Maynard James Keenan on how the Fibonacci Sequence inspired the lyrics/rhythm for LATERALUS
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Maynard James Keenan describes his different writing process for TOOL, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. He then delves into the fibonacci inspired underpinnings of Lateralus.
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The Fibonacci Sequence definitely inspired the timing of their album releases.
Maciej Trybilo I see what you did there.
Most underrated comment of 2019
Nah you're thinking of the exponential sequence 😂
@@obsidiansiriusblackheart the fibonacci sequence is exponential...
Genius
I love how their most analyzed song ever is the song that the lyrics warn you not to over think or over analyze things. Complete genius work.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind
Feed my will to feel this moment
Urging me to cross the line
Reaching out to embrace the random
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come
No warning. We are being told to over think and over analyze. Question everything. That's what we also get from the golden ratio. It's in our design yet intelligence in our design isn't questioned. Only we evolved from monkeys due to coincidence. No man. Swing on the spiral or our divinity. No warnings. Only encouragement.
Which song?
@@JEEPTHING881 agreed, but in my life overthinking and overanalyzing. , Alienates me from all around me. , So I've learned to tone it down. ,and dumb myself down , adapt to my peers. ,
You gotta stop.
@@jasonduvall6565
I think you are missing the point. It's a spiritual practice to go beyond the mind. That's why deep meditation is referred to deep sleep. The intellect is a great servant and a horrible master.
as soon as the cameras were off, they smoked dmt and rubbed their bald heads together
Like on Family Guy where the bald guys were licking each others heads in the elevator
Bro..😆
@@Theirishcannoli - Haha
Gregory Lavey
I bet that’s not all they rubbed
They used linseed oil as a lubricant
Tool fans: they are geniuses
Maynard: it was an accident
Sarcasm: good job
@Mark Peel He is just a troll. Dont feed him
Lol also:
Tool fans: this is the best song ever!
Maynard: I could do better
Reality: Who gives s shit
@@janjuko4024 you hate tool? I never thought that I would hear someone say that ever.
this is like the only maynard interview where maynard is actually answering the questions seriously.
John Stramiello i honestly think it's because Joe Rogan can hold a conversation with an interviewee and not ask immediately about Tool albums lol
Or also because Maynard doesn't hold himself above Joe in a physical or mental level.
Hunter Robinson exactly
It's cuz they're actual friends. This isn't an interview, just two guys having conversation.
Its a conversation with a friend as opposed and interviewer who has an agenda. You can tell the guests joe is friends with because a) they are on multiple times b) it feels more like a natural conversation than an interviewer/interviewee relationship.
If he thinks he can do better than Lateralus then I can't wait to hear it.
hoyit haha
didn't they already?... i think it was called aenema
Not Important Aenema was good but it wasnt better than Lateralus lol
No shit. I'm not sure that's humanly possible. But then again, they aren't human.
well, to my taste it was
Joe 'that Fibonacci song' Rogan
James "it was kind of a dick joke" Keenan
Literally his whole thing about anything important or remotely intelligent “oh yeah dude I think I saw this thing right? Isn’t that crazy?” A little bit about a lot and everything about nothing
For some reason, when I look at these guys I think about bowling.
😂😂😂
You can ask dr. Wigglefarmer for yourself he's the third head down top row third shelf!🤣🤣🤣
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmfao
It's the shiny bald head...
this was ONE podcast away from #987 god damnit
MetalBlade holy fuckin shit
Wtf
right babe?
they must have deleted one... quest to find the lostcast.... and.... go!
Damn, wasted opportunity. Hopefully he has Maynard on again for #1597
What most tool fans don't realize is Maynard is a god level troll.
John Doe every Tool fan knows this, wtf?
Nah, he's just an asshole. The genius of it is that the tool army can't get enough of it.
Is he trolling us in the video?
Dax Moon
Hell ya he is!
He’s a freakin genius
He's both an asshole and a troll but we love him for it. Also he's a pure genius the deep meaning of tools songs omg
best live band I've ever seen. Tool plays so incredibly tight with unbelievable rhythmic accuracy.
Saw them on Sunday the 19th in Montreal, most amazing show I’ve seen aside from Skinny Puppy (twice) and NIN when I was a teen.
