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Originally Posted by Cheesegreater
This is kinda fucked, I'm sorry. Wow, you guys make it seem like we should feel bad for orchestrating this for friends, a lot of whom have been wanting to see Tool and have never seen them live before.
I'll inform my friend about this. It's going to be unimaginable suck if I have to tell my friends this fell through because ticketmaster thinks we're scalpers.
P.S. This is for the San An show I'm talking about. I mean, why fuck us out of our tickets when there are still some to be bought at ticketmaster as we speak?
I guess it wouldn't be a rock show if there's no drama leading up to the show.
I have accidentally ordered more than 8 before on two separate orders and if my memory serves me correctly I think I only got 8 or them. I would defiantly call them asap. Good luck with that.
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Originally Posted by honky
Yeah. Aside from the douche bags in sandals there to see Snoop Dogg (and piles of other shitty bands)--someone fucking died during their set due to poor planning. I assumed that was their last time there before their set ended.
Stoked to hear the POSSIBILITY of a CA show. fingers crossed...!
Douchebags in sandals sounds about right. Don't forget oompa loompa colored skin, being stoned, and drinking a bud lite while yelling, "*LINE* BROOOO!!!"
No one died, but around 16 people got med-evac'ed if I remember. I know when someone died at a Pearl Jam show it really hit Eddie hard. Must be an odd feeling knowing your music killed someone right in front of you because humans are stupid and brute when shoveled together.
CA SHOW FTW.
...I'm thinking of all the ways they could play because no one's guessed the venue right yet and I feel like I could be a writer for Metalocalypse right now.
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Originally Posted by dr funkmaster
Dude we're trying to help (a) make sure you don't get screwed out of your tickets this time and (b) make sure you know how to work around these rules the next time. It's not hard to do and these rules have been around for years. But I understand if this is the first time making a mass- purchase like this you guys may not have known. There's still a decent chance the error won't be caught by ticketmaster especially since 6 and 6 isn't an egregious violation of the 8 ticket maximum.
I know you're trying to help, my bad. I do find this irritating, and I guess this is our first mass purchase. We're calling ticketmaster tomorrow to make sure we don't hit a major snag. Anyway, appreciate the help guys. Hopefully we can work this out with minimal problems. Really I feel pretty fortunate I saw you guys discussing this issue. It would have been a lot worse getting blind-sided by all this right before the show.
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Some speculation about the setlist has got me thinking. Here are the songs I would LOVE to hear from each album:
Opiate: Cold and ugly
Jerk-Off
Undertow: Undertow
4 Degrees
Aenima: PUSHIT (would change my life)
Jimmy
Third Eye
Lateralus: Disposition (if followed by Reflection and Triad I wouldn't mind...)
The Grudge
10,000 Days: Jambi
Intension/Right in Two
The Grudge would be the ultimate opener (I missed the Lateralus tour) but Jambi has an energy that can't be explained. Aenima is easily the best closer, but Lateralus would do the trick. I want to experience something different from this viewing of TOOL, and I have a sneaking suspicion I will be rewarded...
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Originally Posted by KDubbs
Some speculation about the setlist has got me thinking. Here are the songs I would LOVE to hear from each album:
Opiate: Cold and ugly
Jerk-Off
Undertow: Undertow
4 Degrees
Aenima: PUSHIT (would change my life)
Jimmy
Third Eye
Lateralus: Disposition (if followed by Reflection and Triad I wouldn't mind...)
The Grudge
10,000 Days: Jambi
Intension/Right in Two
The Grudge would be the ultimate opener (I missed the Lateralus tour) but Jambi has an energy that can't be explained. Aenima is easily the best closer, but Lateralus would do the trick. I want to experience something different from this viewing of TOOL, and I have a sneaking suspicion I will be rewarded...
I have seen most of the songs on your list.
The only songs that I would like to see are....
#1 Opiate
#2 You Lied (Salival)
#3 Hush
#4 Third Eye
They could play just about anything else they want, but if i heard even two of those songs it would be a show that could rival the 2001 ACC show (best show I have ever seen).
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Originally Posted by Eighteenth Eye
They could play just about anything else they want, but if i heard even two of those songs it would be a show that could rival the 2001 ACC show (best show I have ever seen).
ya that show takes the cake
pushit + the patient
mmm
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Originally Posted by junior
They haven't fully settled on an opener yet, but there will be one.
