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I'll only accept reviews from recent shows! DEFTONES @ "Orbit Room"
Grand Rapids, MI - U.S.A.
28 Nov 2003
© www.deftonesworld.com
This show was fucking Sick. Well, Thursday and Thrice opened up for them and they
fuckin suck. Thursday played first, and the lead singer was swinging his mic around
like a fuckin ape and hit the guitarist microphone right off the stage. They were really
bad. Then Thrice came on, they weren't so bad but they still sucked and my anticipation
to see the Deftones was growing. Then the lights went out. I started to make my way to
the front so I could get closer, mind you the orbit room is a small venue anyway, the
place was sold out and packed. They opened with Minerva and the crowd went nuts. The
crowd started Swaying back and forth, just like at every show but people were going nuts.
Then they started playing hexagram and chino stood on the security wall and leaned into
the crowd and sang it. He was right in my face. After Hexagram the setlist order kinda
draws a blank. But I know Korea (fuckin sick) came soon after and so did my own summer.
I ended up in the back on the side so I could get a better view and not worry about
getting crushed so much. In the middle of head up, right at the break before the song goes
crazy. They stopped and called some kid up on stage and let him sing with chino through
Chi's mic. He didn't do that bad of a job. I wish it was me. The encore was amazing,
change, feiticeira, and then we all thought it was over. Chi took off his bass and abe
stood up and chino said thank you, and then Steph started 7 WORDS! Everyone went nuts,
chi threw his bass back on and chino grabbed the mic and they through this shit down...
After the show we waited outside by the tour busses for about 20 minutes and here comes
chino. He had to go change first because Michigan is butt cold and I am sure he was soaking
wet with sweat. He came out and talked to everyone and signed autographs. he signed my
Adrenaline booklet. Then as he was walking away I screamed "Chino, give me a hug!" And he
came over and hugged me. In all, The show was killer, there were no big song surprises but
it doesn't matter. They threw down.
Here is the set list the best I can remember it:
Minerva
Hexagram
Digital Bath
MX
My Own Summer
One Weak
Korea
Nosebleed
Mascara
Head Up
Around The fur
Bloody Cape
Good Morning Beautiful
Change (in the house of flies)
Feiticeira
7 words (Awesome)
Freakoverdose1@aol.com
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Well, let me begin by saying that this night (barring some unforseen freak occurance) will go down
as the greatest night of my life! It started out innocently enough with my friend bruce and me
waiting outside the orbit room's doors about 3 and a half hours early, I think we were like 6th in
line. My goal was to be against the barricade for the entire show, front and center for my favorite
band in the fucking world. Well, when the doors opened, I accomplished that goal. My friend and I
were chilling front and center throughout the entire show (except I wasn't there for the WHOLE show.....).
First up was thursday, a band who like a little bit. I thought for an opener they were pretty good,
but I agree with some people that their lead singer looked like a dumbass swinging the mic around like
he did. After they were through thrice came up, and I wasn't really sure what to expect. They played
a decent set too, but I was filled with too much anticipation to really give them serious attention.
After thrice finished up, and the setting up was done, it was time for the night to really begin.
The whole band was on the stage except for chino, and the fucking crowd was chanting chino's name over
and over again. Now I dunno what the band mentality is, but come on people, it's the fucking DEFTONES,
it's not just chino moreno. Anyway, when the music actually started they began with minerva, and it
sounded spectacular. Hexagram was next on the list, and this was the first song where chino came out
on top of the barricade and sang, right on top of my friend and me. he crouched down and was right in
my face screaming his lungs out, so I returned the favor and did the same. They followed up with digital
bath, Mx (which I was really pleased to hear), my own summer, one weak ( the first time I'd heard that song
live, and one of my favorite songs for the longest time), korea, nosebleed (rocking the old shit), mascara,
and then.........headup. The song started out rough as usual, and they played the shit out of it. At the
break in the song, I'd been singing the entire time, and I was pointing to chino as if to tell him, great
job dude, you guys are the shit. And he looked back in my direction, and I wasn't sure if it was me he was
looking at. Then he said something I'll never forget. "Hey, you wanna sing? You wanna get up here?" And
at this point I was looking all around me, I was thinking he had to have been talking to someone else, but he
wasn't. He then proceeded to say, "alright guys, pull him out, come on now." And everyone around me started
pushing me up, and over the barricade. When I got over, I was jubilant as fuck! I don't know if security
thought I was a crowd surfer or what, but they started ushering me towards the right of the stage, and I was
like "fuck, dude, I'm not going to get up there." And as I was almost past the stage, Chi's like, "come on
dude, get up here." I didn't need anymore encouragement, I jumped up there in a split second. While I was on
the stage, standing next to CHI FUCKING CHENG, the stagehand was telling me that the mic's chord didn't have a
lot of slack, so I couldn't move around a lot, and I told him it was cool. Chi was just telling me the
entire time "don't fuck it up dude." I don't know why, but I couldn't even see the crowd, I thought
I wouldn've been nervous as hell, but I was just in complete shock. I was on stage with the best band in
the world. I was looking over at chino, just waiting for him to start back up, cuz I was ready to tear that
shit up. Then I remembered I probably didn't have shit for a voice because of all the screaming I'd already
done, but then I thought, "fuck, this is the deftones, I'm never going to be able to do this again, so I'm
giving it everything I've got. Even if it makes my throat bleed." The song started back up, and I screamed
my balls off. It was the single greatest moment in my life, and at the end of the song I told chi thanks so
much and went to shake his hand, and he hugged me. I then exited the stage right, and resumed my place among
the crowd. they finished up with around the fur, bloody cape, and good morning beautiful (great song).
And just when the night was almost over, they threw out three encores, change, feiticeira, and 7 words!
I left the concert on cloud 9, and I'm still not off of it. I don't know if they let people on stage very
often, but I really don't care if they do, because it was something very special to me, the deftones are
the shit!
ozymandius1024@hotmail.com
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