Mantra fast forward

[]ifrit[]

ok i heard mantra while fast-forwarding it at cool edit pro.. what i heard was something like a scream and a noise.. then i fast rwind it and it was something like screams (again) and a repeated noise at the end. anyone else done this ?

[Heyou13]

Mantra is a track (they edited to make it slower then it is) from one of Maynard's siammese (sp?) cats making a weird noise...so yeah its definitely the cat lol

[Andorion]

Mantra is a track (they edited to make it slower then it is) from one of Maynard's siammese (sp?) cats making a weird noise...so yeah its definitely the cat lol

You don't believe that, do you? :)

[paraflux]

That's what the band says it is.

[Dedicated_TOOLfan]

Awesome singer....Maynard's cat hee hee I get it .....

[The Official Fiction]

Wow! Did NOT know that one!

must go and check it out for myself...

[The Scottish Tool]

I originally thought it was the sorta noise a whale makes. Then i heard two storys...one about the cat, and another one aying it was an old lady saying 'i love you' and it had just been slowed down loads. sounds like bs though. The cat one would make sense, seeing as Eon BLue Apocolypse is about a dog.

[TurdEye13]

I originally thought it was the sorta noise a whale makes.

That's what I first thought it was.

[eonphi]

Mantra is a track (they edited to make it slower then it is) from one of Maynard's siammese (sp?) cats making a weird noise...so yeah its definitely the cat lol
how can u believe that?

[Naga Royal Guard]

believe nothing that guy says, seriously

[sub rosa]

A mantra is a mystical formula of invocation or incantation (as in Hinduism).

[wildbill06]

Ive always thought it was whales communicating with each other, making it a perfect lead in to Schism, which is about the bands' ability to communicate.

[Taril]

Kinda sounded like something out of Silent hill, or a nightmare to me. lol

[tes-or-set]

I originally thought it was the sorta noise a whale makes. Then i heard two storys...one about the cat, and another one aying it was an old lady saying 'i love you' and it had just been slowed down loads. sounds like bs though. The cat one would make sense, seeing as Eon BLue Apocolypse is about a dog.

i originally thought it was whale noises as well but the more i play around with the speed and pitch of the track the less sure i am that it is whale noises or even any of the other things that have speculated about it.

[duncang]

The cat one would make sense, seeing as Eon BLue Apocolypse is about a dog.

....how is EBA about a dog? It doesn't have any lyrics, the title isn't anything to do with a dog....and the general song wouldn't remind you of ol' Lassy, would it?

[wildbill06]

....how is EBA about a dog? It doesn't have any lyrics, the title isn't anything to do with a dog....and the general song wouldn't remind you of ol' Lassy, would it?

Its not lyrically about a dog, but it was dedicated to Adams' dog (Eon Blue) who died shortly before the recordings

[rageboy]

Kinda sounded like something out of Silent hill, or a nightmare to me. lol
me too. that track still creeps me out and the only way i'll listen to it is if i'm doing a complete album run through. when i do the whole spiral thing i'll listen to it too. faaip de oiad creeps me out too.

[blackandwhite]

I thought they recorded the sound Maynard's cat made when it was squeezed, then slowed it down.

[Krys Nyteshade]

I believe I read somewhere (that elusive place that means I probably made it up) that when the vinyl is slowed down (or something... I'm a child of the CD age) it sounds like an actual mantra being recited...

[P1_PP1_N]

I think the woman chanting is from the Exorcist, check it out

[IcaLynn]

it says in the tool FAQ that maynard squeezed his siamese cat.

** I read that "Mantra" is just someone saying "I love you" - is it?


Tool fan Yaz ([email protected]) found a 2001 interview with Maynard in the Japanese magazine "Buzz" where MJK stated for the first time in public ("a treat for the Japanese fans," he says) that the track "Mantra" is the sound of him squeezing one of his Siamese cats. The cat made such a weird noise that he immediately recorded this, played it real slow and made a track out of it.


http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html

[Opiate_Of_The_Mind]

Mantra is a track (they edited to make it slower then it is) from one of Maynard's siammese (sp?) cats making a weird noise...so yeah its definitely the cat lol



Take everything Tool (Or anyone) says with a grain of salt.

[Chronicle0]

Lol yeah, the band's message is to never take anything they say[as well as others] seriously. Just look at the song Hush.

[Yondo]

Actually, I'd like everyone to open up Soundrecorder and record the song. Double or Quadruple the speed, and listen. It is, clearly, an actual Mantra.

[dissected-detcessid]

If you up the speed %400 then all you get is a repeating whine and moan.
That's it.

[Sleeper0013]

Yep its a cat Meeerrrooor.

[lemonlateralus]

elementary watson:)