album by now if Maynard wasn't interested in doing ten million things at once. (Which I'm fine with -- do what makes ya happy.)

This is a band that 'real' music fans love to sneer at but I love 'em. Lateralus blew my mind when I was 15 so I'll always have a soft spot. I think 10, 000 days isn't as bad as a lot of people think (though not as good as Lateralus/Aenima obviously), but if they keep us waiting for a decade and release just more of the same I'll feel a little bit let down.

I suspect we'd have a new album by now if Maynard wasn't interested in doing ten million things at once. (Which I'm fine with -- do what makes ya happy.)

it's my impression from recent interviews that he's down to do another record, it's the rest of the band that has to finish composing it

anyway i revisited lateralus the other week and i still have it mostly memorized which i guess is a consequence of falling hard for this band at 12

What was disturbing for me, when I went back and reread it a few weeks ago, was discovering that I still remember almost every sentence in Spin's June 2001 Tool feature. Why would my brain have committed that to memory??

Ha! I think I've purchased exactly one copy of Spin in my life and it was that TOOL issue.

Yeah, it's the other dudes who take a long time, which makes sense, considering they're the ones writing and arranging all that stuff. Maynard I imagine is the last ingredient.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/tool-wins-multi-year-lawsuit-ramps-up-production-of-new-album/

Already? It hasn't been 10,000 days yet!

Wasn't a lawsuit behind the Lateralus delay too?

Two of them!

A legal battle that began the same year interfered with the band's working on another release. Volcano Entertainment—the successor of Tool's by-then defunct label Zoo Entertainment—alleged contract violations by Tool and filed a lawsuit. According to Volcano, Tool had violated their contract when the band looked at offers from other record labels. After Tool filed a countersuit stating that Volcano had failed to use a renewal option in their contract, the parties settled out of court. In December 1998 Tool agreed to a new contract, a three-record joint venture deal.[41][42] In 2000, the band dismissed their long-time manager Ted Gardner, who then sued the band over his commission on this lucrative agreement.[43]

Last summer, the band revealed one of the major reasons for the delay was a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving their insurance company suing them over “technicalities” in a copyright case

The Gaye estate can't win them all.

lol i didn't know ned liked 10,000 days so much at the time. i revisited it today and it turns out i haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate "rosetta stoned"

wish ilx had pre-covered it

I remember listening to it when it first leaked and thinking it was at least half-hoaxed, never got into that one at all

Wings for Marie is great. I never got into the rest. Rosetta Stoned is really bad.

yeah "wings for marie/10,000 days" is wonderful. so is "right in two." rest of it is ehhhhhhhhhh