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I disagree that they defy genre, because as the years went by they have definitely solidified their sound as their own unique thing, and they haven't changed genre throughout their career (though Opiate had a bit more of a punk vibe than later stuff). I would say rather than defying genre, they formed their own genre (which is pretty evident with how many bands mimic their sound or are heavily influenced by it, many of which are great in their own right, hell, check out Rishloo-they have surpassed Tool in some ways-especially live), or at least their own rock sub-genre.
@@intentionalmisuse don't forget ",EARSHOT" I thought it was a new TOOL song the first time I heard there song on the radio. But YES they do have there own sound which now is hard to not sound like old songs,they use so many different riffs in each song u can sample 100 Melody's and make a whole song outtta each one. They deserve more mainstream recognition. But TOOL remain the last mystery of rock. We are blessed they never broke up or had drug problems ruin them.
@@kerrickgerba5607 Earshot is crap, lol. I remember hearing them back when I was a teenager when "Get Away" was on the radio, and thought "Cool! A new APC song", until the radio guy made a joke about it being another Maynard side project and then said who it really was, so I went to listen to the full album and it turned out that "Get Away" was the only good song on it. I felt robbed. Earshot was just a cheap knockoff of Tool, but there are truly great bands that are influenced by them/have a similar sound. Check out Rishloo, or Lunatic Soul, or Riverside, or, Indukti, or Vulkan.
It took me ,every bit of 3 months to understand pneuma....nobody in the world has ever created music like this... its like a feeling...idk how to describe it....i have to hear tool everyday. And i do...
@Illusion I swear without Red or Larks Tool would've either sounded pretty different or maybe not had the same lineup. They don't rip it off, but it definitely were inspired by it. Danny Carey and Adam Jones have mentioned their love for KC too.
@@shawnmcvey7789 love King Crimson! I'm working on doing a cover of Frame by Frame, don't see too many King Crimson songs covered by drums, Indiscipline is a prime example of why
I walked past Maynard at lalapalooza. He was wearing a cowboy hat and shark wrangler shirt while audio slave was on stage. Gave me a tip of the hat. I didn't even know it was him till I saw him on stage with perfect circle. Humble rockstar.
@@oceanmachine1906 and also Rush and Zep. But only to inspiration. All musicians owe to the past for the inspiration. Tool was something new during that time. It was very different than grunge and hair metal. That freshness carved their niche and 30 years later they are still releasing #1 records.
@@oceanmachine1906 Couldn't agree more. Just trying to point out they are inspired by many and don't owe their uniqueness to anyone. BUT... King Crimson is definitely one of their greatest influences if not the most. The intro to 7empest is a testament to that.
Why owe? It's about wibe that was there. In different time, such unique band can easily be unnoticed. It's not about Nirvana at all, but the times were definitelly good for interesting and inspiring music.
I know! Can you imagine having some friends and then you end up making a band with them. You look up at rehearsal and see Danny Carey on the drums. Then Adam Jones playing an open-3-5- riff on guitar. And somehow you are the bass player for Tool in this imagined dimension. Guarantee you I would never have quit to play guitar. I’d be a bass playing son of a bitch for the rest of my days! Haha
@@TheCarelessAquarius I think the bass drives Tool's music more than the guitar 🎸 (just by a smidge). Don't get me wrong Adam's amazing guitar work is essential in Tool's music but the bass is just a huge part of driving that power in their music. Songs like 46 & 2 and Sober are big time bass driven songs. I'm a bass player myself and am a bit biased obviously but yeah, my point stands 😂😎🔥🤘🏼🤘🏼💥🤙🔥🔥🔥❤️😜🖤⚰️👿👺👹💥😇
Some of the best times in my life were driving around listening to Tool 🔧 but some of the worst times in my life were driving around listening to Tool. There has always been Tool with me and I'm forever grateful. They know how to take you to the highest mountains where beauty consumes you. They also know how to drag you down to the darkest part of your being but it's beautiful there too
They're certainly in the upper tier with the greats IMO. but it's "art", you really can't rate how others react to a piece. But yeah as far as trippy, takes you away music with insanely good engineering, they're right there with the legendary handful
I’m almost 50 years old & I gotta say Tool is the best band I’ve ever heard ....the only comparison I can make would be 89-94 era Soundgarden .....I told a guy one time who had never heard Tool before that they were sorta like “a heavy Pink Floyd “
Funny you should say that....the first time I listened to Tool in the mid 90s, I used to say that they had a Soundgarden-like heaviness but playing Floyd-like psychedelia and oddness.
