So interesting you can really tell Paul, Adam and Maynard hadn’t really found their sound/style yet then there’s Danny just doing Danny things, he truly is incredible
TBF the story I read was that he was basically considering playing in Tool as "slumming it", and joined just cause he felt sorry for them because their tryout drummers didn't show up. He was already an accomplished jazz drummer with an established signature of his own at that time. Thank fuck those tryouts didn't show. Although danny would have been killing it in another band in an alternate timeline, guaranteed.
And yet one can hear missing feels that he later refined for Opiate. And he got better each release. To this day, he is still improving, quite an accomplishment for a drummer in his late 50s. This release is amazing, showing the level of talent they have to offer...been listening to them since I saw them in '93 (New Orleans Lollapalooza). \^^/
It sounds good in a sound system. It’s heavy. Like your subs will put in some work. They way they mixed albums with justin. They have a mixture of lows and mids. But majority are mids.
@@Username-ng8jy Yeah but Justin gave us 46 and 2. That song does not exist without that first bass riff. The entire song is built from it. That along, to me, makes him at least as good a musician as Paul.
@@a1b1c184 the way the albums with Justin are mixed. Your mid bass rocks the car with a lot of textures on the mids. Some lows are there but not to the extent of Paul’s finger pick. Finger pickers usually have good lows. Like very noticeable. But it isn’t as crisp and tight as the mids from a pick bass player
@@Username-ng8jy Sorry. It never, ever, ever, ever, ever occured to me anyone cared how Tool sounded thru a car audio system. I had one in my 20's, 25 years ago but played Dre, Snoop and music like that for bass. I wanted the rock to be loud and clear. I have never thought once about how Tool's bass sounds over sub woofers and pushed by an amp. Not to mention how much the sound can vary depending on the subs or amp used, Dynomat or nothing, all that crap. I just never thought about Tool as music that thumped.....
I remember when I heard it in 1991.... My jaw dropped in auditory amazement. I swiped it after it came out of the cassette deck, made a copy at home, and put it back in my friend's cassette rack the next day. I knew he'd say "No" if I asked to dub a copy... he was a dick like that. So, steps had to be taken.... clearly. And I regret none of it.
So many Tool fans just don't know about this tape. This stuff is so good it's like discovering Death doesn't exist, Masturbation and bacon at the same time
@alpegg75 in the 90s you'd have to stumble by surprise upon someone who knew of a fabled demo you and your friends were hoping wasn't a myth. Late 90s, you could struggle to hunt and download mp3s through a program. Now, this is so findable that I didn't even know about it until ten minutes ago
been a fan for about 20 years, just discovered it. Thanks youtube? ? lol. I've seen the cover art before and never even thought about where it came from. def a "no shit" moment.
Amazing. There are idiots selling (likely bootleg) copies of this on ebay for ridiculous amounts of money ($8000?!?!?!) and the band itself puts this up on YT for THE FANS for FREE! THANK YOU! I never knew this existed and super happy and grateful to experience it without needing to mortgage my house!
yes I really love the more raw sound of this and opiete, compared to the more polished Undertow (although still really love some of the sounds on that record, no doubt...)
This is far from the beginning check out green jelly also children of the anarchistic dynasty (C.A.D) maynard & danny were in bands since the early 80s togethor but C.A.D. is another genra might be 1 upload not taken down.
Got this from a friend that worked at a record store in Detroit. We all loved Sober. When TOOL played St Andrew's people were yelling ""SOBER!!!"" Maynard said "how to do you guys know that song???". It was never supposed to be released to record stores.
I seen tool in concert for the first time this year, they played 'part of me' and it was the last song i was expecting to hear. 29 years after having it on their demo they performed it to 20,000+ fans live
Its weird to read how fans like different songs, like "Part of me" was written by Paul D'mour cause he had a friend with a cancer tumor or something, and was meant to him.
@@renzodiguardo5340 this is the strangest version of this song's origin I've heard. MJK used to tell people (jokingly) that is was just a song about his dick.
you think so . i don't know about you but i think over the almost 30 years they have been around they fucking kick ass from their start and are still kicking that ass today. what does everyone else think about what i said?
goddamn, I prefer this over anything else. I miss when Tool was Tool, not knocking their later work, I was just listening to 10,000 Days in the car, but I miss the pissed off, college radio punk rock aggression they began with.
