Overview

The Urge was a St. Louis-based Rock/Punk/Ska band that started making noise in 1989, but didn’t really hit their big acclaim until the mid ’90s. While their most commercially-successful single was easily “Jump Right In” (man, that video is terrible) from Master of Styles, their most complete and consistent album, at least in my opinion, is Receiving the Gift of Flavor.

Here are just a few more interesting videos from the lineage of Tool.

Danny Carey Interview

A few years back after Lateralus was released, Danny Carey (the drummer from Tool) did an interview with Jeff Ocheltree for ‘Trust Your Ears: The Drum Tech Explorations of Jeff Ocheltree’, during which he plays the climactic section of the title track of the album (one of my favorites of their entire collection).

Phil Collins appeared on ‘Telling Stories’ (which appears to be similar to VH1 Story Tellers), and there are a few clips on YouTube of that episode.

I was just poking around on Youtube, and ran across this great live video from Sevendust during the Seasons era (2003-ish). It looks like it may be from Saturday Night Live, but I’m not sure, and don’t really care all that much. Given that Clint Lowery is still on guitar (as opposed to Sonny Mayo) and Lajon’s hair is short, this has to be an album promotional for some show - it’s a very good live performance either way.

Overview

Maynard James Keenan has been actively maintaining his Puscifer ‘product line’ for quite a while now. If you haven’t checked it out, what are you waiting for?

Music tagged from the band ‘Puscifer’ has been showing up on various soundtracks (such as the Underworld soundtrack) and websites for quite a while now. It was mostly a pseudonym over anything else.

As side projects go, this one is less conventional than others. Puscifer as it stands in 2007 is really a line of products more than anything else:

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A Perfect Circle will be here in April (at the Municipal Auditorium). Happy Happy Joy Joy.

Sevendust will be in Kansas City on January 27th, at the Uptown Theatre.

Once again after their album released APC jetted to tour outside of the United States.

Regrettably I didn't see them before the album release or just after when they were in the states. The closest they got to Kansas City on their fall album tour was Springfield, and unfortunately that was on a day so close to Thanksgiving it wasn't really possible for me.

Oh well, the anticipation will only make it better.