What makes a band go straight to No. 1 with barely any promotion? Tool fans are the answer.
10,000 Days, the upcoming album by the band Tool is arriving in stores on the 2nd of May. For an anxious Tool fan like myself, that may as well be as far away as the title of the new album suggests.…
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26 - Kenny G's assistant
Kenny G asked me to inform you kind readers that you should pay no attention to zing's opinion about Tool. Kenny G says zing has illustrated many times at BC that he his taste in music is laughable. Kenny G also wonders if zing has an aversion to the band's name because when zing's last girlfriend dumped him, part of her reasoning was that she thought zing was "a tool."
27 - RABELROUSER
"I've only been a fan for roughly six months."
Rest my case.
28 - Mark Saleski
cement in my ears?
hey, at least i can go from a G-chord to an F-chord without putting myself in traction.
29 - vanessa
what case? are you just proving the point of the author about what Tool fans are like? Six months isn't long enough to be a Tool fan or something?
30 - zingzing
hey duane, take no offense in anything i say--we are arguing about music and i think that you got your point across very calmly, but i don't always write that way, so...
there is emotion in tool's music. but it is buried. their discs are 70 minutes long, 50 minutes of which is noodling. it's not that they aren't impressive, technically talented, etc, etc. it's just that they bore the fuck out of me on the way to anything that's worth the trouble.
and the rush comment was an inside joke that you illustrated well enough.
you know nothing about my musical taste, so don't judge it. i don't really care for tool. or rush. but that's all you know. i don't like different types of music? how do you know? today i have folk, industrial, some stones, some experimental, some noise, some mid-period sonic youth, some japanese music, some doc watson and some power pop with me at work. um. yeah. and there's a rap disc in my computer and my home stereo is holding a jazz album and a prince album. if you were to go through my stacks of cds (i have thousands), you would find a lot of white people, that's for sure, but you would also find just about every genre you could think of. diversity is my essense.
over-emoting (whitney houston) is just as useless as over-complication (king crimson). i don't care for technical mastery (fuck kenny g). and i don't like symphonies.
but to say that i need to open my eyes, just because i don't like tool is... foolish and ignorant (not totally, just about who i am). "wide open" pretty well describes my taste. ask anyone who knows me.
and to kenny g's assistant--did you get over that donkey punch? wow, you were bleedin'! kenny said he'd never heard you moan so loud.
31 - Duane
Dear, Dear Zingzing,
It's funny that you would mention Kenny G as an example of technical mastery, since he is not known in jazz circles as one possessing such. He's a hack who happens to play emotional sounding milquetoasty tunes that (evidently) some people like. Just ask Kenny G's assistant.
you know nothing about my musical taste, so don't judge it.
Well, I meant no offense. I don't know everything about your musical taste, true. But I know something about it. I can read.
"wide open" pretty well describes my taste. ask anyone who knows me.
Wait, aren't you the one who said that rock music shouldn't be symphonic, or something like that? There might be a crack in the door, but it's obviously not "wide open."
but to say that i need to open my eyes...
You might have taken this a little more seriously than it was intended. I would give myself the same advice.
... foolish and ignorant ....
Well, I've been called worse things at BC. Seems a little extreme, but again, you're entitled to your opinion.
it's not that they aren't impressive, technically talented, etc, etc.
OK, so at least you can acknowledge the objective aspect of Tool.
... it's just that they bore the fuck out of me on the way to anything that's worth the trouble.
I can accept that. Just arguing a little, ya know?
32 - zingzing
the kenny g example was a joke. haha. (but it's a telling joke.) yeah, i think rock shouldn't be symphonic. it's a matter of taste. there are other styles of music that can be. i just don't like overly grandiose rock music. it's antithetical. i qualified the foolish and ignorant statement, so don't just quote that part back...
33 - LucyFur
I am curious as to how old the people posting messages here are
34 - gonzo marx
44....
starting playing bass in 76 after seeing Rush at the Felt Forum
Entwistle,Lemmy,Geddy,Les Claypool and both of the players that have been in TOOL....others
from Bird and Diz to Pantera, Motorhead and TOOL...
nuff said?
Excelsior!
35 - zingzing
half gonzo + half decade.
36 - Duane
One full Gonzo + half decade (good Christ). Wuz about you?
37 - Guppusmaximus
I'm a baby(31).... Started playing drums 21 years ago after hearing Clive Burr on Iron Maiden's "Killers","Number.." and some of the music during the Spiderman cartoon (Real Jazzy). As for zingzing's comment about symphonic rock, I think that disqualifies you from speaking about any of the greats(Yes,Black Sabbath,Rush,DT,Kansas,Boston,King Crimson,Queensryche,Fates Warning,Opeth,Tool,etc)I'm sure the list could go on & on...
38 - spudevo
I've been reading through all the comments and shit! I've been a Tool fan for years now (and in reply to a previous poster, i'm 29) and I agree with the author of this article. Some Tool fans are insane and I agree with vanessa: by giving someone shit and resting an non existent case that six months isn't long enough to be a Tool fan is justifying the article. I didn't know there was a certain time frame to like a band.
