Chords for Tool Interview On MTV - Lateralus (19-04-01)

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[A] _ [B] I'm cold, but [D] I feel so nice, I _ [A] can smell.
Tool's last full-length studio album came out five years ago, went to number two in the Billboard charts,
and also sold two million [Abm] copies.
So when five years have passed and you've had that kind of success,
there's a lot of anticipation, as you would expect, of their new album coming out.
How do you pronounce the title of this new LP?
How do you say it?
Lateralus, is that right?
Lateralus.
Lateralus, right.
Okay, so that's how it's pronounced.
Before we talk about the new album, everyone knows what Maynard was doing with The Perfect Circle.
What were the other three members of Tool [C] up to?
You toured for about two years,
then had three years off doing what?
_ _ _ Fighting with the record [Gb] company.
I'm coming away, [E]
yeah, I'm in great _ business, let's [E] rush it all [D] away.
You're known [E] for hating the business side of the music [Bb] business.
I mean, did that really get in the
way with [Gb] being creative with Tool?
Was all of your time taken up with trying to get out of that deal,
sorting stuff out?
It was kind of hard to keep being creative, yeah.
It kind of [F] grated a bit.
_ _ _ _ [Gb] We had to kind of get [F] through that a little bit before we could really get [E] back to _ the creative process. _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ [N] What kind of state of mind do you have to be in when you're thinking, it's been five years,
we sold two million copies, now we've got to follow that up?
_ _ _ Yeah, [A] those kind of thoughts we're really too worried about.
[Ab] We're definitely our own worst
critics and [F] we just try [Ab] to go into our rehearsal space and be true to the chemistry that happens
between the four of us when [G] we get together in a room [Ab] together with some noise-making [Eb] instruments. _
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_ When [B] you're actually writing stuff, do you put aside a lot of material because you'll think,
like, [Am] this isn't epic enough, this [Ab] isn't big enough, you know, we've got to make it more Tool,
we've got to have more [Bb] longer songs, there's got to be more complexity to it? _
_ No, [C] not really.
I [B] mean, the _ songs, [Bb] the way we write [A] them, they get to a certain point and then
they sort of [Ab] just take on a life of their own and we just try [G] to be true to that and [Abm] let them
develop the way they [Ab] need to develop.
_ _ There's [F] never _ [A] too much forethought put into [Abm] each one
individually.
_ _ [A] We're in a fortunate position where [B] we can let things [Ab] run their course [G] and we don't
have to worry about _ [Ab] _ selling _ _ _ singles or anything like that.
We're an album band.
[N] The business side of things, which you always say that you [F] hate and you don't like dealing with,
you seem to be very good at manipulating the business to your own ends though, because
[A] you're very good at building up anticipation [Ab] for the albums, you've got a reputation for
cancelling interviews at the last minute, not wanting to do interviews, stuff like that.
Would you say you're a hard band to deal with?
Is that true?
_ _ No, not at [A] all.
Not if people want to find out about what we're doing.
Music _ and the art that
we present, we're ready to share it with as many people as we possibly [E] can.
It's just when [Abm] people
try to [Am] present [Ab] the personalities or our personal lives first, then I think it just gets kind of
irrelevant because that's not [Am] what we're about.
We're here to share [G] our art with people, not
[Ab] so much share ourselves with [Abm] people.
_ [Am] It's a bit of a [Abm] conflict at [B] times.
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ In terms of this [G] new album coming out now, [C]
is it going to be a breath of fresh air for all the
people that are getting fed up with the whole [E] Limp Bizkit [A] and the paparazzis of this world?
It'll be a breath of fresh air for the Tool [Ab] fans, that's for sure.
_ [G] _ _ [A] They kind of know what to expect.
They've [Ab] seen how we've evolved from each [G] record and [Ab] sort of a continuation of [G] that process.
But [A] _ [Ab] we're hoping to scoop in as many new people as we [Eb] can and hope they'll embrace [Abm] it.
But you
never know what's going to happen until it [G] gets out [Abm] there and we get the response.
[G] And people are [F] still interested because it is promising [B] to be different.
_ [F] And that's what we've been trying to do [B] while creating it.
When you put together [G] this album, the band as a complete unit has complete control over what
they do, what they don't want to [Ab] do.
And as you say, we don't know you as people that well,
but what are the personalities like in the studio or in the writing process?
[B] Do you [Ab] conflict?
Is it evenly spread out in _ terms of putting together new music?
_ There's a lot [G] of _ mutual respect between each of us, but we do [F] conflict definitely [Eb] as well. _ _ _
_ [Gb] It's definitely a [Fm] democracy, [Gb] _
but sometimes you do butt [F] heads a lot and _
take a few weeks to get over it and then get back to what's _ really [B] working. _ _ _ _
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[N] And in terms of all the internet rumors and stuff like that, remaining so elusive as you
obviously make an effort to do, [C] do you go into the fan sites and read stuff?
[Bb] Yeah, it's kind of fun.
Every once [Gb] in a while, I'll go into the [Abm] chat room and
rap with a few people.
Usually I do it under [E] another name. _ _ _ _
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_ _ That's probably the best part
about [Ab] the internet, I think, is just to be able to contact your fans in that way.
[D] _ _ You have to [Ab] be careful just because you can get caught up in that [A] and end [Ab] up wasting a lot of
time.
[Gb] What you [G] really [Abm] need to be doing always is focusing on the art and your [G] musical [E] ideas
you want to get across, because that's what the fans are there for in the first [G] place.
Have you ever been into one of those chat sites at EVE Review and one of the [A] fans has fathomed out
that they are actually talking to a member of TOOL?
Has that ever happened?
Actually, most of the time they don't believe [E] it.
Yeah, they're always [N] so skeptical.
Does it matter to you as people [A] how commercially successful this album is?
_ _ Not so much at this [Bb] point.
Like I said, we want [G] to share it with everyone, but
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_ [A] _ we're [G] happy we made a good record and _ it'll have to [Ab] take on a life of its own now.
Yeah, you pretty [Gb] much have to let that go.
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As far as the touring is concerned, you're playing some dates in the UK,
there's Brixton shows and also you're doing the Ozfest as well.
_ _ We're doing these [Am] few dates around in the next [N] month or so, starting in May,
_ _ _ [A] kind of as a primer in a way, we hope.
And then we want to come back later [Ab] on in the year and maybe
do a proper tour in our own pick of venues, rather than doing so many festivals and things where we
can really take over the environment and put [E] on a show that we believe in.
[G] And have complete control, as is the TOOL way.
Yeah.
Well, I know you don't like doing TV interviews,
so it's been good to talk to you today.
Thanks for your time.
Thank you very much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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