TOOL SEMI-TOUR KINDA ANNOUNCED!
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 at 5:51pm by Vince Neilstein
In typical Tool fashion, the current reigning title-holders of “Best Band on the Planet” status have announced a mini U.S. tour for this summer with little fanfare or press hullabaloo. The first date of the tour — the rest of which was announced this morning on their head-scratchingly-still-stuck-in-2001-website — will take place on August 1st in New Jersey, and is actually part of the 3-day All Points West festival. The festival features a bunch of bands no one who reads this site will give a shit about (save possibly My Bloody Valentine; possibly some of you might be into this band, I’m looking at you Gary Suarez), which is quite frustrating as the rest of the country gets just Tool.
This blows an enormous, putrid, stinky bag of assholes, as one-day tickets are $89 + fees. It also means we’ll have to put up with obnoxious indie snobs who don’t appreciate the full awesomeness of The Tool. But considering I paid nearly $90 to see Tool on their own headline tour last time they came through town, I’m actually considering biting the bullet and showing up at night just to see Tool. Every time I seem them live is literally the best concert experience I’ve ever had. Tool rules that hard. Lasers!!!! Tooooooolllllll!!!!
For those who have no interest in seeing the best band currently in existence, you can catch Maynard on his bottle-signing tour of Whole Foods (!) this June, where he’ll be taking Sharpies to his very own line of Caduceus wines. Head on over to Metal Insider to see a list of dates.
-VN
i wish i could say ‘im so there’, but im not close to even one of their chosen venues.
TTTOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! Come to the UK. And a new album please. Perhaps this little tour is in preparation for something new? Perhaps an album? TTTOOOOOOOLLLLL!!!!
Kevin Shields takes Adam Jones to school
TOOL’s music is a self-indulgent inside joke.
Self indulgent=shredding. Tool do not shred, therefore they are not self indulgent. They indulge us, their fans, by continuously releasing awesome music and playing killer live shows. When a band makes music that isn’t immediate and actually requires several attentive listens, a basic knowledge of music, and a good ear to get into, that’s absolutely a plus in my book.
Yeah, I love bands that are constantly disdainful towards their ultra-loyal fanbase.
I don’t dislike their music, I just refuse to support a narcissistic D-bag like Maynard when there are so many great bands out there that truly appreciate their fans.
PS- you don’t have to be a shred act or even be technical to be self indulgent.
i agree with you, but i love tool. also, ya, maynard seems like that, but who fuckin cares? I dont wish to meet him, I just want to listen to his music..
I guess if your definition of being self indulgent is only making the music that you want to make, then you don’t have to shred to be self indulgent. But as far as I’m concerned self indulgent is just a euphemism for wankery and showboating, and there’s none of that in Tool’s music. That’s what makes them great, they’re one of the only bands that uses esoteric compositional techniques and complex arrangements WITHOUT sounding self indulgent.
Disdainful toward their fanbase? I don’t think so. I have never heard the band say a negative thing about their fans. Perhaps Tool has spoken negatively about assholes that come to their shows, mosh, and are bored for the entire show except when “Sober” and maybe 2 songs off Aenima are played …but these fools aren’t fans anyway. And I suppose Maynard is narcissistic because he doesn’t kiss ass, speaks his mind and sometimes chooses not divulge certain information? I would also say that all REAL artists are “self-indulgent.” If by self-indulgent you mean that they create art for themselves and are passionate about their craft. If an artist isn’t somewhat self-indulgent, then he is creating solely to please others, which most would equate to “selling-out.”
You bring up some valid points, and I woul’d begrudge you on any of them. . I understand not pandering to (and sometimes intentionally fucking with) the media and fans…it has just grown a bit stale for me. I hope you enjoy the show if you decide to go.
Well it’s made me laugh a lot so far.
Seeing them at Lollapalooza. Going to be amazing.
I’ll see your Lollapalooza and raise you an All Points West.
It pains me to say that I enjoy a good 1/3rd of the bands playing.
If not more.
joe walsh is better than adam jones
i don’t get how a site which is all about metal still thinks Tool is the best band in the world. am i the only one who finds this a bit ironic?
Metalsucks is also frequently all SLURP SLURP SLURP on the genitals of IWrestledABearOnce, but despite that I’m still reading it.
They don’t think tool are the best band in the world, theyre saying they carry that namesake kinda. so many people think that.. but.. yeah theyre ok.
ok. you must realize some people care about music and not just metal ALL the time. they talk of many things on this site…ALSO, some people do consider tool metal, or metal-ish. Wouldnt it be kinda boring if they only talked about cannibal corpse,suffocation,megadeth, blablablablalba all the friggin time?
I think it sucks that a lot of people don’t consider Tool metal. Just because they’re not nasty, brutal, or particularly intense all the time doesn’t make them not metal. They’re pleasing to the ear, but they can also be quite heavy. I would absolutely call Maynard’s vocals metal, in Tool at least. To me, they are absolutely a metal band. If there was a musical draft, like Dave Chappelle’s racial draft, and I represented metal, I would pick Tool without even giving it a second thought.