Looking at the cover reminded me how times were so rough back then. Vibe getting all messed up when you have to get up and flip the tape to finish listening. Having to fast-forward or rewind to get to a certain song. Getting a pencil to wind to tapes back up.
You didn't have auto-reverse or track search on your cassette deck back then? Damn, times must have been rough for you. Times were really good for me in the early '90s. I had nice tape decks with those features and owned a house too.
The legend was born touring with rollins band. HR took "Jimmy" at the time under his wing and showed him what it's all about. Thus Reverend MJK was born from the ashes of green jello.
Maynard Voice was so strong in the 1990s he can still sing but there's just a snarl in his tone that never really returned after these early albums. May be something in the recording method that emphasized it more too. And my God the breakdown in Crawl Away is just fucking sick as fuck
I've had that same opinion for a couple of years, cause i thought that Maynard screaming was the real thing going on, then watching "Blood into wine" movie he said that he moved on from screaming cause his songs helped him, that he won't necesarely would be wanting to scream all the time. And 10 years later, makes sense.
It's largely that he learned insane singing methods. I can imitate this era's sounds without breaking a sweat, but later albums get way harder. I mean, for him too, he literally just didn't do a lot of the later studio stuff live.
As a child, I must admit to completely destroying one of the 1500 demo cassettes tapes. My mother never knew and I didn't really know I did either until many years later I has a flashback memory when I saw the image of the actual cassette tape on a youtube video of their demo. Fucking crazy right??
This demo never gets old. I got one of these tapes from a friend back in the day and it got me hooked on Tool for life. I later saw the band live for the first time at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles in 1992 with White Zombie and Haunted Garage. In case people are wondering about the title of this demo. When Tool had the demo's printed they needed a place to store them, so they rented a storage box to hold them. When they were asked to pick a combination for the lock, Maynard opened his phone and chose 72826.
Been a Tool fan for over 20 years and only just thought to look for this... I thought the line in Hooker with a Penis - "That claimed that he was OGT Back from '92, from the first EP" referred to Opiate, which based on '92' it does seem to be. Anyway massive thanks for uploading this gem :D
Yes I just found this last year. It's amazing. But also 1992 could refer to his time in green jello. This album and Opiate were recorded at the jello loft also in the past year I think someone uploaded the( first live from the jello loft). That's what it's titled
Whoa...never heard this before, I've seen the name on Wikipedia but that was it, so glad this got uploaded because this is a legit good. Cold and Ugly and Jerk Off are better imo than the live versions on Opiate, and these version of Crawl Away and Sober are very interesting. Different, Heavier, punchier. Some different musical touches and Maynard's vocals are quite powerful. Of course he's great on all this stuff but there are so varied and intense here. For a demo, very good! This is much better imo than the Opiate EP and these Sober/Crawl Away versions may be less "polished" but really stand up!
![TOOL - Disposition, Reflection, Triad [REUPLOAD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uciIne8Fgik/mqdefault.jpg)
For mobile users:
1. "Cold and Ugly" - 0:00
2. "Hush" - 3:47
3. "Part of Me" - 6:25
4. "Crawl Away" - 9:23
5. "Sober" - 14:09
6. "Jerk-Off" - 18:40
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What a nice sample album I do hope this band does well
Ill let you know if i here any more about them after this demo ;)
@@jupiterandneptune6992 😂😂😂
They broke up shortly after. 😔
Lol
@@bluevik20 I heard the singer guy just makes wine and the guitarist makes claymation movies
Tool was literally one of the best things that happened to my life this year, not fucking kidding.
SAME HELL YEAH
You are so lucky to have experienced this wonderful band only now. I envy those who get to go on the tool journey.
@@sucesstrain I feel that way about avenged sevenfold LOL
@@mnrs1327 I know a little about Avenge Sevenfold. Gimme your top 3 track suggestions by them. I'll rock my night away.
