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__________________ Sorry, I should clarify. I ment that either way their concerts are far too long for a terrible faux-prog metal nu-rock airhead shitwank boy-band, and that they should be banned from palying music altogether. - mope
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how rowdy to the crowds get? is their breathing room or is it super packed together on the floor? also if there are pits, are they pretty hardcore or not too bad? just trying to get a picture of what to expect when i see em in chi-town.
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They're really not that bad. The two shows I went to didn't even appear to have moshpits. If anything people were dancing and getting into the music and may have accidentally hit someone, but that's it. Tool shows are generally pretty chill.
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Hopefully someone sees this within the next hour, as I'm leaving for the show in Cape soon...
Anyone know how long Melt Banana's set is?? I looked at some reviews but no one mentioned how long they played. Just wondering how quickly I should get inside and get to my seat [no real desire to see the opener, obviously]
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Anyone have any pictures of what the shirts look like?
Good question. Even descriptions would help before you get in there and can't look for all the people crowding you. I just found the exact same 10,000 Days tour shirt they sold on the fall tour with the dates and logo on the sleeve and everything today for $17 at an indie record store, much better than the $40 they wanted at the show.
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Anyone know who will be opening post June 22nd? Melt-Banana goes off and does their own thing after that date and I'm curious as to who will be opening on July 4th.
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Anyone know who will be opening post June 22nd? Melt-Banana goes off and does their own thing after that date and I'm curious as to who will be opening on July 4th.
Big Business is the next act according to their myspace and The Tool Hotline.
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Does someone here have a bootleg of one of their recent shows where they played Flood ? I wonder how it sounds now (i.e. I wonder how Maynard sings it in 2007 compared to 93..) thanks =)
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Does someone here have a bootleg of one of their recent shows where they played Flood ? I wonder how it sounds now (i.e. I wonder how Maynard sings it in 2007 compared to 93..) thanks =)
I think they have been playing two different versions. I saw it in Greenville, SC (the first time they played it this tour) and they didn't do the into part. Basically, it started about 3 minutes in from the album version. Then in Winston-Salem, NC, they busted out the full deal (intro and all), which was very sweet.
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with the long intro ? that's nice. I only heard the shortened version in bootlegs. I've been looking it up on thetradersden.org everday now, I hope some torrent shows up !
edit: the bonnaroo show just appeared on the list. ready to download..
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so I saw tool 7/27/2006 at the gorge, was absolutely amazing. Was hoping they would head back near Pacific northwest around same time . With Europe stretch announced it looks I start to wonder if they will. Any opinions?
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so I saw tool 7/27/2006 at the gorge, was absolutely amazing. Was hoping they would head back near Pacific northwest around same time . With Europe stretch announced it looks I start to wonder if they will. Any opinions?
Just going by the usual pattern, Tool usually has a two night NYC gig and a pretty solid tour of the Pacific Northwest and at least one show in Hawaii and Alaska. I don't think that the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii got "Wings" and Alaska has yet to get a show at all so I'm conjecturing that after Europe (and probably Australasia) they'll be back for a final sweep of the US. If that's true they'll probably spill the tour over into part of 2008. I'm just a hack though so don't take any of this to be in any way even close to fact, just merely conjecture.
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Just going by the usual pattern, Tool usually has a two night NYC gig and a pretty solid tour of the Pacific Northwest and at least one show in Hawaii and Alaska. I don't think that the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii got "Wings" and Alaska has yet to get a show at all so I'm conjecturing that after Europe (and probably Australasia) they'll be back for a final sweep of the US. If that's true they'll probably spill the tour over into part of 2008. I'm just a hack though so don't take any of this to be in any way even close to fact, just merely conjecture.
Yeah the only show the Pacific Northwest got was the one at the Gorge on August 27 2006. It was an amazing show but we did not get Wings. Wings made its live debut like 10 days after the Gorge show. Your thinking is right on track with mine though, after Europe, Tool should be doing another US tour hitting the spots they have yet to play. If you go back and look at previous tours especially the Lateralus tours that is what they did.
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There's no specific time that they start (as far as we know.)
But I will bet you a whole dollar that they finish at 11:11 pm.
When I saw them they started at 9:13 or so. I'd estimate about 30 minutes after the opening act finishes.
At Peoria Melt Banana played from 8 to about 8:30 and Tool came out a hair after 9. They wrapped up "Vicarious" at about 10:45. They had time for "Ænema" but it wasn't on the set.
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no, no Wings/10KD in Hawaii last year. I'd guess that after this Euro stretch (which doesn't finish until early Sept) they'll have a break (they'll have been touring for around four months straight) and then play in the US again and then wrap up in Australasia late this year or early next year (given MJK's "see you in November/December" comments in Oz earlier this year)
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09/06 Pittsburg, PA Univ. of Pitt Arena
Eat shit Pitt. Yeah that was the WVU section if you heard us. Pitt needs to stop taking venues for music and stick to sports. That basketball arena was horrible aucoustic-wise. That's why Maynard was chatting sports.
Pitt people were too mellow. I think they might have been giving out free tickets to the honor-roll students at the quad. WV fans still crazier than anyone. We would never say "Fuck Maynard" to his face anyway. But, we know better than to see Tool in our state. The bible-belt is definately not conducive to Tool. Especially security. They were patrolling the floor aisles like they were looking for a bomb threat and people were trying to cell-phone in the code to set it off.
Anyway, you can't get a good Tool down, especially with the bad aucoustics, rafters fucking up the laser circles and rectagles rotating in the back, and no one cheering.
This post is a retrospective after seeing them in Pitt, seated in the Stadium, and after seeing them in Richmond, VA on the floor general admission standing room only. The latter is how I always liked Tool, and always shall. But, with Pitt, it was nice to see the goings-on from the bird's eye view. I definately recommend both, and decide for yourself.
And, to answer everyone's questions about "why Tool fans cannot be sober," think for yourself. Tool is not about music, but the confidence that human emotion can be released through compassion and reflection, and some of us need to be intoxicated to re-live our own problems, to get on the level of Tool.
The word "Tool" is a four letter word, and original Toolies know the four letter drugs are tools for release from reality (ie, Beer, weed, acid, coke, you get the idea), that all men are not created equal, life is but a dream, we are an imagination of ourselves, and all those great artists that wrote the music that has enhanced our throughout the years . . . rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fuckin' high on drugs. So, stop complaining or a man dressed in black will come to your house while you are sleeping, put a bag over your head, and stick you in a low paying job typing on a computer with no fullfillment in life whatsoever. Worry about yourselves and stop complaining and focusing on what other people are doing. Question authorities, and not each other. I'm out to get mine, not to make sure you get yours. Capesce? Now get back to the grind.
...And Justice For All (first time played since '89)
Tool is a much better band then Metallica. No doubt about it. So what they played a song they haven't played in over a decade. At least the new muscic Tool does create is good. Nothing good has come from Metillica since the Black Album.
