Puscifer 2012 Tour Promo

In amongst all the hype surrounding the current Tool tour, it’s easy to forget that next month Puscifer hit the road for what may be the last Conditions of My Parole tour.  Tickets are already on sale, and the guys have announced that Carina Round will once again be supporting.

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.

Tool throw oranges at AZ crowd

Forget a signed poster, drumstick or head – are you lucky enough to score a Tool signed Orange?

Signed Oranges

Move over signed Lateralus and Salival, you now have a competitor…

There’s also an accompanying video (NOTE THE VIDEO DOESN’T HAVE SPOILERS BUT THE RELATED VIDEO TITLES DO!!), which I’m unable to watch at work. Thanks to polarbear_15 for the tip!

Intronaut Tour Diary

Intronaut have been keeping a tour diary of the current Tool Tour, 2012 and have posted some humorous and insightful entries on the LA Weekly website (don’t worry it’s spoiler free):

1/14/12, 1:00 pm - We arrive at Reno Events Center and find a parking spot for our Dodge Sprinter van amidst Tool’s six tour buses and six big rig trucks. This is the first of many hilarious examples of disproportion we would experience throughout the tour. Tool’s production manager takes one look at our van and asks us if we’d be interested in having them carry our equipment in one of their trucks, since it takes up approximately 1/100th of one truck. We now get about one million more miles to each gallon of diesel. Thanks, Tool!

Not a huge article, but an interesting one worth reading!

Tool Collection for sale

Toolboy is an avid Tool collector, and he emailed me the other day to tell me that it was time to part with his prized collection.  It features a range of items, most of which would interest a die hard Tool collector.  He’s preferably looking to sell the collection in one lot, and asked me to forward it to the Fourtheye community to see if there was any interest from you guys.

Contents of the 70 piece collection are detailed below, and we will be running this as a silent auction.  There is a reserve associated with the collection, and considering the size of it, and some of the rarities it contains, note that it is quite high.  Feel free to discuss the auction below, but if you are genuinely interested in bidding for this collection, let me know your offer via the contact form, and I shall coordinate between you and Toolboy to make this happen.  Note that Toolboy is located in Alberta Canada, but postage can be arranged for most parts of the world.

The collection includes the following:

Cassettes

  • Opiate – Canada (Black), USA & Germany first releases
  • Undertow – Germany VG+, Poland VG+, USA first press, US BMG Direct, US RP (Volcano)
  • Aenima – US first release, Indonesia VG- Cover has edge wear; folds of cover
  • Lateralus – Philippines Still sealed, Poland VG++, Indonesia VG++, US releases
  • 10,000 Days – Indonesia still sealed
  • 15 items

VHS Promos

  • Stinkfist US
  • 4 Video Comp. US
  • 2 items

CD’s including singles, promotional items, albums and EPs

  • Opiate (Volcano RP) drill hole,
  • Opiate Japan BMG obi-strip still sealed
  • Prison Sex – UK VG++, Germany VG++, US 2 track – releases
  • Sober – US ZP 17121-2 (small 1 1/2" crack in front of case)
  • Sober Dutch release VG+
  • Undertow – Barcode version complete w/ mail in form attached
  • In Store Play
  • Selections From Aenima – US & Australian release
  • Stinkfist – US release
  • Forty Six & 2
  • H.
  • Aenema – EU release
  • Album Primer – US release
  • Aenima – US Lenticular cover;stickered & still sealed, UK release VG++ (case shows just wear), Australian VG++
  • Schism – EU release VG++, US DVD single x 2; 1 VG+& other is still sealed
  • Parabola – US release, UK release VG+, US DVD single VG++
  • Lateralus – 1 Canada RP w/slip VG++ & 1 Canadian 1st press still sealed
  • Vicarious – US VG+
  • 10,000 Days – Canada VG++
  • Vicarious DVD – US release VG++
  • Psychogenic Amnesia – UK release (Bootleg)
  • 10000 Nights – #220/500 (Bootleg)
  • Opiate – Long Box CD still sealed, has drill hole in back of box, small 1/2" surface tear mark down to brown paper, just beside hole, has some creasing above CD, probably from poor boxing; was received this way. 72445-11027-2 3
  • Lateralus UK single
  • Album Primer EU release
  • Salival promo UK release
  • Opiate Jive release
  • Sober (Bootleg)
  • Coachella Empires (Bootleg)
  • 39 items

Vinyl

Note from Toolboy: All my vinyl has been stored in LP sleeves with cardboard stiffeners; sleeves removed from jacket.

