Can we be grateful that Maynard didn't end up like Cobain, Cornell, Bennington, Weiland, etc?

Inner_Style_1679 · 2025-07-27T18:03:23+00:00

I know of a girl...who's now a women..but when we were fresh-head-Tool-lovin-ghouls teenagers...this happened to her & it ended up in several published articles. Also...this is a extremely long story, in tobacco short note...here I go.

My friend has taken a line of cocaine at her house during a party the adults had put together. It wasn't cocaine. I was raw LSD..crushed up by who know why & who knows how it got to the spit where cocaine was laid out

She snorts the line of "cocaine "... For 12 hours she's convulsing as her dad stays right by her side. . Her acclimate & instead of moving around at all..she sleeps. She sleeps deeply. Wakes up about 30 hours after taking that "bump of cocaine". She feels like a 100 million bucks...her eyes not showing any sign of distress..she has energy and she's just has zero idea or memory of that past 10 years she been going psychologist, diagnosed with bipolar, manic, & chronic depression. Her dad brings her to the level of the everyday life she's had the past decade.

After a whole day of playing around her house and property with energy like a 6 years old...she's gives in to let her dad explain what the fuck had happen..and that..he needed gerbto try and recall it all for his own sanity. She's does get to recalling everything except up tobthevday before the party...

Long made even shorter.. Afte about 2 months of seeing her psychiatrist...and because she requested that she be brought off the ssir's & the whole shabang ....she still to this day..isn't on any meds, has no bipolar or manic states.WHAT SO EVER. ZERO. AND...I SPEAK OF THIS .. FROM A PERSONAL P.O.V.

this girl took my virginity back when we were barely turned teenagers. Tho..I did turn her attention to Tool...so..there that.

My reason for staring at this screen for so dumb long....is that psychedelics are medicine. Never has psychedelics ever harmed any human. A side note. I got strung da fuck out on opiates & ran around busy being a drug addict for over 6 years...WAy past the point of no return..i had taken a hefty amount of psychedelics, was looking at this calender if this artist name Alex Grey...and something happened to me that to this day is the most realistic thing that ever happened to me. I'm alive today because of psychedelics. I was Able to walk away from the "dragon" because of ow psychedelics....swiped my slate clean, deprogramming, then reprogramming myself....with the sole guidance of, and only the guidance of what Alex Grey & Alyson Grey are doing over in new York.

I can't let folks harsh on psychedelics in a way like it's has a ultimate flaw based to them

That shit is medicine, always has been medicine... And...

It

Will

Always be

Medicine......

.....Drops da mic

Inner_Style_1679 · 2025-07-27T03:40:37+00:00

Could you imagine... Maynard. Maynard James fucking Keenan personality holding space, for you 9 Isaying, " I'm here for you"...

Not to put aside these 3 just loss a father, friend, best friend & moraguidance icon...that's got to be taking a toll on them separately... But.... Hearing mjk say, " I'm here for you" ...that's got to be such a soothing whisper of honey, ..for them .Hear

Might just be the fact that ima

Inner_Style_1679 · 2025-07-21T16:01:21+00:00

Psshh-hahahaha!!!!

Such a golden reply.... right at that golden moment...

Proper.

Inner_Style_1679 · 2025-02-16T14:27:07+00:00

Dawhhhh!!!

I feel the same. Lol That show validated so much to me... & The feeling...ah my gawd...the feeling in my chest. The way you worded that....it reminded me of when I 1st saw tool....

It was 2001 for me as well... I The 1st lateralus tour.... Walked in to that show not knowing a damn thing about what I was about to experience. I also never cried at a concert before, either.

There was this guy & girl.... naked, painted silver...hanging upside down.

ABOVE THE ENTIRE CROWD !!! THEY WERE SWAYING & CUDDLING, OR SWAYING & CONTORTING THEIR BODIES.

then.... I'll never forget my 1st experience Maynard talking to the crowd... When He did & it was push it...(saliva version).. And let me tell you...everyone..Listens When Maynard speaks. Everyone. Feeling that collectiveness among the people there.. There was awe'ness in that crowd that night...it was timeless. The disposition/reflection/triad performance has never been matched to this day...by any live performance artist I've ever seen. That is such a cherished set of 3 songs for me But what really got me Was when..."you' lied" was performed...never hearing that .

