Throughout his look in a brand new episode of the “Lipps Service” podcast, Device frontman Maynard James Keenan recalled a considerably scary second within the band’s historical past once they needed to carry out beneath violent intimidation.
Answering the hosts’ query about whether or not it was true somebody had used a gun to threaten them throughout one in all their exhibits, Keenan mentioned: “Yeah. I imply, a veiled risk.”
He continued, explaining the incident: “I feel any individual that was working there was attempting to get new recruits within the door and so they thought, ‘Properly, we’ll get this younger band to return and play the Scientology middle. Love Jones was our opener and people guys are filled with comedy and had no drawback working their mouths and speaking shit about Scientology. In order that was actually fabulous to witness them. They’re already superb sh*t talkers however then to have them actually flip the warmth up on the locals was type of inspiring.
“They got here up and principally shut them down, put a hand over the mic and [said], ‘You’re performed.’ And the man got here again to see me and goes ‘Hey, are we gonna have an issue with you?’ As he’s leaning down, I might see his jacket’s open, and I’m like, ‘You actually need to begin in a glass constructing? As a result of this isn’t gonna finish properly. Yeah, you may shoot me however this factor’s coming the f*ck down.’”
When the host requested if the particular person had flashed his gun at him, Keenan responded: “Yeah principally. He didn’t flash it, he simply leaned ahead and the jacket opened then I might see it. He’s principally saying ‘Are we gonna have an issue?’ I’m going, ‘Are we?’ In order that was a bizarre, awkward state of affairs that simply made me madder so in fact we did run our mouths.”
This isn’t the primary time the frontman has been threatened with violence. The 13 12 months hole between Device’s newest album, “Concern Inoculum,” and their earlier album brought about some crazed followers to ship Keenan dying threats.
“He even advised me he was getting dying threats from these idiots on the market,” drummer Danny Carey recalled in a earlier interview with Spin. “They simply don’t know what our work ethic is. This stuff don’t occur, man. There’s no different file that’s going to sound like this Device file. What you hear is what you get, and what you get is what it takes to get it performed. And it’s not a straightforward course of.”
