First time hearing Tool - Vocal Coach reacts to "Sober" and Maynard James Keenan's LIVE vocals 

For sure!

Right! Live as well!

Hold still. I'll get a frying pan.

That's what I just did lol. Not exactly my genre, but they're really good. Not sure I'll fall into this rabbit hole, but i'll dig deeper

I was at a recent show and met several virgins. I was so happy for them!

Yes she did.

And I’m here for it!

LOL.. exactly. I found the hole about a year ago... It's very nice down here.

Tool brigade done moved out

Guys, he has three bands! This rabbit hole is a little bigger than normal lol

Alice in chains live in awesome 🤘🤘🤘

The studio versions sounds very polished which I like a lot, but there is rawness in his voice in the live version that I really like.

The first time I noticed this as a kid was watching that video of Cream blowing up the Albert Hall with "Crossroads," and then being so disappointed when I heard the studio version. Since then ALL my favourite bands are the ones that sound better live, because you can feel the passion and the sheer joy they're experiencing in just letting rip.

It's Maynard's physicality that sells it. The fact that he can twist and contort his body while still delivering a pitch perfect vocal performance is astounding.

Disagree. The live song has more energy for sure but his vocal performance is definitely more raw and not at his best quality. I don’t know why all these reaction videos use live performances like this instead of hearing them at their full potential. Is it a music rights violation thing?

"He is communicating anguish" I think you nailed it. Perfect way of saying it.

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well said. happy to have you here with us

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Beautifully said. Glad you overcame your addiction. My son turned me on to Tool. He was an amazing young man and wrote poetry and lyrics and played several instruments. He struggled with bi polar and it eventually led to him being taken from this world. He identified with Tool’s music. Listening to them brings back memories of him. 😌❤️🎶

Absolutely 💯

1993. The whole fucking crazy year for me.

This song changed the music scene in a way that at least for me changed the whole vibe of the world. The hair bands were finally done and buried as this song took over, the grunge scene was laid open and exposed fore it's stupidity and repetitive copying. It was like a new dawn of actual real music that reminded me of the 70's vibe.

Saw them live in the mid 90's shortly after Undertow released, they were getting 'big' but weren't quite there yet. Absolutely shocked with the way the music and Maynard's voice and lyrics blew me away. And I'd already listened to them on cassette. btw, I love how your (The Vocalyst) first comment about this is "it's very moving". Yep, that's TOOL.

college. this song exactly. I had always heard _of_ them, but hearing that song made me go "Oh, _now_ I see."

Lol for real though!

😂

And a perfect circle and puscifer!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

crazy how you just described the word "fan"

if this keeps up I too might wanna start listenin to their music. :)

My family is in the process of watching my cousin kill themselves. Nothing we do helps. It's like waiting for him to die now. So, this song kills me as addiction kills someone who was once my best friend.

@@B_rett_B yes. I'm sorry.

8-10 Times Better every time. POET

Yes!! I watched her face the whole time as he built up throughout and her emotions. There’s no denying what Tool does to a person and how they tap into your soul. It’s a full body experience.

Absolute truth 💯

🖤

what got me was the first time hearing them on good headphones. shit was unbelievable. i was amazed at how much of it i didnt hear before

and the pretty much involuntary swaying to the hypnotic rhythm...

immeasurable depression as well, if I may add a commentary to yours already perfect commentary. The thing about Tool, not only for me, If I dare say, is that they seem to be able to bring the audience to a terrible hell, atmospherically, but they also seem to be able to ascend, to elevate, to remove the listener from that place. how tf they do that is beyond me

Yep!

I wish I could give your comment more likes

She started with EPIC TooL! They’re still good but different. Their angst was so great!

Well said.

Beautifully put !

Absolutely! Maynard just...does.

You just said it all! It's way more than just singing. If you get it, you get it!

Amem

Imo it was the last decade. Go back to decades previous and each had substance too. Everything since the 90s has been fake/inorganic.

It was OK. The 70s is pretty much the king of music decades.

​@Adam-ye6wj that's why the 90s was the last great decade, because you had great 70s, too

That’s because you have not discovered metal. All that started in the 90s.

It is the final decade of actual music.

CONGRATULATIONS

The way the world is now.. it’s very admirable to be sober

Congratulations on your sobriety.

@@yotafan174 Thank you.

Glad you're still with us. Keep up the good work.

Good for you!

@@HayMap Thank you.

Where the fuck was she?

Yeah she definitely had a head trip

Precisely what I thought

​@@jackiemartling5321Main Stream music. That's where

Haha I thought the same thing

What did you think of the fear innoculum album?

I totally agree. This song has been, and always will be, a forceful gut punch. Doesn’t matter how many times you’ve heard it.

It's been a long, long life so far. 30 years, an eternity. Hell on one hand, heaven on the other. I feel Tool, and I love the lyrics so much.

