TOOL - Sober live 1992 club-babyhead providence, RI

[browneye870]

it took me 5 minutes to notice the poll in the way. i couldnt get passed that epic mullet.

[nightseifer]

Sad times ahead for us all when I type in sober and the first song that comes up is pink…..

[ejstamey]

marvelous...

[ambalord666]

he looks deranged.. but my god he doesnt miss a note.. what a voice and what a fucking genius!

[DramaBlock]

doesn't get much better than that...

[ToastyNJ]

Holy Crap!!! I was at this show.. The living Room and then Club Baby head Saved my life. Providence R.I. was a Metal mecca back in the late eighties and early nighties

[Slipstream720]

@ToastyNJ And now RI is a metal wasteland... honestly. It sucks.

[ToastyNJ]

I was at this fuckin show. Holy crap!!! I can't believe I found this. Has it been that long

[DAZEOFTHESTONED]

I'm gonna learn how to sing this song perfectly...Then go on American idol and get rejected...

[drunkrobbandtheshots]

yep tool at baby head !! for the youngins its now hell.!!! actually i was 12 going on 13 when this show happened didint start till 13 with the shows, but -

[ajmoreira81]

@drunkrobbandtheshots I know man. I was able to catch a couple shows when I was 15-16 at the end of babyhead. Best club ever in providence. If you could look at a list of all the bands that played there you would be shocked. I caught NOFX and Snapcase. But Nirvana played there in 91.. I was only 10.. That must have been an amazing show

[ekeefe41]

Why why why why didn't i go to this show. I was at UMass Dartmouth at the time and used to go to baby head every week.

Fuck me!

[ajmoreira81]

@ekeefe41 I feel you dude.. Retarded

[Poserdudeman]

maynard in stage in the early years looked like some crazy guy that you shouldnt fuck with

[iwearpants06]

@Poserdudeman maynard still looks like someone you dont want to fuck with, just not as crazy :P theres a video on youtube of him getting in a... let's say "fight" with a fan. by that i mean he pinned a fan onstage for a song without missing a beat...

[Poserdudeman]

@iwearpants06 ehhh well now hes all into wine and a grown man and stuff and ha he more or less dry humped that dude on stage ha not really "fighting" haha

[caloop]

Tool changes your life everytime you listen to them

[bluebow23]

@caloop YES

[intoolerance]

Fans had better recording devices in 1992...

[QuebecRock101]

MJK looks like satan in this one

[Mrhashslinginslasher]

Isn't it kinda random that they're in rhode island? Lol

[lostandwounded]

one of the best versions ever made...skin of goose!

[bergcycles1]

Drugs are awesome. Aren't they.

[alex46n2]

yo maynard.. good body mass index back then

[magneteye]

They don't make 'em like this anymore!

[ComfortablyNumbAgain]

feel the music man.

[Supercharges]

study....wtf

your a retard baxxter

[hornsofarabbit]

I saw that guy singing country songs last night! HA! And guess what?

IT BLEW MY F'ING MIND.

[Supercharges]

lsd.......every old video???

anyone vow for me?

[Baxxter101]

Uhhh... You need to do less. Or maybe more... Maybe study...

[numbchucking]

Maynard means what he says and sings what he means, thats for sure.

[MyloshEK]

the most beautiful song ever!

[potofgrass]

there is no other band like tool!! THEY ARE SO AMAZING I COULD JUST EXPLODE

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

BOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!

[dragonette420]

wow you can feel his passion for the music by looking at his eyes...crazy good shizzzniitt ...tool rules all

[misterdeeennaay]

One of the most original rock voices of the last 20 years. Tremendous emotional range and power. Deep, passionate and dark...

[Snakepit4321]

Couldnt agree more.

[bluebow23]

@misterdeeennaay fuck yea

[DAZEOFTHESTONED]

@misterdeeennaay No shittin...

[sinsoaked1]

trust me

[metalklown357]

thats just maynards style

[mattfoley59]

dammnn i HAVE to get to a tool concert sometime....

[metalklown357]

ya dude they are an experience hope u make it to one

[airburt13]

this is fuckin good quality

[INTERPOLFAN17]

I DONT TINK HES HIGH HE'S INTO THE MUSIC

[megadeth2thenwo]

I would not tell people what I did... When it's never any of your fucking buiness to know anyway !!

[pvtVanZAnt]

ys does he always look so fuked up

[TheGABRIEL77777]

MAYNARD IS SOBER  IDIOTS

[magneteye]

not sober, actually. he does drink. He owns a fucking winery for fucks sake. He loves his wine.