@@sucesstrain
Beast and the Harlot
Afterlife
Nightmare
((i swear if you've never heard these songs be prepared for a third eye level experience))
So interesting you can really tell Paul, Adam and Maynard hadn’t really found their sound/style yet then there’s Danny just doing Danny things, he truly is incredible
Exactly what i was thinking!
TBF the story I read was that he was basically considering playing in Tool as "slumming it", and joined just cause he felt sorry for them because their tryout drummers didn't show up. He was already an accomplished jazz drummer with an established signature of his own at that time. Thank fuck those tryouts didn't show. Although danny would have been killing it in another band in an alternate timeline, guaranteed.
Pre Justin TOOL is not a prog band, imo. They have way more of a metal feel.
And yet one can hear missing feels that he later refined for Opiate. And he got better each release. To this day, he is still improving, quite an accomplishment for a drummer in his late 50s.
This release is amazing, showing the level of talent they have to offer...been listening to them since I saw them in '93 (New Orleans Lollapalooza). \^^/
I greatly prefer the drum sound on this demo to the sound on Opiate or Undertow, tbh
Cold and ugly is such a great track.
his vocals on this cut are surreal.
Eh
@@DanielvsBabylon as Paul's bass. That Ovation sounded so much dirtier than his Rick, which is no easy feat
I’ve never heard the studio version of Cold and Ugly, just amazing
We fucked so hard it left me faded
@@apdsouza Hahaha
Same. I am Happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Paul’s bass tone is so raw and great
It sounds good in a sound system. It’s heavy. Like your subs will put in some work.
They way they mixed albums with justin. They have a mixture of lows and mids. But majority are mids.
@@Username-ng8jy Yeah but Justin gave us 46 and 2. That song does not exist without that first bass riff. The entire song is built from it. That along, to me, makes him at least as good a musician as Paul.
@@a1b1c184 wtf you talking about. I’m talking car audio here dude
@@a1b1c184 the way the albums with Justin are mixed. Your mid bass rocks the car with a lot of textures on the mids. Some lows are there but not to the extent of Paul’s finger pick. Finger pickers usually have good lows. Like very noticeable. But it isn’t as crisp and tight as the mids from a pick bass player
@@Username-ng8jy Sorry. It never, ever, ever, ever, ever occured to me anyone cared how Tool sounded thru a car audio system. I had one in my 20's, 25 years ago but played Dre, Snoop and music like that for bass. I wanted the rock to be loud and clear. I have never thought once about how Tool's bass sounds over sub woofers and pushed by an amp. Not to mention how much the sound can vary depending on the subs or amp used, Dynomat or nothing, all that crap. I just never thought about Tool as music that thumped.....
Best. Demo. Ever. Period. Dot.
I remember when I heard it in 1991.... My jaw dropped in auditory amazement.
I swiped it after it came out of the cassette deck, made a copy at home, and put it back in my friend's cassette rack the next day.
I knew he'd say "No" if I asked to dub a copy... he was a dick like that. So, steps had to be taken.... clearly. And I regret none of it.
this is the only way i can listen to their songs for the first time again
Man I miss Maynard's raw screams.
So many Tool fans just don't know about this tape. This stuff is so good it's like discovering Death doesn't exist, Masturbation and bacon at the same time
YES! Been a Tool fan since 94 and only just realised this exists today!!!
@alpegg75 in the 90s you'd have to stumble by surprise upon someone who knew of a fabled demo you and your friends were hoping wasn't a myth. Late 90s, you could struggle to hunt and download mp3s through a program. Now, this is so findable that I didn't even know about it until ten minutes ago
Masturbacon. Heh.
been a fan for about 20 years, just discovered it. Thanks youtube? ? lol. I've seen the cover art before and never even thought about where it came from. def a "no shit" moment.
I had this cassette when it came out as a FREE givaway at the local record shop in 1991! (wish I still had it because its going for 4-500 bucks)
Amazing. There are idiots selling (likely bootleg) copies of this on ebay for ridiculous amounts of money ($8000?!?!?!) and the band itself puts this up on YT for THE FANS for FREE! THANK YOU! I never knew this existed and super happy and grateful to experience it without needing to mortgage my house!
