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A Man, A Plan, A Strange TV Appearance

Posted at 3:00 PM on November 1, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Zak Sally--former bassist for Low, graphic artist, publisher, and prematurely old man--tells the story of how, a couple months ago, he landed on the ABC Nightly News singing the praises of prog-rock band Tool. It all started with an article for City Pages (yay, Sarah!) which got picked up by the Village Voice, which then presumably got left in a bathroom somewhere at ABC World Headquarters on a slow news day. See, there you go: We're all just one stall away from our fifteen minutes of superstardom! Or at least our fifteen minutes of network television punditry.

Salient point being that Zak never wanted all that attention. He merely wanted to rock out, at the largesse of the local alt-weekly:

"I pitched [City Pages] because it was something I've been thinking about and wanted to write about at some point," Sally explained. "But...I really wanted to get into the show for free. And then I couldn't! I couldn't go see them! Which I'm still kind of fuming about."

Somebody find a way to get Zak Sally into a Tool show, will ya? The man is pure gold.

Photo courtesy Chairkickers Records publicity

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