TOOL thrown UNDER BUS by festival promoters??
After Maynard James Keenan and co. began to face fallout over their disappointing sets at their “Tool Live In The Sand” destination festival in the Dominican Republic this past weekend, Reddit user “self.ToolBand” shared some insights into how the event took shape.
According to “self.ToolBand” – who happened to sit next to a staff member of the festival’s promoter Festification on the plane ride home – Tool was the one who made most of the decisions about the show and chose to advertise “two unique setlists” (a promise many fans don’t believe they kept).
“A few things I learned, and no I’m not just stirring the pot,” self.ToolBand began, writing on Reddit.
“They reached out to Tool to see if they would be interested in doing this event. That’s what they do with musical artists. TOOL said yea. They told TOOL that it’s their vision and whatever they want to do is on them and they help coordinate it.
“So TOOL: picks their set times, picks their setlist (naturally) and they all 100% knew that this was a package deal.
“And THEY are the ones that wanted to advertise it as 2 unique set lists. I’ve seen a lot of people try to put blame on festification. It wasn’t them.
“I don’t support the lawsuit thing. But it’s clear that TOOL absolutely f*cked up. I could go on a rant of all the things that could have been better but you all already know. Night 2 was the biggest letdown ever. Doesn’t even feel it was real how bad and disappointing it was. Plus MJK trolling us after the repeat opener. Saying it was going to be a special set. Unacceptable given the circumstances of how huge and special of an event it was supposed to be. People defending them are absolutely delusional. Especially if you weren’t there.
“Night 1 was great (even tho it was all recent tour songs). They had the chance to do something amazing for night 2. At least one special song like lateralus, no quarter, third eye, 7empest, eulogy, h. But they play over half of the set with repeats, play all the same songs from recent tours, include Cc trip as one of the 9 songs and f*cking end early. They were going to close with same closer as night 1 but didn’t even play it. So opening and closing the set with repeats plus 3 repeats in a row in the first half. I wasn’t booing or flicking them off but what in the hell were they thinking. Stop giving them excuses.”
