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Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan says he had Covid-19 while performing in New Zealand earlier this year, the American rocker revealed today in a podcast.
Tool performs live on stage during the 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival. Source: Getty.
In an interview With Joe Rogan Experience host Joe Rogan, Keenan said he had been feeling ill, having lost his sense of taste the night before the band flew from Australia to New Zealand for two shows in late February.
“The food didn’t taste good, but this is all correct in hindsight, we didn’t know at the time that these are the things you’re looking for,” Keenan said.
Keenan said he had spent four days in a New Zealand hotel before concerts at Auckland’s Spark Arena “just trying to get over it, and it sucked, but you still didn’t know how bad this could have been.
“If I’d known how bad it could have been, I would have been freaking out,” he said.
Keenan said he had seen a New Zealand doctor for his symptoms, but had been told it was not Covid-19 because he had no fever.
“I asked the doctor, do you think this could be Covid? And he said ‘did you have a fever?’ – ‘I don’t remember if I had a fever’ … ‘then you don’t have Covid’ “.
He said the concerts were early but “it wasn’t fun.”
“We had to adjust a bit, don’t be hard.”
He was diagnosed with Covid-19 after flying to Hawaii after he continued to cough and noticed pain in his hands and joints.
Keenan also believes that he is still suffering from lung damage months after his recovery.
“Every other day, I’ll have a coughing fit, you know, for 10 minutes, coughing things up, so I still have lung damage,” he said.
A fan who attended one of the New Zealand shows tested positive for Covid-19 days later, becoming New Zealand’s fourth confirmed case.
