I Met maynard at a wine signing at Whole foods in chicago. He said "sup?" Then I said, "wassup?". That was my best interview I ever did with maynard lol
You're never too old for TOOL, they came out when I was in high school... that was 20 years ago. Nothing but solid music for all those years, nothing can compare!
I enjoy hearing people describe the moment they 'got it.' For me, it was the song Hooker with a Penis. After digging into that more, I needed to dig further and further and....
Hell yeah. They found me through pure luck, I finished listening to an album on Spotify and they just randomly generated the song "Prison Sex" and it disgusted me so much i couldn't get it out of my head for a week. I started to try and get into them and now they're one of my favourites.
The only way this could be better is if it was conducted by the Hicks. Maron's non-fanboy approach is disarming and effective, plus, you can sense MJK's respect for him.
i fucking hate that maron bitch but this interview is great.. its also pretty old.. so it was in time when maron was actually funny, not the sore bitch he is now
Some of the most insightful moments of my own life happened while sitting in my bed staring at my ceiling listening to Tool during my teen years. Alot of weird stuff happened…
@@lovejulie317 naw, 46 &2 is about evolving ...............it will happen one day..... we will have 2 more chromosomes, my daughter has an extra chromosome 21, shes an honor roll student, a lot of children with the extra 21st chromosome are extremely intelligent. one more chromosome and we will transcend.
If you have been a fan that long...of course you did. Somewhere in you it was there. It either is or it isn't. It's seed is planted immediately when you heard it for the 1st time. I've been there since the very beginning as well. I get it. 😁🤟🌟👊
I love how Maynard is constantly messing with us. I looked up some of the bands he mentioned, Dumpster and Dead White and Blue. He said they were good bands. They suck. Thank you for the recommendation, MJK.
The more I learn about Maynard, the more I find him and I have in common. The religious childhood, military, outdoorsy, introverted, extremely imaginative, quiet and reserved. Only difference is my folks are still together, well, that and the whole famous thing. But no wonder I love his music so much.
It's odd how he's all calm and laid back for most of the interview, then he gets asked about what inspired him and he gets all stuttery and precise about his wording.
There are ALOT of judgmental assholes posting comments in here. That's the problem with the world today- people are too afraid to look at themselves so all they do is sit and judge everyone else. It's too sad really but had to be said.
Everyone judges. Almost every thought that comes into your mind is a judgment on some level, but most people don't broadcast their judgments to the rest of the world, because most people don't fucking care.
That may be the way you and a lot of other ppl think but I don't. I have more than enough flaws of my own. I'm not sayin that I can't see the problems in others but I just dnt think of em totally negative.
***** Hmm, this is the first I've heard of Melora having a stalker. Not surprised tho as she is beautiful and yes- Rasputina's flippin awesome! Ever seen em live? I got 2 c them in 99' in philly and they were totally great. Melora Creager's always been on the side of being odd to some ppl but I've never perceived her that way. However, her bein "friends" with her stalker is kinda strange even 2 me. We don't know the whole story though and maybe there's aspects 2 the situation that make it make more sense.
Yes I agree with you. People don't seem to be able to look in the mirror and see the real problem. I really enjoyed this interview - gave me insight to MJK and how he sees things. I like listening to people who have insight like this - it's inspiring.
Gavin Wainwright Yeah, I know what you mean. Ppl(it seems)are usually blind 2 what's right in front of them. They're unable 2 truly be introspective anymore. Idk maybe it's because I spend a lot of time by myself so it's easier 2 look inward. Don't always like what I see but it makes it easier 2 figure out aspects of myself, others and the world beyond.
Love how the interviewer prefaces the interview saying he does his research. Only later to comment about MJK's mother and inquire how she is doing. Did you not listen to the latest Tool album?
He elaboraty states that his research consists solely of listening to ALL music by the person he's interviewing. Also that it's not really research because the guy sitting opposite him is just a guy and the interview isn't about the records they made. Listening to 10.000 days without being a Tool enthousiast for years before, would you really guess the song 10.000 days is about the passing away of his mom? I appreciate you're a Maynard fan, but you're trying to protect the man from a non-existent evil.
