Tool played in Hamilton, Onatio and I was there.
Tomahawk went on at 4pm I think. It might as well have been, you think you can get to a show at 8:30 and catch the opening act. Too bad, I really like that Tomahawk record.
Tool made my balls feel like tits. Not the best show I've been to, but it was still Tool, so therefore it still ruled. I think the negative vibes had as much to to do with the location. There are a lot more meat-heads in Hamilton than Toronto, and the stage wasn't high enough. I spent most of the night looking at heads as opposed to the band.
I'm not sure if it's intended, but they provide a way better visual presentation on the monitors than in person. This show had two huge screens showing very toolish images, be it puppetry, live action or computer generated, it all rocked and swayed with the music.
Maynard is an incredible front man, I've witnessed some incredible energy from him before. But his new position at the back of the stage facing the curtain, away from the audience, really moves your attention to the visuals. I have a feeling that's intentional. Tool has always been very concious of the visual aspect of the band as much as the audial. (word? i dont think so.)
They also rolled out massive banners very much like the artwork on the inside of Lateralus. They always combined the spiritual and the scientific in such strange and wonderful ways.
In the end, I was satisfied, and I'll see them again. And I don't say that about arena bands much anymore. If at all.
Tomahawk went on at 4pm I think. It might as well have been, you think you can get to a show at 8:30 and catch the opening act. Too bad, I really like that Tomahawk record.
Tool made my balls feel like tits. Not the best show I've been to, but it was still Tool, so therefore it still ruled. I think the negative vibes had as much to to do with the location. There are a lot more meat-heads in Hamilton than Toronto, and the stage wasn't high enough. I spent most of the night looking at heads as opposed to the band.
I'm not sure if it's intended, but they provide a way better visual presentation on the monitors than in person. This show had two huge screens showing very toolish images, be it puppetry, live action or computer generated, it all rocked and swayed with the music.
Maynard is an incredible front man, I've witnessed some incredible energy from him before. But his new position at the back of the stage facing the curtain, away from the audience, really moves your attention to the visuals. I have a feeling that's intentional. Tool has always been very concious of the visual aspect of the band as much as the audial. (word? i dont think so.)
They also rolled out massive banners very much like the artwork on the inside of Lateralus. They always combined the spiritual and the scientific in such strange and wonderful ways.
In the end, I was satisfied, and I'll see them again. And I don't say that about arena bands much anymore. If at all.
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Toronto is finally figuring itself out, but it may be too late to stop the hemmoraging from the outside. They just finished a new subway line to try and stop the single occupant cars from trucking in and out of the city in the North-East. And there's a high-speed street level train that will run along the lakeshore into the West that'll be done soon. But they have to address that once you leave the proper city of Toronto it's nothing but Highways and Strip malls. + those people aren't going to give up their cars.
Toronto has street cars, and they're my favorite mode of transportaion.
Did they ever build the subway line to the airport? I'd read that they stopped construction and filled the tunnel with cement.