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!
Blair has once again made a couple of posts on Toolband/army. A lot of fluff but a few interesting things. Firstly Volto and Pigmy Love Circus should be playing in August, when Danny is less busy with his other band. Secondly the Pigmy’s seem to have a myspace site here. Finally, and more importantly to us Tool fans, that he’ll reveal further information on “this ‘Teleincision’ business that I keep… Read More »BMB Ramblings
Volto are one of Danny Carey’s side projects, and Toolband.com reports that since Danny is “unavailable” Volto won’t be playing in June, but will be in July. Does this mean Tool will be done recording, etc by the end of June….
About two years ago, I discovered RSS feeds. As simple method of streaming information and news from a correctly set up website. Shortly after that I discovered a Blog, the Living Colour Blog, which outlined the news and events of the band Living Colour. It included an RSS feed, which I find makes life very easy to collect the kind of information I wanted about the band. Today, as I… Read More »Prying Open
Volto! will be playing at the Mint in Los Angeles next weekend on August 1st. Volto! are Danny Carey, John Ziegler and Lance Morrison. The show is for 21+ and presumably tickets will be at the door. Danny will also be playing with the Webb Allstars at the Baked Potato this coming Thursday the 30th of July. Also playing will be Doug Web, Mitch Forman, Jimmy Earl and John Ziegler.… Read More »Volto! at the Mint on August 1st
Danny has announced the birth of his son Zola Carey, as well as posted a photo of him: For those wondering, he has a middle name – Jude. Welcome to the world Zola Jude Carey! Speaking from experience, Danny has a busy few months ahead of him, but hopefully he’ll be able to squeeze in a Tool jam session every now and then. Congratulations from everyone at Fourtheye!
Seems that Danny’s birthday isn’t in my calendar for some reason, so I missed wishing him a good one in Australian time. Still better late that never. To celebrate, here’s compilation or all Danny’s “drum-cam” stuff from his website. 21 minutes of Tool drumming goodness starting off with my favorite of the lot – Triad:
As usual a bunch of things happened while I was away for a few days, so this post is a catch up of sorts. Firstly, Adam posted a video of himself playing around with what is believed to be a Tremoloa in Joe Barresi‘s studio: ~Playing strange strings at Joe B.'s #EvilJoe #CaptainMidnight A video posted by Adam Jones (@adamjones_tv) on May 1, 2015 at 2:38am PDT As yet there’s… Read More »Adam’s strings, Maynard Puscifer update and more!
Liquidmuse sent me an email this evening with a link to a new video posted by Stuart Copeland, which features a jam called A Little More Noise. Playing with Copeland (who is on guitar) is Danny and Neil Peart of Rush. A bunch of other guys join the track as well. Here it is for your listening pleasure:
Looks like there may be a new side project in the works for Danny, with details emerging of a collaboration between him and Brent Hinds from Mastodon. It may also feature Dimitri Coats from punk band OFF! There isn’t much more detail, but there is an interesting website which contains a couple of tracks you can download. A photo of Danny appears on the site, but there’s also a bunch… Read More »Legend of the Seagullmen
After years of waiting, Danny now has a personalised towel available for purchase in his store for the low, low price of US$14.99 (plus postage). DRUM TOWEL FEATURES DANNY’S MODIFIED VERSION OF ELIZABETHAN MAGUS JOHN DEE’S MAGICAL DIAGRAM “SIGILLLUM DEI AEMAETH”. BLACK TOWEL INCLUDES DANNY’S NAME IN GOLD LETTERING. DIMENSIONS 16″ X 25″. Sadly it’s too late for Xmas, but it is not too late to get it for your… Read More »Danny Carey Towel finally available!