Post by IhateMana on Jan 11, 2020 8:30:01 GMT
James Herbert Keenan (17 April 1964)
Member Of: Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty (1986 - 1987), Tool (1990 - Present), Shandi's Addiction (1994), Puscifer (1995 - Present), A Perfect Circle (1999 - 2004, 2010 - Present), TexA.N.S. (idk, 80s)
Vocal Range: C♯2 - F♯5
{Vocal Summary}Maynard James Keenan. Probably one of the most awesome singers alive to be honest. Certainly one of my favourites and all. Take any opinions you want on him but there is no fucking denying he is a very capable singer. Being able to hit some of the hardest notes in alt metal while also somehow making his notes sound clean at as high as C5 in songs such as "Pushit" and "The Patient". However, while his high register is expanded quite well, over the years he has demonstrated to also have an awesome lower register, even singing entire songs on weighty E2s such as "Indigo Children". So idk what much to expect from him in the coming years with most of his acts releasing works about once a fucking century, but whatever he does, there's a reasonable expectation for it to maybe not be complete shit, and even if it is, Maynard's bound to give some sort of good vocal performance throughout.
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Significant High Notes
F♯5 ("Jerk-Off" 72826 demo, "Opiate" Live in Dallas 08/011993, "Stinkfist" Live at the Selland Arena, CA 06/08/2006, "Three Little Pigs")
F5 ("Jerk-Off" Live at the Jellÿ Loft 31/12/1991, "Rosetta Stoned")
E5 ("Crawl Away" 72826 demo, "Ticks & Leeches")
E♭5 ("Judith")
D5 ("Bottom" 1992 demo, "Crawl Away", "Hush", "Part of Me", "Passive", "Ticks & Leeches")
C♯5 ("Gimme Gimme Gimme", "Know Your Enemy", "Let's Have a War", "Opiate", "REV 22:20", "Stranglehold" Live in Kalamazoo, MI 1998)
C5 ("Bottom", "Choked", "Forty Six & 2", "No Quarter", "Paid For Lovin" AKA "Santa Monica & Orange", "Part of Me", "Passive", "The Patient", "The Pot", "Pushit", "Tommy The Cat" live Alpharetta 2024, "When the Levee Breaks")
B4 ("3 Libras", "Balls to the Wall", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Calling Dr. Love", "Does Your Mother Know You're Here?", "Dog Eat Dog", "The Doomed", "Eulogy", "Hush", "Judith", "Kashmir" Live @ Lollapalooza 2003, "Maynard's Dick", "Opiate", "The Outsider" Studio version / Live in Worcester MA 30/04/2004, "Parabola", "Passenger", "Prison Sex", "Rose", "Stinkfist" studio + various live versions, "Ticks & Leeches", "World Up My Ass")
B♭4 ("4°", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums", "Crawl Away", "The Grudge", "The Hollow", "Hooker with a Penis", "I Don't Have an Excuse, I Just Need a Little Help", "Jerk-Off" Live at the Jellÿ Loft 31/12/1991, "jimmy", "Man in the Box" Live in Seattle, WA 2005, "Money Shot", "Pet", "Potions", "Queen B.", "Rocket Man", "Silly Love Songs", "Sober", "Spasm" Live at Coachella 10/10/1999, "Undertow", "When the Levee Breaks")
A4 ("10,000 Days (Wings, Pt 2)", "25 Hours" Live on Public Access TV 1987, "7empest", "Bottom", "Bullet Train to Iowa", "Cold and Ugly" Live at the Jellÿ Loft 31/12/1991, "Crawl Away", "Disgustipated", "Eulogy", "Feathers", "Flippant", "Flood", "Forty Six & 2", "Gravity", "H.", "Holiday on the Moon", "Hooker with a Penis", "Intolerance", "Jambi", "Jerk-Off" Live at the Jellÿ Loft 31/12/1991, "Lateralus", "Let's Have a War", "Magdelena", "Mandago Lover" Live on Public Access TV 1987, "No Quarter", "Opiate", "Orestes", "The Outsider", "Part of Me", "Pneuma", "The Pot", "Prison Sex", "Pushit", "Reflection", "Right in Two", "Rosetta Stoned", "Schism", "Sober", "Stranglehold" Live in Kalamazoo, MI 1998, "Swamp Song", "Sweat", "Third Eye", "Tommy The Cat" live Alpharetta 2024, "Undertow", "Vicarious", "World Up My Ass")
G♯4 ("3 Libras", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Breña", "C.A.D.", "Dog Eat Dog", "Fiddle and the Drum", "The Grudge", "Judith", "Kashmir" Live @ Lollapalooza 2003, "Life of Brian (Apparently You Haven't Seen)", "The Outsider", "The Package", "Parabola", "Potions", "Rose", "Stinkfist", "TalkTalk", "Third Eye", "Thinking of You", "Thomas", "Vanishing")
