A Review of the Fall 1996 Tour

Date: December 11


From: coffeec@ix.netcom.com Subject: A review of the orlando show Hey The Orlando, Fl show at the UCF arena was by far the best show i have ever been to. If you had the chance to go and did not go then you realy missed an awsome experiance. The opening band however (Phycotica) realy sucked. They were the worst band i have ever seen that has opend for any of the shows i have been to. The general reaction of the crowd was basicly all of them just standing around bobing their heads to the beat of the drumer. The sad thing about them was that i think the drumer was the only one actualy playing. I play bass and i can tell you the riffs this guy was playing was not done using a pick. I have been playing for three years now and i can tell if someone is playing with a pick or using slap and pluck. The Gitarust never even faced the crowed, and the singers didn't look or sound like they were in sink with each other. One would be singing and it would sound like a guy and a girl, or they were both singing and it would sound just like they guy by himself. Last they had absoulutly no stage presentce. They mostly just stood around and looked stupid. When they finaly got off the stage the rodes came out and reveled the drum set for tool, it made the other band's set look like a toy's R us special. They started the show with a LOUD bass rumble, and the animated cover in the backround, finaly all the lights went out Tool came on stage, and the place went nuts. They opened with Third eye, went on to Stink Fist, 46&2 , Eulogy, Undertow, H., Sober, Prison Sex, Hooker with a penis, Opiate, and closed with Aenima. The hole time they played they had these wired things going on the screan in the backround. Maynard was also realy into his music which is rare with big bands. In general words realy can't explain the way most of the people felt when the show was over, it was just so damed awsome. I kown that because of that show i can never listen to Tool the same way again, Maynard realy put out some strong messages to the crowed. There were only three bad things the hole time. One Phycotica, they just blew, two all of the dumb ass people who Tool is totaly against but were there(like freaks from L.A.) and the dumb ass people that were starting fights in the pit and would not let you enjoy TooL the way it is supose to be. There were so many freakes there some guy showed up with a 501's tee shit and did not even know about the phrase from Hooker with a penis. Every TooL fan was hoping Maynard would point him out in that song. I hope you get a lot of info from this review even though it does kinda suck, and i realy cant say much more for TooL other than they were the best band i have ever heard or seen. Justin Coffee, Florida.