Send your reviews to: nunorolinho@gmail.com
I'll only accept reviews from recent shows!
Deftones @ "Hammerstein"
New York, NY - U.S.A.
20 Nov 2003
www.deftonesworld.com
DEFTONES ARE FUCKING AWESOME!!!! Tonite's show was the first time seeing the
deftones and by far the BEST concert i've ever been to! The only thing that
sucked was that our seats were in the mezzanine section so we were sitting down
in the balcony. How are you gonna go to a deftones show and sit down?!?! But we
had a blast anyways. Denali was ok. The singer had a really nice voice but
absolutely no stage presence. They seemed out of place with poison the well and
DEFTONES. Poison the well was better but i'm not really into their music. After
a really long wait the DEFTONES came on. they walked onto a red background so you
could only see their silhouettes and the crowd went fuckin nuts. I don't know how
chino does it but he was a ball of energy and was screaming his lungs out the whole time.
Everyone in the band went crazy and it was absolutely great. Frank was kinda off to
the side so I couldn't really see him sometimes. Great fuckin show!!! Would give
anything to go see them again!
Set list (in order):
minerva
bloody cape
be quiet and drive
my own summer
feiticeira
bored (with clint eastwood)
digital bath
korea
mascara
around the fur
hexagram
The Chauffeur (chino gave a shout out to his family, especially his sister...awesome)
head up
encore:
change
seven words
great night!
obeng. (deftonesworld.com rules)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well just got back from the Deftones show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. I left
somewhat disappointed for some reason, probably the selection of songs, but nevertheless
the deftones once again put on an amazing performance of the songs they chose to play.
I got there late and Denali still hadn't taken the stage. They took the stage at about
7:30 and the crowd responded pretty well. I personally did not like their music.
I couldn't make out one fucking word of that lady was singing, it was just incessant
wailing and moaning. They were off the stage by 8. Poison the Well came on about 8:20
and they were pretty explosive. The crowd gave them a really good reaction and man can
that lead singer belt out a scream. Their sound wasn't really clear kind of like Denali's
but the overall mix of their music sounded alright. They exited at about 8:50....
Then the Deftones took the stage at about 9:20...
They opened with Minerva and the crowd began to go fuckin nuts, but they got even nuttier
when Minerva ended and Bloody Cape started. They played a very heavy, Around the Fur/White
Pony setlist which to me was a tad disappointing, but only because of the songs off those
albums they selected to play. The only real highlight song of the night in my opinion was
The Chauffeur, which Chino dedicated to his sister, and their last song, 7 Words.
I was really hoping to hear songs like Lotion, Mx, Root, When Girls
Telephone
Boys and Needles and Pins as they had been playing them recently but it seems like we got a
pretty generic setlist. But that doesn't mean the show wasn't kickass cause it was powerful
as hell...They literally shook
that
place all night long...One more note, the band looked really happy and they were having fun...
They were laughing and smiling all night...EVEN STEF!! I'm seeing them again tonight at the
Stone Pony in Asbury Park, hopefully a more unique set!! Show ended at 10:45.
Here is the setlist in the correct order...
1. Minerva
2. Bloody Cape
3. Be Quiet and Drive
4. My Own Summer
5. Feiticiera
6. Bored
7. Digital Bath
8. Korea
9. Mascara
10. Around the Fur
11. Hexagram
12. The Chauffeur
13. Headup
--------ENCORE----------
14. Change
15. Seven Words
~Erik
(in #deftones - Iqueue)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The show kicked off at about 8:00 with Denali opening up followed by Poison
the Well. Denali was pretty good; they had a nice sound to them and Poison
the Well was ok. (Side note: a lot of people got screwed with their tickets
because the show was general admission but everyone just thought it meant
the floor, but if your tickets said mezzi on it meant u were seated up
stairs, I was one of those people but I fucking lucked out cuz I snuck onto
the floor before the whole show started "it was just fate") Deftones opened
up with Minerva and shit got crazy. The crowd got ridiculously tight but
that's what's expected at a Deftones show. Overall they fucking tore the
place down it was incredible. As they've been doing in past shows the set
list was pretty much the same. They played a lot of my favorite songs
including digital bath, The Chauffeur, Korea, Headup, etc. I felt they're
should of been more energy in the crowd (meaning people should of gotten
more nuttz to heavier songs) but than again everyone was trying to just
breathe. This is most of the set list but can't remember the exact order cuz
again I had to watch my own ass too.