Answer to 39 mins in- 46 now and deep in since 90-ish. I am one of the people that you, your band, vision, lyrics, heavyness, hope, the somewhere else that i would go, that im still using- in many forms-- my soul has been forever changed b/c of TOOL. Emense love, gratitude, admiration of the ability to project- all of those things and so much more. Thank you. I am a much, much, much different and so much better being than i could've imagined. Actually, i always knew that i kicked ass (true but add laugh track if you want to just b/c its hilarious due to its bizzare notion -laughing). Peace guys.
I own every album they ever put out, saw them live over 15 times between 1994 and now, and I had no idea his mom was dead. Knowledge of a band member's personal life has no bearing on whether you like their music. Get a grip guy.
THis is NOT the best Maynard interview. The best are his two interviews were on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast # 246 and 412. Three hours each. and no bs
Yeah... not a fan of Rogan. In my opinion he's a self absorbed pompous ass posing as a "cool guy" with his hat backwards. Grow up Joe. Maynard is a 180 of Joe Rogan.
LiteStyle0o a 180 of Joe? What does that even mean. That's cute, Are you trying to make up idiomatic expressions? Joe is super humble. You are the one that sounds like a pompous ass.
I know a quite a few Dead heads that are really into Tool. It's an interesting shared appreciation. Usually "Heavy Metal" and mainstream music is not very intelligent, tends to be streamlined for the masses, so It is something of a treat to come upon MJK and Tool. Gerry and the DEAD liked to explore sonic Shamanism, for lack of a better word, hypnotic and melodious, normaly reserved for ritual
I’ve grown up on tool since I’m 13, I’ve sorta just engulfed myself into the artists my parents love. And that’s what happened to tool I have loved it since hearing it in the car when I was 5 and especially now that I can really analyze the music and lyrics and stories behind it. This music is truly amazing it somehow creates the perfect feeling of all these human emotions we all feel. I will always love tool. And I’m not going to lie, I have listened to just them for the past week I don’t know why lol
I’m currently listening/ watching all of this bands interviews, I’m an angry teenage girl I love tool ajjrjejsjdjd I also like their lyrics and music and everything in general their incredibly smart
How is it that people think this guy is a bad interviewer? The quality of his work doesnt lie in his questions but in the quality of the answers he gets. Especially from a notoriously snarky interviewee.
In the intro he was pretty much insinuating that tool fans would get mad at this interview because his fan base has a lot of "those" people in it. There is no pleasing them.
I like how this interview does a good job of showing how Maynard is just another guy like the rest of us. I've seen many people who think of him as such a powerful untouchable person who's so smart. He's just a guy though
Maynard seems like a very smart and sensitive guy, and I guess he has to be, considering his art, band and talent. He's got a great sense of humour to. He's a good example of a introvert extrovert soul, I reckon...
God damn. Maynard sounds like he's constantly a pin drop away from just fucking killing this guy, then the guy cracks a joke and they both laugh it off. I have second hand nervousness just by listening.
Tool is music for the Soul...I want to relive last Saturday in Vegas over and over. One of the happiest moments I've had after a difficult year. They are Phenomenal!!!
I tried. Maybe i didn't give it enough time, but Joe Rogan just kept on talking and sorta ruined it for me. Just my opinion, but I don't think Joe Rogan is funny.
Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance. I have met him and he was the most arrogant person I've ever met. In saying that I respect his art and have been a fan back from 92, from their first EP.
Only made it 30 minutes in tonight but this is probably the most receptive I've heard Maynard be towards an interviewer. That being said the only other one I've really watched was with Joe Rogan who kept advertising Onnit mid-interview and it was right after (or before) Blood into Wine came out.
I feel like Maynard was actually very honest and kind to the interviewer, much different from the majority of his interviews. I feel it is likely that he had a good deal of respect for the interviewer. Many times, Maynard could've absolutely dismantled this dude, but he didn't.
