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  • Great interview, a wise man indeed...... HOWEVER, the asshole who edited this video is a complete MORON. Maynard's voice UP, Puscifer music DOWN. When Maynard speaks I'd like to fucking hear it....

  • So true about the dowloading issue. If you so called fans dont start to buy albums all good rock and metal will dissapear AND HAVE A WORLD X FACTORS. This is why theere is a seriouse lack of good rock bands. LOOK WHAT CAME OUT OF THE 90'S.

    Support the bands you love and they will continue to write the music you love. Simple

  • @orezmusic Rock and metal luckily counts with a huge number of fans like me who like to buy cds, for the love of booklets, artwork, etc.

    However, i do listen mp3s and i got to know bands who maybe i would've never known.

  • I like the way this guy thinks. If he wasn't such a badass musician, he'd probably be a social scientist or philosopher or something.

  • what is playing in the background? acctually who?

  • @LODOWN275 Puscifer of some description 

  • I want this Paul Frank jacket !

  • I dont think Maynard is hypocritical, I think he is brilliant. When this country goes under and there is no money at least he will be set. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive, why not do what you love while you are at it.

  • @MitchellXMafia The two are not mutually exclusive. He can be a brilliant hypocrite, which isn't a bad description of him.

  • Brilliant!

  • Could this guy be any more hypocritiocal... He is a walking billboard for himself. I used to love him, but I had to ???? him.

  • @hmsixsixsix How do you know he's hypocritical? Do you personally know the man? Probably not. What if he just realizes the importance of his fans and wants to be more accessible? Don't question the motives of people you never met.

  • Maynard has such a cute shy smile...awwwwwwwwww...ADORABLE­!!!!:)

  • The ONLY downfall about Maynard? Fame....Fuck I wish he was NOT famous! Either you get that or you don't!

  • RE-POST WITHOUT THE MUSIC!! This has potential but your fucking music is so loud, it makes this vid trash.

  • Eat More PUSCIFER !!~ 

  • I only buy real music, the rest I download.

  • maynard likes borat!!! lol who couldnt?

  • i high what this is? .. how nmow

  • that music you are hearing is puscifer

  • the music is way way too loud

    I missed half of what he said...

  • Every band ever has Sold Out get over it its about the Music and nothing else

  • i refuse to get an mp3 player, and still buy any cd that maenad puts out just so he'll keep making music.

  • stoned as sht .. prob why i enjoy tha music background thang u were going fo

  • has he channeled another entity like holy shit enochian magick much

  • Maynard is too soft spoken to have background music on while he's speaking. -_-

  • U and Gaga are my GOD and Godess, plese go forth,,,...haahhha I love u

  • Maynard, don't worry about this download age bullshit. I'll pay whatever you want for your music. Fuck people who download music illegally, its no different then going into a store and shoplifting a cd.

  • you don't see what he's dong do you, he's adpating to the whole music industry and how the artists are getting screwed. its an experiment, he released the last disc with Potions and humbling river just ont he east coast, most of these songs are being released just on here, he's testing the waters figuring out a better way for everyone. when it comes to how music is passed around and pirated. i commend him for it.

  • I'll just say this: While I agree with you in theory, I think a band's number one reason to making music is to communicate something to its audience. Not make money. But I do also understand that for struggling bands, it's important to buy.

  • yeah well, i can assure you he believes in what he says but we all have to face that we live in this capitalist-materialist world in which money moves everything around and if you can get good money for doing any kind of art then do it, and live the live you want to with that money.. thats just exploiting a situation that you didnt even create, but the people who likes you (maynard in this case)

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  • Maynard James Keenan is a socialist. The song Aenima is an eulogy against the stupidty and inanity and alienation of the whole free market individualist, capitalist system in America which turns people into conformist narcissist robots Learn to swim, and pray for a big tidal wave to wash the whole capitalist system away any fucking time, any fucking day !!

  • Designer leather jacket, designer sunglasses, and a hip cowboy hat. Socialism promises you this, and more!

    Get over yourself.

  • MJK asssassinated JFK

  • Maynard is Neat-O. My butthole smells a little like a terd may have came out of it.

  • It's very simple: Maynard is a douchebag to the people that you need to be a douchebag to...which, frankly, is a lot. Go Maynard. I might have to go order that jacket.

  • The fact that Maynard wears a cowboy hat and some of you want to make a political fiasco out of it shows how fucking retarded and incompetent you are.