APC is phenomenal live. They’re doing shows for Maynard’s 60th. It’s APC, Primus and Puscifer. Get your tickets. I’m going to the red rocks shows in Morrison, Co.

going to see them all in TN!! so excited, especially for primus' bassist 😭 i found him thru oysterhead and that is pure fucking talent right there

@@rosa-gw1xm hell yes, I'm going to see them in KC in a few weeks! I'm so pumped

APC is my drug of choice and watching live was incredible and breathtaking

You are going to love it! Amazing show!!!

Forty Six & 2 has a nostalgia for me, like the smell of home. Funny how certain bands can get you through. Your comment spoke to me - I wish you well.

F & A..!! I Hear That..!! This song was right there... in the loss of serenity... the destruction thereof... and the newfound living S E R E N I T Y such a powerful song, and the best performance to pick for a 'First time Ever' vid... First time I heard TOOL was at lalapaloosa, the gorge at gorge... daytime set... no clue... Totally Life Changing Experience..! I've seen them many time since but still, and will always, get the chills... anytime this song is played..! F & A... Congrats on the 15..!!

same here with my response to her response wasn't expecting to be moved by someone caring about a band that means sooooooo much to me

Congratulations on your sobriety. Every day is a new day, a new opportunity.

good on you man...

30 years later? That can´t be true ! Shit, yes, its true! Yeez, time surely passes, hahahah

Every. Single. Time!

Still!

Same

💯 PERCENT NAILED IT!!💯🤟🙏

Don't really think this is about addiction.

just the simple, leaned forward, weird posture is sufficient to call for all the saddening pics of fentanyl addicts. Very powerful.

​@@mushroomxxxzzzit kind of is. It's about a friend they had who left an answering machine message whilst drunk. But, as Maynard has said, he leaves most lyrics vague enough for anyone to apply them to their life. That's what's so great about Tool and Maynard's lyrics.

To me it personifies the dark night of the soul. We all have them.

It's haunting and emotional. I am not one to really listen to the actual lyrics at first. I listen to the way the music makes me feel......I am the sort who gets goosebumps from music. Tool.does that. So that happens first I get the feeling then I hear the words usually

It's baffling that people don't like them. To deny the exponential talent of these musicians is fucking asinine imo. Danny Carrey is probably top 3 greatest drummer of all time, and Maynard's voice is one of the most unique sounds on the planet.

cant put a finger on bc Who are you to wave your finger? You must have been outta your head

What genre do you put Tool in? I've always left them in their own realm.

Took has a genre? I always thought they were impossible to classify that way. Love this band.

I got to see them play an instrumental version of sober live. It was definitely one of those "thank you for letting me experience this God" moments.

wish all of our elders thought as you.. right frkn on!

Builds up from the euphoria Lincoln kind of levels off after turmoil let you sit up there and think about it then it falls in the Darkness select the whole trip through the addiction so many people live through that I've lived through and still living in kind of captures the whole fucking thing thing

I’m 53, when this album came out and I picked it up, I listened to it once and put it away. It was too much for me at the time but it became one of my all time favorite albums. Sober is one of my favorite songs. It is a masterpiece.

Exactly the same here.

im going to see them in 2 months here in KY

@@jeremybraun5475 Lucky you!

I know I assumed everybody knew who they are lol

It literally amazes me every time. Like when I meet somebody I always just assumed that they know who Tool is. They may not be a huge fan, but they know they exist.

We don’t find tool. They find us in the right time

He and the rest of the band certainly did hard drugs such as LSD to put forth this sound my guy.

@@sas_j-money3422 L isn’t a hard drug my guy.

@@nikb3054 Ok I would understand if you said that about shrooms. LSD is 50x stronger though...

so many of his songs speak so deeply and honestly about addiction, even though he's not an addict and has never struggled with addiction. thirteenth step by APC is almost entirely about the suffering of addicts, and how difficult it is to recover, and it's beautiful. it's such an important album to so many addicts i know, recovered and otherwise, and it's just mind boggling to know that maynard ISNT an addict

iirc an old bandmate of theirs was and inspired this song

Don't do Wings pt 1&2 unless you're ready to cry. It's a tribute to Maynard's mother, and he goes all out on it. But, eventually, yeah, do it.

@Toolarmy: We got another one! :) I recently did post on a other Tool reaction Video nearly the same Song List as Scott - only difference Two in One instead of Aenima. But its Tool, there are soo many amazing songs.

also a note about 'Lateralus' it uses the Fib Seq

Don't forget the other 80 songs plus Puscifer lol, soooo goooood

Rosetta Stoned is a great one because it starts in an odd place, but when it gets to the power notes... cuts right through me, every time

Not genius, hes drugged out of his mind.

@@similarsubstance4885He's not. Maynard has always been health conscious. He's playing the role of an addict on stage to fit the theme of the song. The song itself is his observations of those close to him who he watched be destroyed by addiction.