This comment may be 2 years old but you are so very right.
It's awesome to see how they evolved the song Sober
Check out CAD early sober...its come along way lol.
@@danieleirhart4976 will do!
@@danieleirhart4976 you beat me to it lmao
@@straybullet111 i can tell you most people have no idea who GREEN JELLY is but it had MJK and danny as main members
@@mercuryrising9174 Huh, I thought Maynard was only a guest in one of their songs
This version of "Crawl Away" is incredible...incredible. One of the best tracks from "Undertow," somehow made better.
I agree, it is better than thw album version. I have been learning it and sober on guitar the last couple of weeks
YES I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!
yes I really love the more raw sound of this and opiete, compared to the more polished Undertow (although still really love some of the sounds on that record, no doubt...)
Isnt crawl away the opiate album?
@@bozenski8398 No. It is on Undertow.
This version of Sober actually took my breath away, i feel like i shouldn't be listening to this, its amazing.
Love to hear their beginnings. Inspiring.
This is far from the beginning check out green jelly also children of the anarchistic dynasty (C.A.D) maynard & danny were in bands since the early 80s togethor but C.A.D. is another genra might be 1 upload not taken down.
This is far from the beinning, before they were born their parents were busy making them
@@blahuhm6782that is true
Got this from a friend that worked at a record store in Detroit. We all loved Sober. When TOOL played St Andrew's people were yelling ""SOBER!!!"" Maynard said "how to do you guys know that song???". It was never supposed to be released to record stores.
Dude, I really hope you or someone you know is still has that tape. It’s worth a TON now.
mjk's vocals on hush are insane 🤯
This is fascinating! They were just that damn great from the jump! I would've loved to see them pay live back then.
play*
@@TheeTyler play* 🤓
Saw them 2 weeks ago and they are still tight as ever
I seen tool in concert for the first time this year, they played 'part of me' and it was the last song i was expecting to hear. 29 years after having it on their demo they performed it to 20,000+ fans live
That was an awesome moment for sure and the song was performed in kick ass fashion
Its weird to read how fans like different songs, like "Part of me" was written by Paul D'mour cause he had a friend with a cancer tumor or something, and was meant to him.
@@renzodiguardo5340 why is that weird exactly?
yeah they played it for me too
@@renzodiguardo5340 this is the strangest version of this song's origin I've heard. MJK used to tell people (jokingly) that is was just a song about his dick.
Best thing they've ever done in my opinion. Wish this was spotify
same
That's what sucks about Spotify. It's only official releases.
Been listening to these guys for 30 years. So glad they are so revered now because 30 years ago most people just didn’t get it.
If I worked for a record label and heard this when it came out, I would get them signed in a fucking heartbeat.
No shit! I would have ran out the door to find them...lol
i wish they had the grimy, octave-down effect on MJK’s vocals in the Opiate version of Part Of Me, it sounds incredible and adds so much depth
Nice effect spotting, accurate ear.
@@renzodiguardo5340 Not much so, the opiate Ep also has the same affect, it's just toned down a little.
Funny I had just read this comment and was like “I wonder what that means?” And boom it plays lol cosmic timing!
I think they should have just kept it for the scream, it sounds kind of weird when he's building up with it
100% agree. It adds to the overall feel of the song very well....
Saw them live for the first time in 94 at the Orbit Room in Grand rapids with maybe 200 ppl in the room........Sickest concert ever.
just discovered this. been a fan for over 2 decades. how'd i miss this?? what a fucking gem! Thanks!
Same, but 3 decades
i think these guys are gunna go far
you think so . i don't know about you but i think over the almost 30 years they have been around they fucking kick ass from their start and are still kicking that ass today. what does everyone else think about what i said?
@@paulwhite7351 Damian's joking btw
😂😂 that's hilarious. So clever! I wish I could come up with something like that.
Crawl Away and Jerk-Off on the same demo is lovely.
This is literally blowing my mind. I'm so excited to have "NEW" old Tool.
goddamn, I prefer this over anything else. I miss when Tool was Tool, not knocking their later work, I was just listening to 10,000 Days in the car, but I miss the pissed off, college radio punk rock aggression they began with.
