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[QUOTE=BlindWriting]The first big solo in Triad, the second Reflection solo, the Stinkfist solo, the second Lateralus solo, the Parabola solo (which I'm always singing to myself...), and the Cold and Ugly solo (very underappreciated).[/QUOTE]
Oh man, I can't believe I forgot the second Reflection solo. That's my absolute favorite solo from him, and one of my favorite moments. I love at the very end of the solo, the guitar goes back into the main riff and then the band crashes back in. Pure bliss.

[QUOTE=Kage]Oh man, I can't believe I forgot the second Reflection solo. That's my absolute favorite solo from him, and one of my favorite moments. I love at the very end of the solo, the guitar goes back into the main riff and then the band crashes back in. Pure bliss.[/QUOTE]

Yep, Reflection's second solo wins for me. In fact, that entire song is amazing.

The first solo in Lateralus is fun to play. at the 0-10-12 begginning part, I love the to just slowly rock my wah pedal forward. It gives it an awesome sound. :D

[QUOTE=BlindWriting]The first big solo in Triad, the second Reflection solo, the Stinkfist solo, the second Lateralus solo, the Parabola solo (which I'm always singing to myself...), and the Cold and Ugly solo (very underappreciated).[/QUOTE]

I can't even begin to describe how incredible the opening solo for Triad is... and the transition it makes! It's so powerful... :cool:

The Cold and Ugly solo is awesome as well, and is overlooked.. Adam shreds it up.. a bit, but still awesome :)

The Triad solo is amazing. 10 effect pedals and a friggen electronic hair remover??? Quite the combination, I'd say. :p

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo]The Triad solo is amazing. 10 effect pedals and a friggen electronic hair remover??? Quite the combination, I'd say. :p[/QUOTE]

The epilady haha.... yeah sounds awesome though, he didn't even do one pick scratch for the first part of that solo. Adam sure has his own signature sound, very distinguishable.

I didn't know he used the Epilady on that part

You can definitely tell it's not a conventional guitar pick. :p

Anyways, what are some other quirky methods of guitar playing? I tried the TV remote thing, but it didn't work. :(

The Third Eye solo blows me away, just all the emotion put into that song, really gets to me...I saw a video clip and Adam messed it up, I felt sorry for the guy. Must've been too dark or something.

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo]You can definitely tell it's not a conventional guitar pick. :p

Anyways, what are some other quirky methods of guitar playing? I tried the TV remote thing, but it didn't work. :([/QUOTE]
It worked for me.... did you push buttons?

Also different remotes make different sounds.

i love tool,they put out great music.even people who dont like rock like tool.manyards dick is a funny song.but my favorite song of all time has to be eulogy or prison sex

4 degrees is jones best solo imo

or the first third eye solo, the bit where he creates all the tension by going mad at 12-14 then releases with the little lick, soo good.

QUESTION: i heard yesterday that tool members believe in LACHRYMOLOGY. Roland P. Vincent once wrote a book about lachrymology but the book doesn't exist!
I looked in the search function for lachrymology and the only thread was the tool-thread... but i don't want to search for it in these 327 sites!!
So, is it true (lachrymology), or is it a fake?does it exists?? tell me more about it!!

thanks

Hmm, i'm not well versed in this topic, but i thought the general concenus was that tool used lachrymology as a bit of a joke and a bit of a front for the band, to humour the media and fans etc...

...Lachrymology is supposedly the study of crying or something, and members of tool said in an interview that there was a connetion with their music and lachrymology or that the band believed in lachrymology...it was something like that i think :confused:...

If you go onto the toolband main page [url]http://www.toolband.com[/url] and wait for it to load, you should see a small dot floating around the bottom of the main bit in the center of the screen, if you click the dot it takes you to an article on lachrymology.

How much help this will be to you i do not know, I have not read the article :)

And then you can always google search on lachrymology, surf the toolshed forums [url]http://toolshed.down.net[/url] and browse the rest of the toolband site, for more information :)

Happy hunting...

And to whether that book exists, I don't have a clue, sorry.

In fact i got bored...

here is some information about your book posted by blair on toolband...

