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it, and will put it back soon.Sorry for the inconvenience.Tool performing live in 2006.Visible from left to right are: Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan and Justin Chancellor.Tool is an American rock band that was formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California.Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums that topped the charts in several countries.Their efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued with Lateralus (2001) and the most recent album 10,000 Days (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim and success around the world.During the 1980s, each of the the future members of Tool moved to Los Angeles.Carole King, and played in the Los Angeles area with Pigmy Love Circus.They started jamming together and were on the lookout for a drummer and a bass player.Danny Carey happened to live above Keenan and was introduced to Jones by Tom Morello, an old high school friend of Jones and former bandmate of Electric Sheep.Tool's lineup was completed when a friend of Jones introduced them to bassist D'Amour.Early on, the band fabricated the story that they formed because of the pseudophilosophy "lachrymology".Although "lachrymology" was also explained to be an inspiration for the band's name, Keenan later explained their intentions differently: "Tool is exactly what it sounds like: It's a big dick.Only Tool's first music video "Hush" (1992) features prominent appearances by the band members.Parents Music Resource Center and its advocacy of the censorship of music.The video featured the band members naked with their genitalia covered by parental advisory stickers and their mouths covered by duct tape.Janiss Garza of RIP Magazine summarized in September 1992 as a "buzz" and "a strong start".Tool's 1993 Lollapalooza performance was an important step in boosting their popularity.Above the band performs "Sober".Left to right: Jones, Keenan, Carey.It expressed more diverse dynamics than Opiate and included songs the band had chosen not to publish on their previous release, when they had opted for a heavier sound.The band began touring again as planned, with an exception in May 1993.Tool was scheduled to play the Garden Pavilion in Hollywood but learned at the last minute that the Garden Pavilion belonged to L.Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology, which the band felt clashed with "the band's ethics about how a person should not follow a belief system that constricts their development as a human being".At the last concert of Lollapalooza in Tool's hometown Los Angeles, comedian Bill Hicks introduced the band.He jokingly asked the audience of 60,000 people to stand still and help him look for a lost contact lens.The song's lyrics and video dealt with child abuse, which sparked controversial reactions; Keenan's lyrics begin with: "It took so long to remember just what happened.I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive."American branch of MuchMusic asked Keenan to represent the band in a hearing.MTV stopped airing it after a few viewings.In September 1995, the band entered the studios to record their second album.At that time Tool experienced its only lineup change to date, with bassist D'Amour leaving the band amicably to pursue other projects.Justin Chancellor, a member of former tourmates Peach, eventually replaced D'Amour, having been chosen over competitors such as Kyuss' Scott Reeder, Filter's Frank Cavanaugh, Pigmy Love Circus's E.Bill Hicks, "another dead hero".The album was released in October 1996.Two and a half years earlier, satirist Bill Hicks had died; the album was dedicated to his memory.The band intended to raise awareness about Hicks's material and ideas, because they felt that Tool and Hicks "were resonating similar concepts".Tool their first Grammy Award.This Bill Hicks inspired song won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Responding to fan complaints about censorship, Matt Pinfield of MTV's 120 Minutes expressed regret on air by waving his fist in front of his face while introducing the video and explaining the name change.Following numerous appearances in the United States and Europe, Tool headed for Australia in late March 1997.Australia, Tool's tour bus was involved in a serious highway accident.The tour continued the next day as originally announced.Tool was returning in triumph to Lollapalooza after appearing among the obscure bands on the festival's smaller stage in 1993.Now Tool is the prime attraction for a festival that's struggling to maintain its purpose...Its music has refined all the troubled majesty of grunge.Tool's successful debut in sales.Tool and filed suit.According to Volcano, Tool had violated their contract when the band looked at offers from other record labels.After Tool filed a countersuit stating that Volcano had failed to use a renewal option in their contract, the parties