  • Opiate – US first press still sealed, US RP in shrink never played
  • Undertow – US first repress; saw cut cover; printed sleeves, US Volcano RP still sealed
  • Sober E.P. – UK DJ single
  • Prison Sex – UK DJ single
  • Sober – Picture Disc
  • Sober – UK DJ single
  • Stinkfist – Picture Disc
  • Cessaro Summability – Picture Disc
  • Aenima – second US press saw cut cover 61422-31087-1 1; faint cat# on spine, top right corner has slight corner crease, light shelf wear. LP 2 has light surface scratches.
  • Lateralus – Picture Disc
  • Lateralus – Official 2 LP Picture Disc Album still sealed.
  • Opiate first Volcano RP Miss Press
  • 14 items

Toolboy was kind enough to supply me with some photos of the collection as well:

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Fourtheye Update 1 Complete!

The first of several updates is now complete, and aside from a few style issues (mainly in the footer and my wardrobe) all is good. I welcome feedback, good or bad!

Note on the left hand side, I’ve added a new Support Fourtheye section. Starting now, I’m offering a subscription service for those wanting to support the site. Don’t fret though, none of the content on the site will removed for non-subscribers. Supporting the site is more of a token of gratitude, rather than a Toolarmy type secret site (though there will be a members only section of the forum). You can read more about membership here.

This update is the first of several. Over the coming weeks you can expect the following:

  • Some further tweaks to the blog, including a more robust tag system and some social media buttons.
  • A conversion of the Forum from the old bbPress version 1 to version 2.
  • Maybe some other cool stuff.

Thanks to all of you who continue to support the site, and a special welcome to the many new readers that have joined so far in 2012. I’m promised some exciting things will happen for Tool fans this year!

Fourtheye update on the way!

Some of you may know I’ve been working on an update for Fourtheye over the last few weeks. Well, part one is almost ready, and I’ll be rolling it out over the next hour. Things may get a bit sketchy for a little while, but I’ll update this post when I’m done.

Also, fuck SOPA & PIPA!

Note this shouldn’t effect your ability to post comments or in the forums. Flame away!

The Melvins & Unsane tour the USA

The Melvins have just announced another US tour, this time will fellow rock stalwarts Unsane.  The tour looks to be mainly SW USA, but with a smattering of shows in other areas as well:

  • April 11 – San Jose, CA – The Blank Club
  • April 12 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
  • April 13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Troubadour
  • April 14 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
  • April 17 – El Paso, TX – House of Rock
  • April 19 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
  • April 20 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
  • April 21 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jack’s
  • April 23 – Orlando, FL – The Social
  • April 24 – Gainesville, FL – Double Down Live
  • April 25 – Atlanta, GA – The Loft at Center Stage
  • April 26 – Charlotte, NC – Amos’ Southend
  • April 28 – West Chester, PA – The Note
  • April 29 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
  • May 1 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
  • May 2 – DeKalb, IL – Otto’s Nightclub
  • May 3 – St. Louis, MO – The Firebird
  • May 4 – Nashville, TN – Exit In
  • May 7 – Dallas, TX – Trees
  • May 9 – Santa Fe, NM – Santa Fe Brewing Company
  • May 11 – Santa Ana, CA – Galaxy Concert Theatre

The Melvins always put on a great show so make sure you get out of the house and see them.  And Unsane are a pretty nice addition too…

Tool Tour starts tonight!

In this strange upside down world where in one part it’s Adam’s birthday, yet in others it’s the day before.  For those in the realm of yesterday, there are some relaxing in Reno, possibly at a bar near the venue getting ready to witness the first show on the Tool Tour 2012.

When posting your thoughts on the tour, please bear in mind that there are those (including one of our moderators) who are trying to remains oblivious to the contents of the show, including the set list.  As a result All Fourtheye forums and blogs are spoiler free excluding the official spoiler thread.

You may also post spoilers in the appropriate show review thread, but only after the show has finished.  These threads can be found below:

All spoilers posted outside of these sanctioned thread will be deleted without warning.

You can find all of these as well as a couple of other tour related topics in this forum.  I hope everyone lucky enough to catch the band have a great time, and I hope some of the surprises I keep hearing about become reality!

Happy Birthday Mr Jones

On this day way back in 1965 the word bore witness to the birth of Adam Thomas Jones, who we all know went onto become the guitar play for Tool, as well as occasional poster creator and movie sculptor.  Adam will be on tour tonight, and who knows if they have any special plans for him on the evening.  Maybe the crowd should break out into happy birthday when the lads a taking a bow following the show.

Anyway, Here’s a nice version of Lateralus, which contains not one, but two of my favourite Jones solos:

Meshuggah to release kolossal new album

It’s common knowledge for a week or so now that Meshuggah will be releasing their new album on the 26th of March, but today it was revealed on the Nuclear Blast website that the new album should be called Koloss.  You can now order it on the website in the following formats:

  • Koloss + MAGIC CUBE which includes a CD and DVD
  • Koloss 2LP Brown Vinyl Edition

Not sure what a Magic Cube is, but either way I’m pretty excited for this album, and equally excited to be seeing them play at Soundwave here in early March.