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Stephanie McDonald attempts to unravel the complicated world of Tool, where ego, musical genius and band politics jostle for position as the star attraction. What she uncovers is beauty, marriage and managing expectations. Like Joel Monaghan from the Canberra Raiders, drummer Danny Carey from Tool has his own unfortunate dog story. Luckily for Carey, his story isn’t as sordid, although it does involve some wheelbarrow dog action. “I was just trying to lift my dog up — trying to wheelbarrow him up onto the bed. Right when I was trying to pull, my arm was kind of turned at a strange angle and he jumped,”
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Carey says. That innocent little jump caused a torn right bicep. “It was a really strange feeling where it turned into a big ball in the middle of my arm and I thought, ‘that would be kind of cool, if my arm wasn’t like Popeye or something’,” he laughs. He has since found a more efficient way of getting his boxer onto the bed. Five weeks off and he was as good as new.
This isn’t the only animal-related injury Carey has experienced, with his life delving into the weird when he required two surgeries on his hand after a run-in with an “aquatic critter” while he was on holidays in Hawaii. Carey would quite possibly make an interesting case study for a wildlife-gonewrong documentary. But don’t be expecting that any time soon — Tool is one of the
biggest bands in the world and has some new music on the way. Tool is a dark and mysterious band, constantly building on the group’s ambiguity. This is only reinforced by frontman Maynard Keenan’s presence on stage — he loiters near the back of the stage, his face shrouded by ominous lighting. Fans speculate why he’s not front and centre — does he have
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