2006 08 27 - TOOL @ The Gorge
Now this was a busy day. Christelle woke up and went to work at 5am; I woke up at 7am and finalized the house. Christelle got home around 10am again and then we cleaned out the fridge into the cooler, packed up our cleaning supplies and headed over to my Dad's so I could take a shower. Then we were supposed to meet my brother Buc who was in town from Belmont, CA at a tattoo shop, but that didn't work out so we met him at a Zip's and had a nice long catching up session, then Janis came as we were leaving and then we departed.
We went back to my Dad's and ate delicious spaghetti and had ice cream afterwards while watching America's Funniest Home Videos. My sister didn't eat with us because she had already left for the TOOL concert to camp out a great spot. After eating with Dad we had to go back to the apt and turn in all of our keys, unfortunately the $600 worth of 16" tires I had in the garage had to stay, as well as Christelle's old huge wood TV on a lazy susan base. Then we headed to the Gorge running late. We stopped and got some food to take in, and then went to the show.
We got there about 30 minutes before the show started but had to wait about that long in the line to the Honey Bucket to get ready for the show. Then we got back in line and they herded us through. Christelle successfully and easily snuck her camera in, but the caps to our water bottles were confiscated for some retarded reason. Then we found the shirt booth, we waited in that during the entire opening band, then we got our awesome shirts and headed to the hill.
It was intermission at the time and I looked down among the masses and just opened my mind to the way. I ended up taking a winding meandering path to the right side of middle by about 15 degrees. At one point I stopped at a barricade of people and had to choose right or left, so I followed my instincts again and as I took the path we found my sister smiling and waving at us. It only took us about 3 minutes to find them in the huge ass crowd, it was awesome. We talked excitedly and sat on the blanket as we waited for TOOL to come on. After waiting for about an hour or so the show started, and boy was it crazy.
The entire stage was all white and there was no back drop behind them, just these weird white cubes. Instead of playing the videos on a screen they played it on the entire white stage and the weird white blocks, it looked amazing, but I would have like to see the full videos in detail, but hey, it was awesome anyways. The sound was amazing, we were up on the hill so I couldn't feel the bass as much as I would like to but it was plenty loud. A few times Adam Jones' effects and stuff got a little to piercing on the ears, but it was only a few times.
They played an awesome set list, Maynard broke the silence by saying "blah blah blah" and then instantly starting into
Stinkfist, a badass song to start out the show with, Jesus, it was even the extended version with all of Maynard’s little voice fills, then
The Pot, which was so friggin awesome, I wish I could have been up at the front to feel the bass, because that song was badass
Next was Forty Six & 2. At this point we couldn't believe the lineup they were playing; every song was just so awesome,
Next was the much anticipated Jambi, it was amazing to see these guys actually playing this stuff, so great,
On to Schism, Danny Carey's electric drum stuff was sounding so sweet, and I think it was after this or before it I am not sure, but they just did this awesome little jam between them, it was sweet.
Then Maynard broke in at the end with "wake up drunk bitches!" and the crowd roared.
Then the craziness started with Rosetta Stoned, for Maynard’s voice on this one it was a triple repeat that was fast so it garbled the words but you could make out the somniferous almond eyes or whatever that means part and it was funny, he was awesome to watch doing this part and confirmed my suspicions that it was about Justin because he went over to Justin during it and it felt like there was something there.
After that Maynard said,” some of you might remember this one from long ago" and then busted out Opiate, he had a lot of feeling while he was singing and it sounded great. They did a little part where Maynard would sing for us to repeat, which nobody was smart enough to understand while the band jammed, then they would sing one line, the band would keep playing, then they tricked us a few times before they came back into the chorus, it was awesome.
Then they did a short Merkaba with some ear piercing moments, but an awesome pulsing back lit Danny Carey looking like a heart in the sea, this led into Sober which was started quite roughly by Justin but evened out once everybody else came in and then said they were leaving.
The crowd was roaring and applauding and lighter started to get held up... then more and more people put them up. Then the ENTIRE crowd had lighters, cell phone lights, everything in the air, it was the most amazing breathtaking moment at a concert ever. It went on for a few minutes and then Maynard replied with true appreciation, "Thank You" and they started into the encore of Lateralus, which should have had that badass video they always had on a back screen, but the other visuals were unique and awesome.
Then to Vicarious which was definitely a live powerful song, and then closing with Aenima, right before though Maynard went "woohoo!" in a hilariously faggish voice, and then said "Peace Out", the lighting and stuff went with the music really well and it was an awesome way to finish it off. During the last three songs these crazy light vines rose and did crazy patterns while the super powerful green lasers blasted out over the crowd and onto the stage. There was no end to those laser beam and they lit up the sky, the smoke machines they were using were at the highest caliber like the lasers too. After they were done, they walked around the huge white stage and really soaked it all up, it was awesome they stayed out a long time talking with the people in front and throwing drum sticks and water.
It took about 1 hour just to get out of the venue and into the parking lot. Then we all went to my sister's car and chilled for an hour while the craziness of 15,000 people trying to leave a grass parking lot all at once. As we were sitting on the tailgate talking some douche bags next to us in the back of a truck were talking about us. I was the only one who actually were paying attention to them and they were like, "these idiots don't even know we are just sitting and listening to everything they say", and "well at least we got these guys to entertain us" followed by sneers, so I said,” lets go to this side of the car cause these guys are all douche-bags" and the lame people were just silent. Then we sat in the grass on the other side and had some good conversations without a bunch of jackasses listening in.
Then we departed and went back to our car. It was starting to clear out but we waited another 45 minutes for it to really clear out, then we headed out without any stress like it would have been earlier. By this time it was about 2am and we had a 3 hour drive ahead of us and would then have to get up to go to school at 8am. We stopped at Shari's in Moses Lake and had a delicious meal and then headed home. We were super tired and had to switch drivers like 5 times, but we made it home at about 6:15am, and then got about 2 hours of sleep before going to 5 hours of school. Fun night, fun night
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