[InovaArchangelDX3]

@TheGABRIEL77777 except for these two bottles of wine he downed last week at their concert lol

[crisco1up]

@InovaArchangelDX3 dude at the one in oklahoma city? cuz i was there and every time he took a drink everyone cheered. lol

[InovaArchangelDX3]

@crisco1up haha yup thats the one

[Carthsgtr]

@TheGABRIEL77777

Dumbass.. The lyric is "why can't we NOT be sober,"........ Ever heard of a double negative, or are you not up to that sort of thing in school yet?

[ThatMusicDood]

Is maynard on acid here?

[magneteye]

yeah, i saw this whole show back in 1993 or so... friend had it on VHS... he had to be on acid. This is tame, other songs he was looking kind of nuts.

[Deere55]

maynard looks like hes fucking 80

[smjjohnson]

He may be fucked up out of his mind, but he still amazingly gets the job done...

[smjjohnson]

Maynard used to have a lot of "issues" , but he's OK now

[Mzler1387]

He mixed the vocals up near the during the chorus. This song is still amazing even after 17 years. Love Tool.

[intergalactic12]

someones a bit angry, didnt mummy love you when you were a child

[tolerants23]

it looks like maynards having 10 mad orgasms at once

[ginghamslut]

@tolerants23 That's because he is.

[bluebow23]

@tolerants23 lol hell yea he is

[3erteen]

intense

[mdelair420]

fuckin a

[killybay2]

Get off you tube and go out and see a live show so you don't have to wish you saw them when they played a small club like this.

[kriXtof]

j'ai kiffé sa mère! quelles belles années : ma jeunesse et une coupe à l'iroquoise!!!

[sealjeremy]

this song is about his friend who was an artist and could only paint well if he was messed up he ended up in a mental home thats what the song is about

[Sasquash]

No it's not.

[MEA0105]

It was actually inspired by the first half of what sealjeremy said.

[MRMADOO]

wow i'm from prov, i never knew Tool played at babyhead

[sinate6669]

james is into making wine now

[themadtapper]

they used drugs yes. but i think during performing they were pretty clean. drugs just fuck up your performance. maybe some weed, but playing on stage you got so much adrenaline it would cancel that shit out. maynard does wrap up in his moment. like a drummer face, you can't really focus on what your face is doing when you play so it gets all wierd.

[got2haveamonster33]

he looks sooo creepy holly hell

[Wirelessbum]

Hey,

[fuckuantheworld]

god bless america an the whole f in world! honestly.who hasn't gone beyond the bounds of reality/?who???is it you?

[CrossCentaur]

PAFUCKINTHETIC audience reaponse. fucking losers

[scrubbycritter]

I know for a fact that the band were into psychedelics, why you think it's so weird? Which is a good thing, Tool and psychedelics go hand in hand to open up your mind and soul. This song in particular probably talks about stupid drugs like alcohol or somethin.

[itanimullitenretni]

How do you "know for a fact"?

[scrubbycritter]

There was an interview with Adam Jones where he talked about DMT and Ketamine, is that good enough for you? Anyway if you really understood Tool then you would understand where I am coming from. Tool - Psychedelics

Something u prob wont understand

[lyndelj]

u r all dumbasses heroin, heroin, heroin and all other opiates I guess you have to go through it to understand

[2681910]

excellent!!

[MeekDrill]

what a

voice !

what a

band !

[sinate6669]

hey this song is trippy at the start the guitar he is tripping out too the guitar.

this song rocks man

[slims999]

He may not have used meth, but they used drugs such as LSD to peek into the subconscious. No one knows how much drugs they used at any given time, but Maynard spoke about how he almost got too deep into them to where he wouldn't have been able to come out.

[Gluv22]

Great club. I was there every Thursday and Sunday nite.

[theZer0Game]

I remember this show. Nope. Maynard doesn't use drugs. I sure did that night though! (sigh) those were the days.

[Rapboy2005]

use limewire or itunes

[monkeybeans12]

ya know tool is just so awesome but dam maynard just scares the living shit out of me when he performs!! those drugs just make him look like a fucking monster!!lol but he is amazing.

[darthginski]

the music is his drug

[lostandwounded]

no drugs, just medicine

[amadoo]

I'm just curious, does/or did he use drugs ?

[unbornanddeathless]

no way... :)

[wufuhimself]

ahead of their time, awesome.

