Somebody give the cameraman a bloody medal for having the patience and foresight to charge his battery, lug his camcorder down to the pub and get this for history
I was there . They had a camera setup so the bar upstairs could watch the show... The place was small, nobody was bootlegging a show without getting caught.. They recorded shows for every band.. There's a bunch of other shows from around this time on here... Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine..
@@aceshigh356 Whoa that's fucking awesome, I'm super envious that you were there and thankful this exists to preserve early tool shows for someone like me who was in diapers then
Tbh i can feel more intimacy performing in a small closed setting than in a humungous stage. I only played less than 10 times, been to couple of big area and handful of small area and I wanna play in a small area. Crowd in bigger area (which pays good amount of money)probably care less about you and it really shows. They only care for the main act. In small areas (which doesnt pay performers) on the otherhand is more warm because you know they were there to see you (or maybe to have some drink and happens to be there when you play). I want really more gigs. Sucks that I can't go to other people's gig not because I am an important piece of shit but reasons but I swear I just wanna go to other gigs just to watch but I practically can't.
@@gabr1elawesome I played 6 shows in there .. with way more people than Tool .. which is funny because obviously they are a million times better .. but the fact it was empty probably means you’re right
I have a true Tool story....In 1992, the year of the Opiate release, Tool played a small club tour which their label, Zoo, didn't promote very well. New band, very different, just signed with a $5.98 CD EP released... no radio airplay yet, no one knew about them. On this tour, within weeks of this Philly gig here (maybe days). I saw Tool play a Cincinnati gig to FOUR (4) people. No shit! FOUR!!! When the local opening band came on, there were 12 people total in a 1200 capacity club. By the time Tool came on, there were 6 people remaining. Two more left. It was me, my girlfriend, one other dude and a bartender watching this killer performance. And the band could not have given one fuck less that no one was there. It was essentially this set list and spot-on flawless, just like this show here. I need to dig out the ticket stub! I knew that very night that I had just witnessed something special. UPDATE 2/6/2021: The ticket stub has been located. The date was Sunday, May 10th, 1992. And the admission price printed on the ticket...a whopping $3 .....THREE, WHOLE DOLLARS! UPDATE 5/19/2024 The show has been logged and ticket stub uploaded at ConcertArchive.org
I think it really speaks to a band or musicians character when they put their all 110% into a show even if there’s only 1 person in the audience. I have played in clubs on weeknights down in Manhattan where the band was on fire at 3am with only a handful of people in the room, doesn’t matter, the soul will be as furious as ever as long as the band is onstage.
Similar story here. They opened for a straight edge band called Snapcase at a small, long since closed club here in Buffalo, NY called the scrapyard. A friends sister worked for Zoo Entertainment, so opiate was on heavy rotation for a while with me at least. I sat at the bar before the show and shot the shit with the bartender while some guy was sitting next to me just quietly hanging out, I exchanged some pleasantries with said quiet guy, he then proceeded to jump on stage and start tuning his guitar, it was Adam Jones. The band proceeded to play this same set in front of what may have been 10 people. To this day, SO MANY claim to have been at that show which is absurd and laughable. Anyhow, I chewed the fat with MJK after the show where he gave me a shirt (looking back, I can’t help but think this was a not so inside joke with the band where they were getting people to wear shirts that said “TOOL” on the front with a giant phallic wrench on the back, so fuck you back MJK) and offered to put me on the list for their Cleveland show the following night, I never made the trip, looking back, maybe I should’ve called into work and taken him up on his offer. The show was quite literally the most intense thing I have ever witnessed, the band couldn’t have given two shits if there were 12 or 120,000 people in attendance. At one point someone shouted out (I think it was someone from the band Green Jello as they were from Buffalo and likely comprised half the crowd) “hey Maynard, tell them how lame this crowd is” to which he replied; “I’m not here for them”. I can say first hand, from a few feet away, that stare, caged bonobo shimmy shake and possessed rocking back and forth is both intimidating and engrossing at the same time. He stares at you, over your head and through you all at once, he is/was possessed on stage, not an act, at least back in the salad days it wasn’t. I’ll always have much respect for this band.
do you think Maynard is staring at the same guy the whole time, and the guy keeps moving after each song, hoping that he doesn't find him, but then he does and the guy is like "fawk he found me again" ..
