Tool
September 18, 2006I saw Tool and Isis this month with my brother at the Oakland Colliseum.
Not a big fan of Isis’ vocalist but they put in a good 30-minute warmup. From what I can remember most of what they played was from Panopticon, although if I’m wrong Chris will probably pipe in and correct me. They started with the first track on the album, So Did We.
Tool managed to put a huge smile on my face by opening with the track that made me buy Ænima 10 years ago (!), Stinkfist. Rather than heavily favoring tracks from their new album, they played a pretty even distribution of songs from all of their last 3 albums, including Sober from Undertow. Encores were Vicarious and Ænima.
Maynard James Keenan has a pretty bizarre stage presence. He was shirtless and had a spiked mohawk. He was also wearing a cowboy hat at times, and I’m not exactly sure how that managed to not crush his ‘hawk.
He kept to the back of the stage mostly, and all I can say about his movements was that he… undulated a lot. That’s the only way I can describe it. Oh, and there was a lot of pelvic thrusting during Ænima, for some reason.
Maynard quote of the night, directed at the moshers in the general admissions area:
“What are y’all doin down there? Rugby? Football?
… or do you just like grinding up against other guys?
It’s just fucking rock songs people, don’t hurt each other.”
