Tool really know how to put on a show.
I don’t get to go to a lot of shows these days. Part of it is my location, sure; Toledo gets maybe a handful of good tours a year, and I only know of a couple of good local bands, but it’s also because I’m an old man and a responsible adult, with a full-time job and a wife and kid and house and whatnot. I’m not complaining, of course, but I do enjoy concerts a great deal, so I guess going to one every year or so makes it that much better. It helps when the bands playing end up being the likes of Between The Buried And Me and, in this case, the almighty Tool. For this show, I recruited my old concert-going buddy Raybob (not his given name, at least not fully, but I’ve called him that as long as I can remember, so we’ll roll with it), whom I hadn’t gotten to see in nearly a year, and we rolled out to the Huntington Center.
I hadn’t actually been to the Huntington Center before, even though I live in Toledo, mostly because I haven’t gone to any of the Toledo Walleyes‘ hockey games. From what I hear, the place is actually pretty successful as arenas go, which is nice. After paying ten bucks to park in a lot several blocks from the arena (it was fifteen a half-block closer – score!), we hoofed it to the arena and made it in good time. From there, we got in with little hassle and headed up the stairs to the second level. After wandering the entire perimeter because we misread a sign, we discovered that the staircase to the top level was, in fact, right behind us where we had first come up to the floor, and feeling a bit silly we climbed once more.
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Between the Buried and Me