This band has matured beautifully, much like Led Zeppelin did over the years. In this way they have eclipsed (by far) all of their contemporaries from the early 1990's. We are all fortunate they are still contributing to our collective creative consciousness.
Truth be told, Maynard is the best front man who doesn’t want to be front man. The band is absolutely a moment in time. The lyrics simply supplement the ideas behind the whole and Maynard’s lyrics only enhance the ultimate sound.
38:40 Well spoken Mr. Schletter: "The psychedelic Experience has a dark side, its not just flowers. When the truth of the world reveals to you, it has some ugliness, too."
@@brentdraper4382 You realize Tool is only one project Maynard works on right? He's also, by far, the band member who works the quickest. For Tool he doesn't start writing or recording vocals until the songs are nearly complete. If there's no music he can't write the lyrics for it so he has to wait for Adam Danny and Justin.
Here again. Just love your channel! I could watch everything over and over again. The clips, interviews, documentary, live footage, everything. I'll say it again and again, you've done incredible work that'll live on for all fans, old and new. Thank you.
Every band had that defining moment when you take that next step in your career for ( TOOL ) that next level was the debut of Anemia. Complete genuine authentic masterpiece.
Really enjoyed this deeper look into the band, and their ongoing collaboration with Alex Gray, the artist, which has produced such fantastic visuals, Tool stands the test of time and they continue to put out innovative and transformative music and art while keeping a certain mystery that draws you in, rather than a oversaturating media presence that so many bands have today, the periods between albums is long but always worth the wait....
Rick your musical talent is epic and I am a huge fan but I am not working, and having no money or income means I am limited to support you and your videos are amazing, I will always be grateful for everything you’ve done for me in this process of learning from your experience and the way you have helped so many people. Thank you for sharing your talent and I am privileged to have been able to be part of your you tube channel
Bobby Moore Hello big teacher, you are so advanced that you did not understand what my comment was very ironic and then the fact that I don't know about music is like saying that you understand comments on the fly. I'm certainly not passing through and I have a conspicuous one musical baggage to make you blush but i’m certainly not coming to tell you. Goodbye.
SuperTool75 I would like to apologize if you were being ironic it’s very hard to tell in writing so I deserve that! I should have asked you how you meant that so I guess that makes me the ignorant one in this case. and I don’t know you and I see a lot of ignorant comments and I let them affect my judgment so I’m sorry for being a jerk !Thank you for calling me out. Lesson learned!
@@bobbymoore5683 Damn dude! You just displayed humility and decency in an unfortunately uncommon way. That was real cool. I like to read the comments and I'm sometimes amazed and concerned about how savage people can be. I admire you. Good to remember that we are all here because we love music, and its fun.
Pete Thoresen thanks for saying that! SuperTool75 taught me a hard lesson and he made me look dumb but I think I’m better for it so I’m thankful to him and thank you for seeing the positive results! 🔧🎶🤟
I've been a fan of Tool since the first time I saw the Sober video. I didn't love all the experimental music back then. It's nice to go back and listen to those songs as an adult and "get" what I didn't initially understand as a 20 something metal head.
Verbatim last night I said how getting to see Tool in concert today was going to be nostalgic. And I meant that in the most sincere way. Tool is here to stay but I’ve been listening to this since I was a teenager and getting to see them 25 years later is fucking metal 😍
The only critique about your quote I have is that TOOL is not in all caps. Sorry. But you are spot on besides that. Never seen someone put it the way you did. I love your breakdown!!! Thanks!
Just epic and awesome. Maybe there'll be a part two chronicling the time between 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum with most or all of the interviews from the band during the release of F.I. (that we've already seen the most of) included within it!!!
Cosmic Dawn thanks! I already saw that one and it was awesome. I meant the guys they interviewed for this one. Hearing how they each felt about the progression of the albums and the content I was just thinking it would be nice to hear their further thoughts in the same documentary. (David Battrill, Lonn Friend, Bill Manspeaker, Jeff Duran, Kellii Scott, John Weiderhorn, etc.) Hell its always fun to listen to Manspeaker. ;) And thanks for the awesome content!
