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  • The most awkward interview I've seen in a long while.

  • I found some old pics on Maynard....He has had a nose job! Either that or he grew into it.

  • WOW! Tool is so awesome the music has LITERALLY blown Maynard's hair off!

  • from 6:34 this hip surferboy interviewer piece of shit doesn't understand a single fucking word what maynard is saying...... its like Vegeta talks to Mickey Mouse.. they don't live in the same world

  • USPS hat? haha

  • lol, this dude is acting like a retard.

  • And Danny wanted to laugh so much harder than he did rofl after maynard said that

  • The last seconds of this interview had me rofl!

    "oh you still have the band, I thought it already failed" Do you think MJK would review ANY band that an interviewer asked him review, especially while taking the interview....what a fucktard!

  • I read an interview Maynard did with a philosophy professor (Christopher diCarlo) back in 2001. What I found was that when he is asked intelligent questions, he gives intelligent answers. I learned a lot about Maynard from that interview. I don't think he's trying to make this guy look stupid, the interviewer did that to himself.

  • lateralus was better, but 10000 days does have my favorite tool song now. right in two.

    i really hope they kick ass on theyre new one

  • I want to punch that interviewer with Maynard!

  • Maynard is such a troll

  • when standing in the presence of gods you take a knee fucko

  • whats wrong with you people, this was a great inteview and the questions prompted Maynard and Danny to say some really awesome stuff about their music. the guy was just star struck :P

  • I like the straight to the point answers. But this fucktard reporter tried to compare his shitty no name band to TOOL. Fuckin European doper!

  • TO ALL YOU RETARDS IS THE FUCKING MTV FRANCHISE INTERVIEWING THEM I WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRICK TO THAT WORTHLESS PIECE OF FUCK FRANCHISE.

  • I could see where people would think of Maynard as condescending, but after a full one minute of this interview, I feel like I might be inclined to take a similar approach. The guy is just not conducting himself well at all. After the first 500 times that random people hit you with the same inanity, the 501st is naturally going to get a bit of snarkiness, especially when your intended levity is met with nothing more than a blank face.

  • The interviewer has some good questions, but it seems like he's expecting a certain style of response, and when a joke, or anything other than he expects comes out, he doesn't know how to react to it. He's an unfortunately poor interviewer due to his inability to reply to an answer with flexibility. In other words, he's not actually allowing the conversation to flow, but rather focusing on his next question.

  • what an akward interview, luckily tool the has respect and integrity to gracefully get through the interview and be as real as they ever are.

  • actually tis is a very good perspective on tools recording process

  • Maynard's like a humorless vacuum. If people were having fun in a room Maynard would suck out that fun's core, causing it to become so dense that it would collapse upon itself, creating a black hole that would suck up all of the joy out of the entire universe.

  • @sickness11010 Thats almost word for word how my wife describes me.

  • @sickness11010

    And then replace that joy with maynard joy as you see in the closing seconds of this interview. .

  • Maynard doesn't have to do much to make this guy look like an idiot.

  • Lol I feel bad for the interviewer.

  • I think the interviewer is just nosey. like when he says "how so?" and maynard is just like were older and more grumpy

  • Love when MJK asks the guy how his band is doing after the 3 chord comment. Priceless!

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  • Am I the only wanting to kick the interviewer in the nuts?

  • Maynard is an introvert, and also doesn't tolerate dumb-ass shit. but I think he understands the guy is very nervous with mediocre english which makes him come off as annoying, being one of the few to interview them you know. danny is more of a people person to put it mildly. that doesn't make him a better person, we all have our quirks of personality.

  • "your hair stands up on end" i know that exact feeling (When recording my EP)

  • Also, I suppose I would rather MJK be a narcissist than desperate for attention, especially when contentment with oneself without slipping into insecurity or vanity is difficult to obtain.

  • I don't know necessarily that mjk participates in interviews simply to deride or demean said interviewer, I would hope that whether or not he chooses to degrade an interviewer would be dependent on the interviewers' attitude and the quality of their questions. It may be that Maynard despises doing interviews, but it's kind and considerate of him to indulge us, his fans, however infrequently and in so doing endure something he apparently isn't too fond of. .