I need to find this whole interview. I really admire Maynard's humility here, he's giving off a highly intelligent, but down to earth kind of vibe and it just pulls you in.
He's really a dick unless he likes you! My friend knows him after he moved to Arizona! ❤ You Maynard but it's definitely a sophomoric definition you give especially pronouncing phi as fie NOT fee. You can do better dude! Still ❤ you buddy
“I could have done better.” -a true artist!
Definitely.
Humblebrag.
Bold statement. I'd like to hear your stuff. It must b pretty good if you think u can do better than a G.O.A.T
@@twitchhollandMaynard is the goat in my opinion. But opinions are like bungholes everyone has one but most of them stink
Lateralus is a beautifully composed, thoughtful composition that incorporates its time signature into the very meaning of the song. The inclusion of the Fibonacci sequence is a brilliant accompaniment to the lyrical theme of growth and discovery.
Maynard says "It's kind of a dick-joke, I could do better."
Maynard knows how people see him as the genius lyricist in Tool, but won't let that put a stick up his arse like alot of other artists, he's just being modest and trolling himself, what a guy!
Ash Islam maynard doesnt let the fame go to his brain which is honestly so commendable and i applaud him for it
One of my absolute favorite Tool songs. It's like listening to a symphony of the meaning of life. He's an artist. so of course he is always going to feel he could've
done better. Even though the song is perfection in itself...
I thought he said it was an accident that he turned into a dick joke🤷
😉🤘
@lol-wj4hx not necessarily. He isn't calling it "rookie shit" but more that he cringes at his approach to that message. I think he is particularly talking about the whole using the syllables as a direct fibonacci reference, and that he wishes he could have done it with more subtlety
987 is the Fib number, just if anyone is interested, looked it up. The song is amazing (Lateralus), not only did Maynard use Fib numbers/sequence for the syllables of the lyrics, but the lyrics themselves "Spiral out, keep going..." and when you map out fib numbers in a quadrant it makes a spiral (seen at 3:15). Of course there's more to the lyrics and meaning behind them than "Fibonacci was cool" it is about opening yourself up more and more to the world and feelings and emotions and to take it all on with an embracing attitude. Spiral out, keep going!
Talking about getting old, Maynard looks amazing. Still totally floored to this day whenever I listen to his stuff.
There's so much bald going on
Accented by shine.
Brandino2 daney carey invented the original Fibonacci sequence while taking a dump on a tuesday afternoon.
The more you know!
I gotta get my sunglasses just watch the pure awesomeness.
ruclips.net/video/i8GaFuo4svQ/видео.html
Lots of testosterone.
Story my friend told me:
"when i was in college I walked into my dorm on the day Lateralus came out and my room mate was blasting it full volume and standing on top of his dresser, pushing himself against the ceiling. He looked at me and yelled "It's too good! I can't get any higher!""
He should have Dany on sometime, it’d be cool to learn more about the specifics about the timing and meter changes etc. from him.
The subtle jab at vanity with the no disrespect to people with downs made me chuckle quietly to myself.
He knows the pieces "don't" fit
MrFatbad
I see what you did there
....Comunicatioooooon....
XD
Definitely a Schism in his explanation....
I'm pretty sure he actually watched them fall away. I think he said it in an interview or something.
Maynards subtle humor is great and Rogan is oblivious
He always is! But he's some sort of famed comedian...
@@gabeprice5648 fuckin right
Totally
I mean, yeah. His claim to fame was paying people to eat worms. Now he tells people to take horse meds and pushes the (admittedly fascinating, but highly unlikely) stoned ape theory.
@@halfbakedmedia Cope harder tool, what a pathetic existence you live. Do the world a favor and take knot tying lessons from Chris Cornell. Nobody will miss people like you, you add no value to life.
Maynard James Keenan sure has some artistic ideas, that's why he's one of my favorite idols of music artists
This from an old Adam Jones interview in Kerrang: "Well, on that song, Justin brought in a riff, and Danny saw it had a connection to the Fibonacci, so he started trying to work in elements of it.
Then Maynard came in and we started telling him about the sequence. It came from trying to relate to those things in life or nature we all have in common." - In other words, not only was it not Maynard's idea (it was Danny's), Maynard was mathematically illiterate to the extent that he needed to be explained what the Fib sequence was.
