Video Demonstrating Kundalini Awakening

[Korpo]

I think that the tornness creates the music as is. It makes it a marketable good, as it speaks to the torn people out there. It does not so much provide answers, but share the sentiment.

* The Smashing Pumpkins play in the background on a festival *
Lisa Simpson: It may be bleak, but this music is really getting to the crowd.
Bart simpson: Eh, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel.

I don't know if they could express as musicians something else. I am pretty sure it would actually impact their commercial success if they really tried to do so. I don't think most of the audience is making the same change, even if Tool did.

Or the other way round - it took me a decade since then to make the choice away from negativity. It takes a conscious choice at some point.

Until then:

All you know about me is what I've sold you,
[...]
I sold out long before you ever even heard my name.
I sold my soul to make a record,
[...]
and then you bought oooooooooooone!

All you / read and / Wear or / see and
Hear on / TV / Is a / product /
Begging / for your / Fatass / dirty / Dollar.
So ... Shut up and
Buy, my
Buy, myyy
new record

(by Tool)

Guess that says it all.

Oliver

[Christian]

Korpo:

Cool to find someone here who likes Tool (I assume you do).

The thing with Tool as I understand it is that it's hard to know when they're ironic and not.
Gotta use your head and heart. As they often say: think for yourself.

So that last quote (and i know you know) is probably ironic and maybe not ironic at the same time.

To me Tool is a double edged sword, reminds me of yin and yang, kundalini and enlightenment. Which is what they're really about, getting people awake (in many different ways).

And they create some kickass music too.