![]() I couldn’t be stuck in that paradigm-it’s too stifling. They’re set up where the bass player does the bass part and the guitar player does the guitar part and so on. I always wanted to do other things, and it felt like I was too much in a box with that band. Their creative process is excruciating and tedious, and I guess I never felt the desire to play a riff 500 times before I can confirm that it’s good that’s why it takes them eight years to write an album. I wish it had been a better vehicle for me to create in, but it just wasn’t. It gave me a lot of confidence to do anything I wanted to.ĭo you have any regrets about leaving Tool? All of a sudden, we were playing in front of huge crowds, and we had a ton of success. To go from 0 to 100 miles an hour in the span of a year was incredible. How did your time in Tool affect you as a musician? Paul D’Amour speaks in the latest issue of Bass Player magazine, mostly discussing his work with Lesser Key, however he does touch on his time with Tool and his reasons for leaving:
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