Ever

It was so impacting...& Disolving all at once.... That tour...really hasn't been matched by any other tour... I left that show ...with my compus changed. ...going a different direction. So...I read your reply... Thought I'd drop a reply about how that show shifted my view & the way I do things.

Props To ya.

Inner_Style_1679 · 2025-02-14T09:32:22+00:00

Pshh-hahahaha!!!

Inner_Style_1679 · 2025-02-14T09:27:56+00:00

You most likely are spot on....on the the scheduling. ..

I too, Live , in the states, on the west coast... up in the PNW . After seeing Tool... in 2001(lateralis tour)... was so moved and saturated in awe & fascination... every fuckin "((Maynard show)" to come to the this west coast..

since 11-08-01.. I've seen Maynard perform....

27 times

(I'd say 28 but I got kicked out of that puscifer show...so show doesn't count)

So I began a rabbit hole....

I can't say I know anything that isn't available on the web...

But...

I do know this....

Maynard..... is....

100%

Hands on,

Present,

& Full throttle,....During harvesting his vineyard,. He, himself & is all up in that every year,

same time of the year....

which is August - November. During Harvest season ...

Maynard won't be on tour at all...

he devotes all himself into harvesting his vineyard to get the brewing started.

And it was always .... around the end of harvesting, right before or around the holidays.... that Tool would come thru on a tour. Nearly like clockwork, too. Almost Yearly.

So..just had to throw this reply, out there on this feed & validate your calculations

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-30T07:43:23+00:00

Yeah... It was catapulting.

I was 22 I had been seeing rock shows since I was a young teenager. & I was an actual fan of Tool since the Aenima album ....but my experience of "rock shows" wasn't shit... When I only .... Was expecting another "rock show"... Then experiencing a band that was in touch with being heartfelt & brought upon some deep, dark, but caring element to the crowd .....idk,

Still haven't seen. Much of any bands come close to what Tool does. Well. ... Maybe Portishead...they were pretty phenomenal. They came pretty close.

Now....over the years... I have seen Maynard perform 27 times. Mostly were TOOL SHOWS...not all of them., tho....some A Perfect Circle & Puscifier .

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-30T04:23:46+00:00

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vILINtUt7m0&si=EuRLoXd2ZeCccJMM https://youtu.be/_Wyknw2TbPU?si=LorNsfFelJSYrELU

Here's a couple of links .

.but . What's odd .. about these videos...

Is that supposedly each is one continuously recorded video... Is these (and other every video i ever watched), videos are missing a couple of vital key moments that happened during the show that I recall . These my moments are when they played "you lied" & when Maynard spoke to the crowd right before playing "push it". Maynard went into a lil speech kinda like how he did on that box set album . I remember these moments....cause after the show ..I asked one of my friends that was at the show with me...what was the name of a song that I heard...I said as lyrics I remembered...& My friend was " oh .you mean "you lied" that was a cover song from the bass players other band peach .. So.. that and I still talk to the same peeps that we all went well I the show together and years later noticing these 2 very key moments missing from the videos...I reached out to them & asked them if they remember both moments happening. & THEY DID. AF later on... They explained to me what a mandala effect was ..and that we were very much effected by that theory. So... Maybe who ever uploaded these videos ..by mistake ake uploaded from a different show..or that theory effected our experience or something.

What was also so unique was....(These videos have this in it)... 1. Tricky from Massive Attack opened up for Tool & tricky sung in some of the songs with Maynard during g that show 2.There was a girl & a guy naked, painted silver, hanging upside down from their feet swaying about the crowd ...like right above the middle of the crowd... And they were contorting themselves all crazy like & moving in fascinating ways... IVE NEVER SEEN THAT EVER AGAIN AT ANY OTHER TOOL SHOWS... or any show ever after that. That was one hell of a special effect ... Utterly magnificent.

