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Deftones @ "Stone Pony"
Asbury Park, NJ - U.S.A.
21 Nov 2003
www.deftonesworld.com
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! That's pretty much all I have to say right now. Tonight's
Deftones performance blew the NYC performance out of the fucking water. First of
all the best part was THERE WERE NO OPENING ACTS...Yup, for whatever reason, Denali
and Poison the Well did not play...So it was pure fucking deftones....I got there late
and the place was fucking packed and the place is literally like 1/4th the size of the
Hammerstein Ballroom, so it was nuts. I found a weird spot right up at the side of the
stage near all the deftones equipment and shit but a perfect spot to view the performance
from the side...Well that was the best move i could make! Not only did i see the whole
performance from the side but I got to chat with Chino's right hand man (Monkey) and he
was absolutely awesome. He even gave me a setlist and a guitar pick. In fact, not only
are the Deftones themselves fucking awesome people so are their roadies and crew! Well
they opened with Hexagram this time instead of Minerva and the roof was instantly blown
the fuck off! They played a lot of songs and all of them were intense and powerful as
hell. They played Rickets!!! Abe kept
starting
the song a little offbeat and Chino was like STOP! He kept making a Silence of the Lambs
Reference saying "It puts the rickets on it's bones!"..haha
nuts
Second best deftones show I've ever seen second only to May 5th, 2003 at Webster Hall, NYC...
Here is the setlist as it was handed to me...
1. Hexagram
2. Bloody Cape
3. Fietciera
4. Elite (Not Played)
5. Korea
6. Battle-Axe
7. Root
8. Nosebleed
9. RICKETS
10. My Own Summer
11. Around the Fur
12. Minerva
13. When Girls Telephone Boys
14. Lotion
15. Headup
------ENCORE----------------------------
16. Change (listed last but played before E No 9)
17. Fireal (Not Played)
18. Engine No. 9 (Listed before Fireal)
ELITE was not played because Stef started playing Korea right after
Fietciera.
I think it was def supposed to be played cause Chi started gesturing at Stef to tell him to
stop and pointed down at the setlist but you know how Stef
is!!
He's in his own world so it was skipped...Fireal was skipped because it was
hot
as hell in that place and they needed to skip it and get off stage. Right
before
Engine No. 9 chino jumps up and says, "Do you guys remember THIS SHIT?"
They played
it and took off! Awesome...until next time...peace.
~Erik
(in #deftones - Iqueue) - (fireal574@hotmail.com)
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1.Hexagram
2.Bloody Cape
3.Fietciera
4.Bored
5.Korea
6.Battleaxe
7.Root
8.Nosebleed
9.Rickets
10.Summer
11.Around The Fur
12.Minerva
13.When Girls Telephone Boys
{Chino took a nap, smoked pot and talked about drugs, NJ and lotion in a bucket}
14.Lotion
15.Headup
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16.Engine # 9
17.Change
18.Seven Words
Asbury Park was out of a Stephen King novel, deserted and absolutely scary. The tickets
said "Convention Hall" but nobody was there, only some strange guy on the beach telling us
to go to "Stone Pony"... which was more like it. The place was an oversized bar, small,
smokey and hot. We got there at 8 expecting PTW but it turned out they were playing a free
show somewhere else and that this was an "intimate evening with The Deftones". Ironically,
on the back of the stage was a banner for Stone Pony with a "white" pony on it. Anyhow the
setlist was banging. The band played practically every heavy song they own in the tiny venue.
People were nuts and tore the place up, there were three pits across the whole place. It was a
great show, Chino was very active and jumping all over, on the floor, etc... it was a great live
Deftones show reminiscent of earlier days.
indigo394@optonline.net