Mathematically illiterate? On Maynard's wikipedia it says this on his upbringing: "In addition to completing a rigorous math and English curriculum, Keenan wrestled, ran on the cross country team, and sang in the glee club".
I think he would know stuff about math.
How do you get "Mathematically illiterate" from "hey look at this thing bro"? If I try to show my friend a song is he now deaf?
@@gallavanting2041 yeah that was a reach if i ever saw one lol
The song to me is a statement on itself. That's why it's so ironically brilliant. It's not meant to be understood and only then can you understand it.
He called it pedestrian and sophomoric. What an ass. I have seen them 7 times and really Tool, but it's not for Maynard, I'll tell you that. Danny and Adam for the win
Maynard cares not about the music. He's trying to unlock the gate to the fourth dimension with black majik
R Core yeah they’re into esoteric weird occult knowledge stuff
R Core that's why they are so intruiging. As an occultist everything they speak on is true.
Yeah I got a weird feeling when he was explaining it. Maybe I smoked too much pot
R Core lol that could be it
This is why I think Tool is sort of like the new Black Sabbath, they have this whole act they put on to be scary and a surprising amount of people buy into it.
They’re touching on the “golden ratio”. From my discrete mathematics textbook: in the worlds of art and architecture, the golden ratio is thought to create aesthetically pleasing proportions. The golden ratio is (1+sqrt(5))/2, or 1.6180339... and it’s value is approached by the ratio of two consecutive Fibonacci numbers F(n+1)/F(n) for larger and larger values of n. For example, 21/13 is 1.615, and 1597/987 is 1.618034 etc. The Fibonacci numbers are just what’s called a recursive relation, and although many think the 13th century merchant and mathematician Fibonacci discovered this sequence, Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) only introduced Western European mathematicians to it. The idea actually started in Indian mathematics in Vedic studies many years before Fibonacci existed.
Speaking of it's history...
I seem to recall the golden ratio being found in man-made objects & cultures from thousands of years ago...on different continents such as Mayan and Aztec ruins and in ancient Egypt.
Down syndrome is an error in the code bitch
@@Game-The-System asirian / musulman meccas, were the first, that shit spreaded everywere from egipt to aztecs
Can you imagine if way back when these mathematical sequences, formulas, equations, theories, etc., were being learned, invented, discovered, etc., that the world had the ability to communicate in the speed we have now (think internet/phone/even fax,++) and openly SHARED the knowledge and ideas and information of the processes it took to develop and discover it all where the world would be right now technologically. Long winded run on sentence I know. Sorry I just had an unTHC influenced brain trip
By the end of the clip, you understand just how much humility he has. Amazing.
Despite being my birth month & year (9/86), it is still a shame that this wasn't episode #987, just for the further Fibonacci Sequence + 'Lateralus' coincidences that would entail. For those who don't know, there is more on that below:
"For me, the song 'Lateralus' was the turning point. I wrote a bar of nine, a bar of eight, and a bar of seven, and we originally called the song '987.' I saw it as something that kept getting shorter and shorter and, like a spiral, it kind of folds in on itself. And Maynard had no idea what I was thinking when he went to track the vocals. But as the song's folding and changing, he's singing about the idea of a spiral and how you're basically trying to achieve something that's never been achieved and you have to keep reaching for something that you don't understand. I thought that was an incredible synchronicity. Then a friend said, 'Justin, do you realize that 987 is the 16th number of the Fibonacci sequence? It's the mathematical equation for a spiral.' I'm not the most spiritual person, but all that stuff was almost like a reward for all our efforts, and I felt like it got us back on track."
- TOOL Bassist Justin Chancellor via a _Revolver_ article originally published in 2007
Wow that's incredible! Never knew that
So funny; he thinks the way he wrote Lareralus is akin to a teenager thinking his poems in high school were so deep back then but in hindsight they're just emotional teenage angst garbage, when most of us who are barely comprehending how he comes up with songs are in awe of how he came up with that song. There's literally a 13 minute video deconstructing how he came up with that song and how masterful it is and here he is blasting it.
