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Maynard on Left of Center

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According to Beckett from Toolarmy, Maynard will be appearing on the Sirius radio station Left of Center next week:

MJK will be getting on the mic on his favorite radio station, Left of Center. Maynard will discuss everything from his wine vineyard to his thoughts on creativity and downloading to his new Puscifer album. He’ll also play and discuss every song from the new Puscifer record, V Is For Vagina, exclusively for Left of Center listeners. All from the comfort of his wine vineyard in Cornville, Arizona. Listen each hour throughout the entire week beginning at 10 am ET on Monday December 17th through Sunday, December 23rd.

Troy Van Leeuwen talks about A Perfect Circle

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In a reasonably short article on UltimateGuitar.com, Troy Van Leeuwen talks about his time in A Perfect Circle, and the likelihood of them doing stuff again:

I would say of course they’re different, but I have more experience working with Josh actually than with working with Maynard. With Maynard it was very short amounts of time working with him. I didn’t really per-se get in deep with him. He’d show up and do his thing and then bail and do Tool when I worked with him so…Josh is more…we’re in there every day, every hour, every year, every lifetime.

Thanks to Henry for the tip.

New Maynard Interview

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There’s a new Maynard interview up on the MonitorThis website.  There’s not really much there we haven’t heard before, so this one’s for completists only.  Questions were apparently submitted by readers, which turned out to be the usual questions we’d expect to hear in interviews.  Here’s a snippet for you:

QWERTYUIOP: Is Blair actually Phillip Seymour Hoffman?

MJK: Negative. He is an experimental textile factory by-product known as Arachno-Hypnol. One part Poly-ethyleen, one part, Vetruvian Cottonelle, and one part Anti-Histamine, 3 parts Makers mark. No ice.

Cuntry Boner #1 Dance Single?

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According to Maynard‘s Myspace Blog:

Get this. Are you sitting down? Not sure how this happened, but I’m not complaining. Cuntry Boner just showed up at number 1 on the Billboard Dance Singles Chart and number 10 on the Billboard Singles Chart. Not kidding. Almost as funny as Jethro Tull winning a Grammy for Best METAL Performance. Hopefully it won’t go down. El Oh El.

Maynard on Spinner

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Another interview with Maynard has popped up, this time on the Spinner website.  Once again Maynard opens up on a range of topics, resulting in another very worthwhile interview.  Here’s a snippet:

Has having done Caduceus helped you develop your business sense?

Tool and A Perfect Circle — both bands are very much aware, on many levels, what goes on with our business. We were much older than most people are when we got involved in it and we knew that with the difficult to navigate material that we were presenting we would have to survive on our own for quite a while before someone actually caught on. With that in mind, we had to really buckle down and gut it out to get to where we are now. And in ’96, ’97, when we already had two platinum records, I was still living on 500 bucks a month. People go, “No, no, you were a millionaire back then when I saw you on Lollapalooza ’97.” “No, dude. Credit card with a limit.”

Maynard talks to Spin

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Shinji has given me the link to a great interview with Maynard by Spin Magazine.  Maynard talks in depth about his music, in particular Puscifer, and about his life in general.  He also comments that Tool will be sticking around, while A Perfect Circle are dead.

One of the best and informative interviews I’ve read with Maynard, so make sure you check it out.

Puscifer Updates

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Maynard posted a Puscifer Update on his Myspace site today.  Not much we don’t already know, but here’s the list:

  • Meats Meier is doing a Dozo video
  • A Queen B DVD is in production
  • There’s a Suicide Girls interview available
  • There will be interviews and/or reviews in the December issues of Spin and Rolling Stone
  • V is for Vagina will be available in vinyl, possibly as soon as 6 weeks.

Maynard on Beat.com.au

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Maynard speaks with Beat.com.au about Puscifer.  Pretty standard interview really, with nothing particularly new revealed.  Here’s a snippet:

Speaking of lowest common denominators, was the singer gutted over the farcical decision to award the Grammy to Wolfmother (and their derivative single Woman) over Tool for ‘Best Hard Rock Performance? “Well, you and I both know exactly where that song came from,” he laughs. “But never mind all that, because it was a catchy feel-good song, which is kind what we all need right now. Forget the depth of it. If rock is dead, and nobody knows where to go and they’re not moving forward, what else are they gonna do except go back and look at stuff that’s been done. They want to rekindle that feeling you got when you first heard soul-inspiring rock.”

This is more of a diplomatic response than I hoped from him. “Of course, that song won the Grammy! It’s a great song.”

The interviewer forgot to ask him about an Australian Tool tour…

Poll Results: How do you rate V is for Vagina?

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Last weeks poll asked what was your rating for V is for Vagina.  Generally the response to it seemed to be good, with far more positive votes than negative.

Personally, I rated it as average.  While I enjoyed some of the tracks like Queen B and Trekka, most of them I felt were pretty forgettable.  I’m not sure that it’s an album I’ll be getting out to listen to time and time again.  I appreciate Maynard’s efforts though, and I sure think it’s better than alot of other crap I’ve heard this year.  If my opinion means anything to Maynard (and I’m sure it doesn’t) I’d say “keep on rocking”…

Here are the results:

  1. Good 225 Votes
  2. Average 153 Votes
  3. Excellent 93 Votes
  4. Dont Care 56 Votes
  5. Poor 47 Votes
  6. Terrible 37 Votes

New poll coming soon!