TOOL AND THEIR SENSE OF HUMOUR.

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IS IT JUST ME, OR DOES EVERYBODY ELSE FIND THAT THE MAJORITY OF TOOL FANS, DON'T GET THE SENSE OF HUMOUR. FOR EXAMPLE A FRIEND WAS TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE THOUGHT THE "SEE YOU AUNTIE," STATEMENT, MEANT IN THE AENIMA SLEEVE. HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT REALLY MEANT. AND THEY ALL TAKE DISGUSTIPATED SERIOUSLY, WHEN IT'S REALLY ABOUT FARMING HARVESTING CARROTS.

IS IT JUST ME? PLEASE REPLY TO EITHER CONFIRM MY HYPOTHESIS, OR SPANK THESE THOUGHTS OUT OF ME.

― gaypeoplearelovely, Monday, 25 November 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

They're not as funny as King Crimson.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 25 November 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

''SPANK THESE THOUGHTS OUT OF ME.''

a spank is too good for the likes of you.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 November 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't that german pep rally sounding tune really just the directions to a cake mix?

that's such an inner circle sense of humor. it's something the band and the closest are in on. and they're laughing at all the jugs that are trying to take the music too seriously.
m.

― msp, Monday, 25 November 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

If there are some idiots out there who take Tool too seriously (waitaminute how seriously is 'too?) then show them the Aenima inner sleeve, then show them the 'hidden photo' on the 'Undertow' CD case (underneath the plastic the CD sits in), then play them the 'hidden track' from Opiate, then say "shut up."

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 25 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

What others have said. They have an extremely dry sense of humor and don't have much patience in terms of explaining the jokes. My favorite -- the recipe for eggless cookies delivered as a harsh German psuedo-fascist rally motivator.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 November 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

ahh... eggless cookies... that's the cake mix was talking about.

good stuff,
m.

― msp, Monday, 25 November 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"see you auntie" = member of tool is going to see his aunt?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 25 November 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Tool remind me of Mogwai in so many ways. They take their music really seriously, yet call their songs things like "I Am Not Batman".

― Callum (Callum), Monday, 25 November 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

this year an art-school friend of mine made a big wooden board and frame with part of those german eggless cookie mix lyrics carved in relief on it. the prof didn't find it funny.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 25 November 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Weren't they the guys playing the "RONNIE DOBBS RONNIE DOBBS!" song on the first episode of Mr. Show?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, just the NAME TOOL itself shows they have a sense of humor ...
you don't have to be Beavis and Butthead to see that!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

at the very least Maynard was in that band, Nate. He's also in another skit involving audiences after "Coupon" The Movie.

Interestingly, ALL I like about Tool is their sense of humor.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The german song is about eggless cookies, yes, but you forgot about the 2 knifepoints of Turkish Hashish, most likely the most important ingredient.

Completely right, though, every guy I see wear a TOOL shirt and one of those goofy ponytail-yet-shaved-on-the-sides-and-back haircuts who take tool so seriously have got to be missing some point somewhere.

I understand, though. They probably think something like, "Tool are such good musicians (esp. the drummer) and are so good at creating an eerie atmosphere and evoking creepy feelings through music that they have to be completely serious at all times."

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Doesn't the cookie recipe call for hashish?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought Tool evoked creepy videos.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Live, Tool seem to take themselves more serious than, um, Yahoo Serious or somethin'! They're all like "we're too serious to look like we actually enjoy playing music so we're just gonna stand around and not even move really because we're ALL VERY SERIOUS."

― original bgm, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan, I think that's supposed to be kinda funny in itself. At least I think it is. Because what they're doing is ripping off Pink Floyd. I'm sure Tool would play BEHIND a big screen that had weird shit playing on it if P.F. wouldn't sue or something.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

so we're just gonna stand around and not even move really

Maynard always gets in a fair amount of flailing whenever I've seen the band. I've seen many more acts truly pull off the statue thing. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan, I think that's supposed to be kinda funny in itself.

