PUSCIFER NAILED A MOOD
Dec 10, 2020
5 minutes
WORDS: ELEANOR GOODMAN
PICTURES: TRAVIS SHINN
“THE DUCKS DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE ELECTION”
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN
When we call Maynard James Keenan at home in Jerome, Arizona, he’s already been up for several hours. Rising at 6.30am, he walked and fed his dogs Crystal, Winston, Sophie and Miho... and 23 ducks.
“Quite a few of them have names, but some don’t for obvious reasons down the road,” he explains. “All the eggs we get from the ducks go into making our pasta at the tasting rooms.”
His life of winemaking, farming, and making music around the grape harvest is well established, but even that routine was threatened by this year’s events. While on tour with Tool, Maynard caught COVID-19. At the time, he didn’t know what it and filmed a live performance for its day of release.
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