TOOL Planning Summer Tour Around KEENAN's Wine Harvest

May 11, 2006

TOOL bassist Justin Chancellor has told MTV.com that the band are currently mapping an eight-week U.S. arena trek beginning in August that'll carry the group through the end of September. "People will be able to get tickets for that tour," he cracked. "Right now, we're basically doing a bit of a warm-up run. We haven't played in a couple of years and we need to get our chops back together."

When the late-summer tour launches really depends on the weather, Justin said. TOOL vocalist Maynard James Keenan, a wine connoisseur, plans to return to his Merkin Vineyards in Sedona, Arizona, at some point this summer so that he can overlook the harvesting of this year's grape crop. Later this year, Keenan plans to release a 2004 Nagual de la Naga, a 2004 Nagual del Sensei and a new Primer Paso.

"There are a few weeks where he has to be back and doing that, and we appreciate that it's his passion and he wants to be hands-on with it," Chancellor said.

Regarding whether TOOL's loyal fans will have to wait another five years before there's another new studio CD, Chancellor said, "If a band [puts out an album a year], how can you live any life? How can you evolve? How can you have anything new to say? Maybe you can, but I don't hear it. You win on one level and you lose on another level that way. With us, it sucks — you don't get any music for a long time, but when you do, it's something you can sink your teeth into. It lasts a little longer. Think of it like fast food — sure, it's instantly satisfying, but it doesn't really sort you out in the long run. I don't know which is better, but that's just how we roll, you could say."

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