The following story is courtesy of Aidin Vaziri Sfgate.com:

Maynard James Keenan, best known as the reclusive front man for big-time hard-rock outfits TOOL and A PERFECT CIRCLE, doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would know the difference between a Riesling and Petite Sirah. But it turns out that the 44-year-old musician, whose latest project is called Puscifer, has secretly been a wine connoisseur this whole time. Now he's appearing at three Whole Foods Markets in the Bay Area to sign bottles of his Arizona Stronghold Vineyards wine. A Q&A; session follows:

Q: Do you still have time to make music between irrigating fields and stomping grapes?

A: "I'm still making music. We just put tickets on sale for a pair of shows Puscifer is doing in Las Vegas. Oddly enough, in my own mind, it kind of goes hand in hand with the winery, with what we're doing in a local area. We can work around harvest and winemaker dinners and pop out to do this fun show that could be a disaster or it could be awesome. It's the same as picking grapes."

Q: What kind of people show up to these Whole Food signings?

A: "Generally music fans, and they've been very well behaved, for the most part. They're coming for one reason, but then they actually come back for the right reasons. The first run-through, we had a lot of people there because they're music fans, but then they would come back because they had genuine questions about the wine and pairings."

Q: Don't you have an image as a satanic weirdo to maintain?

A: "Tool is not SLAYER. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns."

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