An excellent article called An Oral History of the First Lollapalooza arrived in my inbox today, and while reading it I stumbled across this interesting quote from Lollapalooza co-founder and former Tool manager Ted Gardner: GARDNER: It wasn’t like, "It’s a girl band, so put them on." A lot of people threw that accusation around. When I was managing Tool, I rang the agent for Lilith Fair and submitted Tool,… Read More »Tool too manly for Lilith Fair
Alex emailed me a link this morning to a new interview with Maynard by Dana from Wine Spectator. Don’t go expecting Tool, APC and Pucsifer news and you won’t come away disappointed…
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Blair released the July 2011 Tool newsletter earlier on Toolband today, and it’s largely in the format of a Q&A with questions submitted by drug taking readers. Of importance to our “Tool news only†fans: Assuming that you know all about the A PERFECT CIRCLE tour and new PUSCIFER TRACK ("MAN OVERBOARD"), other than another TOOL WEBSITE MEETING on Friday, DANNY being the guest drummer for the Monday Night Jammmz… Read More »July 2011 Tool Newsletter released
Regular Fourtheye reader Magnus was lucky enough to have a chat with Billy Howerdel after a recent A Perfect Circle show in Texas, and was kind enough to ask him a little bit about the future for APC. Billy’s responses were: By & Down is the only new APC track for now, and they’re looking at a release in Fall/Winter. Digital download was suggested as the format of the release.… Read More »A Perfect Circle live tracks and new songs
Ever wanted to watch a crazy jam featuring Danny, Neil Peart, Les Claypool and Stewart Copeland. Well now you can! Head over to Neil Peart’s website, and view Danny playing some trombone and drums on an unnamed track. Thanks to BDP for the tip!
Seems as though it’s been a while since we updated the various goings on of some former Tool touring mates, so here goes! Bong smoking pals Mastodon are currently recording their new album The Hunter, which is expected to be released later this year. it has some pretty awesome artwork for the cover: Expect a world-wife tour to follow. The ‘Don are rumoured to be playing Soundwave in 2012, which… Read More »Tool touring buddies update!
A couple of marginally interesting Tool items appeared in the last day, the first being a snippet from a recent Maynard interview reported on Blabbermouth: As for the status of the next TOOL album — which Keenan gets asked about in every interview — the singer gave The Pulse Of Radio an update and warned fans not to believe everything they read. "We’re just always writing and it’s just progressing… Read More »Tool progress is progressing, Sasquatch spotted!
For those of you that missed it, the official stream on the new Puscifer track Man Overboard can be found on the Spin website. Not sure if the track is available on iTunes yet, from memory it should be available by the 19th of July though. If sea shanties are your thing, then you may enjoy these lyrics thrown together by polarbear_15: Blood sky, red mornin’ Shoulda’ seen the warnin’.… Read More »Official stream of Puscifer’s Man Overboard
According to quite a few sites out there, Man Overboard, the first track from the new Puscifer album Conditions of My Parole will be played on Monday morning. According to metal.com: If you’re awake in time, tune your radio at 9 am eastern/6 am pacific to Sirius XM 36 (Alt Nation) to hear Man Overboard as well as an in-studio interview with Maynard James Keenan, Matt McJunkins and Jeff Friedl.… Read More »New Puscifer Track on Monday, Tool “Tweet”