From: benoitb@citenet.net (Benoit Breton)
Subject: Tool show in Montreal


Well, first of all, a big hello to all of you Tool fans surfing the net. 
Kabir, your page is great.
The show was supposed to take place at The Medley but was transferred at 
The Metropolis. My friend and I arrived some 30 minutes before showtime, 
and we headed for the bar, but no drinks allowed folks; this show was an 
all age show. As people kept coming in, the place got really hot, much 
too hot in fact for a cool night of November in frisky Montreal. By nine 
o'clock the pit was full and ready to rock. Psychotica was the guest 
artist.
During their set, which lasted approximately 40 minutes, I felt like a 
guest to, but a guest than wasn't invited... Can someone tell me why do 
we have to always suffer through those first acts? To get the crowd ready 
for the main event? Tool could have hit the stage aroud 9h30 and played 
30 minutes more and everybody would have been quite happy.
But no... We don't do this anymore. Hey! I'm old enough to have seen 
Genesis perform The Lamb Lies Down WITH Peter Gabriel, and they didn't 
need a first act to get the crowd excited. So here comes Psychotica. 
Things that come must also go. So, there goes Psychotica.
So here comes Tool.
I've been a fan of this band since the release of Undertow, and their 
latest CD is one of the best I've heard since Nirvana's In Utero. Went I 
went to the show I was really expecting the unexpected... I was in for a 
big surprise...
Folks! Don't read any of the concert reviews posted on The Tool Page! Not 
any one fo them! Kabir is right. Reading the reviews WILL reduce your 
pleasure of seeing Tool live.
Great musicians, great singer, absolutely astonishing drummer... but... 
Keenan's interaction with the crowd has nothing to do with spontaneity... 
We all know the show must go on, right? The Count-to-three-and-Yes thing; 
the This-is-our-last-song... of-our-first-record thing, the 
Faked-exit-after-Opiate thing and the Faked-meeting-after-the-Faked-exit 
thing, and the OK-we'll- play-a-last-song thing... Well, I would 
definitively have enjoyed the show a lot more if I didn't knew EXACTLY 
what they would play, in what order they would play it, and what they 
would EXACTLY say.
I won't put up a set list.
Drop a line if you come visit our charming city. 

Benoit Breton, living and kicking in Montreal Painter, writer, and 
translator
benoitb@citenet.net