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THINK MAYNARD IS A FRUIT? THINK AGAIN.

 Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at 10:00am by

It may be that the frontman for the best band on earth is opening an organic fruit market in addition to his already-established winery in his hometown of Cornville, Arizona. But don’t let those fruitish tendencies fool you; the diminutive Tool singer attended West Point and continues to practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. An unsuspecting fan who attempted to climb on stage during a Tool performance found out the hard way not to fuck with Maynard James Keenan. Watch the clip [via Revolver] below.

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  • Selaphiel

    Was he strangling the guy? And was he high (The guy. not Maynard) or something? He looks kinda high, and he IS at a Tool concert…

    Odd note, my family knows Maynard better as for voice of the three little pigs in Green Jello’s song about the story. Whenever I say something about him, atleast someone is like, “Who?” so I reply
    “The guy from Tool.”
    “The guy from what…?”
    “UGH! He did the voice for the three little pigs in Green Jello’s song! Ya’know, ‘NOT BY THE HAIR OF MY CHINNY CHIN CHIN’.”
    “Ohhhhh”

    Only mentioning this because I’ve had this convo about five times, one of which was just last night.

  • billybob

    HA! This is hilarious, I’ve seen this before a while back. It’s awesome how he can sing perfectly well while on his back AND applying a rear-naked choke lol

  • Pluto

    Reason # 45729 why you don’t fuck with Tool.

  • Iron Mayden

    Wow, that kid got dominated. I love how he goes in for a hug and gets a nasty take down instead.

  • http://www.reigninblog.de Razze

    yeah, thats how you have to treat your fans…
    good thing for me, that I don’t like tool

  • Andrew

    @Selaphiel

    It’s Green Jelly, not Green Jello

  • matthius23

    I was at that show..! London Astoria 1996

  • http://www.hibernum.net hibernum

    Andrew,

    It was originally Green Jellö before they were threatened with litigation and changed it to Green Jelly.

  • Adam

    Thats a real douche move on his part. Don’t ever do that to a fan unless he is there to hurt you without him you would have no money.

  • bender

    D’oh! The link wouldn’t work, but I’ve seen this video before and its a classic. Love how he sits on the fan for like 5 minutes while continuing to sing.

  • dthrasher

    Spooning a dude on stage for five minutes is pretty fruity in my book.

  • Elpants

    It’s a widely known fact Maynard slipped the fan some dick in the middle of the spooning session on stage.

    *Obligatory Tool sucks comment from me.*

  • http://www.coreymitchell.com Corey Mitchell

    In this post Dimebag/Nathan Gale world if Maynard wanted to bisect this fool, rip out his small colon, and fuck him with the mic stand, I’d support him any day — fan or no fan.

  • SonOF

    I’ve seen this before, and it is obviously part of the show. Let’s think about it. Would security let anyone on the stage at a Tool show? If someone did happen to sneak past security and get on stage, do you think security would say, “Don’t worry. Maynard’s got it,” and go along with their business? After the Dimebag incident, if a dude runs on stage, he is getting a security guards club up his ass and the thrashing of his life; they don’t let band members fend for themselves, regardless if they know ju-jitsu.

  • bradican

    @SonOF

    that show was in the 90s, Dimebag died in 03

  • lern2swim

    @Adam, are you serious? This isn’t like that rapper(forgot the moron’s name) who actually brought someone from the audience on stage to throw him. If I were Maynard I would have done the same thing and I don’t think negatively of him at all. Pre or post Dimebag, I would never hold a performer of any kind in lower regard for defending themselves from a possible threat.

    FYI Elvis once karate kicked a fan in the face who ran at him on stage.

  • jello

    If anything this clip made me believe Maynard is a fruit, and I didn’t before. He’s not even strangling the guy and they both look to be enjoying it a little too much.

  • mark james

    old but still hilarious. when he’s raising his arm while he’s getting choked out, that made me lol more.

  • Charlie B

    Maynard went to a Military Academy Prep School, not to West Point Academy. I have heard rumors that he is bisexual. Still he is not a person I want to have an altercation.