Maynard James Keenan: Guitar Hero champ?
Regular Suds reader (and avid Tool fan) Justin S. will like this one.
At this year’s E3 video game conference, publisher Activision held a press conference for what I’m assuming is Guitar Hero 3,487. Obviously, there’s nothing really exciting about that.
But to spice up the proceedings they brought out Maynard James Keenan (of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer – for those of you who are sadly unaware) and Billy Howerdel (also of A Perfect Circle and ASHES dIVIDE) to cover one of the greatest songs of all time – Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
They were backed up by a full orchestra and choir, not to mention some pixelated game avatars singing and playing along as well. Needless to say, it was pretty sweet (and I’m sure Maynard would have beaten that track on expert). Check it out:
And speaking of Maynard making awesome cover songs, he recently worked with The Flaming Lips’ guitarist Steven Drozd to cover Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” Their version carries the fantastic title “Rocket Mantastic.” They cut the song together during Drozd’s scoring work for the film “The Heart Is A Drum Machine.” You can stream the song over at Puscifer’s website.
-Sam
Dude….I cannot believe I missed this when E3 happened. I am disappointed in myself
Anywho, that was such a good cover! Maynard is amazing and so is Billy. Funny guy too ha.