Well, Jimbro apparently is busy and he asked me yesterday if I could fill in today, and he SPECIFICALLY asked me to do a Tool post (I swear), and I figured … “What the heck? What do I have going on?” Then Pat ended up in the hospital. But I put my priorities in order, pulled up my big-cis-girl gender-conforming panties, and got to business.
What *is* Tool? I mean, besides an alt- prog-art-post metal band? This, according to Maynard:
“Tool is exactly what it sounds like: It’s a big dick. It’s a wrench. … we are … your tool; use us as a catalyst in your process of finding out whatever it is you need to find out, or whatever it is you’re trying to achieve.”
Although not their first album, their popularity started with this song:
