at least 2 people have mentioned that i haven't talked about Tool in a while, so that's enough for me to go on:
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Tool starts the australasia tour in april. i would have liked to go to the april 12th show in Osaka, Japan, but work and other schedules conflict with flying over the pacific.
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the band also recently won a grammy for "best metal performance" for Schism. the acceptance speeches:
Danny: "I'd like to thank my parents for putting up with the cacophony I created for 15 or 20 years, Bientje, and Satan."
Justin: "I want to thank Alex Grey for doing our artwork and my mom for doing my dad."
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LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Tool's opinions do not reflect those of the producers of deftone.com, who don't consider the Grammy an award at all.
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Tool has a wicked sense of humour, which is often lost on a great many of stupid people. i'm sure many attendees where aghast over the Satan nod. i on the other hand, laughed. some other quips from front man Maynard James Keenan:
Maynard, when asked what he thought about Fred Durst being such a fan of Tool:
"if the lunch-lady in high school hits on you, you appreciate the compliment, but you're not really gonna start dating the lunch-lady, are ya?"
Maynard on touring with King Crimson at the Seattle show:
"it's an honor being able to play with King Crimson this tour. being able to play with King Crimson is like Lenny Kravitz being able to play with Led Zeppelin or Britney Spears being able to play with Debbie Gibson. i'm a big Debbie Gibson fan. not so much a Britney fan though. more of a Christina fan. trailer trash...mascara..."
Maynard on form, frequencey and spiritual concepts:
"Having a background in science, anyone will tell you that everything pretty much is light. Form and frequency, quantum physics and the fact that humans are made up of bits of matter (light), at this level, particles neither come into nor go out of existence, and at that level we are eternal. And although pain operates at one level, there is no pain at the underlying level of matter. People operate at different levels. Does that make any sense? These are huge, lofty spiritual concepts. Keith Richards is still walking around, doesn't that prove something?"
