TOOL are set to launch their US arena tour tonight at the Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Oregon and you can now watch footage of the band rehearsing for the trek, courtesy of guitarist Adam Jones’ Instagram account, below.
TOOL’s US run of dates was originally scheduled to commence in March 2020, however that trek was subsequently cancelled and re-booked due to the pandemic.
Though frontman Maynard James Keenan is not present in the footage, Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor and drummer Danny Carey are featured, playing songs like ‘The Patient’ and ‘The Pot’.
Since the initial 2020 tour dates were cancelled, Maynard James Keenan contracted COVID-19 twice – once in February 2020 and another bout in November 2020 which saw the singer end up in the ER on December 1.
“Ugly, ugly. Couldn’t breathe,” Keenan said, recalling his second experience with the virus in an interview with Apple Music. “I could barely put two words together without going into a coughing fit, you know? It ended up kind of also progressing into pneumonia.”
He continued: “I knew what I went through and I know what I’m still going through, so I would recommend that you take this [pandemic] seriously,” he said, “but I feel like that’s just going to fall on deaf ears.”