ThyChrysanthemum It's natural to keep on growing, so stuff you were proud of in the past may seem sort of childish after a while
ThyChrysanthemum That’s the genius behind our master Maynard
Probably because a teenager wrote it.
13 minutes, from which they spoke mainly of fibonacci, and faces and shit, and literaly like 3 minutes of music and creative process.
"It was kind of dick joke, in a way." Best laugh I've had in weeks!
Maynard is my inspiration and my all time favorite singer. Like hands down I wish I sounded that bad ass. He’s got a beautiful voice but then again he has so much emotion in his rasp and screams it just blows me away. I’d love to work with him at his winery. That’s a dream job
The new TooL Album is taking too long because hes just checking all the Maths checks out.
BLACKSYNTH hopefully it comes out this August.
Its confirmed for August 30th, 2019
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing.
@@Smokefools6691 did you check if the pieces fit?
I already had the tracks
After The Burial have a song called Pi and it's fascinating because they used every number in the 3.14...sequence as beats per bar. They wrote a formula just to write that song. They even play it live perfectly
Well no, they just play as many notes as each successive digit with rests in the middle, hard to execute but not hard to conceptualize. They definitely didn't have to write a formula lol
987 is a Fibonacci number.
Charles Bryan
Right. He had it backwards here. Its a measure of 9 then 8 then 7. But his lyrics are sung in progressive fib starting with 1 (based on syllables)
Black---1
Then---1
White are-2
All I see--3
In my infancy-5
Red and yellow then came to be-8
Reachin out to me-5
Lets me see--3
Counts up to 8 then counts back down
John Thompson
See further lyrics: ...swing on a spiral...
Weird. Because I didn't notice it was backwards when I first heard it. But the backwards bit 987 is a Fibonacci number. I know about the Fibonacci sequence in the lyric syllables. I think that is one of the testaments to the genius of Tool. At least one other testament would be the music. :)
It’s been so long since their last album Maynard can’t remember
Charles Bryan very good 😄 hands you a cookie
I love how Joe tries to act like he's just remembering things off the top of his head, when he's just reading notes getting put up on his computer.
Joe "That Fibonacci Song" Rogan.
We are all guilty of doing this at one point or another 😂😂 funny observation nonetheless
Dude you must be an asshole do you know how intelligent Joe Rogan is?
@@jesseslistjesseslist5055 sure he is 🤣
MJ Keenan in the most relaxed mood I have ever seen. He seems happy to talk about stuff.
Lateralus was awesome, I could listen to it with my eyes closed and sober and fly through reality like I'm tripping. But to learn it came out like it did by accident is amazing. I can't wait to hear the new stuff
Rogan and Maynard, bruh. What a great moment in history.
Brandon Keaton No doubt man. I have a great amount of respect for both of these guys.
pfff....
Oh yeah
Which one is which?
In case you aren't aware, there is another older episode with Maynard also.
No need to be humble Maynard, you did what no one else has done. Spiral out, keep going.
SFCISME made a concept album?
This has been done about three hundred years ago.
😂 Really? No one else? So start listen more music... You have so much to listen and learn!
his comment was a reference to the lyrics of the song
I wish I was given the chance to meet Maynard..
it’s crazy to think that this man has out done everything i ever could in life and he says “i could do better.” fucking legend
Is Maynard just pretending to be unaware of the significance of this song or is he really just an accidental genius.
he wrote lyrics not music
Both. Haha
Both
It’s called Adam Jones my friend
Nah it's all four of them together. Adam, Danny, Justin, and Maynard... Perfect synchronicity.. :D
Black
Then
White are
All I see
In my infancy
Red and yellow then came to be
Reaching out to me
Lets me see
These lyrics are like explaining the big-bang theory with phi ratio. First everything was empty space which is black in this reality. Then an insane explosion brings white which is light in this case. The material creation starting because of the ohm between gap/emptiness and this incredibly powerful and heavy light, then light breaks on the created material and explosions, colours starting to shine as red and yellow. And then the other colours with billions of explosions.
There is so much more
And beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities
in my infencey
Russ Barach that's not even a word.