I don't care about any negative s##t people have to say about MJK, he his an amazing artist. I have been enjoying his music for years. He is also a beautiful man. All y
I can do you one better: I don't even know the members of the band by name even though Lateralus is my favorite song of all time. I feel like with Tool, that might be a good thing - at least it makes sense after watching this. Listening to and enjoying their music without the context of them as individuals surrounding it seemed to be their approach to writing music anyway. It shows that their creative expression really is worth more than just the sum of its parts and actors. That's rare.
I'd love to see what all these keyboard warriors who come on here to post negative comments actually do. Most I say just consume and criticise creative people like MJK and Maron without looking at themselves. MJK seems pretty straight forward and down the line. UA-cam comments seem to me a micro-sample of human nature's lowest common denominator
What I would do to take this man's place and to have a sit down conversation with the Man.. then of course I'd be asking for some live music in the end.. Man I fkn wish.. dam
I feel compelled to provide the proper context to Maynard's recollection of his time in the US Army during the early-mid '80s, where soldiers underwent extensive training for desert battlefields specifically. Maynard states he now believes those drills & maneuvers were by design; evidence of a premeditated, long range plan to invade the Middle East several years in advance. That is not the real reason for that specific training. The reason the US military began focusing on desert landscapes at that time was because during the time Maynard was in the Army, the United States was still involved in the Cold War- the ideological battle of capitalist democracies vs. Communist dictatorships; waged by the United States and the Soviet Union. By the late '70s, the Soviet Union had sought to expand into the Middle East and were already currently engaged in a war of conquest against Afghanistan. The consensus opinion inside the Pentagon at that time was that the USSR would next march into more Middle Eastern nations; some of which were major US allies. So the motivation for the military transitioning from preparing soldiers for conventional battlefields to desert battlefields during the time Maynard was in the Army in the early-mid '80s was because it seemed likely that the US would soon need to deploy military personnel overseas to assist their Middle Eastern allies in their upcoming struggles against the USSR. Not because a decision had already been made several years in advance to go to war in the Middle East decades in the future. The school of thought during the early '80s was that the US would never again be unprepared for any type of terrain after being caught with their pants down in the jungles of Vietnam, and that the next battlefield would be a desert landscape. The military's desert preparations were always carried out with the assumption that the enemy America would be fighting in the Middle East would be Soviet soldiers, not fighting the Middle Eastern states themselves.
Perhaps so, perhaps not, but the plan, which ever it was, ended up very convenient for colonial ambitions United States have been realizing in Middle East for decades, and keep doing it at this day.
Are they in any way satanic or negative ? Or are they just some Cambridge university esoteric old school rock band ? Idk I'm trying to get a feel of what kinda guys are in this band and what they truly stand for . Replies ?
They are a really good rock band. The kind of guys in this band are very smart and the band it self is only one part of their lives. It doesn't completely consume them. The lyrics and music will definitely be a lot to take in. So don't ruin it for yourself and go slow when listening to them.
Their intention was never to be "edgy" or "cool" really. Just Keenan's humor in an ironic way. The band is kind of their own experiment where they don't give a shit about people's thoughts about them or the music. I like that about them. Nothing further than "here's what we made so here you go".
He was in Tucson and he was selling his wine and at that time i was young so i begged and begged my mom to give me just a little bit and she finally did and it was pretty good hahaha. (dont worry she is a good mom)
Who's the fella interviewing Maynard? He was not prepared. Side note, there was a DJ in my town that asked Maynard, who Judith is. Maynard's reply was, "Ask her."
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I Met maynard at a wine signing at Whole foods in chicago. He said "sup?" Then I said, "wassup?". That was my best interview I ever did with maynard lol
i would have CRIED TEARS OF ABSOLUTE JOY.
That’s the single nicest thing he has ever said to a fan.
