Ep330: The Story of Tool's "Fear Inoculum Deluxe Vinyl" boxset w Mackie Osborne
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Tool recently announced the long-awaited vinyl version of "Fear Inoculum" with a 5-LP Deluxe Boxset. Mackie Osborne oversees the product layout, manufacturing plans and ensures the final product meets the high expectations of the band and their fanbase. Today Mackie takes us through a brief history of this ambitious project.
Topics include:
- How long has this design been done?
- The impact of Covid on the vinyl package
- Problems in the manufacturing process
- Depth of the etchings
- Who pressed the vinyl?
- The quality of vinyl in the package
- How did the concept for this package come together?
- Packaging ideas that were considered but not used
- Describing the vinyl package
- Quality reviews of the artwork
- Are they numbered?
- Taking the concept to manufacturing
- Managing leaks and secrecy around the project
- Are there varied versions of the vinyl
- Is there going to be a different version on vinyl?
- 10,000 Days and Salival on vinyl someday?
- Similarities between Salival and Lateralus
- Artists on the Fear Inoculum vinyl boxset
- Meaning of the new artwork
- Finding new art after the album was complete
- What else is inside the package?
- Are there any Easter Eggs in this package?
- Weight and shipping concerns
- Announcements of Fear Inoculum and Opiate2
- Opiate2 packaging and manufacturing
- Any thoughts on why Tool keeps revisiting Opiate?
- What's up with Melvins?
- Melvins and the merchbooth
- Wrapping up the interview
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| 0:33.5 | And with that, on with the show. |
| 0:37.3 | Oh, well, hey, everyone. |
| 0:39.3 | Can you believe it's episode 3.30 of the vinyl guide already? |
| 0:43.4 | Dang, we are rocking up these numbers. |
| 0:46.6 | I've been doing this podcast for nearly seven years, |
| 0:48.9 | which is effectively the half-life of a tool album cycle. |
| 0:53.1 | But that's all right. |
| 0:54.0 | Tool albums are always worth the weight. and recently we learned that the 2019 Fear Enoculum |
| 1:00.2 | album was finally going to be made available on vinyl through a 5-LP deluxe box set, |
| 1:07.8 | complete with exquisitely designed artwork, glorious imagery, gorgeous packaging, |
| 1:12.8 | and heavy-duty vinyl. Very few people have gotten their hands on these packages so far, |
| 1:18.4 | with the bulk of them planned to ship in April. But to prepare our eye holes and ear holes for |
| 1:24.4 | what we'll experience then, we caught up with Mackie Osborne, who pulled |
| 1:28.6 | together all the design elements and manufacturing details for the deluxe package on behalf |
| 1:34.7 | of Adam and Team Tool. |
| 1:36.8 | She's going to share today all about the process of that vinyl package coming together, |
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