Why haven they played “Ticks & Leeches” live yet?
All of the songs with lyrics from “Lateralus” have made it onto setlists so far except for this one. Maynard recorded vocals for this song after all the others, and threw his voice out completely for a few days as a result of the screaming. In Oor Magazine (May 2001), he says “the band can hassle me all they want about Ticks & Leeches, I won’t do it live. Three weeks it cost me. I couldn’t sing a high note.” ********* So the back of the CD lists this song title as “Lateralis” … Ah, the new six-million-dollar question. As “Salival” was fraught with production errors, so too was the album “Lateralus”. Unlike the intentional different spellings of the song “Ænema” and the album “Ænima”, done so to differentiate between the meanings of the two, the title of this song is meant to be spelled the SAME as the album. Once the error was brought to the band’s attention, two million copies had already been printed – and many of those already sold. Subsequent printings of the album are scheduled
