Happy Birthday to Tool Lighting Director Junior! Looking forward to seeing what new lighting tricks you can show us all in 2012! To celebrate here’s some of his finest work:
Aenima 2010
Happy Birthday Junior!
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Tag Archives: Aenima
Rare Aenima Master CD on Ebay
Amer contacted me today and asked my to plug his Ebay sale of an extremely rare copy of Aenima. His description can describe it better than I can:
"A [studio master is a] recording that, presumably, has been mastered at the same studio it has been mixed at. Most recordings are mastered at a mastering facility. For security purposes (since this was a CD made before Ænima was released for public consumption), the cardboard sleeve has been numbered."
These were released in limited numbers (no one knows how many) and distributed to radio stations almost 15 years ago. This copy is #391. An overwhelming majority have been lost or destroyed, making this the rarest Tool promo item, ever. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
I have owned several Aenima promo vinyls, signed Cesaro Summability promo vinyls and signed Lateralus vinyls, but they do not come close to this item in rarity.
The only other copy I ever saw for sale in all my years of collecting was on this obscure Taiwanese(?) auction website more than 5 years ago. I will be surprised if you see another one of these for sale for years to come. Don’t miss out.
The disc has only been played once by the original owner, and is in mint condition. The cardboard sleeve is in excellent condition for its age, with minor edgewear.
I’ve not heard of this particular edition on Aenima, then again I’m not a huge Tool collector, so I can’t really comment on it’s rarity. Either way it sounds interesting, and I’m sure that Tool collectors out there would jump at the chance to grab the piece Tool’s history.
The price is currently at $5 (I couldn’t help myself) and there is a reserve, which I’d hazard to guess would be north of $500.
A General Warning
There seems to be plenty of dubious vinyl going around at the moment, including the recently posted 10,000 Days vinyl. In the post I made it clear I felt it was a bootleg at the time, and really only mentioned it out of curiousity as I’d never seen a 10,000 Days vinyl before. Following that post I was told by a somewhat reliable source that Tool were planning to do some 10,000 Days vinyl, and that the recent Ebay article could be the real deal, though he wasn’t sure.
Today a Fourtheye reader has told me that without doubt the recent 10,000 Days vinyl appearing here is a poorly manufactured fake. He also mentions there are plenty of Ænima fakes on Ebay at the moment also.
I’m not going to stick my neck out and say which ones are and aren’t real, but I will say to all of you out there in the market – buyer beware! I will continue to post items of interest on Fourtheye, but take no responsability for the legitimacy of any of them. Having said that, I will generally keep away from obvious fakes, and where I feel interesting items may not be legitimate, will a statement to that effect.
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DC Signed Aenima on Ebay
Rohan messaged me today to let me know he found a vinyl copy of Ænima signed by Danny on Ebay. Bidding starts at US$300!
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Yellow Aenima Vinyl on Ebay
An interesting Ebay item was brought to my attention by psychadelicfur on Toolarmy today. It’s an Ænima vinyl, though unlike the normal one is pressed on yellow vinyl (pic below). The article mentions that it’s a “Special Collectors Edition”. It’s currently going for a relatively cheap price of £39.99.
Some have suggested this is a bootleg of some kind, which would come as no great surprise to me. Anyone got anything to say about this particular item?
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Yellow Aenima
Tool Smokebox Screensaver
I’ve had a few requests over the life of Fourtheye for a link to the Ænima Smokebox Screensaver. Today I recieved another one, and decided that I’d finally upload it onto Fourtheye for anyone who wants it. It can be downloaded here and is about 2.6MB in size.
According to the readme associated with the screensaver, it was created by KungFuJesus and isnieZot and was originally hosted one the now defunct Tool fansite Deadohiosky.net. All credit goes to those guys for this, however a quick disclaimer – I take no responsability for any loss of data or damage to your PC directly or indirectly caused by the program. It does work fine on any Windows PC I’ve tried it on though, including my current Vista PC.
Signed Cesaro Summability on Ebay
Amer emailed me the other day, letting me know that he’s being forced to part with his signed copy of the “stupendously rare” (his words not mine!) Cesaro Summability picture disc. Apparently only 25 of these signed items exist in the world, so for you die hard collectors this sounds like a great opportunity to open your wallets and grab a copy.
Current bidding on Ebay puts it at $222 + shipping, and the auction has another six days remaining. Amer mentions he’d rather this go to a genuine Tool fan rather than a re-seller, so check it out!
Cesaro Summability Signed
Russell Crowe as Bill Hicks
Jason pointed me to an article on Ain’t It Cool, in which Russell Crowe suggests he’s developing a movie about Bill Hicks. Apparently the movie is still in the draft stage, so pretty far from being a reality at this stage.
For those that don’t know, Bill Hicks was a comedian who died of cancer at the age of 32 in 1994. The Tool album Aenima was dedicated to him an he appears in the intro to Third Eye, talking about druuuuuuuuugs.
Aenima Promo Vinyl on Ebay
Amer emailed me today and mentioned that he’s selling his Aenima Promo Vinyl. He mentions on the auction that it’s the “Holy Grail of Tool Collecting”. That may or may not be the case, but anyway, it’s currently bidding at over US$200. Those of you who are keen to get a copy of the rare piece of vinyl, check it out!