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Originally Posted by Sly
I agree to a point, but Tool is all about the money, Maynard is anyway. They are very anal about their music, as in extremely protective. Maynard doesn't give a fuck, he's laughing at everyone buying his music thinking its this amazing in-depth work of art. He wants the money. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but its funny watching people argue over it.
I went to a APC show a couple years back. Throughout the whole show he was pushing the upcoming album extremely hard and even made several references to how people will buy whatever he does and make him even more money. His songs are calling the listeners sheep, while the listeners are thinking he's calling everyone else sheep. Its really pretty funny.
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that's no different then when Jim Morrison told his audience "you're all a bunch of slaves" It's playing with the limits of crowd psychology for your own amusement. It's part of being a performer and an artist. It's not playing into what you're "supposed" to be as a performer - a crowd-pleaser. Sometimes it's more interesting to try to get the audience to hate you or to play the bad guy.
To come to the conclusion that Maynard doesn't give a shit about his music and it's all about the $$$ - is total bullshit. If someone was really all about the money, they wouldn't announce it to the world. He purposely tried to get a reaction out of you and succeeded.