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Tool- Can someone please explain
    #5885586 - 07/21/06 07:57 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Ive been listening alot to the new album and of course it kicks ass. I was reading some of the lyrics and listening alot and it seems like theres alot of references to jesus(christ) or christ consciousness. I never really remember tool being like that especially with undertow and opiate but then they became more spritual/psychedelic with salvia and now their latest album. For me psychedelics and christ come hand in hand if you ever have really mind blowing experience you have to be a believer(IMO). So the question is, are they being sarcastic or are they really spiritual or are they just playing what they think their fans want to hear(If thats the case good fucking job). Can anyone give me any insight into this or share your thoughts?


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"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
Jimmy Buffett


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
    #5885613 - 07/21/06 08:06 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

theres no such thing as god and jesus.

that is all.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: array]
    #5885624 - 07/21/06 08:09 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I disagree. That is all.


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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
  -Mark Twain

"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
Jimmy Buffett


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
    #5885626 - 07/21/06 08:10 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

TOOL have never really acknowledged the fact that they use drugs. some people find obvious drug references in their songs, other find spiritual references, it really depends on who you are and what you believe. just take what you want from it.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: maggotz]
    #5885628 - 07/21/06 08:12 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Never acknowledged using drugs what about this lyric?

Rosetta Stoned by Tool
Alrighty then...
Picture this if you will...

10 to 2 AM
And actually eating up an old box of Krispy Kremes
And my "need-to-know potion"
Just outside Area 51
Contemplating the whole chosen people thing
When a flaming stealth banana split the sky like, wide open.
I never expected to see it in a place like this.
I do believe I spilled a diamond sundae
Or something wet on my Birkenstocks
And [you're yelping]
Holy fucking shit

Then the x-file beings who were like
some kind of blue-grey [Jackie Chan]
With Isabella Rossellini lips and breath that reeked
[They're wicked-shot terrorists all while making the sound]
abananadabanana so when I opened up my bug eyes, my gaping jaw and my sweaty lower and upper lip
And all I could think was
I hope that my partner here doesn't notice
that I pissed my fucking pants

So alive in this way
Like an apparition
You have me crying out
Fuck me
It's got to be
Dead head
Chemistry
The blotter got
On top of me
Got me seeing
E mother-fucking T


And after calming me down with some orange slices
And some fetal spooning
The ET revealed to me his singular purpose
He said you are the chosen one
The one who'll deliver the message
A message of hope for those who chose to hear it
And a warning for those who do not
Me, the chosen one, they chose me
And I didn't graduate from fucking high school

You had better...
You had better...
You had better...
You had better listen

When he looked right through me
With somniferous almond eyes
Don't even know what that means
Must remember to write it down
This is SO REAL
Like the time they floated away
See, my heart is pounding
Cause this shit never happens to me

I can't breathe right now

It was so real
Like I woke up in Wonderland
All sort of terrifying
I don't want to be all alone
When I tell the story
And can anyone tell me why
It was a repeat experience
will I ever be coming down
This is so real
Finally it's my lucky day
See my heart is racing
Cause this shit never happens to me

I can't breathe right now

You believe me don't you
Please believe what I just said
See they're telling the truth
And this wasn't all in my head
See they took me by the hand
And invited me right in
Then they showed me something
I don't even know where to begin

Strapped down to my bed
Feet cold, eyes red
I'm out my head
Am I alive? am I dead?
Can't remember what they said
God damn shit the bed

hey hey

Overwhelmed as one would be placed in my position
Such a heavy burden now to be the one
Born to bear and read to all the details of our ending
To write it down for all the world to see
But I forgot my pen shit the bed again
Typical

Strapped down to my bed
Feet cold and eyes red
I'm out of my head
Am I alive am I dead
Sunkist and Sudafed
Gyroscopes and infrared
won't help the brain dead
Can't remember what they said

God damn shit the bed

I Can't remember what they said to me
Can't remember what they said to make me out to be A HERO
I can't remember what they said
Can't remember what they said

Don't know, Wont Know (repeated 12 times)

God damn shit the bed


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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
  -Mark Twain

"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
Jimmy Buffett


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    #5885638 - 07/21/06 08:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: maggotz]
    #5885639 - 07/21/06 08:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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maggotz said:
TOOL have never really acknowledged the fact that they use drugs. some people find obvious drug references in their songs, other find spiritual references, it really depends on who you are and what you believe. just take what you want from it.




