I love Tool. They are good musicians and they are in on our secret!

I love Tool. I listen to them quite often on pharma. I just saw them live in Seattle. It was an Epic experience.

yeah, they are really incredible!

I found out about them quite recently thanks to people from the Nexus. I had heard about them often before but had never given a listen. Then I listened for the first time on acid and was completely blown away!

Since then, with some exceptions of course, I tried 'saved' their cd for listening mostly when Im tripping (amazing on pharma!), preventing myself from overlistening during daily life. I find it incredibly deep, psychedelic, spiritual and down to earth at the same time. I specially love lateralus, but also 10,000 days and most of aenima (except for some tracks like this weird one about satan's eggs, lol)

Im sure you know, but the song rosetta stoned is about dmt, of course

My main playlist consists of Tool, A Perfect Circle, Rammstein, and Shpongle. They are a great band.

I don't think I've ever heard a male vocalist quite like Maynard. Someone once described his voice as "tragic" and I'd have to agree with them. Beautiful but tragic.

Yes i've heard of rosetta stoned. I saw this vid a while ago and recently found it's Tool's music videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nANeYUdijMM

:arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Pretty trippy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nANeYUdijMM

tool is the only band i listen to!!
i never knew from objective knowledge until later that they were trippers.
one time i was listening to lateralus on mushrooms and i thought, "wait a minute!!! all their songs are about tripping!!!"
since then i've verified in a thousand way both intuitively and outwardly that this is so.
funny, i had the intuition that rosetta stoned was about DMT too but had no "proof"!!!!

10 to 2 AM, X, Yogi DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes...

Ha, myself as well. It was my first time with acid as well, I believe.

It was lateralus, which at the time I was positive was referencing lsd, but now I'm not so sure. I think acid is the common interpretation, but some of these phrases seem more DMT oriented.



I only know I see more spirals with DMT than with LSD. And definitely more of that "random."

well to be honest I dont necessarily find that they are talking strictly about a psychedelic trip in this or most other songs (except specifically lost keys-blame hofmann and rosetta stoned), but rather more like, realizations about life and existence that are universal, though of course can have come during a psychedelic experience and reflect it in many ways. Also, I think their songs are never just one or another specific reference but rather quite open ended with many meanings behind it. Who knows though, thats just my take on it.

but yeah, regardless, its all awesome and psychedelic

I listen to tool quite a bit...although I find %90 of their music way too overbearing to listen too while with DMT ( i do have one playlist with all the more-mellow stuff though)

It seems to me that these guys (tool) have explored different states of being, but to say that any one song is about one thing goes against how I feel about their music.

Rosetta stoned covers everything from LSD, X and DMT to Sunkist oranges and sudafed..(common remedies for the stuffed up snothead feeling you get after a night of brain pounding) not to mention all the rips on pop culture and alien abduction.

The one thing I love most about there music is that when I listen to their older music I get different meanings from those I thought when I was younger. I imagine that I will take something different from them again when I'm 50.

Certainly, without a doubt, I believe that these guys have experienced DMT and that its influence can be heard in the music and lyrics. However, I do not think that rosetta stoned is about a profound DMT trip.

I think its a funny story about a guy who gets whacked out on whatever (the song mentions many drugs) and has either a close encounter or a massive hallucination experience. He is trying to tell the doctor (from the intro) what happened. But, after a lengthy (and comical) narrative, he is unable to recall the 1 message that the "aliens" conveyed to him to pass along .... He blew it or "shit the bed again"

Anyhow...thats what I take from it now. I think about the aliens.... and how frustrating it would be to pick a guy up with hopes to send a message to the people of earth...and the guy is so whacked out that he misses the point entirely.

interesting take on it

I also agree that the songs are about so many things and not just one or another specific subject, but this rosetta stoned strikes me sooooooo much as a dmt trip, its an unbelievably accurate description.. Like the part I quoted, its so many exact elements of dmt trip that its hard to think its not specifically about DMT. Personally I see no connection at all between the song and X or LSD (even having taking it in very large doses, the description still doesnt fit it at all.. The only thing I see about X is the letter "x" in the beginning of the song, nothing else, and of lsd, the only connection is that this song is introduced by the 'blame hofmann' song, but nothing else in the lyrics that even remotely make me think)

not that it matters though, either way its all great music, but since this is a tool topic I think the discussion fits

I'm convinced that rosetta stoned is about dmt. But, music can be interpreted in many ways.

Tool rock my world! Very good band and would love to see em' in concert.

fuck me
it's gotta be
deadhead chemistry
blotter got right on top of me
got me seein E-motherfuckin-T

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well ther is one line:



That totally says lsd to me

I had never really thought of X either...but when I heard it in the lyrics I figured..eh maybe.



edit: started writing this reply well before I actually hit "post" someone already said the same.

Ya TOOL is freakin awesome. Gotta love that unique sound.

People like tool too much.

Don't get me wrong, individual tracks they have done have been way up there with the best of them, but for some reason I can never listen to one of their albums from start to finish.

Great live though.

as your attorney, I advise you to skip "prison sex"

I will attempt to like them less for the next few days but after that......