Actually, looking at this, it seems close to symbolic language from the Alchemist process. Look it up if you like. The colors represent the stages in the process, which is about realisation of the Self, the unification of lower and higher spheres within a given context like the personality. Just after this part the section begins with "As above so below" which is a line from the Emerald Tablet, a centerpiece of the Corpus Hermeticum as found in Nag Hammadi. Hermetic philosophy is about alchemy, which is a spiritual, magical and esoteric path
Which seems to fit with the thelemic symbolism I distinguish clearly in a photo on a video about the Tool Album update februari 2018 (ruclips.net/video/8GPu216GW3o/видео.html) . Aleister Crowley introduced this symbol into western esotericism. He was a former member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he started an aligned filosofical and magickal school on the principles of Thelema. He was a self proclaimed magician and an example to many big names in pop culture (and still is). The symbol represents the acting upon your authentic Will, which can be identified with the Divine Spark of Gnosticism: the Knowledge of the Heart. These schools and teachings are deeply linked with Hermetica and Alchemy.
Writes one of the most intricate, complicated and fascinating rock songs ever; says he can do better
"There's something wrong with your face." - MJK
Just watched the video but... can't remember what they said.
God damn, shit the bed.
Next time bring a pen
I'll calm you down with some oranges slices and fetal spooning.
@@timmythistle6615 what the fuck
@@timmythistle6615 haha what? I think you got the wrong thread
@Human Resources woops I apologise.. I thought I knew all the lyrics to Rosetta Stoned 😪
Alternative title idea: "Two tattooed bald guys, who've tried every drug, talking about music"
0:35 "HE knows the pieces don't fit!"
Amen Maynard! More people need to create music like you.
They can't. Lol
Love Maynard and TOOL! Can’t wait to hear new albums from all of them.
they should change their name from Tool to just Math
Jude Michael Lol
Amir Frost fire roast, did you come up with that yourself, changing it now
Amir Frost the way i like tool
Jude Michael Except he obviously doesn't know shit about math based on the way he talks about the "phi ratio."
Danny Carrey is the math wizard. 7 pointed stars on his drumheads. He makes mathamatical sequences within the music by hitting the different points of the star. The sound doesnt change much because its the same drum but he knows he did it. Makes me think that man needs a different drum set. One with 1,000 more drums and stuff to equal his ability to play.
Sorry for Calling you out, Maynard. You know the world loves you. I needed you at that time. Thank your dad for me.
You can always recognize intelligent fellows . He’s direct and focused. No broken sentences
And every Algebra teacher, ever, just said in unison, “that’s when the hell ever you’re gonna use algebra outside of this class”..
The only real world application LMAO
🤣🤣🤣
Danny Carrey is the sekret genius behind all of this :)
David Sherrill yeah man, he's no joke
so true - most people think its maynard ... love maynard - but danny is the main driving force in the songs
Danny's riding that spiral there, boys!
Hes doing his Will, thats is for damn surr!!
Danny Carey is a genius that deserves to be celebrated. Favorite drummer of all time. He studied the greatest like John Bonham and Bill Bruford and defined his own style that involves mathematics
What’s awesome about that song is that the lyrics actually poke fun at us for over analyzing it instead of enjoying it for what it is
"Nope! No, uh that was a complete accident" Cracks me tf up😂
They explained it terribly, good thing I knew what they were talking about beforehand
I saw the 1995 docu about the Mandelbrot set on PBS so I was aware of the phenomenon but was clueless that Lateralus had that influence. Needless to say mind blown when I learned it years later.
It's a comic/MMA guy and a musician/artist. What did you expect?
Maynard is not even as much a musician - just a singer and lyric writer. He adds his vocals to whatever he's given.
Tyler Davis man you must be so cool
You're a fuckin genius.
Lateralus is my favorite tool album.
B Wild have you heard Ænima?
Emilio Vidal yes it’s my second favorite tool album them undertow
Same. Been getting into opiate and undertow recently
B Wild I get goosebumps every time I start that album
B Wild I totally agree. Tool is good but lateralus is the best start to finish
"Thirteenth Step" is what actually opened my mind up to music. From there I feel in love with soo many genres. Ppl say psychedelics are life changing, I submit that music can be just as trasnformitive and powerful.
I love MJK! In Lateralus I was blown away by the lyrics, then to learn about them incorporating the fib spiral into it... Mind blown! One of the few bands to make you really think while rocking out.
The lyrics are so, so bad wtf are you talking about
This FASCINATES ME. I have been told I get a little too into the more esoteric aspects of TOOL, but isn't that their point? If I wanted mindless drivel that didn't prod my brain a bit I could listen to almost any other popular music that is out now. I want to be transported, enlightened, and stimulated; I want music that asks as many questions as it answers. There will never be a band quite like TOOL ever again, although anything Maynard does is at least intriguing...
I do agree, though some of the songs are just troll songs. But the songs also permit you to really think what they mean to you personally, and you can do that with other Artists, too.
"why are your lips?" Classic Rogan.
MrTupuhi 😂😂😂
Maynard be Trippin 😆 but I love the music that comes out of his tripping😁
Lateralus is the only reason I remembered the Fibonacci sequence for my exams, so thanks hehe 😭❤️
"I can do better" - Maynard
August 30th
Drums and Cymbals underwhelming
Lmao, the Donald Trump Fibonacci in that google search. 3:28
The toupee 🤪😂😂😂🤣
Holy I was dying lmfao I wish they brought it up would’ve been funny to hear them joke about it aha
Fibonacci take the previous two numbers added together. It starts as 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13etc.
The idea of "something is wrong with your face" is usually referred to the uncanny valley.
Maynard is a mastermind! This whole bands existence is incredible.
Irony lyrically "over thinking over analyzing" and here we are lol
Can't believe he just called Lateralus a sophomoric dick joke! Lol
I imagine joe with the maynard mohawk and my life is complete
Love how he manages to sneak in that humblebrag at the end - "It was a vey pedestrian...sophomoric kind of thing to do. I could do better..." as he's talking about what is arguably their most popular and iconic song (and concept).
Reading comments from Tool fans on these kinds of topics is always hilarious. They're like worse than Kanye fans.
Maynard says it was intentional: "wow he's such a genius"
Maynard says it was an accident: "wow he's such a troll. he's a genius"
As a writer I can confirm, it's MUCH easier to write to a song than to write without a song
this guys music was always in my portable cd player in early 2000s
This song is weekly therapy for me. Tool’s ultimate masterpiece.
The fibonaocci sequence is God's finger print. That's why you see it all through nature.
that fibonacci song.
LMFAO
"oh wow man hey did you see that video of that moose?" "what?" "jamie pull that shit up"
Still to this day one of the most profound powerful songs ever written.
Lateralus?
You mean foggy mountain breakdown?
pls explain?
Joe 12345 gotta watch some of Maynard's other interviews...
Wait I dont get it....Breakdown? Mountain?
Anon
You had to be there
It's from another interview lol
Maynard comparing people who had plastic surgery to people with down syndrome: "No disrespect to people with down syndrome"
If that's what you're taking away from that, well... okay.
yeah, "no disrespect", after disrespecting them by calling their faces "wrong". lovely. soooo edgy. also it's weird when people with other body mods like tattoos give people shit for getting plastic surgery when plastic surgery is also a body mod.
You missed his point completely. It was based on how human faces naturally fall into the fibbonaci sequence and when someone gets facial surgery, or has down syndrome they don't and you can notice it.
Dillon MacPherson I actually did understand that he was talking about people with Down’s & people who’ve had facial plastic surgery in relation to the Fibonacci sequence, but it’s not like that it makes it okay. The way he insulted people’s looks because of a disability and because of surgery - which, there are lots of different plastic surgeries & it’s not like they’re all necessarily gonna be super noticeable anyway or probably fewer people would get them because sometimes - and his “no offense” after he knew he’d said something really mean & fucked up was bullshit. I didn’t have a problem with the rest of the interview from what I remember (I’m busy & not watching it again right now), but that part was really fucked. I’ve been a big Tool fan & APC fan for years and years, I also try to be a decent human being, & I’m also disabled (though I don’t have Down syndrome) so I’m not gonna just be chill when someone’s being a prick, even if I love their music. Disagree if you want, whatever.
jordan he probably could have worked out how to make his point better but I don't think he was intentionally insulting
Dude you are a musical genius I don't care what anybody says every one of your songs is good keep going keep it up
Nature shows herself. Thank god she was expressed by a true artist. Someone humble enough to say: "it just sort of happened". I'll never stop listening to TooL. How poetic it is to just "happen". Exactly what the song is about. Embrace, spiral out!