G4 ("10,000 Days (Wings, Pt 2)", "4°", "7empest", "Ænema", "Agostina", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Bread and Circus", "Calling Dr. Love", "Conditions of My Parole", "The Contrarian", "Descending", "Flippant", "Flood", "jimmy", "Lighten Up, Francis", "Money Shot", "Orestes", "The Patient", "People Are People", "Potions", "Pushit", "Rocket Man", "Schism", "Silly Love Songs", "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", "Sour Grapes", "Spasm" Live at Coachella 10/10/1999, "Swamp Song", "Telling Ghosts", "Tumbleweed", "When the Levee Breaks")
F♯4 ("Apocalyptical", "The Arsonist", "Balls to the Wall", "Delicious", "Fake Affront", "Fiddle and the Drum", "The Gaping Lotus Experience", "Get the Lead Out", "Gravity", "Intolerance", "Magdelena", "Man in the Box" Live in Seattle, WA 2005, "Muhammed My Friend" Live in New York 23/01/1997, "The Rapture", "Reflection", "The Remedy", "Rosetta Stoned", "Sleeping Beauty", "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", "A Stranger", "TalkTalk", "Thomas", "The Underwhelming", "You Lied" Live Salival)
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("4°", "7empest", "Ænema", "Agostina", "The Arsonist", "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", "Bread and Circus", "Breathe", "Cold and Ugly" Live at the Jellÿ Loft 31/12/1991, "The Contrarian", "Culling Voices", "Descending", "Eulogy", "Flood", "Forty Six & 2", "The Gaping Lotus Experience", "Grand Canyon", "Invincible", "Jambi", "jimmy", "Lateralus", "No Quarter", "Over", "Part of Me", "Passive", "The Patient", "Pneuma", "Smoke and Mirrors", "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", "Sober", "Stranglehold" Live in Kalamazoo, MI 1998, "Telling Ghosts", "Third Eye", "Tiny Monsters", "Toma", "Undertow", "Vicarious")
C♯3 ("25 Hours", "Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums", "Gravity", "I Don't Have an Excuse, I Just Need a Little Help", "If a Friend", "Kashmir" Live @ Lollapalooza 2003, "Man in the Box" Live in Seattle, WA 2005, "The Noose", "The Nurse Who Loved Me", "Orestes", "Pet", "Sleeping Beauty", "A Stranger", "Thomas", "Weak and Powerless", "What's Going On")
C3 ("Autumn", "Bottom", "Bread and Circus", "Disgustipated", "Eat the Elephant", "Fiddle and the Drum", "Flippant", "Forty Six & 2", "The Grudge", "H.", "Hooker with a Penis", "Hourglass", "Imagine", "Intension", "Monsoons", "Over", "Right in Two", "Silly Love Songs", "Simultaneous", "Smoke and Mirrors", "Sober", "Sour Grapes", "Stranglehold" Live in Kalamazoo, MI 1998, "Swamp Song", "When the Levee Breaks")
B2 ("3 Libras", "Ænema", "The Arsonist", "Bedlamite", "Disposition", "Hush", "People Are People", "The Remedy", "REV 22:20", "Thinking of You", "Ticks & Leeches", "Weak and Powerless", "The Weaver", "What's Going On", "Who Leads You")
B♭2 ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "Breña", "Fiddle and the Drum", "Potions", "Sour Grapes", "The Undertaker")
A2 ("10,000 Days (Wings, Pt 2)", "3 Libras", "The Arsonist", "Autumn", "Blue", "By and Down the River", "The Grudge", "H.", "Muhammed My Friend" Live in New York 23/01/1997, "Opiate", "Parabol", "Rosetta Stoned", "Schism", "Third Eye")
G♯2 ("Bedlamite", "Calling Dr. Love", "Man Overboard", "Pet", "The Undertaker")
G2 ("10,000 Days (Wings, Pt 2)", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "C***ry Boner", "Fear Inoculum", "Forty Six & 2", "Grey Area", "Holiday on the Moon", "Lighten Up, Francis", "Queen B.", "Intension", "Pushit", "Wings for Marie, Pt 1", "World Up My Ass")
F♯2 ("Gravity", "The Nurse Who Loved Me", "The Rapture", "Wings for Marie, Pt 1")
F2 ("Breathe", "C***ry Boner", "Drunk with Power", "Grey Area", "Lighten Up, Francis", "Momma Sed", "Postulous", "World Up My Ass")
E2 ("Conditions of My Parole", "Indigo Children", "Know Your Enemy", "Parabola", "Vagina Mine", "Wings for Marie, Pt 1")
E♭2 ("Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums", "Drunk with Power", "Momma Sed", "The Undertaker")
D2 ("Indigo Children", "Lateralus", "Pneuma", "Queen B.", "Rosetta Stoned", "Trekka", "Vagina Mine", "Vicarious")
C♯2 ("Let's Have a War")
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable Notes}
"Used to be a bunch of assholes that lived in this part of the building here. But we systematically removed them like you would any kind of termite or roach"
B5 ("Hush" Live at Lollapalooza 1993, [3])
A5 ("Hooker with a Penis" [4] my personal opinion is that this is a C5)
D5 ("Lateralus" [2])
G♯4"Momma Sed" Alive at Club Nokia 2009. [2] I would have assumed this was just a studio backing track, but it's pretty unusual for Maynard to do that live, even with Tool.
