What was tools first album

So there was some truth to the rumour about Tool wanting to keep the integrity of the whole album? It was all compressed. Within the opportunity to score a new generation of fans via streaming, however, also lies a challenge, one extremely particular to Tool. Fleckenstein was confident that going forward Tool will find compelling new ways of rolling out the music….

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So, a lot of those original pieces were inspired by that kind of energy. The music was emotionally driven and very reactionary. There was a great underground movement of music in L. Adam Jones kept his guitar head stored in a refrigerator during the making of the album. Back during the early Nineties, if someone talked about keeping a head in their refrigerator, gruesome images of mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer would have been the first thing to come to mind.

So you gotta keep your head fresh. His part sounds better for him, the way he speaks, so it just sounded way better to have his part in there instead. So we put his there. Turns out he was losing the T-shirt money. Unlike most popular bands of the early Nineties, Tool were more than happy to operate in a state of semi-anonymity.

I have no idea what that guy is up to, what his personality is. Is she smiling? Is she frowning? Critics were captivated by that subversion of the traditional inter-relationship between artist and audience, video and viewer.

One should be able to appreciate the Mona Lisa, he argued, without needing to know whether Da Vinci was a nice guy. On the lesser end, there were accounts of Jones using an Epilady hair remover on his strings to achieve some outlandish guitar noises.

The practice of storing his Marshall non-master volume bass head in his refrigerator to preserve its lifespan between recordings, too, heightened the sense of unhinged genius. The video footage of Maynard emptying four pump action shotgun shells into an old upright piano still looks like something from an OTT mock rockumentary. Rollins Band guitarist Chris Haskett also laid into the tattered strings with a sledgehammer — earning himself perhaps the maddest keyboards credit in rock history.

Typically though, Maynard told Musique Plus — only perhaps playfully — that the legendary frontman only agreed to the part to pay back a thousands of dollars poker debt he had racked up playing with the band. Piss-taking, fun and games aside, the record marked a moment in time that would quickly be lost forever. Another outsider celebrity with wit drier than a peppermint fart, legendary American comedian Bill Hicks was credited as a huge influence on the band.

Thanked in the liner notes and sent copies of the CD , he would reciprocate by introducing the band at Lollapalooza in Irwindale, CA in August of For a band as unapologetically exploratory as Tool, it feels strange to ponder those roads cut short and not taken.

Perhaps they were necessary reroutes on the evolutionary path to becoming the world-conquering, scene-changing force we know today. Once its mercurial darkness took hold, however, there would be no escape…. Words: Sam Law. Wargasm in The K! Tool reveal UK and European tour support.