But I completely agree with you about how most awesome musicians (Beatles, Dead, Floyd ect) always leave their songs open for interpretation thats what makes it so good because it makes it personal. But I guess what Im really asking here is what are your guys interpretation of it then? Of course we couldn't know for sure what they mean or what its all about unless we asked the band themselves and ever then probably still wouldn't get an honest answer.


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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
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"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
Jimmy Buffett


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: array]
    #5885647 - 07/21/06 08:18 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

array said:
this thread is gay.

that is all.




Then stop posting in it.


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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
  -Mark Twain

"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
Jimmy Buffett


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
    #5885657 - 07/21/06 08:22 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

maynard deff used drugs --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A1J9_Ft8ZE


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: king_cobra]
    #5885811 - 07/21/06 09:15 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

The Jesus Christ material in the latest Tool is more for his mother than anything else.

She was a Chrisitian and she just lost her battle with cancer. Part of this album is actually a tribute to her battle and her being able to get into heaven apon her death.

Do a serach for tool and in the Pub and you will find another thread here with 3 of the songs from the album sqished together that one of the pubbers put together.

Viginti Tres (23 the number of unity) / Wings for Marie (Maynards Mother) and 10,000 days (the number of days she fought cancer) all are 11:13 long. Play them at the same time from 3 different sources for one cool harmonizing effect.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: Boglyn]
    #5885844 - 07/21/06 09:27 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Damn am I out of the fuckin loop that makes things much more clear now. Thanks alot dude. +5


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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
  -Mark Twain

"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters  hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
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. [Re: Boglyn]
    #5885863 - 07/21/06 09:33 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: dr_gonz]
    #5885892 - 07/21/06 09:43 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

dr_gonz said:
Quote:

Boglyn said:
Viginti Tres (23 the number of unity) / Wings for Marie (Maynards Mother) and 10,000 days (the number of days she fought cancer) all are 11:13 long. Play them at the same time from 3 different sources for one cool harmonizing effect.




i might have to try this... where did u hear about it?




I heard about it on another board but the funny thing is someone here put together the mp3. I actually have it although it is better to do it from 3 different sources.

Some say the 3 different sources are a reference to the Tinity but the number 3 has been sacred for along time.

I will try and find it and post it. Hold on.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
    #5885896 - 07/21/06 09:45 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Ok here it is. Right click save as.

Tool Smashed


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Edited by Boglyn (07/21/06 09:54 PM)


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    #5885910 - 07/21/06 09:52 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: dr_gonz]
    #5885916 - 07/21/06 09:55 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Sorry. Fixed it for everyone.

"Kids, dont post stoned"


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: dr_gonz]
    #5885918 - 07/21/06 09:57 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Put the songs together yourself its easy thats what they want you do do.
Think for your self Question authority

P.S.
Thanks Boglyn fot the tool info
That track sounds insane.. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: Boglyn]
    #5885944 - 07/21/06 10:05 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Boglyn said:
Viginti Tres (23 the number of unity) / Wings for Marie (Maynards Mother) and 10,000 days (the number of days she fought cancer) all are 11:13 long. Play them at the same time from 3 different sources for one cool harmonizing effect.




I dunno about that man. The number usually considered unity is 1. 10,000 days is like more than 27 years. And I'm really skeptical that she died after exactly 10,000 days. It sounds like the "Dark Side of the Moon"/"Wizard of Oz" coincidence.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: razorbladeshoes]
    #5885956 - 07/21/06 10:11 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

razorbladeshoes said:
Quote:

Boglyn said:
Viginti Tres (23 the number of unity) / Wings for Marie (Maynards Mother) and 10,000 days (the number of days she fought cancer) all are 11:13 long. Play them at the same time from 3 different sources for one cool harmonizing effect.




