Some would argue, in 1993 we weren’t even worthy. ' You’re dancing in quicksand,' sang frontman Maynard James Keenan on the aptly-titled Swamp Song. ' You’re wading knee deep and going in, and you may never come back again…' To catch listeners off-guard and utterly consume them was the aim. I hope it suck, I hope it suck, I hope it sucks you fcker, I hope it suck, I hope it suck, I hope it sucks you down.
Maynard wanted this music to have that feel of standing in the surf being pulled under and out. As it took hold, it would change everything – not as some revolutionary riptide, but the subliminal Undertow after which the band’s debut LP was titled. I just tried submitting Swamp Song in a self post/ask reddit as What song releves your anger, yet calms you down AND it was shot down. It helped that no-one knew what to make of this quartet of misfits coming out of La-La Land. None, it seemed, were interested in the skin-deep sheen on which the city had built its reputation.
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Having studied visual arts in Michigan, Maynard found work remodelling pet stores – and infamously lived with a menagerie of animals – before becoming a movie set-designer. Make sure to focus on your dynamics between the different parts. Guitarist Adam Jones had fared more successfully, with VFX credits on all-time great blockbusters like Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Jurassic Park. In this weeks ToolTuesday we take a look at the breakdown section of Swamp Song. Drummer Danny Carey lived above Maynard and was apparently introduced to Adam – as chance would have it – by Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, with whom the guitarist had attended Libertyville High School and performed in formative project Electric Sheep. Legend has it he only agreed to jam with the band out of pity – other potential collaborators having simply failed to show up. The line-up was completed by converted six-stringer Paul D’Amour on bass. They initially refused to acknowledge even these simple truths. Rejecting initial band-name Tool Shed, the band toyed with a narrative where they had been brought together by the pseudophilosophy ‘lachrymology’ – the science of crying as therapy – even citing Ronald P. Vincent’s 1949 volume The Joyful Guide To Lachrymology. It was all, of course, a hoax.Įven when music had started to emerge on 1991 demo tape 72826 (which featured early incarnations of Sober and Crawl Away) and 1992’s Opiate EP, record execs struggled to label these strange, unruly sounds. Were they metal? Industrial? Grunge? As trends rose and fell, they were labelled as each and all of the above. In truth, they were something else entirely.įor emergent outfits, that sort of obstinate mystery can be something of a gamble. Still, Tool insisted the music do the talking. Paired to the sounds they were generating, it felt like a natural fit.Īp– Undertow’s release – would see matters begin to come into focus.
This bog is think and easy to get lost in.cause youre a dumb and belligerent *****er.cause youre a stupid, belligerent *****er.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in.Why dont you watch where youre stumbling?.Why dont you watch where youre wandering?.
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