Lots of great bands at All Points West this year, expand your musical taste
Like the fuckin BEASTIE BOYS!!! I know we’re all such extraordinary metalheads that we think everything else is “hipster garbage” and rap is our mortal enemy, but come on. At least all the New Yorkers have to appreciate the B-Boys.
I should be working one/both of the Chicago (Kingsbury) signings. Should be… interesting.
Oh, and yes, Tool is beyond awesome.
Damn, I have to sit through that hipster fest to see Tool? Oh well, it will be worth it…it always is.
They said to be annoucning more dates on TOOLSHED.com
the dates posted are UP UNTIL all points west….which means after that festical in Jersey they’ll announce more dates…and if there in NJ already they are DEFINTLY going to come to NY,COnn, Somewhere northeast…
COME ONE LONG ISLAND!!! OR NYC
^^
If they announce a date at Nassau Coliseum (can’t think of anywhere else on LI that would work) again, I may wet my pants. I seriously doubt it though, thus trekking to Jersey may be in the cards. :/
im not paying $89 then driving to NJ just to see 1 band, fuck that
faith no more own these up there own ass fools.
Did anyone notice that “College Humor Live” is going to be at the show ……………………………….WTF?
Best band on the planet? Give me a break, this band is so overrated.
I think anyone that has seen Tool live couldn’t possibly consider them overrated. If they are “overrated” it is only by their passionate, rabid fanbase.
so true, i have seen them live, and was bored shitless.
and.. after seeing killer shows from Meshuggah, Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Fantomas, Dillinger pretty much every other band on the planet is more exciting than these self indulgent ass wipes. Fuck tool, only good part is some drum parts, and that is IT!
When Bungle opened for TOOL they were atrocious to the point of being unlistenable. If you went to one of those shows and enjoyed Bungle more than Tool, probably 1% of the people at the show would have agreed with you. Tomahawk was somehow even worse, so I’m imagining Fantamos is equally shitty beyond belief.
I will agree that Dillinger and Meshuggah put on amazing shows though.
I don’t know why I even bother defending Tool. The quality of their music speaks for itself. If it unfortunately doesn’t do anything for you, I’m sorry – you’re missing out on one of the best bands of the last 15 years or so.
alright alrighty already. i will admit, ONCE and ONCE only i have enjoyed tool, about 5 years ago, I had some acid, my friend put on Laterus and I tripped the fuck out. hallucinations, everything. But, since then, i have never been able to too ‘get it’ so to speak. Give me some acid, and yeah theyre ok i suppose, but thats it.
People just love to hate. These are probably the people that would rather see IWRESTLEDAFAGONCE play a bowling ally than Tool.
fuck those idiots as well. IFTHEYEVERSTEPINSIDEAUSTRALIAONCE I will throw a fucking rock at their singers face. there are a million bands like them in Australia, check out ROBOTOSAURUS to here that shit done properly.
I always hated Tool, I never found their music to be all that (minus 1 or 2 songs).
Yet, not too long ago, I decided to give them another chance.
Nope, it’s still bland music.
I take it the irony of calling all “indie” music fans snobs while dismissing all of the other bands on the APW lineup (a good half of which could NEVER be considered “indie,” whatever that means) flew right over your head?
Talent musicians, but I cant get into the song structures- they definitely score points for pioneering the whole odd syncopation thing, but there’s plenty of others who do it just as well, now, and the song structures don’t really seem cohesive at all. The drummer is constantly playing circles around everyone else.
plus, James Keenan’s vocal style just seems really pretentious to me
CHARLOOOTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Festivals in the US suck for the most part with the exception of MDF & the Scion Fest (Back in 2010)
It’s even worse that it’s in Jersey.
Dallas sold out in 20 minutes. Got mine quick!
Everybody look up tool and lachrymology, even if they say it was a hoax, its still an understandable idea!.
Hit me up in dallas for toke out!!
Vinnie, you’re not allowed to like Tool because they’ve sold more albums than is allowed for your prerequisite “sell out” and “no artistic integrity” tags.
You are making this up.
No, I’m a smart ass trouble maker.
Tool…yeah, no thanks. Wake me up if and when they write a second song. I saw them at Hammerstein Ballroom (that’s in NYC) at a Lateralus record release show and it was so boring I almost swallowed my tongue just to have something to do.
smoke more skunk
Wake me up if and when they write a second song… A+++
From your keyboard to gods ears my friend.
HAHAH SO TRUE. FUCK THIS MOANING, BORING, MONOTONOUS TOOL(S)
HAHAH
yeh…this one really pissed me off…dallas show sold out in 27 min. what happened to the good ole’ days of campin’ out in line as long as it took…just to be the “one” to get tickets…and it so felt rewarding to finally get’em
Well i like them,Now lets have a new album.
There’s about 5 acts in total I would have any desire of seeing at that festival. Other than Tool, MBV and CollegeHumor Live, I’m not willing to admit who the other two are in fear of incessant mocking from MS folk. :P