Really though. If we preserved all of Tools audio and video footage, the people who finds them many decades later, they would literally see Tool like Gods.
My friend's older brother said he was at this tour but saw them in LA. After seeing this footage I now know he was telling the truth. This is EXACTLY how he described them back then. I believe White Zombie opened before Beavis and Butthead blew them up.
I saw this show on this tour, but in San Jose and it was in a small club with about 25 - 30 people. It was the first time I had even even heard of Tool and I've been a massive fan ever since. It's one of my favorite music experiences of all time.
I only wish I was there, a small setting, close to home, Damn! What a show! Thanks for recording this and sharing it, Great Job camera operator! And Thank to TOOL for putting all their heart into this, Very Intense!
Can we give more credit to the person shooting this? This is 27 years old and still looks and sounds great. This poor bastard stood for 45 minutes holding a 38 pound camera and got this amazing footage. Thank you sir or ma'am.
Definitely but also credit the person who must've remastered this. Maybe it was the same person? Anyways, you're right. Incredible job and physically tiring.
@Arron Degenerate you better believe it. Still gives me chills when he glares at you savagely like he'll jump inside your body and consume you. Saw them when I was 18, and of course I felt like he's looking at me...I feel funny... Lol pure mind, body ecstacy. And I used think "sober" was the battle call for more booze/LSD. Geez.
"dad why is my sister named rose?" "because your mother loves roses" "thanks dad" "no problem Tool Live Philadelphia 1992 Remastered (JC Dobbs) FULL CONCERT"
@@pedro-pascals-armpit Yea? Well, nobody asked you. uhhhhuhuhu Seen any music you were into in high school show up as "Classic Rock" yet? ...that's a bitch.
Setlist(since I can't find any in the comments): 0:14 Part of Me 4:20 Hush 7:47 Cold and Ugly 12:05 Sober 17:54 Sweat 22:11 Crawl Away 27:53 Swamp Song(Intro) 28:44 Swamp Song 34:25 Bottom 41:00 Jerk-Off 44:28 for epic Maynard scream "DIIIIIIEEEE NOW"
Maynard looks like he's trying not to lose his shit. The kind of guy who'd be waiting for you in the parking lot after the show. Not for a fight, but to inform you that he took all the doors off your sedan and will put them back if you buy him some taffy and a seasonal pack of Oreos.
+screwdriva hey screwd, imagine being with a band that makes it big and is metal driven...haha, it wont happen again in your lifetime. tool is the last and one of the best. and tomorrow tool will b forgotten...
The Mullethawk is strong. Whoever had the presence of mind to record this, We're all eternally greatfull. One of the best rock shows ever. Thank you to the uploader too
The three times I’ve seen Tool I definitely did NOT have the presence of mind lol. This is better than I could have done sober though for sure glad it’s here.
I saw the same show in Atl at a small club. History was made. Someone yelled, “play your hit ‘Sober’. Maynard said, “they are all our fucking hits” and played the next song.
We performed for a dog. Opened with some 40 people, 30 minutes later they were all gone except one drunk in a lawn chair and his dog. Soon enough he passed out so we ended up giving this dog a show!
@@mvdeano Only a kick in the balls if it was meant as a kick in the balls. The context suggest that it wasnt a kick in the balls and a more than fair assumption. I dont care who you are, where you are from and or how you do it....nobody saw that coming. Not even Maynard. Virtue signaling has no place here. Maynard would be the first to shit on a comment like that.
jesus christ his voice is so steady even when he's obviously putting a ton of energy into it. And his deadpan face just adds to the unnervingly perfect vocals.
@@mremil321 This was my takeaway seeing them back then. I used to tell people that the only time he MAY have closed his eyes was when wiping a towel across his face. I think the first 2 times I saw them, between Opiate and Undertow and just after Undertow was released, Maynard was out of his fucking head on dose. He was plainly startled many times during each set, disoriented through much of both shows, and spectacular both times.
Woah, check out the camera work at 24:55. It's zooming in and out in unison with the music. That's dope. Some dude with a 90s camcorder straight up killing it
+themighty axe underwhelmed? I think they're just awestruck. The early nineties where a time of innovation for Rock and Metal. Tool was so far outside the box at this back then, I don't think many people even really knew how to react...
