You can see nature you may understand the basics of it, but you can still enjoy it, and it can affect you in many ways. “Why do we have to explain everything? Entertainment can be like going in the woods.
“Most people think, ‘What are you guys about? Explain yourselves, your music, your videos,’” Jones says disgustedly. Read more: Tool prove ‘Fear Inoculum’ was worth the 13-year wait-review If facts, lyrics and assorted minutiae are what you’re seeking from Tool, here is a public service announcement: Tool advise you to think for yourself before somebody does it for you. What motivates the band-guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey, singer Maynard James Keenan and bassist Justin Chancellor-to create lengthy rock opuses in a culture where ennui sets in at the touch of a remote-control unit? You want to know the band’s lyrics, examine their belief systems and ponder the significance of the floating eyes, the contortionist and the other shifting images that appear on the cover of Tool’s new Zoo album, Ænima. You are reading this story because you want to know what inspires the four members of Los Angeles band Tool.