A new interview with Adam popped up today where he speaks with Rick Florino from Artist Direct.  He talks about his art, his involvement in the recent X-Files comic and the idea of there being a Tool movie:

If the Tool story were to be made into a movie, who would be the perfect director for it, other than yourself of course?
(Adam) Wow, if it was made for TV, it would probably be Roger Corman. If it was a feature movie, it would probably have to be that German director Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder, and it’d have to be in German with subtitles [Laughs]. I’m being positive but my life in Tool is exactly like Spinal Tap meets a Shakespearian play.

So Spinal Tap meets Hamlet?
Exactly, but in a good way [Laughs]. I really love being in Tool. I love what we do and the result of everything. There’s a lot of dysfunction but, at the end of the day, it’s amazing.

Worth mentioning is that some of his art will be showing at the Alternative Press exhibition at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in L.A, which opens on the 9th of July.  According to the interview the piece on display will be the sculpture used for the Peach cover.

Thanks to Sampson for the tip!

Blahmoo spotting a new shirt in the coming soon section of the Puscifer site today, presumably while checking out the Rocket Man cover:

So does this mean there is a tour coming soon? I guess we have to wait and see…

Update: Word is this may the shirt from a previous tour, just with a misprint.  Who knows!  Personally I’d rather see Tool hit the studio and/or tour Australia than Puscifer doing the rounds again, but whatever floats their boat I guess…

As has been promised since 2008, Maynard and Steve Drozd from The Flaming Lips have finally released their version of Elton John’s Rocket Man.  The track, which is technically Puscifer + Steve Drozd, can now be streamed on Puscifer’s website.  I think it actually sounds pretty good.

Thanks to ToolDude for spotting this.

According the Alternative Tentacles website Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine will be supporting Tool on their San Francisco and Sacramento dates later this month.   Check them out, they’re not bad, though personally I prefer Jello with the Melvins.  Perhaps we’ll see some more Dead Kennedy covers…

Thanks to Tooldude for the tip.

Tour posters are flying at me thick and fast, both from readers and from NOMAD, the guys who print them.  Below is a selection of pics I’ve been sent so far!

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According to Toolband, artwork by Justin will feature on the poster (and possibly shirt?) for the St Charles gig tonight.  It looks pretty cool:

What do you guys think?

Every felt like having a closer look at one of Danny’s drumkits?  Well now you can, as Toolband has reveals that one of Danny’s old kits is now on display at Explorers Percussion in Kansas City:

The store can be found at 8050 Wornall Road, Knasas City.

Blair has posted on Toolband that Rajas (featuring Mandala creator Vince DeFranco) will be supporting Tool for a range of dates from the 9th of July onwards:

I am very pleased to be able to announce a new WEBSITE and the debut self-titled album from RAJAS . Being the brainchild of guitarist BEN SHERAZI, the band also features PAUL JONES on bass, GINO BARBONI on percussion, and Mandala Drum and Dimension Beam inventor VINCE DeFRANCO on analog synths and the old ’69′ Fender Rhodes. As you are checking out the RAJAS website, be sure to click on the TOUR SECTION for info about their upcoming support for a certain prog-metal band (I guess it’s official after all!).

I took a quite listen and they sound alright.  The dates in question are:

• 9th July in Vancouver
• 10th July in Seattle
• 15th in San Diego
• 16th in Las Vegas
• All the Los Angeles gigs

Not sure if it also includes those dates between the 10th and 15th. 

TheNewMachine just emailed me to let me know there has been a release of further tickets for the previously sold out show at the Family Arena in St Charles.  Tickets are available in all areas including the floor.  Tickets are via Metrotix

I don’t expect these to be available for long, so get over there right now!

For those of you who have purchased tickets for the LA shows at the mis-advertised date, it seems as though tickets will be honoured.  Also those with tickets for the show on the 21st will have the opportunity to get similar tickets at the other two shows.

Presumably, unless you signed to Ticketmaster with a false email address, you should have details on how to do this by now, but if you don’t I’d suggest giving them a call!