@@similarsubstance4885he plays on act if you think everything he or tool says and does is 100 percent serious your mistaken

@@similarsubstance4885 He's performing. Nobody can be "drugged out of [their] mind" and hit those notes.

@@similarsubstance4885 you have no idea what you are talking about, just be quiet

Yeah he expresses the dark desperation of addiction in his voice. The tired, angry, beaten down, sick of yourself, frustration that comes from hitting rock bottom and not for the first time

Wasn’t this song written about someone else?

@@user-360johnn Yea, pretty sure it was written about his mom.

​@@user-360johnnThat's what I've always heard too, but am confused about...

​@@ToyokaXNever heard that, but maybe. I thought I heard it's about an ex-band member ?

You took the words from my mouth. This one gives me the chills and gets me all twsited inside with his raw emotion. Spiral out brother

It's kind of Maynard's baby. He was playing the same song with Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty in Michigan in the 80s as a glam band. Crazy the journey this song took.

Listen to Push it live ....it expands your mind a million ways but there is no other way " then listen to ticks and leeches then 46&2 then the album Opiate .start there then go on ,but remember every sóng is great,one better than the next and for 30 years of making music I'm surprised they don't even get air time but I also get each song is no less than 9 min they won a Grammy for The Tempest ...best rock song thatsc15pluscmin.ive got each song down to the beats.i know each one personally ..I mean that's what they do ,get in your mind to where it's all them ..they're just great ..truly great...

Lateralis is the sacred song of tool .spiral out ....man

Eulogy bros

@@josemiguelcueto5828 the pot

I saw them last night at mohegan. They rocked !

​@@ericheenieI was there too! Phenomenal

I'm 42 and have been with TOOL since Opiate and the early EP days, seen em 6 times now (2 weeks ago in Calgary) and it NEVER EVER GETS OLD. this is music that goes beyond life, they're aliens man.

@@ericheenie wasn’t the show incredible? Where were you seats? I’m going to assume if you guys were at Mohegan you’re from New England- just a heads up- A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Primus in Boston and at Foxwoods next year!! 🎉🎉❤️

same!! saw them live for the first time a few weeks ago and still can't get over it!!nMaynard hits your soul and everything inbetween

He would agree.

Very well said. Spot on

Ohh yeah tell me about it 🤟

perfectly stated! 🌀🌀🌀

46 + 2...

Step into my shadow.......

You know he wrote this long before Tool ever was? He also sang it in a very fast tempo.

@@ellzedd4113 I didn't know that. Thanks! I listen to more of APC than Tool. Very talented artist. And I hear his wine business is doing well too.

I think it was this show, I remember reading that Tool accidentally ingested LSD through Gatorade that Al Jorgensen of Ministry gave them while hanging out before Tool's performance. If Al is telling the truth in his writings, I believe it. Maynard looks it.

​@@TheStonedZone"accidentally". I remember watching a thing on VH1 years and years ago about how he overdosed on heroin and someone was able to save his life by putting ice up his butt and it shocked him awake

Maynard is mental here.

Yes. That's the best

My favorite!

For me it's Forty Six & 2. I dig this a lot, though. I love Ænima. Love me some TOOL in general, but I'm gonna speak some blasphemy: I don't really care for Fear Inoculum.

@@chuckclark3214 I was the same about Fear but listened to it a few more times and I've grown to love it. But on my first listen, I was just unimpressed for some reason.

I really like his vocals, along with all if the other instrumental sections, especially danny carry's drumming in pneuma..such a good song

I've said before that my idea of heaven is watching MJK live in concert for eternity.

Same! He moves the core of my soul

He did huh!?

I was told he was trained in Opera at a young age

That 🐙can play mean drums.

The new album took taylor swift and her swifties off the charts.

Rare are the artists that sound as good live as on the album or has albums you can listen to all the way thru. Every single song is good on many of their albums.

​@skeemeastwood9075 I went twice to his show at the smoothie King center in New Orleans. Now, that venue is pretty shit after the first 15 or so rows. They still sounded amazing in the nose bleeds.

Do you know why maynard was acting how he was during this performance??

Haunting 🎯 and gripping.

I clicked on comments to say the same word. Haunting is what she was looking for

​@@waylonmiller9212was thinking alright

@@ReviloWedj i still need to know, its driving me up a wall that i couldn't find any answers

Feeling since the beginning. Everyone in my family shuts up when I put TOOL on.

Do you really believe that she's never heard this until now?

Well put, however as a fellow Tool fan, isn’t it better to be unable to relate? Just imagine if our lives were such that these song didn’t touch our soul?

Absolutely!

