There’s a brief interview with Adam on the Baltimore Sun website today. He talks about 10,000 Days but doesn’t reveal anything particularly new:
[discussing the 10,000 Days packaging] “That was my idea,” says Jones, who last week was playing a date with the band in Tampa, Fla. “All the ideas start with writing the music, and it flows with the art. … I saw a kid’s book that was similar [to the CD packaging design] and thought it would be a cool idea for the album.”
I found a new Danny Carey interview today, this time on the Broward-Palm Beach New Times website. Nothing particularly exciting though. Danny bangs on about the artistic side of Tool and doesn’t really give us any new insight at all. Still worth reading if you’re a die-hard…..
If found this Justin Chancellor interview today on nwlanews.com. Posted a couple of weeks ago, Justin talks about touring, life with Tool as well as the future. Definitely worth a read, and from the sounds of it it would appear the bell isn’t tolling just yet…..
the future of tool:
JC: We really don’t know. We’re guessing we’ll probably be done around January or February next year and at that point we’ll defitinely take some time off, I mean you know some proper time off from each other. Whether it’s six months or a year I don’t know, but at that point then we’ll decide what we’ll do next. It’s kind of hard to plan stuff when you’ve got a year of stuff planned for you. That’s kind of enough to bite off and chew. We’ll plan the future when we get to it.
Thanks to dice5199 from Toolnavy for the link.
Maynard has been interviewed by Suicide Girls’ Daniel Epstein. A pretty interesting read, and also reveals something about the recent Big Day Out tour that may explain some alleged sub-par performances:
DRE: How was touring with the Big Day Out festival in Australia?
MK: It was good. I got a chance to taste some wines down there as well, but I had the flu which sucked because I couldn’t taste anything.
DRE: So when you’re on tour you just hit all the wineries you can?
MK: Well, if you can time it right then it works out great. But it’s not always that easy. The schedule for touring is usually grueling. You can’t just take a week off in the middle of a tour to go taste wine.
Maynard also discusses his Vineward and Puscifer. Thanks to Blabbermouth for the tip
Vuduchild comes to the rescue again with links to the recent NZ TV Danny and Maynard interview on Youtube. There’s also a bit of live footage there too, which surprises me. Would be great to see more of that….
Can you spot the Fourtheye connection?
Update: These movies have been removed from Youtube. If anyone thought to download them before the disappeared, then let me know….
Tool Radio hosted by Justin Chancellor last Saturday can be streamed from the Triple J website. Check it out if you missed the live broadcast.
NJM from alt.music.tool reckons he heard on Triple J that there will be a Tool interview on Full Metal Racket tonight. I can’t confirm this anywhere on the site, but if you want to tune in anyway, the show starts at 10pm tonight.
Jono tells me that New Zealand’s TV3 show Nightline will take some time off from its usual sheep-related programming and will be showing a Tool interview on Tuesday the 6th of February instead. No details on who or what is in the interview, but I imagine it will be put up on the internet sometime afterwards. Check out their website which has very little in the way of details!
I found this short interview with Justin today on Time-Off today. It’s not particularly long, but it does have a few interesting points:
TO: Does the band choose which support acts it plays with?
JC: “Yes, we completely decide that. It just comes down to what we’re into, and obviously everyone has different ideas about that - everyone’s got a different current thing that they love. So we just sort of take it in turns. We try to split it up a little bit - you know, six weeks for one band then six weeks for another. We just finished a month or so with Isis, and we’re on the road with Mastodon right now for this next six weeks. It’s really fun getting the bands that you love to play in front of you every night - getting to watch them before you do your own thing.”
Not so sure about the Tool “just wrapped up a three-hour concert in Milan, Italy” bit though….
AntiSol tells me that the Big Day Out live stream for the New Zealand show will be interviewing Tool very shortly. If you’re online you might want to take a look:
Edit: I’ve either got a really crappy connection, or it’s a lousy stream, since it keeps stopping on me quite regularly. Visit at your own risk…
Update: Looks like Tool have done and Axl Rose and not turned up to the interview on time. The show is now over so don’t bother connecting.
bms46and2 posted on Toolnavy today a link to an interview with Maynard on Asahi.com. It’s a pretty short one, and really doesn’t cover much we haven’t already heard before, but I’m sure some of you completists out there will want to read anyway. Here’s an excerpt:
Maynard James Keenan, singer and lyricist with the U.S. heavy rock band Tool, has got a crush on Japan. “It’s my favorite place on Earth,” he gushed on the phone from Switzerland in the middle of a European tour, promoting Tool’s most recent album, “10,000 Days.” After seven trips to Japan, the thing that appeals most to him is the courtesy.
“That’s what I like–the courtesy, everybody knowing what they’re supposed to do and happy to do it,” he said.
I asked Keenan if his job as a singer in a heavy rock band is to be a “sanctioned wild man.” Isn’t he supposed to disapprove of such nerdy behavior and, instead, to take drugs, sleep with groupies and smash up hotel rooms?
“You know, I’m 42 and I haven’t smashed up one hotel room,” he said with a touch of irony, admitting that this is one of the common expectations of someone in his position.