UPDATED UPDATE: I got tickets to see Tool here in Columbus at Nationwide Arena on September 21st. I’m so pumped. Does anyone have a lead on how I can score backstage passes?

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I just wanted to give a quick shout out to TOOLHEAD over at the Tool Navy forum, for linking to my post comparing Tool’s work to the Kundalini Yoga system. I joined the forum and will be keeping up on the many conversations going on there about the greatest band producing music in the world today. Also, I’d like to refer any of their posters to the Joseph Campbell forums–I have a feeling that the two groups would merge and mingle quite well.

Thanks again for the link TOOLHEAD.

UPDATE:
I wrote the post in question and I want to thank all the commenters (even the haters) for even taking the time out to discuss it. I didn’t write that whole thesis to take anything away from Tool or really to even put a false template on their work. This is just how I interpret their work to be–I’m a cerebral person, attracted to ideas much more than raw visceral experience (although I can appreciate tool for that aspect as well). The important thing about art, to me, is how it affects my life, my mind, and my spirit and what the artist actually intended is far secondary (again, this is my own opinion).

Now, having said that–I had never seen the Parabola video before but I just went to YouTube and watched it and the last part totally justified the line of reasoning I undertook when I compared Tool’s albums to the Kundalini Yoga system of spiritual and psychological transformation of the individual.

So, we can all appreciate Tool in our own way but mine is fixed with this thesis. If you feel it’s too cerebral, let’s agree to disagree but surely we can come to a consenus that no musical group today is operating on the same artistic level of expression that Tool is.

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