TOOL-Lateralus 9.20.2001

[@joenamredla]

i love how into the song Maynard was getting at the end. He seems so much more expressive than he is nowadays. also the way his little speech and Adam's guitar riff transition at the start is so fucking amazing man, somehow it really gives a little more to the stuff Maynard was saying.

[@rexross6808]

um dude he is an old man now. it would be lame if he still acted like this on stage.

[@joenamredla]

Rex Ross I didn't mean he has to act the same way, just that he seems sorta disinterested these days and it'd be cool to see him a little more into it is all. He doesn't have to throw himself around like he did in the earlier days.

[@joenamredla]

Rex Ross I didn't mean he has to act the same way, just that he seems sorta disinterested these days and it'd be cool to see him a little more into it is all. He doesn't have to throw himself around like he did in the earlier days.

[@rexross6808]

Well tools music is quite aggressive and like I said he is quite old now so you have to imagine it must be hard to get in that zone. He wrote most of the songs in his late 20's early 30's. He still has a stellar voice despite having screamed his head off for 30 years.

[@christopherfisher5155]

Lol, "He seems so much more expressive than he is nowadays." No offense at all intended but this performance was 15 years old at the time of your comment and 17 when I replied. How expressive are you going to be at 52-54?

[@Webster109]

Holy shit, this song was done to absolute perfection live!

[@locrianphyrigian3779]

i've seen them 3 times and it is apparently every time. if you've never seen them, you should.

[@LeonOrenValentine]

Webster109 #lolz

[@caneyebus]

Indeed it was, I wasn't at this particular show, but I saw them in Houston 2 months after this on the same tour and, well, it was the fucking best shit ever.

[@caneyebus]

The way Maynard gets so involved into the music yet never wants to be the center of attention makes it clear the music and the meaning is what he cares about.

[@caneyebus]

I saw them in Houston in 98 when he was still doing the trans get up, I think all the attention he got made him decide to go into the shadows. It probably was the best idea he had.

[@SOAD498]

Beautiful.... Brought me to tears

[@rubaidaallen2764]

I witnessed it live 3X. Tears indeed.

[@tom6655]

@@rubaidaallen2764 so lucky!

[@rubaidaallen2764]

@@tom6655 EPIC 🔥🔥🔥

[@huntingtonst]

Agreed.

[@siddlynch]

Fuck yea

[@Jack-ot1zq]

I had tickets to tool for 9/12/01 What an incredibly healing moment.

[@MrJohnnyAOA]

That was a day after 9/11. Dark times. I am sure Tool can wash away the feeling of dread even for a while.

[@tristinnguyen9798]

How much were the tickets back then?

[@alldud13]

@@tristinnguyen9798probably like $20 lol i remember warped tour u could see a lot of bands for super cheap

[@thevengefulone57]

I love the way Maynard moves on stage. It's like the alien parasite that took over his body is still learning the controls.

[@KolyaUrtz]

that is how feeling the music actually looks like

[@MrJasonbushey]

I was at this show I'll never.forget it

[@rubaidaallen2764]

I'll never forget seeing Tool on this tour. One never forgets moments of sheer greatness 😌

[@bromidrosis3238]

Justin Chancellor looks like he is making love with that bass.

[@agreattimetoday]

Dylan Whell I aspire to be as dedicated to my music as them.

[@francescoerdas8115]

Unbelievable emotions....Lateralus, live..in 2001...❤🔝

[@JG-lc8do]

I am so glad I saw them in their prime.

[@rubaidaallen2764]

They're still in their prime. Have you seen them lately? If you haven't, do yourself a favor and get tickets when they reschedule their tour.

[@etho86]

​@@rubaidaallen2764Maynard's voice has been in decline since 2003 onwards. This was peak Maynard.

[@michalyne]

Watching the Revered Maynard and TOOL perform is always a Holy Experience....This is a good video and worth watching if you happen to be a Tool fan, fanatics welcome.

