Tool Live

dmpoole said:
I'm being serious so no flaming please.

I just don't get the passion people have for TOOL. I have their albums and I've give two of them a listen today. I acquired a couple of live video concerts but I just can't see or hear what people are raving about. I must be missing the point somewhere. On the other hand I've decided to listen properly to Fear Factory for the first time this week and they've blew me away.

Anybody want to explain TOOL?
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It's difficult, especially as they were never a band that blew me away instantly with anything they have done, i always liked their albums on first hearing, but they grew on me and have never really stopped growing either, there just seem to be little bits that you just keep on noticing about their songs, lyrics and music, very similar to NiN i still find little bits that i haven't really taken notice of in their music before and i've been listening to both for 6 years or more now.

Fear Factory on the other hand are designed to blow you away, ever since i first heard Demanufacture 10 years ago now it's just amazing like being smacked in the face with a brick, with it's sheer power and agression, and they have been one of my favourite bands since.
 
dmpoole said:
I'm being serious so no flaming please.

I just don't get the passion people have for TOOL. I have their albums and I've give two of them a listen today. I acquired a couple of live video concerts but I just can't see or hear what people are raving about. I must be missing the point somewhere. On the other hand I've decided to listen properly to Fear Factory for the first time this week and they've blew me away.

Anybody want to explain TOOL?
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1) Spiritual songs
2) Songs that explore attitudes towards life events in unique ways
3) Excellent musicianship
4) Innovation

They are the only band that I can think of that cover all of these, and they are all important to me when I listen to music. I prefer Lateralus, for many reasons. Its almost meditational
 
Carzy said:
It's going to be a mini-meet! :D

Who's going now then?

Me, Big Chris, Icebus, Sic (?), fus, helmet (?), CBS (?)

Should be an awesome gig!
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sadly, i shall not be attending. mainly due to the fact that cash is a bit tight, and i can see this night costing in the region of £100 by the time i'm home...plus i'd need to take days off that i just dont have at the moment.

i think im being taken to see them at download, though...so at least i'll get to see them.
 
Had to can going on the 13th cos I decided I wanted standing tickets, so I'm going on 14th, which will be great, but kinda sucks that I'll have to wait that extra day more than most :p

On the upside looks like I will be going to Paris to see them too once I manage to translate the website selling the tickets and confirm I can get them delivered before I get on eurostar :)

Re: Tool passion, as someone else has mentioned, I remember listening to them in my first year at uni, and thinking, hmm they're ok, then not listening to them again for a term. It was gradually through hearing them in my housemate's room that I grew to love their stuff and now I think they're the best band I've heard, and if they're half as good as APC live I'll be mightily impressed. Each time I listen to Lateralus/Aenima I hear one song or another slightly differently and pick up a different sound from one or 2 instruments or beats that I'd not heard. For me the beauty is almost how when you listen carefully it's all so simple, yet intricately laced together to give something I've never heard from anyone else even closely. There's not a song I don't think is great. And then of course there's the songs meanings andthe way I interpret them.
 
managed to get the standing tickets on pre-sale..... can't wait for it and the new CD........


also saw that Anthrax, original lineup, are on at the Astoria April 10... got tickets for that too....... should be a classic
 
I can really really easily justify blowing just under £150 on tickets for me and a mate to see Tool twice (hoping to convince him to do the second night too!). It has been 5 long years waiting to see Tool live. Over that time I've probably spent over £2500 on tickets to go to other gigs/festivals and shows around the UK. Paying that little for 48hrs of one of my favourite bands is well worth it and something I'll never forget.

dmpoole said:
I'm being serious so no flaming please.

I just don't get the passion people have for TOOL. I have their albums and I've give two of them a listen today. I acquired a couple of live video concerts but I just can't see or hear what people are raving about. I must be missing the point somewhere. On the other hand I've decided to listen properly to Fear Factory for the first time this week and they've blew me away.

