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06-01-2007, 11:07 AM
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For the past year or two, it seems almost every (originals) band we've played shows with sounds like a Tool rip off...I'm talkin' nailing the style to an absolute tee, you'd think it's a cover band.
Even another band we're friends with, we recently got together for dinner/beers/bs, and they've mentioned that observation too.
If you ask the club staff who's playing on the weekend, they'll jokingly say; tool, tool, and tool. 
I always wondered, why now? Tool has been around since the early 90's, why all of a sudden bands sound like them now?
I really liked Tool in the 90's, but lately especially with this, it's all getting old.
How about your area.... |
06-01-2007, 11:18 AM
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Non-Stereotypical GC Sales/Training Manager...No more selling :( | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: NY | | | They're becoming more and more mainstream cause people are finally waking up to their awesomeness heh :P
But yeah, their concerts are stated to be as good as a pink floyd show back in the day. Thus why i'm going next saturday to NJ! :] So people are inspired by them and do their best to copy it. Hey, Tool doesn't mind-- they like inspiring people and such.
I've been trying to pull together a Tool cover band for weeks now though ._.' |
06-01-2007, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Towson, MD/Seattle, WA | | | Man. Ever hear Earshot,dude?
Every song on their first album sounded like Maynard fronting a generic '00s hard rock/nu-metal band. |
06-01-2007, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | Not tool but a lot of bands in my town sound like My Chemical Romance... |
06-01-2007, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | | A lot of the bands in my town sound like crap. Even the seasoned vets sound the same. |
06-01-2007, 01:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | Perhaps they want to put people to sleep but don't have the patience for drone.
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06-01-2007, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by MaskedJackal  Man. Ever hear Earshot,dude?
Every song on their first album sounded like Maynard fronting a generic '00s hard rock/nu-metal band. | Yea, when I first heard them on the radio a little while back, I thought Tool had put out a new single...
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06-01-2007, 01:49 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Providence, RI | | our like..brother band sounds a lot like Tool. www.myspace.com/MindOfEin |
06-01-2007, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NY/MI | | | no one around us sounds like tool... everyone is trying to be HxC... except for us and one other band... and they sound like a generic alt/emo type band.
as for us, while cutting a demo our producer (Kirk McWhorter of Madhatter, Kilbrannon, and penny whiskey) compared us to a teenage Dream Theater... that was an interesting compliment
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06-01-2007, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by MaskedJackal Man. Ever hear Earshot,dude?
Every song on their first album sounded like Maynard fronting a generic '00s hard rock/nu-metal band. |
Yeah, I know who Earshot is....
Two and a half years ago, my drummer (at that time) got called up by the session player that laid the studio tracks for Earshot, we met and worked with him a few months before. My drummer was a shoe-in because of the high recommendation by the session player, but he was an idiot missed his meeting and blew the opportunity. |
06-01-2007, 05:13 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Tool has made it very difficult for anybody to do anything in odd time signatures or do anything "proggish" and not get accused of trying to rip them off. I personally have been accused of trying to rip off both Tool and Nine Inch Nails, even though I don't even really listen to either band. Why does this happen? Methinks it's because the general populace doesn't understand that bands like Tool and NIN didn't just appear out of a vacuum. Too many think that Tool is the most original band in the world, and refuse to acknowledge that perhaps they may have been strongly influenced by bands like King Crimson, Led Zepplin, etc.
That said, there are still too many fanboys out there who listen to nothing else but Tool, and therefore sound like them when they try to create music themselves. |
06-01-2007, 05:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Tool has made it very difficult for anybody to do anything in odd time signatures or do anything "proggish" and not get accused of trying to rip them off. I personally have been accused of trying to rip off both Tool and Nine Inch Nails, even though I don't even really listen to either band. Why does this happen? Methinks it's because the general populace doesn't understand that bands like Tool and NIN didn't just appear out of a vacuum. Too many think that Tool is the most original band in the world, and refuse to acknowledge that perhaps they may have been strongly influenced by bands like King Crimson, Led Zepplin, etc.
That said, there are still too many fanboys out there who listen to nothing else but Tool, and therefore sound like them when they try to create music themselves. | Yeah, basically if you have odd time signatures and switch beat often, your a tool ripoff. That and using effects. |
06-01-2007, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Ben nailed it.
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06-01-2007, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Space Ritual Ben nailed it. | I usually do. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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