Good news...best band in past 20 years...aka TOOL

[Amarelooms]

is back on tour this summer sons....hopefully a new album soon as well. Fuckers better come to Texas.

http://www.toolband.com/index_frames.html

God bless

:elephant

[The Reckoning]

haha amarelooms would listen to Tool

[greyforest]

seen tool twice, first time they were awesome!

the other time all the audience all had chairs. seriously what the FUCK is up with seating in a motherfucking rock show? this pussy shit is more and more common now.

[Death In June]

I was hoping tool would retire. They seemed to have reached the limit of their creativity well before the release of that shitty 10,000 days album.

[redzero]

I listened to Tool... then I turned sixteen.

Oh wait--I never listened to Tool.

[IronMexican]

dirk4mvp listens to Tool

[JoshO501]

I was hoping tool would retire. They seemed to have reached the limit of their creativity well before the release of that shitty 10,000 days album.

I remember them saying they would rather people sit and watch them. i think it was on this documentary a while back.

[JoshO501]

They had a few good songs on their last album.

[Drachen]

Damn, I hope that they come to san antonio. Count me in the group who freakin loves tool. Even their early stuff still stands up just as well as it did when it first came out, and Aenima is one of the greatest, most hate filled songs in a long time. You can just feel his contempt coming through the speakers.

[panic giraffe]

if i wanted to listen to repetitive music that all sounds the same, i would listen to drum n' bass.

[Shelly]

I don't like Tool, but Maynard makes some pretty good wine! His movie was interesting also

http://www.bloodintowine.com/

[Whisky Dog]

if i wanted to listen to repetitive music that all sounds the same, i would listen to drum n' bass.

Have you ever even heard Tool? It's pretty much the opposite of that, the songs don't even remotely sound the same. It isn't radio rap or pop.

[z0sa]

if i wanted to listen to repetitive music that all sounds the same

We're talking about Tool, not whichever rapper you're referencing.

[panic giraffe]

style of music, not a rapper, or radio rap or pop.

i'm sorry but every tool song carries the same timing and beat.

maynard the actor is pretty cool, same with his comedy, but musically i can't listen to most radio rock, including tool, because it all sounds the same. aenima is the same as undertow, which you can hear both of in lateralus, and 10, 000 days. i dig the bill hicks references but that's about it.

[Amarelooms]

if i wanted to listen to repetitive music that all sounds the same, i would listen to drum n' bass.

this idiot had no idea what the fuck he is talking about....exact opposite of Tool dummy. Learn to swim

:elephant

[panic giraffe]

you guys smoke tooooo much weed.

that says a lot coming from me.

[Girasuck]

if i wanted to listen to repetitive music that all sounds the same, i would listen to drum n' bass.

Honestly dude...you really shouldn't be posting in this thread. You have NO CLUE what you're talking about.

I don't mind people saying they don't like Tool, but to say something like this that's completely false just shows your lack of knowledge.

[dirk4mvp]

dirk4mvp listens to Tool

oh, excuse me for not jerking off to one band all the time :jack

[Spurminator]

I like Tool but the show I went to was overpriced, underwhelming and packed with annoying people. Once is enough. I'll keep buying the CDs though.

[Rogue]

dirk4mvp listens to Tool

Dirk might like tool, I doubt it though, but still that's no where near as bad as something illegal that you like, isn't that right IronPedo? :nope

[monosylab1k]

Sorry, I'm not much interested in pseudo-intellectual wankery. There's a reason people eventually grow up and stop listening to this crap.

Tool is definitely more tolerable than A Perfect Circle tho. APC is what Nickelback would be if the lead singer read alot of Edgar Allan Poe as a kid and acted like a pretentious wine sipping goth.

[Mavs_man_41]

Sorry, I'm not much interested in pseudo-intellectual wankery.

:lmao

[Lackluster]

if i wanted to listen to repetitive music that all sounds the same, i would listen to drum n' bass.

drum n bass is actually an extremely varied category of electronic music in terms of production style and scope of sub genres. over the last 20 years it's progressed from raw breakbeats to more jazzy and ambient sounding to industrial and everything in between.

but if you're strictly a house fan or just don't like electronic music, i can understand where you're coming from.

[panic giraffe]

no the joke was, i really do like drum n' bass.
dj hype, london electricity, roni size, and i find it less repetitive then any tool album.
but i don't like that trancy d n' b like high contrast and that shit. if you're gonna go, go hard or get arty with it and go jazzy.

[Drachen]

drum n bass is actually an extremely varied category of electronic music in terms of production style and scope of sub genres. over the last 20 years it's progressed from raw breakbeats to more jazzy and ambient sounding to industrial and everything in between.

but if you're strictly a house fan or just don't like electronic music, i can understand where you're coming from.

House bites, can't stand that junk. I enjoy trance, specifically goa, and Dnb, specifically breaks.

