Maynard James Keenan Reveals Major Regret About Tool’s Career

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan was set to pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne this weekend as “The Prince of Darkness” gets inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. Keenan was preparing to perform an Ozzy tune and admitted on The Allison Hagendorf show that, “It’s terrifying — extremely terrifying. Yeah, ’cause this is for him, and his song is out of my range. So I’m gonna be struggling to hit the notes, but I got the call and so I answered.”

Keenan also told Hagendorf about one big regret he has with Tool’s career, admitting the band put their music up on streaming services far too late. “I feel like we missed the boat,” he admitted. “Like it started with downloads, you know, 24 years ago. And then by the time we actually came out, downloads are done. We missed 20 years of reaching two generations of people to understand what it is that we do, in a format that, you know… I don’t like listening to the mp3 version. I listen to CDs and vinyl. But that’s the gateway to get them into the vinyl and the CDs. I feel like we made a mistake not being on those on those mediums for 20 years. Me every year, saying ‘we should do this … “That’s just the reality, that people didn’t know who we were because we weren’t around.”

Keenan’s full interview can be viewed below.