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“We started thinking, ‘Well, who could possibly be in the band?’ The only person I could think of was Steve”: Adrian Belew on how he and Steve Vai are forming a new guitar partnership ahead of a King Crimson supergroup tour

'Beat' will tour the band's ’80s material later this year, and the group's guitar duo is working on a partnership that can do the Belew/Fripp double act justice

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"I call Bill Bruford and blurt out 'how would you like to be in a rock band again?' Bill says, 'And do what? Sit around a luggage carousel all day?' But he gave us his blessing." Adrian Belew opens up on the formation of Beat

Adrian Belew has formed Beat with Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Steve Vai to perform King Crimson's 80s reportoire

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“Robert Fripp is one of our historical geniuses… I will be putting my best foot forward to respect this great music”: Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Danny Carey reveal full details of new King Crimson supergroup tour

The Fripp-approved band – which will revisit and reinterpret tracks from Crimson's Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair albums – will hit virtually every corner of the US and Canada this fall

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Danny Carey reveals that Tool have never recorded to a click: “As soon as I count it off, the click goes off. We’ll do however many takes it takes for me to be happy with my thing”

The Tool drummer also spoke to Rick Beato about playing with Jeff Buckley, his favourite Led Zeppelin drum parts, and why he loves turning his snares off

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King Crimson outfit Beat add 21 more dates to North American tour

Adrian Belew has teamed up with Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Steve Vai as Beat to perform King Crimson's 80s reportoire

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“I bought it with lawnmowing money!” Tool’s Danny Carey reflects on the first album he ever paid for himself

Tool drummer Danny Carey has named the very first album he bought with his own money – and it was funded by him doing chores around the house

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“Steve Vai is the only guitarist who could play my parts. I’m totally psyched for this”: Robert Fripp gives his blessing for a new King Crimson supergroup, featuring Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Danny Carey

The star-studded lineup will perform tracks from King Crimson's ’80s albums – and it was Fripp who suggested the group's name

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Robert Fripp endorses new Adrian Belew Crimson project Beat

Adrian Belew has teamed up with Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Steve Vai as Beat to perform King Crimson's 80s reportoire

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“I needed to destroy”: Watch video footage of the first-ever Tool concert in 1991

On October 7, 1991, Tool played their primal debut gig, and so began three decades of prog metal trailblazing

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"We threw everything away at one point": Justin Chancellor talks new Tool material, fashion and why MTVoid aren't a supergroup

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor explains how MTVoid differ from Tool, how long until we get another album and why he isn't worried about Swifties

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Watch Tool play Undertow track Flood for the first time in 13 years

The progressive metal mavericks played the deep cut days after drummer Danny Carey called revisiting Undertow’s musical style “appealing”

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Addiction, Jurassic Park and a one-sided Nirvana feud: The story of Tool’s Sober

Tool’s cerebral single earned chart success and launched a career of prog metal trailblazing – despite its video being slammed by Kurt Cobain

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Take a tour of Tool drummer Danny Carey’s Sonor kit

Danny’s drum tech, Joe Slaby, shows us around

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“I walked away feeling we had done justice to Taylor and justice to Neil”: Geddy Lee on how playing the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts helped bring Rush closure

Lee and bandmate Alex Lifeson played Rush classics with Dave Grohl, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith and Danny Carey

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"As the tour wound down, the mood started to change and it split into two camps... we were quite divided by the end": Geddy Lee recalls the internal tensions on Rush's final tour, R40

Rush's R40 tour represented a victory lap for the much-loved Canadian prog-rock heroes, but for the three musicians it was a bitter-sweet experience, Geddy Lee admits

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Wolfgang Van Halen on his approach as a multi-instrumentalist: "Drums are, to me, the most important part. It's the backbone of everything"

As Mammoth WVH II drops, Wolfgang tells us about taking his one and only drum lesson from Eddie, and why Travis Barker and Danny Carey shaped his playing

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Danny Carey reveals the Tool songs he finds most difficult to play live

With a tricky back catalogue, there's no shortage of options to choose from

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Foo Fighters officially name Josh Freese as their new drummer

With the help of Chad Smith, Tommy Lee and Danny Carey, Dave Grohl and co confirmed Freese would be joining the band full-time for their upcoming tour

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Foo Fighters reveal Josh Freese as replacement drummer for Taylor Hawkins in live stream video

The band introduces their new drummer in a star-studded live stream video featuring Chad Smith, Tommy Lee and a few poodles.

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Watch pro-shot footage of Tool, Primus and QOTSA members covering Ænima

That benefit gig featuring members of Tool, Primus and Queens of the Stone Age is the gift that keeps on giving

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Watch Tool and Queens Of The Stone Age members perform Led Zeppelin and AC/DC songs with Primus

Members of Tool and QOTSA joined Primus on stage to perform Led Zeppelin and AC/DC classics at a recent benefit concert in Los Angeles

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Primus and Tool members unite for charity show

Primus and Tool's Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor announce benefit concert for film director Jimmy Hayward

Tribune News Service

A Collector’s Odyssey: Weird band, weird fans and ‘riding the spiral’

In January, a 34-year-old Las Vegas chef named Kristopher West was in San Diego for work when he found a cheap ticket to see the prog-metal band Tool. Ever since high school, West had been drawn to Tool’s musicianship and spectacularly weird artistic vision that encompassed everything from album art…

The Orange County Register

Foo Fighters honor Taylor Hawkins with a star-studded music marathon at Kia Forum

ANAHEIM, Calif. — “It’s gonna be a long night,” Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl kept telling the sold-out crowd at Kia Forum in Inglewood Tuesday night.

Manchester Evening News

Review: Tool at the AO Arena Manchester

"Intelligent, intricate heavy metal played at utterly punishing volume"

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