[QUOTE]20 Dec 03
LACHRYMOLOGY AND RONALD P. VINCENT
EMAIL: Whatever happened to the band re-publishing Vincent’s The Joyful Guide to Lachrymology? It was said that Vincent only had one family member left and “she” was fighting to keep it from being published again. Do you know anything about it? Have you read it?

Evidently there are many readers of this site who are unaware that I have recently published on Toolband an extensive account about my on-going research into Vincent’s Magnum Opus. Having had the 'book' (a mimeographed short story only 49 pages long that reads more like a pseudo diary) in my possession for many years, I have come to the startling conclusion that “the Guide” is definitely not about espousing some psychotherapeutic process of inner advancement though pain as many people concluded (those who didn’t think the whole thing was a hoax) from the bio included with promotional copies of Undertow , but is in reality a "dark grail" (i.e. an initiation document that contains cryptic allusions to an occult system of esoteric cannibalism involving a mysterious substance known as "The Glitter of the Sleepers" – the substance [tears] of Vincent’s riddle: "what kind of honey hunters in ancient Egypt were protected by royal archers?"). Although it took years of painstaking research, the crocodile tears of Vincent’s narrative (with its most purple of purple prose), was a mystery that I just couldn’t let go. To quote myself, "Like an onion (with its allinase enzymes as a lachrymator – and one that nearly brought me to tears out of sheer frustration), I slowly began to peel away the various layers of subtle meaning until a different picture, or in this case, a different ‘book’ began to emerge." It was around this time that the band went silent on the whole subject of Lachrymology.

"LET NOT MY TEARS FALL UNNOTICED…"

As stated at the beginning of this piece, my investigation into the murky origins of Lachrymology has been posted on the Toolband site, although I practically had to hide it as several band members are still reluctant to talk about 'the Guide' (even though one was quite surprised when, in his own home no less, I typed the name Ronald P. Vincent into an anagram program on the internet and found among the seemingly endless column of meaningless arrangements of letters one fascinating phrase: DNA CLOVEN PRINT, this being a perfect anagram for Ronald P. Vincent). Although I quickly dismissed this as just a strange coincidence (after all, the guide was supposedly written in 1949, before the discovery of DNA?), I have found several connections (albeit in rather nebulous passages) with the Lachrymology "Jewels of Telling" and the tarot trump called The Devil , with the Major Arcana cards The Fool and Adjustment ( Justice in the older decks) also providing a key to unlocking the hidden meaning of Vincent’s lachrymose prose.

But to answer the other question, I do have hopes of publishing The Joyful Guide to Lachrymology with a projected lengthy commentary in the near future. In the meantime, I have recently begun to explore the Picasso dimension of Vincent’s tenebrant flame (as well as a possible connection with the Priory of Sion and Rennes-le-Chateau) and will post my findings for others to scrutinize.

Blair MacKenzie Blake
[/QUOTE]

I like the sound of the Pus[U]hi[/U]t solo, personally, and of course all the other ones that have already been mentioned.

did anyone mention the eulogy solo (more of a lead lick) but in any case, my favorite from the aenima album.

I think that Lachrymology stuff is really cool... I'll have to find out more.

As for solos, I like almost all of them, both Lateralus ones, Reflection, Third eye, Ænema, and the Push[I]i[/I]t one is really cool. Oh and Parabola.

But the whole lachrymnology was supposed to be a in band joke isnt it?

[QUOTE=Darkness Of Greed]It was?[/QUOTE]

Yeah I am trying to remember it and it was posted up here aswell and adam or somone has a book called the joyful way of lachrymnology.

I believe so, yes. The band has a very odd sense of humor.

[QUOTE]In that I was a vociferous cell phone hold out until quite recently, I really don’t know if there are any MP3 quality TOOL snippets available to purchase as ringtones (let alone super ringtones), but I did overhear members of the band discussing this very thing with regards to one of their new songs – in fact, the 18-minute-long song – and I believe it was Maynard who wanted it to be made available to purchase/download as a polyphonic ringtone, with the only stipulation being that the song WASN’T edited in length… this for people who really want TOOL on their cell phone! [/QUOTE]

--Blair

Yeah, I have no idea why. But I just got extremely excited when I found out that they were coming out with an 18 minute song.

Haha, an 18 minute ringtone!

