There was a rumour yesterday on Reddit of a Tool show in San Bernadino, California, with the likely venue being the San Manuel Ampitheater.  Today on Toolband Blair has posted a photo of the area with the label “Tool 06-24” which on the surface of things would appear to confirm June 24th as the date. Hopefully we’ll get confirmation of it soon.  I suspect this will possibly be the final date… Read More »Tool San Bernadino show on the cards?
Three more Tool dates have been added to their jaunt in June, with Nampa, ID, San Jose and Sacramento, CA featured. As usual they have some VIP tickets available to Toolarmy (and non-Toolarmy) members. Â Details are below: NEW TOOL SHOW DATES INFO NEW TOOL SHOWS AND VIP PACKAGES Tickets for the following shows will be on-sale FRIDAY, APRIL 7 at 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME. VIP Packages Pre-sale for TOOLARMY MEMBERS… Read More »Tool Idaho and California dates added
In some completely legit news, former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar has joined Tool overnight: In an effort to nudge things forward in what seems to be an endless music writing process, Maynard James Keenan has enlisted the help of Sammy Hagar to temporarily replace him as the vocalist for the slow moving internationally recognized rock monster truck, Tool. “There seems to be this invisible speed limit we’ve been holding… Read More »Sammy Hagar joins Tool
A Perfect Circle have signed with record label BMG with Billy Howerdel telling us: We just signed a new record deal with BMG! Looking forward to sharing new music with you soon. New APC-2017! A few music sites around the place were pretty quick to jump on the idea that A Perfect Circle would have an album out in 2017. Â Maynard pretty quickly hosed down those suggestions with a typically… Read More »A Perfect Circle sign with BMG
Yesterday I saw an article on Bloomberg regarding Tool being in discussion with streaming services to get their material onto Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Â The article tells us: The rock band Tool is in talks to make its catalog available on streaming services in time for the release of its first album in more than a decade, according to people with knowledge of the matter, marking the end of another… Read More »Tool in discussions with streaming services?
Adam Jones shared a cute photo today from the new/temporary/renovated? Loft today of Tool’s new “engineer” at work: ~ *our new engineer 👶ðŸ½â¤ï¸ðŸŽ¼ðŸ’£ #TOOL #theboy A post shared by Adam Jones (@adamjones_tv) on Mar 22, 2017 at 2:47pm PDT Before everyone goes and get’s too excited, I’m not suggesting Tool are actually recording at the moment – there’s still no indication Maynard is done with his bits yet, and personally… Read More »Tool’s new “engineer”
I noticed a post on the Volto! Facebook page about Danny Carey participating in something called Drum Day. Â Looks like this is an held event in LA on April 8th which serves primarily as a show case for drum equipment. Â Scheduled for the day is a performance of Danny with Volto, so it doesn’t appear to be a drum clinic as such. Anyway, it’s free by the looks of things,… Read More »Danny Carey at Drum Day
As expected more Tool dates have been announced, including a show at The Gorge and Vancouver as rumoured. Â There’s also a few other Canadian dates which will please local fans: DATES AND LINKS – June 9: St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center (on-sale at 11am) TICKETS – June 12: Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome TICKETS – June 13: Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place TICKETS – June 15: Vancouver, BC… Read More »Northwest Tool dates announced
There are plenty of rumours going round of further Tool shows, mostly over on the West Coast.  There is some expectation that these dates could be announced as soon as tomorrow. Here is a summary: Tool are rumoured by a good source to be playing at The Gorge near Seattle on June 17th. Apparently a date for Vancouver appeared on the Tool Facebook page for June 15 and has subsequently been… Read More »More Tool Tour Dates coming soon?
Maybe I got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning, or maybe it’s just the disappointment of reading failed attempts at getting tickets in the forums, on Reddit and Toolnavy. Â But I felt a rant is appropriate. Â I welcome any comments from Fourtheye readers below! Dear Tool, There is a big problem with ticket sales. Â The clusterfuck of disappointment for many in today’s sales are nothing new… Read More »An open letter to Tool regarding concerts and presales