Tool is awesome!  Love Maynard.  Are you part of the tool army?
I sure am! Been a huge fan since the Opiate album back in the 90s. 
Great album.  Maynard was talking about a new album soon.
As great as that sounds he's too busy doing his wine orchard lol
HAHA.  Yes that made me giggle.  
Stinks there isn't more bands like Tool around, they are so original and their off beat timing is so good. 
Well, there is a perfect circle.  But I wasn't a fan of that band maynard made..what about you?
I always felt like Perfect Circle was just songs that weren't good enough for Tool but they weren't terrible. I would think they'd influence more people by now, especially drummers. 
Have you heard of puscifer?  That is Maynard too.Puscifer (/ˈpʊsɪfər/) is an American rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles by Maynard James Keenan, known as the lead singer of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle.
Yeah that project is pretty wild, it's alot of experimental tracks. I've seen him do some of it live when I was on the west coast.