Tool "Aenema" KROQ Epicenter 8/22/09

Tool performing "AEnema" from the album AEnima, at Kroq's Epicenter Festival at the Pomona Fairplex 8/22/09. Maynard was using crutches to get around - what a trooper.
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Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation
from this
bull-shit
three-ring,
circus sideshow
of freaks
here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time.
Any fucking day.
Learn to swim.
I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car

It's a
bullshit, three-ring, circus sideshow of
freaks
here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time.
Any fucking day.
Learn to swim.
I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this

stupid shit.. silly shit.. stupid shit

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tool
• aenema
• kroq
• epicenter
• 8/22/09
• maynard
• crutches

[Thinchap]

awesome recording, thanks for upload mate !

[professorMMP]

Thanks! It was a privilege to film these guys & share a bit of the concert with those who couldn't be there... or to bring back some good memories for those who were! Cheers

[kitty88420]

Great sound on this! Is your camera a sony?

[professorMMP]

thanks kitty - I shot this with the same old Samsung I've used at all the concerts I have on film. Its small (easy to hide ;) and does a decent job. I thought this footage came out kinda mediocre, but it was a tough show to get a good angle at.

[axl240]

I figured he said that because the song is talking shit about LA and the show was in LA.

[BlackHwk4]

thanks for recording this. It was an awesome show. Justin was rockin' out the whole time

[ZUBISTOOL]

hahaha he did say "its nothing personal guys"

[latkeeeeeeee]

tooll

[SilenTSicK]

oh god, it's classical

[Revo21384]

;-D

[ChAoTiC559]

LOL! Well said, sir. I can always appreciate a good sense of humor.

[Revo21384]

So by admitting that you DO in fact enjoy bursting bubbles after all, you have inadvertently busted my bubble wide open eh? Damn you, bubble buster...

[ChAoTiC559]

Oh, and congrats on catching the pic. That's epic. Frame that bad boy.

[ChAoTiC559]

I was too far back? LOL! I was 10 yards from the stage, right in the center. Still close enough to see their facial expressions, and still hear this "chant" (which I never heard.) Everyone I've talked to, and apparently a lot of thumbs up, and thumbs down think the same thing. Pomona is most definitely in the LA area, and if it all gets "flushed away," it is definitely going with it.

[sportog9]

Plus, it's kind of impossible to burst my bubble since I caught Justin's bass pic which was kind of a dream of mine since 91', so no worries dude