Name: Joe Rogan Experience #412 - Maynard James Keenan
Uploaded: 2013-11-05T08:19:18.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #412 - Maynard James Keenan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-11-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #412 - Maynard James Keenan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-11-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #412 - Maynard James Keenan

good googly moogly ladies and gentlemen we're live actually live that's it
actually live it's
that easy we don't fuck around anymore man that's pretty cool it's it's beyond
cool um
this video that you gave me let's get right to it joe first of all i i i love
the characters
and i see a reality show in your future i i see a parody of of of like a duck
dynasty type moonshiners
type of situation it's a real life far better with music okay fuck it just a
genius guys who live out
in the desert who just happen to make amazing music and be completely retarded
and think they're
think they're a punk rock band no that's fucking great it's it's really
interesting what you're
doing i i love how you're you know you don't have any rules you just do
whatever the fuck you think
is interesting creative and mix the two of them together well i mean credit you
know credit where
credit is due when it when it comes to working with laura milligan and mike
king uh her husband
uh laura's just like she'll just go off on a tangent and i'll just just film it
you know and we just
kind of go with it so if you pick the right wig for the right tangent and then
you just go i like what
you did too or you're mixing different styles of music you're mixing like legit
country music and then
some of the songs sound almost like tool you know some of the sounds have like
you know your same
type of vocals that you would in one of your tool songs but it's just got this
completely different
extra vibe to it yeah i think i think there's a there's a lot of flexibility
just because we are
kind of a moving target so when we start to kind of get inspired in some
direction we're not really
confined to you know i love slayer but slayer slayer right yeah they're not
going to also put out a
country record yeah no that's kind of one of the cool things about i really
enjoy what you're doing
that you just do whatever the you want to do you don't you don't have a box
that you have to fit in
you're just doing what you feel like doing like i know what i never expect you
wearing a wig and
playing this character and i mean it goes you fucking you ride it too man it's
not like you just like
play it at the beginning no it keeps coming back and it's really funny shit man
it's really funny
shit thank you what does what inspired you to make like a half country half
comedy half you know i mean
it's like it's just this i think just watching you know we i think we talked
about this last time like uh
monty python movies right they're just they there's no you can't really pin
them down right
and like the meaning of life just you know it's that's kind of how we did this
new dvd is there's
a whole the whole documentaries at the beginning you know when you go out watch
the dvd again you can
actually skip the documentary if you want to but it was important to see the
documentary and see you know
billy d and hildeberger uh so that you understood when they came back up later
in the actual show
who the hell who the fuck is that right if you didn't if you didn't see the
documentary you don't
understand who those people are when you do the live shows do you play the
documentary first do you play
yeah that's that's our opening band that's a great idea man and the live uh dvd
that you filmed
was that in phoenix did you film in phoenix phoenix still repping arizona baby
that's where we are
have you seen the uh there's been a lot of camera trap photos of jaguars they're
starting to cross the
same paths from mexico into the united states that the uh the drug guys do jaguars
the cars no no no
jaguar is in the native north american giant cat yeah yeah there's uh there's
well we have like i guess
are they called pumas or they're the mountain lions yeah yeah the mountain
lions up around us but we
haven't actually i haven't actually seen the jaguars coming out yeah there's
not that many of them
they're starting to take photos of them on camera traps apparently a long time
ago they were native
species in north america now they're starting to make its way through your your
town excellent
indeed so uh is winemaking season over for you now yeah i just wrapped up uh
had a good year a lot of
a lot of interesting challenges a lot of stuff that came up that um i wanted to
try um stuff that was
going to give me a hard time kind of give me trouble well that's another
perfect example of you
just not fitting in a box oh he makes wine like like you just you don't just
dabble in it you have a
fucking vineyard like a full-time set of employees a vineyard you produce an
excellent wine a bunch of
different ones it's really good stuff you know what you're doing it's i mean
you just threw yourself
into winemaking yeah i mean that's one of those you know you could pretty much
read the back of a yeast
packet to figure out like what to do to inoculate fruit but you know to really
actually learn how to
make wine you just have to dive in you know you can go to i suppose you can go
to you know college to
to get all the nuances and be taught how to make wine with fear in mind but
just dive in and make it it's
really it's not that difficult to get over the first basic hump of like the 101s
of it it's not
that hard then you know after that then it's like the nuances the you know the
upper percent of just
intuition instincts you know do you mingle at all with the people in the wine
world like do you do you
communicate with other people in the wine industry and go to conferences i've
got guys on speed dial that
i know that are world-class winemakers from around the world and if i have a if
i have a question that
i think that they can that they've seen the answer to or seen that challenge or
seen that hurdle
i will not even hesitate to text or call or write or email or you know
