Deftones pictures, interviews, magazine scans.

[Vesanic]

Zildjian Behind the Scenes - Abe Cunningham (Deftones)

Sound Service: ESP Guitars Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) Interview 2011.mp4

[sing blue silver]

DEFTONES Interview at Revolver Golden Gods 2011 on Metal Injection

[from_musings]

Didn't know Abe could be so chatty, yet not being able to name favorite drummers, music or football teams...

when stef in an interview was asked to describe the other members in the band he said "indecisive" about Abe, geuss that's the way he is.  (chino was highly emotional,cheng level-headed, frank mellow, and stef called himself mr know it all) however, is it so damn hard to stand behind an opinion? Abe's kind of irritating when he's like that i think 

[Vesanic]

Just so you know, the Chilean interview deal is not dead, I just don't have the right to post it before they do, and apparently, they still haven't, so it's not up to me.

[from_musings]

Just so you know, the Chilean interview deal is not dead, I just don't have the right to post it before they do, and apparently, they still haven't, so it's not up to me.

wow cool. tell them to post it already    do you know if some of the questions here got asked? 

[Vesanic]

I watched it only once and you couldn't hear shit... Actually, the thing was filmed with a digcam but the guy was also recording the words with his iPhone, I'm waiting for that source to hear what's actually been said... But I know all the questions I put in the final post got answered. Or maybe except one, but I'm not sure.

[from_musings]

alright. guess i go into patience mode again 

[sing blue silver]

I watched it only once and you couldn't hear shit... Actually, the thing was filmed with a digcam but the guy was also recording the words with his iPhone, I'm waiting for that source to hear what's actually been said... But I know all the questions I put in the final post got answered. Or maybe except one, but I'm not sure.

Good to hear. Looking forward to hearing some fan questions answered instead of the same old shit!

[Vesanic]

Interview of Frank on the phone, on May 27th, before their show in Louisville.

http://soundcloud.com/thescuttlebutthour-com/frank-delgado-of-deftones-5-27#new-timed-comment-at-386962

[from_musings]

deftone's been around since 1995? who the hell wrote like linus then?

another single? please not beauty school, please not beauty school

[slyartwork]

What a noob. 'You've been around since 1995....'
Like Linus and all other demo songs you mean... 

[yeah]

what's up guys?!

[Vesanic]

Little article with Abe and Chino, posted today:

http://newsok.com/deftones-tour-behind-pretty-powerful-album/article/3572781

[from_musings]

Like Linus and all other demo songs you mean... 

no,why would i need more than one example to prove it. one is perfectly enough, don't over do it

[Vesanic]

Chino Moreno- Deftones Pre-Show Interview at the AT&T Center

[Vesanic]

http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jun/03/deftones-turn-crises-opportunitiesto-make-great-mu/?print=1


Deftones turn crises into opportunitiesto make great music

By Alan Sculley/Special to the Caller-Times

Friday, June 3, 2011

CORPUS CHRISTI — Few people would have blamed the Deftones if the group's latest CD, "Diamond Eyes," had been a dark and depressing album. The fact is, much of the past decade has not been kind to the group.

First, there was the long and difficult ordeal that was the making of the group's 2006 CD, "Saturday Night Wrist," a project that began more than three years earlier and saw tensions in the band reach a point where the group nearly fractured.

Then in November 2008, bassist Chi Cheng was left in a coma from injuries suffered in an auto accident. He survived the accident and has made some progress in his recovery.

"He's out of his coma, but he's still in a semiconscious state, which means he wakes up and he sleeps, like a pattern that he opens his eyes and things like that. But he has yet to really communicate yet," Deftones singer Chino Moreno reported in a recent phone interview.

Another positive development, according to Deftones deejay/keyboardist Frank Delgado is that Cheng was recently moved from the West Coast to New Jersey, where he is now under the care of a specialist that has had a high success rate in working with patients that have suffered head trauma.

Along with Cheng's situation, the group shelved a CD that was nearly finished before Cheng's accident — called "Eros." Some wondered if this meant the Deftones had given up on the band as a whole.

Instead the band — with longtime friend Sergio Vega stepping in on bass — rebounded by regrouping and making "Diamond Eyes." And far from sounding dispirited, the band sounds energized on the CD, and its lyrical direction is decidedly positive. Moreno said that mood was not an accident, nor was it unintended.

"I think it was expected from everybody that we were just going to go with this dark record, with this sad record and this kind of pity kind of record, where at this point, I feel like although this happened to us, there are so many worse things (to go through)," the vocalist said. "It's like I felt kind of empowered to show that life is going to go on, and Chi is going to fight and we're just going to make some badass music."

Given the turmoil that marked "Saturday Night Wrist" and the loss of Cheng, there was plenty of speculation that the Deftones would simply pack it in as a band.

But Moreno said there were never any sentiments voiced within the band (the other members are drummer Abe Cunningham and guitarist Stephen Carpenter) for ending the Deftones.

"We sat around and talked about Chi for a good couple of hours, but not really about what we planned on doing as a band," Moreno said of a key band meeting.

"It's like we sat there and talked, and everybody got a lot of things off of their chests, their thoughts and what we were thinking about Chi. And when we were done with that, everybody just gravitated toward their instruments and picked them up and we started to play together. And that was, I think, the most therapeutic thing at the time for us to do."

In fact, it took only months to finish "Diamond Eyes," and Moreno feels the Deftones recaptured the energy and attitude that existed in the band in its early years, when the band (which formed in 1988 in Los Angeles) made its early albums "Adrenaline" (1995) and "Around The Fur" (1997).

The CD as a whole possesses the signatures that made "Around The Fur" (and the Deftones music in general) stand out in the first place — the mix of thick angular guitar riffs melting into melodic choruses, coupled with a fierce rhythmic attack and fierce vocals powering many of the songs through the verses. The group, though, sounds especially inspired on "Diamond Eyes," delivering passionate performances and some of its strongest songwriting on tracks like "Royal," "You've Seen The Butcher" and "Prince."

Delgado said the band has gotten a good response to "Diamond Eyes," and the popularity of the album is apparent in the fact that a year after the release of the CD, the band is doing a full headlining tour this spring and summer. Fans headed out to Concrete Street Amphitheater can expect a show that runs upward of two hours.

"We're going to try to pull out a little more songs that we haven't really been playing for a while," Delgado said. "And we're not always fond of playing the same sets everywhere we go every time we go through. So we try to change it up as much as we can. And I think a thing we're known for is we pretty much write our sets last second, so it's kind of a surprise to us sometimes."

[Balthazard]

is it me or at this point all these interviews kinda sound the same ?

[Penicks]

yup, because they're the same questions over and over and over and over and over

[Starz]

Needs more questions about S/T imo

[Penicks]

you think so? there's something so mystical/mysterious about that era that it's part of its appeal in my opinion