Tool (band) - any good?
 

Tickets for an upcoming Tool concert go on sale this weekend.

I've enjoyed their albums for years, but I want to ask how their stage show is. Some bands really don't have their sound outside of a studio...

What about it? I don't want to throw away $53 (plus BS ticketmaster charges) on a bad show.

$60-ish for ANY show is probably too much.

I've got a bunch of bootleg Perfect Circle stuff that's pretty damn good, but I have no idea how Tool would be live. . . \

"Stadium" shows (as the $50+ ones tend to be nowadays) don't hold a lot of appeal for me. If I've got to watch the band on a jumbo-tron, what's the point? I'd MUCH rather pay for a smaller venue, but a lot of bands just don't do 'em anymore (sadly).

Tool is awesome live.

worth it

+1.

They also sell out in like 45 seconds when they come to town.

Same here... I would much rather see and hear a band that be squashed in with the unwashed masses.

The free tickets I got for the California 500 were $75... there were also $100 and $150 tickets :eek:

I think my first concert was Jo Jo Gun and Backman Turner Overdrive at the Long Beach arena for $15.

I've seen Tool twice- 1st time in Pittsburgh. Was the best show I have ever seen, period. They had a person suspended upsidedown like 100 feet up slowly spinning for like 5 minutes, the lightshow was unreal, the band was spot on musically. Their drummer impressed me in particular.

Saw them the 2nd time in Cincinnati- they were ok that time. I think Maynard was sick.

If its anything like the 1st show, you won't be disappointed.

Havent seen a live show but I agree maynard is really good. I love Stinkfist.

Tool Rocks. One of the few "Real" acts left.

I was supposed to see them in 2001, but Maynard got sick and they canceled the concert.

one of the most technically proficient bands on the planet-----

a must see if you're in to that kind of music.

I loved NIN on their previous tour, this last one sucked. if they tour again, I just wait for the video....

Clapton was worth much more than I spent, would go again but with closer tickets----wife hated it because "it was just a bunch of guitar playing" (little vocals)----Duh.....not a guy you go to "see", you go to "hear". New kid , Truck--a Dwayne Allman re-incarnation, was great although excessive.

I saw Phish at Alpine Valley in '96, they played all of my favorite songs of theirs as well as Ramble On (LZ), Sabotage (BB), and Also Sprach Zarathustra (Straus).

I always knew you were the closet hippie liberal type. :p

If you limit yourself to $60 or under you are going to miss a lot a good concerts.

Believe it or not, I was. Then I woke up and saw the world for what it is.

Naw...you're still asleep at the wheel----

This show is a reschedule because..... somebody was sick.

When I was younger, I enjoyed standing in the pit. But as I have aged, I find that I have very, very little patience and I think the pit will be too much hell to enjoy the show. Ticketmaster has tickets at two price points ($39.50 & $52.50). I'm hoping the higher priced ones enable me to enjoy the show without having to shiv some jackass.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am.

Tool is a awesome band probably the only real Alternative band still left from the 90s I guess you could count pearl jam.The two most unbelievable musical experiences I have ever had are hearing a Ferrari 6 4 2 warming up and forty six and two. Maynard James Keenan is the best live vocalist I know of.

Maybe and maybe not. . . I've seen a lot of good shows (and yes, some of them were more than $60 a ticket) but honestly the BEST shows I've seen were local bands at either bars or small clubs with admissions of about $25 to $50. Like I said, standing in a stadium with 80,000 of my "closest friends" is something that I outgrew a while ago. If I go to see a band life, I want to SEE A BAND LIVE. I want the raw experience of the performance, not a sterilized, mass-produced hunk-o-McEntertainment tossed out to the dumb masses.

There are a few "bigger" bands (like Tool) that I like, but I doubt I'll get the chance to see live. I just have to hold out for that occasional smaller venue show or whatever. Just not much interest in stadium shows at all. It's sort of the antithesis of what most music is about anyway. . . (Interestingly I did see ZooTV by U2, which was fantastic and a hilarious commentary on the whole idiocy of "mass produced" performance). I think they really do pine for the days of playing smaller shows and in their hearts wish they weren't so "big". Fun, yes but not something I have much interest in doing regularly.

yup. $90 for floor seats at Roger Waters last summer was definitely worth it.

