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    Default Sept. 7th, 2006. Never forget.

    Hello everyone. I just want to say that last night was the most unforgetable, incredible, out of this world experience I've ever had. For you see, I was at the Staples Center watching.... TOOL. Now I know you might be thinking "Hey! Get outta' here! What's this post doing here?", but man, I don't give a damn. I am still shaking off the disbelief and amazement of the experience.

    Folks lemme' tell you, if you've never been to a TOOL show, and have the opportunity, do not think twice. GO! Quickly! You will not forget it. I just... I don't know how to express my happiness.... I've been in a daze the past 24 hours. The second show is actually going on right now, again at the Staples Center. Just 24 hours ago, I was in the perfect seats with the perfect friends in the perfect situation with a perfect crowd watching a perfect spectacle. It's unreal.

    There's too much emotions and whatever else running through me now, I musn't try and convey it anymore, for it will only end in unimitigated failure. So instead, I'll share you find folks some of the pictures I took on a crappy camera phone.










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    Rammstein = 10x better



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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon
    Rammstein = 10x better

    That's not cool man.

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    I'm glad you liked it. Next April I'm going to two Chili Pepper concerts.
    #Hillary4prism

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    Blind Guardians next week :

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    TOOL, that's one band I'd pay triple digit monies to see live. And they must be one of the very few ones that deserve that, since adulthood that is.

    A strange thing is that concert pics are the type of picure that is most bound to fail. That's why I prefer going with the "freaks up front" heh
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    Default Re: Sept. 7th, 2006. Never forget.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rythmic
    I'm glad you liked it. Next April I'm going to two Chili Pepper concerts.
    How about adopting a brother?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wonderland
    That's not cool man.
    Alright, alright, I'm sorry.


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    I saw tool with rage against the machine at lalapalooza about seven years ago. There were other bands, but I spent most of the concert drunk on my back in the grass. Fortunately, I had a lookout to ensure I wouldn't be stepped on.

    Tool was good, as was rage. I have to admit. This new Tool album is special. Song number 5 ( I think. The one all over the radio) is some soulfull stuff. The one that goes like: who are you to wag your finger, etc... Great album.

    Edit: I just noticed that wonderland used the word "special" in the post before mine. I didn;t even red his post. I can't think of a better word. Unique doesn't cut it. Nor does great or spectacular. In fact, this is one of the few times I have found a use for the word "special" without referring to nature's clowns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
    Tool was good, as was rage. I have to admit. This new Tool album is special. Song number 5 ( I think. The one all over the radio) is some soulfull stuff. The one that goes like: who are you to wag your finger, etc... Great album.
    Ah, cool! I hear all these songs I like on the radio but can never remember the lyrics when I get home. So that was tool huh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
    This new Tool album is special. Song number 5 ( I think. The one all over the radio) is some soulfull stuff. The one that goes like: who are you to wag your finger, etc... Great album.
    Hmm I might have to check it out then. I was a huge Tool fan back in the Aenima days, but Lateralus was a huge disappointment to me...
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    Hmm I might have to check it out then. I was a huge Tool fan back in the Aenima days, but Lateralus was a huge disappointment to me...
    Blasphemy!!!
    ...well, the general consensus agrees that Lateralus is their magnum opus but it's reasonable for a few dissidents to prefer the "rawer" Aenima. I just find Lateralus more "challenging" in so many ways, really deep stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by L'Impresario
    Blasphemy!!!
    ...well, the general consensus agrees that Lateralus is their magnum opus but it's reasonable for a few dissidents to prefer the "rawer" Aenima. I just find Lateralus more "challenging" in so many ways, really deep stuff.
    I found Lateralus to be more of a stylistic exercise, admittedly in a style they themselves created. It lacked the emotional depth of Aenima (Stinkfist ! Eulogy ! Pushit !) but lyrically and musically. Several songs felt 'drawn out' for no apparent reason, while on Aenima every song just took as much time as it needed. Lyrics about spirals and parabols and all that don't interest me that much either.
    From Opiate to Aenima I felt there was a fast progression with their music, every album was a revolution (granted that only makes for two revolutions) while Lateralus felt a lot like an Aenima two (but without the emotional depth). Now you have the 'typical Tool sound' something that wouldn't have been said back in the day because you were wondering what their sound would change into next.

    No, Aenima is their peak, it combines their raw talent with ambition, a strong drive and emotion. With many artists there comes a time when they've 'perfected' their craft, technically they are much better than when they started, but the result isn't often their most interesting work since it just lacks that 'need' to make art. But that's just my

    BTW I don't know what the deal is with the Tool community now, but back in the day there was still a minority that preferred Undertow to Aenima (and later Lateralus), this led me to believe that for most people, the first Tool album they really get into will always be their favourite...
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    I don't actually find Lateralus "a stylistic exercise", it's pretty obvious ofcourse it's less commercially oriented, even though "catchpenny" and "Tool" are words a bit hard to combine in one sentence heh

    When you deliver "hard sound", you don't necessarily have to inject frustration, rage etc, although there's certainly a fair deal of that as well. In Lateralus you have an album which takes their artistic vision further, both musically/technically and conceptually. Because it's more complex, it requires more effort from the listener and in time it grows on you at more levels. Don't discard their lyrics as talking about "spirals" and "parabols" heh The work is an amazing feat of combining word and sound, has multiple readings and the way each part complement the other is staggering. They also weave symbols into their work like a Dan Brown junkie (yes, I know, this is an undeserved insult but it makes up with graphical content) and know their stuff profoundly.
    This is not simple flirting with mysticism/math rock/prog rock etc. Accusations of pretentiousness are irrelevant when taking into account the scope and vision of such a masterpiece. I don't like labels and characterisations but I have to say that it's a mature work of solemn (meta?)spirituality with a strange aroma of incense, remaining incensed but sacrifising much of this anger for a chance at lucidity. And the music is always moving in those damned hypnotic cycles, like a devilish dervish. I must admit that sometimes listening to the album scares me and each time I push "play" I don't know what'll happen next (the only other album that has such an effect on me is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, by GYBE).
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