Includes a 56-page color booklet with rare photos and video stills. The accompanying VHS features music videos for "Aenema," "Stinkfist," "Prison Sex" and "Sober."
Tool: Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor, Danny Carey.
Additional personnel: Vicki Haug Fenton (spoken vocals); King Buzzo (guitar); David Bottrill (keyboards); Vince De Franco (synthesizer); Aloke Dutta (tabla).
Producers include: Tool, David Bottrill, Sylvia Massy.
Engineers include: David Bottrill, Sylvia Massy.
Recorded at The Lodge, Ocean Way, Grand Master Studios, Hollywood, California and live in Salt Lake City, Utah, Portland, Oregon, San Diego, California and Denver, Colorado.
A delay-effected excerpt from Timothy Leary's "How To Operate Your Brain" sets the tone for this holding action for fans eagerly awaiting AENIMA's follow-up. SALIVAL teases with some powerful live performances (OPIATE's "Part Of Me" and the experimental version of AENIMA's "Pushit" are standouts) and a few tasty B-sides. Bassist Justin Chancellor brings Peach's "You Lied" into the fray for "re-Tooling." The sole new track is the trippy "Merkaba."
Only a band as expressive as Tool could tap into the dark, moody atmosphere of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" and take the song to emotional levels that Page and Plant never would have imagined. The song is completely transmogrified, much in the spirit of Rage Against The Machine's interpretation of Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost Of Tom Joad." The mind-bending soundscape of "L.A. Municipal Court" finds atonal, droning instrumentation accompanying a person trying to navigate the dead-ended maze of an automated phone system. Fans are ultimately rewarded with the hidden track "Maynard's Dick," which dates back to the OPIATE era.
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