something just to go okay so
here's the here's the challenge i'm or here's the thing i'm going to try and
based on you know the
kind of fruit that we get because the fruit we get is not like you would get in
napa or get in uh
necessarily get in uh new zealand it might be more specifically like adelaide
hills but not necessarily the
the barossa you know so there's there's you know different stuff parts of spain
maybe parts of
italy maybe do you do anything to your soil or do you just let it be what it is
no for the most part
you let you know you have to kind of give a you know give it some some food now
and then some kind
of nutrients that are that are not going to come they're not going to like
cripple you know you don't
want to give it steroids or anything like that but you want to you want to give
it something that it
needs if it needs a little extra dose of something so what do you do do you add
like minerals or yeah
yeah yes if there's something that it's kind of short on how would you know uh
you take petioles you
take the you know samples from the plant you take samples from the soil uh we
have uh for moisture we
take it have a pressure bomb that pressurizes the the leaf to see if it how
much moisture it actually
needs today wow and you give it like if it wants 10 you give it nine yeah that's
a thing about
the grapes for wine they're supposed to suffer a little bit right why is that
uh just it just it
just gets them stronger i mean you know you train jujitsu that's you know there's
suffering involved
you're not going to get anywhere unless you are pushed a little bit even as a
grape even as a grape
how many even as a celery joe even as a celery i i see i see now it all becomes
clear what how many
years you've been doing this now uh i broke ground around 2001 2002 uh made my
first wine in 2004
i find that absolutely fascinating i've never once heard of uh a rock star who
decided to uh not just
make wine like i mean i suppose sammy hagar has a tequila right how much is he
really involved in it
is sammy out there harvesting agave you know is he uh is he pressing it and and
yeah i don't know i
don't think so okay i don't think so he's definitely not doing what you're
doing man no no i mean because
you know for me i have i have uh my staff in the tasting room so basically come
to jerome there's like
you know there's a staff of people that you know of course rotate but uh we
have chris turner's like
my right hand man in the vineyard i'm not a vineyard guy i'm i'm in the cellar
so chris has his team of
people in the actual vineyard making sure that they all have their finger on
the pulse of what i'm
looking for in the grapes to make the wine we have of course our shipping staff
and you know the business
affairs managers and stuff but in this in the cellar it's just my wife and i it's
just us making the wine
pressing the grapes inoculating so there's not actually a staff of people in
the actual cellar
because that's my house wow so it's just us doing it so i don't think people
quite understand like
he can't make it it's it's harvest so one of his employees handle that there's
i don't quite think
you've been listening to me there's nobody in the cellar but me i mean we have
a couple guys i have a
friend down the street that comes up and cleans up after me i have a guy that
comes out at the beginning
of the season because i'll buy some new equipment that i don't know how to use
and i go greg make
that work he'll go okay i'll read the directions we hate reading directions so
i'll just have greg
figure out how to make that make that go how do you piece together a team like
when you decide that
you're going to start making uh uh your own wine you you get a piece of land
you decide where you're
going to grow grapes you decide how the do you piece together a team to create
wine it's like anything
else it's hit and miss you got to just figure out who has natural you know
natural talent toward it or
really are willing to do all the work if if they're not even naturally i mean
my wife doesn't she's not
a chemist but she works the lab she went i went guess what you're doing so she's
like i am so you're
nine years into production essentially but uh 10 11 12 years into this project
is it still challenging
for you do you still yeah because every you know every every year that i'm
making wine on my on my
own you know previous years like from 04 up to about uh 2009 i had other you
know people i was kind
of like looking over their shoulder and trying to be involved in doing it but
until 2010 you know
like part of nine but part of ten until i was actually in you know doing it
myself uh you're only
going to learn that way and so you know that's that's just you just dive in
basically wow and
now how many months out of the year does it take to do that and then the rest
you devote to whatever
else like pussifer or anything else you like doing anything else yeah um uh don't
even look for me on
august 1st august 1st to november 1st don't even look i'm not around i'm dug in
so for four months
you're gone yeah yeah do you enjoy that that you're committed to this like four
month project that this
for four months you're accounted for that's it this is your life yeah i mean it's
it's nice to know that
you know i'm gonna be sleeping in my own bed right and it's you know it's hard
work you're up at you
know i'm up at 6 30 doing punch downs and just checking things out and make
sure everything's you
know not you know something didn't blow up or i forgot to seal something so it's
leaking or you
know there's just those those tragic things that kind of happen in this in the
cellar that you look over
and the spout wasn't shut and there's like pinot gris pouring onto the ground
you're like
fuck bonehead move ran over and shut it this that it's it's such an interesting
idea but i love the
fact that you figured out a way as a musician to guarantee that you're home for
four months
you know like people don't know the musicians or comics aren't that road gets
sad man
it gets so boring and it gets so it gets it gets grueling your body just like
you know as you go
forward in time there's no going back in time your back doesn't get you know it
doesn't get strong