so I got an email from Aaron this morning about the show (Volto! featuring Danny Carey on drums) he and Matt went to last night. I was invited, but the show didn’t start till 9:30 so I knew I’d be dead tired by the time it was over…<\/p>\n
anyway…without further jealous blabbering on my part here you go:<\/p>\n
email from Aaron to Andrew Friday January 21st 2005:<\/p>\n
no estes triste senor!<\/p>\n
Alright dude, first of all, the show was fantastic. the sound was great, it
\nwas like them playing in the living room and sound levels were perfect, such
\nan intimate setting. As the band is walking up to play (btw, there is no
\nstage, it’s all floor level) they are saying what’s up to all their friends
\nwalking through the door. it was like a gig in someone’s back yard. they did
\nsome original stuff and played a few of rock\/blues covers. Very interesting
\nand musically and technically amazing. Danny can do everything. Every
\nstyle, he was doing blues, jazz, fusion jazz, rock, they did it all. They
\ndid Fire from Jimi Hendrix and Texas Flood from Stevie Ray Vaughn. the
\nguitarist absolutely shreds, I could not believe how amazing he was. matt
\nand I were actually impressed by him more than anyone. Wow. Just wow. Ok,
\nso after the show I went up to Danny and patted him on the back and said
\ngreat show, he was like thanks man, we shook hands, i told him how much i
\nappreciated it. he was very cool, down to earth and a chatterbox, he was
\ntalking to everyone, so my whole image of him was shattered, I thought he
\nwas gonna be this serious, brooding guy. He was high smiling, high-fiving,
\ngiving ladies kisses, so that’s when I knew I could go in for the kill. I
\nwent to take a leak then I came back to talk to him because everyone was
\njust chillin talking with him at the bar, we were clinking beer bottles with
\nthe band, there was a small group of people just chatting with him, I guess
\nacquaintances and friends of the band, mailing list people, etc. I then
\ndecided to ask for an autograph and he was like “sure man, let me get my own
\npen.” he wanted to make sure that he signed with a sharpie for whatever
\nreason. So it was just myself and this one other guy and DC and we started
\ntalking about volto! and the projects he’s working on, and then I couldn’t
\nhelp myself but ask him about tool, i prefaced it with “you must be asked
\nthis a million times.. but..”. I asked him about tool’s future and he told
\nme “yeah, man we’ve got like at least 2-3 more albums to put out.” I asked
\nhim about the DVD and he said that “it’s definitely gonna happen, there’s
\njust some issues with the company who’s putting it together and conflicts
\nwith rights to video concert footage, etc.” it should be out before the end
\nof the year for sure. then I was thinking sweet, so then i just confirmed
\nwith “so the DVD is definitely happening?” he was like “for sure man”. so i
\nasked if he could talk about the TOOL rumors of a coachella showing. this
\nis where i got an interesting response. He didn’t say no, but he didn’t say
\nyes. He said “Maybe” I told him about a NIN TOOL double bill and he said,
\nI dont know maybe. that doesn’t mean NO. because i think if it were a NO
\nhe might just say no, and what does he have to benefit by lying about an
\nappearance. i figure if they’re not gonna play it, why would they care
\nabout misleading people into thinking they would play it. So Matt figured
\nthere was probably a contractual obligation thing where they couldn’t say
\nexactly yes so they have to say maybe, because that might be simpler for the
\nrecord company or whatever or the coachella promotional people seeing as
\nthere is no confirmed list yet. you have to go the next one so you can meet
\nand chat with DC he’s cool people. He had a cool Fishbone t-shirt with the
\nsleeves cutoff, playing in the usual KU shorts. anyway, i’m just hyped cuz
\ni got to meet one of my favorite drummers and actually talk to him in that
\nkind of a setting for a little while. your ass better be there next time, i
\ndont care how tired you are. you don’t get many opportunities like this \ud83d\ude09
\nthey’ll be at “la ve lee” next month. later player.<\/p>\n
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\nHe is probably right about not lying about the Coachella. When I met Abe Cunningham years ago I asked him if they would do Ozzfest again (as there were rumors that they would). He said “No, we hated that.” The Deftones were never on the bill for ozzfest again.<\/p>\n
The best live shows I’ve ever seen (considering stage presence, lighting, sound levels, everything) go like this: #1 Nine Inch Nails #2 TOOL #3 Pantera<\/p>\n
Now obviously we aren’t going to get a triple bill since Dimebag is gone, but if you put the first two together, I’m there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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