10 March 2025

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Los Angeles‘ infamous nu-metal junks TOOL
organized their own all-inclusive destination 2-day festival this past weekend at
Hard Rock & Royalton Resorts in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with several big
acts to fill the bill.

DAY 1
So far so good.

But some things went wrong on the 2nd day of the massive event as Stereogum reports.

The band promised two unique sets, but did not deliver. Some of their fans were royally pissed, and they let the band hear it.In their second Live In The Sand set, Tool only played nine songs, some of which were also part of their first-night set. Tool did not sell single-night passes for the fest, so these were presumably all the same fans hearing the same songs a second time. With travel and hotel, the weekend cost as much as $10,000, according to some fans on Reddit.

A fan blamed frontman Maynard James Keenan: “I’ll aways love the music, but I’ve never seen someone who hates the fans that made him rich as much as that guy.” Many fans pointed out that Keenan, on the second night, asked fans who hadn’t been there for the first set, as if he didn’t even realize that single-day passes weren’t available.

No Tool reaction so far.

DAY 2
BOOO!

Video of Boos and FU’s Saturday Night in Dominican Republic
byu/nathalyscheider inToolBand