2 result(s) tagged “A Perfect Circle”

Grim and Grimmer

Driver-By Truckers’ The Dirty South and A Perfect Circle’s eMOTIVe

Out-Tooling Tool

A Perfect Circle seemed, at first, like one of the world’s most blatant rip-offs. Its leader, Billy Howerdel, was a Tool guitar tech, and its vocalist was none other than Maynard James Keenan. And the sound of the band’s debut, 2000’s Mer de Noms, was Tool Lite — less abrasive and more oriented toward traditional songs, but still strikingly similar.

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