The definitive TOOL thread

[belgarath68]

did you lose a bet? or are just against actually BURNING your money?


edit: wait...for tool? or dream theater?

Tool sorry. Should have clarified.

 

[Powers]

Price?

 

[belgarath68]

About $100AU per ticket. Not *too* bad.

But if you must hate me for that, I am probably going to go and get an Eric Clapton ticket too.

 

[Powers]

Hmm, well it is the probable closest you'll ever get to seeing Cream live. Who knows he might even play some tracks, White Room live would rock.

Well done.

Still £40 (100$AUD) for Tool is steep, gig tickets must be more expensive in Aus, for good reason I suppose.

 

[belgarath68]

Yeah, seeing Tool for $100AU is kinda what I expected. Damn us living out of the way from all these good bands!

 

[Powers]

Thats sort of what I was getting at, large sections of Aus are still unidustrialised. Unlike here in the UK where if a band plays the furthest away they could possibly play is 500 miles, give or take anyhow. Therefor, gigs are further apart, more money will be spent on fewer venues, which no doubt jacks the price up.

 

[belgarath68]

Not to mention Tool have only announced 2 Australian shows so far. There'll probably be more, but that doesn't help the price either.

 

[Powers]

Well the venues and organisers usually know many months ahead, of plebs like you and I, when the and where the gigs will be, or at least they're meant to. Although the amount of "fuck ups" at your average gig leads me to believe that, as always, the people in charge have no idea what's going on on the ground. Ivory towers and all. Still less gigs does mean more bums on seats at the ones that do appear, perhaps they're just milking it.

 

[saut]

i think tool is a decent starter band, was for me at least. but for as much hype as they get, they're an incredibly average band.

 

[all_sins_undone]

i think tool is a decent starter band, was for me at least. but for as much hype as they get, they're an incredibly average band.

take THAT affinirty banD!!!1

 

[affinityband]

Taek that affinityband.

 

[LightningLixxx]

They're kind of a love/hate band. A lot of people love them, but like any band, for every fan there's someone who despises them. I used to like them a lot, then they got kinda old, but I still like a good trip-out once in a while. What makes me more bored of them? It is basically due to discovering new and different bands all the time. It seems like every time I learn about some bands that I hadn't heard of before, another band kind of falls off my frequently played list.

 

[phagist_]

About $100AU per ticket. Not *too* bad.

But if you must hate me for that, I am probably going to go and get an Eric Clapton ticket too.

Yeh I can't wait. I'm gonna be broke for some while .

 

[affinityband]

take THAT affinirty banD!!!1

oh btw....cunt.

p.s now im more sober and thinking more logically.

 

[Pethical]

its 90$ shit seats, 110/20 good seats/mosh i think...

 

[Heavenscent]

In some Dutch magazine there was this article a while ago about Tool, with an interview. The first line went like: "Tool, the flagship of metal..." then I just laughed really loud. Gotta love the combo Holland & metal.

And I find Tool quite boring really. I have Lateralus, which I played three times and enjoyed once. The second time I got bored and turned it off. The third time i checked if i still thought it was pretty crappy. And it was, imo. Okay as background music, but no more than that.

 

[all_sins_undone]

oh btw....cunt.

p.s now im more sober and thinking more logically.

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

I picked up 10,000 days recently now I want all of their albums. Tool kicks ass!

yea Tool are great, get Aenima next, its their best album!!!

 

[CF87]

Tool's drummer and bassist is pretty neat but the guitar playing is really unimaginative imo.

 

[all_sins_undone]

yea Tool are great, get Aenima next, its their best album!!!

figures you'd be the one to say this