Tool - Paris - 03.11.94 @ Elysee Montemarte

Source: DAT - Aiwa CM-30 > Sony TCD-D7
DAT:    DAT-1 > Digital Clone-2
CD:      Master > 2G CD
Taper:  S.D.
Notes: Real, real nice presence in sound - crisp, sharp, loud, intense & dead-on. Tool is in superb form this night. On the other hand, it sort of sounds like the performance was just down to a -T- as nothing really experimental or very unique transpired. Not a whole lot of crowd interaction but that is actually fine, is it not? The crowd is a little more loud & vocal than in other recordings at this time; maybe it was a Friday or a Sat. night; they usually tend to be a little more out of control. However, this recording is as good if not better than any of the other Tool recordings that Stephane brought into the world. In the final analysis, the recording is tight, performance is tight. All in all…this recording is very nice, all around. I am almost positive that the audio for this was transferred to cassette then ripped to CD. There are at least two different audio rips from the same recording floating around. The CD version listed above is from a 12/2002 rip done by the master. So, it as good as it can be, isn’t it?
Notes: by - Ryan A: This is one of my top 5 Undertow shows. The energy explodes out of this one. Tool dropped into a mammoth groove here and these Undertow songs just can’t be performed better or with more weight than they are this night. Everyone is on. Check out the groove Danny lays down during the repetitions of “Lie, Cheat and Steal.” An ape fan in the balcony keeps yelling “UGGH! MORE!” and sounds like a fucking ogre. Paul and Maynard have fun with him, and the band asks if he (”Thor / Lor”) is in the audience at the Strasbourg show a week later. All hail S.D. for taping these French gigs, particularly this one.

Time: 66:18
Setlist/Quotes:
 Cold & Ugly
Paul: “Sorry Chris I have to tune up. Hi. What’s he on?”
Intolerance
Paul: “Is it loud enough? Sorry.”
MJK: “This is the title track off our latest release. It’s called Undertow.”
Undertow
Paul: “This song is dedicated to the wildebeest. He’s up there. It’s called Sober.” 
MJK: “MORE! MORE!”
[referring to a fan who keeps yelling 'UGHH!' or 'MORE!']
Sober
MJK: “This is a love song. It goes out to Kevin Willis.”
Prison Sex
Swamp Song
Paul: “Who’s yelling for Prison Sex? We already played that, pay attention. John did I tell you today - yo momma. Joe’s momma. It’s a joke you wouldn’t understand.”
MJK: “MORE! MORE!”
4 degrees
Paul: “This song is dedicated to Satan and Craig from Mars.”
Opiate
Flood
MJK: “Aye Aye. Kevin … Kevin - MORE!”
Bottom

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Tool - Zurich - 06.09.93 - Switzerland

Source Information: Sound Board > DAT > CD > FLAC
INCORRECT Source Information: SBD > TCD7 > DAT Master > Oade 7 pin > Delta Dio 2496 > Wav > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend > Flac
MP3 Sample: Right click & save

Notes - Updated - 02/2008: A brief history; in 2003 someone torrented a few SBDs. The SBDs in question were floating around kind of under-the-table between people. However, some confused + generally jealous personality disordered folks manipulated basically a pawn (i.e.: the uploader) to spread these claiming a more or less “war on the elitists”. Now, this is strange for a number of reasons including the fact that there is no shadowy-underground world of Tool collectors, tapers & elitists that sit in ivory towers stroking their collection of rare Tool material. If you think about it, that’s a strange fantasy on a myriad of levels. Regardless, a few of these SBDs were torrented with fabricated source information, lineage & history - that is how most people attained them. This has led to some confusion in regards to the torrented 6/9/93 & the 2/4/93. I, myself, have the non-torrented (i.e.: correct) discs to conclusively determine what is what. So, the following set is correct for this performance: Intolerance / Part Of Me / Sober / Prison Sex / Opiate / Flood / Bottom. The torrented sound board also has the same set list. This, believe it or not the SBD ‘correct date or not’ has been an issue for some time. Now, it should be solved. I think the issue of confusion had a lot to do with some people just mislabeling this & the 2/4/1993 source. Since both were torrented at the same time it makes sense that people, somewhere, got confused. A friend of mine named Geordy happened to have the original torrents from ye
Notes - Updated - 02/2008: However, this source has been widely confused as 6/9/93 whereas the actual date of the performance is: 06/11/1993. There we go. This means, that there is NO ACTUAL KNOWN PERFORMANCE OF 06/09/1993 TO BE IN CIRCULATION OR EXISTING OTHERWISE. This appears to be a mistake from numerous years ago from the folks that put together the dates in the first place.