  • I also am almost positive when Maynard said "well hows your band doin" he was an impulse or two away from grabbing this guy and choking him out. Dannys face was just kinda dissapointed that guy even said that and then when Maynard replied Danny laughed a relief like "fuck this guy"

  • @dizzypyscho I agree. At first I didn't care and thought this guy was just a funny twit, but I just came back to it and its like, there's not a lot of interviews of tool, period, why do we have to watch some fuckhead that can't even articulate english tell us he has a band, god dammit we want good questions.

  • They definitely found the worst possible dude to conduct this interview

  • The interviewer is clearly nervous. Awkward to watch.

  • Maynard is so coolest... No wait.. Danny is the coolest... No... Wait! Maynard is def. The coolest... Danny, Maynard, Danny! maynard! Danny! MAYNARD! Dannard! Mayny...

    Impossible....

  • @ToolTaard Maynard is a complete and total asshole that doesn't appreciate his fans and would rather go ferment some grapes instead of joining the others to greet the crowd with smiles on their faces that make you feel as if they enjoyed you just as much as you enjoyed them.

    Don't get me wrong. He's an amazing singer and a big part of their sound. But that doesn' t change the fact that he thinks we're all retarded sheep.

    But that didn't stop me from buying a ticket for next month. Baaa...

  • @ToolTaard Not really sure where all that came from...

  • that is so fuckin cool cuz maynard named 3 of the coolest movies of all time n I've seen all of them...that is far out!

  • You threw me the obvious...and I caught it ;-) now what?

  • Tool is one of the few bands that put out material worth your money. I will always buy there albums. :)

  • Maynard was about to chew him up and spit him out

  • I'm shorter than he is I have nothing to say.

  • 2:21

    funny Maynard!

  • TOOL BLOWS MY FUCKING MIND!

  • I love my dad.

  • @MaynardJamesKeenanJr Looking to turn my piss to wine.

  • @MaynardJamesKeenanJr you are not the only one! :-)

  • @MaynardJamesKeenanJr I love your dad too man!!

  • @MaynardJamesKeenanJr Why would Maynard name his kid Maynard James Keenan? Doesn't that seem a tad egotistical?

  • these two have found silence. u cant even understand unless you know FUCKTARDS

  • @0:10 in Maynard already wants to smash his face in

  • awkward!

  • interesting, Tool was put together or began in Los Angeles, California, Maynard James Keenan could of rode Hollywood's wave of publicity, he and tool still could, and yet his few and odd interviews don't look like he's "too cool" for them or a dick. He's oddly humble and inteligent. He put the band ahead of hollywood! Look what and how they produce.

  • huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuu

  • I don't know why I'm thinking of Penn and Teller...

  • Why are reporters all faggots when they interview people from music?

  • i want a us postal service hat.

  • before i watched this i watched an interview from 1993 and Maynard has the exact same attitude now as he did then. it's humbling to see how he hates the spotlight.

  • OH you still have the band?I thought it was over... What an ending :)

  • Difficult sums up maynard pretty well. 

  • "You guys aren't too keen with TV interviews, right?"

    - "Absolutely..."

    You can hear a soft gulp before the guy continues. Listen.

  • I agree wit maynard, their albums are like movies and need to be listened to from start to finish

  • Is Maynard a dick or does he have a social issue??

  • @TheTrend25 All dicks come from an imbalance in his earlier dependent stage. So define "social issue." By my standard, he's just a dick.

  • @TheTrend25 just socially awkward ;)

  • @TheTrend25 No, he just hates interviews and tries to mess with the interviewer. The interviewer is clearly nervous. Maynard is trying to make him feel uncomfortable.

  • @TheTrend25 he just hates the "cool rock guy" attitude of the interviewer and his franchise, that's all. Look at other interviews on James, he is much more serious and social when the interviewer is true to themselves and their trade.

  • TOOL is the band to follow. They speak the truth and reveal all of our inner thoughts.

