![]() I can say this, while I was in the Navy, mid 90's, my friend was an apprentice engineer in Hollywood at XXXXXXX, during the initial production of Aenima. We all know that Maynard loves to fuck with people, especially interviewers, but this quote is out of the mouth of Paul himself which was published way later than Maynard's interview in Revolver. In the end, I knew leaving was the right decision. I'm not just a bass player I'm a creator, I wanted to have a bigger role, and it just wasn't happening in that situation. I couldn't be stuck in that paradigm-it's too stifling. They're set up where the bass player does the bass part and the guitar player does the guitar part and so on. I always wanted to do other things, and it felt like I was too much in a box with that band. ![]() Their creative process is excruciating and tedious, and I guess I never felt the desire to play a riff 500 times before I can confirm that it's good that’s why it takes them eight years to write an album. I wish it had been a better vehicle for me to create in, but it just wasn't. It gave me a lot of confidence to do anything I wanted to do.ĭo you have any regrets about leaving Tool? All of a sudden, we were playing in front of huge crowds, and we had a ton of success. To go from 0 to 100 miles an hour in the span of a year was incredible. How did your time in Tool affect you as a musician?
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