tool:a sad confession...

ok. i know i'll get railed by some subservient teenager who has grown up with Internet networking so that's what they have a trained care for it. i feel the same way i just imagine the generation after me must have been even further socialize as tech increased and availability did as well, etc. so one of you might come at me for this but in all honesty, maynard is getting so bad that he's affecting the pleasure i get from tool. now i'm as big as a tool fan as any of you i'm not here to argue that. tool is my favorite band. as has been since 2002. changed my musical perception. what i loved about them was their focus on the music. cutting out the mainstream shit. being passionately artists. not just products. as the events that surrounded the release of 10,000 Days showed a much more watered down tool with magazine covers and then the photography was terrible inside as well. no longer was tool just an amazing band, they had finally succumb to the commercial financial opportunities that await a succesful artist when they turn their works into commodities. it always was a commodity but now things become a little more aimed toward the financial aspect and not the art. as that unrolled alot of tool fans got very apprehensive. i think tool has nearly disappeared from the public eye. i remember days in ashland where you could not go 2 days without seeing a tool shirt. maybe that was just there but i hear similar shit from people in other places. these proud tool supporters and appreciaters felt excluded. like th art had suffered for the dollar. it was upsetting. but then maynard starts on this puscifer shit. and everyone thinks it'll be really good because of earlier Puscifer tracks (from the Underworld soundtrack i believe?) were really good (Rev 22:20 and The Undertaker (Renholder Mix)).but even at the time i didn't quite think every song was going to be so oddly sex focused. i mean have you heard Puscfer's ""V" is for Vagina"? i mean it is so weak. i mean what's that fucking title. then that weird cartoon devil? Maybe i was wrong in expecting another tool type project. but then that clothing line shit? i mean this seems like leeching off of tool's and a perfect circle's cult status by trying to financial dupe their loyal audience. and as much as i love a perfect circle you must admit it was somewhat aimed at commercial success. i mean think of the line up? and i mean that got popular. and tons of air play. i mean come on? i wouldn't mind this financial plug maynard's been pulling on us if all the shit was good. but then this "V" for Vagina shit is released. and it is utterly fucking terrible. inexcusably so. how could you like that shit? but it's just how i felt and how i see it. maybe i'm just complaining cause things change and i'm resilient and should be more compassionate to that and just appreciate what i had. so that's what i do. i say this but what maynard's other music has done in my life is astounding. so many nights just sitting ans soaking in Lateralus and Aenima. feeling it like i'd never felt music before. amazing. and i'll never lose those feelings and memories. i don't mean to sound harsh but i miss those feelings. i associated maynard's music with those feelings. maybe that was unjust of me. either way tool will always be the greatest musical experience i've ever had. much love.