F O U R T H E Y E

The Boss wrote:Reading TOOL virginity-popping stories is the best. I fucking love it.

Pro Tip: I lost my virginity while I played "Stinkfist".

*struts*

Ettan wrote:i've tried to get people into Tool but everyone says "It's just noise, no chorus and the songs are to long." Every. Time.

xZ1mM3r wrote:

The Boss wrote:Reading TOOL virginity-popping stories is the best. I fucking love it.

Pro Tip: I lost my virginity while I played "Stinkfist".

*struts*

Hahaha right on! You lasted (at a maximum) 5 minutes and 11 seconds [WINKING FACE]. That's better than I can do now. Knuckles.

The Boss wrote:I was . . . fourteen? I was in foster care. I had saved up my cash to get a CD/tape player/recorder. You know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

"Stinkfist" had caught my ear a few times, as it was on fairly heavy rotation on Triple J (Aussies? Do you remember?). I'd FINALLY got to the point where I had trapped that bastard: I finally owned "Stinkfist".

Man, I played that sucker on repeat for weeks. I was huge into writing (lol even then) and lyrics, so I used to stick my ear RIGHT into a speaker just to hear what was being said.

I was way off, I would learn eventually; but fuck it - that was never the point.

I didn't hear much from this incredibly new band that was so unlike NIRVANA, PEARL JAM, or BUSH. My beloveds had had to take a backseat to this bizarre new thing. It wasn't music. It was . . . weird, man. Exciting.

Things fell apart in my foster home, as they do. Homeless. Got given an apartment as a trial to see if fifteen year olds could cut it on their own. I did.

....

Calfium Jay wrote:

The Boss wrote:I was . . . fourteen? I was in foster care. I had saved up my cash to get a CD/tape player/recorder. You know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

"Stinkfist" had caught my ear a few times, as it was on fairly heavy rotation on Triple J (Aussies? Do you remember?). I'd FINALLY got to the point where I had trapped that bastard: I finally owned "Stinkfist".

Man, I played that sucker on repeat for weeks. I was huge into writing (lol even then) and lyrics, so I used to stick my ear RIGHT into a speaker just to hear what was being said.

I was way off, I would learn eventually; but fuck it - that was never the point.

I didn't hear much from this incredibly new band that was so unlike NIRVANA, PEARL JAM, or BUSH. My beloveds had had to take a backseat to this bizarre new thing. It wasn't music. It was . . . weird, man. Exciting.

Things fell apart in my foster home, as they do. Homeless. Got given an apartment as a trial to see if fifteen year olds could cut it on their own. I did.

....

You had me at "foster care".


<tears up>

The Boss wrote:

Calfium Jay wrote:

The Boss wrote:I was . . . fourteen? I was in foster care. I had saved up my cash to get a CD/tape player/recorder. You know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

"Stinkfist" had caught my ear a few times, as it was on fairly heavy rotation on Triple J (Aussies? Do you remember?). I'd FINALLY got to the point where I had trapped that bastard: I finally owned "Stinkfist".

Man, I played that sucker on repeat for weeks. I was huge into writing (lol even then) and lyrics, so I used to stick my ear RIGHT into a speaker just to hear what was being said.

I was way off, I would learn eventually; but fuck it - that was never the point.

I didn't hear much from this incredibly new band that was so unlike NIRVANA, PEARL JAM, or BUSH. My beloveds had had to take a backseat to this bizarre new thing. It wasn't music. It was . . . weird, man. Exciting.

Things fell apart in my foster home, as they do. Homeless. Got given an apartment as a trial to see if fifteen year olds could cut it on their own. I did.

....

You had me at "foster care".


<tears up>

I know that feel brother.

Wait, are we both "orphans"?!

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

xZ1mM3r wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if we all had tough times growing up. Tool helped us all in one way or another. I lost my father to brain cancer when I was 15.

The Boss wrote:

xZ1mM3r wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if we all had tough times growing up. Tool helped us all in one way or another. I lost my father to brain cancer when I was 15.

Totally agree with you.

And sorry about your dad, man. That must've been fucking horrific as a kid.

xZ1mM3r wrote:

The Boss wrote:

xZ1mM3r wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if we all had tough times growing up. Tool helped us all in one way or another. I lost my father to brain cancer when I was 15.

Totally agree with you.

And sorry about your dad, man. That must've been fucking horrific as a kid.

Yeah it was tough. But your situation seems just as tough ...

ilikecheese wrote:^I never minded needles until about five years ago...

I had some blood drawn yesterday,
then went to work, and immediately cut my knuckle wide-open-

I thought, "OK, I'm done giving blood for the day."


Giving blood and keeping the faith I reckon...

xZ1mM3r wrote:Good point boss. It's all relative. No one can full understand another's pain. Simple try to help anyway they can. I have a new found respect for you. Maybe due to matts revalation on FE. Or just myself making changes in my life. I would genuinely like to have a beer with you.

The Boss wrote:

ilikecheese wrote:^I never minded needles until about five years ago...

I had some blood drawn yesterday,
then went to work, and immediately cut my knuckle wide-open-

I thought, "OK, I'm done giving blood for the day."


Giving blood and keeping the faith I reckon...

Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed; amirite.

'][' [[]] [[]] ][, wrote:The first time I heard TOOL I was burning down this gook fuckers hooch. It was 1967 South Viet Nam and we were choppered into the DMZ to cut enemy supply lines. I was really into shooting smack and banging bokodinkydow hookers. This gook village had neither but they did have an ample supply of RedBull. We were jacked up on about four cans each as we rounded up the villagers to interrogate them. We were in a frenzy 'cause earlier that day our buddy was killed by a sniper while updating his facebook. It was a different time back then what with all the hippies and that son of a bitch Regan in the White House. I was starting to get the shakes 'cause I hadn't shot up since breakfast when Sargent Barnes popped this one old gooker right in the head with a round from his AR. And like that it was on. My buddy texted me, "lets do this whole fuckin village". Just then someone took the Creedence CD out of the Humvee and put on this sound that I had never heard before. I didn't know it at the time but the song that played was Stinkfist. That village might have stood there a thousand years but they never saw the men of Kilo Company 2nd Batallion 5th Marines coming that day.

Kittaan wrote:Edit: Well done. Now, can you please animate the monkey in your avatar and make him tell the story? In between drags on the cig?

BlackHole83 wrote:I had a wicked TOOL "army" cap years ago. I fucking lost it when I moved overseas. I can't find it anywhere online. It's pissin me off.

How many TOOL shirts/gear have you owned over the years?

Not as many as one would expect. But I've had roughly 12-15 shirts both long and short sleeve. Black, grey and white. Every show I've bought a shirt except BDO. The amount of money I have spent with gear, tickets, hotels, rentals, airfare is staggering. This is over 17 years. But there is still LOVE