Imagine you are in Sally Longs, back in the good old days when the old juke box was there. Now take out the picture of the “12 Apostles” and replace it with leprechauns. Make it a little bit smaller and you’ve got Murphy’s, my new favorite Bar in Salt Lake City. The crowd is a little rough according to the G-Man but it’s just some bikers and stuff. Just like Sally’s.

Anyway one night while I was enjoying a drink this guy started talking to me about Tool as I was wearing my Tool hoody. He was disapointed with the tool album. Although there were good songs on the album there was a lot of fun which just didn’t seem right. He then went on to tell me his theory about how 10000 days is actually some form of decoy.

He said the album itself is littered with lots of clues. The track Viginti Tres which is latin for 23, a number which has a significant occult significance, which corresponds to hexagram 23 of the “I Ching”, P’o, which translates as splitting apart. There’s the song name right in two. Some of the tracks have been split apart such as Wings and Blame Hoffman/Rosetta Stoned (this isn’t anything new as Lateralus has Parabol/Parabola). Also a number of songs sound like they should be on other albums, for example “The Pot” sounds like it belongs on Undertow. In order to fool pirates Tool spent a year recording a decoy album. Is 10000 days that album?

Then he told me that Tool have recorded every concert that they have ever performed and the only live tracks they’ve released are on Opiate and Salival. He believes that Tool plan on releasing a live album in the near future and not only that but on the 6th of June they are going to start playing brand new songs that nobody has ever heard before and then are going to release them on a new live album.

Of course it’s more than likely that this is all the wishful thinking of a dissatisfied Tool fan. Personally I doubt it. I had a hard time coming up with evidence to back up the theory. During the course of my investigation I found a couple of rumours. One of which involved a release on the 6th of June but it seems likely that this will be a DVD single of Vicarious similiar to the Parabola and Lateralus ones they released earlier, but who knows with Tool?