Tool
Los Angeles, CA
The Jello Loft
09/05/1991
Source: Soundboard
Courtesy of: onebear
This is the earliest known recording of Tool sans the demo tape. Time listed on site is the most common of the cassette>cd transfers out there. Anyway, certain people do have this recording and I have a good suspicion that this may make it out in some capacity as some people have given this to their friends, which is a cool thing to do. Although, some of these same people claim to be altruistic and saints - think we all know that people that proclaim to be something are most likely the opposite. Agreed? The vocals are very high in this mix, the bass is low, the guitar is low and the drums are present but not overpowering. Not like MJK’s voice is. Whew. Even while living in an apartment in California working at a “Hell’s Pizza” place (am I kidding? No.) you can hear, with this indisputable proof, the power of his voice. It will blow you away. This is the earliest known recording of Tool - ever. Although I am sure that somewhere there are even older shows ;o) As it is, this SBD recording has a little bit of high-frequency tape hiss that coats the show and due to the couple generations (and years) it took to get this on CD in some capacity, there is some tape hiss. This is hardly an issue though is it? As a note, I have encountered at least two other tape>CD transfers other than my transfer. That said, if you run across a CD copy of this show your CD time may vary from someone else’s slightly. However, all transfers are incomplete and have the exact same setlist and flaws. Enjoy them.
Maynardism:: “There’s a celebrity here tonight, one of the banditos d’amour from the Rollins stage presentation is here, one Ken Butler, who will be signing autographs by the concession stand so line up please, one at a time. We’re still not very professional so don’t expect all that much. So, how did the MTV Awards go? Losers.”
Maynardism: “Last beer for you, Buddy.”
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Setlist:
(sound-check)
Cold & Ugly
Undertow
Sober
Crawl Away
Sweat
Flood
4°
(tape switch)
Hush
Opiate
(cut at beginning)
Jerk-Off
(missing completely)
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“Undertow”
(performed - working lyrics)
Two days & I’ve been Baptized in
Your voice it speaks from deep beneath the endless water
It’s twice as clear as heaven, twice as loud as reason
Cold and deep like silt on a riverbed
Just as never ending
Opens up around me it just beckons oh
I’ll swallow it, surrounds and drowns and wash me away.
Shut up. Shut up now.
Want you to be me, just enough to get inside me not enough to kill my mind,
Just enough to be on my side now.
Three days & I’ve been knocked down by your voice.
It screams, from deep, beneath the raging water
It’s half as clear as heaven, half as clear as reason
Cold and deep like silt on a river bed just as un-disturbing.
The current smiles below me, opens up around me - it just beckons
Oh I’ll swallow it, surrounds and drown and wash me away.
Shut up, shut up now.
Want you to be on my side, she’s the one who gets in my face for
She’s the one who wanted me, not enough to get on my side,
Hear you say, drown, she didn’t mind
Turn the other way!
You fall in-uh, you fall in-uh, you fall in-uh, you fall in-uh.
Right back down, I’m in the Undertow, I’m helpless and I’m
Way down beneath the Undertow - there’s nothing that I can say,
I’m in your Undertow, there doesn’t seem no other way,
I’m I’ll drown in your Undertow.
You, fall, with her.