"she" "her" ... to a benevolent being that is neither male or female . its universal. were humans. no one responded to you in over 2 years and u have literally 4 thumbs up on a video that has 2 million views. so u have .000002% of people whove seen this who agree with this horrendous take. so its safe to say literally no one else agrees with u.. tell me a woman didnt write this without saying it challenge. ur either a bot (based off your name) or u are one lost soul. i hope its the former and not the latter." Just spiral out, man!" oh wait shit no. man means a male. "just spiral out dude!" oh shit no wait. " just spiral out , bro!" SHIT . "just spiral out" . ahhh yeah got it now
Maynard doesn't acknowledge it...but he is in fact our modern Beethoven. Genius.
beethoven was deaf homie
Haha, ok.
@@ctrainbeats Maybe Maynards deaf. Dunno. But he can make music as good or better.
@@mccoymrm hmm
I think Maynard was referring to how it works in a piece of music/notation for a moment there, while he’s a writer/lyricist, vocalist and performer, rather than someone who writes music like Adam can do in his sleep.
Kevin Smith adam jones is a superhuman
Surprisingly, both Adam and Justin are not musically educated.
Nish Kirtikar I just got in an argument with somebody over a youtube comment (which I should know better than to do by now) that reading music and being musically educated is not required to make good music, and, of course, this guy was arguing otherwise, while dismissing pretty much every legendary rock musician from Hendrix to just about every punk band to Nirvana. I just still can't believe there are people who think being musically educated matters. I always use this example, but look at Joy Division, Bernard Sumner could barely play his guitar, but he made it work and Joy Division is one of the best bands ever.
Glenda Danzig you are trying desperately to cling to an idea that suggests study does not enhance comprehension, which says to me that you either cannot afford or cannot squeeze the ambition from your existence to further your studies. Good luck
Glenda Danzig I understood you the first time
going to a concert soon in Germany! cant wait to hear TOOl!
Maynard: It doesn't fit!
Audience: I know the pieces fit...
"it doesn't seem to fit"
I thought the pieces fit, MJK?
Legendary words of Maynard: I can do better
And he did with Pneuma...
The fact that this was episode 986 and not 987 disappoints every Fibonacci nerd
Me buying the album when it first came out: awesome album.
20 years later: what song was that Fibonacci song again?
That song made me start to think when I was young I don't quite understand why he would say it's almost like a dick joke theres more than just the damn Fibonacci sequence in that song
He seems to think what he did was lame by forcing the lyrics of the song into the sequence, I don't think he is referring to or even thinking about anything besides lyrics. As much as i like the guy, something feels like he is just saying its lame because of how much praise he/they get for the idea and execution of the idea.
i somewhat understand, he even says it but doesn't really elaborate beyond saying the dick joke. by saying that he could have done better (i just personally take the Fibonacci aspect of the song as cool ah thats something different kind of thing and captivates me a little but im more focused on what hes talking about that why i praise the song) also ive never walked in the guys shoes so i have no clue how many people have told him that, maybe that was the best part of the song for them and after hearing it for so many years it just started to eroded his views on the song as a hole? after hearing it so many times but either way thank you for the great response
His point is that phi is everywhere. We're all living in it. It's innate. He feels it was a dick move to so boldly point it out in a song like that and then have everyone turn around and call him a genius for it. When really it's something we're all already very familiar with, whether consciously or not.
Official answer is here ^ give it more recognition
Tom Weather thank you
Danny carey herd the riff and new what it was Danny made the song he is after all big in geometry and his dad was a math teacher
So, Maynard uses the instrumental as a template to match his lyrics to. Awesome!
He can talk about EVERYTHING and his voice puts a spell on you.
Maynard is really starting to look alot like woody allen
I thought he kinda started to sound and look like moby
Woody Alien
I hate that you are so right...
Now I can't unsee this
'nope that was a complete accident'
He sounds like a kid, giving a book report on a book he never read.
The song Lateralus always recalibrates my racing mind and leaves it in a zen state.