@@geoffmoore1828 he's nice in person
@@geoffmoore1828 best comment I've ever heard...PEACE. MUCH RESPECT.
same, but in el segundo.fist bumped him
You're never too old for TOOL, they came out when I was in high school... that was 20 years ago. Nothing but solid music for all those years, nothing can compare!
CraigMohan I was 6 years old when they started. 😂
I wasn't even born yet I just coughed 500 bones for a clinic. Music is powerful.
29 years for me. Still exactly as magically effective at everything. Still in constant rotation...👊
I agree, I knew about them in HS like with Radiohead but I never got into them slowly until my late 20s and now I love both bands as my lifers.
Yeah but Marc pretends to be a hipster and only like bands that play guitars made out of old flannel shirts.
Tool can grab people in weird times in their life. Their music finds YOU. When you’re ready.
I enjoy hearing people describe the moment they 'got it.' For me, it was the song Hooker with a Penis. After digging into that more, I needed to dig further and further and....
Spot on, brother. I was a 90s Cobain baby. Missed Tool...until it was time.
Absolutely!! ❤️
TOOL found me in 2006. I was 12 years old. Literally life-changing
Hell yeah. They found me through pure luck, I finished listening to an album on Spotify and they just randomly generated the song "Prison Sex" and it disgusted me so much i couldn't get it out of my head for a week. I started to try and get into them and now they're one of my favourites.
great interview. all of it seemed like a legitimate conversation and not forced.
Dude this is incredible. I have never heard James Keenan that happy to talk to someone about his life. Thank you so much for archiving this!
Marc Maron, had to look it up because really appreciated how well he conducted the interview
The only way this could be better is if it was conducted by the Hicks. Maron's non-fanboy approach is disarming and effective, plus, you can sense MJK's respect for him.
i fucking hate that maron bitch but this interview is great.. its also pretty old.. so it was in time when maron was actually funny, not the sore bitch he is now
Maynards voice is clear and soothing perfect for radio.
jplb96 - also for sleepovers.
This is the most open, happiest Maynard I have ever heard.I love his humor.
Some of the most insightful moments of my own life happened while sitting in my bed staring at my ceiling listening to Tool during my teen years. Alot of weird stuff happened…
your phone ring and no one there?
lateralis blaring in pitch dark room was and still is an amazing experience.
If you are to uncomfortable with your shadow then its one of those bands you want to avoid.lol
brandon hubert what does this mean
A change is coming through my shadow..
@@lovejulie317 naw, 46 &2 is about evolving ...............it will happen one day..... we will have 2 more chromosomes, my daughter has an extra chromosome 21, shes an honor roll student, a lot of children with the extra 21st chromosome are extremely intelligent. one more chromosome and we will transcend.
@@monicajean37 it's a verse....genes maybe...mine has an extra Gene plus autism.. to me she is transcending.. She's my super human.
To each his own
@@lovejulie317 I agree, you and I have very extraordinary children! God bless you both!
Ive yet to meet a tool fan more obsessed than me.
Ha! My friend, that is why I'm here.
You are not alone.
+Thomas Anderson Bro. U haven't a fuckin' clue
Thanks for this comment.
Where are all the guys who like tool where I live wtf
For those interested...damn...Been A tool fan for a long time...never knew his speaking voice was so sexy....
I know right?
If you have been a fan that long...of course you did. Somewhere in you it was there. It either is or it isn't. It's seed is planted immediately when you heard it for the 1st time. I've been there since the very beginning as well. I get it.
😁🤟🌟👊
listen Over by perfect circle
Or revelations by puscifer.
Girl that voice is worth marrying sad to hear he had a wife what a lucky bitch!
"You still talk to your mom?"
"She passed away."
Oof
GorillaBoys yeah this guy didn’t research Maynard at all
Meh. Shit happens. I think Maynard respects that Marc doesn’t know every fucking thing about him.
Oh well he doesn't have time to put every single guests life under a microscope. Let's get real
Turns out lots of people die. What you gonna do? Not talk about the dead and make fun of them behind their dead backs?
