As might be expected, the set list was liberally sprinkled with cuts from the new album. But fans were also treated to a selection of Tool classics, including favourites such as Aenima, Stinkfist and Forty Six & 2. Keenan and company even went all the way back to their debut full-length album, 1993's Undertow, to resurrect Sober. But for all that, this was not an overlong show, the main body of the set running perhaps an hour and a half before the encore.
No one complains, though. Tool's performances are so intense that sensual overload is just a stone's throw away. Drag a Tool concert out to Phish or Grateful Dead-like lengths, and half the audience would come away with shell shock. It makes you wonder how Keenan, Jones et al. do it night after night on tour. Then you begin to understand what that five-year thing is all about.
