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Last 10,000 Days show?

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Both the Tool Hotline and a couple of reviews on Toolnavy are saying that Maynard announced at the last Las Vegas show that it would be the last one for the 10,000 Days tour.  Looks like we may not get another Tool tour down under after all, unless he was just talking about the US.

On a brighter note, here’s another one of those posters courtesy of CP:

Tool Posters

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Brian sent me an email last night with a couple of links to some posters made available at the recent Tool show in LA. According to him, poster weren’t selling for $1000, but a mere $500. The $500 ones were snapped up pretty quick, and there were only 5 of them. Signed copies of the other poster was $80 and there were heaps of those. The first one has some of Adam’s art while the send one is plain:

Holiday in San Francisco, 10000 DVDs?

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According to Indacello, Jello Biafra joined Tool onstage last night in San Francisco for a version of Holiday in Cambodia.  Guests joining Tool this tour during lateralus include Sebastian from Trans Am, Dale from The Melvins, Cody from Big Business, Tim Alexander from Primus and Aaron from Isis.  Perhaps Tool should tour with The Mark of Cain while in Australia so John Stanier can join them on stage…

According to Marco, a website in the Netherlands is claiming that the Vicarious DVD will be limited to 10,000 copies.  I’m not so sure of that, but order yourself a copy just in case!

Poll Results: Does a repetitive setlist alter your view on Tool’s live performances?

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Last week I asked a somewhat controversial question regarding Tool‘s set list.  There are a lot of strong feels out there regarding Tool‘s recent tour habits, and a good percentage of Tool fans are dissappointed by the lack on change in their set list.  Compared to the Lateralus tour, the 10,000 Days tour has been considerably more static, and generally shorter in set length.

Personally, I’m not too bothered by the repetitiveness of it, since I’m more of the opinion that Tool play their shows aimed at 80%+ of their audience only seeing them once per tour.  As someone who’d prefer see Tool more than once per tour, I can live with this.  I am slightly dissappointed the show is a little shorter than normal, though anything over 90 minutes is still a good show.  Set list choice somewhat bothers me, since there’s several songs they don’t seem to play anymore (Aenima for instance) that I’d rather see, and other songs such as 46&2 and Schism are overplayed.

The results of the poll show that most people consider each show and individual experience, and therefore the setlist isn’t important.  I agree with that too.  Generally though, readers are put off by the set list, though probably not enough to prevent them from going.

  1. No, each show is a new experience 111 Votes
  2. Yes, I still go to shows but really want to see song xyz 75 Votes
  3. Yes, but if they played Lateralus from end to end each night I wouldn’t complain 66 Votes
  4. Yes, it tells me Tool are just going through the motions 63 Votes
  5. No, I only see one show per tour 47 Votes
  6. Meh 30 Votes
  7. No, the setlist is perfect 10 Votes
  8. Yes, Tool suck 8 Votes

Here’s some questions for you guys to answer below:

  • Do Tool have a responsibility to the fans to respond to demands for a different set?
  • Would you rather see a longer, more varied set only once rather than the same set multiple times?
  • Are the complaints really based on a percieved negative reaction to 10,000 Days, and the adbundance of those tracks in the set?
  • Should Tool ditch the visual aspects of the show in order to be more flexible on stage?

DVD via CoSM, Tour Rumours

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Just a couple of quickies for you. Firstly PlayingNaked showed me this piece of hidden (from my Gmail account anyway) info in the latest CoSM newsletter:

Limited quantities of the TOOL VICARIOUS DVD signed by Alex Grey will be available as soon as we get them and will have the option to be shipped by FedEX in time for Christmas delivery. Please keep checking the websites for details.

Secondly dickleiper tells us that Tool are pencilled in to play at the TSB Arena in Wellington, New Zealand sometime in March 2008  The way things are going I’d expect a Aus/NZ tour announcement sometime before Xmas.