The band Tool

[Sukebe GG]

It always amazes me how huge they got...

When heavy metal singers pay $64,000 for an imperial - the equivalent in size of eight normal bottles - of 1998 Penfolds Grange,
a wine yet to be released, you just know this is going to be no ordinary Grange.
Maynard James Keenan, frontman for the US group Tool, picked up the imperial at a Barossa Valley auction last week,
considerably intensifying expectation about the wine from one of the greatest vintages of the 1990s.
.......
When Keenan is not planning his own vineyard, he's often enjoying the fruits of others'. He has two complete verticals of Grange magnums, and is one bottle away (1953) from an entire collection of 750mls. Among his other favorites are d'Arenberg Shiraz McLaren Vale The Dead Arm and Torbreck RunRig.

that's some serious bank...

[Maltodextrin]

Do any of you get your mind blown like Maynard does for these Toolies? Anything that sticks out of your collection that would send you into a cult-like frenzy?

Orange Juice From The Crypt.

[Maltodextrin]

Or maybe Ray & Porcell.

[Sunshine]

I went to that movie about Maynards wine and the tasting. My then GF dragged me out and I know zero about wine and it was alright compared to any other wine I have ever had. The whole Documentary seemed like he was full of shit and taking the piss out of people. Which people lapped up in the audience. "Maynard is so greaatttttt"

[Mark Beef]

never liked the band but read this interview and have to admit it made me like the guy more than most "rock stars"

then you post that thing and I actually enjoyed the song. Black Mike are you trying to get me to become a Tool fan?

[Sunshine]

All I want is the best for you Beef

[Whet Bull]

^I enjoyed that interview too.  His cameo on Mr. Show was pretty funny and self-aware.  He plays a talking head caricature of himself in the Ronnie Dobbs story.  "Who's really in jail?"  Maybe the whole thing is a lark (and a super-lucrative bidness), in which case, bravo.

[Whet Bull]

Hm... I think there's a comparable glissando in Hymnen by Stockhausen, i.e. 3 years before that Tenney piece. Much more impressive as it's not just a flat sinus siren like the above piece which doesn't even sound like an acoustical illusion to me. May have to do with the fact that I was listening to Hymnen in quadro-five-o-whatever-phonic set-up in the university music hall vs. For Anne over laptop speakers. I wasn't even high and felt like falling through my stool by way of eternity and space. True phenomenon.

Gonna check out the new Schmickler. Missed that guy. Haven't seen him in a while also. Used to meet him at shows. I heard the record comes with all kinds of intellectual concept baggage it doesn't live up to? Whet?

I've never heard Hymnen in quad but that sounds ace.  Tenney didn't claim to have discovered the Shepard principle, it was a discovery in psychoacoustics dating from the mid-fifties, he just applied it in that piece.  The Schmickler record isn't so much a conceptual feat as a technical one.  It's a bunch of pieces that use the Shepard illusion to interesting effect.  You wouldn't want to listen to more than one side at a time, but for the duration of that side it's pretty awesome, it's a sound you never hear in music or in the natural world.  I played a sample from the record in my office a couple of weeks ago and it prompted one of the support staff to stick her head in and ask what it was 'cos it was driving her crazy -- it was that disconcerting even at low volume.  I've played all kinds of music at work and this is the only time it's ever attracted attention.

[Whet Bull]

Highlight from the A/V Club Tool interview:

[You play] heavy music, and your record company, which has never owned an album anything like what you're doing, immediately markets you to the obvious stinky kid with the dreadlocks and the B.O. and the urine on his shoes because he's been sleeping in his own filth in a festival in the middle of the rain. They basically market right to that guy. And then you realize the only people showing up to your shows are those primates?these weird, cretin people?

Their music still sucks, though.

[Sunshine]

Here is Maynard"s band before Tool. I think of this every time I hear his name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4V8TlCLthU

[k.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjAsfqpsyo&NR=1

[Mark of the Beast]

It always amazes me how huge they got...

When heavy metal singers pay $64,000 for an imperial - the equivalent in size of eight normal bottles - of 1998 Penfolds Grange,
a wine yet to be released, you just know this is going to be no ordinary Grange.
Maynard James Keenan, frontman for the US group Tool, picked up the imperial at a Barossa Valley auction last week,
considerably intensifying expectation about the wine from one of the greatest vintages of the 1990s.
.......
When Keenan is not planning his own vineyard, he's often enjoying the fruits of others'. He has two complete verticals of Grange magnums, and is one bottle away (1953) from an entire collection of 750mls. Among his other favorites are d'Arenberg Shiraz McLaren Vale The Dead Arm and Torbreck RunRig.

that's some serious bank...

Yeah, Penfolds Grange is big business. I come from that area, you can smell the fucking hubris when they release a new one each year.

[P-TNT]

Fuck Tool, 2011 is the year of punk

[Kiss My Machine]

I play Black Ops with 3 relatives. All 3 of their playercards say TOOL

[DJ Rick]

Do any of you get your mind blown like Maynard does for these Toolies? Anything that sticks out of your collection that would send you into a cult-like frenzy?

Orange Juice From The Crypt.

Don't want you think no one enjoys an OJFTC reference on TermBo!