I dunno about that man. The number usually considered unity is 1. 10,000 days is like more than 27 years. And I'm really skeptical that she died after exactly 10,000 days. It sounds like the "Dark Side of the Moon"/"Wizard of Oz" coincidence.




She fought cancer for 5 or 10 years that I know of that so you are probably correct about the 10,000. 10,000 days may also be a reference to the 10,000 day war (vietnam) but all of this stuff is debatable.

He does mention his mother several times in the songs though and if you look on the foldout of the CD-Cover those are the only 3 songs listed.

1 is unity in alot of faiths but its 23 in perfect math is unity. Numbers and stuff

That is one of the reasons it is so interesting is because there is some actual depth to the music tool makes. Its like a maze that can be explored instead of just something you listen to with pretty notes (not that that is bad either.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: array]
    #5885962 - 07/21/06 10:13 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

anyone that is so closed minded has not tripped so hard that he thinks he is dying. But if you trip hard enough you know God.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: Skunk420]
    #5885973 - 07/21/06 10:19 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

:confused:


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: eris]
    #5886003 - 07/21/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

quality thread here


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: faslimy]
    #5886060 - 07/21/06 10:45 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Its pretty fuckin crazy but each successive acid trip seems like its starting off where the last one ended and its taking me more and more closer to god and knowing him more personally in an abstract kind of way only another psychonaut could only kind of relate because for everyone its different.


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That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: array]
    #5886257 - 07/22/06 12:18 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

array said:
theres no such thing as god and jesus.

that is all.




existence is proof that u are wrong


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: Iamthewalrus]
    #5886345 - 07/22/06 01:05 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

so like, how come god has to exist? Even if we are "here," why did here have to be created?


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: recalcitrant]
    #5886390 - 07/22/06 01:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

because u can't get something from nothing...our existence goes against basic math


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: Iamthewalrus]
    #5892987 - 07/24/06 12:25 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

string theory.

p.s. tool is amazing.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: monstermitch]
    #5893035 - 07/24/06 12:37 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Tool is all about opening your mind. Tapping and evolving your conscious mind.

They never lay anything out for you. You must research, you are forced to learn. Maynard James Keenan is genius.

Yes they are all about psychedelics. It is every where from their album art to their lyrics.

Alex Grey is a great friend of Maynard's. He is a visionary artist.

Bill Hicks also was a good friend. Openly talks about psychs.

the list goes on and on.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: Iamthewalrus]
    #5893958 - 07/24/06 10:24 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

i dont think maynard is christian, at all, even in the song Judith by APC, he says 'fuck your god, many times'...

and ive had many intense trips, and i have seen no god and dont believe in the christian one either...so there goes that theory...

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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: supra]
    #5893978 - 07/24/06 10:40 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Tool has confounded Captain Headbang many times....


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
    #5894070 - 07/24/06 11:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Tool has always been spiritual, and I think that Maynard has always incorporated Jesus into his spirituality, even if he isn't explicitly Christian. I think some of Tool's past songs that seem to mock Christianity have more to do with his distaste for its followers, rather than with Jesus himself. Bill Hicks was kind of the same way: He made fun of Christians a lot, even though he was one.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: Silversoul]
    #5894173 - 07/24/06 12:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I would say Tool has become more spiritual in recent years. Maynard is very anti Christian. He doesn't believe in a religion that I have ever heard. His more into spiritual being I would say. Probably has some Buddhist influence. He has openly mocked Christians on several occasions.

