Tool & APC (Maynard James Keenan)

[ab381]

Hey guys , long time no see

i was just listening to A Perfect Circle today , specifically the song '3 Libras' and i came to the realization that it might be possibly one of the most beautiful tracks that i might have ever heard. Its also weird because Ive listened to that track 100 times over and each time i do it just gets better to the point of today when it almost became like a psychedelic/meditative experience .

I also am a big fan of Lateralus and i was wondering if you also are big fans of Tool or APC and whether you have had any psychedelic experiences while naturally listening to them or what experiences you have had while listening to them while tripping on DMT

Thanks for reading guys, just really felt like i needed to discuss this.

 

[dooby]

When I was still a young lad - around the time when "Prison Sex" and "Sober" were relatively successful in our local alternative scene - Tool played at a huge festival that we visited...

"Sober" was one of my favourite tracks at the time, and just as the band started playing the song, I was launched into a crowd-surf that took me all the way from the front to the back and back again and left to right across the area where people (2- 3000?) were watching the show and it didn't get put down again until the song was finished...I had literally been all over the place

I must have been 18 or so at the time and I didn't do any drugs yet, but it definitely was a trip

 

[sakana]

I'm not a huge fan, but I remember someone telling me they had a song that is meant to be listened to while taking a bit of dmt, not sure if that's true?

Heard a few puscifer songs that are really good, not heard much APC, but tool just doesn't do it for me musically.

 

[endlessness]

I think that tool is specially amazing, though I feel I have over-listened to them and am taking a long break.

What I enjoy about it is the mixture of good instrumental architectures with weird time signatures, plus lyrics featuring existencial and psychedelic themes, and that display deep awareness.

As many might know, the song Rosetta Stoned is about some kind of breakthrough trip, it has references to acid but also mentions DMT (and does sound like a DMT trip to me). Do check the lyrics if you haven`t, very funny and spot on.

In 2014 once their new album hopefuly comes out, I`ll definitely take a large dose of some psychedelic and listen to it for the first time

 

[HumbleTraveler]

I too am a huge tool fan and have been since 97ish. I was still very young then (actually about 10 years old) and theyre still one of my favorite bands. I prefer to have my environment totally silent as I find the natural auditory artifcats of a spice trip very intruiging, though I did have a track of Terence Mckenna playing in the background because I find the quirky'ness of his voice and how he speaks very relaxing. But I still prefer no sound.


Im with endlessness though, Im taking a little break from my incessant listening of them. I currently cycle between Gojira, Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, and Primus haha. I dont actually have a lot of music on my ipod but these are also a few of my core favorites.

If you enjoy heavier metal, Gojira are absolute masters of intensity with a lot of nature/spiritual themes. As heavy as they are, their guitars are very naturally crunchy and not disgustingly overdriven. The Way of All Flesh and Art of Dying I highly suggest listening to and reading the lyrics. Meshuggah, who I also love, specifically check out Pineal Gland Optics for some relation to what we experience 8)

 

[Metanoia]

Tool has been the most influential band in my life, hands down. I decided to become a musician after hearing the Undertow album for the first time. I absolutely love everything they do. I love all the Perfect Circle stuff as well. Puscifer I still enjoy, but has a very different feel to it so I haven't been as deeply influenced by Maynard's solo stuff.

I've had countless psychedelic experiences with Tool on in the background. Also experiences while sober. This song in particular really put me there when I first bought the Salival album.
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Probably hundreds of LSD trips accompanied by Third Eye. When I hear it now it actually induces flashbacks :shock: :lol:
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[dreamer042]

For quite some time Tool was my preferred journeying music. It's really incredible how much music can effect a DMT experience. For me personally the songs that I believe were meant for smoking DMT to are Parabol and Parabola, something incredibly special about those two songs in particular. Another song that I found particularly well suited for the DMT experience is Lateralus, the mathematical precision of that one tends to merge well with hyperspace.

There are of course some songs I wouldn't really want to smoke DMT to, Prison Sex immediately comes to mind :lol:. I had some pretty strange experiences with 46 and 2 and Aenima as well that I'm not sure I'd really want to repeat. In the 90's I would love to take LSD and listen to the whole Aenima album and the entire Lateralus album is particularly well suited the longer lasting psychedelics.

I find APC a little heavy for tripping music, there is a lot of powerful concepts in their music that I'm not sure would lend themselves to the most enjoyable experience for me personally. I do love APC very much though. Puscifer is just a lot of fun all around, I think the song The River might be a very good one to accompany a journey though I haven't tried that for myself quite yet.

Maynard does great work, it seems like everything he touches turns to gold. Not to in anyway downplay the amazing talent and genius of the other members of Tool and APC, truly some of the greatest musicianship I've ever encountered. I have to agree with Endlessness that it's time for something new already.

 

[universecannon]

Tool was the most mind blowing live show i've ever seen... Nothing else has even come close for me

 

[112233]

New Tool album in 2014........

 

[HumbleTraveler]

Third Eye, Lateralus, Disposition, and Reflection I could see being quite awesome on a trip. Especially Reflection, it's one of my favorites and the lyrics fit our experiences very closely. I actually just found this now and its the song put to a movie of a guy who drinks what seems like Ayahuasca. Very fitting

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[Parshvik Chintan]

what, no love for puscifer?
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also $5 says that 2012 (lmao) album doesn't come out before 2015

 

[dio]

When I was like 13 and I first heard the song lateralus, and it hit the second guitar solo to the end, I felt a tingle from the base of my spine that then shot up my spine and my back and felt so good. It made something click, and from their I become obsessed with music, which let me deeper into tool, and deeper into psychedelics and spirituality. Very literally that track sort of 'pinged' my kundalini energy and made it poke through for me to feel it to start me on my way.