Yeah, I know; I'm at the point of barely even giving a crap either. The fact of the matter is that as much as I say I don't care, I'm all friggin' over new information… because it's Tool.
We've gone over this a few times here at Metal Injection over the past few months, and by golly we're going to once more. In an interview with Revolver Magazine, Adam Jones said-
It’s unfortunate that we haven’t put anything out in a while, but you know, we’ve changed as a band. It’s just like a marriage—you grow older, people change, and you’ve gotta adapt or move on. We’ve become even more eclectic and distant, so getting things done and getting together is very hard. There are a lot of other interests. But what I really want people to know is that it’s not a bad thing. I’m serious. I think there’s a little more respect now, and when there’s compromise, it’s a little more open. I don’t know if that’s just a matter of getting older and going, “Ah, fuck it,” or what.
I’ve been with these guys a long time, and we’ve outlasted all of our peers. I mean, I try to think of the bands we came up with that haven’t broken up or broken up and gotten back together, and I can’t think of one band. OK, the Melvins. But that’s it. And we kind of set that up early by deciding that no matter who does what we’re gonna split everything four ways. Some decisions have to be unanimous. Others are put to a vote. We’re really involved in the business side. We write our own checks. But as far as the writing? It’s been a little more lax—as in relaxed. But it’s nice. We live kind of cushy lives now, so we get together when we want. It makes everything go slow, which is unfortunate—we all would have liked to have been done with a new record a long time ago—but when it’s done, it’s gonna be good. And that’s the point. We’re not gonna put out something that sucks just to put it out. We also had two really bad things happen, things that I’m not gonna get into, that set us back emotionally and mentally. But we’re past them now, everybody’s recovered, and that process has kind of actually added to us focusing on being creative. So maybe sometimes bad things happen for a reason.
Alright, I get that the guys have other interests and the band has taken more of a back seat to that over the years. I can even respect the fact that they don't want to put out something iffy just for the sake of putting out a record, especially when you're of the status that Tool is in the industry. That being said, I think the real issue here is that fans are horribly impatient. Why get super angry about a band not releasing a record? They're taking their time and living their lives; they're just dudes, not a bunch of stalled machines with the primary focus of creating music.
I say when new Tool gets here, it gets here. Sick. Until then, whatever- there's plenty of other stuff to listen to. Bonus points for the band members acknowledging the situation as well.
