First Tool show, been waiting a long time!

I am a jam band fan myself, but love and respect Tool as they are!

Usually I get fluckered up before a show, but I was working this night, supporting a gentleman with developemental disabilities who loves live music.

I am VERY thankful to have finally seen "The Amazing Tool," it was like an experience I really didnt live in the moment for, but afterwards, it slowly processed and coursed its way through my veins.
The thunder echoed in my ears from above, I felt there had been an earthquake that shook my being from below, the melodies still danced through my thoughts, while the energy I didn't realize was there in me, slowly receded.

During the show itself, I was slightly bored....I DONT KNOW HOW?!? Maybe cause where we were sitting, the sound was blurry and jumbled, no words were clear from Maynard, and they didn't sound tight at all. Maybe cause I was sober, maybe cause I was responsible for the gentleman escorted to the show. I am not sure!

It also appeared from my point of view that they looked bored. Maynard appeared to me like he was separate from the band...The drummer looked bored...the guitarist looked arrogant and bored...

Being a rock star must be wierd, touring 24/7, fame, life on the road, fans who love you, fans who suck...CHEERS to anyone willing to keep on trucking to spread thier art around and enhance a friday night for us Mainers!

I just worry when I see a band not into it..(form my perspective) that they might be done...hell, it could have been all me!) or maybe their fav baseball team lost...or their connection didn't come through! Or maybe they were having a fucking blast, doing thier thing, and I, being a Tool virgin, didnt't realize it...

But to be honest, I had my expectations too high! I thought The heavens would open up and bring devestation to our man made world...I thought I would fall to my knees in submission to the thunderous drums and bass and cry with the guitar as it soared above the destruction. And I thought I would dance with Maynard, with his melodies, with his poetry, with all the tool fans, right into the light of truth, never even looking back down upon the cleansing of the earth, or the dumbfounded dipshits left behind.

So, yeah, my expectations were a little high...and I wasn't!

Being a jam band fan I know things are not always tight or amazing, but that is the trip! up and down, and the down is part of what makes the up sooo great!!

The crowd was a little rough, but as my being usually creates, we had all good people directly around us, a little coushin of happy fans.

I also agree that right now, what else is out there? (I would suggest Pearl Jam, they are still touring and I think they do a great show...)
Nothing really, music is different nowadays. Tool is the only "heavy metal" band I can say I like nowadays...acctually, for 15 years now, since Metallica went on the radio.
So I agree that we are very fortunate to have Tool still putting it out there!

So overall, the show wasn't amazing for me, but afterwards...It was like a trip that never peaked properly, there was no moment, but as I came down (drove home), I knew something had happened to me, something had impacted me, changed me...

As for the fellow I supported there, He started headbanging, air guitar, air drums...It seems safe to say that he had a GREAT time!

Thank You Tool! I hope you guys are all good! Keep being yourselves! and may I let you know that I to am praying for rain too, And I am praying for tidal waves..
10,000 years is a long time, time for a change to give life on earth a chance...and noone better to do it than mom herself...cleanse and purge!!! and thanks for saying so right outloud, literally in words...and in the music!