Greetings fellow TOOL fans.
New forum member here hailing from FInland. Been listening to TOOL for some 20 years now, but never really posted anything about them anywhere online. The usual pondering and analyzing was done long ago in a small group of adolescents trying to get a hang of what's going on, in their lives and on the albums. And here I am, 43 years and still looking for some answers. This time I thought I'd do it a little different though: the life has taken it's turn and gotten busy-middle-aged-parental-chaos-kinda-mess and there really is no time for sitting down with the few friends that listen to TOOL and just... you know, dive deeper. Therefore I need the "swarm-intelligence" to my rescue with the means of social media, forums, blogs and sh*t. Tell you right off the bat: I'm clueless as a blogger, as a IG'er and whatnot, so bare with me...
Anyway I got this vision and thought I should make it to reality. Hope you like what I'm up to, but no need really. Still if you can spare a few moments, read a few sentences, maybe a whole blog posting or two, send a like, a comment, criticism, encouragement, whatever. I will be grateful. It's really a drag not to get a chance to converse anymore about the things that keep spiraling in your mind... forever and ever.
https://daddythinks.wordpress.com/2019/ ... e-prelude/
DADDY THINKS: OF MUSIC – THE PRELUDE
Encouragement
one of the most precious things one can give to another. Luckily I got encouraging people around me and because of the kind words of my friend Laura
https://instagram.com/ljcshutter at
https://www.rebel1017.com/through-the-lens-with-laura/ I started to think that maybe I might have something to give out to the people while deboning musical experience to words and mental images and so I decided to carry on with a recent idea and see how I’d manage.
The idea was born from a piece of text I wrote about the first single from the new TOOL album: Fear Inoculum. Now that I’ve spent some time trying to get inside the album itself (and failing miserably most of the time) I got this vision about a project I have never done before: to reflect the musical and lyrical content, the mental images evoked by the music and writing about them in public.
Experiencing music is a familiar thing for me, per se. Musical vibes have been a big part of my life through teenage and adolescence. They’ve been experienced alone and with friends in varying states of mind and body. At some point music nearly disappeared from my life but the last few years have been quite active. I have also been an amateur musician, a vocalist and a lightweight lyrist, a self-educated rookie without any real high or low musical education. In any case, I think I have at least some understanding of how music is made and of its structure, so what the hell, I’ll give it a try!
While very much current right now in alt-proge-rock scene I will start by writing about the Fear Inoculum album. One of my friends said quite aptly: “This is not an album of hits” so there might not be any blockbusting radio hits (lol that’d be the day!) or individual stars: Fear Inoculum is best experienced in its entirety as an interesting nexus of sounds and moods tangled together. That said, I still came to the conclusion that I would try to analyze the album and my thoughts one piece at a time. The task of wrestling the whole epic was too daunting at this point and I was afraid I would never have discovered the common thread carrying the narrative through the album… that or it could have taken me some 13 years. Maybe we’ll get to that later if the big picture is crystallized.
Now, it is TOOL I’m talking about after all so a little disclaimer is in place:
The interpretations I do are absolutely not meant as an exhaustive truth about the art, thoughts, messages or meanings weaved into the music of TOOL. My interpretations rest mostly on my personal experiences and thoughts of being a human and living a human life. I am not a professional music reviewer and my texts are not meant to be reviews, though I might also write a thing or two about the technical performance etc. Also, english is not my native language, so I might not make any sense from time to time. It is not always easy to get your thoughts through and understood when the language, the proverbs, the grammar and the structure are more or less alien. Sometimes it’s hard enough with your native language, right?
So, please don’t lynch me, but disagree if you feel so and if you do, say it out loud and tell me why. This also applies if you happen to like or agree with something I write. Correct, encourage, criticize. My goal is to organize my thoughts, reflect the music with fellow listeners and hopefully learn something new about music, life and existence.
<3
Daddy Thinks
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