Maynard James Keenan Addresses A Perfect Circle's Latest Move
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Written by Huw Baines
Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has addressed the next move for A Perfect Circle, the supergroup that he helmed alongside guitarist Billy Howerdel.
The band - who have also included James Iha, Troy van Leeuwen, Josh Freese, Paz Lenchantin and Jeordie White among their number - released three albums between 2000 and 2004, 'Mer de Noms', 'Thirteenth Step' and 'eMOTIVe' and are now set to unveil a live recording.
'A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo' is set to land at the end of November, following a Greatest Hits package - 'Three Sixty' - that the band are keen to outdo. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Keenan said:
"Of course, record companies always have their little clause in their contract, about their right to release a greatest hits record. I think that can be kind of weird sometimes, when you see 'the Greatest Hits,' no, no – 'the Greatest Greatest Hits.'
"Releases by a record label that the band had nothing to do with, and there's several versions of the same thing, over and over again. That's kind of why we did the DVD and the box set. If you're going to release a Greatest Hits, we should also offer something that's not just the old recordings, rearranged. But on that Greatest Hits, there's going to be the studio version of By and Down, which is the new track that we've been working on, that we never quite got around to recording. "
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