+vvstreetfightervv Awestruck is perfect. I wasn't here but I saw them around this time. I was struggling to simply take this in. I'd heard plenty of loud and fast previously, but nothing this powerful.
It’s how I started listening to them. First a couple songs, then I stumbled onto this video with the intentions of only watching 5 minutes, and of course ended up watching the entire thing completely awestruck
What a sick way to be introduced to them. I worked at a music store and a coworker snagged the opiate demo. I heard it in his car and made him burn me a copy until it was released and I could buy my own
@@Juiciodelaira Some singers just gotta get in the zone to give off whatever vibe they are going for. Staring at whatever he was staring at was his way of getting in the zone.
@CNCMatrix also if u like tool check put puscifier...I'll admit whn i was younger I didn't give apc or puscifier a chance but once I did mind blowing in some ways I feel like puscifier...mmm..how do I say this...not necessarily better than tool...but more intimate so good all his projects
@@rochellefreed853 It was AMAZING. The opener sucked, but holy crap man, they absolutely KILLED it. Ended the show with Stinkfist, nobody was expecting that and it was so awesome. They're actually better live than the album version. Maynard donned a two piece suit and a Mohawk. They ended the show with Stinkfist and had the whole crowd headbanging.
@@ashevillecomputer201 Oh good grief, you're one of those pretentious "vocal coach" pricks who obsesses about technique, aren't you? It doesn't matter how you breathe or other such baloney, all that matters is that you hit the notes. Which Maynard certainly does. Using a different voice technique isn't "cheating". It's doing what works for you.
Maybe the most intense performer even on the small stage.The way he stares into the distance of the crowd with lyrics spilling from his guts!!True display of talent and history being made here
Samuel T Herring. Lead singer for Future Islands hard to argue against him as the most intense singular performer on a small stage. Live@KSET from 2012 for a glimpse. He's special
@@travisov Wow,just watched Future Islands lead singer and I have to admit,you have horrible taste!Cant compare this guy to Maynard James Keenan in any way,shape or form 😂😂😂😂
To the people that filmed this and posted it, many years apart, fucking thank you, one of my altime favorite videos, if I could go back in time this would be one of those destinations.
+ASecondOpinion I would buy a copy of this!! I watch it often here. Something I will never get sick of. This video always makes me happy. Adam Jones, one of the best guitarist ever...
If this isn't the best live performance ever to the fewest people I'm not sure what is. I can't imagine going to a local bar and see something this amazing.
Do you know what the problem is with being in a moment like this.....You don't realize what it is at that point in time. Possibly you might be intoxicated or maybe trying to get into someone's pants, but you definitely don't know til it's too late. It's what life is all about, we watch it pass and think that there will be another moment like this to seize. I'm older so I will tell it like it is....when you have a chance to smell the flowers, you better stop and bend your ass over and take a sniff because tomorrow is NOT guaranteed. Have a great day/night.
Honestly, there's just something about Maynard's facial expressions and body movements and the camera zooming in on his face briefly that is so badass.
It's a modified Mohawk, not a "mullet". No one called it a mullet until the late 90s. We certainly didn't use the term during the 80s. It was just how dudes looked.
This looks like they took him out of his cage and restraints just to get on stage and perform. After they'll take him back to his cage and feed him a bucket of fish-heads for doing a good job.
By the summer of 93 things had changed for them. I saw them in Phoenix at lollapalooza and they were the second to last band with Primus headlining and right before them was Rage Against The Machine and before them Alice In Chains. There was a massive amount of people there. THE BEST CONCERT OF MY THEN 13 YEAR OLD LIFE AND EVEN NOW 29 YEARS LATER. I will always love this band and this video brings me back to that small window of time when Primus was more well known than Tool.
When I was 13, Lollapalooza 93 was my first concert at UBC Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver. It was a hell of an introduction to live music. It was mid-June so Tool and RATM weren't household names yet. Thus, they were both 2nd stage acts. I remember seeing their names on a concert tee I bought but didn't know who they were and never saw them play. I forgot about that till 10 years later I did a search for a pic of the concert tee, which I'd long since thrown out. I was shocked to see my all-time favorite band, Tool played there and I missed them. Thought at that time, I wouldn't have "gotten" their music like I would later on.