  • imagine hearing tool jamming for an hour in their studio

  • @sebzmc

    i'm sure it would feel like a minute

  • danney is that orc vampire from oblivion who used the sledgehammer.

  • Don't cry if someone takes an Xmas break. I myself am FAR from Christian but I partake of the winter Solstice right around Xmas. Christians "Xmas" REALY stole said solstice from the pagans...read a book once in a while.

  • @Julian

    Lol .... Ever heard of TOOL ? Their not satin worshippers... And they dont directly bash christianity. Most of the points they are trying to make are about how we as people need something to worship and we act like sheep...

  • Does Danny have a Meshuggah hoodie?

  • My hair stands up on end on all of Tool's songs. No joke.

  • Am I the only one who finds it a bit ... disingenuous? Ironic? Two-faced? That they break for Christmas? These are members of TOOL, right? They go out of their way to mock Jesus and Christianity as if anyone even asked them in the first place. I expected a break for their yearly worshiping of Satan or some other shit I've never heard of. Christmas? Posers...but a great band.

  • @julianpamplin1 "Posers...but a great band." are you a total ass in your life or just on fucking youtube?

  • @julianpamplin1

    Posers because they have families and lives outside of their music? Christmas is a secular holiday in modern times, of course they're going to want to have a break then. What makes Tool some kind of entity on the very fringe of society? Stupid thinking like that seriously pisses me off.

    Prejudiced fuck.

  • @DasUberCow You're right. How dare I make an observation about a group of people you haven't nor will you ever meet. You know and I don't know. Got it. You're a cantankerous hero-worshiper and a lucky one at that. You may have intimate knowledge of the members of TOOL, but you don't know me. I will find you and I can guarantee you that you will have nothing to call me but "Sir." Trust that what I say is true, Internet tough-guy.

  • @julianpamplin1 Find me too dude, so that I may also get to call you sir and see things for what they "truly" are.

    Get over yourself and have a great life also.

  • @julianpamplin1

    Hahahaha oh my god, double standards.

    I was implying they were normal people, which is a fair assumption. You were saying that they were satan worshippers who don't have any obligations outside their music.

    Maybe i wouldn't call you a prejudiced fuck if i were talking to you face to face, you're right but you call me an internet tough guy and then threaten that you will find me. Nice.

    Also fuck you. 

  • @julianpamplin1 They have families you know, i don't think that imposing your view of the universe to your kids and wife is good. I learned that most religious or god issues are with oneself and not for everyone to know. That's why i don't support religions, as i said your God is for you and yourself only.

  • i could feel the tension between danny & maynard...having little digs at each other let alone the interviewer

  • MJK famously hating interviews but still agreeing to do them as an opportunity to belittle interviewers & enforce to everyone how much he hates doing them, actually makes him a complete cunt. Simply don't do interviews Maynard.

    Great band, great musician. It's a shame he's such a fucking prick.

  • @voiceofreason79 It's not so much doing the interview that bothers him, it's usually an apathetic, retarded interviewer that Maynard resents. I think you're overstating the same resentment from this interview. He normally doesn't do interviews because he lets the music speak and not being on the cover of some pretentious music magazine, or some stupid shit that other popular bands tend to take for granted to boost their image.

  • @bfindley92 In which case, he should let the music do the talking and not agree to do interviews.

    He's got a hugely inflated opinion of himself to the point where he actually believes he's operating on a much higher philosophical & creative level to everyone else. There are so many artists in this world pushing the limits of creativity who just aren't as stuck up their own assholes as he is.

  • @voiceofreason79 Well, I still disagree because personally I think if he was that egotistic he might do a little

    more to get himself in the spotlight. Take Blood Into Wine for example. He did that to showcase his passion for winemaking, not to belittle someone and enhance the notion that he is a more creative person. Of all the interviews of him Ive seen, he behaves like a normal yet philosophical person. But hey, thats just your opinion vs mine.

  • @bfindley92 Oh well.

  • Rare interview! on youtube! good one, good one...

  • I don't blame Maynard for hating interviews. You just know the people interviewing you don't give 2 shits about your music. They're just there to do their job.

