Tool‘s frontman Maynard James Keenan has confirmed that progress on the band’s long-awaited follow-up to 2006’s “10,000 Days” continues to be a bit of a struggle. Though other members of the band acknowledge that 20 song ideas are in the works and their legal battle is now over (as well as health issues), there’s still little in the way of anything concrete about the effort. Despite performing a partial new song live a few times recently, Keenan told The Press Enterprise earlier this month: “We’ve found a common ground, We just can’t seem to move forward.” In the meantime, Keenan continues to focus on Puscifer, stating of his intentions for the band in a live capacity:
“I don’t think we have an audience that can really get this. But the whole goal of this band and this multimedia project demanding to be as flexible as it is, is I would love to roll in (to town), let’s say we do the ‘Money Shot’ tour. And some random date in the middle of the ‘Money Shot’ tour, we do from top to bottom AC/DC’s ‘Powerage’ and ‘Let There Be Rock’ (albums) and that’s it.
The people in the audience, you’ll have a huge percentage of them that are (mad) because they didn’t get to see the ‘Money Shot’ songs. But the other ones will go ‘That’s what Puscifer is. We got to see the weird show, the random one.’ That’s the audience we’re trying to build. We’re trying to build that flexible, forgiving isn’t even the word (fan base). They’re along for the ride.”
There’s also mention that he hopes to continue making music with A Perfect Circle in the future. For now, Puscifer‘s next round of touring kicks off later this week, get those dates here.
