Song Spotlight: PASSENGER

[therealdaebat]

Title : Passenger

Album : White Pony

Music Video : None https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPn4Jlrjb0

Fun Facts :

* Chi: (About Maynard appearance) "Well, shit, it's amazing that he wants to work with us." So we were already blown away. Right on, let's do it, what an honor. We've always respected the way Tool has done things. Nobody goes, "That's new metal," it's more like, "Oh, that's Tool." It's indigenous to their own nature. He never intended to sing on anything. He just wanted to see how we wrote and give us ideas about how Tool does things, just because he's interested in bands. So we went down to work with him, and we already had the music for "Passenger" done. We were playing (while) Chino was out getting a beer or something; he wasn't in the room. Maynard was listening and he said, "Why put things in 4/4 when you can go 3/4 or 7/8 or something like that?" And then he just grabbed the mike and started singing, and it was like [sigh]–you know what I mean? And Chino had come back at that point, so they started trading off and doing their thing.We didn't ever really intend to use Maynard on the new album, because every band is like,
"Okay, here's our token celebrity guest appearance, our celebrity crutch for the album." We didn't really want to go that route. But when we actually recorded it, we couldn't get Maynard out of our heads. And I said, "Look, dude, just call Maynard and ask him to come in and do the song." So Maynard came in for two days: wrote, recorded, done."

* Chino: " Having Maynard perform on the record wasn't something that we planned on doing. We didn't plan on having any guest on the record. But being a fan of Tool and A Perfect Circle, once Maynard was involved, it was just a magical thing for us. Honestly, when he first started working with us, he wasn't supposed to sing with us. He was just working on the arrangements, riff structures, time signatures, and things like that. I don't know if you're a big fan of Tool's music, but they're really mathematical. I've been to their rehearsal space, and there's this big chart that just looks like calculus–the way they write songs, it's just crazy. It was good to have someone else who has different ways of writing songs, 'cause everyone has a different way of doing it. He came in and we started working on this one song in particular, and he just grabbed the microphone and started singing along to it, and my jaw just dropped. All of a sudden our band sounded like Tool; it was just crazy. Then, probably two months later, we went in to record the album, and I went in to record the vocals on it, and I just kept hearing his voice, this re-occurring melody with his voice coming over it. So I called him and asked him if he wanted to come down and sing on the record, and he had no problem with it. Once he came in, I gave him sort of what I wanted the song to be about, and he wrote a couple of ideas down, and the next day he came in with all the lyrics written all out with blank spaces where my lyrics were supposed to be. He's very professional like that. He wants everything set perfectly, which is the complete opposite to the way that I write, so it was cool. And then I went in and did my vocals over it, and it just seemed that our voices blended together pretty good. Yeah, it came out pretty good, so we decided to put it on the record. "

Remixes :

none

Covers :

*  Acoustic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4t4BhhUog

*  Odium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJ5pRF0h2o

*  Hailz Belz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUep8MTJbA0

Other Stuff :

*  Instrumental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivQ0ctNzr8

*  8-bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3pkUwBkCas

*  String Tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwYHNQimcNo

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Notable Performances

2000 - Vancouver - w/ Maynard James Keenan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvLj1VsdGuI

2001 - Denmark - w/ Maynard James Keenan https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lQfpVC8UV6A

2006 - Belgium - Worst Performance Of Passenger? Deftones - passenger (live @ rock rock werchter 2006)

2010 - Chicago - w/ Tim from Rise Against https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoZ9D37Ak0s

2010 - Luxembourg - w/ Hayley Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLr6umAh9g8

2011 - Arizona - w/ Greg Puciato of Dillinger Escape Plan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY0t8s949pE

2011 - Lollapalooza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp0hyIzF0pc

? - ? - w/ Spencer Sotelo of Periphery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soFCa3DYV1Y





(If you know of any more notable performances please comment and I'll add them)

[Penicks]

passenger at rock werchter 06 is probably the worst chino has ever sounded, put that in! i can't listen to it, feel so embarrassed for chongi

[therealdaebat]

The Vancouver performance is 2000, not 2010. It was also the very first live performance of Passenger.

You should probably add this (Roskilde 2001). Vancouver 2000 and this are the two only times Passenger was performed with Maynard :

Deftones & Maynard James Keenan - Passenger Live

Thanks! I've added it.

[therealdaebat]

passenger at rock werchter 06 is probably the worst chino has ever sounded, put that in! i can't listen to it, feel so embarrassed for chongi

Oh geez... added

[defTHE1s]

passenger at rock werchter 06 is probably the worst chino has ever sounded, put that in! i can't listen to it, feel so embarrassed for chongi

Oh geez... added

Indeed, the band sounded really good, but Chino was clearly not at his best here.