Maynard James Keenan’s main band tool famously didn’t allow their music on streaming platforms until 2019.

He’s now admitted this was a mistake.

On the Allison Hagendorf Show Keenan said: “I feel like we missed the boat. Like it started with downloads, you know, 24 years ago, and then by the time we actually came out, downloads are done. We missed 20 years of reaching two generations of people to understand what it is that we do, in a format that, you know… I don’t like listening to the mp3 version. I listen to CDs and vinyl… “

“But that’s the gateway to get them into the vinyl and the CDs. And I feel like we made a mistake not being on those mediums for 20 years. Me every year, saying, ‘We should do this.’”

“Well, fans that knew about it. There’s an entire two generations that didn’t. That’s why [there was] the big surprise when we ended up bumping Taylor Swift off the chart for her second week. They didn’t know who [we were]. I mean ‘Who is this?’ ‘I don’t know who the fuck this is.’”

“But, I mean, that’s just, that’s the reality, that people didn’t know who we were because we weren’t around. My son just went finished law school, and his peers have no idea who we are. They weren’t exposed to it. It’s not on your phone.”