Talk:72826

Unleashed: The Story of Tool
I have added a reference to the Joel McIver's book Unleashed: The Story of Tool for these three statements:
 * 1) "It is also referred to by the name Toolshed, or Tool."
 * 2) "But is now widely available for torrent download all around the internet."
 * 3) "There has been some speculations made about the reason behind the name - some saying that it is because '72826' spells 'Satan' on a telephone keypad."

Here's the paragraph from where I got the information:

In late 1991 Tool cut a demo cassette, adorning it with an image designed by artist and friend of the band Cam de Leon of a wrench ('spanner' for UK readers) shaped like a phallus and scrotum. Said to have been recorded in order to attract record company attention (which is unlikely, given the band's lack of interest in the industry), the tape — known as Tool, Toolshed or the 72826 demo, depending on where you go for your information — contained three songs on each side. The raw, four-track versions of 'Cold And Ugly', 'Hush', 'Part Of Me', 'Crawl Away', 'Sober' and 'Jerk-Off' are easily available through the internet and demonstrate crearly that Tool had raised their game spectacularly in the few months since they formed. Although the songs lack the scintillating clarity or the thunderous heaviness of the versions that appeared later, the unorthodox tone, left-field arrangements and the unnerving themes of sex and misery sounded decidedly different to those few music fans who heard them. The first of several dozen enduring Tool myths sprang up when someone pointed out that 72826, tapped out on an alphanumeric phone keypad, equates to the word 'Satan'...

You can read the book at this page: