Tool’s Maynard James Keenan Names the ‘Real’ Rock Vocalists [Video]

Before the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan spoke with Allison Hagendorf in an interview and shared his thoughts on rock vocalists he considers the ‘real’ rockers. He admitted he doesn’t see himself as one of them.

“No, not at all,” he said when asked if he sees himself as a vocalist. Instead, he views himself as an instrument in the band. “I feel like I’m an instrument within the mix and I’m just trying to find my place within the arrangement. That makes sense, that’s not colliding with the rest of the stuff. So if anything I’m very organized. I’m organizing a vocal within a context of songs not necessarily a vocalist.”

Keenan named two vocalists he thinks deserve the title: “Chris Cornell is a vocalist. Freddie Mercury is a vocalist.”

Throughout his career with Tool, Keenan has performed at the back of the …