Re: My TOOL-Tribute Band – Live gig footage!

Hey Guys, 🙂

On behalf of my bandmates in ToolFist, I thank you for your kind compliments! 😉

We know that we are far from perfect! (LOL!) However, we do admit to rehearsing regularly and diligently, because “focused-repetition” (IE: Band Practice!) is the only way we know how to maintain a decent level of competence! 😎

Another point to remember is that the song posted here (Sober) is an older song (from 1993’s “Undertow” LP!) While Tool was starting to establish there eventual “heavy-progressive-art-metal” style at that time, they certainly had NOT arrived in terms of having fully developed their individual and collective “chops & styles” yet!
This song (“Sober”) and most other Tool songs from that “era” are much more straight-ahead and not nearly as polyrhythmic by nature! By contrast, consider the song “Jambi” from their most-recent LP, 2006’s “10,000 Days.” Jambi is based-around a “difficult-to-groove muted pulloff riff in 9/8 time-signature!!!” Add to that the fact that the drums & bass are independently applying polyrhythmic grroves of their own that are NOT rhythmically consonant with the guitars (thus the Polyrhythms!!!) 😮
WOW! Maybe if I am sussessful in getting some of that new video-footage I mentioned in a few weeks, I can include a couple of those more progressive newer songs, OK! 😎

BTW, if anyones interested, here’s the live-rig that I use to try re-creating Adam Jones/Tool’s guitar soundscape:

– 2007 Gibson Silverburst Les Paul Custom Classic (retrofit w/Duncan JB in Bridge)
– 2006 Gibson Desertburst Les Paul Standard (retrofit w/Duncan JB in Bridge)
– Hughes & Kettner Access MIDI Programmable Preamp
– Hughes & Kettner VS-250 Stereo All-Tube EL84-Based Power Amp
– Marshall 1960A 4×12 Cab
– Rocktron Replifex
– Rocktron Intellifex
– Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Controller
– Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah-Wah Pedal
– Rocktron Banshee Talkbox
– Korg Pitch-Black Chromatic Stage Tuner
– SKB Rack
– D’Addario XL115’s (.011 – .049) Strings
– Dunlop Glass Slides
– Ibanez Rubber-Grip Heavy Guage Picks

OK, well that’s about it! Let me know what you think or if you have any questions, OK?!? 😉

~Bill Meehan~ 😀