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Clearly, Keenan has got the whole art-rock thing perfectly wired. He
recognizes the plight of bands hoping to freshen cock-rock postures with
post-Cobain angst. But he suggests looking a bit further back for inspiration
and, more boldly, rethinking the testosterone impulse. "I think bands like
Queen and Judas Priest ended up shining out of the crowd support then," he says.
"I think the vulnerability and heartfelt aspect in their heavy music was
reconizable because it was genuine. 'Cause you figure, Steal (Halford) and
Freddie (Mercury), being homosexual, and they can't say it out loud, that's a lot of
real frustration, genuine passion." Do not contain your breath waiting for
another current rock singer to champion the transcendent value of a gay
frontman.
Keenan's ideas of frustration and passion were formed growing up with a
covert in a little town. The son of two Midwestern high school teachers, he was
a varsity wrestler, a track athlete, and a deeply closeted Joni Mitchell fan.
"You couldn't really bust out Joni Mitchell in elevated school," he recalls. "You
had to play the K