settled out of court.Ted Gardner, who then sued the band over his commission on this lucrative agreement.Tool guitar tech Billy Howerdel, while Jones joined The Melvins' Buzz Osborne and Carey Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra on other side projects.The VHS and the DVD each contained four music videos, plus a bonus music video for "Hush" on the DVD.Although Salival did not yield any singles, the hidden track "Maynard's Dick" (which dates back to the Opiate era) briefly found its way to FM radio when several DJs chose to play it on air under the title "Maynard's Dead".Napster were flooded with bogus files bearing the titles' names.The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs.Billboard 200 albums chart in its debut week.Tool received their second Grammy Award for the best metal performance of 2001 for the song "Schism".King Crimson in August 2001.Although the end of the tour in November 2002 seemed to signal the start of another dormancy for the band, they did not become completely inactive.While Keenan recorded and toured with A Perfect Circle, the other band members released an interview and a recording of new material, both exclusive to the fan club.On April 1, 2005, the official website announced that "Maynard has found Jesus" and would be abandoning the recording of the new Tool album temporarily and possibly permanently.On April 7, the official Tool site posted the following news item titled with the Bill Hicks quote, "Christians, huh?Lateralus was first released as a limited autographed edition exclusively available to fan club members and publicly released on August 23, 2005.After rumored titles such as Teleincision had been dismissed, a news item on the official Tool website announced that the new album's name was 10,000 Days.The album opener, "Vicarious", premiered on US radio stations on April 17.The record followed on May 2, 2006 in the US and debuted at the top spots of various international charts.However, 10,000 Days was received less favorably by critics than its predecessor Lateralus had been.Tool appeared at many big festivals during their 10,000 Days tour.Here, they play the orange stage (main stage) at the 2006 edition of Roskilde Festival.After the release of 10,000 Days, a tour kicked off at Coachella on April 30, 2006.During a short break early next year, after touring Australia and New Zealand, drummer Danny Carey suffered a biceps tear during a skirmish with his girlfriend's dog, casting uncertainty on the band's upcoming concerts in North America.Back on tour by April, Tool appeared as a headliner at the Bonnaroo Music Festival with a guest appearance from Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello on "Lateralus".Meanwhile, the packaging of 10,000 Days gained Tool the distinction of "Best Recording Package" during the 49th Grammy Awards in February 2007, but their first single, "Vicarious", fell short in the category "Best Hard Rock Performance" to Wolfmother's "Woman".In an interview conducted in May 2007, Justin Chancellor stated that the band would probably continue their tour until early 2008 and then "take some time off".The ideas range from "a narrative story in a surreal fashion with as much money and special effects" as possible to "pockets of all of that or something that's live or the band playing".Jones dismissed the idea: "It's just talk right now."Musical style and influences
Tool has gained critical praise from the International Herald Tribune's C.The New York Times sees similarities to "Led Zeppelin's heaving, battering guitar riffs and Middle Eastern modes".Their 2001 work Lateralus was compared by the All Music Guide to Pink Floyd's Meddle (1971), but thirty years later and altered by "Tool's impulse to cram every inch of infinity with hard guitar meat and absolute dread".Musical style
A component of Tool's song repertoire relies on the use of odd meter time signatures.For instance, Justin Chancellor describes the time signature employed on Lateralus's first single, "Schism", as 6.Beyond this aspect of the band's sound, each band member experiments within his musical scope.Intelligencer: after his performance during an Alice in Chains reunion concert in 2005, freelancer Travis Hay saw him as "a natural fit at replacing Layne Staley".Regarding his role in A Perfect Circle and Tool, The New York Times wrote that "both groups rely on Mr.The number of syllables per line in the lyrics to "Lateralus" correspond to an arrangement of the fibonacci numbers.Problems listening to the file?The band puts an emphasis on the sound of their songs and attempts to reduce the effect lyrics can have on the perception of songs by not releasing song lyrics with any album.However, longtime King Crimson member Robert Fripp has downplayed any influence his band had on Tool.It was a piece we were developing that we dropped.The members of Tool have been generous enough to suggest that Crimson has been an influence on them.Tool influence in King Crimson, than I can hear King Crimson in Tool.In turn, Maloof and Newquists attribute to Tool an influence on modern metal in its own right in their book The New Metal Masters.Sean Richardson of The Boston Phoenix sees System of a Down, Deftones and Breaking Benjamin as examples of Tool's "towering influence" on the genre.Moreover, Keenan's unique style of singing has been repeatedly seen as influencing artists such as Pete Loeffler of Chevelle.Visual arts
