The Tool December 2018 Newsletter is out, and since it’s mostly about me (of all people) I can assure you all there there is no actual Tool news contained within. BMB: Â How do you get your Tool-related news? How regularly do you check other sites? Do you have sources with other sites that give you a heads up as well as friends close to a band member that give you… Read More »Tool Newsletter December 2018
Blair‘s Tool Newsletter for November 2018 is out now. It highlights a recent visit to LA following the Malibu fires, where Blair catches up with Danny Carey and a few other regulars from the Tool family. The good news is that Blair managed to hear at least part of the new album, though keeps it spoiler free: While walking to his car (parked on yet another deficient alley), Danny emerged… Read More »Tool November 2018 Newsletter
The Welcome to Rockville festival social media team today posted a video on Facebook, promising to reveal the lineup for the 2019 event in 13 days. The video very strongly hints that Tool will be the headline act, featuring some of their artwork as well as a snippet from Mantra. The festival is usually held in late April, which somewhat coincides with Coachella which I’d also expect to be announced… Read More »Tool at Rockville in May 2019
The latest Tool Newsletter – the October 2018 edition is now online. It’s a reasonably brief update from Blair, mostly highlighting the new tour dates but also has a positive snippet: On Monday, October 8th at 1:35 AM I received an enthusiastic text message from Danny. Without going into specifics, he REALLY liked what he heard in the studio that night. Therefore, I assume that the recording progress is going… Read More »Tool October 2018 Newsletter
Overnight Tool announced a series of live dates for locations right around Europe including the Download Festival in Donington, UK for June and July 2019. Dates are listed below: TOOL EUROPE TOUR 2019SUNDAY, JUNE 2 @ MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA – BERLIN, GERMANYON SALE FRIDAY, OCT. 26 (9 am local)https://www.livenation.de/arti… TUESDAY, JUNE 4 @ O2 ARENA – PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLICON SALE FRIDAY, OCT, 26 (9am local)https://www.livenation.cz/arti… WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 @ WIENER STADHALLE – VIENNA, AUSTRIAON… Read More »Tool announced European tour for 2019
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
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
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
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!
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