Seriously, some of the best musicians of the century, in their prime, to a handful of people with no idea. I will be careful how I spend my attention at shows
Guys, I thought often about that kind of expression. Instead of aggressive, offensive sounds even mightier! This world deserves it, some1 gotta drop the bombs
Its like Maynard is IN the music. Only when the song ends is when he comes back....than the next track starts and he gets pulled away again...a true artist. Thanks for posting this vid....
My first tool show was much like this mabyee 150 people a stage 2 feet off the ground, no security, the band just chewing us up , us moving like a single organism with them as the mind directing us , the body. It's such a shame now people on phones and not being part of the experience. The band feeds the crowd the crowd feeds the band. It's only half the equation now and it's cold.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 neither was I it's about the collective experience that is missing from shows now. Even in my old age believe it or not I still regularly go to small shows much like this one hoping to see something like this again. The bands give what they can but the crowd is pathetic. Shows should never be about you or me it should be the show hell the band is second to the experience. So can you tell me have you had that ,the throbbing, sweaty, almost orgie like moments with 100 a 1000 or 10,000 people at a time all being led by a band like a conductor drives a train. Or you just jealous because you haven't and realize your generation is such absolute shit and so self absorbed that you never will.
Best Tool performance i have ever seen...face to face or on the net. The raw energy Maynard and the band possess is almost indescribable. 5 stars in my book...sh*t made me cry...and i watched it multiple, multiple times. Bravo!
It may have been on this tour, I don't remember, but I was doing sound for a local band that was supporting Tool at the Stone in San Francisco and I remember after our sound check that Tool set up and did their sound check and it blew me away how good it was. They were so tight and their sound was unreal.In this video there are 30 times more people commenting than were at this show. This is a document of what paying your dues looks like. At this point Tool weren't exactly unknown and they were playing a small club. Paying your dues man, it can get ugly. Although it was a small club with a sparse audience they were giving it their all and that's a lesson to all young fledgling bands out there, it doesn't matter how many people are out there cause all it takes is on person who felt cheated by the band not giving 100% to get bad WOM. Always give your all. Always cause someone paid to see you play and at the least you owe them a great performance.
MJK knows no other way in every fng thing he does. 3 bands at the same time, putting AZ on the wine map, the guys fucking amazing. But Tool would not be the best band ever w/o Danny, Adam, and now Justin - they are all brilliant as well.
Paul Schmdit '93 Lollapalooza Philadelphia. I got tickets for a few friends. I wanted to know about the bands I never heard before. Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Tool. I bought what ever was available out there, and I found it. Xanadu, Nirvana, no more searching...TOOL !!! The VERY first time I played Opiate, I got a BLACK EYE ! ! ! It was what I had been looking for in a band. rhythm, musicianship, sound, MAYNARDS SCREAMS sealed the deal. HEAVIER THAN THE SEATTLE scene, vocals instead of the incoherent babble from Death Metal. J.F.C.A...JACKPOT ! ! ! SOLD, JUST ONE MORE FIX...I listened to it over & over for the next 6 hours. I had never done this before or since ! I was compelled to write the Zoo label and tell them what I felt....2 BLACK EYES...MORE MORE MORE ! ! ! Aboot 2 months later, I received in the mail a reply from them with stickers...J. M. F. C. A...SWEEEEEEET ! ! !
Paul Schmdit '93 Lollapalooza Philadelphia. I got tickets for a few friends. I wanted to know about the bands I never heard before. Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Tool. I bought what ever was available out there, and I found it. Xanadu, Nirvana, no more searching...TOOL !!! The VERY first time I played Opiate, I got a BLACK EYE ! ! ! It was what I had been looking for in a band. rhythm, musicianship, sound, MAYNARDS SCREAMS sealed the deal. HEAVIER THAN THE SEATTLE scene, vocals instead of the incoherent babble from Death Metal. J.F.C.A...JACKPOT ! ! ! SOLD, JUST ONE MORE FIX...I listened to it over & over for the next 6 hours. I had never done this before or since ! I was compelled to write the Zoo label and tell them what I felt....2 BLACK EYES...MORE MORE MORE ! ! ! Aboot 2 months later, I received a reply in the mail from them with stickers...J. M. F. C. A...SWEEEEEEET ! ! !
