Do any of you folks listen to Tool..........???

good dope/good fun · Post by **good dope/good fun** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:54 am

Not quite in the genre of Spiritualized, but some serious head music.
Heavily influenced by hallucinogens.
Obviously hard rock, but some serious play with feedback and distortion, backed by a ridiculous drummer and many underlying lyrics by Maynard.

Feel free to discuss.
Or not.

ash · Post by **ash** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:04 am

The filmclip for Sober has long been one of my favourites. Really good stuff. Aside from that... Je ne sais pas.

jadams501 · Post by **jadams501** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:46 am

One of my least favorite bands of all time.

Tasteless, indulgent, masturbatory, and vain drudgery.

I once worked in radio and was in the studio for a phone interview with maynard whatever. You can not imagine a more unpleasant and arrogant and less gracious or tolerable personality.

I have a list of terrible people who I want to get hit by a bus. Maynard's right there with the guy from Nickelback, several members of Fall Out Boy, the singer from Rage Against The Machine, and various others.

Bleh!

toomilk · Post by **toomilk** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:19 am

jadams501 wrote: Bleh!

I second that notion.

purespace · Post by **purespace** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:20 pm

I've seen them live twice a very long time ago, like when Opiate first came out then for the Undertow tour in some very small venues. I lost interest after Undertow but still enjoy cranking both of those albums up on a good drunk.

Spamuel L. Jackson · Post by **Spamuel L. Jackson** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:46 pm

jadams501 wrote:Maynard's right there with the guy from Nickelback

Hey, did you ever see that great clip where the dude from Nickelback is on stage and gets hit by a missile from the crowd right in the middle of one of his flaccid navelgazing grunt-ballads? Then he bellows "HEY! WE'RE TRYING TO PLAY SOME ROCK AND ROLL HERE? DO YOU GUYS WANNA HEAR SOME ROCK AND ROLL OR DO YOU WANNA GO HOME?", to which the crowd responds with a hail of jeers and more missiles, prompting Nickelback bloke and his group to stomp off stage and not come back? Hilarious!

Spamuel L. Jackson · Post by **Spamuel L. Jackson** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:20 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pksdA_sIzL8
My memory of it was hazy, the crowd response to the question is more like indifference. Which is actually cooler. Enjoy!

moop · Post by **moop** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:39 pm

yeaaaaaaaah....

toomilk · Post by **toomilk** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:09 pm

+

= My roommate.

It's so sad.

Post by **spzretent** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:45 pm

their music is so predictable even a caveman can play it?

ash · Post by **ash** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:48 pm

Spamuel L. Jackson wrote: Hey, did you ever see that great clip where the dude from Nickelback is on stage and gets hit by a missile from the crowd right in the middle of one of his flaccid navelgazing grunt-ballads? Then he bellows "HEY! WE'RE TRYING TO PLAY SOME ROCK AND ROLL HERE? DO YOU GUYS WANNA HEAR SOME ROCK AND ROLL OR DO YOU WANNA GO HOME?", to which the crowd responds with a hail of jeers and more missiles, prompting Nickelback bloke and his group to stomp off stage and not come back? Hilarious!

I saw a similar thing happen to the Violent Femmes at a NYE outdoor festival in '99 - although it was more like a shower of bottles. They stormed off, and a local radio personality had to come on stage and calm the crowd down, and try and encourage them "to behave" or the band wouldn't come back on. They returned ten minutes later to a "chastised child"-like crowd, and played for about five minutes before being pelted with bottles again.

Brought a smile to read in a recent interview that Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie had just bought a house here, and that Australia was one of his favourite places to play....

Horrorflick · Post by **Horrorflick** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:19 pm

ash wrote:
Spamuel L. Jackson wrote: Hey, did you ever see that great clip where the dude from Nickelback is on stage and gets hit by a missile from the crowd right in the middle of one of his flaccid navelgazing grunt-ballads? Then he bellows "HEY! WE'RE TRYING TO PLAY SOME ROCK AND ROLL HERE? DO YOU GUYS WANNA HEAR SOME ROCK AND ROLL OR DO YOU WANNA GO HOME?", to which the crowd responds with a hail of jeers and more missiles, prompting Nickelback bloke and his group to stomp off stage and not come back? Hilarious!
I saw a similar thing happen to the Violent Femmes at a NYE outdoor festival in '99 - although it was more like a shower of bottles. They stormed off, and a local radio personality had to come on stage and calm the crowd down, and try and encourage them "to behave" or the band wouldn't come back on. They returned ten minutes later to a "chastised child"-like crowd, and played for about five minutes before being pelted with bottles again.

Brought a smile to read in a recent interview that Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie had just bought a house here, and that Australia was one of his favourite places to play....

That's some bullshit. Unless the band is completely shitting all over the crowd, a la Jim Morrison, where do people get off throwing shit that can hurt you at somebody they paid money to see perform? (There are a few bands I wouldn't mind pelting with feces, but most of those bands don't even rate for my showing up. I wouldn't be there in the first place, I'd be too busy ignoring them...)

Spamuel L. Jackson · Post by **Spamuel L. Jackson** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:35 pm

i knew someome would say that. and you've got a point. but sorry man, it's Nickelback, can't help but laugh.

ps - i think they were on a bill of 'death metal' acts, hence the crowd unrest
if you were waiting for something vaguely approximating death metal and got Nickelback instead, you'd be pissed too

Post by **BzaInSpace** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:26 pm

I like the idea of Nickelback being on a bill of death metal acts, I mean what's the worst that could happen?

But yeah, Tool. i really liked a few tracks from the album incorrectly spelled here as 'Aenima' when I was a boy. 'Third Eye' in particular - ultra intense apocalyptic rock. Yeah, that kind. Like Sabbath played by jazzers on 48 tracks. The atmosphere where I heard them at the time helped immeasurably though. They are more like a heavy prog band though really, don't know if the music would have the same effect now.

I bought another album they released a bit later on that had a fantastic sleeve/package - 'Lateralus' - but I only probably played it the once, but i was not really blown away. Said album can no longer be found, but hey, the cover was amazing. I think the singer has a great voice though.

alan_cohaul · Post by **alan_cohaul** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:46 am

As much as I dislike Nickelback, seeing any band getting hit with stuff just is not cool. If it's not your thing--walk out. Ignore the band. Because no matter how shitty a band is or how much you dislike them, people forget the amount of work that it takes just to get up there and do what it is that you like to do, night after night. I even clap for alot of bands that are bad, or plain out and out boring. Like someone else said, unless the band are provoking you or insulting you, they're professionals. Have some respect.

One thing is certain: you have to be choosy about which bills that you play, because if you're opening for a band whose fans are not really your sort of thing, the worst trainwrecks of gigs that i've seen are the ones where the majority of the audience is clearly not there to see the other band (usually the opening bands).

Tool, I did like up until Undertow, and then I guess maybe it was the fact that they became the cliche for heavy music's "future" that made me lose interest. They're a great band and everything, but they kinda became like the nouveau heavy Dream Theatre for the heavy, depressing music loving audience that weren't quite goth, as well as the audience who were one step away from being Yes fans. Scary indeed.

ash · Post by **ash** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:42 am

I think that's the thing with festivals - there's always one or two bands that won't sit well with the crowd. Especially towards the end of the night, when they're fairly lagered up and have had to stand through stuff they probably wouldn't ordinarily have wanted to endure, just to hear their favourite group play right at the end, things can and generally do get fairly nasty. Glad I was well away from the throng when that was going down...