AWESOME NEW TOOL!
07-31-2008, 06:41 PM
All the jailhouse lawyers, can't settle your normal differences privately face to face. No violence, just a little heated talk and negotiation with whomever you all seem to have a problem with.
You know what? All of you from the City line to the point.
You got a problem.
Stand up at your meetings. That does not work.
Move on to collect evidence of what you say is happening and tun it over to the proper authorities, (DA, State Comptroller, Etc..) Keep copies of your return reciepts from the USPS, follow it up with a call and log it.
See what happens, but not on this slam site, nobody will believe you after posting here.
Got it? Now bring it on...
New Tool 2
08-05-2008, 11:48 AM
What tool?
What he means is your freddom to pursue what you think is wrong. It ain't about posting bullshit here or trash talking if you have a real problem either then get an answer, clarification or justice. But don't try your case here.
UnregisteredTOOL
08-14-2008, 02:23 PM
Tool is an American, three-time Grammy Award winning progressive metal band that was formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. The band has sold over 13 million records worldwide, and consists of drummer Danny Carey, bassist Justin Chancellor, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Tool has hosted worldwide tours and produced albums which have performed well on international music charts due to their cult status in the world of music.[1]
The band emerged with a heavy metal sound on their first LP at a time when the genre was dominated by thrash metal, and later reached the top of the alternative metal movement with the release of their second LP, Ćnima, in 1996. Their efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued with Lateralus (2001) and their most recent album, 10,000 Days (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim and success around the world. Due to Tool's incorporation of visual arts and relatively long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transgressing act and part of progressive metal and art rock. The relationship between the band and today's music industry is ambivalent,[2] at times marked by censorship and the band members' insistence on privacy.[3]
Early years (1988–1992)
During the 1980s, each of the future members of Tool moved to Los Angeles. Both Paul D'Amour and Adam Jones wanted to enter the film industry, while Maynard James Keenan found employment remodeling pet stores after having studied visual arts in Michigan.[3] Danny Carey performed as a drummer for Green Jell˙[3] and Carole King, and played in the Los Angeles area with Pigmy Love Circus.[4]
Keenan and Jones met through a common friend in 1989.[5] After Keenan played a tape recording for Jones of his previous band project, Jones was so impressed by his voice that he eventually talked his friend into forming their own band.[5] They started jamming together and were on the lookout for a drummer and a bass player. Danny Carey happened to live above Keenan and was introduced to Jones by Tom Morello, an old high school friend of Jones and former bandmate of Electric Sheep.[6] Carey began playing in their sessions because he "felt kinda sorry for them", as other invited musicians were not showing up.[7] Tool's lineup was completed when a friend of Jones introduced them to bassist D'Amour.[8] Early on, the band fabricated the story that they formed because of the pseudophilosophy "lachrymology".[9] Although "lachrymology" was also explained to be an inspiration for the band's name, Keenan later explained their intentions differently: "Tool is exactly what it sounds like: It's a big dick. It's a wrench.... we are... your tool; use us as a catalyst in your process of finding out whatever it is you need to find out, or whatever it is you're trying to achieve."[10]
An early band logo created by longtime collaborator Cam de Leon,[11] this wrench is an example of "phallic hardware" in Tool's imagery.[12]
Only Tool's first music video "Hush" (1992) features prominent appearances by the band members. Keenan, Carey, D'Amour and Jones (left to right) are pictured wearing parental advisory stickers covering their genitalia.After only a few gigs, the band was approached by record companies,[5] and only three months into their career they signed a record deal with Zoo Entertainment.[8] In March 1992, Zoo published the band's first effort, Opiate. Described by the band as "slam and bang" heavy metal[13] and the "hardest sounding" six songs they had written to that point,[14] the EP included the singles "Hush" and "Opiate". The band's first music video, "Hush", promoted their dissenting views about the then-prominent Parents Music Resource Center and its advocacy of the censorship of music. The video featured the band members naked with their genitalia covered by parental advisory stickers and their mouths covered by duct tape.[15] The band began touring with Rollins Band, Skitzo, Fishbone, and Rage Against the Machine[2] to positive responses which Janiss Garza of RIP Magazine summarized in September 1992 as a "buzz" and "a strong start".[16]
[edit] Undertow (1993–1995)
The following year, at a time when post-Nirvana alternative rock was at its height, Tool released their first full-length album, Undertow (1993). It expressed more diverse dynamics than Opiate and included songs the band had chosen not to publish on their previous release, when they had opted for a heavier sound.[14] The band began touring again as planned, with an exception in May 1993. Tool was scheduled to play the Garden Pavilion in Hollywood but learned at the last minute that the Garden Pavilion belonged to L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology, which the band felt clashed with "the band's ethics about how a person should not follow a belief system that constricts their development as a human being".[2] Keenan "spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience".[17]
Tool later played several very successful concerts during the Lollapalooza road show, and were moved from the second stage to the main stage by their manager and the festival co-founder Ted Gardner.[18] At the last concert of Lollapalooza in Tool's hometown Los Angeles, comedian Bill Hicks introduced the band. Hicks had become a friend of the band members and an influence on them after being mentioned in Undertow's liner notes.[19] He jokingly asked the audience of 60,000 people to stand still and help him look for a lost contact lens.[20] The boost in popularity gained from these concerts led Undertow to be certified gold by the RIAA in September 1993 and to achieve platinum status in 1995,[21] despite being sold with a censored album cover by distributors such as Wal-Mart.[22][23] The single "Sober" became a hit single by March 1994 and won the band Billboard's "Best Video By A New Artist" award for the accompanying stop motion music video.[14]
NOPE YOUNG LUKE
08-19-2008, 07:39 PM
Is The Tool
You can't realize, you are the tool you spoiled brat.. Stand up in a meeting if you are really the buff like those that came before you...
Unregisteredpoiuytr
09-08-2008, 04:50 PM
,hglygoyglhglhgktfytfouyf
vBulletin® v3.6.5, Copyright ©2000-2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.