I found this interesting article today, and Joshua Davis, who talks extensively about his work with Tool. It includes the line “Here’s a picture of me pissing in the Tool toilet covered with gold and platinum albums”. Unfortunately no picture was included!
Blair writes on Toolarmy/band that Vince De Franco will soon be releasing the electronic drums that Danny has been using extensively on the new CD. For more details on this check out his website at www.synesthesiacorp.com
Joshua Davis, the man behind the splash screen on Toolband, is busy redesigning the Toolband site. At the recent Semi Permanent conference, he apparently showed off the work in progress. No pictures at the moment but Muloc of Toolnavy.com describes it as: well, i was at semi permanent, and josh davis was doing showing an example of some flash design and we all saw the new tool layout, its all… Read More »Toolband Update Preview
John Ziegler from Pigmy Love Circus has written the following regarding the new Tool CD, presumably on his Myspace site, though I haven’t had time to check that. Thanks to Bastardometer on Toolarmy for the heads up. the tools have put in a good year and a half working on the songs for this one. mjk even has words and melodies for the tunes already! and to be honest, i’ve… Read More »From John Ziegler
The new “Tool” single, The 81st Chakra is now available. Sounds like Maynard needs to take some Anger Management classes….
Ultimate Guitar note that Puscifier appear on the Saw 2 soundtrack, specifically Danny Lohner’s REV 4:20 Mix of “REV 22:20”. For those that don’t know, Puscifier is a band featuring Maynard and Danny Lohner, and if memory serves me correctly, have appeared on other soundtracks in the past (Underworld maybe?). Also on the soundtrack and many nu-metal bands, but also Revolting Cocks. I also forgot the mention that Butcher played… Read More »Puscifier, Butcher, Vinyl
Toolshed has mentioned that Tool will be confirmed as the headline act for the 2006 Big Day Out festival down here in Australia. Personally I’d be a little surprised, but I guess you never know. If I remember correctly I can remember it being said that Tool have rejected the Big Day Out in the past due to inflexibility in the stage settings and set list length. I’d presume that… Read More »Big Day Out?
A few updates on Toolband/Army. Firstly, Volto are playing at the La Ve Lee Club in LA on the 15th of September, and then at the Knitting Factory in LA on the 28th of September. Tickets see out in advance apparently so make sure you make arrangements, rather than just rocking up at the door. Don’t forget to ask Danny about the new CD, and see which cryptical answer he… Read More »Volto, Tool Spam, Torrents, Girl Shorts!
Punknews.org reports that Seig Howdy, the new CD from Jello Biafra and the Melvins will be out on September 27, and features none other than Adam Jones playing guitar on several tracks. Also a few dates their as well, no clue as to whether or not Adam will play with them like he did last year. Never Breath What You Can’t See was one of my favorite albums from last… Read More »Sieg Howdy!
Given that Firefox 1.5 is just around the corner, I’ve update the Toolarmy Extension to be compatable with it. No other real changes at the moment, but hopefully an update with some more features is just around the corner. in fact I’ll probably do some work on it tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled. To get the latest version, visit the following link: http://fourtheye.speleorovers.org/tabar.xpi Simply download the tabar.xpi file and… Read More »Toolarmy Firefox Extension v0.6b