Customer Service A worthless title. Imagine being at a restaurant and talking to someone who doesn’t know you and telling them you’re in the rock and toll hall of fame. They’d look at you like you’re a dipshit.
here's my '92 Tool club tour story....at the time in Omaha, NE there was a club called the Ranch Bowl. Tool was opening for the Rollins band, show was sold out with a line around the building waiting to get in. a couple weeks prior i had bought the opiate e.p. because of the great review in guitar world magazine about the e.p. so i bought it and was blown away obviously, then i noticed they were opening for the Rollins band...we're sitting around on a friday night bored and i say "hey we should swing by the ranch bowl this new band Tool is opening for the Rollins band" we go up to the club notice its sold out and i'm like well shit, we walk around and i see a dude with long hair and a tour badge with a picture of the the Tool opiate e.p. cover on it i ask him "hey are you in Tool? he's like yeah i'm the drummer" Danny Carey gets us into the show before they let ticket holders in! it's me and my buddy standing inside the club by ourselves "before doors" lol, unreal.....about 10 minutes the ticket holders start filing in...a little while later Tool plays their set and it's fucking awesome! my friend was an instant fan of Tool...we stuck around and watched most of the Rollins band play, they were great as well but i was there for Tool....thats what she said
It’s crazy how these particular people all knew eachother without seeking eachother out. I mean they are arguably the most creative band in history.. They mesh so well.. TOOL is seriously special art. And although they all would have found success, it makes you wonder how close they came to not starting TOOL. One moment could have prevented it. I wonder how many bands or artists like this almost existed but for a tiny reason never crossed paths..
Obviously didn't mesh that well together because Paul left before they got real big...Justin was what really pushed their sound to the next level though anyway.
@@saltypretzelcb5411 let's be honest, we all love Tool and all of Tool, wholy Tool, everything Tool. I am obsessed with the new album, well teh songs that are 10 minutes + some of the best music I have ever heard and it did take me many listens to fully absorb it to enjoy it as much as I now do. I am also obsessed with their entire catalog.
@@saltypretzelcb5411 not really... they still have the same intensity and talent depth... they are just more organized and controlled and mature.. dany's drumming has definitely vastly improved not that he was ever bad but man now he just had insane beats in most songs.. maynard's lyrics are still top notch as are the performances of adam and justin... and that's with Maynard Adam and Dany all having side projects and work in music and outside of music. You can just listen to how things have changed if you go through album by album, none better than the next.. maybe different favorite songs, but that's about it. If anything, they got more mainstream attention now but that's not because they got worse or mainstream themselves... it just took this long for them to get noticed... plus they skipped the online album market for way too long lmao.. that definitely would've helped to get their music out faster to different audiences.
I bought Maynard's "Learn To Dance DVD" and took my new moves to the local bar. I think I did it wrong because three dudes thought I was trying to start a fight. I'm not sure if I should have kept eye contact longer while thrusting my pelvis or what. I'm going to keep at it though.
This performance is tight, brutal, incredibly saddening and terrifying. I can't believe what I am seeing. It's both exhilarating and heartbreaking. I just cannot imagine the dedicated amount of sadness, rage and misanthropy required to write and perform Music like this. And these guys made a whole career of it. It blows me away. 10/10, this masterpiece of a performance. Huge kudos to the dudes who filmed it and preserved it eternally on the internet.
This "tug and pull" between warring emotions and concepts is the beating heart of all literature, visual art and performing art, in my opinion. The band it seems is aware of this. These aren't "mere" musicians. Even if you don't like this kind of music, when you weigh them against their peers in genre, you quickly realize that they're boiling cauldron of good ideas, excellent musicianship. The muse whispers to these men. That much is obvious to me.
Yeah man you said it! I got near orgasmic chills, and shivers when sober started, every fucking hair on my body stood on end. That doesn’t happen all the time. I don’t think these people had any idea what they were witnessing, I am soooo jealous. I’ve seen some intimate shows but nothing like this.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 More Beckett, less Conrad. It's very good advice. Where were you in my composition classes? I needed the help. This was all preventable.
Could you imagine, you're on a business trip or something, you decide to go out to a grungy bar for a nice drink and listen to some homegrown rock to cap a good day, you grab a refreshing drink, sit at the wooden table or bar, and turn around to witness this?
