There’s a Depeche Mode cover with the font used on the ‘White Pony’. That is called ‘Avant Garde’ font (Corel name). Coincidence I guess… You can check that cover |here|. (thanks to Ramon Bravo) Gus Gus, a well known Icelandic band, has a CD with the Deftones Ribbon font on it as their logo.|here| (thanks to Jeremy Clymer)

I read in Flavir Magazine a very old interview with Chino. He stated that before he went into music or skateboarding he got himself into break dance when he was about 11. Read this great interview |here|

Max Cavalera named his band – Soulfly – thanks to ‘Headup’ from “Around the Fur”. Here’s Max own words: Max Cavalera: “The name came up on the Deftones ‘Around the Fur’ record (..) we wrote ‘Headup’ together. On ‘Headup’ says SOULFLY on it (…) And when we did this TV show, I announced the name […]

Have you ever got autographed stuff from Chino? If yes, perhaps you’ve watched that he writes in a very funny way… He holds the pen with the back of his thumb!!! It’s damn weird how he writes! You can see a pic of him signing some stuff |here|. Also about Chino autographs I remember that […]

I read in Chi’s personal liner notes on ‘Adrenaline’ that the first person he thanked was – “The Almighty Spirit That Moves Through All Things”. I also read Chi’s comments about that: Chi: “A guy named Tom Brown Jr. studied under an Apache elder. instead of categorizing under one God-head, he saw that everyone was […]

Did you ever see the ‘Felicity’ show? There’s a character on this show called Sean. His real name is Greg Grunberg, and let me tell you that he looks just like Chino, specially his eyes and mouth.  Greg also plays a role in the movie ‘Hollow Man’.  I guess if I made a defmorphation of […]

The object on the Deftones’ first album – Adrenaline – ain’t a kid’s top, like it appears to be. That is an aspirator, used for babies when they have mucous in their lungs or nose since they cannot blow it out themselves. You squeeze the hollow air filled ball and place it into their nose […]