Got an email from coach from Toolarmy today who has the reluctantly part with his copy of Maynard’s Sieben. The auction is up on Ebay and bidding starts at US$400. Get at it!
"Sieban" Limited Print by Maynard James Keenan
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Toolarmy Store gets an update
Chris emailed me today to let me know that the Toolarmy store has had an update recently. Even better news is that there are a couple of new designs in the shirts section. Well, at least a couple I don’t recognize anyway.
Just to comment a little, I don’t think this is any indication of a new site. it just looks to me like they’ve installed a shopping cart app and whacked a theme on it. Still I don’t want to sound too negative, as it is good to actually see some kind of progress on the site. It’s also accessible to Non-Toolarmy members as well, so I guess if you wanted to order a shirt and didn’t want to join up, you probably can now.
“Toolarmy need your help” Clarification
I received an email from Alan Jones last night (Adam’s brother and Tool’s attorney) who confirmed that yesterdays request for Tool advertising material is 100% legitimate. He mentioned that it is for a legal problem regarding litigation with the insurance industry as a fallout of the case against Cam De Leon.
Edit: Alan wanted to let you all know that this is definitely no reflection on Cam. Tool have buried the hatchet with him and that case is long over.
Basically what they are after are examples of pure advertising (Tool show posters, newspaper and magazine ads) that contain those specific pieces of Cam-Tool related artwork. Note that Tool have copies of the art themselves – they are particularly interested in it being used in advertising.
If you do have any of the following, the please visit this site and submit them:
- Tool Wrench
- The eye from the cover of Aenima
- The picture of the white box on the back of Aenima
- The Opiate Priest that appears on the cover of the Opiate
- The Stinkfist characters
- The Prison Sex characters
- Novus Opiate Seclorum
- Medicine Man
- Infiniteeth
Alternatively, if you really don’t want to submit your information on that site, send the scans to me and I’ll email them to Alan directly.
Tool Army need your help
An email came out today from Toolarmy (I didn’t seem to get a copy, despite being a member), asking for help in locating some specific pieces of Tool art. If you have any thing listed below in your collection, then please check out the website mentioned and submit it.
Dear Tool Army,
The band would greatly appreciate a little help. We are looking for samples of advertisements that contain certain artwork that were used in advertising Tool shows and merchandising. Specifically, we are looking for flyers, posters, magazine ads, newspaper ads, etc., that advertise Tool and contain any of the following artwork. – Tool Wrench
- The eye from the cover of Aenima
- The picture of the white box on the back of Aenima
- The Opiate Priest that appears on the cover of the Opiate
- The Stinkfist characters
- The Prison Sex characters
- Novus Opiate Seclorum
- Medicine Man
- Infiniteeth
If you have anything like this, please scan and send the picture of the whole ad to us athttp://www.pure-eng.com/~toolemail/. If you know when and where the ad was posted – that’s even better.
Visit Our Website Thanks for your support!
Feel free to speculate on what this is really about below! Thanks to funguy for the tip!
Update: There is some speculation that this may be a scam. I don’t think it is, but have sent an email to Alan Jones (Adam’s brother, and Tool’s attorney mentioned in the email) for a comment. In the meantime, if you’re especially protective of your email address, don’t submit anything.
Update 2: It’s not a scam
Toolarmy Gingerbread House Competition
Turns out there was a Toolarmy Gingerbread House making competition, and the winner happens to be R Stump from Hollywood! Obviously no relation to Rynne!
Good news for her (and us) is that part of her prize is “getting to sit in on a writing/arranging session with the band members in the new year”.
Happy Holidays from Fourtheye (and Tool)!
Lateralus Vinyl on Ebay
Toolarmy member AChip has posted his signed copy of Lateralus on ebay, something he is sadly compelled to do due to financial considerations. Anyone interested in getting a copy of the most limited of Tool releases, should check it out…
Current bidding puts it at US$127.55. Expect this to go up considerably…
Toolarmy Returns
Toolarmy is back online. Thankfully my prediction of it being permanently down turned out to be false. You can all stop spamming my comments boards now 
I hope you all enjoyed your visit – come back every now and then!
Update: It’s back, but seems a little borked. I couldn’t post a comment for example.
Update 2: Blair has the following to say about the fiasco:
Obviously the websites are back online. However, unfortunately, the “MESSAGE BOARDS” and features related to them are still currently undergoing maintenance and will be unavailable until further notice. Now that I can once again post, let me clear up something about my earlier announcement regarding Tool Army going dark for a while: I posted this moments after receiving the news, myself, but didn’t expect the TOOL BAND site to ALSO be shut down (obviously!).
To be fair, I don’t think there’s any point blaming Blair for any of this. Kinda like blame Tool for not playing a gig when the power is out…
Dear Toolarmy n00bs
Firstly, welcome to all of those that have recently joined due to the Toolarmy outage (no sign of it coming back up any time soon). A few of you have posted about missing comments and such. Be aware, there is no conspiracy at hand – all new members have to be moderated before they can post comments. Once this first one has been approved then you free to post as many times as you wish. Also take into account that I am not sitting by the PC moderating 24 hours a day. Feel free to contact me if you have any further queries at all.
Also, for those that want Avatars and don’t like the automatically generated ones, Fourtheye supports Gravatars, so feel free to login there and upload the image of your choice.
Don’t forget that Fourtheye has a RSS Feed, both for posts and comments, as well as a Twitter feed. The Twitter account occasionally features a few (usually very minor) extras, mainly re-tweets from Maynard and such. All the options are as free as the site, and useful if you prefer read the site via a newsreader or other third-party tool.
Finally, I always welcome submissions of any kind, from show reviews to other bits and pieces. If you’ve got anything you want to add to the site, then let me know – either by the contact form or just email me at hellboy@fourtheye.net.
Thanks for joining and enjoy your stay!
Toolarmy Update
Word from a semi-official source tells me that in regards to the Tool/Toolarmy servers:
- The maintenance is planned, and it will be back “soon”
- Don’t expect any upgrades (yet)
Update: The following message was seen on Toolband moments before the downtime commenced:
27 October, 2009
TOOL ARMY GOING DARK FOR A WHILE
Please be advised that any time now the ToolArmy site will be shut down while we deal with some maintenance issues. As of now, I’m not sure how long it will take to make the necessary adjustments. Thanks for your patience and continued support.
BMB
Toolarmy Down
As I’m sure many of you have noticed, Toolarmy is down (Toolband seems ok though). I’ve heard nothing about the length of the downtime, and hopefully we’ll see service back in due form. In the meantime keep checking Fourtheye, or any number of alternatives such as Toolnavy or The Tool Hotline.