#ToolBand

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Oneleggedjedi<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toolband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toolband</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/progmetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progmetal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/progrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progrock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a>

GavinSo, I've just ordered a <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/toolband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toolband</a> T-shirt to go with my <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Insomnium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Insomnium</a> one. You can tell I'm racing towards 50 can't you. 🤣

Russ’ Record RainbowEveryone's familiar with this album, yes? It's probably Tool's most impactful outing, solidifying previous fans from both the Opiate and Undertow leanings as well as seducing in new fans with the radio friendly "Stinkfist" and less radio friendly, but still very hooky "Ænima." I really feel like I don't have to go into how good this album is because it's nothing short of a classic. I will say that, for all the love those two songs and "Forty-Six & Two" get, I prefer the more introspective and longer "H." "Pushit" and "Third Eye." It took me a while to get to the point where I liked "Third Eye." Basically I had to listen to the live version on their Salival release to fall in love with it, but I fell HARD. Anyway. Great album. Everyone should have a copy. Hell, this is my FOURTH time buying it because of various ill-informed religious reformations in my past, but no more. The album stays, organized religion does not. Tool won and worried mothers everywhere weep in the knowledge that they were right all along and this music ruins lives. Not what I want to talk about, though. I want to talk about my rules for my collection, specifically when it comes to bootlegs: Tool has not released a new pressing for Ænima in forever - so long that they've made shirts you can buy on their website making fun of vinyl people always asking when it's going to come out. So fuck 'em if they don't want to actually do something. Here's a bootleg that I had no qualms about buying. If an artist doesn't want to repress, bootleg. If there's some sort of argument about it like with Danzig and Rick Rubin that prevents re-pressing, bootleg. If the artist is dead or no longer performing/recording, bootlegs are acceptable. Basically if the artist doesn't give me the opportunity to buy new and give them money, that's on them. Life's too short to sit around waiting. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tool?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tool</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/toolband?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toolband</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vinyl?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinyl</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vinylcollection?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinylcollection</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/records?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#records</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/recordcollection?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recordcollection</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/recordoftheday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recordoftheday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/recordcommunity?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recordcommunity</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vinylcommunity?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinylcommunity</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/alternative?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alternative</a>

BI’m still not over the incredible experience I had at my first <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tool</a> concert last week! 🤩 <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ToolBand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToolBand</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Monterrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monterrey</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a>

Russ’ Record RainbowI think Tool deliberately tricked the rock audience of 1992 with this. My theory stems largely from the face that, with one notable exception, these songs don't sound like Tool songs. They're good songs, it's a quality E.P., etc, but the tropes of Tool - the musical peaks and valleys, Maynard James Keenan's lyrics and push/pull urgency of delivery, and the length of the tracks just aren't here. Instead, we have short (for Tool), simple rock songs with all the subtlety of a falling bowling ball. I think this complication of songs made for an easier sell to people of the era and they were left thinking that Tool was a fairly average rock band with one crazy song at the end of the record as opposed to a band that writes crazy songs who lulled them in with less spectacular offerings. I think that the title track is the only one that Tool REALLY cared about. The art is built around it. The E.P. is titled after the song. Of the E.P.'s 26:52 runtime, "Opiate" runs at 8:28 or over THIRTY PERCENT of the entire run time. And, when they re-recorded and re-released Opiate Squared, none of the other songs made the cut. "Opiate" stood alone from all the songs it originally came with. I think the rest of it was just "we're just a normal rock band, guys." They had a few live tracks, they had a video that was unlike anything they would make later, and, again, there was only one "weird" track but it would make a fantastic inoculation to the full-blown "Toolness" of their follow-up, Undertow. That album wouldn't sound nearly as strange if fans had gotten used to "Opiate." I think it was a pretty smart move. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/toolband?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toolband</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/record?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#record</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/recordcollection?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recordcollection</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/records?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#records</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vinyl?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinyl</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vinylcollection?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinylcollection</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nowspinning?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nowspinning</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/recordoftheday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recordoftheday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rockrecord?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rockrecord</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/recordcommunity?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recordcommunity</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vinylcommunity?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vinylcommunity</a>

Dom TyerWatch Tool perform surprise set at Bass Magazine Awards<a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-tool-perform-surprise-set-at-bass-magazine-awards-3832179" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-tool-perform-surprise-set-at-bass-magazine-awards-3832179</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metal</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AltRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AltRock</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AlternativeRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlternativeRock</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tool</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ToolBand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToolBand</a>

G. Nova✅️<a href="https://toot.community/@JVTrain" class="u-url mention">@JVTrain</a> I saw <a href="https://c.im/tags/Toolband" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Toolband</a> live during their Lateralus era. Amazing show. Loved and still love <a href="https://c.im/tags/Soundgarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Soundgarden</a> and "PearlJam as well. Eddie Vedder is a National Treasure.

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