Tool's frontman made a sex-bomb parody so wild his label buried it. Now it's escaped.
Tool front man Maynard James Keenan teams with filmmaker Steven Grasse to create a new installment of the sex-bomb parody Bikini Bandits as a music video for "The Outsider," the hit single by Keenan's side band Perfect Circle. Aided by music video director Mark Kohr, Keenan and Grasse created a short that shocked record-label execs. The original cut of the video has finally been unleashed for Perfect Circle and Bikini Bandits fans everywhere.
Direction
Grasse and Kohr weaponizing low-budget exploitation aesthetics.
Production
The cut that made label executives physically recoil.
Director
Steve Grasse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'original cut' release was essentially a finger to the label, distributed directly to fans after years of vault purgatory.
This exists in a bizarre liminal space between MTV-era music video dominance and the dawn of viral internet content — too extreme for television, too polished for pure shock sites.
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