Tool fan Richard Keenan has been posting on Facebook recently about a set of Aenima DAT tapes, which are a series of recordings, both released and unreleased from the Aenima sessions. Today Richard shares with us the story of how he obtained these tapes. It’s an interesting read, and maybe these recordings will see the light of day eventually: The story of my DAT tapes. Here is how the story goes.… Read More »Aenima DAT tapes
A Perfect Circle have just kicked off the next leg of their Eat The Elephant tour, the first show being a set the other night at the Grammy Museum in LA. They also launched a new video for the albums title track: The tour kicks off with more US dates with Tricky and Night Club in support, while the excellent Chelsea Wolfe supports the European dates: October 20 West Valley… Read More »A Perfect Circle kick off next tour
A Perfect Circle will be celebrating the Black Friday edition of Record Store day with a 7 inch featuring So Long And Thanks For All The Fish as well as an unexpected AC/DC cover: We’re celebrating Record Store Day‘s Black Friday event with a limited-edition 7†of our new single “So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish†with a cover ofAC/DC‘s “Dog Eat Dog.†Get it on Black Friday at a… Read More »A Perfect Circle Record Store Day’s Black Friday release
Blair’s Tool newsletter for September 2018 is out now, and is a pretty short one, that really just highlights Maynard’s recent tweet. As many of you may know, Blair lives in Las Vegas now which makes getting regular updates from a band not always know for being communicative tough. The good news is that Blair is heading to LA soon, and plans to take up Adam’s invitation to join them in… Read More »Tool September 2018 Newsletter
It’s been a little while since we’ve had a clear update from the band as to where they are at with recording the new Tool album. We know that Danny & Justin have done their parts, and that Adam is working on his. There has been some speculation as to how when Maynard would be doing his in between A Perfect Circle commitments. Well today Maynard has offered an update… Read More »Maynard offers update on new Tool album
An interesting video popped up on Youtube today from Opiate video director Dominic Hailstone, which is a cool animation with a 10,000 Days era Tool logo placed over the top. The Opiate video, which is yet to be released was previewed to Tool fans at recent VIP and Music Clinic sessions – who knows when we’ll actually get to see it! Hopefully soon! Thanks to ZigmaIwu on the Toolband Subreddit for… Read More »New Tool animation by Opiate director Dominic Hailstone
The August 2018 Tool Newsletter is now out, and while it doesn’t contain any Tool news, it does give us something to be happy with: John Z‘s return to the stage:  I hope you will agree that this message from John Ziegler makes for one helluva newsletter”  “So just last night after watching the bros throw down for the Doug Webb gig, I got on stage and brother Jamie actually let me play some guitar!… Read More »Tool August 2018 Newsletter
Some of you would have enjoyed Rick Beato‘s breakdown of Tool‘s Schism some time ago. This week he’s revisited Tool, and this time taken a close look at Parabola.  While it’s not quite as compelling a video as the Schism one, it’s still a cool watch. Enjoy!
Hopefully many of you will remember the artwork inspired by Tool and Fourtheye that as created by American artist Frank Heiler. I’ve attached a copy of the artwork to this post in case you forgot! It seems that he has come across some hard times at the moment, due to a fire in his home studio. Hey everyone, please share this if you can, 2 days ago, late at night, lightning… Read More »Support Fourtheye artist Frank Heiler
Another month goes by, and we have another newsletter with even Blair admitting there’s not much to share at the moment: Well… I haven’t heard a peep pertaining to studio updates so make of that what you want. Â I know that it’s pretty typical in the ‘Tool world’ to be kept in the dark when projects such as recording sessions are ongoing, so what can I say? Â I’ve tried to… Read More »Tool July 2018 Newsletter