Tool song with Green Jelly called "Higher Ground"?

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Tool song with Green Jelly called "Higher Ground"?

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Green Jelly is playing near me on April 1st (no joke), and when I came to the link to buy tickets, I found an interesting rant done presumably by Bill Manspeaker. He claims there is a song that they did with Tool called "Higher Ground". Has anyone heard of this?

The entire last paragraph is about early Tool as well, and is worth a read. I'm not sure where this was originally posted, but I can't find it anywhere but ticket links. Here is the text in full (from http://www.ticketfly.com/event/811319?u ... ium=109651):

"CURRENTLY THE JELLO IS ALIVE AND WELL AND DOING SHOWS IN HOLLYWOOD CAL...I HAVE BEEN QUITE BUSY SINCE WE RECORDED OUR LAST ALBUM THE GRAMMY NOMINATED 333 MANY MANY YEARS AGO...

YOU SEE I CAME UP WITH THIS BIZZARE IDEA OF CREATING A LARGE UNDERGROUND MUSIC AND ART COLONY IN HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA...THE FIRST THING I DID AFTER SELLING 2 1/2 MILLION ALBUMS OF THE MTV AND BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARD ALBUM CE
REAL KILLER WAS OF COURSE COUNT THE MONEY AND ROLL AROUND IN IT NAKED...WHEN I WAS DONE I TOOK A SHOWER CAUSE MONEY IS DIRTY AND I BOUGHT A MULTI MILLION DOLLAR TELEVISION STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD....

THERE I BEGAN TO CREATE MY UNDERGROUND MUSIC AND ART COLONY...THAT QUICKLY GREW TO MANY BIZARRE SITUATIONS....DOING VIDEOS FOR TIM BURTIN...SPIKE JONZES.. KISS.... WEIRD AL...THE BANANA SPLITS...TOU PAC.... AND MARILYN MANSON...

THEN WE WORKED ON SONGS WITH HULK HOGAN CALLED "LEADER OF THE GANG"... MAD MAGAZINE CALLED "BLIND DATE"...MARVEL COMIC BOOK HEROS THE FANTASTIC FOUR CALLED "CLOBBERIN TIME" AND EVEN A SONG WITH OUR OLD BAND MEMBERS TOOL CALLED "HIGHER GROUND"....

ALONG WITH THAT WE STARTED DOING MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS...WE HAVE SONGS IN THE FOLLOWING MOVIES..."FLIGHT OF THE SKAJAQUADA" IS IN REALITY BITES.."ANARCHY IN BEDROCK IS IN THE THE FLINTSTONE MOVIE..."THE BEAR SONG" IS IN DUMB AND DUMER....WE EVEN DID MUSIC FOR THE PORN STAR "SHANE" FOR HER VIDEO SERIES "SHANES WORLD" AND FINALLY WE DID A COVER OF THE SONG "BORN TO BE WILD" FOR THE DISNEY KIDS FILM ABOUT A BOY AND HIS APE CALLED "BORN TO BE WILD"...

THEN THE STRANGEST THING HAPPENED... WE HOOKED UP WITH LEGENDARY BAND MANAGER DOC MC GHEE (MANAGER OF BON JOVI.. SKID ROW.. THE SCORPIONS...AND MOTLEY CRUE...) AND SUDDENLY WE WERE PART OF THE GIANT KISS REUNION TOUR OF 1997...I EVEN GOT TO DIRECT THE KISS REUNION VIDEO..WOW...THEN GENE SIMMONS AND PAUL STANLEY OF KISS APPEARED IN THE REMAKE OF ELECTRIC HARLY HOUSE OF LOVE VIDEO...(SEE VIDEOS LISTED BELOW)... HUH???...A CHILD HOOD DREAM NOW HAD COME TRUE......KISS AND SHITMAN HANGING OUT BOWLING.... GOING TO ACE FREHLEY BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH ROSEANNE BARR....HA...BIZZARE...BEFORE I KNEW IT GENE SIMMONS WAS BRINGING ME CHOCOLATE MUFFINS ON SUNDAY MORNINGS...

