Publication: Metro
Date: June, 2001
Transcribed by
David M. (kingofpain@btinternet.com)
David M. (kingofpain@btinternet.com)
page: 19 title: Gig - Tool author: Darren Hickey Friday, June 8, 2001 Tonight, Barrowland, Glasgow, 7:30pm, £12.50. www.toolband.com Although Tool's work has been compared to the ambitious song structures favoured by Pink Floyd and the colossal power of Rage Against The Machine, what the LA band also possess is the focus that the former lacked and a depth never attained by the latter. Perhaps these mixed messages say simply that no other band comes close. The term 'nu-metal' may even be used, but this belittles and even insults the band. There are few similarities between Tool and the risible likes of Limp Bizkit. Where Bizkit frontman Fred Durst strikes poses and shouts about breaking stuff, Tool have a singer whose presence has been compared, by those who have seen both, to Kurt Cobain. The 'Reverend' Maynard James Keenan is not a physically intimidating man, but his evangelical performance feeds, and feeds off, the crowd. Live, Tool are unforgettable, as anyone who saw them at Ozzfest will testify. Their UK tour proper commences at Barrowland tonight then returns to London via Manchester. Expect several tracks from their recent release, Lateralus, backed up with frankly disturbing visuals, and new versions of tracks from their previous three albums. If there's a band out there performing better songs about serial killers, the apocalyptic destruction of Los Angeles, and the mathematical beauty of chaos theory, I haven't heard them. Get your fix, before Tool become truly massive and while they are still awesome.
Posted to t.d.n: 06/10/01 14:18:27