Ok, they're funny, they really are, but no ones going to have a clue what the thread is. Only when people start to wonder where the offical Tool thread went are they gonna start to wonder.

I'll laugh if we change it and people start making new offical tool threads because it's disappeared.

Anyway, something simple and easy to understand is best, this isn't a f[i]u[/i]cking clique.

Finally found it, guys!

Haha...so, any news today?

[QUOTE=Maynard James Keenan]Finally found it, guys!

Haha...so, any news today?[/QUOTE]
I'm swiftly learning the arp solo in Dream Theater's "The Glass Prison".


As for Tool, noparoony :(

Ah....a few more days left to August, I'm anxious to hear some news of the recording process.

They just played the bass riff to 'Schism' on MTV2's High School Stories (one of the few MTV shows I watch.)

The Tool Thread is perfect... or even just...

[B]Tool[/B]

I wonder where Tool would be today without the loss of Paul and the addition of Justin. Lateralus certainly wouldn't be what it is without Justin...

Oh, anyone willing to upload the Oklahoma video, I'd be really appreciative!

[QUOTE=Kage]I wonder where Tool would be today without the loss of Paul and the addition of Justin. Lateralus certainly wouldn't be what it is without Justin...

Oh, anyone willing to upload the Oklahoma video, I'd be really appreciative![/QUOTE]

That's a scary thought. Lateralus would be completely different.

[QUOTE=Kage]Who goes to the first post?[/QUOTE]

anyone who doesn't know wich thread this is? thus informing them

If Paul would've stayed...they'd probably be the same as the Undertow era.

Paul's tone was dirty and deep and grungy, really no variation.

Justin's effects and his knowledge of them gives Tool a good variation in sound.

Paul didn't really have a chance to have variation though, I'm sure he would have progressed as the rest of the band did. He said himself he wanted to do something experimental.

I have a suggestion:

"Save Francis Beane"

Just kidding........

How about......

"Crucified Egos"?

Tool will do, until we need the second thread devoted for the album. Then we can have fun making up names again

True, true....

Although, another cool title would be:

"Hole We Call L.A."

No, bad choice, what happens if it gets corrupted, and the mods look at the instructions on how to fix it.

"Says here that the only way to fix it is to flush it all away..."

/deletes


Edit: Good job again ken. :thumb:

[QUOTE=Darkness Of Greed]Paul didn't really have a chance to have variation though, I'm sure he would have progressed as the rest of the band did. He said himself he wanted to do something experimental.[/QUOTE]
It seems like the mentality of the band changed once Justin came. Whether that was a result of Justin or not I don't know.

[QUOTE=Kage]It seems like the mentality of the band changed once Justin came. Whether that was a result of Justin or not I don't know.[/QUOTE]

I think the band met some sort of middle ground. I can specualte, but before Tool, Justin, although dabbling in some, never went nutss with different bass tones and effects.

Now maybe it was the fact he was in a bigger band, meaning more money to spend on equipment, but he really started branchong out and testing out new effects and tones. Although it might have been Adam suddenly deciding to begin following Tom Morrellos example (or by own persoanl choice), and experimenting himself, which in turn, Justin followed.

But, who knows, but one thing is for sure is that any new musician is likely to bring new ideas and have an effect on a band's sound, which is probably the case with Justin.

Wow, look at that big circle I just went round

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]No, bad choice, what happens if it gets corrupted, and the mods look at the instructions on how to fix it.

"Says here that the only way to fix it is to flush it all away..."

/deletes[/QUOTE]

Didn't think of it that way.......

:lol:

See the thing with me and justin is it seemd Paul went for a grimey dark bass line and it fitted undertow perfectly and it gave it an all round darker mood.


Then came Justin now Aenima was amde with paul in mind aswell pu**** is an example for me justin may have wrote the bass for that but it reminds meof paul.

Then salival where he showed a bit of what he can do.

