{"id":7,"date":"2009-05-01T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themo.org\/nwp\/?p=7"},"modified":"2009-08-20T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:54:09","slug":"tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"TOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOOL<\/strong>
\n6\/1\/2007
\nEvent Rating: \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd\u2606<\/span>
\n(non collaborated)*<\/p>\n

\"tool\"<\/p>\n

TOOL is undoubtedly a great band, musically. This point is hard to argue. However, live, they may not be what you had expected.<\/p>\n

This particular show was when Danny just got back from injuring his arm. Despite the injury he still played great. Of course as one could understand, he needed to take a break to rest his arm mid-show. This is when the band played a recording of one of their sound\/instrumental songs, sat down and hung out on stage, facing the crowd (one of the only times for Maynard) as Danny put ice on his shoulder.<\/p>\n

The music was good; in fact it was so good it was like listening to the CD\u2026 except the voice. Where was the voice? A good percentage of what makes TOOL great, is Maynard\u2019s clear loud voice\u2026but it could hardly be heard. Someone needed to raise the volume a little. Maybe it was the sound guy\u2019s first time.<\/p>\n

If you read bios on the band and the member you find out things like their passion for the arts and love of music etc. One thing I couldn\u2019t get passed is, why wouldn\u2019t Maynard turn around and face the crowd? He spent the whole show showing us his butt. It didn\u2019t seem like he was into it at all. One of his personal quotes is: \u201cOnce you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer\u201d. That night the art suffered. Hopefully he hasn\u2019t come to that point yet… hopefully. But if so, then, take a break do other things and come back to music when you\u2019re feeling it. That night, instead of fully appreciating the concert you were wondering in your head: \u201cIs he ever going to turn around? \u2026 When is he going to turn around?\u201d Which also stole the spotlight from the others because you attention was on expecting the moment Maynard was going to decide to turn around. Of course, it\u2019s not to dis him, but give back some of the energy the crowd is giving. [Is showing your back really your artistic feeling\/expression? (one may never know the real reason\u2026)]<\/p>\n

For those who had better expectations of tool, you left the venue asking yourself: \u201cwhy go see them live?… just listen to the album at home really loud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Would I personally go see them again? Most likely. After all, good music is good music.<\/p>\n

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\nImage taken from:
\nhttp:\/\/depunkedmusic.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/tool-concert-review-11-19-07.html<\/a><\/p>\n

* Limited information is posted, as no collaboration was granted to themo by the venue and\/or the event\u2019s promotional\/management company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TOOL<\/strong>
\n6\/1\/2007
\nEvent Rating: \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd\u2606
\n(non collaborated)*<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

TOOL is undoubtedly a great band, musically. This point is hard to argue. However, live, they may not be what you had expected.<\/p>\n

This particular show was when Danny just got back from injuring his arm. Despite the injury he still played great. Of course as one could understand, he needed to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[39,38,37,34,35,33,36,48,50,497,9,8,113],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-live-rock","tag-butt","tag-danny","tag-hypnotic","tag-james","tag-keenan","tag-maynard","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-music-reviews","tag-rock","tag-themo","tag-themoorg","tag-www-toolband-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}