![]() ![]() I saw Smashing Pumpkins there, I saw Nirvana there. It was maybe a 250-capacity room, but we had seen many great shows there. “We played a show at a neat, local place here in Sacramento, The Cattle Club. What was the first ever Deftones show like? While Deftones are currently easing their way towards new material and settling down following the success of another Dia De Los Deftones festival in San Diego, Chino embraced the reflective mood. ![]() I didn’t know the history of that, but his nickname has since become ‘Linkin Mark’!” “And what’s crazy is that I didn’t know that one of our managers, Mark Wakefield, was in Xero as well. Their track Closing, released only on a compilation named Rapology, samples the Deftones song Root, their earliest point of connection. Before their counterparts released their turn-of-the-century breakthrough record Hybrid Theory, Mike Shinoda led an early line-up of the band by the name Xero, who had one demo to their name. It’s a time that Chino remembers fondly, although he didn’t realise quite how far back the link between the two bands went. When Deftones recorded their 2000 album White Pony, they brought Linkin Park out on the European phase of the tour cycle. But going back to the studio, it’s like a time capsule. Which is probably why it takes us so long to make records. We used to have some heavy, intense, week-long games of Risk. Everything was pretty much left as it was – and it’s cool, it keeps his presence there in the room with us at all times. Even his bandmate’s respective areas had been left untouched, including that of Chi Cheng, Deftones’ bass guitarist who died in 2013, the result of injuries sustained in a car crash five years earlier. A decade changes much, and Chino was quietly shocked to see the room exactly as it was 10 years before. Here, when the space was nothing but an abandoned warehouse in an empty part of town, they installed a half-pipe for skateboarding and recorded their 1997 album, Around The Fur. Last year, Chino Moreno and Deftones returned to write at ‘the spot’, their hometown studio base in Sacramento, for the first time in a decade.
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