62strat said:

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Did maynard mention anything about astros?

Just curious.

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kind of. he said good luck to our hockey team.

He did. Early on he said "Astros." Then said something like "I like hockey."

I bounced when Chocolate Chip Trip came on. Had to get home and up early for meetings. Sunday shows and being a responsible person suck.

In other news, the show was damn good. Loved hearing the new music live.

hah! Sounds about like Maynard.

The show was absolutely epic!!! Those guys are beasts! In addition, Was able to watch the end of the Astros game in the club level during intermission

Flashdiaz said:

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62strat said:

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Did maynard mention anything about astros?

Just curious.

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kind of. he said good luck to our hockey team.

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Fwiw, heard SA show was better... It was definitely ridiculous.

Shife said:

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I bounced when Chocolate Chip Trip came on. Had to get home and up early for meetings. Sunday shows and being a responsible person suck.

In other news, the show was damn good. Loved hearing the new music live.

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Big mistake. You should have stayed another 15 minutes to hear Invincible.

Curious, but did any of you enjoy Chocolate Chip Trip? I am a Tool fan but moments like that I just can't get into. The whole gong and weird noise. I just kept thinking "Why are you playing this when you could use this time of a legit song?"

My first time seeing them and they were indeed amazing.

Did anyone notice the guitar issues in the one song? Roadie has to run off and came back with a new chord to save the day, but no guitar for a minute or two on that song.

Jim01 said:

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Curious, but did any of you enjoy Chocolate Chip Trip? I am a Tool fan but moments like that I just can't get into. The whole gong and weird noise. I just kept thinking "Why are you playing this when you could use this time of a legit song?"

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i actually really dug the gong/drum solo.

by the way...an amazing place to play "guess that drug". we were surrounded by folks tripping on this or that (shrooms, molly, etc.). the crowd around us was almost as entertaining as the show. that would definitely be the show to do it, just not for the first time.

Kinda late here, but the concert in Houston was incredible. I thought they did a great job picking different songs across all of their albums. Only songs I wish they would've thrown in there are Lateralus and 10,000 Days but I can understand why they would skip 10,000 Days, and, well, there's so much music and only so much time.

I really enjoy Fear Inoculum and have been listening to it on repeat while doing grad school/work. It really is an amazing piece of musicianship but does get pretty long especially in a live setting. That being said, the intensity of Invincible live was pretty awesome.

Did Houston have the Killing Joke guitar player come out and rip up a 2 minute solo in the middle of Jambi? All while Adam just backed up about 10' and stood there hah.

That was pretty awesome.

Missed it this time around, couldn't get off work. Hoping a 2nd leg comes by next year.

So . . . please tell me how awesome Invincible was live.

Jim01 said:

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Curious, but did any of you enjoy Chocolate Chip Trip? I am a Tool fan but moments like that I just can't get into. The whole gong and weird noise. I just kept thinking "Why are you playing this when you could use this time of a legit song?"

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I'm a drummer, so I don't mind watching one of the best of modern rock do his thing.

But, I do wish they circulated a bit more on the older stuff. I think every show I've been to (6 or so now) they play 46/2/stinkfist/aenima

Would love to have seen pu****, eulogy, H and maybe instead of schism every time rotate in patient/grudge/ticks/ lateralus, etc.

Has this album diminished all of their older albums/songs for you? Maybe it's because they are still new, but I've heard each new song easily 50 times and when I listen to any older song, it just isn't the same.

Maybe a bad analogy, but it's like driving a brand new sports car. Sure the older models are fun, but the upgrades just make it that more enjoyable.

Not in the slightest.

got to go to my first ever tool show in houston last month thanks to astros, and now got floor seats to second show in dallas on 1/22. i'm actually more excited for the second show after seeing how incredible they are live in houston.

Oh hey, Best Metal Performance Grammy. No big deal!

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/tool-wins-best-metal-performance-7empest-2020-grammys

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Tool has won Best Metal Performance at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards for ("7empest.") Band members Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey were present to accept the award.
"I'd like to thank all the gods because I don't think it's a good time to piss them off," Carey said. He also thanked his bandmates Chancellor, Adam Jones and Maynard James Keenan.
"7empest," which is more than 15 minutes long, is off the band's much awaited album Fear Inoculum.

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Shife said:

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Oh hey, Best Metal Performance Grammy. No big deal!

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/tool-wins-best-metal-performance-7empest-2020-grammys

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Tool has won Best Metal Performance at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards for ("7empest.") Band members Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey were present to accept the award.
"I'd like to thank all the gods because I don't think it's a good time to piss them off," Carey said. He also thanked his bandmates Chancellor, Adam Jones and Maynard James Keenan.
"7empest," which is more than 15 minutes long, is off the band's much awaited album Fear Inoculum.

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Cool they won, but that's like the fifth-best song on the album. The Grammys have always been meh.

newhowdyag2004 said:

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Has this album diminished all of their older albums/songs for you? Maybe it's because they are still new, but I've heard each new song easily 50 times and when I listen to any older song, it just isn't the same.