Maynardism: “This song is about a, this song is about a two-thousand year old Arabian folk-tale involving a thief that someone nailed to a stick in the middle of a garbage dump… ever since then it’s been real difficult to find a decent meal on Sunday & we’re kind of angry about it. Just kidding.”

Time: 50:16

Setlist:

Intolerance
Part Of Me
Sober
Prison Sex
Opiate
Flood
Bottom

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Tool - Batschkapp - 01.27.93 - Frankfurt

Source: Soundboard > Analog Cassette-1
Gen: 3rd Gen Cassette > CD (please excuse the very basic source info but deal)
MP3 sample: Right click & save

Notes (2006):
This was torrented on dimeadozen.org by CU.org in October, 2006. To most people, this was a recording that would be considered “new” however there were a LOT of collectors who had this recording & the other SBD torrented, 09/05/1991. I do not advocate collecting recordings via FLAC or whatnot, I released this show so the maximum amount of people would benefit from the release. Among other issues associated with this, collectors were using this to attempt to extract X amount of recordings for this source, thereby creating more of a “value” for it. Sort of like an underground, black market Tool-live-recording trade. Other variables aside, by torrenting this recording, that removed the value placed on this. This was also released in remembrance to one of our one, Bjorn AKA onebear. The passing of someone who shares this hobby with you & was as much of an online buddy, so to speak, as you could be cuts close to the matter of things. Assists in keeping things in perspective.
Notes (2006):
If you listen close to the guitar-only riff of “Maynard’s Dick” between Intolerance + Hush, the acutely in-tune collector will notice the similarity to this riff & many performances from the US Fall tour in 2006 - listen & compare.
Notes (old):
Well, good for you - you found another “Easter Egg” on this site. There are more, not that it matters all that much to you. Maybe it would mean more if you won something, how about a big fat bag of air? Sweet for you! All messing around aside, this is one of my favorite SBD recordings of this band that we know & appreciate. Not only does this performance feature the only known “flood-ish” fade-in to Intolerance (amazing), is exceptional quality but also features a couple strums from Adam’s guitar where Maynard’s Dick would be if they played more than 15 seconds of guitar… so, would that mean that this was a Maynard’s Dick tease intro to Hush? Paging Dr. Freud. There are people in the Tool community out there that have this recording, talking to you mind-rapers & hypocrites so be on the lookout. This has been around, in some capacity for a very, very long time. Since the mid 1990’s if memory serves. In fact, this was one of the first SBDs of Tool I attained way back in the day. Although I wish that this was “out” as this is one of the best performances -ever- by Tool from this era, if it is going to be so, I will have nothing to do with it after seeing the disrespect of so many and the appreciation of so few. Just kidding… just kidding… real boring? Time listed below seems to be the most common of the cassette>cd transfers out there.

Maynardism:
“Hi - we’re Tool, we’re from Los Angeles - this is another song. Maybe not.”