THEN SOON AFTER WE AQUIRED A GIAGANTIC 74 ROOM 42,000 SQ FT UNDERGROUND ARTIST COMPOUND RIGHT ON SUNSET BLVD IN HOLLYWOOD NAMED SUNSET/ORANGE...(YOU CAN SEE A VIDEO SHORT UNDER THE INFLUENCE SECTION..)...THERE THE UNDERGROUND ART COLONY JELLED QUICKLY...HERE WE HOUSED SOME OF THE GREATEST MUSICAL TALENT....DJ'S AND GRAFFETTI ARTISTS THAT HOLLYWOOD HAD TO OFFER...THIS IS WHEN I DISCOVERED THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE...THIS WAS A EASY WAY OF PRODUCING MONEY DOING UNDERGROUND RAVE EVENTS.....LIKE LEMMING THEY CAME TO HEAR PEOPLE PLAY RECORD THAT SEEMED JUST TO SKIP OVER AND OVER AGAIN...

THIS THEN LED ME TO OPENEN MY OWN 20,000 SQ FT 1500 PERSON NIGHT RAVE CLUB CALLED QTOPIA HOLLYWOOD....SEX DRUGS AND RAVE N ROLL WAS RIGHT...THAT SOON GOT OUT OF CONTROL AS YOU COULD IMAGINE...AND THEN ONE DAY I WOKE UP WITH A HANG OVER AND SEVERAL NAKED GIRLS AND I SAID TO MYSELF...DUH SILLY MONKEY DONT YOU REMEMBER THAT YOU PUT ON SILLY PUPPET COSTUMES AND SHITTY ALBUMS FOR A LIVING...

SO I GOT OUT THE OLD COUCH CUSION PUPPETS AND I PUT THEM BACK ON MY HEAD....IT WAS A LOT FUNNIER THAN WRESTLING DOWN DRUNK STUPID PEOPLE AT MY CLUB....I THINK I GOT A LITTLE TOOOO CAUGHT UP IN CREATING A HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND MUSIC AND ART WORLD AND FORGOT ABOUT MY OWN UNDERGROUND WORLD OF ROCK N ROLL PUPPETS.....

SO NOW THAT I REMEMBERED THAT I AM AND ALWAYS WILL BE A PUPPET ...I AM PLAYING THIS BROKEN WRECKERD AGAIN....27 YEARS AND 202 BAND MEMBERS LATER GREEN JELLO STILL SUCKS AND I AM VERY PROUD OF THAT...SO HERE I GO AGAIN...WHEN I THINK OF ALL THE RIDES I RODE I THINK I LIKE THIS TRAIN WRECK OF A RIDE THE BEST....LATER..MORONIC DICKTATOR

....AND FINALLY YES DANNY CAREY AND MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN WERE BOTH IN GREEN JELLO BEFORE TOOL...WHILE ADAM JONES DESIGNED THE TOAH CREATURE ON THE FRONT OF THE 333 CD...YOU CAN SEE DANNY IN THE OLD SCHOOL VIDEO LISTED BELOW AND YOU CAN HEAR HIM PLAY DRUMS ON CEREAL KILLER...MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN MAKES APPEARENCE AS BILLYBOB IN THE SLAVE BOY VIDEO AND SINGS "NOT BY HAIR OF MY CHINNY CHIN CHIN "FOR THE 3 LILLTLE PIGS....WHILE PAUL DEMOUR MAKES A APPEARENCE IN THE SHITMAN VIDEO...ALSO CHECK OUT THE BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO...DANNY ADAM AND MAYNARD ALL MAKE AN APPEARENCE AT THE OLD JELLO LOFT ON HOLLYWOOD BLVD...IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS WE ALL USED TO LIVE THERE...THE OPIATE CD AND THE FIRST 2 TOOL VIDEOS WERE MADE THERE ALONG WITH ALL THE GREEN JELLO VIDEOS....

GREEN JELLO SUXXING SINCE 1981"
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I wonder if it was a cover of the Chilli Peps (Covering Stevie)?
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I learnt long ago not to trust those who write with capslock on.

For what it's worth, I think he's just suggesting it's another Green Jello song with Danny & Maynard on it.
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If he read it on the internet, it must be true!

Green Jelly played very close to me not too long ago. At a biker bar.
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hellboy wrote:I learnt long ago not to trust though who write with capslock on.
This right here.
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is it Green Jelly, or Green Jello... I dont get it.
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xZ1mM3r wrote:is it Green Jelly, or Green Jello... I dont get it.
Originally it was Green Jello but Bill Cosby and Jello the brand threatened them with lawsuits and permanently barring them from purchasing the jiggly concoction, so they changed it to Green Jelly.
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Ride those coattails.
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