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This is the first time I've seen Deftones live since 98 and have been dying to see them again.
First, a quick review on the other bands leading up to Deftones. We got there when Bury Your Dead was on.
All I can say is they're a one trick pony and don't see them lasting very long at all (ie they weren't all that good).
10 Years was amazing. Their lead singer definitely has the stage presence required for a frontman for any
good band. Direngrey was up next. They sucked unless one enjoys watching a monkey on crack with a
microphone flip out on stage. At one point, he gouged out his mouth to smear blood on his face and chest.
Might have been cool if the music didn't suck. Next up was Flyleaf. They were great too. Stonesour was simply amazing.
Corey Taylor put on one hell of a show doing a hell of a job pumping up the crowd.
Then there were Deftones. They rocked the shit out of the place! Chino was on fire all over the place,
it was super intense. They opened with Feiteceira(sp?) and just blew the roof off the place.
I can't remember the set order, but they played Head Up, Passenger - Chino did great covering Maynard's
parts in the song, My Own Summer, Bloody Cape, Beware....of course, when they played Change, everyone
went crazy. They also did Hole in the Earth, which definitely sounds awesome live. Chino was totally into it.
They ended the set with 7 words which got everyone super pumped. The pit was so intense it took all my
energy to fight off everyone for my spot and still enjoy the music. A little dissapointed at such a short set
(about 30 minutes), but it was still absolutely amazing. Chino then came out later on during the Korn set to do Wicked.
Everyone went wild, it was so kickass.
That's it, great show, Chino and co. were amazing. Next time they need to do a longer set. Oh, Korn was good too.
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deftones
august 25th, 2006
the mark of the quad cities, moline, il
feiticeira
my own summer
beware the water
passenger
nosebleed
engine no. 9
hole in the earth
bloody cape
headup
change (in the house of flies)
::reading rainbow theme song::
7 words
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First i want to start out saying that this was my first time seeing the band live and man they
didnt dissapoint! I only regret not seeing them earlier! I also got to meet them after their set and
got an autographed litho too. It sux cuz im starting school next week but I couldn't think of a
better way to end my summer!!!!
DEFTONES FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Setlist-
-Feiteciera
-Passenger
-My Own Summer
-Beware the Water
-engine No9
-Nosebleed
-Bloody Cape
-Hole In the Earth
-Head Up
-Change
Chino started singing the reading rainbow theme song and then the crowd joined in and then chino
suddenly stopped through the middle of the song and made fun everyone who sang the song with him LOL
-7 Words (it was tight that they played my favorite song last!)
*After the Deftones set Chino joined Korn on their set to rap on a super aggressive version of "Wicked"
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The Family Values Tour, an all-day celebration of metal and ironic names, rolled into The Mark of the Quad
Cities, leaving the crowd of nearly 6,000 metal-heads not only wanting more, but partially deaf.
The festival lasted for nearly nine hours, beginning at 2 p.m. and wrapping around 11 p.m.; however, the crowd
was not too interested in the early afternoon festivities. They wanted to hear the hits, and headliners the Deftones
and Korn were more than willing to provide them with just that.
Korn emerged from behind a red velvet curtain, an interesting choice when one thinks of what the band had in store.
To juxtapose the curtain's elegance, Korn pulled out one of their grittiest, hit-filled sets to date. The crowd responded
to Korn's macho posturing with its own, as bodies flew around the arena to the rap metal that filled The Mark.
Korn, while not the most innovative or musically accomplished band, was a welcome change and end to a day and
night filled with musical highs, like the wonderful Deftones, and lows, like the nearly un-listenable set of Bury Your Dead.
Much like their tourmates Korn, the Deftones relied heavily on their back catalog. Unlike Korn, the Deftones
managed to stay relevant, even going so far as ditching straight ahead metal guitar in favor of a couple of slow
burning synth tunes. This certainly was the Deftones' night. The fivesome was in top form and the crowd ate it up.
Earlier in the evening, Stonesour, Slipknot frontman and Des Moines native Corey Taylor's other band, took the stage
for what turned out to be a bipolar set. With most of their set relying on heavy guitar rifts and Taylor's unmistakable
scream, it was a surprise to most in attendance when Taylor took the stage for a song completely alone: the band's first
hit, the soft ballad 'Bother.'
Suddenly the crowd was awash in the glow of hundreds of lighters, but the band quickly returned to form and was thanked
with moshing, applause and audience members' sneakers.
Other bands of note on the Family Values Tour were: Direngrey, a wiry group of Japanese musicians with a lead singer who
can peel paint off the walls with both his scream and peroxide-damaged hair; Flyleaf, a band so obviously affected by the
breakup of Evanescence they decided to become them; Deadsy, whose lead singer is the son of Cher; and 10 Years, the
melodic metal band, with an obvious affinity for Tool.
Though there were only three marquee-level bands on the Family Values Tour, the crowd and the bands didn't seem to mind.
The crowd united under the banner of heavy metal and through nine straight hours of head-banging became a lot closer, literally.
-Moline Dispatch Publishing Company, LLC