[@mojorisin7371]

Saw Tool for the 1st time in 2002. Great flawless performance, my body felt like it was in accident the next day. Couldn't stay still the whole show, had about 20 people dancing, loving, great time 💙

[@1Muzition1]

Really creepy at 4:00 how Adam is totally staring at the camera when it cuts back to him, its like a scene from a movie or something.

[@jffthr3283]

A witness can only manifest in the present

[@DR.DisInfect]

@@jffthr3283 the witness by Adam Jones is epic yes 👍 🎸

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

Dumb fucking comment.

[@Biggreenhat7]

Back in the day where recording meant carrying an M1919 Browning with a lense on the front

[@hhamudi]

7:45 making the guitar squueaaaaal!

[@blacklab3668]

with the haircut and red shirt adam looks like michael jackson from a distance :)

[@jdb123ize]

Uuuurrrrrrggggghhh OUTSTANDING!!!!! Man I hope the new album will be released this year!!!!!! Goosebumps all over me!!!!!! 👍👍👍

[@beckysherly8872]

3 years later nothing

[@thedobsonshow]

Before I pine away!!!!!

[@jeremymullins1294]

August 30th, 2019!!! almost there!

[@weoutchea3982]

JD Blatz you like the new album?

[@qislegit.donttrustthemedia6232]

@@weoutchea3982 I do!!!

[@bromidrosis3238]

It is honestly just so fucking awesome. Tool is and always will be on a whole other level.

[@MrGunwitch]

Humanity's musical peak.

[@styxenterprises]

band totally kicks ass

[@michaelbailey9765]

Danny drops a stick around 3 20 mark,never noticed if you don't see it.

[@Kalashn1kitty]

Michael Bailey not even noticeable... Good job Danny!

[@locrianphyrigian3779]

Wow. I think he might've broken the stick, but either way, amazing how unfazed he is.

[@johntombarello3599]

I think it’s a broken stick. Almost looks like he threw it to the ground

[@Vahagnll]

Smooth operator!

[@MrGunwitch]

The stick broke and he threw it. Seamless professional!

[@jboyer98]

I was there, great show. Thought they might not do it because of 9/11 but i think it made it even better.

[@ck2106]

I was there too! Great show.

[@ZeRo-ii2yu]

I was there...its like a dream now. Epic af🤘

[@MrJasonbushey]

Same man

[@rubaidaallen2764]

Ditto. Incredible.

[@SOAD498]

Fucking Inspiring

[@tallicaism]

It's as if they were recording the album right there. It's so perfect

[@Zeek-zc6oj]

Danny Carey is on a different level

[@Robin-fx5hf]

I love how quiet the crowd is during their performance. They're actually there to hear the damn music

[@rubaidaallen2764]

This was before cell phones were widely available. When I saw Tool on this tour, hardly anyone had a cell phone so people actually watched the show instead of checking their likes, texting, taking selfies, filming and the usual fuckery that goes on at concerts these days 🙄

[@thegoonbats]

Rubaida Allen Good thing is, Tool is very serious about their no phone or camera policy. The last 4 times that I've seen them, the security is on it. I've seen multiple people get kicked out for using their phone to film or take pics. Seriously though, if you're at a concert... Experience it. Watch and listen.

[@rubaidaallen2764]

@@thegoonbats Amen. I saw them a few months ago and security were not playing. 140 people got kicked out. It was amazing to see people actually complying with the phone ban. Everyone was staring at the stage, mesmerized by the mighty 4. It was a beautiful sight to behold. It was 2001 all over again.

[@DR.DisInfect]

Would love to go back to the days when tictoc was just the sound a ⏰ made

[@DR.DisInfect]

@@thegoonbats true but Maynard always says go ahead and take your phones out for StankFist 💩👊

[@biff022]

The rope chicks were actually a husband wife combo who appeared in the Schism video and subsequent dates on the Lateralus tour called Osseus Labyrint

[@mcbpd105]

I was at this show. Right after 9/11...

[@רבידנ-י5ק]

Love Maynard,Danny Is The Best Drummer Ever.