  • LOL, Maynard vote republican. Did you guys ever see the video for Counting Bodies Like Sheep? Did you miss that whole friendship he had with a guy named Bill Hicks? Did Bill ever say anything positive about the Republican party? I doubt it. If Maynard puts on a Republican Cowboy act it's only done as that - an act. Sarcasm people, join in.

  • He didn't say anything positive about either party.

  • Whats funny about ppl like you dude, is your a follower, just like the sheep in counting bodies. Does it matter "WHO" you follow? no. I mean you stupid fucks think theres a diff between the rep and the demo's? My fucking lord. I love MJK's music, but that doesnt mean the dude dictates what I think. Who gives a fuck if he voted republican. So "phomiak" I have a line from the man himself that fits you nicely " Shut up and buy, send more money, FUCK you buddy...FUCK you buddy"!!

  • will anyone perhaps regard the fact, that Maynard is a passionate actor? When he seems like an arsehole, it's definately not because he actually IS one

  • @Prizak1

    Given his level of intelligence, he's definitely not a republican...

  • he changed when he started puscifer..still love him though, but please go back to tool!

  • He IS still with tool it's just a side project started comic now if u hear C is kinda cool!

  • I want that funking jacket

  • hi i like to fight on youtube videos because i have nothing better to do

    looks like i've come to the right place!

  • god, mjk is such a bore these days

    what happened to the witty sarcastic maynard?

    now all he does is yak yak yak.

  • I have to agree, Im a die hard old school tool fan but maynard acts like such a douche now days, he needs to stick to what hes good at, making music. Hes not a comedian.

  • @Rytickle He said many years ago that hes still trying to find his place in life and that it may not be music. Whatever he decides he'll always be an artist.

  • obviously you missed the fact that this man is still witty and sarcastic?

  • Make sexxy time. Vuhree Nyusss

  • Eat more pusifer!!!!!! hahahaha!

  • I heard that he wears wigs (and big hats and glasses) to try to conceal his identity, so when he goes in public hes not as noticeable

  • ROFL Borat Reference...

  • @stupidfreakyface: Wtf do you think an interview is? It's not a comedy routine.

  • Doesn't really excuse his dickishness.

    And yours as well.

    You're just another sheep following your alternate god. How pathetic.

  • @stupidfreakyface: The only dickishness that's emanating from this page is you. Maynard is not a circus monkey for your personal entertainment. He's representing himself, not TooL or APC. If he doesn't want to be witty, he doesn't have to be.

    Besides, you watched this video too, so what does that make you? Baa-a-a-a, baaaa, baaaa...

  • @hungarianmafioso

    Wow.

    You must really have a thing for the ol' MJK, huh?

    Don't worry, you can put down the sniper rifle and your autographed wine bottle.

    No one cares.

  • @BeggingForAbsolution: Oh baby, you sure put me in my place. Do it again.

  • Is Maynard getting Hotter or is it just me? What a Sexy man!!

  • @Soweakandpowerless He is aging like a fine wine apparently.

  • @Soweakandpowerless soooo true - some men just get hotter with age :)

  • @Soweakandpowerless Hell yes I AGREE.

  • @Soweakandpowerless its just you

  • Come on Maynard.....you are making a killing selling all those Puscifer T-shirts.....you can post music for free....really.

  • I was going to watch this video and I got pissed because your fucking background music is so damn loud I can't hear anything he is saying. Fuck it. I'll watch an interview somewhere else.

  • Yes why is the background music drowning out the interview? what is the point of that?

  • @slimslider CAUSE YOUR NOT LISTENING!!!!

  • do what radiohead did and make it by donation

  • @WhyTheFuQ  that annoying music was Queen B by Puscifer. Kind of an introduction to the band like this interview was. Oh wait... thats why it was there.

  • If you don't like the artist, find a new one. Don't be a troll.

  • Maynard has created an entirely way too big monster with Puscifer. The whole thing started as a fucking joke-- okay, we get it. He needs to refocus on Tool. Sorry to sound so serious, I just miss Tool ;-)

  • Tool takes 5 year breaks between albums, it's not like he's abandoned them.

    Wait another year...2011.

  • @TheFragile89 and theres still APC if Billy H. still wants to continue it.

  • "Dont download free music. its not free to make it i can tell you that for a fact."

    quote by Maynard.

  • I'M GETTING THE PUSCIFER JUMP SUIT!

  • This is why I love Maynard ! hes the man!

  • This is why I love Maynard and his mysterious ways!

  • Yes Maynard is special, in the sense that he is an ever evolving creative drive behind everything he touches. He never conforms, he never allows himself or his art to become stale. He changes not because the market wants him to, but because he has created something new and exciting and he wants to share it. You can't compare his music or his artistic endeavors with...well anyone really. He is his own. I always look forward to see what he will create next. Art is individual. Just as we are.

