Tool/Lateralus

[Boplicity]

Those of you who have heard the album, which song do you think Tool will use as their first single and first video? I've read postive comments about "Grudge."

[Zjarrett]

Ive been hearing schism on the radio for about 2 weeks here in NOcal

[Nomadic Herder]

Here near Boston, Ive heard Schism and Parabola on the radio.

[seamus]

They've been playing Schism here on the heavier local station, but not much else yet.

[melvin]

schism is gonna be the first video. i was watching mtv and they had a tool comercial and on the bottem of the screen it said schism monday @ 11:00 or something like that. if i see it again ill post the exact thing it says

[oddentity]

Well, I was lucky enough to see Tool at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC on Sunday night!!!

I don't remember the setlist verbatim, but they opened with The Grudge (my personal fave off the new disc), and other songs included 46 & 2, Stinkfist, Parabol, Parabola, Schism, Opiate... I don't know the names of the others offhand but I recognized a few more from the new album. It was about 110 minutes all told. There was a brief intermission in the middle, during which they showed the video for Schism on the large video screen behind the stage. It was incredible- people in strange costumes doing weird things to each other. You know, a typical Tool video ... Somewhat reminiscent of the art of H.R. Giger.

The show was incredible. The band was tight as hell, the crowd was WAY into it, and the visuals were amazing. There was a huge video screen above the stage, and a smaller one to the lower left-- Maynard stood in front of the small one the whole time, which made for a neat silhouette effect.

However, I must say that the mix SUCKED. It was all mud; the vocals were muffled; and the distrorted guitars and bass blended in with the kick and toms far too much. It was all "boomy". This was my first time at the Hammerstein and I was not impressed with the sound at all.

Oh, and the intro was funny as hell... David Cross and Bob Odenkirk from HBO's Mr. Show introduced the band. And Maynard talked up the Mr. Show movie, Run Ronny Run, in between songs...

[Bassr64]

You are one of the lucky. I'm hoping to see them later in the year and just can't wait.

[oddentity]

Originally posted by Bassr64
You are one of the lucky. I'm hoping to see them later in the year and just can't wait.

This was my first time seeing them... now I can't wait to see them again! And since King Crimson is supposed to be touring with them, it should be an INCREDIBLE tour...