Music: METAL!!! \m/

[Uchiha Barles]

Originally posted by: shadowmantis
oh, i was listening to tool before you were born. i have everything tool and apc put out, even salival. i hate how maynard acts and what kind of fans he attracts. carey is the finest drummer i've heard, and jones may not be the best guitarist in the world, but he sure makes interesting noises. tool is great, but if you know more than 'maynard is the lead singer' about them, you'd know that he sucks donkey cock. i hate that bastard and his fanboys [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img] you know, those guys at concerts that scream "MAYNAAARD YEAAAAH!!! MAAAYNAAARD"

Since before I was born...heh, alright then. Truth be told, so long as he's personable enough to keep both tool and APC going with the core members, I honestly don't care that he's an asshole. I just want more good music to come out from them. I'll admit that Tool does attract some pretty arrogant fans though.

[shadowmantis]

apc core members? lol, apc exchanged more members than your regular NBA team. i used to love them, actually, when they had that 'garage band' feeling on 'mer de noms'. it was so raw and it didn't seem like they were really going for a market or anything. total anti pop stuff, songs like 'rose' and 'magdalena', and vocal virtuosity, like 'orestes'. then they made 'thirteenth step' and the half assed clip for 'the outsider', which might as well have been a limp bizkit song. m-daddy keeps accepting intervews and all, and then he talks about how he hates doing it. just sometimes, he'll do a decent one. i kinda started to dislike him because of 'the thirteenth step'.

as for adam jones, i thought the intro to 'eulogy' was hella boring [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img] didn't carey do that off his digital thingie? anyway, i love the guitar work in 'parabola' and 'lateralis' (or lateralus, depends on the album version). also, 'triad' and 'pushit' have interesting riffs.

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just remembered a nice old school guitar shredding 'jerk off', that's a nice tune.

[Uchiha Barles]

Hah! Fine, by core members I mean founding members, and for APC, that's Maynard and Billy. I heard Billy had some disagreements with Maynard over the last album, but so long as they all play nice...

As for "The Thirteenth Step" sound, I listened to it and it most definately isn't an easy listen, short of the outsider, and I liked the song. Sounded NOTHING like limp bizkit. Can't believe you equated APC to shit like that. I didn't see the video for outsider since I don't usually watch television. I also don't know anything about "m-daddy" accepting interviews. I'm gonna say it's to promote APC, not on his account, but on the account of the other band members. Maybe helping out their careers seeing as his is already established.

[shadowmantis]

please, why would ex marilyn manson and smashing pumpkins members need career boosts [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Uchiha Barles]

James and twiggy, heh, forgot about them. Ok, I don't know why he's accepting the interviews. Still don't care. So long as the music isn't affected, in my opinion, it hasn't sp far.

[r3n]

as far as i see it, APC is maynards commercial endeavour. hence the interviews. with tool the main message maynard sends out is that ppl shud think for themselves, and NOT idolise him. this is why he has no lighting on him at concerts and never gives interviews when in Tool.

however he has no lighting on him at APC gigs and yet he still publices the fact that hes in the band through interviews (namely kerrang etc). so i dont get that bit. but i jst like the band cos of the music not cos of maynard anyways, truth be told i liked APC a lot when their first album came out but although their 2nd album was a bit disapointing it still had some strong tracks on it. anyway, im jst happy they finally toured scotland so i could go see em. jst waiting for Tool to come back here now (give it another couple of years!)

as for Tool's future i think maynard is either releasing 1 more album with APC or is going straight back to Tool, so i expect some new stuff from Tool soonish.

and as the music style goes, from what i can tell they change it every album changing with current general tastes in music. you can easily see this in the progression from aenima to lateralus. and this is also evident in the artwork too. clever selling strategy if nothing less

[shadowmantis]

new tool album is almost done, yeah. i think they're gonna stop with apc, though. so much turbulence there. billy's either gonna get a girl singer (his original idea) or make another album to honor the contract, and call it quits.

[Swallow Your Soul]

Originally posted by: Uchiha Barles
James and twiggy, heh, forgot about them. Ok, I don't know why he's accepting the interviews. Still don't care. So long as the music isn't affected, in my opinion, it hasn't sp far.

Are there any songs that Twiggz worked on that someone could recommend? I was a fan of his when he was with MM (my second favourite bass player behind Takeshi Ueda) but I know fuck all about Perfect Circle (I heard a couple of songs but they sounded kinda more bland than what I'd normally listen to).

[r3n]

get their 1st album, its damn good (mer de noms). 2nd album is a bit "bland" as you would put it, in some parts. judith etc arent exactly bland songs [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]