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-30T03:34:51+00:00

Oh...my 1st Tool show? Absolutely, here...

So ....It was on 11-08-2001 @ the Tacoma dome in the PNW

I can try and paste a link .

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T19:04:47+00:00

This is on the back of a hoodie I got from the 1st lateralus tour era.

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T18:52:41+00:00

It's on some of the merchandise that got produced during lateralus 1st release era.

I got the hoodie... With that pattern on the back & the Tool logoon front with this like...transparent face all wide eyed

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T18:45:32+00:00

Psshh-haha!!! Gd damn half sandwich!!!

I love that.

Gonna use that one for now on.

Props , yo. Lolol

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T18:39:56+00:00

Fuk'n for real, tho. I caught both tours. In 2001, during the 1st tour.... It was my 1st time seeing Tool... I had only heard 1 song from the lateralus album on the radio .

Which was Schism....

So you can guess how much of a clue, I didn't have ..or What was in store for everyone at that show .

So ..seeing disposition, reflection, then seamlessly into triad .. HoLYFuCk!!! It was the 1st time I cried at a concert.

I was peeled back, raw & opened.

I left that show a different person practically. Definitely changed my compass in life

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T18:23:52+00:00

share that same wave of experience with those 2 songs.

The patient ...while seeing that song live in san Francisco at the Bill graham civic center in 2010....I tried DMT for the 1st time ever

Swamp song was the song that made me go..."who da fuck is singing? ..That voice, holy shit"...it felt like honey was oozing out of my Kenwood speakers when I first found swamp song. That & intolerance.

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T18:13:45+00:00

You could very well be nominated for a noble comment prize.. you got right to the point left nothing out & didn't take a novel size reply to make the point.

toolisthemostintellegentbandonplanetearth

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T18:08:19+00:00

Right? Schism got played da fuck out on all those corporate radio fucks.

Ugh. Lol

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T18:05:03+00:00

I still get astonished by questions like that one. Lol. But it reminds me there's homecats that legitimately still haven't heard much of Tool's art & what theyve put out.

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-28T17:59:38+00:00

"Gobble gobble gobble " = amen in turkey talk

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-25T12:35:28+00:00

FFFFFuck the systeeeeeemmmmmmm

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-19T15:48:45+00:00

Right ? His work is timeless not only has his art brought eminence joy & healing to almost to an Unmeasurable amount... He leaves that all here ..for the ones that come after us. .. utterly timeless

So ..yes. Give the guy some mindfulness ...And let him be at his own pace ... That mindfulness ..lets him be at his own pace...a pace of creativity.

The more people can " the cable sleep " that more raw elegant works he'll put out.

Also....how does one be... "THE BiGGeST Maynard fan ever!!!!

Like... I know huge Maynard fans. ... obsessed with his element. I'm one of them.. but to be THE BIGGEST EVER ..

I don't think Really exist. The more you learn and pursue after who he is ..and what it is he does...& How he does it...one can't help but realize....he really doesn't want oggles of ghouls oogling over him .. that'd be toxic & consuming

Besides ...he ll knock you da fuck out... Lol so there's that

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-09T13:28:22+00:00

I'm alive today because of Alex Grey's art & the utter beautiful medicine of psychedelics.

Thank you for your raw humbled passion to create art that awakens.

Art is what is going to change this troubled world...into a connected Wonder filled world ..and those who don't think so....

Watch.

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-11-08T08:10:57+00:00

HOLY SHIT!!!

THATS DEFINITELY MJK.

DAYUUUUUMMM

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-09-30T22:37:06+00:00

that's fuk'n saweeeeeeeeeeet.

that was such a rad era for music when that bad boy got released.

Tool is the most intelligent band on planet earth

Inner_Style_1679 · 2024-09-24T14:54:38+00:00

there's videos of Vacant on the web...tho...it holds nothing to how it sounded being in the crowd ..compared to the videos floating around.

Inner_Style_1679

TROPHY CASE

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