Then came Lateralus Justins proper opening. Now extremely gorgeous basslines a lot of high neck and more beautiful and it seems he sticks on top of adam more so than buried under but you have to listen for it and he became a domineering power with Lateralus.


/Loves Justins basslines.

I think Push1t was a post Undertow track, before Justin's arrival. I cant remember what tracks were done by Justin from memory, but it wouldnt suprise me if they were the darker Ænema ones

[QUOTE=Adam Jones is GOD]I think Push1t was a post Undertow track, before Justin's arrival. I cant remember what tracks were done by Justin from memory, but it wouldnt suprise me if they were the darker Ænema ones[/QUOTE]


I prefer Justin over all to Paul. I dont know why there was something about the way he looked he didnt like.

Justin looks like a cool mo fo.

Danny looks like your uncle that wrestles with ye and breaks your back.

Maynard the gender questioning 2nd cousin.

Adam the Drugg addict cousin YAY.

[QUOTE=Rothmans]I prefer Justin over all to Paul. I dont know why there was something about the way he looked he didnt like.

Justin looks like a cool mo fo.

Danny looks like your uncle that wrestles with ye and breaks your back.

Maynard the gender questioning 2nd cousin.

Adam the Drugg addict cousin YAY.[/QUOTE]

That interpretation made me chuckle in the belly region.

why does it just say tool now?

[QUOTE=Mr Herb]why does it just say tool now?[/QUOTE]


The official thing was changed for some reason.

thats really gay, so is Blair

As far as Aenima goes, it seems like 46&2 was Justin's big showcase, and I'd imagine they wrote Third Eye with him as well. To me, it sounds like Stinkfist, Pu****, Jimmy, and Hooker With a Pe[font=]nis[/font] were pre-Justin tracks. Then, after Justin came in, they were exploring more sonically challenging material, which brought about several of the more gratifying moments on Aenima, and later Lateralus.

The reason I was thinking about this, is because I came across this website about Justin. The following seems like a big load of bull to me, but it just got me to thinking how much Justin influenced the metaphysical and "out-there" aspects of Tool's sound.

"Carrying with him a strange sense of alternate realities, Justin found himself able to access them through music and altered states of consciousness . When Tool needed a bass player in 1995 the journey to America seemed simple compared to the paths he had explored within his own mind. Currently Justin has been practicing entering hypnagogic states facilitated by sonic landscapes generated by his wife Ari and a highly specialized form of tensor yoga. These function as the arc and threads that buoy and retrieve him from the watery matrices and emotional labyrinths he explores. He then utilizes these experiences as a reference point in his riffs and style to induce a holographic depth to Tool's music."

Odd.

Back to the discussion:

Maynard is the shy one who hides in the back at the family reunion.

Justin is the one having a drink with old buddies at the pub.

Danny is the beastly dude who would crush you if you look at him wrong, but would still jam with you.

Adam is the one who would rather sketch a landscape while his friends were playing volleyball.

[QUOTE=Kage]As far as Aenima goes, it seems like 46&2 was Justin's big showcase, and I'd imagine they wrote Third Eye with him as well.[/QUOTE]
His basslines in Aenema, especially in the first verse, are also among his best on that album.

[QUOTE=Kage]
The reason I was thinking about this, is because I came across this website about Justin. The following seems like a big load of bull to me, but it just got me to thinking how much Justin influenced the metaphysical and "out-there" aspects of Tool's sound.

"Carrying with him a strange sense of alternate realities, Justin found himself able to access them through music and altered states of consciousness . When Tool needed a bass player in 1995 the journey to America seemed simple compared to the paths he had explored within his own mind. Currently Justin has been practicing entering hypnagogic states facilitated by sonic landscapes generated by his wife Ari and a highly specialized form of tensor yoga. These function as the arc and threads that buoy and retrieve him from the watery matrices and emotional labyrinths he explores. He then utilizes these experiences as a reference point in his riffs and style to induce a holographic depth to Tool's music."

