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Deftones LIVE
November 15th 2003 "Nation" - Washington, DC - USA
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I went to the show in Washinton, D.C. at Nation,(November 15) and it was
the best show I have seen there. Denali was great, They where the calm before
the storm. Poison the Well rocked hard and good, but lets get to the point.
The Deftones tore the place down. They started there set with a pink floyd cover
of "Welcome to the Machine", at that point me and my girlfriend fell onto the floor
from the force of the audiance we decide to watch from a different spot but before
we did the Deftones began to play "Bloody Cape" and we ended up getting trampled in
the middle of another mosh pit. We went up stairs. Here are some of the songs they
played in order . It was a blur for me so my apologies for not being accurate:
Welcome to the machine
Fist
Bloody Cape
Bored
One Weak
When Boys Telephone Boys
Digital Bath
Shove It
7 words
BQAD
Korea
Around the fur
Battle-Axe
(played after the Beer Devotion)
Head Up
Mx
Change
Minerva
Hexagram
Im Pretty sure this was the list, excluding some songs I missed and a mixed order.
Anyways, the Show Rocked Hard as Hell, and The Deftones Just like Always set the
venue alive. And Chino was at his best, With a Beer Dedicated to the audience.
He Did some asking of ages to see the range in the audience. All In All, I just
want to see Deftones again and again, There one of the Best live Bands out there.
They are how do you say of the elite.
secret20657@hotmail.com
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As their name hints, the Deftones tend to play at volumes capable of leaving an
audience deaf. That impairment, however, really wouldn't have hindered fans' enjoyment
of the nu-metal pioneers' dense, sweaty show Saturday at Nation.
In their previous appearance in the D.C. area, the Deftones opened for Limp Bizkit
and Metallica at FedEx Field. Perhaps nobody told the Sacramento band they wouldn't
Need the same, coliseum-friendly sound system at a club the size of Nation. All melody
was lost amid the decibel storm coming out of the house PA. But melody isn't important
to the Deftones' oeuvre -- crunch is. And the crunch level achieved by the hirsute and
fleshy Sacramento quintet inside the intimate, multitiered venue was impressive. Painfully so.
Though the Deftones occasionally meld rap with metal to get through a chorus, their
fans bristle when the band is compared with the more commercially successful Bizkit,
arguing that the Deftones came first, and still come harder. Guitarist Stephen Carpenter
hit drone notes and power chords that hung around as though he owed them money. Drummer
Abe Cunningham and bassist Chi Cheng provided a bottom end heavy enough to anchor a freighter.
But the centerpiece was vocalist Chino Moreno, whose assortment of growls and shrieks
come from some not-so-happy place. On the plodding, hypnotic "Hexagram," Moreno knelt
over the front of the stage, banging his own head to accentuate each shriek of "Worship!
Worship! Worship!" as fans fought over each other to lay their hands on him. Like many of
those inside the packed house, Moreno was drenched head-to-toe in sweat, and as the night
wore on, his long shorts sank further toward the floor due to the weight of his own fluids.
During the set-closing "Change," Moreno strolled atop a riser at the back of the stage and
struck messianic poses while bathed in blue and red lights. Not to exaggerate the role
bathing plays in the Deftones' art.
-- Dave McKenna (WASHINGTON POST)
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The show was sick ! The best yet, the nation was
small considering summer sanitarium. but any ways
denali was good but didn't really fit in, poison the
well was aw some and got me pumped for the
deftones.They started off awesome when they where
playing my own summer the crowd fell and i got knocked
out so my friend had to carry me out so i was super
bummed out that i missed the rest of my own summer and
i was delirious the for a few songs later but after i
gained some awareness, we where up at the front again
and i got some amazing pictures of the band and chino
6 inches away from of course. But the show was by far
the best and i was bummed cuase i couldn't meet the
band and i couldn't bribe the security guard to let me
through the fence so next time. Sorry couldnt get the
paly list for you guys
michelobe2002@yahoo.com
