David Bottrill was sitting in Maynard James Keenan’s apartment with the Tool singer’s cat on his lap when Maynard unleashed a blood-curdling scream. Except it didn’t stop. On and on it went: 5, 10, 25 seconds. Finally, after nearly half a minute, the noise stopped.
“I was sitting at the computer recording vocals, with Maynard behind me. I didn’t have a camera or a mirror, just this cat on my lap,” David recalls now. “He starts to scream, and it’s going, and it’s going… At the end, I turn around and Maynard’s on his knees, completely spent. It was the first take. Just one take, and that was it.”
