In promotion of his Sessanta V.20 tour, Maynard James Keenan (frontman of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer) filmed a video which features him emerging from a grave and then performing a vaudeville act. While speaking to RVA Magazine in a new interview, Keenan was asked if “moments like this parody, cathartic, or a little combination of both?”
“I would say both. You know, it’s all in there. Even just trying to coordinate the video was logistically challenging.” he said before revealing that he was nearly accidentally buried alive while filming the promo.
“For example, being buried under the soil—they put the final layer on me and then pulled the straw out of my mouth, but they forgot to change the battery in the camera. So I was basically suffocating under the ground while they were scrambling to get the battery back on. Then I had to be reburied again, so that wasn’t great.”
