The fact that this thread is entitled Tool/A Perfect Circle, I find that a little simple. Just basically lumping in one with the other because they share the same frontman.
Personally, I don't really care for much of APC or Puscifer. And it's not hating on them because they're the "secondhand" projects of Maynard James Keenan. Not at all. They just haven't really struck anything in me.
The same thing happens, I think, with artists like Mike Patton or Philip Anselmo. The fact that the same voice is projecting from these different bands just creates a tendency to pool them all together.
Tool, on the other hand are one of my all-time favorites. And at times, I feel like Keenan might be a little bitter at the fact that he lucked out with his first successful band. I just don't think that as many people will ever be touched by APC/Puscifer as there were by Tool.
And all the people who think that he's some sort of "mastermind" behind the creativity of Tool. I think that those are strictly people who relate to it on a lyrical level, which would make sense why they would place Tool at the same level with Maynard's other projects. But to me, the music arrangement and lyrics of Tool all work together to make the sonic giant that they give birth to.
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