Source: Sound Board Studio Recording or high quality in-studio microphone
Transfer: DAT-M > UXL 2496 > Tascam DA 20 MKII
Gen: CU.ORG Master
Transferred by: Galen

“Disgustipated / Piano Demolition / Shotguns”

Notes on The Sylvia Massey Outtakes:
In November 2020, Sylvia Massey, the recording engineer for Tool on both Opiate and Undertow offered a bunch of old memorabilia of Tool for sale on her website with a solid focus seemingly on audio cassettes, DATs and even reel-to-reel consisting of studio outtakes. These items were not remotely cheap as in thousands and thousands of dollars. Unsurprisingly, her store quickly sold out of most everything rather quickly. Unsure of the legality of selling something like that but she did have a note specifying that the only thing for sale were the physical tapes and not the information contained on them. To be clear and without a shadow of a doubt: Sylvia Massey has transfers of every single thing she sold but it is also true that there is no incentive for her to release anything pertaining to Tool in the short or long term.

Notes: For those astute Tool collectors that have watched the entirety of the Sylvia Massy video are quick to recall the band, in the studio, firing shotguns at a piano. Several pianos, in fact. This interesting DAT tape collects about 70 minutes of Tool doing just that: shooting shotguns at pianos then dismantling them. It is both kind of fun to listen to while at the same time somewhat disturbing as the resonance of the shotgun shells are disconcerting. There is a little chatter between the band while a drumbeat almost like a click-track plays on and on.

Time: ~70 minutes

Disgustipated
(Alt.)
Piano Decimation and Dismantling via Shotguns and Hammers