when Fantomas blows yr ass off stage, ya might wanna think about the meaning of that...
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
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 PearlMar. 16 - Las Vegas, NV - The PearlMar. 18 - Reno, NV - Reno Events CenterMar. 20 - San Diego, CA - Cox ArenaMar. 21 - Tucson, AZ - TCC Arena - REVMar. 23 - Albuquerque, NM - Tingley Coliseum - REVMar. 24 - El Paso, TX - Don Haskins Center - REVMar. 26 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T CenterMar. 27 - Corpus Christi, TX - American Bank Center
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
HI DERE
http://myspace-240.vo.llnwd.net/01230/04/25/1230135240_l.jpg
― stephen, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― ilxor, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
well
yes.
but opiate and parts of lateralus are dope imo.
― 20 HOOS poppin steens on kawasakis (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, this StanM character you've got on here is annoying.
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
xxp: grunge?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link
average soulless radio grunge that all sounds the same
I suppose this makes sense if you think all grunge sounds like "Spoonman"
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i like tool, but i think the deftones have eclipsed them as my "thinking man's guitar center" band of choice
― stank pony (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know why, i guess a slightly larger emotional range than tool, and chino's goth/new wave/post-punk vibe too
― stank pony (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Traitor oh wait. (Both bands are great.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1372/1104831475_63cbc05ddc.jpg?v=0
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Bump for the Toolbaby.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
That's a dope baby.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 May 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― borntohula, Monday, 18 May 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that's the only happy baby I've ever seen, no joke.
― cant go with u too many bees (Abbott), Monday, 18 May 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't speak for every Tool song, but this one is classic.
― billstevejim, Monday, 18 May 2009 05:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
He wore huge bunny slippers here in Austin a few weeks ago. And drank a bottle of wine by himself.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
man I had forgotten what a massive tune "Sober" is
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Dreamland, Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Thursday, 3 July 2014 10:41 (ten years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
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
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
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??
― jmm, Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Ha! I think I've purchased exactly one copy of Spin in my life and it was that TOOL issue.
― circa1916, Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:51 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 July 2014 02:19 (ten years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/tool-wins-multi-year-lawsuit-ramps-up-production-of-new-album/
― how's life, Monday, 16 March 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
Already? It hasn't been 10,000 days yet!
― StanM, Monday, 16 March 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't a lawsuit behind the Lateralus delay too?
― jmm, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:20 (nine years ago) link
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]
― how's life, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:22 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
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
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
I remember listening to it when it first leaked and thinking it was at least half-hoaxed, never got into that one at all
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 10 August 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link