Part of Tool's work as a band is to incorporate influences of other works of art in their music videos, live shows, and album packaging.Another expression of this is an official website "dedicated to the arts and influences" on the band, dissectional.Screencap from "Sober", directed by Adam Jones and Fred Stuhr.With the exception of "Hush" and Vicarious, all of Tool's music videos feature stop motion animation to some extent.Jones explained that it doesn't contain a storyline, but that his intentions were to summon personal emotions with its imagery.Rolling Stone described this imagery by stating that, in the video, "evil little men dwell in a dark dungeon with meat coursing through pipes in the wall" and called it a "groundbreaking", "epic" clip.DVD on December 18, 2007.The video is also notable because it is the first Tool video to be produced entirely through the use of CGI.Their first album, Undertow, featured a ribcage sculpture by Jones on its cover and photos contributed by the band members.The releases garnered positive critical reception, with a music journalist of the Associated Press attributing to the band a reputation for innovative album packaging.Tool performing live in 2006, showcasing an elaborate light show, using 10,000 Days artwork as backdrop.Following their first tours in the early nineties, Tool has performed as a headline act in world tours and major festivals such as Lollapalooza (1997), Coachella (1999 and 2006), Download Festival (2006), Roskilde (2006), Big Day Out (2007), and Bonnaroo (2007).Live shows on Tool's headline tour incorporate an unorthodox stage setting and video display.Breckinridge Haggerty, the band's live lighting and video designer, explains that the resulting dark spaces on stage "are...The band has never used any sort of timecode.During the 10,000 Days tour, the video material consisted of over six hours of material, created by Adam Jones, his wife Camella Grace, Chet Zar, Meats Meyer and Breckinridge Haggerty.Some of the material created by Chet Zar has been released on his DVD Disturb the Normal.Metal: The Next Generation of Rock and Punk.Stepping Out From the Shadows.Stepping Out From the Shadows.Tool Bio: Danny Carey.Visual Artist Cam De Leon's Lawsuit Against Rock Band TOOL Allowed to Proceed.Sober Look At Tool".Zappa, Moon Unit (April, 1994)."Tool Guitarist Adam Jones is a Master of Many Trades".Dolan, Jon (August 2006).Things You Should Know About Tool."Nobody's Tool", Alternative Press."Hard rockers hail comic genius Bill Hicks.".January 1997) "Tool Tool fact kit"."TOOL on Videos, Censorship, Art, And Why You Should Never Let A Guy Named Maynard Put You In A Cage".Tool for the Truly Cool.Jenison, David (December 1994).Conversation With Tool's Justin Chancellor".Dead 10 years, Hicks still makes us laugh.Tool News: April Fools 1997.Lollapalooza's Recycled Hormones: Rebellion by the Numbers.Terrorizer End of Year Lists.Slater, Rosanna (August, 2001).Breslin hosts heavier sound.Tool tops weekend menu..Tool Tinker With Album Title, Set Track List.Tool Stretch Out And Slow Down In Show With King Crimson.Alicia Keys Takes Five, 'O Brother' Gets Most At 44th Grammy Awards.Tool Hammer Away At New Album.Tool Planning Summer Tour Around Keenan's Wine Harvest.Tool, Pearl Jam Claim Billboard Chart In The Name Of Rock (May 10, 2006).Metacritic calculated an average score of 68 for 10,000 Days compared to 75 for Lateralus.Tool: 10,000 Days (2006): Reviews.Tool: Lateralus (2001): Reviews.TOOL Newsletter February 2007, e.Star Zeppelin Jam Highlight Bonnaroo Day One.Tool returns to Bossier on Thursday.Tool movie in the works?.Tool movie in the works?.Arts Tool frontman: 'I have not smashed up 1 hotel room'."Handy Man: How Justin Chancellor Frames Tool's Metal Madness".Micallef, Ken (07 2006).Wiederhorn, Jon (June 2001).The Making of Tool's "10,000 Days".Tool Newsletter, July 2006.TOOL: New Album Title Revealed?."Nobody's Tool", Alternative Press.Blake, Blair MacKenzie (2001).Tool Army exclusive interview.Tool connect on Lateralus."Happy Meals Versus Tool Albums".MUSIC MEETS ART Name the band Tool's fave artist."Weird Album Title for Tool", Rollingstone.Tool Newsletter July 2006.Blake, Blair MacKenzie (October 2007).Tool: A WORKING STILL FROM VICARIOUS.High Art: Alex Grey and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.Tool Guitarist Wins Grammy For 'Best Recording Package'."Lead singer Maynard James Keenan, as is customary for the enigmatic frontman, loomed in the background with his back facing the audience for most of the show."Disturb the Normal description.The Tool Page (t.This page was last modified 10:49, 10 January 2008.See Copyrights for details.AEC One Stop Group, Inc.Verify that there are actually ads to display.If an image or Flash ad is returned, display that ad.Otherwise, build a string containing all of the ads and
