Tool, a unique band.

Hello! Today i'm going to talk about my favorite band: Tool. I think it's one of the most interesting bands of the world. This band is recognized because of its deep and great music, and also because of its incredible art works. 

It's from USA, specially from Los Ángeles, California, and they started made up by Maynard James Keenan on vocals, Adam Jones on guitar, Danny Carey on drums and Paul D'Amour on bass; but in 1995 this last member left the band and in his place they put an Englishman bassist called Justin Chancellor.

Their music style is hard to explain. It's a class of progressive metal that is very dark, but in his own way. It doesn't appear like any other band sound, and for me, the important of their music, is the sense and feelings that they put on them letters whit witch I feel very identified.

I don't really remember when was the time that I listened it for the first time... but I remember that my sister has an album of them, and some they I listened it... but I begin to like it a lot when I listened to them with a friend.

They have five studio albums: Opiate (1992), Undertow(1993), Ænima(1996), Lateralus(2001) and 10,000 days(2006) and I'm waiting anxiously for the sixth.

In the two firsts albums, their music was full of hate and negative feelings, but they represent very good this feelings and I thing it's great.

In the others albums they begin to be more deeper, and they talk about things like communication, mysticism and the bad things of our actual society.

Now you know who they are. Because all the things I have said, I really recommend it to all people. They're very good, and they will introduce you to a very interesting world!

The place I'd like to visit

I have never been abroad, but I have always dreamed to travel to a new continent. Specially, I imagine myself going to Europe, because there are so many countries that are interesting, also because of the historical places, and I think it has to be a quite different culture. Speaking of culture, I believe that I really want to know a whole different culture, something that escapes from western influence or almost in some way… because you know this culture is globalized.

For that reason, the place I’d like to visit is located in Asia, and it’s actually India. The truth is that I don’t know very much about it and our teacher has helped me a little in that way, but it interests me principally because of its typical music and for its religious festivals, or its religion as such. I think they are quite interesting and exciting. I know something of its music because I usually listen a lot of Ravi Shankar compositions, who is a known Indian musician that get famous on the sixties. He used to play the sitar and his compositions are called “ragas”. His music makes me calm and relax a lot. 

Also there is an interesting religious festival called Holi. Did you know that the traders have taken it to Chile as a commercial festival? It actually will be really soon, I don’t know exactly when. Well… I think I’d like to know the real festival. 

Oh, and I forgot to say that I would really like to know the Himalayas !!

Other thing I’d like to do would be eat its typical food. I’m vegetarian, so I’m a little limited in that way. But I have known that there are many vegetarians there, so I think I’m not so limited.

I think I wouldn’t like to work, study or live right there because I don’t speak the same language, and I think it’s a big difficulty to do anything. Also I don’t know which job I could get there. Maybe I’m a little afraid of these things because of my ignorance, but if I like the place, I would think it twice.