Bonnaroo 2021 Lineup Discussion Thread

Things probably won't change too much. Since they start the 2nd leg of their tour tonight, I'm excited to see if they changed anything up. 

I haven't even gotten through it all, and it's been out for months.  People love Lateralus for good reason - that came out in the early/mid 2000's.  Tool usually takes a long ass time between albums, so there are large gaps.  There's a couple albums before Lateralus going back to their first album Undertow (Prison Sex, Sober, etc.) which came out in 1993 (saw them on the traveling Lollapalooza tour that year).  At least check out the rock videos for those two if you don't get around to listening to the whole album.

Then there was AEnima which came out in 1996 which I always thought was a masterpiece.  Stinkfist, Forty Six & 2, Hooker with a Penis, Useful Idiot, Eggs of Satan, Third Eye and all off that.

Many of those songs have super tripped out videos with crazy ass stop-motion animation (most of it created by Adam Jones - guitarist) and mystical artwork that became the groundwork for much of their graphical content live.  They worked a lot with Alex and Allyson Grey who are frequent collaborators with Tipper, Shpongle and others - it's a lot of 3rd Eye, mystical, patterned imagery.

Make sure to check some of that out in the video format because that's part of what separated Tool from many other acts as Grunge was trending into Alternative.

Listening to the live Giz stuff and I thought it was funny how they referred to a song from 2014 as an 'old song.' Hot Water was one of my favorites from their 2015 Roo performance since Stu busted out the rock flute, but it sounds like they bring out a guest fluter these days

Yeah I haven't seen them play it since 2016. I'm really hoping they put it in the set list for this next turn of shows or the Bonnaroo set. It may be my favorite song of theirs at the moment.

Also it would be really cool to get the No Quarter cover.

Jaz

Thanks for the dets, going to dive into some videos soon. Probably going to listen to Fear Inoculum one more time before moving on to another album. If i get to see Tipper , Rtj, Tool, and Detox Unit in a day we cooking.

Tool won't drop this because Tool, but if they did it would really blow people away.



Check out Salival if you want an idea of what their live music sounds like. Lots of old tracks they don't play (or rotate) on there, though.

seen Tool twice and have seen the No Quarter cover, I pray we get it at Roo but good luck. I surprisingly haven’t heard The Pot yet even though they play it quite often. And I’ve heard Descending twice now but only as the instrumental before the album, so I wonder if I finally get to hear the song. Really hope they play a rare one of either Right In Two, Lateralus, or Sober.

got to hear them open with this at Voodoo in 2016 and this was probably the most intense I’ve ever seen a crowd at the start of a show.

ugh I would love to hear Rosetta Stoned but I’m not getting my hopes up for it. His vocals in the beginning live where he like mumbles all that stuff would be amazing to witness.

Don't plan on Tool play anything that they haven't been playing on tour. The only hope we have right now is they're about to play in Nashville. So maybe coming back so soon they'll mix it up more.

They're the one act that can really get away with it due to the usually insane stage production.  I'll never forget the second time I saw them which was opening night of 2010 (best show I saw that year) at UNO and they had all the moving screens on tracks that were re-situated every couple of songs.  That tour basically had them in front of a projection stage where the videos were going off while they played.  That got some knocks from people, but I thought that with the moving screens and artwork, it would have been really hard for them to change that much up.  Then the 2016 tour which we caught in Pensacola and New Orleans where the video production opened up/unfolded/expanded as the show went on, and that would have been nearly impossible to choreograph for different shows.  They probably could have done different encores I guess, but the way the whole thing was mechanized for the show made it hard to do.  Incidentally we saw them 3 times that year including the Voodoo show dblood referenced.  The tour setlist was close to Voodoo's but  but they replaced Third Eye for No Quarter as the opener giving you a little bit of a change <-- to sang's point.

first of all, god i hate the pot. mostly cuz it's overplayed on the radio and all of their songs are better than that

parabol>parabola is fucking incredilbe

salival, the whole album is so damn good

they start their new sets with a really cool string setup our in front of them that they project on, you'll see it when you see em

here's a decent live set you can watch on youtube

lol I was gonna quote some it too but thanks for the whole thing, need to hear this live.