Credit: Tim CadienteTool will play their first and only show of 2015 on Halloween night at the Monster Mash Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona. However, notoriously reclusive frontman Maynard James Keenan wasn't wild about the idea.
"They had to con me into it," Keenan tells Phoenix New Times, referring to his Tool band mates.
In the wide-ranging interview, which mostly touches on Keenan's new album with his band Puscifer, Money Shot, as well as his wine business, Keenan speaks briefly, and, according to the interviewer, curtly about Tool. While Puscifer is often seen as Keenan's way to express his wry sense of humor, Tool is viewed as a incredibly serious -- a distinction that Keenan doesn't like very much.
"Yeah, it's there," he says, referring to humor in Tool. "But people miss it because they're so focused on the other bulls***." Tool fans have a reputation for being intense and obsessive about the band.
Tool hasn't released an album since 2006's 10,000 Days, but earlier this year guitarist Adam Jones said the band had returned to working on new material. When Keenan is asked about the new Tool album, however, he doesn't have anything to offer.
"There's nothing to say," Keenan tells Phoenix New Times. "I can't."
Puscifer's Money Shot will be released October 30.
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