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From Rock Star to Winemaker – SantaCruz.com

“Maynard James Keenan!” they’d say. “Singer of Tool, you know?” Of course I knew. “He bought a house in Jerome and does all kinds of crazy shit up there!”

What I didn’t know at the time was that, no, my friends weren’t completely bullshitting me. The tall and mysterious frontman of Tool, A Perfect Circle and, more recently, Puscifer, did in fact buy property in the impossibly small mountainside former ghost town of Jerome 60 miles southwest of my of birthplace, Flagstaff. But he wasn’t dropping acid, painting himself blue and “stinkfisting” lucky fans like we’d assumed. He was, of all things, digging in the dirt, planting grape vines and building a winery.

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