― Morgman (Morg), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 22 April 2005 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 22 April 2005 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 22 April 2005 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt!
(Dud.)
― Dave M, Friday, 22 April 2005 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 3 March 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
"Well DUH, who wouldn't know the reference by the 19th century Serbo-Croatian author Djilas Vrensic."
"Uh..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
...
― Dan (O RLY?) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 4 March 2006 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 4 March 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hat (Hat), Sunday, 5 March 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 6 March 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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!)
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s527757.jpg
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.toolband.com/news/images/xmdays_mini_art.jpg
Plus 10 new promo shots of the band here. (!)
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
http://toolshed.down.net/pix/10k_promo/02.jpg
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
tool fans= the uber-dud of all duds! make ICP fans seem like low-key intellectuals.
― eedd, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer is a belly with a guy pierce in it (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 17 April 2006 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 08:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― fez, Monday, 17 April 2006 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 17 April 2006 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Monday, 17 April 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 17 April 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I enjoy Tool a lot, but I disagree with this statement.
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 17 April 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Harpal (harpal), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Every Tool fan I've ever met has somehow convinced themselves that Tool are these untouchable musical geniuses.Also, every Tool fan I've ever met listens to really shitty music.
xpost: (1 YEAR AGO!) I listened to part of that Mastodon record today
To me, Mastodon and Tool have very little in common,and Mastodon PWNS
― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.chartattack.com/pics/2005/12/19-maynard.jpg
― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
then sharing The Pot with them afterwards
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 February 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
https://store.toolband.com/storeFine art Foetus In Skull coming Dec 16th
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
https://www.fourtheye.net/2022/12/tool-fetus-in-skull-maquette-coming-soon/I'm betting on "hella expensive"
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 March 2024 13:05 (three weeks ago) link