oo thats tough. I'd have to say Pu****. Emotional song. And I like the lyrics a lot. I just love how they capture the emotion so well.

Guys its tool.....it will be awesome. Every album has outdone its predecessor(spelt wrong i think) so why wouldnt this one.

Best tool song to me is Parabol/Parabola, its a masterpiece

o man just one song... The first I ever heard was Eulogy and in alot of ways it's still the best. Or Lateralus.

[QUOTE=an_underused_memory]
There's a great new topic that no one's really talked about in here, do any of you have any theories/comments/thoughts about the tool videos??
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I did a mini review/thoughts post on the stinkfist video a while back in the thread


For whoever wondered why I know so much, its the FAQ like was mentioned that I got most of my knowledge from, then other bits from interviews, but it takes a while listening/reading Tool interviews before being able to sort the truth out from the placed misinformation.

If you want information on individual members though, like their former bands, or technical set ups, etc:

Danny - Try his website, its fasinating, has some great vidoes of his best drum beats, and a lot of other cool information. He also has a featured artist article in the Drum/percussion forum, and most people there (stagefrightken for one) know a lot about him

Justin - Read his biographies on most of the tool sites. People in the bass forum know a good deal too about his effects and techniques

Adam - Toolband.com has information about his life, which isn't really something I decide to probe into much, but if you want pictures of his holiday in Cuba (there's a cool one of a former SAM site shaped as a pentagram) and to learn more of his spiritual side, go there. But for the important information, like his set up, type of guitar, etc talk to 3074326 in particular, plus other people in the guitar forum will know more than me. There is link to his rig, but I can't find it at the moment.

MJK - If you are looking for information on this man, go to every tool site. If you are searching anywhere else, dont believe all you hear.




Wow, tht was pointless to do. But if anyone here does have a question that cant be answered here (v.doubtful, there are some intelligent people here) thats where to go

Hey sorry man, I do actually remember your stinkfist video post, I'd forgotten!

but still, its the only one in memory!
anyone with salival may have some ideas, but i confess i rarely watch the videos....
does anyone have the DVD version of salival?
and if so, have you listened to the 5.1 surround mixes?
i am yet to hear them but i'd be interested to know if its better/worse/indifferent...


to add to the last post, toolshed has great interview transcripts, they're well worth reading!
and all the drummers out there, check out danny's site, as a-j-is-god mentioned, the videos are well worth it, and i was interested to read his philosophies, it apparent that he is as much a part of the tool 'philosophy' as the lyricist....

tool f[COLOR=White]ucking[/COLOR] rules

Lateralus is a song withg a great beggining and end, thats what it is all about.

Alright this is reallly random and off subject, but adam Jones is God, what kind of guitar do u have?

At the moment, its a crappy Fender Squire, the Showmaster model. It has two bad pick ups, but the humbucker has some quality. Had it for a year, but im buying a new one next month. Now pwn me with the awesomness of your guitar.

And to keep it on Tool subject, I like my current one as I can get the opening sounds on Eulogy better than any other i've played

Dude I have Squier too!!! I'm going to get a Epiphone Black Beauty soon though. My guitar is alright. It does what it needs to. But I do want a better one.

[QUOTE=CanadianToolBassist]i love jimmy for the song but not as much for the message (at all)[/QUOTE]

Jimmy kicks ***! Its pure anger, frustration, and raw emotion put into a song. Its one of the rare Tool songs, like Hush, that is in your face with a point blank direct message.

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I've been in school for a week now and everyone there is into Tool and I've heard some of their stuff but never really listened. Can anyone recomend a CD that would be good for a first time buyer?

Aenima


To any R/M mod, would it be possible for me to modify the first page of this thread to include answers to these FAQ?

Lateralus.

I think its best to start with Aenima, even though Lateralus is (to me) a superior album, L is the sort of thing you can take ages to get into, whereas at least some tracks of Aenima you can comprehend more easily...songs like stinkfist and H are great songs for the tool virgin, methinks!
On the same token, i think L is appreciated [I]much[/I] more with a prior knowledge of tool...
and having said that, its just as possible to go back and start with opiate, cause its still brilliant!

um no way, i wouldnt compare opiate to tool's new stuff

its on such a different level

it seems to me like tool didn't sound as serious on opiate as they did on lateralus...but thats just me

[QUOTE=xtreme450]it seems to me like tool didn't sound as serious on opiate as they did on lateralus...but thats just me[/QUOTE]

Ya ur right. I don't think they were as serious. It was sorta just like their introduction . Get their opinions out. More aggressive raw stuff. If your into that stuff, then earlier Tool is for u. Their newer stuff is deeper and a lot to take in. I agree with AUM that Aenima is a good one to start with.