If it's anything like the odyssey that is Third Eye, I will be very happy. It seems to me Tool's longest songs tend to be their best (Third Eye, Lateralus, Reflection, Eulogy), because they can just let the song go wherever it needs to.

Sucks for the guy on the other end, he's gotta wait 18 minutes.

[QUOTE=Sliptallica]Sucks for the guy on the other end, he's gotta wait 18 minutes.[/QUOTE]
:lol:
Yeah. I don't think I'd be answering the phone until the song was done.

Heh, thats pretty funny... read the one about the guy asking about 46&2, Blair says it was recorded in a parallel dimension.

[QUOTE=Kage]Haha, an 18 minute ringtone!

If it's anything like the odyssey that is Third Eye, I will be very happy. It seems to me Tool's longest songs tend to be their best (Third Eye, Lateralus, Reflection, Eulogy), because they can just let the song go wherever it needs to.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. The thing is, I have full confidence that Tool will make the best of those 18 minutes. Imagine an 18 minute long masterpiece? I can't; but I know that they can do it. They've already done an almost 14 minute one.

Edit: The thing I found funny was that Tool's joke was sticking it to the obnoxious people who play their stupid ringtones and think that we care. It sounds [I]nothing[/I] like the real song.

I don't know if this is anything big to ask for, but I'd like a backing track (for me on drums) for The Outsider. I don't know how much bass works into that song, but I guess just guitar would be nice. I hate playing over other drums, and that song gets lots of play time while I'm on my kit.

[QUOTE=In Chains 36]Exactly. The thing is, I have full confidence that Tool will make the best of those 18 minutes. Imagine an 18 minute long masterpiece? I can't; but I know that they can do it. They've already done an almost 14 minute one.

Edit: The thing I found funny was that Tool's joke was sticking it to the obnoxious people who play their stupid ringtones and think that we care. It sounds [I]nothing[/I] like the real song.[/QUOTE]
Tool's writing style is so mature and developed, I know it won't be just pointless wanking for 18 minutes. They can really weave in and out of different emotions, styles, moods, and atmospheres in the course of one song. Just imagine the overhaul of 18 minutes.

Yes, it is developed well... but I still don't know if they can beat Lateralus. :( I wish I had some assurence that this will be as good as we all hope it will be.

[QUOTE=Kage]Tool's writing style is so mature and developed, I know it won't be just pointless wanking for 18 minutes. They can really weave in and out of different emotions, styles, moods, and atmospheres in the course of one song. Just imagine the overhaul of 18 minutes.[/QUOTE]

I don't have like, any idea why this thought crossed my mind, but I remember reading somewhere that Danny said people should do something along the lines of some occult research to understand there new songs. Anyone else hear of this, or am I nuts?

[QUOTE=In Chains 36]--Blair

Yeah, I have no idea why. But I just got extremely excited when I found out that they were coming out with an 18 minute song.[/QUOTE]
This album must now officially pre-kick ***. There is no way it can be bad(ok, it can. But an 18 minute Tool song? YESSSSS.)

[QUOTE=Sliptallica]I don't have like, any idea why this thought crossed my mind, but I remember reading somewhere that Danny said people should do something along the lines of some occult research to understand there new songs. Anyone else hear of this, or am I nuts?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure Danny has always encouraged that kind of thing, but I have the feeling what you're saying does have some accuracy. But that's a pretty vague topic, is there anything more specific you remember?

[QUOTE=Kage]I'm pretty sure Danny has always encouraged that kind of thing, but I have the feeling what you're saying does have some accuracy. But that's a pretty vague topic, is there anything more specific you remember?[/QUOTE]
I read somewhere that he "summons demons" in one of his songs with his drums. But they start rumors just to mess with Toolfans' heads, because of their sense of humor.

I have a feeling that that falls under the humor category with them.

[QUOTE=letmypeopleho]I read somewhere that he "summons demons" in one of his songs with his drums. But they start rumors just to mess with Toolfans' heads, because of their sense of humor.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that whole rumor started with his drum-tech. He does however, have a demon catching artifact thing behind his kit.

[QUOTE=Dude3]This album must now officially pre-kick ***. There is no way it can be bad(ok, it can. But an 18 minute Tool song? YESSSSS.)[/QUOTE]

If it turns out to be a Disgustipated.... chairs WILL be thrown.