Customer Reviews

Gothic Acoustic Tribute to Tool

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Interesting take on some good tunes. Decent guitar work. The vocals will make you never drop this disc into the player again. Think I'll release my own.

I just redownloaded this album from amazon because i couldn't wait for the delivery in the mail. This is a MUST have for any one who appreciates the musics and lyrics of TooL. The vocals are interprited very interestingly but over all the music is excellent.

This is probably the most competent tribute album i've seen in a long time. it loses one star because i wish the guy singing was maynardn, and it loses another to the crappy singer that took over for a couple songs near the end. i was really enjoying the first singer, then they bring in the creed sounding guy.

well, the acoustic guitars did sound really great, and it is definatly worth the buy to hear that alone. but guys, if you make another one of these (which i hope you do!) stick to the first guy singing.

I started with 46 & 2 and was very impressed with the musical arrangement...I assumed they would not even add vocals because really..just about anyone is going to be compared with maynard and instantly be found lacking.

HOWEVER...a monkey with a hammer applied to his tail would do a better vocal performance than this guy. Pleas mix yourself out of the track and let me record my voice over it which I guarantee you hands down would be 5000% better than this.

Thank You.

The guitarwork is great! However, the vocals are so mismatched with this style of music, that the CD is pretty much unbearable. Dont think I'll ever listen to it again.

Seriously, this would have been SO awesome if it had just been an instrumental.

The guitar work is sick and the songs really lend themselves to this, surprisingly.

But the vocals just RUIN the whole thing and make it sound like a bad local cover band. The guys not awful, but he's not good either and certainly not Maynard and the instrumentals are 5 stars if it had been sans vocals.

Too bad. Maybe they can re-release just the instrumentals.

The instrumentals are good, sometimes great, but the singers' voices ruin this. Any good review has to be a planted review from the seller. TOOL meets washed up lounge singer with throat cancer at best.

There were two male singers on this album which was a pretty good tribute to Tool. One of the vocalists had a sound reminding me of the lead singer in Coheed and Cambria. The other vocalist was regulary off pitch, not quite hitting the higher notes in the simple melodies. If he had wanted to distinguish his vocal character as original and not a pure mimic of Maynard James Keenan, then he should have found a way to vary the length of notes held, or his start time, but definitely NOT the pitch performance. I find myself skipping the tracks where the second vocalist lazed his way through the song.

Some of the songs are really good acoustic Tool covers. Some were really bad. 50/50 at best.

I absolutely love Tool. This CD has some of my favorite songs by Tool, and the acoustic renditions of them are awesome. Some would say that it doesn't do Tool justice, but in comparison to some of the shoddy tributes I've heard, this CD is pretty good. The vocalists, though I hate to say it, since I know they were probably singing their hearts out, are NOT very good, and that's the ONLY reason I gave this C.D. a 4 star rating. Their voices rubbed me the wrong way, and (this is an anal-retentive musician talking out of... Well. :-P) they couldn't always stay on pitch... However, this is a tribute. No one's ever going to be able to do what Maynard can do. This C.D., however, shouldn't be passed up because of my opinion. If you're a fan of Tool, and enjoy acoustics, I would highly reccomend this C.D. The instrumentation alone is worth it, and it's a unique way to hear Tool presented.