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Junior said Adam wasn't there.

I thought Sober sounded just fine, I took them playing it with a keyboardist instead of another guitarist as a shoe of respect to Lazy Bones. Or I'm probably just reading too much into it.

Adam was at the loft working on the new album.

Thats cool man - A few of us had a discussion after the Saturday show over a beer about Adam's absence. It just felt really strange. And with him being absent from social media over the weekend, along with the remarks MJK made earlier in the week (stop blaming me, etc), we felt like National Enquirer reporters reviewing possible dramas and conspiracy theories. I felt bad for Zac, but I couldn't help feeling a disappointment and resentment over the whole thing.

Just one other personal observation/random takeaway from the show: Having most of the musicians on stage in lawn chairs drinking their wine, talking, "vape-ing" (was that you Eustis?) when they weren't involved in the live song, and especially head banging and foot stomping to the other musicians, was one of the most relatable moments for me as a fan. The artists became fans at a concert, and that was pretty neat. Seeing Danny & Justin talking to James Iha, or Jeff Friedl almost missing the opening cymbal crash running to his rig and smashing it with his hand. Little bits & pieces like that keep coming back...in waves on the far too early cross country flight this morning, to my drive back to the ranch....Ahhh...Hope to hold on to these as long as I can. Peace!

Ravenpig wrote:Junior said Adam wasn't there.

I thought Sober sounded just fine, I took them playing it with a keyboardist instead of another guitarist as a shoe of respect to Lazy Bones. Or I'm probably just reading too much into it.

I like your interpretation better! I'll go with that : ) Ole Lazy Bones : )

Heh. Well considering that Billy was there and he used to be Adam's guitar tech I thought it would've been a natural one time only fit, but they went the keyboard route.

Ravenpig wrote:shoe of respect to Lazy Bones

Nah, if a Shoe Of Respect were involved we probably would have heard about it.

Ravenpig wrote:Heh. Well considering that Billy was there and he used to be Adam's guitar tech I thought it would've been a natural one time only fit, but they went the keyboard route.

Methinks LBJ is a little territorial when it comes to other people playing his parts.

The Boss wrote:

Ravenpig wrote:Heh. Well considering that Billy was there and he used to be Adam's guitar tech I thought it would've been a natural one time only fit, but they went the keyboard route.

Methinks LBJ is a little territorial when it comes to other people playing his parts.

Probably. Hence the keyboard I guess.

arbutron wrote:As for last night, does anyone have an idea whether Rynne was 2. really drunk.

That's my guess. Talked to her and her sister right afterwards and she seemed emotionally drunk.

I have an autographed poster from the show if anyone is interested.

satanbakesale wrote:I have an autographed poster from the show if anyone is interested.

I'd be interested in a picture of it. I haven't seen any

Meepiticus wrote:

arbutron wrote:As for last night, does anyone have an idea whether Rynne was 2. really drunk.

That's my guess. Talked to her and her sister right afterwards and she seemed emotionally drunk.

Emotionally drunk? What does that even mean?

badkittygothgirl wrote:Emotionally drunk? What does that even mean?

Meaning she was drunk to the point of mild conversational topics turning into emotionally charged topics, e.g. she was talking about Devo's performance and got teary just thinking about it while telling her story about knowing Devo since he was a wee-tyke hanging off of uncle Danny's leg and wanting to be a drummer when he grew up. She had a few drinks that night like many did. She was just on stage where it was more obvious than being a drunk in the crowd.

edit: I guess I should throw in this disclaimer: I've only met Rynne a handful of times. My impression of her on Sunday night was that she was happy drunk. All the times I've chatted with her or seen her interacting in a group of folks she has come off as a very enthusiastic/animated and an engaging person so she might just as well had been sober and her natural enthusiastic self....or...every time I've seen her (which was at a live show) she was drunk

~meep

arbutron wrote:As for last night, does anyone have an idea whether Rynne was on 1. Acid 2. really drunk 3. shrooms or 4. She's just like that

There was also a moment where Danny was pointing to someone in the crowd and yelling over to Rynne to look and she couldn't figure out what he was talking about and kept squinting into the crowd. Turns out it was a guy in the 2nd row wearing a "Stumpfest" shirt that she's the curator of, a 3 night show she just completed last month in Portland, OR (awesome bands from up and down the West coast). She then yanked up her sweater to show that she was wearing a Stumpfest shirt, too. To anyone else that didn't know what was up she might have just looked like she was acting drunk/nuts.

~meep

Do you have two different accounts, or are both of you coincidentally called meep?

Two. This one I can't log in with (I haven't cleared the cache/logged out on this browser). For some reason even if I change the password I still can't log in. Feel free to disable/delete this account, the other one works and I know I can log in with a password on that one.

Continuing in the spirt of fifty days of fifty, shot for the 2014 Cinquanta concerts. This image is being offered for a limited time in a very limited quantity. A 19 x 13 archival pigmented ink print signed and numbered by Maynard James Keenan and Tim Cadiente. Each image will come with a certificate of authenticity.

http://timcadiente.com/shop/mjk-cinquanta-baby-2014/

Why would anyone buy that?

fortysixand2 wrote:

Continuing in the spirt of fifty days of fifty, shot for the 2014 Cinquanta concerts. This image is being offered for a limited time in a very limited quantity. A 19 x 13 archival pigmented ink print signed and numbered by Maynard James Keenan and Tim Cadiente. Each image will come with a certificate of authenticity.

http://timcadiente.com/shop/mjk-cinquanta-baby-2014/

Anyone who wants that brutally displayed on their wall is a sick fuck.

Not Tyson wrote:Why would anyone buy that?

No shit! WTF? It's worse than the one with him in the grapes. No thanks.

The grapes one is like the Mona Lisa in comparison.

hellboy wrote:The grapes on is like the Mona Lisa in comparison.

No fucking joke.

hellboy wrote:The grapes on is like the Mona Lisa in comparison.

It struck me as douchey for some reason. Like it made me wanna punch him.

This one is ridiculous but at least he's not taking himself so seriously.

Having said that, they're both terrible.

$140!

Surely this is some sort of social experiment to find the most people are prepared to pay for the least attractive art...

rimb wrote:$140!

Surely this is some sort of social experiment to find the most people are prepared to pay for the least attractive art...

Have we learnt nothing about TOOL fans from the past three years?