[sptdexs]

ur a fool if u think a 20 somthin Maynard Keenan wasn't on drugs every waking moment ESPESSIALLY WHEN PERFORMING AND CERTAINLY WHEN PERFORMING SOBER!!

[aperisimo]

BUY THE ALBUM

[nmh2112]

Go out and buy Undertow.

[ROCKSORES]

thats not true what about the lateralus tour

[METALTRON89]

Maynard absolute legend he doesnt do drugs while performing dats jus how he acts he gets soo wrapped up in his voice he doesnt knw how he is acting as he always says i cant chew gum and walk!!!!!

[DaroN1337]

just awesome. tool are the best

[KingAttle]

tons of acid

[J354CAO]

great song,awesome band...who put the fucking beam in the way of a great performance from maynard....

[tralfasian]

The facial expressions at 4:56 are absolutely amazing. Maynard looks like his head is going to explode. So awesome...

[WhataSiege]

This is such a good video. Tool is so sick.

[damu4291]

even my sisters sitting here like 'no their not' first of they got 2 different names... acid is a form of lsd u fuckin nerd and u trip way harder on lsd u lil young'ns think u know it all though

[darthginski]

acid is LSD, not something different, it comes from lysergicACID diethylamide-25, but i think you trip harder on dimethyltriptamine, especially backed with methylenedioxymethamphetamine, see, its fun to act like a jackass via internet, and i know it all cuz this guy named Jesus cut the springs on my 84 regal and then painted my picket fence for a weekend with some fun-guys

[aperisimo]

methylenedioxymethamphetamine+­dimethyltriptamine= funny day hihihi

[nmh2112]

Rosetta Stoned.

[noexisto]

"realización como ser vivo"

[lostandwounded]

orgasm

[Scarface066]

What kind of bass is Paul using? It doesn't look like his Rickenbacker.

[rottencore0]

He looks like he crawled out of the sea, lighting is real bad.

[damu4291]

looks like the bassist is beatin his meat

[Ravenite1]

Thats what hes doing, didnt you know that?

[1satyagraha1]

you cant play a song flawlessly on a substance. you can play a song stoned( hendrix did it all the time)...but you cant be tripping balls and hit every note perfectly.

[Ravenite1]

How the fuck do you know? I think you can play stoned and play accurate, it depends on your mind

[itscurbe]

I wish they had gotten a shot of the rest of the band, but i guess i cant complain

[theblade82]

maynard rules

[johny9693]

this guy rocks on stage he is completly stoned ahahaha

[IXECHOXI]

I love tool, but I'm pretty sure the first couple years they were together maynard was using lsd or acid, nothing wrong with that, but you can tell the difference now when you look at his behavior on stage. Or he's just in a trance, deep concentration, that I can't find.

[Snipe121]

lsd and acid are the same. =P

[damu4291]

acid is weak lsd

lsd beats any drug 4 me its my drug of choice

[Soul74]

Good luck with that.

[joeblack6]

or maybe it's just got to do with the evolution that Maynard talks about when he gives interviews and people ask him about it. Like he's said before you can't be angry all the time. And with evolving comes the evolution of his behavior. I doubt he was on anything while he was performing... outside of his performances yea probably... but not while he was performing

[jameson3169]

I wish maynard still had the mullet-hawk

[azzcrack420]

fuck yea good shit

[brokenseatbelt]

ok, keenan has to be on some kind of drug or pissed off or both. this is a great live performance, i wish i was there, but was only 9 at the time. :) WOW, I LOVE tool.

[WRF713]

Yeah, he seems like he's tripping balls or something...

[o08140o]

nah...

[LuckilyHeDied]

It's possible that he was fucked up, but I'd put serious money down that he was just very, VERY angry.

[clistere2]

a-w-e-s-o-m-e

[brokenseatbelt]

damn, this is a good live performance.

[kinderwhore89]

theyre always good.

[Joynt11]

Maynard looks like he's going to kill someone.

[strongsock]

haha maynard looks like hes going to overdose on multiple drugs

[EmotionCr4ve]

Correction, Maynard IS going to kill someone. And he did, half of the crowd died that night once they went home. Only after the concert did they realize the awesome that they had witnessed. Only no one found out because soon after coming down off of an Maynard induced acid trip, the people realized that they were yet alive once more. Trust me, shit happens when you see them live. Minds are b-l-o-w-n.

