Interview with Maynard James Keenan (complete interview)

Lowlands 1993, Holland

[@miamidolfan5434]

Absolutely great interview/live performance vid. 5 stars all the way. Thanx 4 the awesome post!!

[@2its5me4]

thank you for finding and posting this interview. i watched it a long time ago, but i haven't seen it in a long time. thank you very much from a life-long tool fan.

[@averagebusinessmen2]

his first answer was gold

[@kanjouwutschele]

Believe it or not, his was the first LL AND I WAS THERE. BACKGROUND WAS SMASHING PUMPKINS PLAYING ONE OF ALL DOING LL AT THAT TIME. PRIMUS FANS KNOW WHAT PARTY WAS GOING ON THEN. LL RULE!!

[@SaintPaul122]

I miss when Music Television was actually about music.

[@headtripconception]

I thought that this interview compared to others with Maynard, she does a great job with her questions. They're perfectly reasonable questions and aren't followed up with terrible comments or laughter. Great interview.

[@cellardoor199991]

Thank you for posting its entirety. For yrs. ppl have been viewing the edited one and talk shit about the interviewer. Watching the entire clip, it shows that the lady does a fine job and knows what she is doing. Which is what i figured from the beginning. Reading the other comments on the other one shows how utterly stupid.immature, juvenile TOOL fans are. Fans just talk out of their ass non-stop.

[@angeladall]

1st Tool show for me was in Montreal in 1996, i was there for a work seminar. roaming around one evening w/ a couple of ppl looking for a bar someone had recommended to us. "Chris from Chicago" points to a marquee ... "TOOL". at that point i had seen 1 video and heard twice as many of their songs. long story short, that night changed my life. i believe there's a clip from that show out there somewhere. hoping to make it 7 times this year, 8 if they do KC twice like they usually do...

[@forsythe4]

His talking voice is very soft and fragile....but his singing voice is amazingly powerful

[@Slooober]

you're welcome. Sorry for the bad quality, found the interview at the end of an old vcr tape, so quality is quite bad unfortunately

[@tzDub92]

the book maynard mentions is about the benefits of crying to heal pain

[@rrennie]

What's the name of the book he's referencing in the first segment?

[@jiminy_cricket777]

he actually seems a lot more forthright here than in some of his other interviews..

[@Ilikefoodaton]

did tool ever release the book?

[@demidevil666]

Does anyone else notice there's Rage Against The Machine playing "Freedom" while Maynard is being interviewed? until around 2:25

[@JoshBest]

i love how Maynard keeps shutting down the interviewer

[@Slooober]

@Slimepoop This was taped from MTV yeah, but i'm afraid thats all i have..

[@JDSsmetje]

If you listen good Rage is playing at the background

[@toolshopmarathon]

i can't believe the video ended right b4 the scream he does in that song. FUCK!!!!

[@pathologicalglances]

They played a undertow song on this tour, Flood. Last tour they had a few times they played older stuff. Played Sober a few times, with guests. Played Swamp Song in a few places. Played Opiate a very limited number of times. I think your friend didn't know very much about what he was talking about. He still has the fire to sing those songs, I think the reason he doesn't is that he has grown beyond what a lot of them are saying. He moves on with his art. Except with Ticks and Leeches.

[@AKx4]

Rage Against the Machine is playing "Freedom" in the background.

[@CarlosP47]

@sigourney17 it's not led zepp

[@igunzOsick]

I! FEEL! SOMETHING!

[@cellardoor199991]

Um I did. These comments were written 6 months ago

[@GoCody]

"One big crapstick (or steak?) covered in dicktaters" Hahahaha

[@TheFBM2011]

the background music I mean the live song that you hear is freedom from RATM!

[@staypuftlova]

so fucking true FREEDOM BABY

[@CarlForBass]

Freedom in the background lol

[@DhanKOTB]

why is she standing so weird.

[@annoythefish]

He's not prententious, he just doesn't like being in the spotlight, he hates fame, and it makes him uncomfortable to talk to people he doesn't know. It's totally understandable.

[@PoisonMushroomParty]

I miss the real MTV !!!!

[@TylerFenstermacher]

Why no Ticks and leeches?

[@Slooober]

I was lucky to be there back then, the Primus concert was amazing, Ratm was horrible, like going to a britney spears concert...

[@Aveszedelem]

@confiscablesociety However, that lethal peppering was worth to watch, wasn't it?

[@Hakudohshi]

I have to agree with people who are saying the girl was interviewing him well and he was just sort of being a stubborn dick. Then again, you have to remember this was almost eighteen years ago now, Maynard was still a pretty pissed off guy back then. He's gotten a lot more mellow as the years go by, Tools sound was a lot more grindy and angry in the beginning for a reason, it's always been a reflection of his emotional state.

[@pablodmdp]

whuattt?

[@amhmbx9642]

@Slooober rage as britney spears lol never heard that before but they sounded good to me in ny on lolla but i was 12-13 back then lol

[@neurochris]

maynard looks cold, sick and pissed in this one

[@4tsixandtwo1169]

I have never been to a Britney Spears concert... and never will

[@cellardoor199991]

Glad to see the top comments more critical of pretentious Maynard than the innocent interviewer

[@scando1444]

do you hear that: FREEDOM RATM

[@arizonabay07]

@headtripconception I thought the questions were very pretentious.

[@JJaguar333]

...and fucking pretty aswell in denim and that blue streak lols.

[@arizonabay07]

@6:50 I chuckled...

[@TheAJB1996]

mayn ard

[@annoythefish]

I don't think maynard has any of those things, is it so hard to understand that someone that makes good music that people like is anti-social? He has no duty to embrace his fame, if anyone is spoiled it's you being spoiled by the american cult of celebrity. He doesn't owe you shit, including interviews.

[@MMAboi1126]

Maynahd. Maynahd from Tool

[@annoythefish]

Nah, if you watch blood into wine he's pretty much the same just a little edge off of it

[@jsdhesmith2011]

battle of witts asort u can tell.

[@campfive]

Rage!!!!!

[@Vojkaneu]

@SaintPaul122 Today, MTV is trash. U can't run the tv and make music and make videos and light and...you are musician or video director. But, MTV wants control of everything...because of that fact, we don't have music anymore!

[@bluebunny61]

He does Kermit the frogs voice.... or wait? That's not him.

[@user-ug4rf5lt5c]

lmfao

[@cellardoor199991]

I guess he's just a grumpy ol' man then. Kinda sad

[@SaintPaul122]

Maynard is god.

[@nmh2112]

@Billowix dictators.