Review written by: Terry Alan Martin (tam777@ameritech.net)
Review posted on: 07/19/97 06:25:04

Detroit. Lolla day 2. Is the bustier and mime makeup a standard for 
this tour, or just this city? Maynard tells the "little boys taking 
off their shirts" that they can stop "beating each other up in my 
name". They do not oblige. Monster renditions of Aenema, Hooker, 
Eulogy. The effects package used by Maynard would be a nice thing to 
see listed here somewhere. He has a fantastic command over his voice 
but his effects are like whoa dude. First I've seen Chancellor. He 
was good but too much pick. That's what God gave you fingers for. 
Devo was interesting as well. Latex, TAM






Review written by: James Wilson (THIRD-EYE@juno.com)
Review posted on: 07/17/97 16:11:53

It was a hot, sunny day at Lallapalooza (the 2nd date), bands on the 
2nd stage were really good (Eels, Artificial Joy Club, Summer Camp, 
etc.)Korn was pretty good. Then around 8:00 Snoop Doggy dogg was 
wrapping in up. At around 8:15 they started the Aenima graphics with 
smoke blowing on the stage. I'm a serious Tool fan, for me this was 
like heaven! Then the band got on stage. Danny was wearing like kaki 
shorts, with no shirt, Justin was wearing brown pants and the rest of 
him painted blue, Adam (my man!) was wearing black pants with a 
white, short sleeve dress shirt. And then there is Maynard, he was 
wearing spandex pants, platform shoes, an orange corset bra, and his 
face was painted like the drama mask thing, the top of his head was 
blue and he had like a fake pony tail in the back. They played an 
awsome show, they are even better live! They have that extra 
adreniline rush. They played: Third Eye, Stinkfist (*chicken weasel), 
Swamp Song, 46&2, Eulogy, Pushit (I didn't really expect them to play 
that one), Sober, Opiate-the song, and ended with Aenima-the song 
(with cool animation in the background)Maynard is a pretty good 
dancer, he said some cool stuff like "Who thinks I'm from Michigan?", 
 and a lot of people were moshing, and Maynard doesn't like it when 
the crowd moshes, so he said "Um, let's let the music speak for 
itself, it's not about killing each other!", I thought that was 
pretty cool. And before they played Opiate, Maynard said "This one's 
for the ladies!" ha ha. They were a great band to see live. It was a 
feeling I didn't want to end! They rocked!

James Wilson
http://members.tripod.com/~DefConOne/poop.html






Review written by: MiZ (Mizmuz762@aol.com)
Review posted on: 07/17/97 09:35:21

Tool's show was great.Before Tool went on stage Danny and Justin did a
radio interview with a local radio station 101.1 WRIF and they discussed
lolla and how it's going and how their record is doing.then a half an hour
later the show started. I think the set list went third
eye,stinkfist,forty six & two,swamp song,eulogy ,sober,pushit,opiate, and
Ênema.Maynard was dressed In a red bra and black pants his face was white
and he had a ponytail on too. Justin was painted Silver I think but you
couldn't really
 tell because of the lights. They sounded great.Maynard made a couple of
comments during the show. When he introduced swamp song he said this song
is about fighting for a parking space.Then later in their preformance Adam
asked how many people thought May nard was from Michigan. Then said, well
he's not, he's from Ohio. Just after they played eulogy Maynard said, As
much as I do like to see sweaty guys rubbing up against each other, we
aren't about hate and violence, maybe anger, but you guys can stop beat
ing the crap out of each other.If any of you little boys want to stay
around after the show I'll show you a different kind of violence. After
they played 2 more songs Maynard said, You have to excuse my emotinal
outburst earlier, it's because of the estro gen levels, as you all know I
am a recovering hermaphrodite. Maynard's voice sounded great and I thought
Adam played great as did Justin and Danny.When they played Ênema they also
played the video. Which was really cool, Maynard said the video was based
on Danny's Apocolypic dream. I liked the screen they had in the background
but their was some pretty graphic pictures. If you went you know what I
mean. But Tool was great and I cant wait to see them again. 
             
       
       







Review written by: John (jdigiac@tir.com)
Review posted on: 07/17/97 01:16:16

            "How many of you think Maynard is from Michigan?  Well hes
from Ohio."  The words of Adam ring loud as Maynard dances around the
stage. Beautiful show, less crowed.  Maynard made the same comment about
the "sweaty boys moshing" (which was good because I couldn't see with all
the dust around).  I tapped the whole show on a mini tape recorder.  If
anyone wants copys of the live songs, or of Maynard's speech to the crowd,
email me at jdigiac@tir.com.  All in all a great show.  Too bad Devo
played instead of Orbital... 







Review written by: ßoze (esaab@umich.com)
Review posted on: 07/17/97 00:03:43

lollapalooza: less crowded the second night
tool: perfection is perfected
             third eye
             stinkfist
             forty six & two
             swamp song
             eulogy
             sober
             pushit
             opiate
             Ênema
maynard: "as much as i like seeing shirtless, sweaty boys rubbing
   up against one another, we are not about violence... but if you 
   shirtless ones want to come backstage later i can show you a 
   different kind of violence."