This is a great interview. Thank you Marc Maron. Tool for life!!!!
it's WTF with marc maron podcast,dude give credits jesus
Zig Ysosrs
thank you i was wondering!
Yah. for real tho. knew i recognized his voice, only saw mjk in the description, good on ya
Ooooooh, Marc Maron makes a lot of sense. I was wondering who it was. Thanks!
Thanks man. Seriously though. Put that shit in the title.
Never heard him this candid. Made my day.
I love how Maynard is constantly messing with us. I looked up some of the bands he mentioned, Dumpster and Dead White and Blue. He said they were good bands. They suck. Thank you for the recommendation, MJK.
I mean, Kurt Cobain said he loved The Shaggs 'Philosophy of the World', which is considered the worst album ever.
The more I learn about Maynard, the more I find him and I have in common. The religious childhood, military, outdoorsy, introverted, extremely imaginative, quiet and reserved. Only difference is my folks are still together, well, that and the whole famous thing. But no wonder I love his music so much.
It's odd how he's all calm and laid back for most of the interview, then he gets asked about what inspired him and he gets all stuttery and precise about his wording.
This IS actually the best Maynard James Keenan interview ever
I love tool and I think all their album are amazing
There are ALOT of judgmental assholes posting comments in here. That's the problem with the world today- people are too afraid to look at themselves so all they do is sit and judge everyone else. It's too sad really but had to be said.
Everyone judges. Almost every thought that comes into your mind is a judgment on some level, but most people don't broadcast their judgments to the rest of the world, because most people don't fucking care.
That may be the way you and a lot of other ppl think but I don't. I have more than enough flaws of my own. I'm not sayin that I can't see the problems in others but I just dnt think of em totally negative.
***** Hmm, this is the first I've heard of Melora having a stalker. Not surprised tho as she is beautiful and yes- Rasputina's flippin awesome! Ever seen em live? I got 2 c them in 99' in philly and they were totally great. Melora Creager's always been on the side of being odd to some ppl but I've never perceived her that way. However, her bein "friends" with her stalker is kinda strange even 2 me. We don't know the whole story though and maybe there's aspects 2 the situation that make it make more sense.
Yes I agree with you. People don't seem to be able to look in the mirror and see the real problem. I really enjoyed this interview - gave me insight to MJK and how he sees things. I like listening to people who have insight like this - it's inspiring.
Gavin Wainwright Yeah, I know what you mean. Ppl(it seems)are usually blind 2 what's right in front of them. They're unable 2 truly be introspective anymore. Idk maybe it's because I spend a lot of time by myself so it's easier 2 look inward. Don't always like what I see but it makes it easier 2 figure out aspects of myself, others and the world beyond.
Love how the interviewer prefaces the interview saying he does his research. Only later to comment about MJK's mother and inquire how she is doing. Did you not listen to the latest Tool album?
I was thinking the same thing, I was in shock that he even asked that for a minute.
He elaboraty states that his research consists solely of listening to ALL music by the person he's interviewing. Also that it's not really research because the guy sitting opposite him is just a guy and the interview isn't about the records they made. Listening to 10.000 days without being a Tool enthousiast for years before, would you really guess the song 10.000 days is about the passing away of his mom? I appreciate you're a Maynard fan, but you're trying to protect the man from a non-existent evil.
I had no idea that’s what it was about sooo..
Honestly the most laugh-filled interview I've ever listened to, loved it
Answer to 39 mins in- 46 now and deep in since 90-ish. I am one of the people that you, your band, vision, lyrics, heavyness, hope, the somewhere else that i would go, that im still using- in many forms-- my soul has been forever changed b/c of TOOL. Emense love, gratitude, admiration of the ability to project- all of those things and so much more. Thank you. I am a much, much, much different and so much better being than i could've imagined. Actually, i always knew that i kicked ass (true but add laugh track if you want to just b/c its hilarious due to its bizzare notion -laughing). Peace guys.
Great interview.
