2002.04.27 - Melbourne, Australia @ Rod Laver Arena

Source A: Mini Disc --- Sony ECM-S5 > Sony MZ-R700
Taper:  Rajan
Gen:     1st from Master   

Notes: Good sounding recording but has a bit of crowd noise at times. Not terrible though but potentially worth noticing. Probably, the highlight of this show is the fact that Flood & The Grudge are intertwined into one song rather than two which is, in my opinion, one of the most intriguing aspects of this leg of the tour. Tool simply did not do this a whole lot of times. If you listen to this recording with headphones, you can hear that the left side is initially a little more dominant in sound than the right side is. The taper corrects this during The Grudge. I wish Tool would've realized how much US audiences would enjoy hearing that combination - we would. At least, there are fellow tapers all over the world who have taken it upon themselves to record possibly one of the most intense bands known to modern music. Second only to the "Scott Hill Clown Band".

Maynardism: "Let's try something. In these difficult days, the world could use a boost. The world could use some healing so let's do our small part now. On three I want you to all say yes as loud as you can. 1, 2, 3." 

 CD 1
Time: 59:17

Tuva
Flood
The Grudge
(-) Ions
Stinkfist
4 degrees
Parabola
Schism
Eon Blue Apocalypse
The Patient                                

CD 2
Time: 50:02

Disposition
Reflection
Intermission
Triad
Ænema
Lateralus

Source B: Mini Disc --- Unknown Microphone > Sharp MT20W
Taper: Poq
Gen: ?

Notes - Taper: This show was performed without an encore, but rather in two sets. During the interval, the video clip for Parabola was played. To open the second set, Dale from The Melvins joined them on drums and Osseus Labyrint supplied the 'visuals'. There were also some extended versions / improves performed as well. Included in the torrent is some advertising I collected from the internet, one image and a flash file. During the concert my microphone was playing up, so there are a few pops and brief silences throughout the recording. I have listened to the whole thing again for the first time in years, and wrote down some of the issues. The may or may not be others. And really, these didn't bother me too much. Flood - (1:30) popping, (3:10) cuts out for a second, (4:45) popping, Grudge - Popping at start, popping at end, Stinkfist - popping at end, Triad - (0:00-2:32) some fuzz, (5:30) cuts out for a second or two. Because of the 'impurity' of this recording, this is the first time I have released this one.
Notes - Galen: If I may, it sounds to me like the technical issues the taper had were caused by simple connector malfunction. For a short period of time I used a Sharp MD recorder to tape some shows & I too had some issues with microphone sensitivity - when the levels were set too high. And that is what I think caused the issues here; the levels. Can I explain this? No. But I had the same thing happen, it sucked & so do the technical issues here... and the bass is slightly brickwalled - throughout. Not awful but tolerable & definitely noticeable. Somewhat damaged. Thus, this is best left for collectors only.

Time: 1:48:00

Tuva
Flood
The Grudge
(-) Ions
Stinkfist
4 degrees
Parabola
Schism
Eon Blue Apocalypse
The Patient
Disposition
Reflection
Intermission
Triad
Ænema
Lateralus

Source C: Mini Disc --- Sony ECM-DS70P > Sony MZ-R37

Notes : Decent recording. There is another recording of this performance going around with ‘unknown source information’. This is problematic. If you actually listen to ‘that’ source it is actually ‘this’ source from a different transfer. To make it a bit more difficult, the unknown source has also been referred to as Rajan’s recording. As of the end of 2023, there has only been four verified recordings to be around.