[QUOTE=joas]I'm not sure I get the whole idea behind the different track listing for Lateralus; I just love to listen to the CD..


So, I'm really into TOOL, but I don't know jack about some of the odd stuff people know/found out about the band or anything relating with them. Want to start a list of random facts you know on them perhaps others might not?[/QUOTE]

MAYNARD:

Attended the United States Military Academy ("West Point") prep school. [1984]

Was offered a lead role in the film Panic Room (2002) by David Fincher himself, but turned it down due to commitments to his band Tool.

Son Devo born. [1995]

Co-founded music group A Perfect Circle with Billy Howerdel, a friend of his who also worked as a guitar technician for Nine Inch Nails. [1998]

Is a big fan of "The Kids in the Hall" (1989).

Attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Was classmates with Gillian Anderson at Kendall University.

He is a big fan of Bill Hicks. In Tool's third album, there are many references to this great stand-up comic and they take excerpts from his performances.

Formerly engaged to Jennifer Brena Ferguson. (2003)

Bandmate of Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor, and Danny Carey.

He is a wine enthusiast, and has over 2000 bottles of wine in his house.


ADAM:
Can be seen on the Jurassic Park DVD, working on a model of a dinosaur. Exactly ten minutes into the documentary, he is shown adding small dots of clay to some sort of dinosaur.

Played in a band with Tom Morello called Electric Sheep while they were attending Libertyville High School in Illinois. The two would become musical contemporaries again in Los Angeles when Morello became the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and Jones formed Tool.

Adam was schooled in straight makeup at the Studio Makeup Academy in Hollywood. He was a makeup artist, sculptor, set designer, and special effects designer for Rick Lazzarini's Character Shop and Stan Winston Studio.


and the other 2 guys, seem to have not as much, but thats that


woo, 300 posts

holy **** i havent been to this web site for like a few months (sadly) this thread was still a child it had like 10 posts

Tool is becoming quite popular where i live : )
i believe i started it
HICK COUNTY

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]I agree with the multiple pedals linked up for triad. it sounds close to whatever it is he uses, as when I linked up my pedal with a friends, then the amps distortion I got what sounded like Adam's contniuous feedback. However, god knows how he gets some of them tones.[/QUOTE]

i wonder if you can use your synth in two different ways at once. that might help produce some of the tones are aren't created by wah and feedback. that or the epilady he uses has some kind of motor in it. i know that motors against pickups do crazy ****.

After reading the last two pages, i'm even more amazed by Tool. Now i feel like listening to them. wow

[QUOTE=guitrguy]im not into tool that much. but i do like the song sober, and from the tool videos ive seen they strike as pretty weird but, i still think manyard is a good songwriter..... and one more thing i heard maynard is a necropheliac is that true???[/QUOTE]

Lol no its not true, yeh there music videos are very artsy. Adam jones the guitarist produces the videos.

Their videos make no fu[color=white]c[/color]king sense.

And no, Maynard is not into necrophelia.

Lateralus & the Qabala
 

I have posted this before, but for new toolites & those who enjoy the mystic of Tools "magick music":


[URL=http://www.toolpantheon.com/lateralus_meanings.htm]The Correlation between "Lateralus" & the Qabala[/URL]



I think the albums have infinite meanings, correlating to the listeners' level of experiences. Somehow, after words, the many different interpretations seem to hold a genuine essence. The above link has some specific information for those interested in the "Lateralus" Album and the connection to the achetypes, the tarot, qabala, tree of life, ect. :thumb:



Also, to a former post about the range of musical diffculty between band members... All pieces demand the same concentration. Carey could cast a spell with every beat. Keenan manipulates his own beautiful instrament, vocal chords. Binded with Jones and Chancellor, Tool is a machine. Like an engine of ....I'll let you fill in the blank. I think that they are completely equal. Check out that link above, and research the stuff you dont recognize, knowing will help you expand your creativity.

[QUOTE=BlindWriting]I just tried playing the beginnings and endings of each song on Lateralus in that weird order. Since I was using iTunes I had to adjust the crossfade playback myself differently each time, but when it got it right, it worked.

And when it worked, it worked beautifully. :D[/QUOTE]

Dude, I love your icon... MRH is pimp juice!

A little research to give more insight into the world of Adam, and some kinda explanation about his epilady effect. The original question was if he felt inadequate as a guitar player at times:


[QUOTE]
AJ: Yeah, absolutely. I am not a technical guy. I mean, you
see these guys from GIT, or wherever, and they know 50
different chord progressions in C(min)maj7. I’m not there. I
like Frank Zappa, and Ry Cooder and Stevie Ray Vaughn and
Jimi Hendrix and all those guys, but after a while the lead
guitar thing started boring me. So I never really went there,
and it wasn’t important to me to practice scales. So in that
respect, I feel really inadequate. If there’s some really good
guitarist in the audience, and I know he’s watching me, I just
go, “God, he must think I suck!” I play from my gut, and
play as passionately as I can, but I’m not a very good guitar
player, comparatively. I’m really just into what we do, and I
love writing riffs, and I love challenging myself to play in a
different time than Danny’s playing on drums, and trying to
figure out something over the top of it that sounds really
cool. But as far as being able to fluidly solo over something,
I’m not into it. That’s why on some solos I’ll pick up an
Epilady, one of those things ladies use to rip out their hair. It
has this revolving, figure8, guitar-like string one it; I keep
my on it to stop the motor, and it goes, “rrrrr,” and then I
can let it go “reeeh” [gradually increases pitch]. Using delay,
and other kinds of effects, it can be really powerful.[/QUOTE]