I'm reasonably sure it won't be FNM, though.
Maynard should round up the boys and have Puscifer open. That would be fucking epic, but not realistic. Although he (Maynard) did say in an interview a while back that Puscifer might do some shows in Texas. How about the recent disband ASHES dIVIDE?? I would die a happy man... Saw ASHES dIVIDE while they were opening for STP couple summers ago they are fucking amazing!!!! I can’t believe their album didn’t “take off” I’ve listened to it hundreds of times I would suggest it to any TOOL or APC fan!! That would be the ultimate opener.
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Originally Posted by Ganjalf
Tool should get neurosis to open.
Holy crap that would be amazing. I was lucky enough to see them at the Scion Rockfest in Atlanta this past February. Boris was fantastic. Mastodon was pretty good. But for me Neurosis was definitely the highlight of the day. I'd love to see them again even if it's a shortened setlist.
Alright, back in business. Now it's just a matter of getting tickets. This show will sell-out in about 5 minutes. I wonder if a second show is a possibility for the last announced date?
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Btw, forgot to say, but for anyone who knows Del Mar, CA for what it is, I was at a stoplight blasting Rosetta Stoned on my first drive in months (re: college) and some old, skin-cancerous, flabby stub-armed lady was flipping me off.
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TOOL NEWSLETTER
MAY 2009, E.V.
Knowing that Tool are scheduled to perform at “Energy Solutions Arena” in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 19, 2009, and being very aware that the 19th happens to be a SUNDAY, on behalf of the band, I would like to reassure all those Tool enthusiasts who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or those who are thinking about converting to Mormonism) that they need not worry about any judgment, punishment or other repercussions from breaking the strict rules and attending the show.
Having graduated from Miskatonic University (Go Black Goats!) with a degree in comparative religion, trust me when I tell you that I am well acquainted with the unique beliefs of the so-called “restored church”, and how LDS doctrine urges those to abstain from certain activities on SUNDAYS, including drinking hot beverages, watching R-rated movies, driving to the nearest “Sonic” for a cherry limeade, listening to rock music, and going out to see one’s friends. Therefore, I understand your trepidation about doing NyQuil shots before jumping in dad’s Prius and going to see a Hollywood-based prog-metal band with song titles like “Hooker With A Penis.” Sounds like a good way to end up on the wrong side of the tracks in the Telestial Kingdom, doesn’t it? Well, what if I told you that you could get floor seats for $93.00, sneak in goldfish crackers and/or Nilla wafers, enjoy the entire show, lights and all (on the Sabbath), and still get a Group A boarding pass for the indescribably beautiful realm that could only be Celestial Kingdom!
How are my pre-spousal units and I going to go to a SUNDAY night Tool show without any retribution from a vengeful God, you ask? And how can we be so sure that after being judged we won’t be awarded the worst of the Three Degrees of Glory, where we’re forced to have spirit prison sex? I’ll tell you how, but first let’s not forget about a little hymn and a prayer…
Okay, a sip of non-caffeinated soda (yep, a friendly root beer made in a church basement is fine) and we’ll proceed. Because of the date, July 19, I participated in a séance in order to contact the 10th president of the LDS church, Joseph Fielding Smith (born on July 19, 1876, becoming a prophet from January 23, 1970 to July 2, 1972). At the height of the ceremony, a dazzling pillar of milky golden light appeared, in the middle of which could be seen a mysterious personage garbed in lustrous white raiment. With its basel ganglia working overtime, for several hours the apparition repeated exactly the same words, instructing me to follow the paw tracks of a black cat named “Midnight Meringue” (named so, because the mischievous feline had devoured grandma’s lemon meringue pie at that hour) to an antique game of “Fanorona.” Once there, I was to properly interpret the pleasing pattern formed by the remaining pieces at the end of the game (having already seen the same pattern in cracks of dried-up mud and from spilled “Ranch-Style” beans while viewed through Herkimer ‘diamond’ spectacles). While in a state of heightened awareness (with my anja chakra activated), I was informed how to win an eBay auction for a particular vintage box of Cracker Jack (circa 1910), whereupon I would be permitted to find a much sought after paper mechanical prize known (paradoxically enough) as “Boy Eating Cracker Jack.”