Maybe a bad analogy, but it's like driving a brand new sports car. Sure the older models are fun, but the upgrades just make it that more enjoyable.

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Every new TOOL album does that to me temporarily. After a while, I will go back and listen to the old stuff and appreciate it again.

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Shife said:

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Oh hey, Best Metal Performance Grammy. No big deal!

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/tool-wins-best-metal-performance-7empest-2020-grammys

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Tool has won Best Metal Performance at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards for ("7empest.") Band members Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey were present to accept the award.
"I'd like to thank all the gods because I don't think it's a good time to piss them off," Carey said. He also thanked his bandmates Chancellor, Adam Jones and Maynard James Keenan.
"7empest," which is more than 15 minutes long, is off the band's much awaited album Fear Inoculum.

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Cool they won, but that's like the fifth-best song on the album. The Grammys have always been meh.

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But it is the only song on the album that could possibly be considered "metal", so it makes sense.

What does this category mean? Best performance in a concert? Or music video I don't know about, or vr, or hologram?

It's a matter of the written song versus the performed song.

So Best Pop Song is about the songwriters. How well written it is.

Best Pop Vocal Performance is about the actual recorded song and how well it was performed.

was home alone this weekend and went down a little rabbit hole and found this. pretty interesting. just a mashup of interviews talking about the making the new album.

[url] [/url]

side note: after seeing them in houston and dallas recently, along with the release of the new album, i fear my fiance is close to murdering me due to my renewed tool obsession.

I'm watching the latest Rick Beato video. Rick interviewed Maynard yesterday in Arizona at one of his restaurants.

Keep an eye out for it in the near future.

This popped up on my music feed recently. Hadn't heard it in a while

maroon barchetta said:

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I'm watching the latest Rick Beato video. Rick interviewed Maynard yesterday in Arizona at one of his restaurants.

Keep an eye out for it in the near future.

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Man thanks for the heads up. Can't wait.

As you can tell from my username, I have no interest in Tool whatsoever.

Fear InoculAg said:

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maroon barchetta said:

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I'm watching the latest Rick Beato video. Rick interviewed Maynard yesterday in Arizona at one of his restaurants.

Keep an eye out for it in the near future.

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Man thanks for the heads up. Can't wait.

As you can tell from my username, I have no interest in Tool whatsoever.

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You are welcome. I know there are some Tool fans here.

Rick interviewed him at one of his restaurants or his winery or both or something like that. Will need some time to get back to Atlanta and edit the video and post it.

For any B/CS locals, I went into the Proudest Monkey on Wednesday and saw a flyer next door at Grand Stafford for a TOOL tribute band that will be playing August 27th with a Pantera tribute band opening.

https://grandstaffordtheater.com/event/learn-to-swim-tool-tribute-black-tooth-grin-pantera-tribute/

ETA: Saw TOOL in Vegas back in January. It was an incredible experience. It just bugs me that they don't play a ton of their best/my favorite songs. I almost feel like it's intentional, and just Maynard being Maynard. They have so many phenomenal tracks that for whatever reason are just shelved. "H", for one, being my favorite. How they don't play that song anymore is beyond my comprehension.

The more I've listened to FI, it is a fantastic album. Soo good.

There's some whispers out there about some early 23 tour dates dropping soon.

johnnyblaze36 said:

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For any B/CS locals, I went into the Proudest Monkey on Wednesday and saw a flyer next door at Grand Stafford for a TOOL tribute band that will be playing August 27th with a Pantera tribute band opening.

https://grandstaffordtheater.com/event/learn-to-swim-tool-tribute-black-tooth-grin-pantera-tribute/

ETA: Saw TOOL in Vegas back in January. It was an incredible experience. It just bugs me that they don't play a ton of their best/my favorite songs. I almost feel like it's intentional, and just Maynard being Maynard. They have so many phenomenal tracks that for whatever reason are just shelved. "H", for one, being my favorite. How they don't play that song anymore is beyond my comprehension.

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maroon barchetta said:

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Rick Beato's interview with Maynard is up. He's an odd cat.

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sammy Hagar visited his vineyards for interview on his rock n roll road-trip show as well. Pretty good watch.

Also blood into wine is a great look into his life.

Man beato is on a roll with some interviews.. Maynard, now these in last few days





Amazing to hear Kim talk about how Chris was playing drums, not singing (Hiro was singing).. and how himself and chris and Hiro literally had no idea that one of the all time great frontmen was right there in their band, in plain sight.. but the was playing drums and not up fronting the band! They were looking for a singer, realizing how good of a drummer Chris was.

Krist is like.. this guy has literally checked every box to be a front man; looks, hair, swagger, pipes, presence, songwriting, etc. etc..

What's better than a bucket list? Because that couldn't even really be expected to ever happen on a bucket list!