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Paul D'Amour (born May 12, 1967) is an American musician and was the first bassist for Tool. [1] His bass sound is recognized by the aggressive picked tone he developed with his Chris Squire Signature Rickenbacker 4001CS, which can be heard on Tool's first full-length album, Undertow.
Jan 8, 2020 · When Paul D'Amour walked away from Tool in 1995, during the recording of Ænima, he had one mission: to avoid letting his role in that band define him forever.
May 14, 2024 · There's one reason why original Tool bassist Paul D'Amour quit the band in 1995, and it has to do with how long they spend making albums.
Nov 29, 2022 · Paul D'Amour is a current member of Ministry, but back when he was the original bassist of Tool, he was inadvertently drugged by Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen. Get that story as well as...
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- Many of Undertow‘s songs had already been written by the time Tool recorded the Opiate EP. Maynard James Keenan and Adam Jones began writing songs together in 1987, and had thus amassed a substantial amount of material by the time Tool signed with Zoo Entertainment in 1992.
- The album’s intense, “reactionary” energy was partly a reaction to Maynard’s experiences in the film business – and to the band’s brushes with the Hollywood hair-metal scene.
- Maynard shot a piano to death for “Disgustipated.” During the recording of “Disgustipated,” the album’s creepy closing cut, Massy added to the aural nightmarishness of the track by recording Keenan firing four rounds from a shotgun into an old upright piano.
- Adam Jones kept his guitar head stored in a refrigerator during the making of the album. Back during the early Nineties, if someone talked about keeping a head in their refrigerator, gruesome images of mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer would have been the first thing to come to mind.
May 14, 2024 · Former Tool bassist Paul D'Amour reveals why he left the band in 1995 due to their slow songwriting process. He also talks about his current projects with Ministry and Lesser Key.
Paul D’Amour is a multi-platinum recording artist and award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer. Formerly a member of TOOL, D’Amour’s distinctive songwriting and bass-playing style placed him at the forefront of the creation of a new genre in rock music in the Grammy-winning prog heavyweight band.