I have always been obsessed with different kinds of music...Country, Arena Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Hair Metal...then Grunge came out and I quit listening to all other Genres of music...then Post Grunge gripped me...I listened to nothing but Grunge and Post Grunge...then I had my 2nd coming of Tool and It may sound selfish of me to other bands but for months now I have listened to NO Other band but TOOL... I have transcended and they are the Only music that moves me... It's indescribable..but they are the greatest band ever in my opinion...I wanted more than anything in the world to be able to drive from my home state of South Carolina to Daytona Beach this May to See TOOL headline the big 4 day music festival at the Beach...but as my messed up luck is I ended up with a 3 year Home Detention Sentence and won't be able to make it to Daytona 😭😭😭😭😭... I hope They are still touring when I get off of House Arrest...I will travel wherever I have to to see this most iconic band...I am learning Bass Guitar right now and my Bass Idol of course is none other than Justin Chancellor......but my favorite drummer is of course Danny Carey, favorite Guitarist is Adam Jones and I've always wanted to be a Rock Singer/ Lyricist and Maynard James Keenan is the greatest there is in my opinion...he has some special way of being completely different at writing lyrics and the way he phrases those lyrics makes me feel every word in my soul...I know he hates how obsessed Tool fans can be but it's their own fault for being so Fucking Amazing 🤣🤣🧐👀 and I would never want to Annoy him but I would love to meet him and shake his hand and tell him how much his music means to me and Adam, Justin and Danny Carey as well... I was lucky enough to get to see Danny's friend Neil Peart before he passed away and I definitely have to see the current greatest living drummer alive Danny Carey 👀 I am 54 and don't know how long I have left but I must see TOOL before I die ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What got you the house arrest? You really should listen to other music though, i get how fascinated one can become with a band, it happened to me several times, but it always was a phase and i am a musician myself. And i am sure, they would tell you the same.
Aenema was the first Tool album I loved. And I really like the songs on 10,000 Days. Maynard is awesome. I love to hear him talk because he’s got a great combination of intelligence and artistic individuality. Saw him with A Perfect Circle and I was impressed.
10k days has got to be my least favorite album… Jambi, Wings for Marie, and Right In Two are probably the only songs I like on the track… where as I can listen to ALMOST every song on every other album. Yes I’ve listened to every album countless times since I was in high school. Considering I’m only 22, I listen to Tool a lot. I wish they had enough music to make a full work day out of. Not talking about the interludes or instrumentals
How r we still having the Nirvana conversation without at least a nod to Jane's Addiction? (esp. when discussing Tool, a band whose albums doubtless share far more parallels with Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual than Nevermind).
Nobody seems to know about or remember how much influence Jane’s had on the world of music. The word ‘alternative’ didn’t even exist until someone tried to describe Jane’s. I have collected so many Jane’s live shows on cd that unless you heard them or seen Jane’s live you cannot understand how intense they really were!! One of my favorites is definitely live in Chicago 1988. It’s absolutely an insane live show. Dave’s guitar playing has never gotten the respect that it truly deserves!!! Thanks for mentioning Jane’s Addiction! 👊🏻
Excellent point. Janes was amazing. Much more prog than nirvana. Nirvana was grunge. Period. Tool has never been in a genre. They are the genre. They are on the level of Mozart and Beethoven in terms of musical genius and orchestration.
@@MrBigspendn Can't argue with that at all. Ministry kicks major ass, love that band- they definifetly don't get the accolades they deserve considering the ground they broke. I know the same is said about Skinny Puppy, but I have yet to delve into their discography. (I plan on it soon though.)
I saw these guys in Ft. Myers, FL for the Lateralus album. It was a life-changing, transcendental journey into spiritual reality. Maybe it was just the bag of chronic I gobbled down when we got stopped by FHP going 90 m.p.h. on the way there. In all seriousness, out of the (nearly 100) bands I've seen live, that show was in the top 5. Maybe top 3.
@31:36 . . . The difference between Tool fans and music consumers of other bands/genres explained perfectly. By Maynard himself. Thanks for the upload 🤘
First time I saw Tool was at a local club here in Nashville in 93. I remember the first song, the place exploded! Danny’s kick drums literally pulled the air out of my lungs. Best experience at a live show that I’ve ever had.
Maynard has an amazing ability to come in and listen to a pretty wild prog time signature. Then Being able to somehow make a 7/4 time signature sound very catchy with his vocal lines and melodies. The band knows how to build up a guitar riff until it leads them into an amazing guitar hook, drum hook, vocal hook, and bass hook or a dark catchy crescendo.
23:40 What Maynard says here is how I always thought about music, it's why I don't like pop, it's superficial phony happiness which angers me, whereas angry music is a release. He also expresses the idea of "the shadow" first expressed by the psychiatrist Carl Jung. I don't know if Maynard had read Jung before or had the ideas and then read him but his influence is heard throughout many of their songs.
Oh, i love some dark shit, but "Pop" nowadays is shit. Go back to the 50's and 60's and there is some genius music! Motown? Beatles? Nirvana, Mark Lanegan, AIC are fucking great, but ffs broaden out your tastes. Best thing about TOOL was them sampling Bill Hicks.
