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About This Page: This is a discussion on Media, Movies and Music within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Anyone skipping tonight's next Kings loss to have their minds (and eardrums) blown by Tool across the street? I for one am!
No cause I would rather stay home and watch the game with my son and have cheaper food than at Staples or Nokia, than listen to some crappy band who has not been good since their first album was released and are way overrated and have only had like one good song.
I've seen Tool quite a few times, love their music but here is the problem I've had with every show. The first hour or so is brilliant, absolutely brilliant then they go into what sounds to me (and maybe because my seats have never been close enough) a big wall of noise for 30 minutes. No traces of a song that my husband (who has been a HUGE Tool fan since Undertow) or I can recognize. Now that's frustrating and it seems like the shows never recover from that.
Every time we go, we hope this doesn't happen but sure enough it does. After the last show at SDSU we decided we'd stick to listening to them at home or in the car.
Sorry I missed this thread yesterday but just too busy.
What's with all the haters btw? You put up a thread for a 'roll call' for a show and someone's gotta chime in with 'fill in the blank' sucks balls!'? weak
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What's with all the haters btw? You put up a thread for a 'roll call' for a show and someone's gotta chime in with 'fill in the blank' sucks balls!'? weak
lol, seriously. Oh well, no biggie.
Pretty great show indeed. This was my third time seeing them this tour (starting with 06 Coachella show) and the visuals, videos, lights and lasers were the most developed and awesome I've seen them put on (I wish I could have seen them during the Lateralus days...). I thought the way-too-early-encore, leaving the stage business was pretty stupid, but I'm not going to say that it really affected my concert experience.
This is an open friendly question to those who don't like Tool's stuff after Undertow. Are your opinions on them coming from a purely metal background? I feel like if you're expecting them to be a metal band you're setting yourself up for disappointment, because that's only an element of their sound.
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Last edited by BDTR; December 11th, 2007 at 01:53 PM.
This is an open friendly question to those who don't like Tool's stuff after Undertow. Are your opinions on them coming from a purely metal background?
To me they just got annoying too avant garde all that type of stuff. I will be honest I like my music straight forward. BAd Religion-straight forward, DKM- same way, Bouncing Souls- once again straight forward, and the same goes with Frank Sinatra, Jimmy BUffet, Green Day, and Less Than Jake. That is just me when I was in high school I tried listening to them and was instantly turned away.
TBrown I am sorry but you are stuck with me openly expressing my opinion. You can ask adgy about my view of Radiohead as well and I openly gave it to him
hell yeah!! got to LA early so we were trying to scalp cheap tickets, ended up getting free tickets for 114 so we watched the first period 14 rows from the glass in the end kopitar/stuart scored. Then we left to go see Trans Am play which was a mistake kinda. Anyway, Tool f'n kicked ass last night, Flood is awesome live. Thankfully i didnt "run into a wall of noise"?? and everything sounded like Tool songs... I thought it was the best show of all the Staples/Cox Arena shows.
hell yeah!! got to LA early so we were trying to scalp cheap tickets, ended up getting free tickets for 114 so we watched the first period 14 rows from the glass in the end kopitar/stuart scored. Then we left to go see Trans Am play which was a mistake kinda. Anyway, Tool f'n kicked ass last night, Flood is awesome live. Thankfully i didnt "run into a wall of noise"?? and everything sounded like Tool songs... I thought it was the best show of all the Staples/Cox Arena shows.
Yea, I felt the Nokia performance was definitely one of the best shows I have seen them do. I still think that second night at Cox might be the top show though- we got Push|t that night!
Off to see them in Vegas on Friday. I noticed they did Holiday In Cambodia with Jello Biafra at last night's SF show, so maybe we'll get something cool on that last date in Vegas!
This is an open friendly question to those who don't like Tool's stuff after Undertow. Are your opinions on them coming from a purely metal background? I feel like if you're expecting them to be a metal band you're setting yourself up for disappointment, because that's only an element of their sound.
I love alot of music, including metal, rock, ambient, classical, prog, post rock, etc. etc. I thought Undertow was a brilliant record because they didn't try to do too much. It was straight and to the point. Now I do enjoy thought provoking intelligent music as well but Tool isn't it. They are waaaay too much into themselves and try to do more than they should to create an "experience" but what comes out is something very boring, uninspiring and overrated. I own all their albums oddly enough and have tried many many times to give them a chance to grow on me. But, for the exception of Undertow I am left totally underwhelmed.
ALMOST as underwhelmed as that led zeppelin reunion show which I attended......ehh. Now that's a different story altogether.
Last edited by Vargsmal; December 13th, 2007 at 04:55 AM.
Reason: spelling
It sounds more like the haters in this thread hate the Tool fans more than the band. Most of the big time Tool fans are idiots who try to decode every song and see hidden messages or other annoying things. To me, the band doesn't seem full of themselves, so instead they try to avoid attention, but people like you guys take that as them trying to bring attention to themselves. It sounds like you guys are trying to not like Tool rather than you just not liking their music.
BDTR
TOOL Roll Call (Nokia Theater Dec. 10) 
Mouth of Empty Praise!!! 
