More Volto news on Toolband/Army. It looks like they’re playing on October 30th at the Baked Potato. In case you’ve forgotten Volto include Danny Carey, John Ziegler, Kirk Covington and Lance Morrison. It’s also been reported that Eddie Van Halen was as on of John Ziegler’s regular jam nights. No word on whether he actually played or not. Toolarmy members shouldn’t forget about the TA Chat on this Wednesday (Thursday… Read More »Volto and The Chat
Gamespy.com is running an interview with A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel regarding his involvement with the Jak X: Combat Racing, an upcoming PS2 game. He also mentions that he’s working on a new album, though it’s not APC since he mentions it’s either a solo album or a new band. Hopefully for us Tool fans these means Maynard will be dedicating plenty of time to Tool in the coming months.
Josh Freese from A Perfect Cirle must be a busy guy. Ultimate Guitar reports that he’s recently recorded with Head, the Jesus loving ex-Korn guitar player. For those who don’t know, Head left Korn after finding Jesus. Unlike Maynard, it would appear that Head was serious! Here’s a “Letter to Head”, I think your new CD is going to make us “Kry”. BTW the article is worth seeing, if only… Read More »Josh Freese meets Jesus
Blair’s September Tool Newsletter is now on Toolband/Army.
Blabbermouth report that A Perfect Circle’s Josh Freese will be filling in on drums which their usual drummer Jerome Dillon is off sick. Sounds like a good temporary solution to me, but all the best to Jerome and I hope he makes a speedy recovery.
Toolband/Army are reporting that on the 12th of October the members of Tool, as well as some of the guys from Isis, Butcher, Collide, The Melvins, Pigmy Love Circus and Volto! Now that’s a line up. Will we hear anything new regarding the recordings? Who knows but it’s sure to be a lot of fun. It’s only open to Toolarmy members currently, so if you’re not a member, too bad,… Read More »TA Chat + Aloke + BDO
I found this interesting article today, and Joshua Davis, who talks extensively about his work with Tool. It includes the line “Here’s a picture of me pissing in the Tool toilet covered with gold and platinum albums”. Unfortunately no picture was included!
Blair writes on Toolarmy/band that Vince De Franco will soon be releasing the electronic drums that Danny has been using extensively on the new CD. For more details on this check out his website at www.synesthesiacorp.com
Joshua Davis, the man behind the splash screen on Toolband, is busy redesigning the Toolband site. At the recent Semi Permanent conference, he apparently showed off the work in progress. No pictures at the moment but Muloc of Toolnavy.com describes it as: well, i was at semi permanent, and josh davis was doing showing an example of some flash design and we all saw the new tool layout, its all… Read More »Toolband Update Preview
John Ziegler from Pigmy Love Circus has written the following regarding the new Tool CD, presumably on his Myspace site, though I haven’t had time to check that. Thanks to Bastardometer on Toolarmy for the heads up. the tools have put in a good year and a half working on the songs for this one. mjk even has words and melodies for the tunes already! and to be honest, i’ve… Read More »From John Ziegler