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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
I don't tell people to do or not do drugs. You can do what you want, but you have to take responsibility for what happens.
I have Seymour Duncan pickups, and I can't get the same sound with any other guitar, not even another Gibson, without that finish on it.
I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies.
I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
I heard about that trick from someone who used to make Fender amps; they would keep the components in a freezer until they were ready to be used.
I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
I mean, we started this band just to have fun.
I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
I played violin all the way up through my freshman year in high school, then I played a stand-up bass for three years in an orchestra.
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
I studied film in high school and actually got a scholarship to go to film school. But I turned it down because I thought it would screw me up.
I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
I was working in the motion-picture industry and helped the Green Jello guys with their costumes. Danny, Maynard, and I all became friends and met Paul through another friend.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
I'm not a good guitar player.
I'm not into being jammed down people's throats.
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
I've never worried about how long the song is.
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.
It hasn't been really important to us to get in the Top 40 and that whole rat race.
Look at Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin; their stuff goes on forever, and it's totally listenable and totally memorable.
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
So, I went to art school - and that screwed me up even worse.
That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
The Melvins are grunge.
The album cover is a painting I made.
We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
We want to have our own formula.
We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
We were all working in commercial art and films and music. It's a very cool thing.
We won two music awards from Billboard.
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
When Undertow came out, I think a lot of people who like metal got bummed. But I don't really care.
When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.