me playing guitar (don't act like you're not impressed)

[Plug Drugs]

is marilyn manson promoting his style? does he encourage people to dress like him? tool's casual in a way that makes them appealing to people who are anti-glam. that may not be the right description but it's the best I could think of. anyway, it's just as calculated, and just as much a part of the show, as kiss's makeup.

I don't know who classifies tool as metal, they're not nearly fast enough or dark enough to be a metal band. they're hard rock if anything.

i think its as calculated as it could be during the few seconds they thought "what are we going to wear out on stage? we have to wear something"
or at least that's what i like to think

[maks]

i think its as calculated as it could be during the few seconds they thought "what are we going to wear out on stage? we have to wear something"
or at least that's what i like to think

Nothing wrong with buying into the illusion, Pearl Jam fans do it all the time.

they probably have their own stylists

'give me a $800 haircut and make it look like an $8 haircut please'

[Plug Drugs]

Nothing wrong with buying into the illusion, Pearl Jam fans do it all the time.

There is a certain illusion Tool plays along with on purpose, but their fans know it to be an illusion just as much as they do.
For example, their last album 10,000 days had a "puzzle" to it that they didn't reveal the solution to up until a few months ago.
Was the puzzle as deep and as thought out as people liked to think it was going to be? Maybe not so much. Was it fun to think about before I knew the answer to it? Most definitely
It's part of the "mystery" that makes it more entertaining to listen to.

[maks]

PULL ME UNDER PULL ME UNDER

I so want to pull that guy under and hold him under until he stops breathing.

[Plug Drugs]

i'm pretty sure they just had a buddy back in the 90s who said "hey, i know how to write websites, should let me help you guys make a band website"
The website seriously looks like a 'point and click adventure' CD-Rom game from the 90s; you try to navigate through ambiguous esoteric symbols and find "hidden things to click on", and at the end of it you get a few cool little tidbits of information about the band or articles of noted interest

[Plug Drugs]

just look at it for yourself http://www.dissectional.com/ does this look like it was designed with the record company overlooking its production?