39 - Kenny G's assistant
zing, Kenny G has not granted me the pleasure, but Kenny G does understand your bitterness. Kenny G realizes now that you were expecting a call after you performed the angry dragon. Kenny G said he made it clear it was a one-time thing. In regards to you being "wide open", even Kenny G found your pink sock was disgusting.
Duane, Kenny G isn't surprised that you don't understand Kenny G's music since you yourself say that you are "musically uneducated compared to jazz players." The real question is why no liked your rock/dance music 20 years ago although upon hearing it, Kenny G is sure it will become obvious. Kenny G also wanted you to know that when those men talk you into sitting around and masturbating with them it isn't a "jazz circle" no matter what they tell you.
Kenny G won't be around the rest of the weekend as he has flown to visit President Bush so that Kenny G can explain how to solve the illegal immigration problem.
40 - Immersed
If you like tool check out
this band
41 - buttsexmaster
anyone who doesnt like tool's music should be tarred, feathered, and then shot in the head with an elephant gun
42 - TOOL
I love them I love the Music.......TOOL..........you can just like them no no you must love them.........
43 - mike
where can i find the leak of the new album i have been trying lime wire soulseek and morpheus but i can't find anything but there knew single vicarious.................
Please help!!!!!!!!
44 - fra
omfg..
TOOL is the best.
I TOOL SONO IL MEGLIO.
45 - Anshu ANand
TOOL are the greatest !!...I mean GREATEST !
46 - Pornstar
Tool are played on commercial radio, and my friend works at a fine wine shop in LA, and tells me that Maynard James comes in ever few months and buys between $10,000 and $20,000 of expensive french wine. She also says hes a really nice and cool guy......
47 - dood
Do not disgrace Rush by comparing Tool as equals.
Rush had musicial talent,songwriting skills and influence that Tool could only hope for.
The only similarity is that both bands have a original sound overall.
48 - gonzo marx
well dood,
i don't think it denigrates either band by pondering a comparison...
let's think about it a second...
both bands are made up of masterful musicians, both compose their work with a high degree of Thought and crafted implementation...
yes, both bands have definately established their own Sound, well outside the mainstream of "pop"
and on a pure musical note...both bands utilize polyrhythyms and off timings as well as different chord voicings in their composition ( TOOL likes 5 counts, whereas Ruch are all about the 7 count )
these things make for a distinct comparison, and can be said to show that both occupy a similar place for their generation
your mileage may vary
Excelsior!
49 - meow
meow
50 - mast3r
i just have to say that jazz isn't more complex than Tool and Tool wouldn't look simple to jazz players.Let me see a jazz player play a 5/8 + 7/8 riff like Adam Jones does in "Schism".
51 - stuffing
to the guy looking for the tool leak
you have to bit torrent it
go to thepiratebay.com
i may be at the forefront in saying this, but this is a fake record
either that or this is the worst record tool hase ever made.
if this is the real record, there are going to be millions and millions of really pissed tool fans.
just letting you guys know
52 - finn
you got it all worng stuffing this is the real album..The wanabe tool fans will get disapointed but the real ones wont. You just dont listen to the songs, but you also have to see it. If you fail to see it then the outcome will be disapointment.
Tool songs grow into you, you will never liked it for the first or the second time.
53 - fool
I like it
54 - Ammar
hey guys..
i heard the whole of 10000 days.. if u guys are lookin for it go to www.demonoid.com. nd yeah the one in bit torrent is a fake.. i mean come on the guy isint n e where near maynard! luv the new album! hav been crazy bout em after lateralus.. i call em classical metal.. if u guys dunt like classical u wont evver like tool.. nd btw u need to hav a software such as Azureus to download frm demonoid.. its kinda like bit torrent exept they dunt put on fake shit..
55 - Ad
Yeah I like it. A nice simple comment. A bit of time was all it needed for me.
56 - jer
10,000 is definitely a MUST OWN cd. I've had a copy for the past few weeks and I really enjoy it, brings back the feeling I had when Lateralus and Aenema were first released. Definitely heading down the path that TooL has been going for a long time. Two thumbs up from me! I can see how some people might not dig it at first but my GOD, it grows on you like the plague would!!!
57 - TOOL ARMY-(TOOLISM)
Cool.Great Article!Lots of interesting opinions here as everyone is entitled to of course.All I'm gonna say for my opinion and only mine:Is TOOL is everything for me.TOOL Is Music,TOOL Is Art,TOOL Is Religion!The best thing about the article is when they said "Tool are the best band in the entire world." But that's wrong,not the world. For Me,"TOOL are the Best Band in the F**KING Universe!!!"
"IN TOOL WE TRUST"
I so agree with the post 5 rows up,any real fan of TOOL will LOVE this album.I've read alot of mixed reviews about it,but to each his own!For me,they never disappoint and it is everything I expected it to be and more!I am still speechless and it still hasn't even sunk in yet as I only had a chance to listen to it twice!Loved It Immediately! ~PEACE EVERYONE & ENJOY!~
58 - Rein
Tool is the god damn best! Check out the new fan forums.