Some folks have been asking about the zipped archive of the tabs - which has been absent from the site since the redesign. So I'm putting it out there - ici. Include herein are the tabs for all of the relevant Salival tracks - some of which have also been missing from the tab pages. It's that damn Seventh Side that just keeps getting in the way of things...

- kevan

Well, that was interesting...

- kevan

Skipping Edmonton. See you in Vancouver. If anyone would like to grab a beer or cause a ruckus - feel free to email me.

Cheers,

- kevan

Both Ticketmaster.ca and LIVE Nation are both listing two upcoming tour dates - July 7th in Edmonton & July 9th in Vancouver. Ticket sales are apparently going public in four days. This seems really fishy, considering the fact that despite the rumours of the past couple months - there hasn't been any official confirmation or announcement from Toolband or any other source.

That said - Agents have been activated. We are awaiting confirm or deny signals and will relay any intel as it is received.

CONFIRMED - Spoke with someone at Live Nation, these dates are legit. I would expect many more to follow shortly, best guess being Calgary, Regina and Winnipeg - but that's just me pondering.

- kevan

The discussion forum/board has tonight, had it's overal appearance changed. The previous template for the forum, while suiting the overal look of the site, unfortunately was designed for an older version of the phpBB system - ergo many of the normal fuctions were unusable. Rather than spend countless hours attempting to patch a dated template - I decided to go with a new one. There will be further edits of the templates appearance images, such as the icons and overal colour scheme - but that will have to wait for now...

I have revised and added the credits page.

Work has already begun on turning this page (if not the entire site) into a working and updatable Wordpress layout. This will add another layer of user feedback and interaction, which will enable users to comment on news postings on this page. More on that when available.

Because I'm a sucker for constantly being connected to an online community - and in line with promoting a deeper connection with the Tool(tabs) community at large, I have created a Facebook page for the website. Search "ToolTabs". Feel free to join.

Signing off...

- kevan

Finally, it's done. After months, and months...and months, of sitting around creatively brain dead - it's finally done. There will no doubt be tweaks, additions, revisions and general mucking about with this layout - but it is what it is. I would like at some point, to incorporate a CMS system on this page - or somehow squeeze in a "wordpress" like "blog" to easier facilitate updates and random rants. I'm sure Nolan has saved up a few words he'd like to say, so we'll get him in here shortly.

The Forum is online - it should all look familiar, though I've made some changes to the categories and whatnot - again, nothing here is set in stone and the overal flow and direction of the forum (and even the entire site) will of course follow along with public feedback and suggestion. If you have any such ideas, please drop them in the forum. Unfortunately my backup of the old forum was corrupted - apologies. We'll have to start fresh.

In the end - I apologize to the masses for the site/forum being offline for so long. I have received a number of emails in the past months replying to our feelings toward the attitudes and behavior on the forum. Interestingly enough, nearly everyone who wrote in agreed with us - I only had two (2) responces of a negative nature. Regardless, I thank all of those who took the time to write in to say hello.

That said, the forum will be watched with a more strict eye. I will again reiterate: We will in no way impede or prevent the so called "freedom of speech" - within our own terms. Any content, comments or rants of racist or unnecessarily offence nature will be removed. Authors of said content will be given ONE warning - if he/she continues being a fucktard, you get hit with the ban stick. Permanently. Your post count, or self imposed elite status will have absolutely no bearing on this. Respect your fellow human beings. Respect your fellow Tool fans. If you don't agree with this - kindly feel free to fuck off now.

Enjoy.

NOTE - It's been brought to my attention that the new site looks pretty wacked while using the Safari browser - if you're using it, and seeing some blowout from the gradients, try Firefox while viewing this site. I'll try to fix it later...

- kevan