I wish I could see MJK laugh, hearing him is just not enough. Great interview, I can't believe he talked that much ^^
I own every album they ever put out, saw them live over 15 times between 1994 and now, and I had no idea his mom was dead. Knowledge of a band member's personal life has no bearing on whether you like their music. Get a grip guy.
Jimmy, Wings for Marie, Judith. All about his mom.
THis is NOT the best Maynard interview. The best are his two interviews were on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast # 246 and 412. Three hours each. and no bs
Joe Rogan is a shit interviewer, he always makes the conversation about his ignorant ideas...
How are his ideas ignorant?
***** Joe Rogan and New Age? He's a pretty down to earth fellow, if you listen to his podcasts, you'll get it right away.
Yeah... not a fan of Rogan. In my opinion he's a self absorbed pompous ass posing as a "cool guy" with his hat backwards. Grow up Joe. Maynard is a 180 of Joe Rogan.
LiteStyle0o
a 180 of Joe? What does that even mean. That's cute, Are you trying to make up idiomatic expressions? Joe is super humble. You are the one that sounds like a pompous ass.
This is an amazing interview! I love how it's just a conversation. Very informal and much better than watching Netflix lol
Maynard is my favorite artist ever
I feel like this is where his wiki info came from
Mark Maron has a great podcast.. I think this interview flows well good chemistry
This is the best interview! Love the honesty, the humor, finally we get to know the details. Great work!
I know a quite a few Dead heads that are really into Tool. It's an interesting shared appreciation. Usually "Heavy Metal" and mainstream music is not very intelligent, tends to be streamlined for the masses, so It is something of a treat to come upon MJK and Tool. Gerry and the DEAD liked to explore sonic Shamanism, for lack of a better word, hypnotic and melodious, normaly reserved for ritual
I’m one of them!
@@KT-fn6me ah, a fellow dead head/ Tool fan!
Salutations good Sir.
@@saltpeter7429 Salutations!!! (Though it’s Miss, not Sir 🙂)
@@KT-fn6me No problem, my bad!
Lol.
Salutations all the same
this was awesome. Thank You
Thank you so much for sharing this!!
I’ve grown up on tool since I’m 13, I’ve sorta just engulfed myself into the artists my parents love. And that’s what happened to tool I have loved it since hearing it in the car when I was 5 and especially now that I can really analyze the music and lyrics and stories behind it. This music is truly amazing it somehow creates the perfect feeling of all these human emotions we all feel. I will always love tool. And I’m not going to lie, I have listened to just them for the past week I don’t know why lol
Tool is in a league of their own. Their time signatures can be quite intimidating
I’m currently listening/ watching all of this bands interviews, I’m an angry teenage girl I love tool ajjrjejsjdjd I also like their lyrics and music and everything in general their incredibly smart
This is the first time I hear Maynard actually laugh...
How is it that people think this guy is a bad interviewer? The quality of his work doesnt lie in his questions but in the quality of the answers he gets. Especially from a notoriously snarky interviewee.
In the intro he was pretty much insinuating that tool fans would get mad at this interview because his fan base has a lot of "those" people in it. There is no pleasing them.
I like how this interview does a good job of showing how Maynard is just another guy like the rest of us. I've seen many people who think of him as such a powerful untouchable person who's so smart. He's just a guy though
The title made me click this. You were right.
If Maynard wasn't upset about it, neither should we. Honest mistake.
Maynard seems like a very smart and sensitive guy, and I guess he has to be, considering his art, band and talent.
He's got a great sense of humour to.
He's a good example of a introvert extrovert soul, I reckon...
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing
God damn. Maynard sounds like he's constantly a pin drop away from just fucking killing this guy, then the guy cracks a joke and they both laugh it off. I have second hand nervousness just by listening.
I spoke too soon, the later part of the interview is a lot more laid back.
The title is perfect. Maron was so good around this time too.
Ahhhh I needed a little laughter and a motivational mindset. :) Great interview.
