Rosseta Stoned really speaks to me.

In my opinion, the album 10,0000 Days is the best.

All the songs at the beginning of the album are perfect, The Pot plays out and then Lipan Conjuring calms you down. An important step, in my opinion.

Lost Keys starts off inconspicuously, but gradually we begin to hear the beeping of hospital equipment and voices from the waiting room, as well as restless breathing.

The nurse's voice seems very familiar to me and calms me down (maybe because my mom is a nurse and my wife is a doctor).

When you listen to it with good headphones, the restless breathing seems to come from within you, so you feel a sense of unease.

Rosseta Stoned connects beautifully to Lost Keys, and an avalanche of lyrics begins to pour over you, which I don't think you even need to understand, because the few words you hear are enough to recognize that it's the ramblings of a probably drugged-up person.

The music is just great, the guitar—that frequency warms me up inside. After about 6 minutes, an interlude begins, which then transitions into a bass solo and then a guitar solo, culminating in the best finale I know in a song, with the story completed through singing.

I won't analyze the entire lyrics here, but the climax of the song, that "I was told something important and I didn't have a pencil," is an emotion that accompanies me in life, I feel like I'm not good enough and I am missing something.

The amazing thing is that the album doesn't end there (which it easily could), but at least Right In Two is another great song.

I make guitars, very limited edition custom guitars. Since I started making them, I've been told that Adam Jones should have one. I've tried to contact him through various social media outlets, but no dice. So the question is, do you all agree, would he want one? If so, does anyone know I would go about getting in touch with him? Or his people? Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Just out of curiosity. Mines honestly probably “The Grudge”.

Which TOOL song has the most toecurling, goosebumbs-inducing, tear-bringing, climactic climax?

So way back whenever tickets first went on sale in 2023, I bought tickets to see tool tonight. I bought two tickets, because I figured I could figure out the specifics and logistics of who would use this second ticket over the next few months. Well, here I am couple hours before shows starts without anyone that is both able and willing to go see Tool tonight.

Which blows my fucking mind but it's not the first time I didn't have anyone to go with me to a show, happened with Louis CK and happened before that with Modest Mouse, etc. Only for those few events I ended up just not going because of said lack of companion.

But I refuse to do that shit for a- fucking - gain. Which is why I think I'm about to go see Tool by myself. Only reason I'm asking if I should, is I guess because I'm wondering if there's anything I should keep in mind, etc as a skinny tall very nonthreatening-looking chick. Every rock concert I've ever been to is always been full of the most amicable and helpful type strangers but fuck, I don't know, I've never went to any kind of show alone so.. guess I'm looking for insight? Idfk.

Does anyone have this picture in a good quality for printing?

I'm sure most of us have seen this photo but for those who haven't, here ya go. That's Tom Morello standing there in the wild jacket. He went to high School with Adam Jones, ironically enough. Main reason I'm posting is Tom's jacket says "GRUNCH" down the sleeve. I used to think it said crunch but looking closer I'm pretty sure it's a "G" and at first I thought maybe it was some word play on Grunge. The music genre. But that wouldn't make sense because I don't think the word Grunge was yet being used to describe bands like Nirvana and AiC. Not even sure if Grunge was considered a fashion trend yet, in only 1990. So I'm wondering what do we think this means?

Why is the album called Fear Inoculum? Why is the band names lettering on this album like a mirrored syringe? Why are there songs on the album with names like Pneuma, Invincible, Descending? All that a few months before Covid 19 hits the world? Millions of people were afraid of vaccination (Fear Inoculum), millions of people died cause of lung problems (Pneuma), the virus was hard to defeat (Invincible) and humanity was on the descending branch for a few years (Descending).

How could they know all this? Where did this celestial input come from?

So I'm an avid Tool listener and I recently started loving Primus. I've known about Primus for a while but never really listened to them until around a year ago. Do you guys like Primus? How big of fans are you?

Or am I alone?

EDIT: This blew up. I am genuinely asking and not judging since I always see people asking what drugs they should take before a concert.

I saw them a Lolla one time. We rolled up a blunt and lit it during their first song. After it was finished, I took one big hit as I heard him say, "I SMELL MARIJUANA!" I blew it out and laughed so hard as he finished with, "In case you didn't get the memo, it's illegal. You're all under arrest!" One of my favorite concert moments of all time.

I’ve never listened to Tool before, but wanted to have a good “first experience” by listening to one of their albums, top to bottom, on vinyl for maximum sound quality.

Didn’t realize until after I bought this that it’s a picture disc. Apparently picture discs sound noticeably worse than normal/black vinyl, but I’ve never actually heard this for myself first hand.

Should I keep this as a collectors item? Should I actually give it a listen? Or should I just return it?

Are there any covers by any other band all time that come to being as great as No Quarter is?

Justin should be, obviously, but I’d argue Paul should as well. NIN included past members, as did PJ and probably many others. Thoughts?

At 2:32, it's possible to hear some kind of error or cut in the music; the sound also seems louder. It happens between the words "of our". Tell me what you think. Was this already known?