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[vinsanity]

^^ that was a cool interview

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

couldnt find this posted yet. click link for the full interview. http://spinitloud.com/?p=405

Your role in the band has really expanded. It's not a traditional position like a guitarist. Can you detail your live set up?
I play the keys, use some Apple stuff. It changes and that's why I love this band. We change it up all the time.

Does your equipment change for each song?
Yeah, there is different software and different sequences. There are different keyboards. It also changes with the advances in technology. A lot of MIDI controllers, stuff like that. I have a lot of fun with it.

How do your contributions tie in with the other band members during the song writing process?
It all depends on the song. For the most part, we all get together in a room and try to make some noise. Then we build off each other. It usually works like that, but it worked really well with this record. That's why it was done in the time frame it was. There's no formula to it, some songs come faster than others. This was the fastest since "Around the Fur". It was really spontaneous.

So Chino doesn't come in with ideas and you guys flesh it out?
No one really comes with ideas. We get together and start jamming. It could come from a bass line or a drum fill or a guitar, it something we've learned. We let it come to us. Nobody has ever come in with finished songs.

The last album was really guitar heavy. Was that a conscious band decision or just something that Stephen developed in the studio?
It may sound clichéd, but that was just the headspace he was in and what he was writing. We never have meetings and talk about being heavier or returning to a previous sound. In fact, we always try to do different things and taking chances. We're getting pretty good at it, or should I say getting better at it. That's my favorite aspect of this band, not being afraid to go from the heaviest song to the prettiest song. Those dynamics are the best part of this band.

[Penicks]

i can't be the only one who reads frank interviews with an extremely low frequency voice

[MommaBear]

That's my favorite aspect of this band, not being afraid to go from the heaviest song to the prettiest song. Those dynamics are the best part of this band.[/i]

Agreed!!

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

so this wasnt posted yet? i stumbled on this by accident.

[mono]

That’s my favorite aspect of this band, not being afraid to go from the heaviest song to the prettiest song. Those dynamics are the best part of this band.[/i]

Agreed!!

+1

[Far away]

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I knew it. Thats why the giants won the WS!

[Menos el Oso]

Interview with Sergio Vega
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TswT5Dlok3Q

[Raswid]

Interview with Chino:

DEFTONES Black Carpet Interview

[RoyalDeftonicBoy]

I might get fired if they found out if Im posting this so here goes fast

DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno tells Billboard.com that the band is planning to spend the next few weeks working on material for the follow-up to 2010's "Diamond Eyes".

"We're going to have a month off [from touring], but in that month we're talking about going in and starting to write again, maybe even two or three weeks in a rehearsal spot just recording ideas and keeping it going," he said. "[The process will resume in September] so if all goes well hopefully we'll have some product for early next year."

Regarding what the new DEFTONES material might sound like, Moreno said, "Everyone has their own kind of little recording devices and are putting down ideas, but with a band like us we find that when we actually get together in a rehearsal spot where there's no distractions and we can work together cohesively as a band, that's really when we're writing songs. Even at sound check we'll jam and do things, but it's not like we ever stop and say, 'Okay, let's keep going on this,' because there's so many distractions. So we're not that good at working on the road. When we get home and we actually seclude ourselves in a little room, that's when it will start."

When asked about the status of "Eros", the album DEFTONES was working on with Chi Cheng before the bassist's November 2008 car accident which left him in a semi-conscious state, Moreno said, "We still have yet to even sit down as a band and listen to where it was left. There's a lot of great music on it, I know that, but... there's a lot of emotion and stuff around it, obviously. It'll be something we'll put out just out of the blue, when we feel the time is right, but I don't think that will be any time soon. Right now we're definitely going to write new music and put out a new record before we do that."

Read more from Billboard.com.

[Crazylegs]

why would you get fired. If it's in an interview from billboard.com i mean.

[mono]

true, this interview is all over internet now. thanks anyway!

[iceache]

Early next year will turn to mid 2013. XD

[defsteve]

I might get fired if they found out if Im posting this so here goes fast

Cheers. Hope you didn't get caught

[BillyNo.9]

It'll be something we'll put out just out of the blue, when we feel the time is right, but I don't think that will be any time soon.

[rock_n_frost]

Early next year will turn to mid 2013. XD

optimist

[skinnypuppy]

yep, agreeing, LATE 2013

[Inkblades]

Probably won't happen but it would be dope if they played something they wrote when they go back to touring.

[ponyx]

late 2013? Why would you doubt chino's words...

[BillyNo.9]

cuz they been touring their asses off the last 12 months XD A new album means more touring... which I cant, but will have to, wait for.