  • im shorter than he is i have nothing to say... lol

  • the reporter was totally starstruck.... i mean can you blame him???? its fucking Maynard !!!! lolz =)

  • Is danny wearing a meshuggah jacket?!?

  • He just keeps shoving the mic in their faces... I can see how Maynard would find this interview annoying. I found it annoying...

    Good for Maynard, though. "We're more successful." Damn right.

  • maynard is fucking hillarious!!!

  • The interviewer is such an idiot. He didn't even realize how insulting he was being.

  • MESHUGGAH SWEATER!

  • @RowboCaup MESHUGGAH SWEATER FOR THE WIN!

  • @tiki2188 Cool man, I'll check 'em out. Thx for not hammerin me over callin Maynard a tool, lol. The interviewer was definitely atrocious!

  • MTV is such shit, even they're interviewing musicians it's god awful. At least Maynard shreds him

  • if you know journalism..he did a great job...he got maynard to interact and smile...otherwise its just a bullshit have to do in a hallway..if u listen he gets some great insight from maynards answers...a record is like a painting.

  • "I have actually hired lobbyists to come in and argue my cases now." i lol'd

  • Danny Carey is Maynard's biatch. ;) Yes that's to be determined.

  • 4:19 is amazing. Maynard utterly disgraces/embarrasses the interviewer. Good for you Maynard. I want to ask Maynard about his take on neuro-plasticity regarding emotional/psychological anchoring.

  • 4:19 is amazing. Maynard utterly disgraces/embarrasses the interviewer. Good for you Maynard.

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  • I mean... I get that the reporter is "kind of" awkward but he's not intentionally offensive you know? On the other hand Maynard is really defensive... why be a dick? He knew what he was getting into with the whole interview thing, like it or not.

  • @knoxbox01 people cant help it.. everybody is different. so im actually tired of reading comments about the interviewer being weird. Hes not that bad. Maynard is a straight up dick. I hate him. But hes talented

  • @knoxbox01 I like Tool's music, but Maynard actually is a "tool." For a cool and actually nice lead singer, go watch some Phil Anselmo interviews. 

  • @ragzy02

    He is a massive tool but he also wants to be a normal guy doing his thing, and doesnt want to be a rock star. Also lets be honest...this guy was awkward and terrible. I mean does he even know Tool? Why'd he say "rock and roll is easy just 3 chords" happy happy. What response would he expect from Maynard?

    Check "Maynard Interview 2003" and keep looking on YT, there are a few of him not being a dick and actually being informative

  • GOD! I just finished this video. Shoot the reporter! What a TOOL! lol

  • How does this douche score a 9 min interview?

  • I bet that dude was happy that danny was there too. if it was just maynard, he would be sweatin

  • @YogiDMT why?

  • @davidholmes282 Because Danny breaks the ice with his out going kindness.

  • @nottwozero Ah I see what you're sayin.. he does seem like a hella nice dude. I like how maynard doesn't try to be polite just to please people too, he's just real I love that about him.

  • @davidholmes282 Dig.

  • I just want to meet Maynard drink some beer and shoot the shit and this bitch gets to interview him asking stupid questions dressed like an asshole??? Godamnit

  • i hope maynard gave him the famous judo flip after the interview...into a black hole

  • I disliked the video, not because of Maynard and Danny, but because this interviewer makes me want to down a baby in the waters of Holland.

  • I'm ashamed that interviewer guy is from my country. We should ban him.

  • i love Tool, they are such tools...the "interviews" they give especially from Maynard are so dickish. But this is why we love em

  • If I was that MTV guy I would have gotten the fuck out of there at Maynard's "absolutely"

  • A FUCKTART FROM MTV.

  • DEATH TO MTV!!!!!

  • Someone dosent understand that some things just arent ment to be understood

  • "Are you gonna play in a tent with big screens?" If you cant think of better questions to ask you shouldnt be fucking interviewing Tool ..

  • what is that guy from loserville kentucky what a joke.

    fuck MTV.

