BILLY HOWERDEL Says A PERFECT CIRCLE 'Is Done For Now'
May 16, 2006A PERFECT CIRCLE guitarist Billy Howerdel has told MTV.com that he is not so sure what the future holds for the band. "We don't know what's happening," he said. "[A PERFECT CIRCLE frontman Maynard James Keenan and I have] talked about it lightly. A few months ago, it was like, 'If we did A PERFECT CIRCLE again, I'd want to do this or that.' It was a benign conversation. I think we both entertain the fact that it could happen again, but for right now we don't have any plans to do it again. We're focusing on what we're doing now. A PERFECT CIRCLE is done for now."
In the meantime, Howerdel has begun sculpting and recording material on his own, bouncing ideas off session drummer Josh Freese. He's written 14 tracks, nine of which he's content with.
"I'm doing the same thing I've always done, which is writing songs from the heart, doing what comes naturally to me and writing songs that wouldn't be hard to fit into the A PERFECT CIRCLE mold," he explained. "In the beginning, when I started writing this stuff, I set out to do something very different. But if this is going to be my main focus, I want it to be what feels really right to me, and not just a side project or whatever you want to call it. It's not a huge departure. It just feels like I'm working on music the way I always have, with the difference being I don't have my partner Maynard coming in and singing lyrics over it; I'll be doing all the singing. It feels a bit lonely right now, because you get used to something and you want to go back to that comfort space. This is making me look at music in a different way."
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