A Perfect Circle to break up?

2006-05-18 by Alex101 | 18 Comments
A Perfect Circle guitarist Billy Howerdel has told [URL="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1531791/20060515/perfect_circle.jhtml?headlines=true"]MTV.com[/URL] that he is not so sure what the future holds for the band. "We don't know what's happening," he said. "[A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan and I have] talked about it lightly. A few months ago, it was like, 'If we did A Perfect Circle again, I'd want to do this or that.' It was a benign conversation. I think we both entertain the fact that it could happen again, but for right now we don't have any plans to do it again. We're focusing on what we're doing now. A Perfect Circle is done for now."

In the meantime, Howerdel has begun sculpting and recording material on his own, bouncing ideas off session drummer Josh Freese. He's written 14 tracks, nine of which he's content with.

"I'm doing the same thing I've always done, which is writing songs from the heart, doing what comes naturally to me and writing songs that wouldn't be hard to fit into the A Perfect Circle mold," he explained. "In the beginning, when I started writing this stuff, I set out to do something very different. But if this is going to be my main focus, I want it to be what feels really right to me, and not just a side project or whatever you want to call it. It's not a huge departure. It just feels like I'm working on music the way I always have, with the difference being I don't have my partner Maynard coming in and singing lyrics over it; I'll be doing all the singing. It feels a bit lonely right now, because you get used to something and you want to go back to that comfort space. This is making me look at music in a different way."

Read more at [URL="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1531791/20060515/perfect_circle.jhtml?headlines=true"]MTV.com[/URL]

News Edited On 05.18.06

Tagged: A Perfect Circle

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Two-Headed Boy
May 18th 2006
4527 Comments


noooo!!!

TurnTheOtherWay
May 18th 2006
459 Comments


Yeah, like Maynard's gonna be busy recording the new Tool album or something...

Cravinov13
May 18th 2006
3854 Comments


APC use to be my favorite band. I havn't listened to them again, but they got me
into more 'diffrent' music.This Message Edited On 05.18.06

Adam Jones is GOD
May 19th 2006
113 Comments


I think Billy was always holding back his material until he had MJK on-board each time.

Now he's going it alone, at least we can expect more material that is of an APC nature, even if its not under the same name. Billy's voice may not be MJK, but the signature APC sound always came from Billy anyway

Honeymoon_Croon
May 19th 2006
297 Comments


I never did like APC... not sure what it was, but I just couldn't get into them....
Oh well, as long as Tool dosen't break up

montague
May 19th 2006
35 Comments


good. Emotive was crap.

slipknotlove09
May 19th 2006
6 Comments


Tool is a lot better anyways. It is good they are breaking apart.

Damrod
Moderator
May 19th 2006
1093 Comments


Folks, learn to read. There is in no way clearly stated that APC break up. People should know by now that projects that Maynard works on always go on longer breaks. Between "13th Step" and "Mer de Noms" were 3 years, since Lateralus 5 years passed.

I think you should all chill, and safe the chaos for a time when the end of APC is officially and definately. And not just a "We won't be working on new APC material now"

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RunAmokRampant
May 20th 2006
228 Comments


Emotive wasn't great although Passive was a good song. APC or not, Billy Howerdel is a good songwriter so I'm interested in what he's come up with.

FunkyMunky
May 20th 2006
43 Comments


I only really liked 13th step but I liked it alot

havnt heard Emotive

SaladTripp
May 21st 2006
32 Comments


it is better this way... mer de noms and thirteenth step were amazing, but then they just started going downhill... i agree, emotive was crap.

Acey
May 21st 2006
2578 Comments


only good song on emotive is 'passive', 13th step and Mer De Noms' are freakin sweet, Emotive isnt good.

alan_01987
May 22nd 2006
5 Comments


They introduce a new way of music, they made a perfect combination with the music and the vocals of Maynard, very inspirational music and lyrics.

Acey
May 24th 2006
2578 Comments


Then what CD are you talking about? it better not be eMotive, because i didn't like that one as much as the other two

prodigal_75
May 28th 2006
16 Comments


i wouldn't say emotive was crap....sure, it wasn't on the same level at all as mer de noms and thirteenth step, but considering the fact that most of the songs on there were covers, i think it was pretty good for what it was trying to do... besides, APC's version of imagine is way better than the original...

Acey
August 14th 2006
2578 Comments


i agree

industrialjunkie92
January 16th 2008
167 Comments


havent heard emotive but thirteenth step is just bloody brilliant. it always makes me get that big love feeling inside. it just so good!!!! i got into them in late-2007. a long time after APC left the world. hope they will come back but if they don't at least they've got two great albums to their name.

snasser
February 15th 2008
1 Comments


well commenting on this 2 yrs after the topic started, apc has officially ended their career together. i personally think that emotive was an amazing album, the reason i can see why most of you would think otherwise is because it's not really APC. all the songs on emotive with exception to passive and counting bodies like sheep were cover songs. and the vocals on fiddle and the drum were phenomenal. i wouldn't go as far as to say that imagine was better than the original by john lennon, that's pushing it, but it was an amazing album i think.




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