Tool's set: 10 songs = 2 hours

Maynard & Co. played the essentials and not much else at Xcel Center.

July 2, 2010 at 5:36AM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I must've been in a daze. It sure did seem like Tool played more than 10 songs last night at Xcel Energy Center. The show clocked in at two hours, and Maynard James Keenan -- wearing an engineer's hat, shorts and a T-shirt that read, "Postal" -- barely said a word between songs. In fact, there wasn't enough down time in the show for an ant to take a pee break. Ten songs is indeed all that was on the band's set list, though. Credit the Tool men for making it feel like a much more epic show than the number of titles suggest. Click here to read the full concert review. Here's the set list:

Third Eye / Jambi / Vicarious / The Patient / Intolerance / Schism / 46 + 2 ENCORE: Lateralus / Aenema

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Chris Riemenschneider

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Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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