Even if you're not into Heavier music, Tool is worth a listen. They are heavy, but absolutely melodic. Their musical abilities are clear when they play live- they sound extremely tight. They will change up thier arrangements too, to make it unique. Another cool listen was off of their live CD a few years ago- they covered No Quarter. Its awesome.

Cool live performances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEN5LWCFfMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g2VCpyEH9I

+1

and the videos are otherwordly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtlbteGQZnk

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bull**** three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless ****ing hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any ****ing time. Any ****ing day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bull**** three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless ****ing hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any ****ing time. Any ****ing day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip****s.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Stupid ****, silly ****, stupid ****...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.
Learn to swim.
Learn to swim.

Mom is going to fix it all soon,
Mom is coming round to put it back
the way it oughtta be...

Learn to swim.

**** L Ron Hubbard and
**** all his clones.
**** all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

**** retro anything.
**** your tattoos.
**** all you junkies and
**** your short memory.

Learn to swim.

**** smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
**** these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

I have been an absolute Tool nut since '94.
My head is filled with worthless Tool factoids. I'm glad to see there are a few others on this board who appreciate great music.

I've actually emailed Danny Carey a few times. :)

Did you know maynard attended Westpoint for a short amount of time? The lyrics from Intollerance reference part of the Westpoint honor code: "I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those that do"...
"You lie cheat, and steal, you lie, cheat, and steal..."


The guitarist, Adam Jones, is an artist in every sense of the word. He was an art major, I believe and is responsible for most, if not all, of the Tool videos. ...particularly the stop-annimation segments from their earlier videos. Adam also designed many of the skulls seen on the alien spaceship in the second Predator movie.

:)

More specifically, I would like to say that I would saw off both of my testicles with a rusty lid to a tin can if I could do this:

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I'm a fan of a heavier sound but it must be accompanied by some intelligence.

Tool, Marylin Manson, Trent Reznor, Rage, Alice in Chains all do it for me.

I woke up late one Sunday morning and heard a band practicing on one of the sound stages where I work.

It took me a few minutes to realize that it was Tool.
A couple of days later I saw Maynard as he left the Studio lot (driving a Lexus :)).

I don't get it. Sounds like marginal Black Sabbath circa 1975. The drummer is crisp with his double kick, but the overall sound is...hmm...doesn't really send me.

There were no vocals in the clip I listened to. Am listening to another of the videos posted further up.

Hmm...listened to Opiate and Prison Sex. I don't hear how he's all that and a bag of chips. At least Ozzy had his own distinct "voice."

I'll stand by my original comment. Sounds like Black Sabbath. Without the hooks. Ymmv.

Love Ozzie. Think he wrote some great lyrics. War Pigs is just as relevant today as it was 36 years ago. Still sounds just as good.

Can't compare them. They come from completly different eras and have polar opposite social, economic and educational bases from which they derive their material.

Tool is great art rock with a message. Sabbath comes from a more personal place. It's less contrived and more emotional.

Tool rocks.

Jack, thats officially the coolest thing I've ever read here.

This is a really tight band. I hear what Nostatic is saying, but there is something different or maybe something more to these guys. They have a different kind of energy than any other band I've ever seen. Helmet had something similar when they played live. Maybe Sabbath had the same kind of thing going, I don't know.

Not April yet. Here's some more trivia that ties it in to Pelican. When I got my 911 in Indiana, Tom and I flew out to drive it back together. When the electrical system failed in St. Louis, we were stranded for two days. I remember a long afternoon at a St. Louis bar with some rock people where the game was to name the 'most Metal' song of all time. None could top 'War Pigs.'

well, Jack is a writer, so he has to be full of BS. But I doubt he's pulling your leg on this one...

Like nostatic says, BS is my trade. But if I were going to make up rock stories, they'd probably be about drugs and groupies, not pig skulls buried by the pool. ;)