Puscifer is coming to town.
Wish I could go. Tool and APC are at the top of my favorite rock band lists.
Maynard is probably the best lyricist in rock right now,
and he's the inheritor of the Daltry Best Rock Scream crown IMHO
Excerpt from "Bottom" on Undertow (Henry Rollins speaks this on the song...)
"If I let you, you would make me destroy myself.
But in order to survive you, I must first survive myself.
I can sink no further and I cannot forgive you.
There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you.
I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.
I will use my mistakes against you.
There's no other choice.
Shameless now. Nameless now. Nothing now. No one now.
But my soul must be iron cause my fear is naked.
I'm naked and fearless.- And my fear is naked.....dead inside"
The Tool and A Perfect Circle websites...
Loder: What do you make of the current state of the music business, the illegal downloading the record companies say is siphoning off their profits?
Keenan: There is still a future with music, people want music. I don't know if the record labels will be involved. The panic you're seeing now is basically coming from the labels trying to figure out how they're gonna monopolize and manipulate and suck the blood out of artists anymore.
Loder: Are you opposed to file-sharing?
Keenan: Not necessarily. But I wish people would realize what an artist normally makes on the sale of an album. Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. And how many bands sell a million records?
Loder: Then there are the acts that get signed to, like, $60 million record deals
Keenan: Well, I've never gotten that deal. I'm not Mariah Carey.