When Maynard's dead he'll be doing radio while sipping psychedelic wine on another plane of reality
@kalle kanin The Pot, Rosetta Stoned, Third Eye, H., Sober are 5 reasons. Although that doesn't proves anything it points towards drug use.
There is actually a bit of Joni Mitchell in Maynard's singing.
If I could use one word to describe tool it would be hypnotic
Great interview. Felt organic and real.
Tool is music for the Soul...I want to relive last Saturday in Vegas over and over. One of the happiest moments I've had after a difficult year. They are Phenomenal!!!
Maynard has an awesome sense of humor. First one of his interviews to make me laugh out loud.
You need to watch the Joe Rogan podcast interviewing Maynard, that is by far the funniest i've seen him :P
I tried. Maybe i didn't give it enough time, but Joe Rogan just kept on talking and sorta ruined it for me. Just my opinion, but I don't think Joe Rogan is funny.
I'm fucking IN!!! I FUCKING LOVE TOOL!!!
Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance. I have met him and he was the most arrogant person I've ever met. In saying that I respect his art and have been a fan back from 92, from their first EP.
tool....is......life...
its maynard...he pulls you in......and very habit forming....
Only made it 30 minutes in tonight but this is probably the most receptive I've heard Maynard be towards an interviewer. That being said the only other one I've really watched was with Joe Rogan who kept advertising Onnit mid-interview and it was right after (or before) Blood into Wine came out.
Maynard was on Joe Rogan's podcast last summer and then most recently, about a week ago, to promote What Is.. Puscifer
Tool allwayes been one of my favorite bands l could all count on them to stay real
Awesome
Great Interview. Thanks
just my opinion but i think maynard is filling this guy full of shit and that makes me appreciate it even more
I feel like Maynard was actually very honest and kind to the interviewer, much different from the majority of his interviews. I feel it is likely that he had a good deal of respect for the interviewer. Many times, Maynard could've absolutely dismantled this dude, but he didn't.
I don't care about any negative s##t people have to say about MJK, he his an amazing artist. I have been enjoying his music for years. He is also a beautiful man. All y
get past your dislike of the interviewer this is the most relaxed and talkative you will ever hear Maynard
I can do you one better: I don't even know the members of the band by name even though Lateralus is my favorite song of all time. I feel like with Tool, that might be a good thing - at least it makes sense after watching this. Listening to and enjoying their music without the context of them as individuals surrounding it seemed to be their approach to writing music anyway. It shows that their creative expression really is worth more than just the sum of its parts and actors. That's rare.
I can like Maynard again! Yay!
I'd love to see what all these keyboard warriors who come on here to post negative comments actually do. Most I say just consume and criticise creative people like MJK and Maron without looking at themselves. MJK seems pretty straight forward and down the line. UA-cam comments seem to me a micro-sample of human nature's lowest common denominator
+Gavin Wainwright "UA-cam comments seem to me a micro-sample of human nature's lowest common denominator" you must be new to the internet.
What. Id say taking offense to youtube comments is lower.
Yes! The best part of the whole interview.
Yessss Marc Maron! he is one of the best interviewers ever, so many great guests on his WTF podcast!
I always thought Maynard was on the crazy or extra crazy side of liberals. Turns out he's a a wonderful example of a human being with common sense.
He shoots guns with lots of conservative NRA members with beards
Why is this not 10 Hrs long?!
Outraged!
Amazing human being's. Great Interview.
I rest my case in regards to my prior post describing Tool fans. You've proven my point entirely.
Great interview. Theres more to maynard than just tool?!?
I would have never guessed lol
Great interview!
5 years later and we still don't have a new album yet
We do now brownie
This is so awesome!
Maynard come back to Utah please. I miss you
TOOL IS FOREVER 🔥🤘😎🤘🔥
What I would do to take this man's place and to have a sit down conversation with the Man.. then of course I'd be asking for some live music in the end..
Man I fkn wish.. dam
4:10. Just go to 4:10...
The imbruvica drug commercial before this is truly ironic
He always have more than one message in his music
badass interview, like marc alot more too.
