If you're a huge TOOL fan...
 

...shouldn't you know about Danny Carey?

I stopped by the liquor store today and the guy tending the place was wearing a TOOL t-shirt. I asked him about his shirt and he said he's a huge fan.

We chatted a while and I mentioned that Danny Carey is from Paola and that I played basketball against him in summer leagues at Bell Recreational Center in KCK. The dude was completely baffled. Danny who?

ROFL Not a huge fan obviously.

A childhood friend of mine stepdad was cousins with the guy. They had closets full of TOOL gear, all signed, drums that where signed, all kinds of shit.

All 3 of the brothers now listen to country.

WTF!

Burn them with fire.

You could show a picture of Adam Jones to Tool fans and 8 out of 10 of them wouldn't recognize him.

Probably...Maynard is Tool to those 2 out of 10.

Which is funny.

I was really hoping this was some kind of announcement on the new album.

I've convinced myself there will never be one.

Its out there. They are being sued again or something legal is holding it up. or something like that. Read something about it a few weeks ago.

Danny who LMAO

It will be bundled with the new Gorillaz album, Detox and the last George Martin book.

I'm not sure I buy the lawsuit stuff. I think that's a nice spin on what is Maynard being still relatively disinterested in the Tool project.

I do think there'll be a new Tool album in a few years, but the longer they wait the more pressure they put on themselves - the more they adopt a mindset of "we have to make a great album" vs just making an album and it turning out to be great (which would be preferable for creativity's sake).

BTW. Danny Carey is filling in for Primus drummer "Herb" Alexander during their fall tour. That would be great to see!

I've seen this. This is more recent though:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-2006-20140715