I thought guitar riffs and bass lines are how Tool songs start out, then drums get written, with vocals being the last?
― StanM, Sunday, 14 November 2021 05:40 (two years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 November 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
Oh man Danny Carey pulled a cake boss pic.twitter.com/Fauu0rBQfu— the ghost of txtmas past (@metaltxt) December 14, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
Tool has a drummer?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
"But I'm a tool!" "yeah buddy, arms behind your back"
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
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
― StanM, Sunday, 6 February 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
(I love those songs, don't get me wrong)
― StanM, Sunday, 6 February 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
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
― StanM, Sunday, 6 February 2022 13:17 (two years ago) link
They should do a club tour of just the three of them rehearsing on crap gear.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 February 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
^
― StanM, Sunday, 6 February 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
The video of Danny Carey playing The Pot with those young music students is very endearing.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Sunday, 6 February 2022 16:15 (two 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 (four weeks ago) link