A few weeks ago, we talked to Maynard James Keenan about the Sessanta tour — this strange, layered fever dream of a show stitched together with parts of A Perfect Circle, Tool, and Primus. When asked what it all meant, he didn’t blink. “You just do,” he said. No big philosophy. No TED Talk.
The Sessanta tour isn’t your typical lap around the amphitheater circuit. It’s a collaborative, non-linear performance featuring a rotating cast of heavyweights swapping spots, bending genres, and ditching the usual setlist ego-trip to celebrate Maynard’s 60th birthday. No openers, no headliners. Just a fluid, strange, and beautiful tribute to longevity, experimentation.
For those of you who made it out, we hope you did. Because this wasn’t just another night of guitars and smoke machines. Sessanta felt more like a ritual than a concert — it pulled you into its orbit and dared you to pay attention.
Photographer Vinny Candela was there.
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