Minerva
Bored
Hexagram
Bloody Cape
Headup
Mascara
The Chauffeur
Korea
Around the fur
Feiticeria
My Own Summer
Digital Bath
Change
7 Words
(There were more songs just can remember right now and again this is not the
exact order, and like always, Deftones = Best Band in The World)
chromedome151@hotmail.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------
the concert last night was absolutley amazing. this
was the first time i have ever seen them. The first
two bands were alright. Denali's lead singer was so
melodic at times, like it sounded like she kept
singing the same note the whole time. and poison the
well was so-so. deftones are better. hehe. but like
when you hear those first notes to minerva picked on
the guitar, you know that your in the right palce. it
was just an amazing feeling to know that im finally at
the concert of the my favorite band.
and when i first showed up, i was hiding a camera in
my pants, and i saw the security peoples so i decided
to throw it out, but once i got in there tons of
people had cameras. i could have totally gotten
pictures. but i wussed out. and my brother was all the
way in the front, he was between one person and the
stage. he could have gotten some nice shots for me.
but anyway, i was in sort of the back, but i was
standing on the base to a high columb, so i was a foot
taller than everyone. i could see the stage perfectly
from where i was. Heres the song list for the night. I
kept perfect track, so this is the exact order of
them:
Minerva
Bloody cape
Be quiet and drive (far away)
My own summer (shove it)
Feiticeira
Bored-in the middle of the song, chno started singing
that gorillaz song called "clint eastwood". It was so
great.
Digital bath
Korea-chino screamed before he started playing "YOU
READY TO GET NASTY!"
Mascara
Around the fur
Hexagram
Headup
Change
And their finale 7 words.
That was when everybody started to flip out for the
final time of that night. It was a truly amazing(once
again) concert, and I highley recommend all of you
that read this review watch out for when they are in
your town. They will completely blow your minds. They
fucking rule.
-camille
----------------------------------------------------------------
Denali kicked off the night with a smooth psychadelic experimental sound that fell
completely out of place with the line-up. She had a very pretty voice, but the band
looked pretty old and she needs to work on her stage presence. Poison the Well,
I think sucked, but then again, I prefer harder music (with the exception of the Deftones).
I didn't even bother moshing to PTW. But when the Deftones hit that stage, everyone went
nuts - especially me. There was a hot blonde chick in the moshpit kicking everyon's ass.
Only the Deftones can have that kind of effect on women - haha. Funny thing is, I saw her
enter the tour bus when I was outside and she waived at the fans as if she might have been
someone famous. We all looked at eachother and said, "Who was that?" Someone said it was
Celeste, but I don't think she would leave her kids and be moshing to her husband's band.
She was very pretty and must have been CLOSE to the band. Anyway, the show rocked. Chino
dedicated his rendition of Chauffer to his sister, who I think I got a glimpse of outside by
the bus. They finished the set with Change and 7 Words. No one asked for an encore and that
surprised me. I wish they sang more songs off the new record. It wasn't the best Deftones
show I've been to, but it still rocked. I wish Chino at least waived to us before leaving
the bus. We waited and waited and I didn't even get an autograph eye contact. I guess I'll
have to wait till next time.
Dalia
----------------------------------------------------------------
This show was my first Deftones show and I had previously heard mixed reviews about
their live show. I walked in a bit late and missed the opening act (with the female singer).
I caught the very end of it and it sounded like Evanescence on heroin. Not very cool if
you ask me. Poison the Well was in my opinion, your typical screaming emo-core bullshit
and it didn't impress me. However, for the crap music they play, they play it well.
Someone needs to inform the guitarist that he is not Angus Young of AC/DC. Deftones put
on one hell of a show. Most bands tend to speed up their songs when playing live, but
Deftones seemed to purposely play the material a lot SLOWER to get the groove going. It
created a mood like no other. Chino was all over the place and at every part of the stage
at some point. The whole show gave off the vibe that this band has come full circle. They
know they're deal and they are prepared to stand up to anything. It was a really powerful
performance. My favorite songs of the night were Hexagram and Digital Bath. Great great show.
Mike Lauri, Plainview, NY
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Chino Moreno, the singer for the Deftones, kept leaping up onto the barricade separating the
audience from the stage at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday night. It was too narrow to
balance on. To prop him up, a security guard grabbed his belt in the back, and some fans offered
him their outstretched hands in the front.
As the concert's lasting image, it transmits something of the temper of the Deftones' music:
Mr. Moreno seemed unstable up there, flopping between a controlled space and a melee. He was a
little desperate, a little self-abnegating, a little reckless, a little sleepy.
Across four albums, the Deftones have made a slow march into a swirly, destabilized music,
giving up along the way the basic new-metal thrash that got them signed to a major label (Maverick).
A new-style Deftones song - "Hexagram" and "Minerva" from the band's new self-titled album,
are two of the best, and were both played on Thursday - starts gently with an unusual chord,
leaving a few strings open to ring with dissonance, and suddenly detonates with distortion.
Bass and drums start a slow groove, and Mr. Moreno rips away with his hyena yells and long-note
croons about numbness, stamping out a melody over harmonic irresolution.
The band has become concerned with issues of overall sound; for all the moments that they
slipped back into their older, hard-bitten rhythm, they're pointing toward a fragile and
ethereal new aesthetic.
The performance wasn't up to the level of the new album - the band couldn't quite calibrate
the swirl with the Hammerstein's high ceiling - and Mr. Moreno's struggle to present his own
complexities of hard and soft character traits is still a work in progress.
He doesn't fit the new rock categories: his persona isn't that of a dandelion, a headbanger,
a Korn-style paranoid voluptuary or a Linkin Park-style earnest young man. But there's something
about this ambiguity that works in his and the group's favor. They're riding their own
evolutionary wave.
By BEN RATLIFF
The New York Times