And then explaining why:
[QUOTE]
AJ: To be honest, I saw Dave Navarro do a solo with a
vibrator once, and it was kind of cool. I didn’t have a vibrator
around – I’m sure Dave has several! Just kidding. [laughs].
But I started putting electrical things up to the guitar and
getting really cool results. I got one of those old hand
massagers, and I could hold the motor and control it. Buzz
from the Melvins showed me you could take a remote from
your TV, hold it to your pickup, and make your guitar
go “beep, boop, beep” – you get different tone right from the
pickup. Then you put some flange and delay on, and it
sounds great.[/QUOTE]

How doeds he use the epilady? My assumption was he uses the tweezing things to pluck the string multiple times :confused:

When does he use that? Am I the only one that doesn't know what an Epilady is?

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]A little research to give more insight into the world of Adam, and some kinda explanation about his epilady effect. The original question was if he felt inadequate as a guitar player at times:




And then explaining why:[/QUOTE]


interesting stuuf you posted there, I never seen that before.

[QUOTE=Kage]When does he use that? Am I the only one that doesn't know what an Epilady is?[/QUOTE]


a little shaving like device for the ladies.

you just put it on your leg, ( or any spot where you would like to remove hair.)
and it pulls out the hair in it's entirety

Does he just get the sound of the motor through his pickups or does he actually play the strings? I use an electric toothbrush to sound the motor and change it's speeds but I can't getm it to play to strings. I want an E-bow.

The epilady has sets of tweezers i think...my understanding was he got the epilady to pluck the strings, but the mention of a vibrator aswell wouldn't really work.

[url]http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CD7ES.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg[/url]

^Epilady

That's a newer Epilady, he uses one of the older models.

[QUOTE=Fast Fingers]Does he just get the sound of the motor through his pickups or does he actually play the strings? I use an electric toothbrush to sound the motor and change it's speeds but I can't getm it to play to strings. I want an E-bow.[/QUOTE]


could you tell me what an E-bow exactly is?
I saw it metioned a few times in the Opeth thread, especially with the BWP album.
but I'm not a real guitar man, or a very technical man anyways, as far as music goes.
so anyone?

Oh yea the Dave Navarro story, that's what I was thinking of. I knew he saw a different muscisian use a motorized device to play, but I couldn't remember who it was.

And I was also wondering about the E-bow. I've read about it, but I don't get how it works.

Joz knows his epilady stuff i see :)

[url]http://www.ebow.com/[/url]

My understanding of the e-bow is that it uses a magnetic field to constantly vibrate 1 string at a time, so there is no need to pick.

You can change the volume and stuff...just look at the players guide on the site :)

This thread rocks. I love tool. :)

Found some very cool info here...

And an e-bow makes a violin-like sound, or can, I'm not sure if that's it's only use but that's all I've ever used one for.

And another epilady question...what song(s) does Adam use it on?

The biggest example of him using it would be on Triad. Thiugh it wouldnt suprise me if it was on Third Eye too, since it uses so many dam[COLOR=White]n[/COLOR] effects. (though im not sure if he was influenced by the idea at that time.)

how does he actually use it people?

is it just the motor messing with the pickups?

I guess so, he talked about how (like many of us krazy guitarist) threw any kind of electronical or motorised device next to the pick ups to create some odd noises. But not seeing it live I wouldnt know :(

I tend to get weird efects using my old mobile phone, though im not sure if its doing my EMGs any good. And they come before cool noises anyday

lol ok...

i used to be able to pick up radio stations on my face with my jack lead...does that count?

What guitar do you play AJIG, what is your rig? (hehee)

Currently

Guitars:
Jackson DXMG
Squire Showmaster (which, once I get the cash, is becoing my custom playground)

Gear:
Marshall MG30DFX (donation charity for an amp of standard capabilities is currently being set up)
Marshall Jackhammer distortion pedal
Morley Classic Wah pedal
And I did have a delay pedal around at some point which was ancient.

And i guess radio stations could make a good solo fill. Anyone else have interesting suggestions, please post and i can experiment

[QUOTE=Kage]When does he use that? Am I the only one that doesn't know what an Epilady is?[/QUOTE]

i think that they explained pretty well what it is. he uses it most notably on triad for that solo. i'm sure he uses it elsewhere but im not sure where

[QUOTE=clearvision]lol ok...

i used to be able to pick up radio stations on my face with my jack lead...does that count?[/QUOTE]

I've picked up radiostations on my cousin's huge amp before, but not mine. If that's what you mean...

And I saw Adam on the Jurassic Park dvd :D

[QUOTE=magicbus]I've picked up radiostations on my cousin's huge amp before, but not mine. If that's what you mean...

[/QUOTE]
Same here, only I can only pick em up with my 10 watt Ibanez mini, not my Fender 50 watt bassman.

I'm gonna go try that TV remote thing. :D

How do are you guys getting the radio stations? My friend once got one by touching the guitar jack with the cable, is that what you are doing?