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Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
Maynard James Keenan
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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
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Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
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