Went to my first concert on sunday and thankfully it was one of my favourite bands Tool. They sound amazing live and Maynards voice doesn\'t let down.
The opening band got boo\'d pretty bad...but they deserved it. They just sounded terrible, they were trying to do feedback with the instruments and it was just really bad. I don\'t even remember thier name.
Eventually Tool hit the stage and the noise was deafening as they opened up with The Pot. They had a weird triangle / pyramid thing with eyes. An optical illusion that wherever you were standing the eyes would look at you. The music started and didn\'t stop, even when they were changing instruments or settings on the amps there was always someone playing something. In fact there was probably more solos than singing but the solos were fantastic so I can\'t complain.
You never ever saw Maynard either, he was a silhouette for the whole show standing on a higher platform in the background while the rest of the band was in the foreground. He came into the light at the end when they came back for an encore but he had a big cowboy hat on so you couldn\'t see his face.
Almost the entire set was songs from 10,000 Days and very few songs from older albums. No sober, or parabola but they did play schism which was awesome. They had lots of nice things to say about Canada, but I assume they say stuff like that at every show. Maynard did mention that his favourite places to play are Canada and Australia.
I didn\'t have the balls to jump in the pit so maybe next time. Overall my concert experience was a 10 out of 10. As soon as the lights went down and they started playing The Pot, before the song was over all you could smell was marijuana throughout the stadium, it really was like something out of the movies. Random people passing joints throughout the audience, people standing up waving their lighters in the air.
They didn\'t allow cameras or anything like that in so I couldn\'t get any pictures for you guys
But I figured i\'d share my experience with you guys and to say to any Tool fan to definately check them out live. You will not be dissapointed.
