After years of ready, Tool lastly acquired their music onto all streaming providers on August 2, 2019. Each single Tool album instantly charted on the Billboard 200 and High Rock Albums as everybody lastly had entry to ’em digitally and streams rely towards chart placement.
Now in 2024, Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan is acknowledging that perhaps ready all these years to get on streaming providers was a nasty concept. In an interview with Allison Hagendorf, Keenan stated he thinks Tool missed the boat and will’ve been utilizing their digital presence to spice up vinyl and CD gross sales.
“I really feel like we missed the boat. Prefer it began with downloads, you understand, 24 years in the past,” stated Keenan by way of The PRP. “After which by the point we truly got here out, downloads are finished. We missed 20 years of reaching two generations of individuals to grasp what it’s that we do, in a format that, you understand… I do not like listening to the mp3 model. I hearken to CDs and vinyl.
“However that is the gateway to get them into the vinyl and the CDs. And I really feel like we made a mistake not being on these on these mediums for 20 years. Me yearly, saying ‘we should always do that.'”
Keenan then touched on Tool‘s music immediately getting fashionable once more when all of it acquired uploaded to streaming providers, including: “Effectively followers that knew about it. There’s a complete two generations that did not. That is why [there was] the massive shock once we ended up bumping Taylor Swift off the chart for her second week.
“They did not know who [we are]. I imply ‘Who is that this?’ ‘I do not know who the fuck this.’ However, I imply, that is simply, that is the truth, that folks did not know who we had been as a result of we weren’t round.
“My son simply went completed legislation college, and his friends do not know who we’re. They weren’t uncovered to it. It is not in your cellphone.”
Keenan additionally spoke on new Tool music and drummer Danny Carey‘s feedback that they have materials left over from Concern Inoculum. Lengthy story brief, Keenan hasn’t gotten something to work on.
“He talks rather a lot. He is on tour now with The Beat Tour with Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, and, you understand, it is an incredible, wonderful lineup. It is actually spectacular. However he is on the market. So, if he is on the market, they are not in there, and I can not do what I must do until they get in there and do the factor.”
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