Before Chi Cheng filled the bass shoes in the band, there was another bass player. The Deftones’ first bass player was in fact a guy named Dominic Garcia (Dom). Dominic was Abe’s schoolmate and was invited to jam with the band. But Abe was constantly moving from band to band, so  Dominic moved to drums […]

In the White Pony enhanced CD right after you hit exit, (Macromedia’s log) you hear Chino’s son saying something like “take this” and if you listen to the Napster rant, you can see that this exit sound was taken off the Napster Rant. (mp3 runtime= 44″). (props to Abby Diaz) Possibly the Linus from Like […]

In 1999 there was a movie made called “The White Pony”. It was about a leprechaun that helps a girl befriend a magical pony. It stared Olivier Gruner who played the uncle. At the end the white pony goes into a light and turns into a women and leaves. It was a very touching children’s […]

I got more secrets for the enhanced White Pony CD: – Clicking the 3 in Worldwide gives you the Abe ballooning animation. – In the credits page (exit) if you click on these names: Mike Donk, Darren  Eggleston and Fred Croshal, you’ll have some exclusive pics LIKE THESE: 01 | 02 Some are rumored to be true but […]

Any time the color white is used, immediately there’s a belief it’s a cocaine reference. Is that the case here? Chino: “In a way. There’s a lot of different references for White Pony. One of them is a cocaine reference and there’s a lot of stuff…have you ever heard stuff like in dream books that […]

I got this one from the last Much Music Show with the Deftones (November,  2000). The chick who was interviewing them asked something to Chi about the reason why he studied feminism back in college and he answered: Chi: “I took everything that I was interested in college rather than following a format, so I […]

On almost all old Deftones shows and pics, Chino just holds his mic. But later like after he cut his hair he winds the wire of the mic around his hands and fingers. First I thought it was because he doesn’t want to lose his mic when he dives into the crowd, but I’ve also […]