@@therealazvideopro 😂👁️never to be the same. Returns home to the vanilla cheating wifey. Throws all her beige sweaters and bullshit onto the lawn.. walks out of his mansion removing layers of his jet fuel stained business suit.. takes his watch off and throws it along with his iPhone into the same pile the wifeys shit is in. Walks into his two car garage butt naked grabs the lighter fuel from last years family bbq. Pours it from the garage to clothes pile. Lights it with his candle lighter and walks away from his soulless lifestyle naked and unbound. Unblinded and awakenken.. never returns..
@@therealazvideopro no... no we can't imagine beeing on business trips and especially not suit wearing 66ers going into hot sweaty metalbars to enjoy the most progessive alt- metal at the time.
I was in the military from 1988 to 1994 and in the military, so traveling a lot. My buddies and I saw Tool, RATM, STP, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and a ton of others in small clubs. And no---we had no idea we were witnessing history in the making, and quite frankly we were usually too drunk to appreciate any of it anyway. "Youth is wasted on the young", as they say.
Had a bootleg cassette tape of this show that I bought on the Wildwood Boardwalk (NJ) back in 1995 as a teenager, and listened to said tape for yeeeaaarss! So thrilled there is a video to go along with it. To say my mind is blown by this would be a complete and utter understatement!!!!! Thank you immensely to whomever posted this!
Man, we have a house in Ocean City NJ and on the boardwalk in the back of the surf mall there was this small room with all sorts of bootleg music I imagine much like the place you are describing. I got some awesome stuff out that little shop hidden in the back in 1996-1997 then the next summer it was gone.
Saw them in Belgium 8 months later ( 3 times before December 94 ) .....OMG , the woofers on stage were gonna explode , my ears as well lol . The public was in shock & awe . One of the best progressive rock bands i had ever seen in the Mighty 90's
Insane how these guys were this good at the start of their careers. Danny was a beast then and rose to legendary status within less than a decade after this. No one plays like that guy. Even some of the most technical death metal drummers can't touch this guy.
He's an insanely nice guy too. I met him at a skinny puppy concert at a smallish venue in Kansas 2 or so years ago. I don't think anyone really even realized he was there, but it was him.
It's his arrangements, they are beautiful, you always hear the arguments, what about this guy, that guy. No one does for the music like Carey, that's the difference, and that's why all the other drummers people mention respect him so much. Not everyone that listens to music listens with a musical ear. If they did, they would understand why he is so great.
I should add, i saw them the next summer, and Maynard stared at me like that for 20 minutes of the fuckin show! I couldn't look at him! He scared the shit out of me!!!
@RocketJuan Brett from Mastadon? I seriously doubt that. Brett is from Atlanta first off. Why would he have been there? I used to live in ATL and I know Brett in passing and Im pretty sure I would have remebered him being there. There was less than 15 people at this show. I know pretty much everyone there.,
Totally mind blowing. I've never seen this before. Small gig limited to a small recording desk and vhs footage. These guys are absolutely amazing. No wonder they got to where they are now. Top of the heap. Fucking amazing. Thanks for the experience guys. I'm just a shifty arsed electrician. You made my day.
The most intense incredible vocal performance I have ever witnessed. MJK was totally immersed in the moment. Now you know why many musicians say some of their best performances happened in front of 5 people.
Every single musician should take note... here you have one of the greatest bands of all time... playing to a virtually empty bar..... and fuckin SLAYING every note.. every song..... THIS is what makes a great band!! Give it your all... even if you are only playing to the bar staff!!
David Lee Roth said his neighbor was a musician and survivor of a concentration camp. He told David he learned to literally sing like his life depended on it. David Lee Roth said he never forgot that, and always sang that way. Pretty powerful!
no joke about the expert camera work! I've seen far to many bootlegs shot by fools... This camera man knew how to capture the epicness of the moment in a time when that wasn't something people even thought about doing. Kudos!
I think I came a little at the end of Crawl Away. Whoever you are that remastered this, I promise if our paths should ever somehow cross, I will buy you as many drinks as you can handle and then buy you some more because it's impossible you aren't a worthy human being for putting in the work so I can enjoy this amazing concert. You, sir or madam, deserve all the happiness. Salud.
I love that this is such an immaculate Tool performance and such an amazing display from Maynard where he's literally giving his last ounce at the end and then it finishes with scattered applause--from an albeit appreciative audience--and then someone in the silence... "great set man". Just love that so much. Tool must've known they were doing something special but it doesn't surprise me that they would put on a show like this for maybe 10-20 people who were digging it.