[bwnorx]

well would have been nice to get some more footage of adam/danny, but great post nice to see something so old

[TROPOSSSS]

Hey this is

esto es, SOBER VIO

[tpnit83]

you don´t say

[k1johnny75]

Why is it everyone tries to understand Tool and Maynard just enjoy it for some of the best art ever composed!!!

[dlw85]

You said it perfect

[unknown663]

Sober is about religion by saying im suppose to believe this?? and how people are prosecuted for any outside the box thinking and considered sinners. There is NO tool song about addiction or his personal life. Only dumbasses thinks there is

[dlw85]

Tool songs are subjective. They can be about anything that the open interpretor relates them to. They aren't meant to be over-anylyzed or debated. They are meant to inspire

[unknown663]

Well yes thats ovbious and I completly agree with you. I only say that because thats how I interpret the song and Maynard said that right before they preformed the song when I saw them live. They use my boss's artwork for their albums.

[dlw85]

I didn't mean to single you out in my reply I actually have a similar take on sober. I just posted that comment in the general direction of people who kind of miss the point. Sounds like you work at a great place. Take care

[Recovrd1]

Your boss's artwork?

DO u work for Alex Grey or something?

[damu4291]

adam jones is the visual artist for tools album covers, videos, everything

[unknown663]

Wow I wrote that a long ass time ago, but um yeah Adam has colaborated with Alex Grey and used Alex's Art work since Lateralus even on the cover. At the end of the Parabola video it's Alex Grey's vision with the Falming eyes. They also used Alex's art on the 10,000 day's cover and in the vicarious video. It's a unity of art between the two of them in recent years. They also used his art in their live preformances.

[k1johnny75]

your right the stint about them on his shoulders trying to persue you to do right or wrong!!

[Recovrd1]

I got it off the internet (news leecher) It has no date or place. The set list is as follows: 46&2,3rd Eye,Eulogy,Prison Sex,Pushit,H,Sober,Opiate,Aeni­ma...if that helps? I hope it does friend. Maynard talks ALOT during this show and his voice are emaculate throughout the preformance...even though he apologizes in the latter part of the show for having a sore throat and being sick...hope u find it!!!

[k1johnny75]

Maynard never had a heroin problem. H is a song to his son and the mother

[Recovrd1]

That is one of the theories, His son's middle name is "H" that's it. Devo H. Keenan, but in a show he spoke of angels and demons to preface the song, talking of how they might come across as friends, sueding u to do right or wrong, another belief is that H stands for BOTH heaven and hell....

[k1johnny75]

what show is that you talk of i have over 100dvds and 300audio shows i would like to hear it! thanks

[Hooklineansinker]

i was at this show

[LuckilyHeDied]

"H." used to be called "Half-Empty" before Aenima. So I'm quite sure heroin has nothing to do with it.

"Stinkfist" seems to be, fairly obviously, about how we are more and more desensitized all the time. Or anal fisting. Whichever you prefer.

[bubblebobbledfgsfdhs]

As are most songs, Stinkfist can be interpreted in a various ways on various levels.

Good call on H., though.

[LuckilyHeDied]

Yeah. Truly, any Tool song can be felt and heard in a million different ways.

And that's just one of the many reasons why I love them so much.

[aperisimo]

he is saying that jesus shouldnt have drink so much wine.

[1010jjklwright]

now maynard is making is own! Caduceus-try some, this shit will rock your world!

[absinthegrey]

He probably wasn't on something, that's just how he is on the stage. Completely lost in the music, and not dancing around like a fairy. Look at the newer movies of him, you'll see he almost always have his back against the crowd and is really lost in the music, I love it.

[Tools13itch]

almost same, they formed in 1990 when i was born

[britaki]

T_T I feel a little old.

[unimog875]

I spent so much time in Babyhead from 1991-95. I once found $500 in cash under the crowd right next to that fucking pole at a Psych furs show!

[gibsonguitar11]

same

[carlajean1]

wtf is that pole? haha

[satanspal112]

its the tool pole, didn't you know that?

[Maximumart]

TOOL are the most amazing band on Earth

[carlajean1]

***is?

[HAC96818]

lmfao

[cyanidechrist]

oh man. what i would give to be at that show. BABYHEAD was fuckin awesome. buck a busch when i was 15. too bad i was just gettin into tool around this time.

[nedak]

Funny give me his mom's number then cockstain

[eagleterror06]

well... KBhunter and Chimaera...thats some interesting info...but...all it shows is that your obsessed..or if you prefer a less intense adjective ; weird, dumb, or gay ( because it seems like you have a boy crush)