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Stuart Ferguson's Collection

Tool   02/10/2007

Zepp Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Source Audience
Media CDR   2 discs
Notes DVD 3346; lineage: ECM-717 (on my baseball cap) > TCD-D100 (48kHz). Lineage: DAT master > CDR (DENON CDR-1000) > .aif (Toast) > Remaster (SoundStudio & Peak) > .wav > Track Split (CDWave) > .flac (Level8), Taper: the_sphere. JAPAN TOUR 2007 DAY1 to DAY4 - BOX SET (JSR T-01~07). Day 3: 2|10 ZEPP TOKYO
J-Card Comment 3rd night. Promotor added this 2nd Tokyo show at the last minute and put the
tickets on sale at Jan. 15. Only 3 weeks before the show ! And we did not know
about that !! What a goose ! But the tickets were still available even at the
show date and we could get at 9th show. Phew.
So, there was a bad attendance, about 60~70% of the capacity I thought and we
could get into the 2nd row of 2nd block, in front of Mayberd, only about 5m from
the stage ! Great view. But the sound is a bit worse than center position you
know. Somewhat too 'wide'. So it's the 4th for the sound of 4 nights I think.
The setlist was changed drastically. Dropped Lost Keys - Rosetta Stoned & The Pot
and added Swamp Song, Right in Two (!) and Opiate. Also there were some surprises.
At Forty Six & Two, Adam got out and then appeared a Japanese guiterist and
he played on the whole song ! Who is that guy !? Well, I have had no concrete
evidence yet, one Japanese music wrighter (who write TOOL articles on Rockin'on
magazine) wrote the guy is Hattori Hanzo who were a former Japanese record label
direcotr of TOOL. And it seems Maynerd says 'Thank you, Hattori Hanzo' after
the song. But he himself amswered in the negative about this... Well, I lighted
on him at the back entrance of Club Citta' about 2hrs before the 12th show. And
asked about his name but he said "I'm not a guy announce myself". And also he
deny the rumor that the guy is Hattori Hanzo...Where is the truth ?? Who knows ?
At Opiate, the middle section was stretched and two Human-Beat-Box performers
appeared and play scratch noise or synth-drum like voices. There're no Synth.
Good performance. Someone hate this kind of ones, though.
Also, the audience behaviour was VERY different than previous night. Very quiet,
polite (not a bad mean), and really enthusiastic. Listen to the intro for Wings
and cutaway part of 10,000 Days (after "give me my... Wings") !! Literally it was
a conflation of great performance and audience, in other words, amazing show.

Jun'ya aka the_sphere
Feb. 17, 2007
Trades Allowed Yes
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Owned by Stuart Ferguson · Last Updated May 23, 2023