One definitely need a certain level of life experience to feel this type of music

I'm thankful for the countless weekends me and my buddies spent tripping balls on acid and playing Tool nonstop in high school. When you're in that state, the music itself and lyrics just take you to unexplainable places. I'm a boring 43 yr old now, but Tool literally lives inside me lol. Can't wait to see them again next month!

They're great, but cool it with antisemitism guy.

First time I heard Tool I was cramped into the rear jump seat of a early 90’s Toyota pickup. Three of us heading out of town for work. Middle of summer, the truck was black and the AC sucked in those things. One of the rear tires was “out of balance” so if he hit 60 it would vibrate like a bastard. He kept hitting sixty then backing off. Over and over. I already didn’t like the fucker driving but an hour in I wanted to beat the shit out of him. Then he popped in Undertow on those shitty factory speakers with just a cheapo deck and Radio shack sub at my feet adding to my cramping (probably the worst car stereo setup in the history of man). At first thought “what is this dogshit? Can’t even hear the fucking singer. Mumbling son of a bitch.” Part way through Intolerance I thought it was maybe not bad. Prison Sex came on and halfway through I thought they were pretty good. Then the breakdown and I thought “this drummer kicks ass”. Then Sober punched me in the face and I was hooked. No bullshit I remember every bit of my thought process during that whole album. When it was done I told him to play it again. He said “fuck that” and loaded Primus Seas of Cheese which I had never heard either. That asshole had some damn good taste in music.

That’s wild. I was at That show in 93 at Shoreline in Mountain view, CA. I was literally hypnotized when I heard Tool. I watched the whole performance alone. I get to see him again 30 years later for his birthday tour.

Ahh yes, a fellow Iowa from the 90's@@AlphanumericCharacters

It literally rewired my brain

I don’t have to imagine…I experienced it!

Did that lol.

Right? Shit touched my soul

Heard them in 7th grade. Had a crush on a guy who wore their shits all the time. Went to the record store to listen so I could talk to them about it. Lol BOOOOY BYE!!! Hello favorite band 😂❤

30 years…that just hit me.

46&2 is the absolute best! My fav also

yup..can get enough of 46&2!

graduate to puscifer

I wouldn't say graduating to anything. Perfect Circle & Puscifer are simply other projects of his.

@@adambell7907I came here to make the same comment.

Ot just reeeeeaaaallly facking high on drugs 😂

and the end is what a heart sounds like as it dies

It reminds me of the anxiety you get from a strange knock at the door late at night

Well said .

Congratulations Chris, sobriety is a challenge to maintain for so many and addiction is still stigmatized and I applaud anyone who has made the strides and put in the work to make a better life for themselves and even more so to openly speak on their struggles so others can follow their lead. I don’t know you, but I’m proud of you!

@@craigmeaders3867 thanks for your comment dude. It is challenging but the rewards are amazing. Thanks again 👍

Keep on keeping on, man. You don’t need it.

Congratulations on your sobriety. That’s amazing. Keep Going!!! ❤😊

@@michaelgutierrez4845 Thank you!

going AGAIN in Philly November 16

I haven't seen them live yet, but my buddy has seen them thrice since Fear Inocculum and said it's unlike anything you've ever experienced before. Hope you have a banger of a time!

It's soul cleansing.

I'm going to see them in Edmonton on the 25th. Been waiting since I was a teen to see them. CHUFFED!

@@vigormortis6839 ditto ! It's going to be wild.

This is a perfect description!

This was my first tool song too on youtube like 15 years ago, this live version is amazing

Beautifully said.

I get choked up at least once whenever I’ve seen them live. It’s very moving.

I really want her to do deftones

I stopped scrolling at this. Both great emotionally driven bands that are so underrated.

@ MrMars8848 .... I, too, am as MASSIVE Fan of BOTH Tool & Deftones ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 So, that being said, Lemme just say that I think YOU would absolutely LOVE the band "OURS" material ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ The singer Jimmy Gnecco = his vocal range is STUNNING ... and the LYRICS .... Wow!! A Heroin Addict ... Enough Said .... some of their songs will break your heart!! 💔

Uuuuhh yes deftones!!!! Uuuhhhhh.........yyyeesssss

Yes indeed. 👍

I would also include Bleed The Freak from the same show... Killer pipes..

This

Try listening to Temple of Thieves.

I was raised on Rush, Pink Floyd, and Zeppelin, and didn’t think there would ever be anything so incredible again, so when I found Tool as a teenager I was absolutely blown away. I never asked to buy a CD but I wish I had cuz I didn’t really get to listen to them until they put themselves on streaming services a few years ago.

There are actually 2 other bands led by MJK you may want to check out. A perfect Circle and Pucifer. You will not be disappointed.

A Perfect Circle is kinda like Tool.

​@@hardtymz2517lol. No. Totally different.

Same. I don’t know how I got here

Was just thinking how this song helped me cope and heal from my chemical abuse. We rejoiced In song with maynard and the boys