This is my first post and I felt compelled to comment as Tool totally rocks my face off.
Last year I was living in Perth (recently relocated to Melbourne) and such was my need to see Tool live again that I bought tickets to both the Perth and Melbourne BDOs, as I feared that they would play sideshows only on the east coast. My predictions were accurate, so I bought a Melbourne sideshow ticket and sold my Perth BDO ticket.
I can agree that the BDO show was somewhat disappointing though I refuse to have a bad experience at a Tool concert. I found myself up the front in the mosh (I naively thought that everyone would just be grooving at the front…)
So even though I was surrounded by a thousand shirtless, sweaty, southern cross tatt-sporting bogans rubbing up against each other, and even though I couldn’t hear the vocals from where I was standing, they still rocked hard and I enjoyed the show.
The sideshow was a far better experience. Awesome sound, melting visuals, the crowd was into it – some friendly punter handed me a joint and said “you have it dude”, and wicked set-list – Intension and Right in Two towards the end! Curiously they played Aenema and Flood, with Maynard saying these are appropriate for whats been going on in QLD...
Waiting for 5 years plus for an album is a little ridiculous but I’d rather wait 5 years for a face-melting masterpiece than get regular but less perfected albums… 2012 release - I hope so but I'm not holding my breath...
Puscifer – love em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4vgzMRYLc4
Anyone out there into Karnivool?