Maynard is an individual and unique like we all are in our own ways...
Awesome interview
Did he say Incest burning? 0:21:16
I feel compelled to provide the proper context to Maynard's recollection of his time in the US Army during the early-mid '80s, where soldiers underwent extensive training for desert battlefields specifically. Maynard states he now believes those drills & maneuvers were by design; evidence of a premeditated, long range plan to invade the Middle East several years in advance. That is not the real reason for that specific training. The reason the US military began focusing on desert landscapes at that time was because during the time Maynard was in the Army, the United States was still involved in the Cold War- the ideological battle of capitalist democracies vs. Communist dictatorships; waged by the United States and the Soviet Union. By the late '70s, the Soviet Union had sought to expand into the Middle East and were already currently engaged in a war of conquest against Afghanistan. The consensus opinion inside the Pentagon at that time was that the USSR would next march into more Middle Eastern nations; some of which were major US allies. So the motivation for the military transitioning from preparing soldiers for conventional battlefields to desert battlefields during the time Maynard was in the Army in the early-mid '80s was because it seemed likely that the US would soon need to deploy military personnel overseas to assist their Middle Eastern allies in their upcoming struggles against the USSR. Not because a decision had already been made several years in advance to go to war in the Middle East decades in the future. The school of thought during the early '80s was that the US would never again be unprepared for any type of terrain after being caught with their pants down in the jungles of Vietnam, and that the next battlefield would be a desert landscape. The military's desert preparations were always carried out with the assumption that the enemy America would be fighting in the Middle East would be Soviet soldiers, not fighting the Middle Eastern states themselves.
Perhaps so, perhaps not, but the plan, which ever it was, ended up very convenient for colonial ambitions United States have been realizing in Middle East for decades, and keep doing it at this day.
What are your specific, primary sources for this perspective?
CNN, of course.
yeah
Stopped reading at "communist dictatorships"
vintnard james keenan
Cheech & Chong?
"dave's not here man"
Did anyone else hear him say "invest burning" when they were talking about the flowers everywhere and holdin hands during the vocals?? HAHAHA!!!
Thank you. THAT is the most ironic comment I've ever received. Genius.
Are they in any way satanic or negative ? Or are they just some Cambridge university esoteric old school rock band ? Idk I'm trying to get a feel of what kinda guys are in this band and what they truly stand for . Replies ?
No. Tool is about exploring human consciousness. Tool IS an exploration of human consciousness.
They are a really good rock band. The kind of guys in this band are very smart and the band it self is only one part of their lives. It doesn't completely consume them. The lyrics and music will definitely be a lot to take in. So don't ruin it for yourself and go slow when listening to them.
Their intention was never to be "edgy" or "cool" really. Just Keenan's humor in an ironic way. The band is kind of their own experiment where they don't give a shit about people's thoughts about them or the music. I like that about them. Nothing further than "here's what we made so here you go".
When you think of tool think of the LSD culture. Theirs references to it everywhere in their music, album covers, etc.
Not satanic or negative, but 'deep' in subjects of consciousness exploration, which often comes from a dark place.
Massachusetts loves you mjk.
why is he making wine? he should be making acid
He was in Tucson and he was selling his wine and at that time i was young so i begged and begged my mom to give me just a little bit and she finally did and it was pretty good hahaha. (dont worry she is a good mom)
Combine the two bro - Ergot wine!!! Lol
Peace!
adz360adz ok ok sorry haha
+adz360adz Booze lowers the effects of LSD.
+riniks112 cuz california doesn't grow the good grapes to start with
Great interview
Who's the fella interviewing Maynard? He was not prepared. Side note, there was a DJ in my town that asked Maynard, who Judith is. Maynard's reply was, "Ask her."
Hey buddy, I think it is Marc Maron :)
20:00 "I have dressed animals [...] like little hats - oh, let's eat you!"
21:14 "Flowers everywhere... incest burning!" Yeah, sounds about right
this is awesome!
I know I FUCKIN love Tool ;)