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Tool did not form with profit margins in mind. In fact, the four band members met by chance and began making music to blow off a little steam. In 1986, guitarist Adam Jones moved to Los Angeles from Libertyville, Illinois. Jones supported himself as a sculptor and special effects designer where he learned the stop-motion camera techniques that would later make the band's "Sober" and Prison Sex" videos such visual marvels. Jones met singer Keenan who had migrated to LA after a nomadic upbringing that included a three-year stint m the Army. In fact, Keenan was considering
enrollment at West Point when he split the military to study art which led to a job in LA applying spatial design concepts to remodeling pet stores. Jones convinced Keenan to channel his artistic energy into music, and the two hooked-up with Keenan's downstairs neighbor Danny Carey, a drummer who'd worked with LA stalwarts Green Jelly and Pygmy Love Circus. Soon, bassist Paul D'Amour, who'd recently migrated to LA from Spokane, Washington, was introduced through a mutual friend of Jones's, and the band was born. The four members shared musical tastes and thematic insights inspired in part by a perpetual search for emotional stability within a pious world. "Tool began as a self-satisfying thing for us,"admits Carey. "Our music was a release and a vehicle to get out whatever tensions we were feeling at that time." The band first bashed the face of rock and roll complacency in 1992 with a powerful EP called Opiate. With dynamic songs like "Jerk-off" and the Freudian-inspired title track, Tool established itself as more than a band of youths angry for anger's sake. Taking earlier themes of spiritual distrust and physical retribution to new, broader heights, Undertow, Tool's first full-length recording, was released In April, 1993 and achieved gold status (sales of 5OO,OOO units) in its first six months on the market. Tool Increased its exposure durin the summer of '93 after headlining several dates on Lollapalooza's eclectic second stage before moving to the main stage, mesmerizing new fans with an aggressively personal and confrontational aural assault. As word of Tool's blistering live performances spread, MTV began airing the ground-breaking video for "Sober," the first single from Undertow. Directed by Fred Stuhr and guitarist Jones, the surrealistic stop motion images of an old man searching endlessly for something he never finds garnered the band Billboard Music Video Awards for Best New Artist and Best Clip in the hard rock/metal category. Proving Tool's diverse fan base, the clip aired on shows as disparate as "Headbanger's Ball," "Alternative Nation" and even earned Beavis and Butthead's highest praise as one video that "doesn't suck." By 1993's end, Tool had toured Europe with Fishbone and Rage Against the Machine, and headlined venues in the U.S. supported by Failure. Critics hailed Undertow as one of the year's most refreshing surprises highlighted by Entertainment Weekly's placement of the album in its Top Ten for 1993. The band's latest single "Prison Sex," which deals with the tragic, emotional consequences of child abuse, features another video produced by Adam Jones and Tool set in a similarly bizarre, nightmarish world as the first. Judging from the increased exposure the band has received, many people are identifying with Tool's musical travails. "This album is indicative of our generation," the band explains. "This is a generation that woke up after a decade of complacency and apathy realizing it had a voice but was unaware how to use t that voice to fix the situation we're in. Now, as we wonder if the planet will be here tomorrow and if there will be a social structure we can trust through the media's filtered truths, we also wonder where to start and how to understand the political-correctness of everything. We want listeners to abandon the f***ed- up ideas of what's right and wrong, and discover those ideals for themselves."

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