{"id":413,"date":"2009-08-07T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=413"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:03:45","slug":"tool-in-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/tool-in-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool in Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image0026-1\"<\/a>Tool<\/a> played the K-ROCK Centre<\/a> in Kingston on Aug 4th. \u00a0The opening act was Tweak Bird<\/a> – who managed to generate and impressive amount of sound with their 2 primary members (a 3rd joined them for a couple of songs on various ‘odd for a heavy metal band’ instruments: flute, sax). \u00a0If you want a sample of what they sounded like check out their MySpace page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was the 2nd time I’ve seen Tool in concert<\/a>, and this was a very different experience than the last. \u00a0The 1st show<\/a> I saw was in Ottawa at the Corel Centre,<\/a> a much larger venue. \u00a0Also, this time we were in general admission (on the floor) vs. in seats.<\/p>\n

The K-ROCK Centre has a concert capacity of 6500. \u00a0It was clear from the number of empty seats that this was not a sold out show, I’d guess it was somewhere under 6000 people.\"Image0022-1\"<\/a> On the left is a picture I took before the opening act – it gives you a sense of how small this venue is and how close we were to the stage (this was 3\/4 of the way back from the stage). \u00a0The general (floor) crowd did get more tightly packed once Tool took the stage, but we ended up standing closer (about 1\/2 between the sound board and the stage) and there wasn’t a crazy crush around us. \u00a0To be able to see a band like Tool in such a small venue was pretty amazing.<\/p>\n

Tweak Bird was LOUD. \u00a0Tool was LOUDER. \u00a0I was glad to have my earplugs, but don’t get me wrong – I expect a concert like this to be very loud. \u00a0Feeling the bassline inside your chest is part of the experience. \u00a0Tool put on a great concert. \u00a0For more, check out these<\/a> reviews<\/a> of the Toronto show<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tool played the K-ROCK Centre in Kingston on Aug 4th. \u00a0The opening act was Tweak Bird – who managed to generate and impressive amount of sound with their 2 primary members (a 3rd joined them for a couple of songs on various ‘odd for a heavy metal band’ instruments: flute, sax). \u00a0If you want a … Continue reading “Tool in Concert”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}