But he didn't, it was a joke. So in other words, that's irrelevant.

[QUOTE=The JoZ]It will be very interesting to see what "heavier" means for Tool.

I think it will mean more crushing walls of sound, and bigger sonic landscapes rather than chugging riffage.[/QUOTE]

Heh, you took my thoughts and put them into words I couldn't find. I'm thinking the new album will also have numerous songs that will be considered epic, if the album itself isn't dubbed that first.

Yeah so my band are covering schism, i have gone over it with my guitarist and we have it pretty tight, i just really want a whammy pedal now for the bridge bit, as the one on my zoom multi-effects mucks up my tone.

[QUOTE=The JoZ]Those tracks definetly could benefit from a keyboard.
Not that the songs are bad or lacking as they are, but the extra synth would only make it better...[QUOTE]

Well people can use keyboards too much i still think it would be deadly but if they did lets hope they dont go overboard with it.

I don't think they will overdo it.
I mean every cd is so balanced, so why wouldn't they balance it out when they hacve an active synthplayer?

[QUOTE=Darkness Of Greed]Wow... I really suck at guitar...

Edit: oh and I thought you guys would enjoy this picture of our hero, The 'Nard.

[URL=http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/constantine/maynard_james_keenan/constantinepred3.jpg]Maynard At Constantine Movie Premier[/URL][/QUOTE]

I finally got to see that last night. I love the take on the Good Vs Evil stuff. And 4 people headbanging in a cinema when Passive came on was quite cool too.

Oh yeah, i saw Constantine the other day and when it finished and the end music came on, i was like......"wait.. thats tool!" is it a new song?

It's passive, It's on a perfect circles latest release, emotive. It's a cover of a song Maynard wrote with trent reznor for the tapeworm project...google it/search this thread for more info...

...In other new, AJIG's avatar dances perfectly to Nin's - The day the world went away.

That's awesome...I'm glad you're listening to The Fragile.

I think Tool's new "heaviness" will not be Ticks and Leeches style, but rather a concentration on, like Joz said, sonic landscapes and dynamic shifts.

i think heavyness in music as in the delivery of it (for lack of a better word). but yea pretty much what Joz and Kage said.

If you take Patient for example, that's a really melodic and somewhat mellow song, yet it's heavy because of that huge build-up of tension and then it explodes into the distorted section, and it sounds really heavy.

Tool's dynamics is what makes them heavy. And if a heavier approach means more dynamics, then its bliss for me.

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]Tool's dynamics is what makes them heavy. And if a heavier approach means more dynamics, then its bliss for me.[/QUOTE]

123.

[QUOTE=The JoZ]No, Adam does. I don't know how though.[/QUOTE]

He's got a foot controller for his synthesizer. each button produced a different tone, then for guitar (which was probably on the other channel) he played a real simple riff. i've seen it live adam is doing both at the same time.

[QUOTE=jamesclelland]He's got a foot controller for his synthesizer. each button produced a different tone, then for guitar (which was probably on the other channel) he played a real simple riff. i've seen it live adam is doing both at the same time.[/QUOTE]

No, no...

I knew that.

What I meant, is, I don't know what technology/pedal he's using to get those tones. :thumb:

Just found a very interesting interview between Maynard and a philosopher. Its back from 2001 so its a bit old and i'm not sure if anyone has read it before but if not, here it is:

[url]http://www.cdicarlo.com/paper_04maynard.htm[/url]

I believe it was posted at the Tool Army site and well, I just got around to reading it. Anyway, it's a great interview where they discuss philosophy, Hitler, Religion, the media, Fibonacci sequence, etc, etc. They also talk quite a bit about many of Tool's songs and the meaning behind them like Stinkfist. Enjoy.

ohoh maybe the reason we havn't heard anything about the whole maynard inncident since is because he's running for pope, so i say yeah maynard for pope, maybe he can fix the world and make people think, he has my vote but im not a cardinal so he doesn't really but if i was he would have :evil:

:rolleyes:

What is the origin of the Manyard/Jesus thing??

[QUOTE=Podge]ohoh maybe the reason we havn't heard anything about the whole maynard inncident since is because he's running for pope, so i say yeah maynard for pope, maybe he can fix the world and make people think, he has my vote but im not a cardinal so he doesn't really but if i was he would have :evil:[/QUOTE]
...

Anyway, that interview was pretty interesting... thanks.

[QUOTE=Podge]ohoh maybe the reason we havn't heard anything about the whole maynard inncident since is because he's running for pope, so i say yeah maynard for pope, maybe he can fix the world and make people think, he has my vote but im not a cardinal so he doesn't really but if i was he would have :evil:[/QUOTE]

thats funny because he played satan in the Bikini Bandits experience

[QUOTE=misunderstood]Just found a very interesting interview between Maynard and a philosopher. Its back from 2001 so its a bit old and i'm not sure if anyone has read it before but if not, here it is:

[url]http://www.cdicarlo.com/paper_04maynard.htm[/url]

I believe it was posted at the Tool Army site and well, I just got around to reading it. Anyway, it's a great interview where they discuss philosophy, Hitler, Religion, the media, Fibonacci sequence, etc, etc. They also talk quite a bit about many of Tool's songs and the meaning behind them like Stinkfist. Enjoy.[/QUOTE]
Very good interview, but I don't like how they portrayed Maynard as "not well read" and "not very literate"

Yeah thats weird...

[QUOTE=misunderstood]Just found a very interesting interview between Maynard and a philosopher. Its back from 2001 so its a bit old and i'm not sure if anyone has read it before but if not, here it is:

[url]http://www.cdicarlo.com/paper_04maynard.htm[/url]

I believe it was posted at the Tool Army site and well, I just got around to reading it. Anyway, it's a great interview where they discuss philosophy, Hitler, Religion, the media, Fibonacci sequence, etc, etc. They also talk quite a bit about many of Tool's songs and the meaning behind them like Stinkfist. Enjoy.[/QUOTE]

very good read

[QUOTE=DoNtCaLLMeCrAzY]Very good interview, but I don't like how they portrayed Maynard as "not well read" and "not very literate"[/QUOTE]

well he said it, thats how he wanted to e protrayed (sp?)

That was a good read. It was nice to see someone intelligent interview Maynard instead of some TV bum.

I had to write a speech for my class. So for the last week i've been writing it on the greates thing ever, Tool. I kept the information relatively simple, seeing how i don't think that people are ready for a mother load of info. about them, plus it has to be between 3-5 minutes long. I went through each member saying a bit about their past. Then i went into each of the albums, i am pretty proud of my work and i thoguht i'd just like to say that, so ya. :cool:

^ you should post it sometime for us to see. :)

I remember I wrote a spanish composition on Alice in Chains and Tool. It's always nice to write about something that you love and something of which you know a lot about.

is toology (dvd) good? i want to buy it but i want to know if its good

thats the only dvd they have?

Do. Not. Buy. That. DVD.

Yeh, I wanna noe where I could find Salival I heard its extremely rare

ebay! ...It's also extremely expensive sometimes

I found Salival in a used book store, got it cheap too.

ahh, lucky you. I always look for it where ever I go hoping that I'll be lucky enough to find it but nooo. :upset:

Well, that's about as lucky as it gets.

[QUOTE=daven]is toology (dvd) good? i want to buy it but i want to know if its good

thats the only dvd they have?[/QUOTE]
It's not even released by Tool, it's mostly a bunch of made up BS. They don't even pronounce the album names properly.

Enima? Onima? Annima?

I pronounce it Eh-nih-mah

It's properly pronounced Onima. Or that's how the band pronounces it from what I've heard.

I pronounce it... ænima... .. *is danish*