Chino Nosedive

You can’t pick your fans, and you can’t pick your fans’ noses. But, as Chino Moreno learned on June, 20th 1998 (his birthday) during a show at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine, Ca., occasionally, if the timing’s right, a fan can pick your nose. It seems when Moreno dove headfirst into the crowd during the […]

DefMorphation

Morphation is the technology that some directors use on the making of movies or some other kind of audiovisual work. It became famous on the unforgettable Michael Jackson’s “Black and White” video. Since then “Terminator 2” or more recently “Matrix” also used the same technique to mix images, people faces are the main target. With […]

Chino played drums

Yes! Chino played drums when he was invited by Grady Avenell in a Will Haven concert. Who saw this rare moment said that he really did a good job. Rhythm took possession of him since he was a little kid. At age 12, Chino traded some of his skates for some funky latin-percussion-type drums, and […]

Chi similar to Lara Croft

Here’s a funny comparison between Chi Cheng and Tomb Raider’s heroin Lara Croft…

Deftones: ‘Living in me is so poor’

As so many bands out there, the Deftones are no exception. They’ve been robbed several times. Once was on the “Around the fur” European Tour while the band was playing a gig in Berlin (Germany), thieves pillaged the group’s tour van making off with camera equipment and CDs. The most valuable were video tapes containing […]

Defgame ends with ‘Elite’

For the ones that didn’t reach the end of the pac-man style game that came with the “White Pony” enhanced cd, I tell you if you end the game you can hear an extra track, that is “Elite”, played on a Deftones’ rehearsal. It’s not like the movie that came with the cd, but it […]

Frozen ‘Tones

It was a frozen day. In the middle of the “Around the fur” European Tour the band faced a setback when their bus broke down on the way to Stockholm (Sweden) leaving the group stranded in sub-zero temperatures until the bus was repaired. This happened just a few days after the Deftones tour van been […]