Imagine a world where this was their only source of material, and finding this in a garage sale somewhere lol
Looking at the cover reminded me how times were so rough back then. Vibe getting all messed up when you have to get up and flip the tape to finish listening. Having to fast-forward or rewind to get to a certain song. Getting a pencil to wind to tapes back up.
Yeah but you have to admit those were good days..
auto reverse: the way of the future!!!
You didn't have auto-reverse or track search on your cassette deck back then? Damn, times must have been rough for you. Times were really good for me in the early '90s. I had nice tape decks with those features and owned a house too.
Yup
Hush is an epic song, and relates MORE and MORE today, than it ever did 30+yrs ago
Cold And Ugly, the best song to start a demo tape
They just get sexier every time I come back to listen to them.
I'm a musician/singer. Been listening to Tool since '95. Wound up with this demo in '98 on cassette. That tape taught me how deadly the '90s were.
This hit my phone..... how NICE born 91. I love lightning
Whoever made the remastering must be worshipped
I'll get right to the point, this is some badass shit
0:04 You Know when you hear that scream, these guys’ll be legendary.
Those screams on part of me tho sounds straight Death metal
SO BEAUTIFUL BRILLIANT INSPIRATION THANK YOU
And a legend was born
The legend was born touring with rollins band. HR took "Jimmy" at the time under his wing and showed him what it's all about. Thus Reverend MJK was born from the ashes of green jello.
Extraordinary material!!!
It's a treasure man !
Much love.
Thanks for the upload.
pure music at peak
thanks for sharing this. it truly made my day!
Tool 🙏
It's crazy how different sober sounds
Thank you OMG
This is amazing. I bought the Demo T-Shirt in the mid 90’s. Still sport in on occasion. Most recently at the show in Boston.
As I've seen this comment a few times before, but its still cool. I love Maynard's duet with Satan on Part of Me!
30 years December 21 2021 🤘 Just raw doggn
2021- the end of a world changing pandemic and the 30th anniversary of tool
this comment didnt age well
Awesome from the first minute.
If you were alive in 1990, there were “NO” bands whatsoever that sounded like this. They were so ahead of their time that it borders on comical
I absolutely LOVE the way that Maynard's vocals sound on this album!!! :)
Hush has never been any more relevant than today’s age
If that’s your takeaway, you’re not getting the right message.
@CaneribTriplett9199 You are spot on.
Part of Me is Tool's most underrated song IMO. That song gets me fired up everytime I hear it....
Maynard Voice was so strong in the 1990s he can still sing but there's just a snarl in his tone that never really returned after these early albums. May be something in the recording method that emphasized it more too.
And my God the breakdown in Crawl Away is just fucking sick as fuck
He did scream a lot early on.
I've had that same opinion for a couple of years, cause i thought that Maynard screaming was the real thing going on, then watching "Blood into wine" movie he said that he moved on from screaming cause his songs helped him, that he won't necesarely would be wanting to scream all the time. And 10 years later, makes sense.
It's largely that he learned insane singing methods. I can imitate this era's sounds without breaking a sweat, but later albums get way harder. I mean, for him too, he literally just didn't do a lot of the later studio stuff live.
The dude is like 60 give him a break that he doesn’t scream like he did in his 20s
Age will do that to your voice.
As a child, I must admit to completely destroying one of the 1500 demo cassettes tapes. My mother never knew and I didn't really know I did either until many years later I has a flashback memory when I saw the image of the actual cassette tape on a youtube video of their demo. Fucking crazy right??
Well. As they say. The first step to recovery is admitting that you're wrong! Lol
That's okay, I ruined a Salival CD and video :(
That's okay, I ruined a Salival CD and video :(
@@regularguy1140 RIP
Yeah, it's cool......I have ruined anemia CD about 14 times.......from wearing it out....lol
THANK YOU !♥️👍😎🤘
What a awesome find great bad ass first song on here
Best boy band ever!
