two more live remasters- San Diego 1998 and Reno 2014
Live at RIMAC Arena, San Diego, 29 March 1998.
This is the one where Tool plays Kyuss’ Demon Cleaner with Kyuss bassist Scott Reeder guesting. I’ll assume this is the one and only time they ever played that one. Also, another performance of Stranglehold with Buzz from the Melvins. Nice to see Third Eye. Also the 60-second lounge version of Hooker with a Penis opens the show. Always nice to finish off a show with Jerk-Off.
Sound quality is pretty damn good. Lows are rock solid. Highs sound like it’s a tenth generation 128 mp3, so it has that whoosy-fooshy sound a little bit.
Live at Reno Events Center, Reno, 9 March 2014.
Justin sounding like he nicked his bass sound from Overkill. Maynard going with the distortion vocals more than he usually does.
I assume that somebody did some work on this one before I got my hands on it. It’s a normal audience bootleg, not a board tape, but somehow the guitar is panned hard left and bass is hard right. No audience recording can get separation like that, not even with some high quality XY mics. Did they do the thing where they reverse engineered some stems and then panned those during mixdown/export? That’s the only thing I can figure. Not a bad sound at all; I rather like it.
Thanks for listening.
Anders / Humorless Productions.
Both are here, for streaming and/or download-
https://archive.org/details/@anders_albers?query=tool+live&sort=-addeddate
I’ve actually finished two more, from FI tour, but I need to make some artwork for them. Those will be up by the end of the week.