Search все записи автора    В 2000 году Кинан поучаствовал в альбоме White Pony банды Deftones (композиция Passenger). По словам басиста дефтонзов Чи Ченга это знакомство случилось следующим образом:

We're friends. When were on the Ozzfest, Maynard was like 'Look, once you're done with Ozzfest, come on down here and we'll fool around together.' We thought it was amazing that he wanted to work with us, we were blown away : 'Right on, let's do it, what an honor.' We've always respected the way Tool has done things. Nobody goes 'That's new metal.' It's more like : 'Oh, that's Tool.' It's indigenous to their own nature.

He never intended to sing on anything. He just wanted to see how we wrote and give us ideas about how Tool does things, just because he's interested in bands. So we went down to work with him, and we already had the music for "Passenger" done. We were playing, Chino was out getting a beer or something, he wasn't in the room. Maynard was listening and he said 'Why put things in 4/4 when you can go 3/4 or 7/8 or something like that ?' And then he just grabbed the mike and started singing, and it was like 'Ahhhh' - you know what I mean ? And Chino had come back at that point, so they started trading off and doing their thing.

We didn't ever really intend to use Maynard on the new album, because every band was like 'Ok, here's our token celebrity guest appearance, our celebrity crutch for the album.' We didn't really want to go that route. When we actually recorded it, we couldn't get Maynard out of our heads. And I said 'Look dude, just call Maynard and ask him to come in and do the song.' So Maynard came in for 2 days, wrote, recorded, done.