Musician/comedian/actor Reggie Watts has voiced his disdain for alternative metal chart toppers Tool. Apparently, his low opinion of the band was influenced in part by a past poor experience he had with their crew at a past festival tour.
In a recent discussion with Spin, Watts was asked what style of music he would like to do next, which led to the following exchange:
‘What kind of music do you want to do next?
Hardcore. Metal. Industrial stuff. Like Ministry with a splash of Meshuggah. Something hard and dark. I want it to sound sick as fuck.
Looking for a full wild cathartic physical release in it?
I wanna drive this fucking car and have the audience react—to believe it—to not care what I was doing a second ago: to not care that I’m a comedian. I want to blow up the perception of who I am and highlight what I love.
Why don’t you take over Tool? Kick out that Maynard dude.
That’d be cool, ’cause Maynard … I’m not a big fan of his voice.
Something missing from his throat?
As much hype as they get, I just don’t get it.
And they’re also not very nice. I saw ’em in Big Day Out Tour, and I was trying to get side-stage, and they were giving us all this grief. It was like, you could see everybody—all the artists could see other artists from the side of the stage—but they were like, “No, only selected people.” And I’m just like, for this, are you fucking kidding me?”
Rammstein were sweethearts. I could go sit on the side of the stage and watch those guys. Or LCD Soundsystem. Sia. Anybody that was on tour that year was super cool.
But they were the ones who just, ‘No, we’re Tool.’ And I’m ‘Sorry guys, but you aren’t that good that you can have that kind of attitude.’ Ultimately no one is—although I could imagine it for Prince, like ‘Whatever you need, Prince.’ Totally fine. But Tool? I’m like, ‘You’re just math rock.’
And there’s something missing from his voice, right? He doesn’t have that raspy-
There’s no presence to it. No presence. Not like Chris Cornell. He’s a fucking rock singer. Or Perry Farrell: his voice. Jesus Christ—that voice is insane.’
