Xpress Tool Interview

Here’s a brief Tool interview on the X-Press Online website.  Although short, it actually has a couple of different questions to the usual interviews I’ve been reading.

Tool’s challenge now is to reproduce the epic live. The ultimate Tool show, Keenan says, is “A situation where we can set up a holographic performance and simulcast to different cities. To the point where even the audience is holographic for us. We can pick an audience and physically walk up to them, one ghost to another ghost, and other people could see this in their holograph of the universe.”

Coachella, Rage, Sunrise

There’s plenty of bits and pieces floating around regarding the recent Coachella show.  A couple of guys at Toolnavy has posted some pictures of the show (though the one’s I’ve seen aren’t of great quality) and Distortion Online seems to have a few mp3s.

Just a reminder that Tool are appearing on Rage this weekend as guest programmers.  The Rage website has a little preview video of Danny and Maynard hamming it up for you to enjoy.  For those people who aren’t Australian, Rage allows guest to come in and pick a selection of videos, ususally around 30 or so.  Rage isn’t televised over the net, but I know that several members are planning on recording the show.

Finally, just in case you are interested, 10,000 Days was mentioned and show briefly on Sunrise this morning by Molly Meldrum.  Nothing exciting was said, more that both them and Pearl Jam have been released this weekend, and that it’ll be interesting to see who claims the #1 spot on the charts.  My money is still on Tool…..

Snippets

Just a couple of little bits and pieces from the web the last couple of days:

  • Some Signed Lateralus Vinyl is up on eBay at the moment.  Price is up to US$355 right at the moment….
  • Here’s a little interview with Maynard and Justin from the NZ Herald.  Speaks of rumours of a tour in November, but apart from that isn’t much different from the last 50 or so articles.  Thanks to xpandnz from Toolnavy for that.
  • I’m going to update the Signed Lateralus Gallery later today…….
  • Blair says that Kevin Willis and Camilla will be taking pics of Coachella, and other small shows and that they will be posted on Toolband/Army
  • 10,000 Days was available in Rockhampton Saturday morning, much to my surprise….
  • There are some reports of shortages around the place, but it seems more like some stores are running out, while others have plenty.  Luckily mine is in the mail!
  • Spiralysys tells me that he has a copy of the recent video interview with Danny and Maynard on MTV hosted on his site.

Spiralysis

Ben from Spiralysis tells me that he is hosting the recent Triple J interview with Danny and Maynard.  Feel free to head to his website if you want to have a listen.  He also has plenty of interesting videos of the band, and in particular Danny, so it’s well worth the visit.

I had a listen to the interview last night, and it was a good interview, though revealed nothing we haven’t already heard from the band.  Readers who are holding out on listening to 10,000 Days may want to wait a while before checking out the interview, since it contains snippets of Jambi, Rosetta Stoned, Vicarious and The Pot.

Triple J Interview

Triple J will be playing their interview with Tool tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.  You can tune in via the internet if you wish.

Thanks to the many people that submitted this (sorry, I’m not going to bother naming you all!) ….

Tool Interview with Beat

James sent me the link to this interview with Tool today from the Australian Beat website. Quite an interesting interview. Suggests that Alex Grey is working with Adam on the new video, which was something I was unaware of, though not particularly surprising either.

Also talks about an Australian tour, and while nothing has been booked, they’d like to be here this year, but if not will definitely be here in the next 12 months.

http://www.beat.com.au/article.php?id=231

Finnish Maynard Interview

The Betterfly on Toolarmy posted an interview with Maynard on TA boards this morning. Here’s some highlights:

A huge thanks to Joe Barresi who spent lots of time and effort working on (especially) guitar sounds. I think “10,000 Days” is overall more “raw” sounding than “Lateralus” or “Aenima” and you have to go back all the way to “Undertow” to find similar soundscapes.

“Lipan Conjuring” is Danny’s little song which he made with his friend Tom Brown. It’s an Lipan-apache exorcism, kinda like a situation check and strengthening your roots.

We are not gonna play this album thru as a whole live. That kinda fate i wouldnt want for anyone. But as the tour goes on we will include some songs on our setlist.

Non-TA members can read it here. Thanks to Tooljunky.  An interesting interview that’s well worth the read.

Radio Interview

Rimb reminded me that an interview with the guys will be on Australian Radio PBS 106.7 FM later today, between 5pm and 7pm.  Their website is a little confusing, so I’m not sure if there’s a live stream or not, but feel free to look yourself here.