Tool singer Maynard James Keenan, a winemaker in his spare time, plays certain albums to certain types of grapes while processing, as he's told in a new Discogs interview. "During vintage, I choose whole albums to play to the grapes while processing,” he says - “some playlists are played year after year to the same fruit. We note what music was played to what grapes and then these playlists are included with the tasting notes”. Discogs was shown a chart indicating exactly which music is played to specific types of grapes - it varies from Portishead, Massive Attack, and Tricky to Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, and Kiss, with some Devo, Spiritualized, and Low as well. No Tool, A Perfect Circle, or Puscifer in his cellar.

"Still recovering from having gotten COVID at the end of February. I'm still dealing with the residual effects... Still coughing. There's still lung damage" - Tool's Maynard James Keenan told AZ Central about suffering from Covid-19. Hal also talked about wearing face-masks and freedom: "We wear seatbelts. We don't smoke in trains, planes or taxis anymore, or even restaurants. There's reasons for those things... Freedom is the ability to pursue your lifestyle, pursue what you want to do for your family, for your future, what education you want to get. And with that freedom comes a responsibility to look out for yourself, for your neighbor, for your family, for everybody".

Maynard James Keenan of Tool is an upcoming guest on AXS TV’s series Rock and Roll Road Trip, hosted by former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar. In a pre-release clip from the episode, Hagar asks Maynard about how he comes up with the rhythms and time signatures in Tool songs (“6/8, or 6, 7/9 or […]