Red Mosquito

tree_ wrote:congrats to you

do you plan to buy any of their very expensive merch?

no chance. Got too many black t-shirts.

AND they got $200 off me for this ticket. That's enough.

I had at least one white Tool t-shirt in high school, those exist somewhere.

Stickman wrote:

tree_ wrote:congrats to you

do you plan to buy any of their very expensive merch?

no chance. Got too many black t-shirts.

AND they got $200 off me for this ticket. That's enough.

If you get your hands on a poster you can sell it for way more than you paid for it online and make a nice profit

00:00 Intro
00:48 Fear Inoculum
11:24 Forty Six & 2
17:46 The Pot
24:39 Pushit
35:33 Pneuma
47:42 The Grudge
56:03 Eon Blue Apocalypse
56:59 The Patient
1:06:14 Invincible
1:19:51 Stinkfist

welp, finally crossed these guys off the list. I paid the most I"ve ever paid for a ticket for them, so it'll be the only time I ever see 'em. Great show all around though.
As you can see below, a few hits but the rest were long jams.

Friday nights setlist:

Fear Inoculum
Jambi
The Pot
Rosetta Stoned
Pneuma
Descending
The Grudge

Intermission

Chocolate Chip Trip
Culling Voices
Invincible
Ænema

It was odd to me, Maynard spent more time offstage than on. Obviously cause the songs about mostly the other 3 jamming away for 10mins before the vocals come back in.

We were told "no pictures" in an email before the show and security was crazy strict about it. if they saw you trying to take a pic, you got hit with a 10,000lumens flash to the face, then if that didn't work, a lazer pointer in the eye. On warning 3, you were escorted out. I did see the cops take one guy away but I'm not sure if taking a pic was his crime.

Here's the pro pics I found:

Tool was my favorite band from the ages of ~16-20.

That setlist is pretty cool

seeing them here tomorrow night, couldn't pass up seeing a tool show on halloween. i don't expect anything different from the band, but the people watching could be a lot of fun.

i'm hearing rumours of maynard lip syncing some this tour

say it ain't't soooo

tree_ wrote:i'm hearing rumours of maynard lip syncing some this tour

say it ain't't soooo

Didn't seem it to me. And he was about 20ft away from me at times.

Stickman wrote:

tree_ wrote:i'm hearing rumours of maynard lip syncing some this tour

say it ain't't soooo

Didn't seem it to me. And he was about 20ft away from me at times.

Were you stagefront security or has he changed his ways?

daft twat wrote:

Stickman wrote:

tree_ wrote:i'm hearing rumours of maynard lip syncing some this tour

say it ain't't soooo

Didn't seem it to me. And he was about 20ft away from me at times.

Were you stagefront security or has he changed his ways?

I was as close as security was. He was def singing into the mic. Can't say what was coming from the PA was him, of course.

tree_ wrote:i'm hearing rumours of maynard lip syncing some this tour

say it ain't't soooo

This would be nuts.

show last night was great, they're really a modern day pink floyd, imo, or as close to it as i've seen. the band came out in those groucho marx glasses/moustache things and maynard handed out candy to people in the front at one point, but other than that the show was played straight up, with the same setlist as posted above except swamp song was played as the closer instead of aenema. danny carey is something else to watch/hear and deserves to be the centerpiece of the show like he is here. and though i kind of think the overzealous enforcement of the no cameras/videos is a bit much (like, there literally was a 'no photos/videos or you'll be removed' sign hanging on the back of pretty much every other seat in the arena), i will say that watching a show from the second level and opposite end of the arena of the stage with barely a phone screen in sight absolutely made the viewing experience far more enjoyable. so, in that sense, it was worth it and i'm glad they do it.

good interview

i remember i once told tommy that Tool is the “soundtrack to trailer park rape” and he thought that was really funny. do you remember that, tommy?

Alex wrote:i remember i once told tommy that Tool is the “soundtrack to trailer park rape” and he thought that was really funny. do you remember that, tommy?

When I went to a Tool concert a couple years ago, I definitely got a good feel for who the average Tool fan were. I definitely felt mour safer at The National. I still love Tool, but mane, they sure does have a fucked up fanned base.

tree_ wrote:

Alex wrote:i remember i once told tommy that Tool is the “soundtrack to trailer park rape” and he thought that was really funny. do you remember that, tommy?

When I went to a Tool concert a couple years ago, I definitely got a good feel for who the average Tool fan were. I definitely felt mour safer at The National. I still love Tool, but mane, they sure does have a fucked up fanned base.

did you and tommy bond over music when you texted?

Alex wrote:

tree_ wrote:

Alex wrote:i remember i once told tommy that Tool is the “soundtrack to trailer park rape” and he thought that was really funny. do you remember that, tommy?

When I went to a Tool concert a couple years ago, I definitely got a good feel for who the average Tool fan were. I definitely felt mour safer at The National. I still love Tool, but mane, they sure does have a fucked up fanned base.

did you and tommy bond over music when you texted?

Not really. We have different tastes in music.

tree_ wrote:

Alex wrote:

tree_ wrote:

Alex wrote:i remember i once told tommy that Tool is the “soundtrack to trailer park rape” and he thought that was really funny. do you remember that, tommy?

When I went to a Tool concert a couple years ago, I definitely got a good feel for who the average Tool fan were. I definitely felt mour safer at The National. I still love Tool, but mane, they sure does have a fucked up fanned base.

did you and tommy bond over music when you texted?

Not really. We have different tastes in music.

if memory serves, he only likes a dozen or so bands.