Volto @ The Knitting Factory
Blair on Toolband/Army reports that Volto are playing at the Knitting Factory in LA on Friday the 20th of January. Tickets can be purchased here. In case you don’t know, Danny drums for Volto
Danny Carey
Danny Carey is the drummer for the band Tool, and also plays regularly in Los Angeles as part of Volto! and various other acts at the Baked Potato.
Danny is also considered one of the worlds leading drummers, and regularly appears at the pointy end of many Top Drummers lists. For all articles on Danny Carey, use this category!
Danny speaks
From a recent post on Blabbermouth, Danny says: TOOL drummer Danny Carey told Launch that while the new music was hard to describe, he thought fans would have no problem recognizing it. “All I can say is you should probably just look at the past TOOL records,” he said. “It’s just kind of the next stage of development. Some of the tunes are pretty heavy on this one. It’s still… Read More »Danny speaks
Justin’s Birthday Pictures
Some pictures from Justin’s Birthday party have been posted on Toolband/Army with TA members getting a few bonus pics, including one of Danny sporting his helmet. For those non-TA members who want to take a look at them, I’m sure if you try hard enough you’ll find someone on the net who’s posted ’em.
Vinyl Update, Volto
Blair has posted some final info the on Vinyl release. It will be Friday afternoon US/Arizona? time. If you need a little help translating times to your timezoe, use this little tool. I would imagine the vagueness around the time of release is deliberate in order to ‘randomise’ the process a little more. For those Australians out there, the approximate time will be around 8am Saturday morning, so no partying… Read More »Vinyl Update, Volto
100 Greatest Rock Drum Performances
For peole who like arguing over top 100 lists, here’s a list of the Top 100 Greatest Rock Drum Performances by some guy I’ve never heard of. John Bonham’s performance in Moby Dick tops the list, but Danny has a respectable 6 appearances, with Ticks & Leeches take out position 3. Reflection(28) would appear to be Danny’s second best drumming work according to this list, which personally I’d disagree with.… Read More »100 Greatest Rock Drum Performances
Slow News Week
Not much exciting happening in the world of Tool this week. Here’s a couple of items posted on Toolarmy/Band in the last week: Volto are playing at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood on the 10th of November. Aloke Dutta is accepting new students for Tabla lessons. These lessons are held in LA and are one-on-one lessions. Contact him at [email protected] for more information. If you’re still bored, check out this… Read More »Slow News Week
Chat Transcripts
The TA chat transcripts seem to be up. In case you don’t feel like wallowing through them, I’ve assembled a bit of a list of highlights. New Tool CD *Both Adam and Maynard say Joe Baressi has been great to work with, better than David Bottril. *There will be lots of Gamalon? samples on the CD *The longest song recorded so far is 17 minutes long. *Sccot Reeder saws the… Read More »Chat Transcripts
Halloween Newsletter
It’s up now. It doesn’t contain much new Tool information to the untrained eye (ie. mine). It does dispell a few myths regarding the recent TA Chat. For those of you who complain that Blair’s newsletters never contain any useful information, then you won’t be swayed by this latest one at all. Personally I like them, so Blair, just in case you’re reading, keep up the good work. And Danny,… Read More »Halloween Newsletter
Jelvins, Melvins, Tomahawk and TMOC
Some non-Tool news for a change. There’s a relatively interesting, if a little short interview with Jello Biafra here, where he talks about his involvement with the Melvins. It boes on to mention that Adam Jones plays on half of the tracks on the new CD Sieg Howdy! Ipecac.com are reporting that the Melvins are releasing a ‘new’ version of Houdini in the near future. Also, Peeping Tom for mid-2006.… Read More »Jelvins, Melvins, Tomahawk and TMOC
Crowleymas
Just a final couple of things on the Toolarmy Crowleymas chat. It will start at 9pm PST (2pm AEST 13th Oct.) and the chat rooms should be back up sometime before then, though as I write this I seemed to be able to login, but not able to do anything. Guests Include: Adam, Maynard and & Danny. No Justin because he’s away. Alex Grey Aaron from Isis kaRIN and Statik… Read More »Crowleymas