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* function to display the ads.SiteCatalyst code version: H.Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock.Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock.Tool, however, had a knack for conveying the strangled, oppressive angst that the alternative nation of the early '90s claimed as its own.DelegateListener('yuimenuitem', 'hd', 'click', YAHOO.Rating affects your music played in LAUNCHcast and Music Videos.Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock.Minutes() * 60 + newCurrentTime.See all 1,134 customer reviews...Ships from and sold by Amazon.Day Shipping at checkout.Music (See Bestsellers in Music)Popular in these categories: (What's this?Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Tool is a heavy metal band for the '90s.Rather like Metallica circa ...Instant Ringtones in 30 Seconds.Buy the sheet music for Tool at Sheet Music Plus.Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
a9AdsViewNamespace.No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet.See all 350 customer reviews...The easiest way to shoot video reviews.The whole purpose of the Heavy Metal genre is to be like this and Tool does this perfectly.If you want something lighter go listen to your Ashanti or whatever.It didnt start to grow on me until like a month after constant listening.You have to be patient with this CD to notice everything that goes into the craft of these songs (or opuses for that matter).Backstreet Boys and Michelle Branch.Tool's better than that.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."Tool is a band whose music is pretty hard to label.The music usually explores darker themes like pain, anger, frustration and guilt, then regurgitates them into a volatile, yet beautiful and alluring catharsis.How do I describe Tool's music?They possess their own distinctive sound.Two", which is probably the most popular Tool track on this album."Message To Harry Manback" is an interlude of an angry immigrant badmouthing the American nationality (which I find quite hilarious)."Hooker With A Penis" is pure confrontational metal at it's best.It may have had something to do with a fan accusing Tool of doing just that."Die Eier Von Satan" (German for "The Eggs Of Satan") is a recipe spoken in German.Some of Maynard's vocals here reach ranges that weren't heard anywhere else (on this disc, or on any other Tool album).Tool has created music that can only be called timeless, transcendent, infinite and futuristic.The dark parts are edgier, the slow parts more enthralling, and the overall feel is one of awe.With Aenima, these guys really proved they could take thier sound and make it somewhat a cross between Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and Black Sabbath.The album opens up with the energetic growl of "Stinkfist" which features some signature guitar "creaking" sounds, like the sound a giant ship makes seconds before it splits in two.The track "Forty Six and two" has one of the most captivating hooks I've heard in a while, and continues to pull you through the entire song.After Jimmy however, we're truly thrust into a dark little tune that sounds something like a WWII Nazi Rant with something spoken in German at the end...The inside of the CD cover on this one is interesting as well, it has a holographic of the West Coast, and when you tilt it, the entire state of California sinks into the ocean.Back then, I wasn't sure if I really loved rock or not.It was isn't in my top 10 but I enjoyed listening to it from time to time.Fan Who Came Backwards To Forward...Years ago, when I first heard Tool, it wasn't an instant attraction.Fast forward ten years...Black Sabbath meets Nirvana
Except with a slimy lead singer who I'd cheerfully knee in the groin if he asked for some money from me.This is one of the best albums ever made.Tool has something to it where the first time you listen to it through you dont get it all.Published 4 months ago by J.This is the cd that started it all for me and listening to tool.Perhaps the best album of the 90's.From the opening of Stinkfist to the closing seconds of Third Eye, there is absolutely nothing that could be changed for the better.See all 2 discussions...See all 2 discussions...Explore and Edit at Amapedia.What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Records that have made me say holy sh*t!Top Ten Modern Christian CDS: A list by J.Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.Off Your StairMaster and Nautilus Purchase
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