  • everyone chill... lets just agree that puscifer, and Maynard as always... is the shiz

  • lol...you're leaving a comment to complain about how much you hate you-tube and how you wish they would disable comments? what the eff? lol

  • Grungy hands are always present at free buffets

  • Maynard is irony with feet.

  • this is EXACTLY one of the reasons why i hate youtube..... i kinda wish they could just take out the whole comment thing on this site...

  • so maynard would go unquestionned and revered! :-O

  • lol no dipshit haha, because people just argue about the most retarded things. jesus christ i shouldnt even have to explain hahaah

  • I'm kind of entertained when I find people who think that Maynard isn't THAT smart and he's really nothing too special. Ha. Haha. Hehehohohehahehaho. That's funny. It's funny because you look at Tool fans as if they are pure ignorance and misplaced music taste, when your ignorance in thinking that there are several people like Maynard and bands just as good, intelligent and creative as Tool, is just laughably stupid. Haha. He.. hohohehaheha. Teehee. Chuckle.

  • musicians are just people. when you put musicans on a pedestal, you're not a person who loves music, you're just a groupie. no, maynard is not that special. he's not Beethoven, ffs. if you had any musical skills, you'd find that except for drums, Tool goit pretty redundant right after Anema. i'm not dissing Tool's music, but for some reason, this band seems to attract the most pseudo-intlletcual idiotic groupies.

  • Lol... ok then. Keep thinking that. :)

  • let him do what he wants to do. do you guys just want him to be a boring fuck whose only job it is is to spend years writing deep lyrics for your entertainment? i mean i like that, but let the dude have some fun. He's enjoying himself. he's doing what he wants to do WITHOUT conforming. he's doing great. i still like him. i mean, he makes the wine HIMSELF, doesn't just hire people to make it for him like other celebs.

  • people have been making wine since 6000 BC, about the same time when they invented tools to shovel horseshit. so wtf does wine making have to do anything?

    "he's making wine, he must be teh smartz!" STFU. are you ten?

    don't you know that anti-confirmism has become a trend of its own and it's now, in a way, a form confirmism. everything is a product now, that includes Tool. if you don't want to conform, try having a thought of your own without looking up to some random singer.

  • Any object is a product. As long as someone can find a price and make it appealing, it sells.

  • It's interesting to see people continually dissing this guy...calling him a sellout and whatnot...chastising him for being an entrepreneur, etc. It makes me wonder what these people are doing with their own lives - if they are indeed in a position to critique the prodigious, groundbreaking band that is TOOL, the beautifully ornate project that was APC, his own thing Puscifer, creating his own vineyard from scratch, and numerous side projects...if you're in that position, shouldn't you be busy?

  • well said! I couldn't agree more

  • @sphericalpyramid I noticed in his puscifer website that he sold 200 dollar tickets for people to come and shake hands with him after the show a little while back. I think that's really lame and pretentious. I don't think he's a sellout for selling music and merchandise; everyone artist does that, but he tried to sell himself in a very hypocritical way.

  • @Brom24 Most of the Puscifer shows, MJK broke even, didn't make a dime. A few of the bigger venue shows it actually cost him money to put on the show for Puscifer fans; this is also why there is a very very strict "no camera" policy at these shows. Puscifer is not about making millions of dollars, it's about a intimacy with the fans and vice versa. In order to help off set his costs, he had the "meet and greet" tickets for sale on the website. He didn't sell himself out at all.

  • @3rdEyeProd That's understandable.

  • @sphericalpyramid I think it is very refreshing to see an artist do what he does best......MAKE ART! This is a guy that has never "fit the mold" so to speak. If anything, he changes the shape of the mold,making it his. I believe he is less of a sell out than 99% of the corporate puppets that are making music today. At least he has a vision and is working to put it into fruition. Unlike most musicians today who let other people dictate what their vision should be.

  • @sphericalpyramid secondly how has maynard "sold-out"?why would they say that?

  • @Smackenzieth

    Well, people have their opinions...and those opinions are predicated upon their own experiences, which may or may not be positive or intelligent. Personally, I think he's a fantastic artist, a jaw dropping performer, and quite the savvy business man as it turns out...all the while maintaining creative independence. Much respect to our brother Maynard.

  • MJK is a badass vocalist..

  • Do you people even listen to yourselves? What do you care what he has to say? It's not deep, it's not special, and it's certainly not all that interesting. Weird bastards.

