So I've been a fan of Tool for a long time now. Those who are familiar with the band are probably aware of the fact that most Tool fans are imbeciles. In fact, Tool hates it's fan base, and with good reason. They're all a bunch of overanalyzing music snobs who try to see meaning in the most insignificant aspects of a song. What attracts these people to Tool? Nobody really knows, but if I had to guess I'd say it probably has something to do with their fetish for weird time signatures (a defining characteristic of Tool's music).
Well recently on of my friends (also a tool fan) told me about this new easter egg track he had heard about on the 10,000 Days album. As the myth goes, if you play tracks 11+3 at the same time as track 4, the 3 tracks combine to make a resulting easter egg voltron track. Intrigued by the premise I decided to explore it. First I simply looked on youtube for people who had spliced the tracks together already. After listening to 2 of them, it was apparent that the tracks sounded slightly doctored.
I then decided I would load up all three tracks into Audacity and try to peice them together myself. After about an hour so of finagling with the allignment of the songs, I've finally reached the conclusion that these myths are of course a bullocks, and I am the victim of another elaborate Tool Fan Hoax.
While tool has a fair number of these fanfiction fabrications, they are not the only rock band to be targeted by such outrageous claims. People have been claiming there are hidden messages and easter eggs in songs for years. For example if you play stairway to heaven backwards, it supposedly at some point says "hail satan." Or if you play Dark Side of the Moon at the same time you start the wizard of oz, supposedly the album narrates the film. Obviously they're all bullocks. Their validity is in the eye of the beholder.
With so many outlandish myths floating around, I've decided to create my own. Feel free to create you own and post them here as well. Here's one I heard from the higher ups in the music conspiracy ring.
"If you play all 4 Mars Volta albums at the same time, but play the second and 4th album backwards, at exactly 6:66 (that's 7 minutes and 6 seconds) all 4 albums say, "And," at the same time."
Well recently on of my friends (also a tool fan) told me about this new easter egg track he had heard about on the 10,000 Days album. As the myth goes, if you play tracks 11+3 at the same time as track 4, the 3 tracks combine to make a resulting easter egg voltron track. Intrigued by the premise I decided to explore it. First I simply looked on youtube for people who had spliced the tracks together already. After listening to 2 of them, it was apparent that the tracks sounded slightly doctored.
I then decided I would load up all three tracks into Audacity and try to peice them together myself. After about an hour so of finagling with the allignment of the songs, I've finally reached the conclusion that these myths are of course a bullocks, and I am the victim of another elaborate Tool Fan Hoax.
While tool has a fair number of these fanfiction fabrications, they are not the only rock band to be targeted by such outrageous claims. People have been claiming there are hidden messages and easter eggs in songs for years. For example if you play stairway to heaven backwards, it supposedly at some point says "hail satan." Or if you play Dark Side of the Moon at the same time you start the wizard of oz, supposedly the album narrates the film. Obviously they're all bullocks. Their validity is in the eye of the beholder.
With so many outlandish myths floating around, I've decided to create my own. Feel free to create you own and post them here as well. Here's one I heard from the higher ups in the music conspiracy ring.
"If you play all 4 Mars Volta albums at the same time, but play the second and 4th album backwards, at exactly 6:66 (that's 7 minutes and 6 seconds) all 4 albums say, "And," at the same time."
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