We are currently working on some form of reciprocal exchange. Almost 100% of the copyright infringement on uTube from other channels never gives a nod to the source. No mention of www.puscifer.com or www.youtube.com/pusciferdotcom being the official channels for Puscifer, Caduceus, A Perfect Circle, and Tool. No traffic is sent our way. This recent barrage of cease and desist notices is an attempt to correct this. People/artists doing videos using our work without permission deliver an added sting when they don’t even mention our sites. We are independent. We NEED the traffic to OUR URL’s and channels to survive as an independent project. So some form of reciprocating gesture needs to be put in place for us not to be pricks about it all. Then and only then will we consider allowing people to use our art and product in conjunction with theirs.

Having said that, NO live footage is EVER permitted. The live experience is to be enjoyed in the moment. Not on the internet.

We’ll be in touch.

Seems fair to me, though I know plenty of you would object to a live footage ban.

Also, I hope Spin take down their video, as it appears to have no reciprocal link on it

There’s also a wrestling themed promotional video to go with it, though sadly lacking Adam playing the national anthem:

Here’s a rundown of the dates:

February

• 23 Austin, TX – Long Center for the Performing Arts
• 25 Baton Rouge, LA – River Center Theatre
• 26 Memphis, TN – Orpheum Theatre
• 28 Nashville, TN – Andrew Jackson Hall
• 29 Louisville, KY – Brown Theatre

March

• 1 Pittsburgh, PA – Byham Theatre
• 3 Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
• 4 Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre
• 6 Kansas City, KS – Kansas City Music Hall
• 7 Omaha, NE – Omaha Civic Auditorium
• 10 Edmonton, AB – North Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
• 11 Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
• 13 Vancouver, BC – The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts
• 14 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
• 16 San Francisco, CA – The Palace of Fine Arts
• 17 Riverside, CA – Fox Performing Arts Center
• 18 Escondido, CA – California Center for the Arts

They’re on sale at the usual outlets, and VIP tickets are available from here.

More Puscifer dates? Yes! Just added: Mar. 16 at The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and Mar. 17 at Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, Calif; Escondido (Mar. 18) & the San Francisco show are on-sale this Friday, Jan. 13. Riverside on-sale info coming soon.

Happy Puscifer hunting!

February                

• 23 Austin, TX – Long Center for the Performing Arts
• 25 Baton Rouge, LA – River Center Theatre
• 26 Memphis, TN – Orpheum Theatre
• 28 Nashville, TN – Andrew Jackson Hall
• 29 Louisville, KY – Brown Theatre

March                 

• 3 Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
• 4 Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre
• 6 Kansas City, KS – Kansas City Music Hall
• 7 Omaha, NE – Omaha Civic Auditorium
• 10 Edmonton, AB – North Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
• 11 Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
• 13 Vancouver, BC – The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts
• 14 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
• 18 Escondido, CA – California Center for the Arts

Looks like they’re filling a few gaps from the current tour.  Tickets go on sale Friday the 16th with VIP tickets available here.

Thanks to lukas for the tip!

Here’s a bit I know interest the majority of you:

Tool are reportedly working on a new album, as well. In the past, you’ve expressed frustration with sitting around in the studio with guitarist Adam Jones and drummer Danny Carey’s aesthetic of going over endless combinations of song structures before committing to anything.

I’m allowing them their space to do what they do, so we’re still in that mode. Even if they told me how close they are to being done, I couldn’t tell you because if I say 60 percent people will start counting down. When it’s done everyone will know. But I haven’t done anything yet. They write forever and then we go in and knock it all out. We’re writing. We’re writing vocals. But nothing’s solid. With Puscifer, there’s ideas and then we’ll record stuff. Then we’ll go back and change stuff and fix stuff and record new stuff before we finally put it all together. But with Tool, we practice jams, but there’s no actual recording going on until it’s time to record.

Are you prepared to tour for a year for the next Tool record whenever it’s ready or have you put your foot down and said, “I don’t want to spend my life on the road.”

It has nothing to do with putting my foot down. Physically, I can’t do it, so that’s not gonna happen. We will tour, but it won’t be the old school dog and pony show of eight months of beating yourself to death.

For most bands now, staying out on the road for a year-plus and selling lots of tickets and merch is the only way to make money because their albums are being downloaded for free by file-sharers.

How much do you need, really? If we can make a living going out for a few weeks a year and keep people satisfied by making sure we play the locations we need to hit, I’m not Kirk Hammett. I don’t need to buy $10,000 guitars every day. That’s not my lifestyle. I love Kirk, but that’s not me. I have a very sustainable vineyard industry in the Valley which will eventually start to pay its own bills.

I love to go on the road and play music for people and express myself, but for it to be something where I’m out there to make money, that’s depressing to me. You end up beating yourself up. Who gives a s–t how much money you have if your back hurts so much you can’t stand up. Money’s not the goal. Having fun making the art, that’s the goal. Finding a nice, happy medium. Being healthy and still expressing what you need to express in an effective way, that’s the ideal.

The end of lengthy world tours comes as no real surprise to me.  I’ve said before (at least in the forums) that I expect Tool’s touring habits will become a little less album orientated, where they hit the road for a month or two once every year or so.  Though I imagine with the new album there will still be a world tour, it just may not be so tightly scheduled as it has been in the past.