Show: November 30, 1996 Toronto, Ontario 
The Warehouse

Reviewed by: Mr. Punch (mrpunch@interlog.com) 


Well, here is another Tool Concert Review. This show occurred on November 
30, 1996 at the Warehouse in Toronto. 
Well, we start off with the opening band, Psychotica. The lead singer 
came out wearing a white latex body-suit with neon painted around his 
eyes. Every time that there was a black light, it looked as if he was 
wearing a neon visor. Anyhow, the first song that they performed was 
okay, but the rest of the show pretty much sucked. 
It took quite a long while before Tool arrived on-stage and a lot of 
people were getting restless. Amidst shouts of, "Get on with it!" and 
"Let's get going, now!" the wait was quite hard. I was standing right 
next to the mixing-area and knew when Tool was to perform because I could 
see the person in charge of the lights get ready. When Tool finally 
arrived, the crowd was in an uproar. 
Adam Jones came out painted completely blue from head to toe while 
Maynard came out painted half blue. It made him look about as strange as 
one of the Tool videos.
The set-list was as follows (may vary slightly): 

Third Eye
Stinkfist
Forty-Six & 2
Cold & Ugly
Eulogy
Pushit
Prison Sex
H.
Sober
Opiate
Aenema

Total time: Approx. 1.5 hours.

The first song that they played was the very long, Third Eye. Maynard's 
voice was slightly higher than normal, but otherwise quite good. I 
attribute this to a cold. On numerous occasions, coughing was heard from 
an on-stage mike.
Stinkfist was the first song that really got the crowd going. The 
mosh-pit had grown in size and there were many people who got into the 
music. Really good.
Forty Six and Two was also very well performed. The background 
projections were fabulous. During this particular song, the projections 
were computer-generated gears. Very nice touch. The crowd, however, had 
settled down a bit after Stinkfist and were not very energetic. 
Cold and Ugly was one song that I didn't expect to hear. This song got 
the crowd going again.
Eulogy was another song that had a great response from the crowd at 
first, but later faltered because of it's length. The crowd appeared 
"tired" and disinterested. The same went for Pushit (the next song). 
Pushit, however, had very interesting projections of elephants and llamas 
mating.
Prison Sex began with Maynard mentioning that he "didn't want to open old 
wounds." He was referring to the refusal of Much Music to play the Prison 
Sex video. He stated that the song was about understanding abuse and 
acknowledging it. This was a definite crowd-pleaser; the crowd was really 
into this one. The video was projected onto the two screens and the song 
went on without a hitch.
H. was my friend's favourite song, so he was quite excited on hearing 
this one.
The beginning of Sober was LONG! It started right after H. was finished 
and lasted for a good 13 minutes. The first 7 or so were strictly drums. 
It was somewhat of a drum solo, but the bass and guitar added their 
respective distortion sounds as accompaniment. Again, the Sober video was 
projected onto the screens behind the band. 
Opiate was the second of two songs from the Opiate EP. This was also a 
song that I didn't expect to hear, but was pleasantly surprised by its 
addition. The song was dead on and the only thing missing was the phone 
ringing in the background.
After the completion on Opiate, the band huddled together and decided 
that they play one more song. The song that they played was Aenema and 
Maynard mentioned that it is not a song about the Apocalypse, but rather 
a song about "jumping into the pool of the subconscious." This is on of 
my personal faves and therefore I enjoyed this one very much. Once it was 
over, the lights went on quickly and the people started to leave. 
What I found in this particular concert was that the crowd was not very 
energetic. There were approximately no more than three body-surfers at a 
time and those only occurred during Stinkfist and Prison Sex. The small 
mosh-pit area was pretty much the only energetic part of the whole 
Warehouse. While looking around on several occasions, the crowd looked as 
if they were watching a movie rather than one of the best bands of the 
90s.
In general, the band was excellent. I thought that the band members were 
really together and knew exactly what the other person was thinking. The 
only thing that could have made this concert phenomenal would have been a 
better crowd.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail me. 
Thanks for taking the time to read my review.