G2 ("The Patient" [5b])
D2 ("Breathe" [4], "Eulogy" [3], "Stinkfist" [3])
C♯2 ("Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums" [4])
C2 ("DoZo" [5a], "Rosetta Stoned" [5a], "Trekka" [5a])
B1 ("Vagina Mine" [5a])
B♭1 ("Lighten Up, Francis" [5a], "Rosetta Stoned" [5a], "The Undertaker" [5a])
A1 ("DoZo" [5a])
G1 ("Queen B." [5a])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
(a)Controlled fry without enough mixed tone, misrepresents their vocal range
♭Dude is literally just speaking who cares
"Used to be a bunch of assholes that lived in this part of the building here. But we systematically removed them like you would any kind of termite or roach"
B5 ("Hush" Live at Lollapalooza 1993, [3])
A5 ("Hooker with a Penis" [4] my personal opinion is that this is a C5)
D5 ("Lateralus" [2])
G♯4"Momma Sed" Alive at Club Nokia 2009. [2] I would have assumed this was just a studio backing track, but it's pretty unusual for Maynard to do that live, even with Tool.
G2 ("The Patient" [5b])
D2 ("Breathe" [4], "Eulogy" [3], "Stinkfist" [3])
C♯2 ("Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums" [4])
C2 ("DoZo" [5a], "Rosetta Stoned" [5a], "Trekka" [5a])
B1 ("Vagina Mine" [5a])
B♭1 ("Lighten Up, Francis" [5a], "Rosetta Stoned" [5a], "The Undertaker" [5a])
A1 ("DoZo" [5a])
G1 ("Queen B." [5a])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
(a)Controlled fry without enough mixed tone, misrepresents their vocal range
♭Dude is literally just speaking who cares
{Discography}
Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
(1986) Fingernails: Câ¯3 - B4
(1987) Dog. House: allow the procrastination on this one lol
Tool
Studio Albums
(1993) Undertow: C3 - C5 - D5
(1996) Ãnima: G2 - C5
(2001) Lateralus: D2 - A2 - C5 - E5
(2006) 10,000 Days: D2 - E2 - C5 - F5
(2019) Fear Inoculum: D2 - G2 - A4
EPs
(1991) 72826: B2 - B♭4 - F♯5
(1992) Opiate: A2 - B2 - C5 - F5
Compilations
(2000) Salival: A2 - C5 - D5
A Perfect Circle
(2000) Mer de Noms: B♭2 - B2 - B4 - E♭5
(2003) Thirteenth Step: F♯2 - A2 - B4
(2004) eMOTIVe: C♯2 - C5 - D5
(2018) Eat the Elephant: A2 - B4
Puscifer
Studio Albums
(2007) "V" Is for Vagina: D2 - B♭4
(2011) Conditions of My Parole: E2 - G4
(2015) Money Shot: A2 - B2 - B♭4
(2020) Existential Reckoning: F2 - G2 - A4
Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
(1986) Fingernails: Câ¯3 - B4
(1987) Dog. House: allow the procrastination on this one lol
Tool
Studio Albums
(1993) Undertow: C3 - C5 - D5
(1996) Ãnima: G2 - C5
(2001) Lateralus: D2 - A2 - C5 - E5
(2006) 10,000 Days: D2 - E2 - C5 - F5
(2019) Fear Inoculum: D2 - G2 - A4
EPs
(1991) 72826: B2 - B♭4 - F♯5
(1992) Opiate: A2 - B2 - C5 - F5
Compilations
(2000) Salival: A2 - C5 - D5
A Perfect Circle
(2000) Mer de Noms: B♭2 - B2 - B4 - E♭5
(2003) Thirteenth Step: F♯2 - A2 - B4
(2004) eMOTIVe: C♯2 - C5 - D5
(2018) Eat the Elephant: A2 - B4
Puscifer
Studio Albums
(2007) "V" Is for Vagina: D2 - B♭4
(2011) Conditions of My Parole: E2 - G4
(2015) Money Shot: A2 - B2 - B♭4
(2020) Existential Reckoning: F2 - G2 - A4
