TOOL - C/D!?

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.

I wanna know what a song is
I want you to show me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dr6ZlcR6Fo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zfYO9sZjrE

^ one of the comments: should have named the band "Toot"

Didn't I just see something about one of them peeing on the audience?

yeah i just read that too D:

oh - so THAT's why they're suddenly trending.

The Ex Eye record from a couple of years ago might satisfy the desire for an instrumental Tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xq9enRx18

i was at this festival and am beside myself that I missed the peeing

there's video footage and it's way more explicit than you'd expect

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.