Back in the day, my stepdad worked overseas so we found ourselves at the airport quite often. Remember how they used to have those courtesy phones where you pick up, talk to an operator, and ask them to make an announcement in the airport to have someone pickup and connect you?
My brother and I would go to those phones and request that they page Reverend Maynard James Keenan. Then they'd announce over the intercom "Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone. Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone." Then we'd lose our minds laughing. I don't know why we thought it was so funny, but hopefully some other Tool fans at the time were walking through the airport and did a double take.
I got into tool with Aenima and it didn't leave my car cassette player for two months. Thankfully they were more into talking shit about Henry Rollins at the time.
Damn, I had no idea that Maynard was on the that green jello album. That was also my first CD I ever got. Probably from Sam Goody in the mall to play on my sony discman in like 1993 or something.
I love how there's basically nothing but love for Tool in these comments. I'm a big fan of whatever Maynard James Keenan's touching. I adore Puscifer and listen constantly (Grand Canyon is my current obsessive-replay song.. once again), APC literally always fucks hard so it's always an option, and Tool scratches an itch I can't get anywhere else. Saw Tool live finally, too, just like last year.
I always liked A Perfect Circle and so I listened to TOOL but didn't really get into them until I brought up the lyrics that I could never really hear because all I had was Ænima and the mixing on that entire album kinda sucks; the vocals are damn near washed out.
So jealous. My closest experience is seeing Radiohead at bonnaroo candy flipping my brains out. I’ll never forget him tell his mom he loved her at some point during the show.