That primal growl at 7:45. I don’t remember hearing that on the Opiate recording of Part of Me
this is my first time hearing all this but i’ve loved tool since about 2016 and this just sounds like good ole tool
Thanks for sharing✌️
Wow, I remember having this on cassette, I don't remember it sounding this good. Just wow.... \m/
This demo never gets old. I got one of these tapes from a friend back in the day and it got me hooked on Tool for life. I later saw the band live for the first time at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles in 1992 with White Zombie and Haunted Garage. In case people are wondering about the title of this demo. When Tool had the demo's printed they needed a place to store them, so they rented a storage box to hold them. When they were asked to pick a combination for the lock, Maynard opened his phone and chose 72826.
I also heard somewhere, that he chose that numbers, because with T9 you can spell "Satan" with that numbers.
'Opened' his phone in 1991?
Yes the fellaz all carried one of those giant happening-ass "bag" phones
@@fredwickFYTI had that same thought..
WTF, how am i just now discovering this. Part of Me is better with the demon backing vocals by the way. THIS IS AWESOME THANK YOU.
this version of cold and ugly sounds a thousand times better
7:25 - ENJOY
Saw them w Rollins Band in 92 at cbgbs. Fucking amazing . Never heard of them before that gig
Never noticed that growl before 7:40
Sober starts off normally until you get to 14:15
Jesus Christ
That is ear piercing..
But I love it.
There is a photo of Tom Morello watching Tool in 1991. It's weird but I can here wake up in this tune. The Rhythm and semitone wail thing
My brain exploded when i discovered this album 6 years ago
Never knew about this until recently tool is all i listened to in early 2000s but never knew this existed
I love how you can still hear the amateur quality in Maynard's voice from when he was doing C.A.D
fun fact: The title of this demo is "72826", which is "Satan" on the numerical phone keypad.
They were so edgy back then 😅
Maynard uses his body as a vessel for demonic entities: confirmed
Adam, Danny and Maynard all had previous music projects prior to Tool. This just goes to show you the power of the right people getting together.
Damn this is good
i love Hush, maynard actually screams a lot in it, sense he dosent do that much, it makes one of my favorite song on here
YEAH
Been a Tool fan for over 20 years and only just thought to look for this... I thought the line in Hooker with a Penis -
"That claimed that he was OGT
Back from '92, from the first EP"
referred to Opiate, which based on '92' it does seem to be.
Anyway massive thanks for uploading this gem :D
Yes I just found this last year. It's amazing. But also 1992 could refer to his time in green jello. This album and Opiate were recorded at the jello loft also in the past year I think someone uploaded the( first live from the jello loft). That's what it's titled
I think that Opiate is the first E.P...this is their demo tape from '91.
@@stevemiller7702 You nailed it🤘
30 years ago today!
I blew out my phone speakers LOL I love it
Part of Me really hits the spot sometimes.
Whoa...never heard this before, I've seen the name on Wikipedia but that was it, so glad this got uploaded because this is a legit good. Cold and Ugly and Jerk Off are better imo than the live versions on Opiate, and these version of Crawl Away and Sober are very interesting. Different, Heavier, punchier. Some different musical touches and Maynard's vocals are quite powerful. Of course he's great on all this stuff but there are so varied and intense here. For a demo, very good! This is much better imo than the Opiate EP and these Sober/Crawl Away versions may be less "polished" but really stand up!
Holy crap!
I'll never downvote a recommended TOOL video.
Have 53 years old this m************ album gets me through the day
Tool already has 7 albums! The are a legendary band, where have you been?
Maynard's vocals are sicker than a puddle of uranium.
who is the one Tool bag that clicked dislike?
Had to have been an accident.
people pissed that some of us like this and opiate more than undertow?
15 tool bags now
16 now, learn to swim! Bud.
@@blahuhm6782 opiate is the pinnacle. Nothing else to say.
7:44 is that a mjk gutteral?
ooh baby I like it raw.
This is a decent demo. I wonder if Tool ever made it or not.... I guess we'll never know....
D.O.P.E.
Maybe if their songs would be a little shorter and radio friendly this could be the beginning of a pretty solid career...
This was released 30 years ago today.