TOOL - C/D!?

I caught the Meshuggah/Tool show in Toledo, Ohio.
It might have been the only time I ever went to Toledo, Ohio.

Anyway, I like the new record a lot and i feel that "7empest" might be the quintessential Tool track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEGZdBEgH1M

Someone on Reddit said they get a different playing order when using Android Auto or Apple Carplay - don't know if it works, am going to try:

Numerical UFO (just in case the album title is an anagram too) ("Rueful Monica" is another one)

1: 7empest
2: Chocolate Chip Trip
3: Culling Voices
4: Legion Inoculant
5: Litanie contre la Peur
6: Invincible
7: Mocking Beat
8: Fear Inoculum
9: Descending
10: Pneuma

Is there any way to buy this album in a standard affordable format? I've only seen the CD box version for €85

Nope. So far that's the only available physical release. Rumored that a vinyl release and standard CD version is coming, but nothing concrete just yet.

Got an email with just this attached pic.twitter.com/pwqbYhtSYW

— Jeremy D. Larson (@jeremydlarson) September 21, 2019

Kinda hard to get Tool when you have no ears

"Parabola" does that sometimes

Tour started with a festival show @ Aftershock - live debuts of Fear Inoculum & Pneuma, lots of clips on Youtube

Wonder if they'll play "Part of Me" throughout this tour. Would love to see 'em do "Jerk-Off" too.

Can't remember hearing a P.A. live recording from them since like '93

+ drum cam obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FssULNGSZIA

That's incredible.

That made me google whatever honking huge snare he uses, and it turns out to be this custom monster that weights 40lbs!!!!

https://www.musicradar.com/news/in-pictures-tool-drummer-danny-careys-custom-vk-drums-snare

Coronavirus isn't stopping this Tool cover band pic.twitter.com/YW73kZis5l

— Nick Ciarelli (@nickciarelli) March 16, 2020

sad lol

MJK got the virus:

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/09/maynard-james-keenan-covid-puscifer/5929660002/

Never been happy with his handwashing routine, at the best of times.....

Dio chancer charity is auctioning off, among other things, a sink signed by the member of Tool:

https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/pqecF9J66dd-S0SyAPcP_HUUJhQVewBuAxDmvSut29R7vXW49yl4GdnUbN4K09JdFc1HUHmvUaw0bcwVNPFkbDLG5N7kt7WMREet1a_DRgmIHKlW1GzH7pb-AQDBRCvgsmSu3LgIwxnM=s0-d-e1-ft#https://files.constantcontact.com/e541c545501/a6292036-4b83-4412-9664-fc0991454119.jpg

That Dio was a bit of a chancer at times, but I'm assuming you meant "cancer" charity.

Nope, you assume wrong, I totally meant chancer. Like Chancer the Rapper-er.

Ah, my mistake. lol

She's a dancer, a romancer
I'm a Capricorn and she's a Chancer

Can I get Maynard to come install the sink after COVID?

You're a chancer
But you're chancing on air
Just a matter of time till you fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRXukZRNW6Y

(justin & danny playing aenima at Berklee)

"pneuma" definitely the best tool song ever

that big riff is SO FUCKING SWEET

(the one that starts 3 minutes or so in)

i think it's an underrated album.

also, bit the bullet and got tickets to finally see them in january, but mainly because blonde redhead is opening(???)

i impulse bought two tix for me and my best friend

Yeah, I think I'm going with a pal. Pricey, but you only live once, and besides, those gongs don't pay for themselves.

I'm a bit too late for a ticket to Antwerp (venue sucks anyway) or Amsterdam. 330 euros for a ticket in Köln? haha, no thanks.

Tool is of course pretty awesome. I think we can all agree the best part of Tool is Danny; I could listen to an entire album that's just Danny. At least by default, I think we can also all agree that the worst part of Tool is Maynard; I could listen to a Tool album with no vocals at all. That said, a Tool album without Danny would I think be noticeably worse. But would a Tool album with someone other than Maynard be better?

The last album barely has any Maynard on it

True. I think they got impatient? Ironically, the one track that sounds like it's mostly Danny kind of sucks.

maynard sounds good i like his voice tho

At the same time, I wish he was singing in another language or something.

his voice is just texture to me, i dont pay attention to their lyrics really at all

Someone else singing the same songs would still be singing the same words so I don't think the baseline argument here has been thought out at all

Huh? I meant someone else singing different words from the start. Like, if they had a different singer from the beginning.

Now I'm envisioning a reality show contest like "Rock Star: Tool," or them scouring the Philippines for a cover band ringer or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUg7Kroepc

"I like Tool but they would be better if they sang completely different songs" is a take, sure

what if they sang songs about Tools. like allen wrenches

If every Tool song was about tools and not just sung *by* a Tool, Maynard would rise in my estimation to at least the third best part of the band.

xpost So is being intentionally obtuse. The drums, guitars and bass would be intact, so functionally the same songs, just with a different singer/words. Or, as I said, even no singer/words. How essential is Maynard to the equation, is the question. Like, there is no doubt REM without Michael Stipe is not REM. But Maynard (as illustrated by posts noting his relative absence on the last record, or one whose lyrics can easily just be ignored) doesn't always seem the most pivotal component of the band.

I do really like the last song on Lateralus but not sure if that's more becuase no singing or because it sounds like metal Can.

Ah I see, you don’t actually know what a song is

I could listen to a Tool album with no vocals at all

this is me but with Radiohead. I'd probably love Radiohead if there were no vocals

Maynard's voice is cool. It's distinctive, at least. It never bothered me.