As sure as Jesus and his wives had once visited America, by moving a little mechanical tab sideways, the mouth of the boy eating Cracker Jack would form words (again, as perceived with focused consciousness) that would reveal the exact secret location where (more) golden plates were buried, along with a silver box that contained the special seer stones necessary to decipher them. However, because these treasure digging endeavors to unearth resplendent discs containing a sacred revelation inscribed on them (a mixture of Egyptian, Chaldaic, and Assyrian records) seemed like the bullshit of a bullshitter, I quickly pulled the plug on the effulgent presence with its bad receptivity, annoying glitches, and battery-draining pomposity. (The ‘spirit of the prophet’ as a revelatory catalyst summoned from some parallel perception of reality undoubtedly being a trickster of the highest order – the luniverse being filled with such bullshitters - as was evident by its repeated claim that Brigham Young’s horse-drawn hearse is currently parked in front of Disneyland’s “Haunted Mansion.”)
So how was I now going to convince all those faithful Mormon Tool fans out there that they could go to SUNDAY night’s show at “Energy Solutions Arena” on JULY 19 without being in fear of God’s wrath? Obviously, attending the gig wouldn’t qualify those as one of the Sons of Perdition cast into the Outer Darkness with Lucifer (if that makes sense). I mean, c’mon, a Tool concert isn’t exactly a confirming vision from heaven! No, if anything, the penalty for such nitpicky sins (such as ignoring Section 89 in “Doctrine and Covenants” – having herbal tea with the leaves in it) would be the afterlife ‘hell’ of knowing that one could have had a better reward. Kind of like watching (or smelling) one munching on gourmet blue cheese and Buffalo-wing flavored popcorn while all you’ve got is some burnt Jiffy Pop (although, ironically, there’s a lesser chance of getting afterlife “popcorn lung” with the latter). Still, there must be some loophole – some way for a temple worthy Mormon and his pre-spousal units to go see Keenan and company on SUNDAY night, and still end up in the Celestial Kingdom in time for split-pea soup with meatballs and sunshine glazed carrots.
And then a thought occurred to me: what about the “Second Coming” in Mormon theology? God is infinitely forgiving of nearly any sin BEFORE the “Second Coming.” That’s the real ‘word of wisdom’ here (besides you’ve got a year’s supply of canned food squirreled away). So, knowing that even the directive of a vengeful God doesn’t amount to a hill of jellybeans before the “Second Coming” (keep in mind, here I’m talking about Mormons, not Mongolian herdsmen), and that seeing Tool is not an unpardonable sin, why not attend SUNDAY’s extravaganza at “ENERGY SOLUTIONS ARENA?” Adhering to the precepts of the gospel is fine, but for those who’d rather live a day as a lion than a lifetime as a lamb, I’m not suggesting huffing diacetyl fumes in some popcorn den, but don’t be afraid to push the liver before the show with something harder than Diet Sprite (just as long as you’ll be able to recover in time for “Pioneer Day” on July 24th or whenever it is). Heck, even with thunderbolts and condemnation, those of you who truly believe that Jesus was born on April’s Fool Day will in all likeliness make it to at least one of the average Joe heavens filled with liars, cheaters, sorcerers, adulterers, and whoremongers. And there’re bound to be games and refreshments, so what have you got to lose (other than knowing that there might be better games and refreshments elsewhere)?
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wow, I got in right away, best could get was 300 row A. Next search was Lawns within 20 seconds after... now getting no matches found, so sold out or lawns only....
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damn i think a lot of peope are gonna be unhappy
tried to get 4 for my friends in the 200s and got i right away and got security feature right and nothing came up...the moral is to buy in lower numbers
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I got 407 Row L. Looks like second to last row. Oh well. I got these about 5 minutes after 5. Tried to search by section after my first "Best Available" came up with lawns. Looks like someone didn't get order completed.
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Originally Posted by Eighteenth Eye
203 Row B !!
Molson Ampitheatre
Wow! Nicely done man...you must be pretty quick on the draw. I pulled a pair in 203 row S, and two singles in 305 row A hoping they were close together, but they're seat 5 and 19...bah! Oh well, talking to friends just takes the focus off the show...heh
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Originally Posted by Noopie
Wow! Nicely done man...you must be pretty quick on the draw. I pulled a pair in 203 row S, and two singles in 305 row A hoping they were close together, but they're seat 5 and 19...bah! Oh well, talking to friends just takes the focus off the show...heh
"Yeah Tool is fucking amazing. But there’s a big chunk of their fan base that think they’ve become thought provoking geniuses just from listening to them."