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[sharinglungs]

I think Chi is Rumors.

[Timmy666]

i can tell you he isnt.

[sharinglungs]

i can tell you he isnt.

is it someone in the band?

[lithium]

I can't read it, I'm at work and they block loads of websites.

Oct 4, 2006

It was truly an honor to get to talk with Chi Cheng of the Deftones. I have been a fan of theirs for many years. The Deftones may be hanging out with the kids on the Family Values Tour but that hasn't made them any less awesome.

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Daniel Robert Epstein: What are you guys up to?
Chi Cheng: Doing press and hanging out in Kansas City. We're in the middle of the Family Values Tour.
DRE:
How's it going so far?
Chi:
It's fucking amazing but I'm a little surprised I'm doing a SuicideGirls interview with a guy.
DRE:
I am not a SuicideGirl, sorry man.
Chi:
I'm just going to fantasize.
DRE:
You can fantasize with me all you want.
Chi:
It's not gay.
DRE:
It's not [laughs].

How is it playing with all those kids at the Family Values Tour?
Chi:
It's amazing, everybody's hungry, fired up again. It's like old times.
DRE:
Are they nervous around you guys?
Chi:
We're old and frail, they don't want to knock us over. It is like when we tour with Ozzy but now we're the Ozzy.
DRE:
Are you guys trying to pick up some new fans with the Family Values Tour?
Chi:
Well it seemed like the right time for us to come back together with Korn. We've established our identity, they've been doing their own thing. Coming together again seemed like a really cool thing. I've seen a lot of fans that have been waiting to see us and I think we're also winning over some new fans.
DRE:
How long has the band been around now, 20 years?
Chi:
Almost 20. Since 1988.
DRE:
You guys have really embraced the internet.
Chi:
Right off the bat we were all for it. I'm actually really shitty with computers, so I keep a handgun next to it so I can shoot it in the face.
DRE:
Oh that'd be great, wouldn't it?
Chi:
Yeah.

So I'm not great with computers, but the idea of fighting the internet has always been a bad idea. I think it's helped ruin the business right now. They should have embraced it as opposed to fighting it.
DRE:
You guys even put a song on Myspace.
Chi:
I think a certain member of the band did that without anyone's permission or knowing. Maybe he was just trying to get laid. I'm not sure.
DRE:
You guys do not have trouble getting laid. Get out of here.
Chi:
Hey, I've been married for two years and I have trouble getting laid, buddy. Nah, I'm just kidding.
DRE:
What made you get married?
Chi:
I'm a masochist, I'm an idiot? I don't know. I didn't lose enough money on my first marriage. There were some scraps left.
DRE:
You got kids?
Chi:
Yeah, I got one nine year old.
DRE:
Can he play music yet?
Chi:
He's not interested in music at all. Absolutely no interest.
DRE:
How does that make you feel?
Chi:
I don't know. It's kind of a drag, but I guess that's how kids are. He's rebelling, he's probably going to be a meat-eating, bush loving redneck or something like that.
DRE:
[laughs] I was just talking to Frank Portman from the Mr. T Experience and he just wrote a book about teenagers. We were talking about how if I had known how many girls I would have gotten as the result of being in a band, I would have been a band since I was like five.
Chi:
Oh shit. [laughs] I think I've had a total of one year single between my two marriages. I've never been single in the band. I'm so terrible with women it's absolutely unbelievable.
DRE:
Was your wife a Deftones fan?
Chi:
Absolutely not. I would never want to date someone who knew what I did. I'd be too insecure and weird about it. I asked her what she thought I did and she said, "Apparently, you go to the bar and drink."
DRE:
How long have you guys been working on Saturday Night Wrist?
Chi:
It's ridiculous. We've been working on this album for so long. But now that it's done, I think that it's going to be worth the wait for everyone.
DRE:
What was the holdup?
Chi:
Trying to get certain members to do their thing was a very big holdup.
DRE:
What's the deal with these certain members you keep talking about?
Chi:
I don't know. You can't fly like an eagle when you're hanging with a bunch of turkeys.
DRE:
[laughs] So what was the inspiration for this new album?
Chi:
We're usually inspired by each other musically. So when someone comes up with something really cool, we're like, "Hey that's cool, let me try to add to that." We're really a meticulously hard band to write. It makes our albums fresh but it's a real fucking pain in the ass.
DRE:
Is that because of your personalities?
Chi:
It's a bit of everything, I suppose.
DRE:
How's your personality?
Chi:
I'm always hiding out, reading books, I'm a big fucking dork. I'm the ghost of every tour.
DRE:
What are you reading now?
Chi:
I just got The Hummingbird's Daughter and I picked up a bunch of Japanese authors when I was in Japan. A lot of Spanish authors are really doing a good job.
DRE:
Is it all fiction?
Chi:
Yeah, that's all fiction. I spent like ten years reading Buddhist scriptures and quantum physics, string theory, chaos theory. I think my brain needs a break, so I'm just doing fiction for now.
DRE:
[Deftones drummer] Abe Cunningham felt the last Deftones album was incomplete in a way. Do you feel the same?
Chi:
I don't remember the last one at all. I was going through a divorce. I honestly don't remember a single thing about it.
DRE:
It sounds like you just want it to go away.
Chi:
Well the end result was pretty dark. It's pretty good, pretty cool.
DRE:
What about this one?
Chi:
I was sober for this one. Frighteningly sober.
DRE:
What does that mean?
Chi:
For me being sober is pretty frightening.
DRE:
Are you off everything now?
Chi:
Yeah, I'm pretty clean.
DRE:
What made you decide to clean up?
Chi:
It was because I had gone through too many years of the same thing everyone else had gone through. I used to eat pills like skittles. Now I just drink a lot of wine if I'm writing.
DRE:
How was it working with [System Of A Down's] Serj [Tankian] on the track Mein?
Chi:
I wasn't there. Serj was on time and then they made him wait two hours. I'm sure that was a great experience for Surge.
DRE:
He's pretty calm, I'm sure he loved it.
Chi:
He's a fucking amazing person and a great friend.
DRE:
How about Annie Hardy on Pink Cellphone?
Chi:
Well I got all my shit done in three days so I've sat around for a year now, not knowing what was going on, polishing handguns, thinking about who to shoot. I admit, I heard the end product and it sounded cool.
DRE:
What do you do in your off time?
Chi:
It's just me, the wife, the kids, and the dog. It's kind of frightening: I'm turning into a combination of Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski.
DRE:
Do you spend off time with the other guys very much?
Chi:
The band is closer than we've been in a long time. We're in a really good place right now.
DRE:
Is the music scene the Deftones travel in much different now?
Chi:
We've always had our diehard fans which is nice. I suppose it's the same. I think the one thing that's changed is that some of our fans have gained a little age with us. We're still seeing the 12 to 16 crowd, but now the seeing the 30 year olds are there too.
DRE:
Are the girls still the same?
Chi:
I wouldn't know, brother. Is that PC enough?
DRE:
What's the next step for the Deftones?
Chi:
I'd like to take a fucking shot at blowing this band up. I'm glad we've always been the world's biggest underground band but I really want to sell this album so we're going to tour our ass off and play the best shows we can and we'll see what happens.
DRE:
Thanks for talking to me. I really appreciate it.
Chi:
All right, thank you. Like I said, you got pigtails and cherry red lips.
DRE:
Keep dreaming, man.

[pissedandpierced]

Thank you x

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