Yes but it isn't!

Maynard always gets in a fair amount of flailing whenever I've seen the band. I've seen many more acts truly pull off the statue thing. ;-)

Yeah, a couple of times Maynard actually did start doing this monkey dance where he'd start pounding on the ground and wave his arms all about. That was good but gimmie some mo!

And who did pull off the statue thing? Offhand, all the acts I've seen that have done this would ammount to Tool + some nervous mumbly joe opening indie bands, none of which were particularly riveting. Well, them and DJs/Laptoppers but that's a whole different area right there.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I was listening to Aenima the other day and, for once, really listening to the lyrics. How could anyone take these guys seriously?

They're my favourite metal band, though.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Tool's "Mr. Show" cameos, plus a story on Maynard's involvement with the Mr. Show movie Run Ronnie Run.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Leonard Cohen is funnier, and that bundle of laffs that is Eno.

― gazza, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Maynard at a Neil Hamburger show.

― Laurie AA, Friday, 6 December 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

man no posts in almost two years. sad.

― evan, Friday, 20 August 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

No album either, so we all wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought that those claymation videos were silly. I got a kick out of them. But I was never sure if they were supposed to be funny.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

You have little dudes chopped up showing squelching internal organs, what could be funnier?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Tool has some shirt with a stealth phallus hidden in it

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Friday, 20 August 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

*considers the potential relative levels of sarcasm at work*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

was that an xpost?! (I am serious)

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Friday, 20 August 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, I don't even know anymore.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"So shut up and...BUY MY RECORD! SEND MORE MONEY!"

That song is pretty funny, especially when it gets to that line.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't even know what this thread is about

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Why are you up so early, my sweet Ned?

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

As far as I'm concerned, the funniest thing Tool ever did was take five years off, then release an album that sounded like it was recorded the week after the one before.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

that's called "pulling a reznor".

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha!

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Every hardcore TOOL fan I've ever met has been an insufferable wanker. While we're at it, fuck TOOL for nearly ruining Bill Hicks for me. (Excellent drummer, though.)

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 20 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

tool's website is funny, they're always posting these patently absurd stories about conspiracies and the drummer's aleister crowley obsession. tool has always had a lot of humor mixed in with their spiritual, occult and philosophical interests.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 August 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

lateralus even has an art bell sample (with a guy calling in about area 51 and aliens) as the final track.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hardly anyone ever talks about the fact that the drummer was in Green Jello/Jelly, there's all the proof I need that these guys are goofballs.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 20 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Nor does anyone mention the singer is also in A Perfect Circle, which is about as devoid of humor as musically possible.

― harshaw (jube), Saturday, 21 August 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Tour dates on the official page = haha joking or real? http://www.toolband.com/index_frames.html

27 April, 2010 (12:37am)
TOOL SUMMER TOUR - MORE CONFIRMED DATES

Sat 6/19 - New Orleans, LA @ UNO Lakefront Arena

Sun 6/20 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center

Wed 6/23 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Ford Center

Tickets go on sale May 8th. More dates once official.

BMB

26 April, 2010 (05:47pm)
APRIL NEWSLETTER

The APRIL NEWSLETTER has been posted. More TOOL TOUR DATES (and on-sale dates) will be added once confirmed.

BMB

26 April, 2010 (05:02pm)
TOOL SUMMER TOUR DATES

We can now confirm 2 Tool shows in Canada:

REXALL PLACE
EDMONTON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010

GENERAL MOTORS PLACE
VANCOUVER BC
FRIDAY, JULY 9th

TICKETS ON-SALE THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 30 AT 10:00 AM

MORE CONFIRMED DATES WILL GO ON SALE MAY 8th. STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL CITIES.

― StanM, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

idgi

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

They were supposed to be on a multiple-year hiatus, I thought.

― StanM, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:06 (fifteen years ago)

In binary time.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

oh my aching sides (?)

― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:34 (fifteen years ago)

ok ok

:-(

― StanM, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

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