HOPE YOU WEREN’T TOO EXCITED ABOUT THAT A PERFECT CIRCLE REUNION

‘Cause earlier this week, Billy Howerdel sent out the below tweet:

Some are interpreting this message to mean “APC are breaking up again;” at best, it means that if APC are going to continue, it’s not happening immediately. Which certainly seems odd, given that the band has only officially been back together for less than three months.

Of course, there’d be no confusion if everyone would communicate with their fans in more than 140 characters. I know that Twitter, like a lot of social networking tools, is supposed to lower the barrier between artists and regular folk, but the amount of confusion it can cause is almost funny. Zach Shaw at Metal Insider points out that APC also used Twitter to tease their return back in August, but I’m referring more to incidents like System of a Down bassist Shavo Odajian accidentally blowing his wad about the reunion a little prematurely. I dunno. Maybe the lesson is just that publicists and publicists only should control Twitter accounts, but that would kinda defeat the purpose. The bottom line is, it’s almost a dick move to send out a tweet like this and not provide any clarification for fans. Don’t just leave us hanging, Billy!

Oh well. I guess the silver lining in all of this is that if APC are done for the second time now, Maynard James Keenan can concentrate on that which is truly important: Tool.

-AR