From: (bfl100z@mail.odu.edu)

I recently attended the Dec. 6 show at Grady Cole in Charlotte, North 
Carolina. Tool played along with the opening band Psychotica (spelling?). 


I had seen Psychotica play before, and they were equally as terrible. The 
acoustics in the Grady Cole gymnasium were terrible, and the volume 
appeared to be turned up a little loud. The high shrieks of the guy 
dressed in the grey condom and the girl\boy with horn hair made my ears 
bleed. My hearing was so screwed up by psychotica, by the time tool got 
around to playing, everything was distorted. I sat above the floor to 
better hear the music, and when tool come out, the place went crazy. I 
particularly enjoyed the opening rumble and movie projectors showing the 
square on fire. Tool overall sounded as good as possible when playing in 
a lunch box type enviornment. I could still understand maynards words of 
wisdom. I thought the body paint and strage dancing of maynard was a nice 
touch. Highlights were Stinkfist, Eulogy, Prison Sex with it's extra 
verse, Sober with it's extra long intro, and of course opiate and the 
sing along section. I was glad to hear opiate, because i thought they 
wouldn't play anything from the first album. Overall it was a good show 
under the acoustic circumstances and opening band catastrophe. 

Ben Lieb