  • Truth is, megabands are over and that hurts his business.

    This is the best age for music. There's so much variety.

    I don't see why anyone would complain about that.

    Unless you need a band to idolize, then you're just a groupie. Or unless, like maynard, you expect to be the singer of a band forever...when really, having your music distributed is really a privilige not a right.

  • (...) but it is very condescending of him to think that people won't be able to look up good quality music in other free sources and will only purchase mainstream crap. Myspace for instance is filled with awesome music and obscure bands. The guy seems to think that only "Artists" can provide music when in reality, anyone can make music...inculding that guy in his bedroom, like he said.

  • i like some of Tool's stuff a lot, but that guy takes himself way too seriously. First, I always hated how he sees himself as an Artist, with capitalized "A". Tool is cool, but it's pretty redundant.

    As for the download age, for ANYONE who REALLY likes music, not just groupies, this is the best age ever. There's tons of music available everywhere, especially online. Maynard seems to think we'll be left with the most boring engineered mainstream pop...perhaps...(...)

  • i agree the music thing is far fetched for him, but what about newly found bands who arent established? they'll spend money making the music and make no money back

  • The music IS NOt far-fetched for him.... It's very industrial-style music, which, if you did not know, was more his original flavor in the band C.A.D. - before Tool.

  • i said the music thing as in not being able to download music.

    im not talking about the style.

    i love puscifer...

  • I love maynard, but his bit about downloading music is a little ridiculous. I mean, I know it takes money to make a cd, but the front man of Tool, a Perfect Circle, and Puscifer, and a wine maker, and a merch seller, AND an organic store. Yeah, I think he has more than enough money to roll around in for a bit. There people working their asses off paying for everything, I think we deserve some music now and again without paying a dollar for a song.

  • I agree to an extent. I absolutely agree with maynard though. I do download music for free, but if I like the album I have downloaded I go out and buy it. So in a sense I am only borrowing the music til I have the money to buy it. And if you only like a single song by an artist then you shouldn't even care about the band at all, therefore you don't care about music much at all.

    Also, without paying for that music there will be no more music to come from said artist. so enjoy while they're here.

  • No, I understand. I'm not saying he's wrong. I spent a ton on a vinyl tool album. And not to mention all the tool/apc posters/shirts I have It's safe to say I'm a pretty huge fan. I just think he has so much money, his first priority shouldn't be making more. I bought the apc albums, but If I want a really old tool cd, then I don't think missing out on 12 bucks is going to put a dent in his wallet. I totally support the lesser known bands though. Just bought the new We Are Wolves cd. :)

  • THAT is not the point.

    When you download shit illegally, it kills the artist.

    you really should do more research - it not about how much money they have etc. its the price you have to pay to keep the cycle going,..

  • He deserves every cent he gets from all his businesses. Its called capitalism. And downloading music is stealing...

  • a lot of newly formed small bands offer their musics for free now. bands like radiohead understand the new market. MJK is defending his business and that's ok, but that's why his arguments about free music are biased. free music doesn't necesasrily equal bad music. he should just come out and say "that's my stuff, don't touch it" instead of making misleading arguments about what downloading does to the quality of music.

    i've never heard so much good music in my life. it's plentiful.

  • Do you even know what you're talking about? Downloading music IS stealing...he doesn't think people should steal somthing that he and others have worked very hard for. Where do you think he and all of your favorite bands get the money to make more music?

  • hehe the classic borat joke, sexy time

  • The Man is a fucking genius

  • his jacket is fucking

  • pretty terrible idea to have the music playing in the background, can barely hear what he's saying.

  • ill second that

    its way too loud and distracting

  • More info: The actual jacket is still black like the one in this video, just the Puscifer logo and arm stripes are in red.

  • Just goes to show how long it has been since I've looked at it... the actual stripes on the arm are still white. (just the front logo is red)

  • How much are you willing to pay?

    I have the same one, but in red. (they don't sell any of the jackets anymore)

  • ya i been looking out for that coat too

  • I saw tool the other day in san antonio. They're still very much alive.

    plus, maynard's already said that they'll keep putting out music until one of them is dead =)

  • I don;t like Puscifer. Love APC and Tool though.

  • I WANT HIS JACKET!!!! O_O

  • all i heard was "very sexy time" lol and that was it hahahahaha

  • Cool, but I would have edited the music in a lower volume, since Maynard almost whispers, and for us non-English speakers it's a big hard to follow what he's saying at times with the music on top :)

  • 2:20 - 3:18 = truth.