[@nolan3196]

maynards vocals at 7:09...

[@hewhofishes]

i never get sick of this night - i hate the word epic - this show was fucking epic!!!!

[@trollfinger]

TOOL_NJ The word can be reserved for something like this, because it is epic. It's like word "awesome" when used correctly, it's great to use.

[@rinorahmeti462]

whats the date?

[@oakynn7780]

Rinor Ahmeti 20/9/2001

[@udunwanaknow]

Masterpiece

[@jonmiller9925]

...to swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral.

[@briangriffin2829]

damn...the good ole days. This was when MJK performed live without acting like someone put a fucking gun to his head and told him to get on stage, like he does now...

[@a.j.e8814]

lmao you said that perfectly. He just doesnt really give a shit now a days. Maybe once they finally drop the album and tour with new music hell have a bit more interest in trying...but unfortunately hes just getting old.

[@thattypicalslimy8548]

A.J. Kicks No, he is just pissed at the people who give him shit for not making a tool album. and instead a pusifer album.

[@loopguru66]

Also maybe if half of the people who listen to TOOL didn't illegally download the albums he would be more enthusiastic

[@Kornholic]

This was filmed in 2001 when the songs were new like fresh from the oven. Have you considered that even these songs become tiresome to play when you're doing it the millionth time? It's ridiculous to expect this kind of enthusiasm from playing the same old songs in 2017. You'll have a point when Tool plays the new album live and Maynard still acts like the way you described.

[@MajorJonny]

This comment does not reflect the current state of the band in 2019+2020. I was at the last concert this year in Portland, and at the fall Los Angeles show.

[@EndridCold]

Great catch. This is my favorite concert theft cut. EXCELLENT~!

[@ReverendVegas]

So glad to see you once again... huntingtonst (ogt)

[@kristopherguilbault5428]

I was there ;) it was in the top 5 shows I've ever been to

[@seanmiddlehurst8838]

Them drums at 7:52

[@רבידנ-י5ק]

Amazing

[@SeanKL107]

I didn’t really get what he meant by ‘embrace positive feelings in the coming weeks’ at the beginning there, then I looked at the date.. This was a week after September 11th.

[@G4VINofficial]

Holy shit i was 3 months old

[@drewper73]

When I saw them on this tour in Birmingham, AL, they had two girls, and each one was doing Cirque du Soleil type acrobatics on two separate ropes. That's what I was really hoping to see again after all these years. I know it was this song. They were badass! I'm not sure where this is or how many months are between the date of the Birmingham show, 10/13/2001, & this one. I'm guessing this was before the rope chicks. Oh well, maybe I'll find it somewhere. Thanks for posting!

[@michellebladewilliams3741]

I was at the same show. Rained the entire show and it was fkn perfect

[@АлексейДягилев-т3н]

Вам повезло.

[@kennysmith605]

​@michellebladewilliams3741 it actually hailed on us at that show. It was like the weather followed him. On my life I swear

[@johnnyb6067]

Their newer shows are amazing but I miss their more stripped down shows.

[@GeneralYutubi]

Ever thought how Lateralus and Bold as Love use colours as a metaphor for self-exploration?

[@jambi2118]

5:23 someone sings along I think(they nailed it)

[@MrTumorHumor]

Is this the Michigan show? I had tickets for the Detroit show but then 911 happened. They offered vouchers to the Grand rapids show to anyone who had tickets for the Detroit. I was like 16 my sister took me and a friend. Meshughah opened for them. Amazing

[@hiteshcool451]

I wish I was intellectually evolved at 2001 so that I was into tool by then. But I was just a 10 year old. 😣

[@user-qf7rw2jn2l]

You see, to understand tool it is required a very high IQ

[@jmm2466]

@@user-qf7rw2jn2l hahaha

[@pjotrvangriensven]

This album was released on my birthday back in 2001. That being said, it was my first birthday so there wasn't much for me to enjoy yet :(

[@rubaidaallen2764]

