• jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Back in the day, my stepdad worked overseas so we found ourselves at the airport quite often. Remember how they used to have those courtesy phones where you pick up, talk to an operator, and ask them to make an announcement in the airport to have someone pickup and connect you?

      My brother and I would go to those phones and request that they page Reverend Maynard James Keenan. Then they’d announce over the intercom “Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone. Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone.” Then we’d lose our minds laughing. I don’t know why we thought it was so funny, but hopefully some other Tool fans at the time were walking through the airport and did a double take.

    • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      Or. They. Sound like. Words combined. Sometimes in German. It is awesome and creative. As a new stoner, I was obsessed from the get go. Now look at me walking it back. I ran out of space… Here’s the end

      (I worked hard of this dammit, someone better catch it)

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      Umm. Eulogy. Right in Two. Stinkfist. Sober.

      Maybe you mean he sings in rhythm? I dunno? That’s usually what good artists do.

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    I got into tool with Aenima and it didn’t leave my car cassette player for two months. Thankfully they were more into talking shit about Henry Rollins at the time.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    14·
    2 months ago

    Funny thing… I had the original green jello album (before they got sued and had to change to green jelly).

    It was my first CD.

    Awesome weird brutal sounds. Loved it. No clue who the members were. Listened

    One day I was walking through the record store and saw these eyes. These fucking fucked up acid dream demon eyes.

    I bought the album.

    Fucking opiate.

    Fucking Maynard was on the green jello album. (The high pitched voice on 3 little pigs)

    Anyway, I still listen to tool. Not so such green jello.

    • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Damn, I had no idea that Maynard was on the that green jello album. That was also my first CD I ever got. Probably from Sam Goody in the mall to play on my sony discman in like 1993 or something.

      • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
        5·
        2 months ago

        The whole back story of tool, Maynard, green jello, and Danny Carey is bonkers.

        I think it’s a Rick Beato interview with Danny Carey where he goes into it all.

        Brb.

        …

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ErsWJw28XU

        He starts talking about it at the very beginning of the interview.

        The whole video is gold, though. Beato does another with Maynard.

        Carey definitely comes across as more grounded and likeable.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Heh, I had the green jello cassette. I thought it was weird when I saw them featured in Maximum Carnage as Green Jelly.

      I’ve never listened to tool, though. What’s a good start?

      • DiddlydeeEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Start at the beginning (Opiate), but their best work in my opinion is Aenima.

      • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        God fucking dammit. I sat and stared at it for like a minute then randomly bust out laughing once it clicked.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I always liked A Perfect Circle and so I listened to TOOL but didn’t really get into them until I brought up the lyrics that I could never really hear because all I had was Ænima and the mixing on that entire album kinda sucks; the vocals are damn near washed out.

  • experbia@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    I love how there’s basically nothing but love for Tool in these comments. I’m a big fan of whatever Maynard James Keenan’s touching. I adore Puscifer and listen constantly (Grand Canyon is my current obsessive-replay song… once again), APC literally always fucks hard so it’s always an option, and Tool scratches an itch I can’t get anywhere else. Saw Tool live finally, too, just like last year.

    • DiddlydeeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Ditto, apart from A Perfect Circle. They had a few rubbish albums, particularly Emotive. Just seen Tool for the 8th time.