Anybody want to explain TOOL?
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I can understand where you are coming from. I bought Lateralus on release, listened to it once and wasn't that impressed. I was out with a friend of mine who'd also started it and we got talking about the record somehow. I got to thinking about it and went home and stuck it on. The major difference this time was I sat down with a guitar in my hand. Instantly I was sucked inside one of the most powerful records I own.

In brief... Tool manage to marry constantly shifting time signatures (in a way that shifts moods and emotions, not in a Dream Theatre 'look at us' way), brutal intensity and moments of touching delicacy, and imo four of the best musicians on the face of the planet. I think Maynard James Keenan is the best rock vocalist of the last 40 years, maybe the best ever and to top that off he writes some of the most spiritual, insightful, poetic and beautiful lyrics I've encountered. Danny Carey is an absolute beast on the drums, fusing tribal drumming with contemporary modern playing. Adam Jones is an immense guitarist, going from light sitar like tones to distortion that sounds like the apocalypse. Justin Chancellor mixes low, throaty bass playing with high almost guitar-like riffs and brutal percussive playing.

Tool are one of those bands that if you put them onto your personal stereo while on a train/boat/plane at night or in the early morning even the most mundane details of your life seem brought into sharper focus.

That would be a few of the reasons I love Tool. AENima would be the place to start if you like it more traditionally heavy, whereas Lateralus is a nice mix of heavy and ethereal atmospheric music.
 
IceBus said:
I can really really easily justify blowing just under £150 on tickets for me and a mate to see Tool twice (hoping to convince him to do the second night too!). It has been 5 long years waiting to see Tool live. Over that time I've probably spent over £2500 on tickets to go to other gigs/festivals and shows around the UK. Paying that little for 48hrs of one of my favourite bands is well worth it and something I'll never forget.
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:( i'd like nothing more than to be able to justify it. i spent all of thursday trying to find a stash of money somewhere, but there just wasn't until tonight, and it's too late :(
 
Carzy said:
I can't really :(

Over the course of the academic year, I've seen: 65Daysofstatic, Nine Black Alps, Roni Size, Red Sparowes, Mastodon, The Go! Team, Mew, Opeth, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Four Tet (with Explosions In The Sky), Animal Collective, Pelican, Panic! At The Disco, CKY to name but a few, and I'm seeing Sigur Ros and Mogwai over the course of the next two weeks, and I'm seeing Oceansize tonight.
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Well Lah-Di-DA, aren't you SUPER HIP.

but seriously cheers for the headsup guys, i couldn't get the tickets i wanted for the 13th but i got ones i want for the 14th, so i'm off to see tool hopefully
 
00bob00 said:
Well Lah-Di-DA, aren't you SUPER HIP.

but seriously cheers for the headsup guys, i couldn't get the tickets i wanted for the 13th but i got ones i want for the 14th, so i'm off to see tool hopefully
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You smell.
 
Carzy said:
Over the course of the academic year, I've seen: 65Daysofstatic, Nine Black Alps, Roni Size, Red Sparowes, Mastodon, The Go! Team, Mew, Opeth, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Four Tet (with Explosions In The Sky), Animal Collective, Pelican, Panic! At The Disco, CKY to name but a few, and I'm seeing Sigur Ros and Mogwai over the course of the next two weeks, and I'm seeing Oceansize tonight.
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You've just won the HOW INDIE ARE YOU? thread all on your own.


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IceBus said:
I wouldn't describe Opeth, Mastodon, Four Tet, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, CKY or Sigur Ros as indie ;)
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But....but!!!! CKY are sooooo indie, like, noones heard of them!!

I hope you have enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach...at the Tool gig!

<3
 
Booked my ticket for the 14th, got it off gigsandtours.com which still had standing tickets avaible unlike ticketmaster.

Can not wait!!!!

Just hope the new album lives up to the quality of the last 3(plus one EP)
 
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