You missed greatness. Tool were on fire between 1990 and 2002. The main thing those like yourself missed, was the absolutely electrifying, mindblowing stage presence of the incomparable MJK. This man was a force to be reckoned with during that 12 year period. Don't get me wrong, Keenan is still an amazing frontman with a voice that is beyond compare, but he's mellowed big time. That intense level of performing, witnessed by others, myself included, will never be seen again sadly. Adam, Justin and Danny are still the same incredible musicians they've always been. Melting faces wherever they go. Tool is still an AWESOME band live. There is something incomprehensibly special about those 4 human beings. Seeing them live during the Opiate, Undertow, Aenima and Lateralus eras, those were the Creme de la creme years my friend.

[@phildegraves9024]

said the same exact thing at the show at great woods in mass, infinity center its called now i think, two weeks after 9/11

[@ricd2821]

9 days after 9/11 the emotion fuck

[@jlateralus21]

G.O.A.T.

[@harrisonp.8198]

SPIRAL OUT

[@blackdog5186]

I want my dreads to be as long as Chancellor's hair

[@cristobalopazourzua8440]

Yeeeaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@sauledcoch8156]

Ha played one day after my birth. Awesome

[@LalebKuke]

Wonder how many servicemen were in the audience that night about to deploy into hell on Earth. Makes you wonder if this was someone's last concert

[@AuraDeOnyx]

I remember this exact concert. Lol, Justin I still owe you fifty bucks 😂😅 We did not take the Porsche for a joyride!!! Hahaha

[@LeonOrenValentine]

Is Maynard in controle of his own voice effects?

[@mercuryrising9174]

That's mostly organic

[@kevinburt5928]

The show in Orlando was gas x infinity

[@dekadenser]

Fuck me, this is awesome

[@vinamragehlot572]

Danny dropped and picked up his left hand stick without even sweating @3:19

[@drewper73]

I didn't understand the last part of your comment. Wait...I think I got it now. The husband and wife team are called "Osseus Labyrinth"?

[@westcoastchomp]

Hahahahahaha Maynard gets down

[@ShlokNair]

3:01 That part just feels like getting hit in the heart

[@kennysmith605]

Was the Birmingham show where we got hailed on?

[@dooberheim]

When does he breathe? from 8:08

[@brendanlanglais1180]

oh shit, where did Maynard go after their group hug!!!???

[@calebm3466]

Are those more heads at the base of Adam's amps?

[@manwithtwoeyes6911]

I like the clapping just before it dropped

[@joedell5941]

this was in portland maine i beleive, i saw the next nights show at what was then great woods in mass

[@joedell5941]

same here

[@napoleonsolo5929]

I was at both shows.

[@XenoMecha]

I was at the Cleveland show a few days earlier. We thought it might cancel after the attacks on 9/11.

[@rubaidaallen2764]

@@XenoMecha Saw them about a month after 9/11. You want to talk about the vibe being off. The show was spectacular, but the vibe. I think about that everytime I see video of Tool from the Lareralus era.

[@AuraDeOnyx]

Ohh wow

[@xbriskx]

Maynard is wearing a t shirt?

[@Musistics]

Morning lovelies.

[@cynzia_d]

10:57 Maynard disappears

[@DR.DisInfect]

He might of faded like a sigh if he stayed... you can't minimize his movements anyway

[@yashraut8758]

Gone to the right

[@Spooner497]

wirds bald???

[@666MusicIsLife666]

@ejs448 Got that right!

[@darylcumming7119]

The spiral.

[@cbr7743]

5:17

[@biff022]

This is almost as good as that one Mumford and Sons song...

[@calibus]

9 days after 9/11

[@supertarzy]

Danny looks like Copeland on steroids

[@robhodgson8079]

kids songs

[@sydknee604]

Back when maynard actually cared lmao

[@joshhegarty8483]

wisecrack

[@josephb.1646]

Where was this show?

[@alldud13]

9 days after 9/11

[@philisaacs224]

4:00