  • pusifers nice but i want to know when the next tool album is coming out

  • Most likely next year :)

  • What the FUCK is he saying?!?! Music is too damn loud. The fuck's the matter with you?

  • Maynard is a modern day renaissance artist. If you write something negative about him you should probably start with High School Musical and work your way up to tabloid smut, kill yourself then go to hell where you belong.

  • im whit you !!!

  • theres nothing wrong with being negative... it made you give him some good advice which he might have missed out on otherwise. :)

  • fanboys like yourself are the ones who need to kill themselves. tool made so much money off of little groupies like yourself...it's ridiculous.

    Tool has sold millions to fans who think they're so special and deep...but really, Tool is just another product.

    You like the music or you don't, end of story. Whether it's Black Eyed Peas or Tool makes no difference.

  • tool is no fucking black eyed peas.

  • they're both bands who sell music. neither is better than the other. depends on your taste of music.

    tool fans need to stop being so godamn pretentious. and so does MJK.

    tool is good, but it's not that great. guitar is ridiculously redundant, bass is meh, vocals in the last cd suck big time. they're out of gas, it shows.

    i think it's kurt cobain who said that there is a lot of fans, but not many people who really love music.

  • I don't think you're in any spot to quote Kurt Cobain. I am personally someone who deeply loves music. Tool's music has changed me in a profound way. I haven't found a band yet that has the same message as Tool. Anyone who takes Tool's lyrics at face value clearly does not know much about allegories and metaphors. And no, I am not a knucle headed fan, I love all sorts of other music.

  • you're a fan boy. you're no different than kiddies who scream at britney spears concert.

  • To be honest. I really don't understand why you care so much about this. And no, I don't tend to scream to Tool, it is much more of an internal and self reflective experience.

  • that's intense....man

  • Or the fat redneck women wearing overalls and a straw hat only screaming their clits off at that bloated Garth Brooks fellow.

    Fuck you.

    Tool is great.

    Lots of progress can be made with the mindset and message from groups like Tool.

  • stfu groupie

  • Hmmmm I don't know what part of my comment comes across as "groupie" to you.

    Oh and what the fuck is confirmism?

    I've never heard of that.

    Unless, you know, you meant conformism. Which you probably didn't know but it should have been conformity.

    You seem to be a pseudo-intellectual idiotic "Hate Tool" groupie.

    Admiring a musician isn't anything like becoming a groupie. A groupie is someone who takes it too far and wants to touch things that a musician has touched. Like a hair comb or tissue.

  • are u actually crying about ONE typo?

  • You've provided more than your share of typos.

    I think the only person who should be crying is you.

    I would bawl my eyes out if I was as careless and stupid as you.

    I don't see your points against Maynard being an intelligent man.

  • why even argue guys really, all that needs to be said is that tool is a higher power of intelligence and music than most can't comprehend. i do agree that tool has fake ass groupie fans that just like them..just because.... but there are those few fans that [just get it]...you can't just like the music, you have to commit, you fall deep into it like a dream. let them take you away...btw anything maynard touches is gold lmao i just wanted to throw that in

  • great comment...

  • :] thanks, when i listen to tool or even APC i feel like my veins are filled with his breath...yes this may sound weird but i can feel his passion coming through my speakers. Like today i was in my teachers room[who btw LOVES tool] and i asked him if he could play 3 libras from APC..he doesn't know song names only #'s from the album so as soon as he heard it he goes "oh my god this song is...its just unexplainable"...when listening to that song we both tear up a bit. it's just..unexplainable

  • I think he is lucky that tool were around before this whole downloading shit went on. Bands as talented as tool will never be heard nowadays because they cant get any money.

  • Well it is a good way to get music out. I would say it is bad for the bands that are known.

  • i wanna lick him all over that gorgeous face

  • you wouldnt if he didnt have money

  • lol. oh wow, you, davidholmes282, are one youtuber that seems to know me to the core of my very essence - of course i wouldn't.

    lol. the man is pure hotness and it comes strictly from within him, so, yes, sorry to break it to you, but i probably still would.

  • is this meant to be annoying lmao?

  • get back to ur roots sometimes maynard pls, i just want to not forget who u r exactly

  • all you know about him's what he sold you.... you know the words :)

  • Honestly. This shit is unwatchable.

    PLEASE re edit this without that awful music in the background.

    Whoever thought that was a good idea needs shooting in the knees

  • the man said PLEASE... do the right thing peoples.

  • Definitely agree about the conflicting background music. I don't want to have to strain to listen to what he is saying.

  • sacha cohen quote was unexpected

  • The walkout music after a lot of the Tool shows in 2006 was the Borat theme song.