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IMO Tool goes on the list of one of the greatest bands of all time. They are all about the music and could care less about the money. Maynard is a very talented musician. He is a very reclusive person and doesn't like all the popularity. None of their albums sound the same. Even when Maynard did A Perfect Circle, none of the albums sounded the same. They also play a different style of music.


Quoted from Wikipedia...
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Musical style and influences

Tool was described by Patrick Donovan of The Age as "the thinking person's metal band. Cerebral and visceral, soft and heavy, melodic and abrasive, tender and brutal, familiar and strange, western and eastern, beautiful and ugly, taut yet sprawling and epic, they are a tangle of contradictions."[67] Tool has gained critical praise from the International Herald Tribune's C.B. Liddell for their complex and ever-evolving sound.[84] Describing their general sound, Allmusic refers to them as "grinding, post-Jane's Addiction heavy metal",[46] and The New York Times sees similarities to "Led Zeppelin's heaving, battering guitar riffs and Middle Eastern modes".[85] Their 2001 work Lateralus was compared by Allmusic to Pink Floyd's Meddle (1971), but thirty years later and altered by "Tool's impulse to cram every inch of infinity with hard guitar meat and absolute dread".[54]
Musical style

A component of Tool's song repertoire relies on the use of odd time signatures, or more objectively, time signatures other than the commonplace 4/4. For instance, bassist Justin Chancellor describes the time signature employed on Lateralus' first single, "Schism", as 6.5/8, and that it later "goes into all kinds of other times".[86] Further examples include the album's title track, which also displays shifting rhythms,[86] as does 10,000 Days' "Wings for Marie (Pt 1)" and "10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)".[87]
Beyond this aspect of the band's sound, each band member experiments within his musical scope. Bass Player magazine described Chancellor's bass playing as a "thick midrange tone, guitar-style techniques, and elastic versatility".[86] As an example of this, the magazine mentioned the use of a wah effect by hammering "the notes with the left hand and using the bass's tone controls to get a tone sweep", such as on the song "The Patient" (Lateralus 2001).[86]
Completing the band's rhythm section, drummer Danny Carey uses polyrhythms, tabla-style techniques, and the incorporation of custom electronic drum pads to trigger samples, such as prerecorded tabla and octoban sounds.[87]
Maynard James Keenan's ability as a vocalist has been characterized more subjectively by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: After his performance during an Alice in Chains reunion concert in 2005, freelancer Travis Hay saw him as "a natural fit at replacing Layne Staley".[88] Regarding his role in A Perfect Circle and Tool, The New York Times wrote that "both groups rely on Mr. Keenan's ability to dignify emotions like lust, anger and disgust, the honey in his voice adding a touch of profundity".[89]
According to Guitar Player magazine, Adam Jones does not rely on any one particular guitar-playing technique but rather combines many techniques.[90] For example, Allmusic wrote that he "alternately utiliz[es] power chords, scratchy noise, chiming arpeggios, and a quiet minimalism" in "Sober".[91] Additionally, the band uses forms of instrumental experimentation, like the use of a "pipe bomb microphone" (a guitar pickup mounted inside a brass cylinder) and a talk box guitar solo on "Jambi".[92]

The band puts an emphasis on the sound of their songs and attempts to reduce the effect lyrics can have on the perception of songs by not releasing song lyrics with any album.[3] Lyrical arrangements are often given special attention, such as in "Lateralus". The number of syllables per line in the lyrics to "Lateralus" correspond to an arrangement of the fibonacci numbers[93] and the song "Jambi" uses and makes a reference to the common metrical foot iamb.[94] The lyrics on Ænima and Lateralus focused on philosophy and spirituality—specific subjects range from organized religion in "Opiate", to evolution and Jungian psychology in "Forty-Six & 2" and transcendence in "Lateralus".[95] On 10,000 Days, Keenan wanted to explore issues more personal to him:[95] the album name and title track refer to the twenty-seven years during which his mother suffered from complications of a stroke until her death in 2003.[96]"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_(band)

 

Celtic Bagpipe

 

Minus the Bear - Thanks For The Killer Game of Crisco Twister

 

Mr. Dieingly Sad
Critters

 

The sweet tune of a Septic truck off loading into a sump...

 

my wife bitching

 

hellyeah - alcohol and ass

 

Gravediggaz-6ft deep

 

GODSMACK......... I Stand Alone

 

Three Days Grace- World So Cold

 

rawk \m/

 

Radiohead - pyramid song

 

This is one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite groups. It's called Hi-808 by Blue Scholars. I got bored and looked it up on YouTube. There's a first gen Taco in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vFVp00-19M&feature=player_embedded#

 

Deadmau5 - Alone With You

 

sepultura - dust

 

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance

 

shadows fall - king of nothing

 

police chopper and sirens outside

 

Jonas Brothers -

My 8 year old is watching the Disney Channel