  • Ahhh when the interviewer said "writing music is very easy, just 3 chords" I just cringed. I knew Maynard would have an awesome, almost smart ass like response to that.

  • It's a shame even mentioning The Arctic Monkeys in a TOOL interview.

  • I've seen plenty of interviews with Maynard where he is polite and accomodating with the interviewer. The difference was the person interviewing was intelligent and knowledgable. This douchenozzle was completely rediculous. It doesn't surprise me that he was affiliated with MTV. Not only did we not gain any insight into Tool with this interview, I for feel a little stupider after watching it.

  • i like maynard and tool. but wow he really is a dick. dude needs to fucking loosen up a little. smoke one

  • Danny is a big guy

  • i cant even watch it comfortably. that guy is humiliating himself so badly. yack.

  • This guy is so soft spoken almost to the point where it's fucking aggravating! My God, take the stick out of your ass, man! Jesus! Is it really gonna hurt to fucking SPEAK UP, and not be such a fuckin' pansy??? You have enough to last you five fucking lifetime, virtually nobody ever fucks with you . . . you can't show A LITTLE humbleness?! Jesus, Maynard, lighten up!

  • Nice burn at 4:23. This interviewer really sucks.

  • @muleskinmcnugent Relax, dipshit. Wash your underpants and go take a cold shower. It was done in all good fun. They weren't trying to slight the interviewer.

  • @billbenblue yeah... he was. you must be socially retarded if you think maynard wasn't trying to be a dick to him. He hates interviewers and the media

  • @rigby333 And I'm sure you know that, right? You're personally acquainted with Keenan, and I'm sure he calls you all the time to say: "Golly, I sure hate interviewers and the media!" Give me a goddamn break. What are you, his fucking spokesman? Pop his dick out of you mouth and get a fuckin' life.

  • @billbenblue Well, if you would have watched the damn video, you would have heard him say that he hates interviews. You're a special kind of stupid.

  • i heard that danny carey is worlds 2nd best drummer and first is neal pert, is that true?

  • @theArtardman

    Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  • @IronTigerMantis ok now i feel stupid. =l

  • @theArtardman Hmmm, i bet you heard this from the worlds number 1 credible source.

  • @stretch255 mmmmm. . . dont remember

  • @theArtardman lol i usta tell people that...but danny carey is a better drummer then rush's neal peart.

  • OK NOW GIVE THAT GUY SOME DMT THEN LET HIM TRY THE INTERVIEW ONCE MORE

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  • I love how the interviewer is nowhere near on those guys level! It's almost as if he's got no idea he's being wound up...

  • who is this dancing monkey with the microphone, jesus christ

  • I really wish they did an interview with some good interviewer with actual questions, someone like Jian Ghomeshi.

  • wow...some bad questions, great answers..i can't imagine doing interviews every day. "Do you guys still feel like Tool is a big hobby band?" I give Maynard and Danny credit for putting up with this guy. TOOL is great and creative...hobby band? o man, what a stupid question, you see Maynard clenching his teeth :) thank you for the years of great music guys! your music got me through a lot...

  • no wonder they don't like giving interviews!

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  • how's your band doing?

  • DC=<3

  • Maynard is singing Jerk-off in his head, Danny is playing the Grudge solo on his skull

  • Mr. Carey is my fave drummer and MJK is the ultimate frontman, vocalist, artist of my lifetime. awesome.

  • Haha Maynard hates this guy.

  • @Muff0o0

    This guy interviewing is a total oblivious dipshit

  • @gargoyleTrance Yeah i know, bouncy around like a jack rabbit.

  • @Muff0o0 I thought quite the opposite. He seemed to be glad that this guy needled issues deeper and deeper, rather than asking a pseudo deep question and moving on before it had been fully explored. He has said in prior interviews that he is a reactionary and that he works well under conditions. So I'd hassa guess he hates when people don't define their questions enough. Or let his cold exterior stop them from asking the questions that they believe are meaningful.

  • What I would give to meet these two rock Gods! Danny and MJK...wow just WOW!

  • "I'm shorter than he is, I have nothing to say"...oh Maynard