Time: 46:46

Setlist:
01) (Flood-like intro)
02) Intolerance
03) Maynard’s Dick (Adam only)
04) Hush
05) Sober
06) Prison Sex
07) Swamp Song
08) Opiate
09) Bottom
(cut 3/4 way through)
Jerk-Off
(missing)

Source: collectiveunconscious

Tool - Medicine Show - 07.25.92 - Hollywood Palladium

Notes: This is referred to as the ‘Medicine Show’. Tool opened for Rage Against The Machine. The recording itself is very rough, raw, slightly brickwalled, distant & is for those reasons probably make it a collector’s item. As the tape starts, the recorder says “Tool’s up, Tool’s up” as they come out on-stage. This is the only known acoustic performance to have been recorded - live. It is not long, about 2 minutes as it is then metamorphosized into, of all songs, Disgustipated. Very, very interesting recording - perhaps the shortest gig they’ve ever done or else it is incomplete, no one is sure. Or are they? After Tool walk off stage…. a Rage Against The Machine live set, then the recording cuts out. During the first Rage song, a shotgun goes off & I think it may be Maynard doing what he did during the performance of Disgustipated. Judging by the Shotgun blast & screams from the crowd during the first Rage song, he does it again then. This recording seems to show up on some copies of 08.29.93 as one long-track. The Rage set is almost poorer quality, audio-wise. But, it sounds to me, honestly, like tape fuzz from a VHS. I could be wrong but it sounds like a 4-5 Generation transfer to CD. This is performance every fan should listen to, if at least on a few occasions. Interesting, all around.
Notes: Recently, another version of the same recording source has surfaced. The amount of Tool’s performance is unchanged, but the Rage Against The Machine set is included. This is rather rare, apparently. I’m sure that will change soon enough but it is good to realize there are different versions floating around.

Maynardism:
“Can you hear us ok? We’ve never been unplugged before. This is a song we used to play in L.A. a long time ago, it’s uh, a very short song — it’s called Maynard’s Dick.”

Version 1 ((Common Version))
CD Time: 10:05

Setlist:
Tool
01) Maynard’s Dick (acoustic)
02) Disgustipated (Shotgun blasts, disturbing voice effect)
Rage Against The Machine
03) Unknown

Version 2 ((transfer to CD by Galen))
CD Time: 33:20

Setlist:
Tool
01) Intro (talking)
02) Maynard’s Dick (acoustic)
03) Disgustipated (Shotgun blasts, disturbing voice effect)
Rage Against The Machine
04) Unknown (Trrack transition , cut in beginning. Song is same as Unknown (track 7).
05) Bombtrack
06) Take the Power Back
07) Unknown
08) Tool set + RATM set

Source: collectiveunconscious

1991 Tool - Cassette Demo Tape

Notes / 2006: Finally, a replacement copy that is authentic. New scans above.
Notes: Tool’s demo tape. They are studio quality but have a slight tape hiss to the them, which is actually pretty hard to pick out. Interesting if you want to hear the demo’s. This was originally only in cassette format & was distributed at gigs. Soon, copies were made & they started spreading out. The demos even ended up on bootlegs like Sleep Forever. Word has it that they last one they gave out to a fan somewhere in the mid-west US during 1992 from the sound engineer or crew. Most copies of the demo tape are from MP3 source, this is not. There is a rumor that Tool did a cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train but all that is - a rumor. Also, there is an unreleased Rage Against The Machine w/Tool collaboration entitled “Kill The Revolutionary” that features both bands. It is of rough quality & was a demo for the film Judgment Night but was not used nor did it make it on the soundtrack — in case you don’t know, back in 1992/1993, the soundtrack featured bands like Cypress Hill w/Sonic Youth, Helmet w/House Of Pain & other metal/rap acts to collaborate on an album. Good movie as well. Anyway, the songs below are the actual studio demos, nothing ‘illicit’ or really unreleased.
Note: There are quite a few counterfeit cassette copies floating around. Beware - eBay may not be your friend.

Time: 22:41

Setlist:
Original Cassette Demo

3:45 = Cold & Ugly
2:37 = Hush
2:56 = Part of Me
4:46 = Crawl Away
4:29 = Sober
3:57 = Jerk-Off

Source: Collectiveunconscious