Tool - 10,000 Days
Track List :1. Vicarious
2. Jambi
3. Wings For Marie
4. 10000 Days
5. Pot
6. Lipan Conjuring
7. Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)
8. Rosetta Stoned
9. Intension
10. Right In Two
11. Viginti Tres
On the way to the Indianapolis Verizon Music Center in the summer of 2001, my excitement was palpable, but reserved. My buddy Sander Ænima played while we gabbed about how I discovered through the tool and A Perfect Circle it in the other direction. Meshuggah has been open, but we had no interest. Instead, fifteen minutes before the tool to come on stage, we queued up, and after a security check lax, we were in. My heart was pounding. Ten minutes passed until the lights faded and a grim singing came through loudspeakers. "The Grudge" concert began my experience, and I remained untouchable on the world.
Except for the beer.
This drunk, fat fuck of a redneck thinking tool concert would be the best time for a baptism Michelob, on dousing himself and three others in it. He ended up being a slight disadvantage that the rest of the evening, but there were two good minutes where I wanted to walk over, shake him and say, "You fool, do not you know what this song? This is "Reflection", he talked about getting rid of the ego, using the myth of Narcissus. Do not you get it? Echo and Narcissus are! You look at yourself pine away! "I did not because I think it's a blip, an aberration among fans. Most of us understand each other engineering Keenan, Carey Jones, and Chancellor. Most of we were determined and, above all, serious about loyalty.
Tool for the fan, the absence is not only the heart grow it refreshes base their raison d'etre. It's been five years that people realigned their chakras and took an accelerated course in Greek mythology on Lateralus, and a huge last ten they discovered Bill Hicks and railed against Jesus on Ænima. Being a fan is as much about the fandom itself, as music, because they see themselves as a serious armed with a serious credo. Even if the generals do not bother to innovate, the army is loyal. Even when the generals' ideas are bullshit, the army will examine the merits. How the band to compile this flattery in their supporters? Simple: make them think these years were spent far actually improving the soundtrack business.
This is not true, of course. "Vicarious" is nothing more than "Stinkfist" revisited: the two cuts, mainly Keenan sings and schadenfreude desensitization. The only difference is that "Vicarious" with the youthful imagination:
Stare as a junkie In television Stare as a zombie While the mother takes her child Watches die The hands in the sky Why oh why Because I need to watch things die Ranged
Deep. Carey, Jones, and Chancellor always use the same motto instrumental where they syncopate according to Carey's drum for some time, Jones breaks off to do a solo, then they syncopation for another reform of a different model. Throw in a few breaks here and there and you have a seven-minute metal glut causing several Mall Gawth hard-ons across the country. The song at the age of five years of teases, false leaks, rumors and the Internet, though? These lines are damn near religious.
Such aging process may even make songs that are literally empty in multitextual and complex creations. "Viginti Tres" (apparently just name it, "Twenty Three" does not have the same ring to it) is the ambient condition affects masturbate one comes to expect from the band-it is nothing but noise White distorted and magnified. Fans will tell you that you can not "make", as in 70 years, King Crimson fans would have said the same thing about a five-minute recording of Robert Fripp pissing in a cup. Today they call it "progressive", meaning that they are focused on the goal artistic ( "enlightenment", "spirituality", "smoking"), not necessarily the means. But just because they tell you grow flowers, it does not mean they are not selling you crap.
Moreover, "progressive" does not mean scoring at more than seven minutes, whatever. This does not strike every goddamn skin, tam-tam, and the bell of your battery. Being "progressive" does not justify an album cover that looks like a stoner came across a documentary on the Mayan civilization. I am not sure, but I think that "progressive" on growth and change. I think that is not to be caught up in your own little world where Everything You Say Matters.
Keenan gave an interview during Lateralus was released in which he admitted the great pressure of a third album, saying it was sink or swim for musicians like T. Rex and The Smashing Pumpkins. But if you take a look at the tool closest ilk-Godsmack, Staind, Disturbed, the need for change, innovation, the argument of the pressure falls roughly flat. This album will once again be dissected and examined by the fans as cud chewed up serving the next five years thereafter. Fans participate in the tour dazzled by the band's "great art" Carey and the use of tabla, standing as I did as members of certain powerful battalion. I only hope that redneck sauced-up appears to underline the absurdity of it all.
Stylus Magazine
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