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Deftones @ "Hard Rock Live"
Orlando, FL - U.S.A.
10 Nov 2003
www.deftonesworld.com
This was my first Deftones show and it was by the for the most amzing experience ever!!
It is really hard to remember the order of songs, so this is in no order except a couple:
Minerva (first)
Root
When girls telephone boys
Bored
Hexagram
Digital Bath
Feiticeira
My Own Summer
Around The Fur
Lotion
Head Up
MX
Be Quiet And Drive
Fireal
BattleAxe and Bloody Cape
Change (encore)
Words cannot even describe how exciting it was seeing them live!!!
Chino had the crowd in the plam of his hand the whole time. I was only in the main crowd
on the floor for a couple songs b/c I was getting my ass kicked!! Im 5'2", but even my
boyfriend was gettin killed at 6'2"! Posion The Well I thought was O.K., but they werent
bad. The crowd was going crazy, but during Deftones the crowd was 100 times worse!!!
The lead singer of Danali I thought was really cool and had an amazing voice but there was
just absolutely no energy at all with the crowd. It was just an odd band to pair up with
Deftones. I am really sad that I didnt get to meet them or hang out with them but I did
get a couple pictures although far away. Only the kids with a pass got to go backstage
although I have no idea how they got this. I threw my Deftones tiger trucker hat up on
the speaker when Chino was singing on it right in front of me,(INCREDIBLE), and since his
eyes were closed he didnt see it, so after the show the guard found it for me.
in the middle of the show chino started slurring when he was up on the speaker and said,
"im sorry, way too much fuckin weed!!!" And the crowd went wild!
This was definetely one of the best night of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DEFOTNES FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST BAND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. Chino's voice is absolutely incredible live. Anyone that goes to a Deftones
show will walk away in total awe!
Christina
(RainebowVixen@aol.com)
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The show at the Hard Rock Live was my third Deftones show, and I have to say
that they have aged so well into this new millenium, and remain as relevant
to my very existence as they were when they first changed my life in 1998,
that I will never miss one that comes anywhere close to me. I am from
Jacksonville Beach, and took five of my friends on a 2.5 hour drive to pay
homage to our favorite deities at what turned out to be a rather moving
event. Since our fucking limousine driver flaked out and didn't pick us up
in time, we ended up being about 30 minutes late for the show and hence
missed the opening act, Denali. What we did catch, however, was a blistering
set from Poison the Well (who have played Jacksonville a few times that I
haven't seen) that really got the crowd in the spirit for the coup de grace.
From the balcony, the pit looked violent as hell (and we with facial
piercing aren't trying to have them ripped out by some thirteen year old kid
jacked on crystal meth) so we stayed safe as kittens but with a killer view
from stage right. A note here about the Hard Rock - it feels close no matter
where you are. After PTW closed their set (I won't be missing them again -
lead singer Derek has an amazing voice, our florida boys play sick beats,
and the whole is something that shouldn't be panned by anyone professing to
seek honesty and meaning in modern music), and after another round of
drinks, the house lights fell and the show began in earnest. What proceeded
was an intense, honest, yet playful expedition into deftones one of a kind
sound... one that meant a sort of family reunion for years-long fans and
newbies alike, with the majority of their set coming not from the
self-titled album, but rather a sort of memoir of who we all used to be,
tracks from 'adrenaline' and 'around the fur' still played with the same
searing passion that we've come to expect from these modern day heroes,
defying staleness and somehow managing to feel like the comfort of an old
lover's caress mingled with the electricity of the undiscovered. Then there
were the stage antics that can only be ascribed to their admittedly "smoking
too much fucking weed (chino)"... a strange interlude which immediately
preceeded that statement pits chino randomly moaning from atop the stage
left speaker tower with a tone engineered to mimic our blighted floridian
manatees "help me.. i have a propeller stuck i my head (abe)". There was
also the mock-prima donna/silence of the lambs reference, with chino
commanding steph "it doesn't open its mouth in the middle of a song!";and
abe chiming in "give me back my fucking dog!" Chino pulls a little '"puff
puff pass?" with the luckiest motherfuckers at the show
(backstage-pass-having louts - no offense, jealousy is a bitch) No wonder
they feel like our best friends - they laugh at the same stupid jokes,
making they who seem godlike approachable and lovable (like we weren't
already in love.) After an encore performance of Change (in the house of
flies), the inimitable evening concluded with everyone coming from behind
their instruments to file offstage, abe being attacked by chino's mic (and
striking the classic Karate Kid pose in self-defense), and an overall
feeling of disbelief and ultimately disappointment that the night was over.
Even though they played for almost two hours, we can never have enough. I
wish they had played 'needles and pins' or 'lucky you', but I'll have to
save exploration of what that would be like for my daydreams. Once again,
the deftones have done it: epitomizing the statement: "we are the music
makers; we are the dreamers of dreams"
Brooke - lovebitesandrazorlines@hotmail.com