Actually a few years back as a April Fools joke he posted on the Tool website that he quit the band to go find Jesus.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: TrippinTeddy]
    #5894186 - 07/24/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I never claimed he was Christian, but as I said, I think his problem is with Christians, but not Christianity per se. And I think the lyrics of 10,000 days bear witness to that.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: TrippinTeddy]
    #5894191 - 07/24/06 12:20 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I think the second coming of christ is just a metaphor for awakening the Christ consciousness inside of us. Christ lives on as an energy force in our hearts and minds.

Thus, when that guy stood up in front of the tanks in Tianamen square, that was the second coming of christ. When mother teresa put herself in harm's way to help the sick, that was the second coming of christ, etc etc...

the more people emulate christ in their own everday struggles, the more his legacy becomes a reality.

thus, there is no 'the one', we are all 'the one', because we can all tap into the empathy and humanity that was embodied by Jesus Christ.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: DoctorJ]
    #5894199 - 07/24/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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I think the second coming of christ is just a metaphor for awakening the Christ consciousness inside of us.  Christ lives on as an energy force in our hearts and minds. 

Thus, when that guy stood up in front of the tanks in Tianamen square, that was the second coming of christ.  When mother teresa put herself in harm's way to help the sick, that was the second coming of christ, etc etc... 

the more people emulate christ in their own everday struggles, the more his legacy becomes a reality.

thus, there is no 'the one', we are all 'the one', because we can all tap into the empathy and humanity that was embodied by Jesus Christ.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: king_cobra]
    #5894380 - 07/24/06 01:43 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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maynard deff used drugs --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A1J9_Ft8ZE




LOL, I've seen that. There's another one similar to that one as well.
I think is voice was amzing even back then. :smile:


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: QuantumMeltdown]
    #5894413 - 07/24/06 01:50 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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For me psychedelics and christ come hand in hand if you ever have really mind blowing experience you have to be a believer(IMO).




Maybe if you were raised in a jesus loving environment. I was brought up with "everything is one, god is inside us all" and guess what, that's what I feel when getting my mind blown.

Don't believe everything you feel. Question everything, MAN.


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: TrippinTeddy]
    #5895036 - 07/24/06 05:30 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Actually a few years back as a April Fools joke he posted on the Tool website that he quit the band to go find Jesus.



well what if it wasn't a joke? i don't think it had anything to do with leaving the band, just that he said he found Jesus.

also doesn't this album seem to disadvocate psychedelics (esp the pot?) as opposed to the other ones?


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: leery11]
    #5895047 - 07/24/06 05:33 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

The website said he had found Jesus and put the album (10,000 days) on hold, possibly indefinitely.

Then a week later they were liek OMG APRIL FOOLZ


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Re: Tool- Can someone please explain [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
    #5895439 - 07/24/06 07:44 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Although Tool hasn't directly come out and explain their personal "drug experimenting" testimonials, they mention it several times in multiple songs including this quote from Bill Hicks at the beginning of "Third Eye""

“See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... rrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs.”


I agree with others who said the references to Jesus have a lot to do with Maynard's mother's recent passing. If you remember back to April of last year, Maynard said he had found "jesus" and was leaving the band. It turned out to be a hoax and the "jesus" he was referring to was just some Mexican with the uncanny ability to turn wine into urine....



On April 1, 2005 Keenan announced as an April Fool's joke - to the shock of many of his fans and friends - that he had "found jesus [sic]" and would be abandoning the recording of the new Tool album temporarily, possibly permanently.

Kurt Loder of MTV contacted Keenan via email to ask for a confirmation and received a very nonchalant confirmation. When Loder asked again, Keenan's response was simply "heh heh". Loder also noted that Keenan had not capitalized Jesus, uncommon for someone who had just converted to Christianity. The announcement was most likely inspired by Brian "Head" Welch's 2005 decision to leave his band Koßn to dedicate his life to Christianity.

On April 7, the official Tool site announced that the gag was up with the statement; "Good news, April fools fans. The writing and recording is back under way." When approached for comment on his recent encounter with the "Son of God", Keenan said, "That guy's a punk!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_James_Keenan#Finding_Jesus


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