[Lackluster]

no the joke was, i really do like drum n' bass.
dj hype, london electricity, roni size, and i find it less repetitive then any tool album.
but i don't like that trancy d n' b like high contrast and that shit. if you're gonna go, go hard or get arty with it and go jazzy.

ahh gotcha :toast

agreed on style of dnb too. was always a fan of the harder sound (loxy, dylan, bad company) then settled into the jazzy stuff (mutt, alix perez).

[panic giraffe]

fuck yea bad company.
saw them a few times.
one time a kid literary died right next to me.
at least the music was good.

[Lackluster]

fuck yea bad company.
saw them a few times.
one time a kid literary died right next to me.
at least the music was good.

that wasn't that warehouse party that was like kinda out in the middle of nowhere in austin back in like 02 was it? right before shot down on safari was released?

grim scene. :(

[panic giraffe]

that wasn't that warehouse party that was like kinda out in the middle of nowhere in austin back in like 02 was it? right before shot down on safari was released?

grim scene. :(

yup that one.
like towards far east austin.
right before things in the scene got really bad and collapsed on itself.

it was all over the news.

i just remember him being out and my girl at the time trying to give him water and he refused it.

i found out later he was stationed at ft.sam. sad indeed.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Every time this last tour I saw tool it was worse than the previous.

But the entire cost is worth it to hear them perform Lateralus as the closer. Such an amazing amazing song live.

Mind blowing.

I still go to their concerts in hope I will hear Third eye again, last time I heard it was in 2002.

[symple19]

Tool is awesome. Saw em in 97' at Lollapalooza (Atlanta, Lakewood amphitheatre) and it was one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. The music was incredible, as was the ridiculous amount of liquid I ate that day.

They played just as the sun was setting, and the combination of their music and really crazy video presentation (on fucking humongous screens both above and behind the stage) was awe inspiring. Stuff off of Aenima was what they mostly played, but they also played a few songs off Opiate, which is still my favorite Album of theirs.

Would love to see them again.

[DieMrBond]

Tool are amazing live, an absolutely astonishing group of performs. They toured here a few years ago - and it was easily the best concert I have ever been to.

I hope they tour Australia again soon... and record a new freaking album already!

[panic giraffe]

To be honest, the thing that most makes me go meh to this thread. is that i've seen both tool and a perfect circle live. unimpressed. especially with a perfect circle, if some hot chick wants to spend the money she earned on a pole taking me to corpus and buying the ticket, then how the fuck are you going to be in a dark corner behind a screen for the whole fucking show? at least at the tool show there was rope climbing contortionists to entertain me through the dialed in ho hum music.

[romad_20]

To be honest, the thing that most makes me go meh to this thread. is that i've seen both tool and a perfect circle live. unimpressed. especially with a perfect circle, if some hot chick wants to spend the money she earned on a pole taking me to corpus and buying the ticket, then how the fuck are you going to be in a dark corner behind a screen for the whole fucking show? at least at the tool show there was rope climbing contortionists to entertain me through the dialed in ho hum music.

Wow, really? That's the only thing you get out of their music?!:wow

Danny Carey is worth the price alone, although I hope they change that stale setlist and stage show that's been close to the same since 2001.

[RedsLakers24]

Its better then Radiohead

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Maynard seems to be losing his voice capabilities though. Just listen to 10,000 Days.

One of the three times I saw them for that tour he had a fucking cold and still did the show (I believe it got even worse after and he had to cancel the SA show that was next)

Well I wish they had postponed the Dallas show. He sounded like total jackass. And he kept complaining the whole set how he had to take a piss.
During Aenema instead of saying "learn to swim...." he kept sayin "gotta piss...."
kinda funny but he still sounded like ass

[smeagol]

Never heard of them . . .

[scott]

I've seen Tool probably 10 times over the years, and used to be one of my favorite bands. But I think after Aenima they did start to become very repetitive and their songs sound almost formuleaic. If you've heard one Tool song these days, you can almost predict the way rest of the songs off the album will sound. Sure the chords are different, but the formula is the same.

With that said I think their earlier work, particular Aenima, stands up as an all-time great album.

I think the Mars Volta is what Tool was on their way to and should have become.

[badfish22]

I listened to Tool... then I turned sixteen.


this tbh. I can say that about a lot of bands though it seems.

[sook]

Every time this last tour I saw tool it was worse than the previous.

But the entire cost is worth it to hear them perform Lateralus as the closer. Such an amazing amazing song live.

Mind blowing.

I still go to their concerts in hope I will hear Third eye again, last time I heard it was in 2002.
that and undertow are my fav fucking songs.


I like APC a lot more though. Anyone who thinks tool isn't a great band has been corrupted by mainstream music way too much.

[jb4g]

I have seen Tool 3 times in my life, the last show at the At&t center was the worst by far. IMO Maynard doesnt give a fuck anymore, I dont even understand why they are still touring, not like they need the money. He should just go sit in his vineyard and play with his grapes all day. $100 bucks and we got 9 fucking songs, and most of them were off that crap 10000 days album. Even hearing Aenima live one last time couldnt make up for that shitty show.