Tool (band) - any good?

[cashflyer]

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.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

$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).

[Nostril Cheese]

Tool is awesome live.

worth it

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by Nostril Cheese
Tool is awesome live.

worth it

+1.

[w21055]

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

[scottmandue]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
$60-ish for ANY show is probably too much.

I'd MUCH rather pay for a smaller venue, but a lot of bands just don't do 'em anymore (sadly).

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

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

[rammstein]

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.

[tangerine911S]

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

[stomachmonkey]

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

[legion]

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

[rhjames]

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.

[legion]

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).

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally posted by legion
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.

[Az911]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
$60-ish for ANY show is probably too much.

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

[legion]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
I always knew you were the closet hippie liberal type.

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

[rhjames]

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

[cashflyer]

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.

[tonypeoni]

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.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally posted by Az911
If you limit yourself to $60 or under you are going to miss a lot a good concerts.

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.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by Az911
If you limit yourself to $60 or under you are going to miss a lot a good concerts.

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