TOOL Last Night...

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Seen them a few months back. Light show was incredible. Singer stayed back in the shadows the whole night. As I understand it he has some type of extreme sensitivity to bright lights causing vertigo or something like that. He slung a few insults on the audience around cell phones. Not much of a fan, one and out for me.

No sensitivity to lights, he’s been doing that for over 20 years now. They don’t believe the members should be the focus of the show, the lights, sound and atmosphere is the show. Same reason they won’t do a live DVD, they don’t believe it’ll be effective in recreating a Tool show. I can only agree, though I’d be content with a really well mixed DVD that was a single shot from FOH pointed at the stage.
 
I wasn’t going to catch them on this tour because ticket prices were stupid when I first checked. They played the Hard Rock which is considerably smaller than the average arenas they’ve been doing. I checked the day before the show and the scalpers dropped prices to not lose money, so I ended up about 100 feet from the stage for $175.

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It was actually a really odd show for a Tool show because of what I wrote above about the band not wanting to be seen as much and this kinda had the feel of a club show. I could see the whites of their eyes.

I was close enough that I could hear the amps off the stage. At first I thought I was BS’ing myself on that, but between songs they’d cut the mains while Adam or Justin were checking something in their rigs and you could hear it plain as day. Not really surprised, look at all the fucking monitors by Adam; 3 wedges in front, looks like a huge wedge under the keyboards and then the fucking sidefills behind that. No wonder the dude can get feedback the way he does!

It really is an experience seeing them. I never understood Tool until I saw them live in ‘01 and as soon as they started playing the dynamics in a live setting made it all make sense to me. And the thing I love about them the most is that you can drop a single mic in a room and it’s going to sound like Tool, all the tones and dynamics aren’t the result of studio fuckery.
 
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