Blair hints at Live DVD

Pretty high on most Tool fans wishlist is a Live DVD, and in a recent Toolband article Blair dropped a hint that may or may not suggest it’ll happen soon:

In this photo taken by Rynne, is Tool manager Pete… A) Pondering the future release date for the band’s live DVD?.. B) Waiting for Arsenal to play?.. C) Trying to contact UFO occupants near the White Mountains?..

Live DVD huh?  I’ve heard that one before!  I suspect most of you will believe there actually are UFO’s near the White Mountains before acknowledging that this will happen any time soon.  Then again I have heard to expect some good things from Tool in 2012, so you never know…

Here’s a picture of Cowboy Chancellor:

Paul D’Amour Custom Bass on Ebay

Sam messaged me this morning to let me know about this new Ebay item: a custom Ibanez Bass used by former Tool man Paul D’Amour. According to the description:

Designed per Paul’s specifications in the Ibanez custom shop.
Silver w/mirror pick guard, Maple neck, Badass bridge and humbucking pick-ups. (Body was damaged in the heat of battle but solidly repaired)
ONLY ONE MADE!

Auction includes case.

Was played on stage during some of Paul’s final shows with the band.
(can be signed by Paul on request)

It’s a nice looking bass, and the price is US$3,750.

Intronaut Tour Diary part 2

Part 2 of the Intronaut Tour Diary from the Tool Tour 2012 is up, and once again it’s an insightful and humorous read.  Here’s a sample (with a song name censored to protect the unspoilt):

1/18/12 9:00 pm - By the time we hit Tucson, we were pretty sick of Dave being an attention hog rock star jerk. Tonight in Albuquerque, Tool invited Danny [Walker] up to play drums on "XXX". I got some really good footage, but just as they were almost done with the song, Tool’s head of security grabbed me and made me delete the footage per their "no filming" rule. This rule is obviously really effective — check out one of five hundred YouTube clips from that show above.

Note that unlike the first diary entry the article contains mild spoilers.

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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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: