- old news: may - july 1998 - |
[7/18/98] - Agh; sucked.down.net looks to be nonfunctional again. Jeff
(the guy who runs it) is having some kind of problem, and until it gets
fixed, there's nothing to do but be patient and read tour reviews.
It does appear that "Eulogy" has gone to radio stations as the fifth
single off "Ænima", whether or not a video is forthcoming remains to
be seen.
This site is mentioned in an article in
this week's Village Voice; it would say more but I couldn't contact
the author in time.
[7/16/98] - At last, sucked.down.net is back online, all the MP3's and
images should work now, though it may take a few days for the DNS changes
to propagate. Apologies to all (those with good and bad attitudes
alike) for the technical problems, though there was really nothing I
could do.
Tour info has been cleaned up a bit more, as have most of the reviews (can
you tell I almost have net access again?).
[7/13/98] - The MP3's and the menu images, all of which live on the machine sucked.down.net, should be back with us soon; the server is moving to a new IP address (it will still be called sucked.down.net) and should be working soon.
[7/11/98] - Tour reviews have been flowing in; be sure to check them out,
they are really the most up-to-the-minute Tool info available.
I'm still without regular access to email, but any day now this move to LA
will be mostly completed (luckily my sublet-roommate Julio works in a
computer lab at UCLA). The main problem with not having email access, of
course, is that I still can't post Shane's shiny new discography. That's
my fault, not his. For once, don't blame the Canadians.
It seems that for some reason, the menu images and the MP3's are
still not working. Jeff says he's working on them. That server should be
back online soon. I hope.
Lastly, wish a happy birthday to t.d.n conspirator Jennifer Gaugler
(jenga@down.net), and
thanks as well for keeping an eye on the site while I'm without email.
[7/3/98] - Now that the tour has started, with any luck the Tour reviews
will be working by today. Last-minute corrections are still being made to
the list of dates, so if you notice an error, kick my ass into shape about
it.
A new discography really is going to be up soon; Shane finished it weeks
ago but I haven't been able to put it up yet.
And menu images are still not loading off sucked.down.net; he's still
working on the net connection.
[7/1/98] - Happy July! It looks like sucked.down.net is in fact not
currently working (agh), which explains the menu images at left not
loading. Jeff (the guy who runs it) has been notified, so it should be
back up soon. He was out of the country when his connection went sick.
I'm on the road right now to LA, should be arriving early next week.
Meantime, start posting reviews for shows and keep your fingers
crossed that things don't break around here.
[6/19/98] - So it is official: I am moving to LA. Ugh. Anyhow, this is keeping me very busy, so I'm temporarily disabling Feedback until I get all set up over there. West Coast tour dates got a little inaccurate, we're working on fixing them up. It's almost Tour time again...
[6/9/98] - Yep, working is keeping me way busy. But yes, the Tool
Newsletter actually came out again, updating us all with tour dates and a
plug for their site and
this one.
Thanks to Boink (boink@tig.com.au) for the news that 3 Tool
songs made the JJJ Top 100 of All Time Countdown ("Forty-Six & 2" was #57
"Sober" was #48, "Stinkfist" was #23). And thanks again to Boink for the
info that Danny Carey was voted Best Hard Rock Drummer in the 1998 Modern
Drummer Readers Poll.
James (balasall@colorado.edu) brings this to class: this
site was mentioned on the radio on June 2 in Boston. Apparently 104.1
WBCN, 101.7
WFNX, and 107.3 WAAF all mentioned us on the same day. On June 5 CFNY
radio in Toronto (102.1) was playing Tori Amos, and the host mentioned the
MP3 available here, calling t.d.n "a great resource for Tool fans." Guess
that Tori and Maynard MP3 got a lot of publicity. And I meant to post it
last year. Told you the site was bugged.
And by the way, I was just kidding about the Mormons. I didn't think any
Utah folk would get upset by a little Mormon humor.
[6/1/98] - Happy June! Rich (seether@innocent.com) noticed
that www.rocknews.com
had a
blurb in Saturday's news about this site. "Tool Time: A resourceful fan
has put up an MP3 file of Tori Amos performing Boys for Pele's 'Muhammad
My Friend' with Tool singer Maynard James Keenan at a 1997 RAINN benefit.
Amos once complimented Keenan on his baking prowess." If only they knew
how long it took to put up.
But it's still fairly impressive that they posted that news the day it
happened. Someone must have this site bugged.
You won't believe this, but seven (yes, six and one more) people from Utah
mailed me to correct the typo in the name of the venue in Salt Lake City.
And we all thought Mormons didn't like Tool.
[5/30/98] - A chunk of new dates have wound up on the Tour page (at last
-- being part of the working world is an interesting thing). The Spring
1998 Tour info finally got moved out to its own little page, as well.
And would you believe it, after a year of promising, the Tori-Maynard duet
is finally linked from the Audio section. Whew.
[5/22/98] - More non-Ozzfest dates are trickling in, check the Tour section for the latest. Thanks to all who mail in info for keeping me on my toes.
[5/17/98] - Away from email for a few days, and look what happens. Hope
all of you in St Louis, Maine, and Kansas heard that your tickets went on
sale this weekend, moved up somewhat last minute. Sorry if you got caught
off-guard. As previously mentioned, there will be a bunch of non-Ozz
shows this summer as well; the first to go on sale is in Maine on July 8
(though flyers got passed around saying August 8). That confusion
notwithstanding, the Tour section is back up to snuff. And I thought I
could take a quick vacation.
Danny's birthday was this past Sunday, so wish him a happy birthday in
your hearts. Or don't.
[5/10/98] - Sean Chambers (bchamber@interlog.com) informs
me that the
last News item about t.d.n being mentioned as official in Hit Parader
was wrong; it was actually in Circus Magazine. I'd say thanks, but he
gave me the wrong info in the first place ...
Danny Carey is playing at Modern Drummer's annual "Drum Weekend" on
Saturday May 16 (the event also runs on the 17th) at Montclair State
University in New Jersey. Check out the current issue of Modern Drummer
for more info.
[5/5/98] - You might notice some trouble with the menu images (if we're
lucky, you won't), since they all just moved over to sucked.down.net to
ease the load on this machine. Let me know if anything funky happens.
In addition to the 18 Ozzfest dates this summer, Tool will be playing 4
shows of their own interspersed, as well as a bunch of shows after leaving
Ozzfest. Keep an eye out for info.
This month's Hit Parader magazine not only includes a writeup of this
site, but it goes so far as to say that The Tool Page is in fact official.
Neato.