Odd.[/QUOTE]
That's his bio on toolband.com. They're all like that.

[QUOTE=BlindWriting]His basslines in Aenema, especially in the first verse, are also among his best on that album.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. The whole power chords and pull-offs are superb.

[QUOTE=Rothmans]The official thing was changed for some reason.[/QUOTE]
Why..

[QUOTE=Unstable Mind]Why..[/QUOTE]

I dunno......ask Ken, they did it with all of the official threads.

Ive read things like that about the whole band, and I must say, even if hypnagogic-astral projecto-lucid-yoga-taichi-arc and buoy stuff is bull, it still messes with your head, thereby having an effect on the music. Any input into the brain will influence the music, whether it be seeing a tree or a car, or making eye contact with someone, absolutely everything that is detected and interpreted by the brain will have an effect on the mind. Input/output.
On another note...
Have any of you ever been to Toolpantheon.com? Its a great Tool site, with neat graphics, forums, etc, but I was just there and it was lifeless! Noone had posted since June, and before that there was a three year gap. This made me sad. *sob* But yeah, it needs a good revival.

[QUOTE=emo=elmow/otheL]Ive read things like that about the whole band, and I must say, even if hypnagogic-astral projecto-lucid-yoga-taichi-arc and buoy stuff is bull, it still messes with your head, thereby having an effect on the music. Any input into the brain will influence the music, whether it be seeing a tree or a car, or making eye contact with someone, absolutely everything that is detected and interpreted by the brain will have an effect on the mind. Input/output.
On another note...
Have any of you ever been to Toolpantheon.com? Its a great Tool site, with neat graphics, forums, etc, but I was just there and it was lifeless! Noone had posted since June, and before that there was a three year gap. This made me sad. *sob* But yeah, it needs a good revival.[/QUOTE]

That may be your best post.

Just don't advertise.

[QUOTE=Maynard James Keenan]That may be your best post.

Just don't advertise.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't call that advertising.

[QUOTE=BlindWriting]His basslines in Aenema, especially in the first verse, are also among his best on that album.


That's his bio on toolband.com. They're all like that.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I've never really read that. It seemed to me to be pretty much bull, because it's not really that well-written.


[QUOTE=emo=elmow/otheL]
Ive read things like that about the whole band, and I must say, even if hypnagogic-astral projecto-lucid-yoga-taichi-arc and buoy stuff is bull, it still messes with your head, thereby having an effect on the music. Any input into the brain will influence the music, whether it be seeing a tree or a car, or making eye contact with someone, absolutely everything that is detected and interpreted by the brain will have an effect on the mind. Input/output.[/QUOTE]

That's kind of what I was thinking about it.

[QUOTE=emo=elmow/otheL]Have any of you ever been to Toolpantheon.com? Its a great Tool site, with neat graphics, forums, etc, but I was just there and it was lifeless! Noone had posted since June, and before that there was a three year gap. This made me sad. *sob* But yeah, it needs a good revival.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, i've been there. There is full of things like quotes from the band and a hypotesis about how Lateralus has to do with the qabala.

[QUOTE=Unstable Mind]Why..[/QUOTE]

Probably legal issues. These forums arent really endorsed by the bands so theyre not technically "official" per se...

[QUOTE=emo=elmow/otheL]Probably legal issues. These forums arent really endorsed by the bands so theyre not technically "official" per se...[/QUOTE]
Hahahha, not even close. One reason is because the mods are getting sick of people trying to make #$%#$&$%&OFFICIALLL#$%#$%#%#$%# threads for their favorite band.

[QUOTE=emo=elmow/otheL]Probably legal issues. These forums arent really endorsed by the bands so theyre not technically "official" per se...[/QUOTE]


I wouldnt say that, that is going a bit too far.

Yeah, I take back the legal issues thing after reading a couple pages before this...

This thread name lacks creativity :/