Opiate was their first CD, and obviously it'll be quite different from their latest. It was straight up rock, less progression.

Both albums are great in their own way. Cold and Ugly, Opiate, Hush and Jerk-Off... err, every song from Opiate is great.

Yeah Opiate is a mean album i think its was good that they had the two live songs on it. what do you think about Undertow? i think its really good and that to me was a different type of tool compeared to ænima and Lateralus. F*ck i just can wait to hear thier new album. i think that it was again be different but somehow i dont think it will be and good as both ænima nd Lateralus but i surrpose i will just have to wait and see.

Im also looking forward to the Tool DVD coming out and A Perfect Circle, even though its a cover album (besides from two new songs) i think it will be great, they coverd The Nurse Who Loved Me and i liked it better than the origanal so Maynard will have some great way to make all those songs good. CAN'T WAIT!!!

[QUOTE=ænima]Yeah Opiate is a mean album i think its was good that they had the two live songs on it. what do you think about Undertow? i think its really good and that to me was a different type of tool compeared to ænima and Lateralus. F*ck i just can wait to hear thier new album. i think that it was again be different but somehow i dont think it will be and good as both ænima nd Lateralus but i surrpose i will just have to wait and see.
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I absolutely love Undertow, Im more of a fan of Aenima and Lateralus, but the more and more I listen to Undertow songs (4 degrees, Bottom, Flood) the more I fall in love with that album. Its Tool's heaviest album in my opinion, who knows though, from what they've (Tool) said, this next release might top it. For those who want to check out more of the material on Undertow I suggest the three songs above and the title track, heck... the whole album is great.

how true. everything on here, well except of course those of you who dislike tool. i think there are so many people who cannot stand tool, so many who love them, and so few who merely like them. i think that most of us who love tool, love it so much, that there isnt really that much of a "middle class" of tool lovers. oh and yes we cannot forget the tool haters. i must say i was one of those people who didnt even know tool. and then my buddy gave me their cd lateralus. needless to say.....it blew me away. i can only sit dumbfounded on how danny carey can find the strength in his arms, and the talent in his mind to play the drums like he does. utterly unbelivable. i jsut want to curl up into a ball on a nice padded something and listen to salival forever.

[QUOTE=novus_opiate] i think there are so many people who cannot stand tool, so many who love them, and so few who merely like them. i think that most of us who love tool, love it so much, that there isnt really that much of a "middle class" of tool lovers. oh and yes we cannot forget the tool haters. i must say i was one of those people who didnt even know tool. and then my buddy gave me their cd lateralus. needless to say.....it blew me away.[/QUOTE]

You either love Tool or absolutely despise and hate them. My friend use to hate Tool with a passion after hearing Hooker with a *****, and I told him thats not a good example of what Tool sounds like in general, regardless, a week later I showed him some songs off Lateralus and he instantly fell in love.

yeah im only 15 and i had a listen to Tool at my friends house and that was when i was about 5years ago and when we no longer saw each other i didnt listenm to them anymore probably only because abot .0001% of fans are under ten (to interest in eminem) anyway when i was bout 13 i for somne strange reason i jst bout Opiate for the old $9.99 and it started from there! haha sorry for my life story the only reason im writting this is because.. because.. Im just a really big Tool fan and i think you should just all know this Cu (see what listen to TOOL does to you :)

I was introduced to Tool when Aenima came out and instantly loved it, then went backwards and got Opiate and Undertow. I was nervous when Lateralus was coming out as I couldn't believe that Aenima could be topped but of course was wrong. What all this is getting to is that I believe that the progression of these albums mirrors a progression of the band (obviously) from young aggressive somewhat antisocial individuals to adults that think about their world and see some hope within it amongst all the crap that they are still fighting. This reflected my own progression and their music has helped me along the way. As nearly everyone here has said, you either love them or hate them and it's always a pleasure to find another Tool fan in the crowd.

I heard somewhere on some poll that Aenima was the greatest cd of the 90's. And I knew that I didnt have it; so I went out like a magnet was drawing me to the local record store and found Aenima all shiny and double imaged. I thought wow I would get it on the album cover alone. But then i saw the $30 (canadian) price tag and norlally anything over 25 i consider out of my price range. But what baffles me is that I thought nothing of it. I just got out my wallet and bought the cd and then listned to it from front to back I think 5 times that night.

I was amazed that I had gone so many years without tool. I almost regret the fact that I didnt listen to them earlier but i am equally thankful that I have all their cds minus salival cause i cant find it.