Ha ! Just found this video, from Beth Roars, a vocal teacher who does music reactions, about metal...interesting ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fPL6SxdgYEs.html
If i had a time machine, i would go back to the 90's and slap my younger self in the face, saying; "Start listening to TOOL you f****g moron, you need to wake up and realize how epic they are!"
In 92 93 living north of LA in mojave desert opiate made its way to us underground and its was a recorded tape from original cassette and then undertow we keep tool underground for as long as we could we loved them so much and heard they fidnt want to be huge so we coveted them for year till round 96 till anima and then they blew up in true reality same as kyuss later queens of stone age but tool changed my life in music my music quest comming from small Towns in the desert it has really played a huge part in lives of desert musicians it spawned mark from blink 182 who i used to sing an play around with mark and bunch of us to seattle to go on to witchburn with Jacy and mischa along with other bands they spawned (temper hi ) etc.. but this band is one of top 10 bands of all time period and maynard and i both live in arizona and im still playing music because of these guys stay rocking
They are so enigmatic. There is barely any live footage of them that is high quality. You couldn’t find official lyrics for the longest time unless you went out of your way. The crazy ass music videos that gave me nightmares as a child. That’s not even to mention the music itself.
I know so many people who say they are tool fans, but ha e never listened to an album before AEnema... I loved the old heavy and dark stuff just as much as I love the newer stuff. First time I heard “Part of me” was life changing... it sent me on a journey of self discovery, and always reminded me I’m am much more than than I could ever realize, and there are deep, hidden parts of me I had no idea even existed
@@toolbandtube the only thing is from my memory I would have swore Danny and mjk worked with green jello alot longer than to 1990. I swear mjk sings the majority of the 333 album..
This channel hasn't let any of us down with any content to date. I'm looking forward to this but the humerus bone in me can't help but think of Hellboy's brilliant April Fool's joke a few years back on fourtheye.net :)
Love Tool. Met them in Buffalo they were playing a club undertow tour. I used to play the club all the time my two sons were huge Tool fans so I brought them up early to see their sound check. Danny Carey was great with them I think they were 11 & 9 at the time. He was showing them stuff he was doin on his laptop. All the guys were great with them. Original bassist Paul DAmour was kind of a dick but all in all great guys.
One of my favorite concert moments ever was seeing Layne Staley sing Opiate with Tool back in the 90s. There was some dude with a stocking mask covering his face sitting under the kick drum during their set...everyone was like, wtf is that guy doing up there.....then they started playing Opiate and that person stands up and started singing the part "Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life"....immediately everyone went nuts knowing full well who's voice it was. Fuckin gives me chills every time I think back on it.
Dude, your sound levels SUCK !!!!! It really takes away from this great story. Other than that, AWESOME documentary on one of the most iconic legendary bands ever........ THIS IS TOOL Thank you for uploading 🤘🤘
Happy to see a documentary about tool but you bout F'd up my speakers by making me turn up the volume to hear the interviews then cranking the volume for the music....Aholes
The first song I had heard from them was Sober. I got out of class and came home. I was flipping channels and went to Mtv and the video was on. I thought the song and video were amazing. Thought it was an awesome guitar sound.
Sober was the first song I heard by tool as well, while I was fishing with my mom and dad when I was in junior high.Mom kept calling it our “fishing song”. Years later, mom and I are both huge Tool fans. I’ve met most of them, and also Alex Grey and his wife Allyson.
To you tool! Make your next album transcend generations again. It's long between albums, but I get it! Make at least 1 more, so me and my little 8yr old musical son can experience it together. He'll get what I've been influenced by for 20yrs.
This documentary is phenomenal. TOOL has been my favorite band since I first listened to Lateralus at 8 years old. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this wonderful presentation. I am grateful 🪬💚
More than one similarity can be seen between TOOL and Pink Floyd, when it comes to the incredibly talented members, the group dynamic and the catalogue of the band. While not being the same sub genre of rock, both bands are a product of their respective times.
I don't know of many other bands that have had the longevity of this band while still being as relevant. The list of bands that have that combined with the length of time between albums and ALL the other projects they do individually is all but non-existent. Many, MANY bands break-up as soon as one member even hints that they're thinking of doing something else on the side, even if it's during a break and even if it has nothing to do with music. I imagine you have to have just LUCK that the members are able to push their own egos to the side to accept that. They're definitely a case example on how to work with with other people in a band and be able to exist for a long time.
