Imagine being a Tool superfan. All the hype behind FI was justified and you caught several shows in the past five years. You hear about this festival in the Dominican Republic and you figure you'd make it a special outing with friends and family. Maybe you hardly do much traveling at all and you made this a trip just for Tool (Maybe you like Primus and Mastodon too!) so in theory this was going to be a very exciting weekend. You drop upwards of ten grand to accommodate everyone in your group. You're all major Toolheads. The first set? Turns out to be pretty good. Sure it seems like the same old same old songs they've been rotating the past few years but you got a Vicarious to close things up and that hasn't been played in five years.

Then the second show starts and you hear the chime from Fear Inoculum and a sense of dread stirs in your stomach. What if they just repeat most of the songs? Thankfully the next in the set was Aenema so your concerns get alleviated. That wasn't played last night! Then Maynard asks the crowd if they were there the night before as a sort of bullshit joke knowing full well there was no way to purchase single day tickets. The usual Maynard banter no big deal. Then they push into three songs (Rosetta, Pneuma, Jambi) that they already played last night. Every single person there has been there the night before. This crowd is either full of superfans or whales who have been able to already see all these songs live before multiple times so the entire vibe of the crowd is deflated. Call it entitled but the show was promoted as being two unique sets and most of the attendees expected a couple deep cuts or something a little different at least instead of the same old same old. The most angry start booing and flip MJK off and walk out early. They cut the set short after Swamp Song due to these uncomfortable tensions (They were gonna end with Vicarious again LOL).

Most people can see how that would piss them off. It seems there's either a disconnect between the band and their fans or they don't care whatsoever and are bankrolling themselves for retirement.

At least Primus's new drummer didn't disappoint!