Tool continues to amaze me with all aspects of their creations. The new album will rival only Lateralus in about a decade or so for best cd of the 00's. And hopefully with that new album comes a nice big tour that includes all major canadian cities...

Ok bear with me as I didn't read all 34 pages (I will later though)

I just wanna say that Danny Carey is just amazing...simply amazing.
Not only is he a great drummer, but he uses science and mathematics with the functions of circles and relativity to set up his drumset. While his set is nothing next to Bozzios or Portnoys, he does a crapload with what he has.

Not only that, but he has studied for many many years on many different types of drums and drumming techniques.

For drummers and non-drummers alike (I myself am the former) check this out to make your jaw drop:
[url]http://www.dannycarey.com[/url]
Go to 'philosophy" then go "Education", then go "Cyber Clinic", then watch the 3rd link.

Its the drum solo break in 46&2 video.
AMAZING.

isn't it danny carey . org? AdamJonesIsGod already posted that a while ago so i know what your talking about. I totally agree with his amazing technique. Definately one of the best drummers to pick up sticks. The amazing thing is how he doesnt overly stand out either. Very rarely will he do something like the solo in 46&2; most the time his drumming is nothing short of perfection to what ever it is hes drumming to.

I just checked .org, and they both take you to the same spot.

Yeah, true he doesn't really go off completely that much, it's usually just very tight rhythms that tend to change time signature a lot.
He's simply amazing though.
As it says on the other 2 links at the site, he plays the drums to the melody of the bass, guitar, and even maynard's voice, so he just doesn't keep the time, he plays with the band.

ALSO I read an interview where he says he actually TUNES his drums to notes...he said something along the lines that "Most TOOL songs are in D, so I'll tune my drums to A, D, and F live", and he said that he'd tune his drums for each song in the studio, so ****.

Wow, the last page was cool to read, it was almost like one of those new age Christian services, where everyone jumps up and praises tool for what they have done for them. Good to read so many positive things

Since people are digging Danny's drumming at the moment, for those Gmail users out there, if anyone hasn't heard danny's live drum solo yet, Ill be willing to send it out to anyone who puts their address up. Though im sure most of you have heard it.

And for the 'holy gift' subject, and the continuing Doom 3 questions, Blair has put up some stuff on both [url]http://www.toolband.com/news/index.html[/url]

yeah, I agree bout the christian service style efforts of the last page!
its great - a tool revival meet!
I'm in the same basket as little bass girl - your story is exact parallel to mine....
I'd stinkfist on the radio for a while and loved it, so when aenima came out i bought it when i was away on a school trip....imagine the fustration..... the 'greatest album of the 90s' (as someone mentioned) sitting in my bag for a week, when I didn't have a cd player...the anticipation made it sooo much sweeter!
although as a 14 year old, i distinctly remember not getting third eye at all...

a short survey..
how many of you fans of tool play an instrument?
if so, which instrument(s)?
who knows (or is) a tool fan who [I]doesn't[/I] play intruments? (i only know three offhand)

i think that tool is a band that is only understood if you do play an instrument. tool is just such a great techinical band it is hard not to love them. alot of my girl friends don;t like tool, but they always mention how much they like maynard's voice. i don;t know, i don;t know off the top iof my head any one who likes tool the doesn;t play an instrument of some sort.

[QUOTE=an_underused_memory]a short survey..
how many of you fans of tool play an instrument?
if so, which instrument(s)?
who knows (or is) a tool fan who [I]doesn't[/I] play intruments? (i only know three offhand)[/QUOTE]


*raises hand*

I play the guitar, and it was thanks to adam that I bought one. Its true that once you play an instrument, you appreciate the music a lot more, since learning songs like Sober and The Patient its showed my how clever and creative a player Adam really is.

[QUOTE=an_underused_memory]a short survey..
how many of you fans of tool play an instrument?
if so, which instrument(s)?
who knows (or is) a tool fan who [I]doesn't[/I] play intruments? (i only know three offhand)[/QUOTE]

Drums, yes you got it, Danny definitely inspired me to play. What drummer wouldnt be inspired by him? :)

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]*raises hand*

I play the guitar, and it was thanks to adam that I bought one. Its true that once you play an instrument, you appreciate the music a lot more, since learning songs like Sober and The Patient its showed my how clever and creative a player Adam really is.[/QUOTE]
yeah i play guitar to but i started playing just because i wanted to :thumb:

I also play guitar. More because all the music I listen to has guitar in it, and I was drawn to it. But Adam and Tool have definetly inspired me to start a band, and is a big influence on my riffs.