M McManus Growing up listening to TOOL you never saw their faces. Their videos were freakish stop action animation. I had no idea how any of these guys actually looked during the 90’s! Even seeing them live, the stage was always dark and Maynard was all painted blue or something. This video shows all the members in a raw, real life way! It’s so surreal seeing them in such a small venue without all the frills of a huge arena show!
Tool routinely played to crickets on their earliest gigs. Didn't seem to bother them one bit, still 110% all out effort. That's a professional band right there for ya, THE BEST!
In his book he mentions this. They always would give it their all no matter if it was the 1st show ever or they're 100th and regardless of who showed up, if anyone
Every seed planted matters. Absolutely unbridled, unfiltered killer energy. To hear 10 people clap in the background is surreal except that was a common path to greatness before “formula bands” and AGT/The Voice etc. The early insane days of KISS (Maynard’s first concert) were same. 5 people in Poughkeepsie or 12,000 in Detroit, no holds barred. Was this filmed by a friend of the band?
Yeah you've gone there as you do every Tuesday night to the bar to drown your sorrows alone and this weird due in a Mohawk is doing that pensive stare at you singing why can we not be sober.
I'm 43 years old and came across Tool (Maynard J. Keenan) for the first time yesterday Jan 7, 2017. I am totally blown AWAY! Love these guys! New fan from Canada!
Kurt Croft I know eh! Was so focused on my Iron Maiden in my teens to late 20s that alot of bands passed me by. Metallica, Zeppelin, Pantera also to name a few. That and girls lol.
Absolutely INCREDIBLE. I cannot believe I have never seen this. Jesus Christ. They are on fire. Maynard's vocals are simply on fire. I have goosebumps.
I was right in front of Maynard the whole show , I thought he was possessed . They opened for the Rollins band during his end of the silence tour . Really cool you found this footage I was a photography student and I used my credentials to just get in and to the front . I'm the fool for not bringing my camera !!! Stoked on your video .... Really is epic
Back in 2000 when A Perfect Circle dropped, Mer de Noms, I saw them at The Tabernacle in Atlanta. Right before they came on stage all the lights go out. Then a spotlight shines down center stage and there are two hot ass women sitting on bar stools playing cards. Every time one of them would lose a hand they would take off an article of clothing. It kept going back and forth until they were both down to bra and panties. Finally one girl loses and she reaches back and undoes her bra. As soon as she starts to remove it all the lights go out again and you hear the moan of 500 guys. When the lights come back on, Maynard walks on stage in a blonde wig wearing nothing but a speedo. And he's got one of those guitars with no headstock on it and he starts stroking the neck vigorously. Just going to town on it. It was the craziest opening to any show I've ever seen.
With only a single candle lighting the stage while they were revealing oracle's with strip Tarot! Opening with Magdalena and towards the end of that song when the veil dropped down revealing the band clearer, we all went ballistic!!! Such an awesome live band as well as Tool and Puscifer!
Every single fan in this audience most likely had no idea they were watching soon to be legends. This is INCREDIBLE!!!! Opening with Part of Me literally gave me the chills.
Every time I come to this video, I'm like, I'll watch just a few minutes. Then...full video later and I'm on a different plane of existence. Every single time.
It would've sucked to have to stand there and record this instead of just enjoying and being 100% immersed in the show. He (I think heard a man's voice behind the cam) did a great job and I'm glad he did it.
these bands back then had guys that would do this for them. they probably had a friend who went to every show and asked him to record this one for whatever reason.
I remember going to a rage against a machine concert in Bremen (Germany) in 1994 and ending up having tool as a first part just blew me the Fck away, their show just was so perfect and I thought at the time " Who the hell is that fcken guy" I had never seen a singer deliver such a range of lyrics with. Such intensity . I became completely addicted right there ! One of my all time favorite bands. They never have disappointed me with any of their albums, thank you guys for what you brought into my life . Total respect for your art
That's awesome! And yeah, I agree. Incredibly amazing band. I know some didn't like Fear Inoculum as much but man did it feel perfect to me. It seems like even the lyrical content came into my life at the right time. So much of it relevant or insightful.
Gracias a quienes hicieron posible que este video se haya subido y mantenido en youtube, es una obra de arte ver a Tool y a Maynard tan cerca y claramente, ver su interpretación y poderosa voz es increíble!
