Initially unsuccessful, extensive touring, word-of-mouth and Internet promotion built the band a dedicated fanbase, as well as helping Adrenaline to sell over 220,000 copies without the singles "7 Words" and "Bored" (as well as their music videos) receiving any airplay. It was produced by Deftones and Terry Date, who would go on to produce the band's next three albums. The band's debut album, Adrenaline, was recorded at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, Washington and released on October 3, 1995. Carpenter said the name is intentionally vague to reflect the band's tendency to not focus on just one style of music. Dick Dale and the Deltones The Quin-Tones, The Monotones, The Cleftones and The Harptones). The name "Deftones" was created by Carpenter who wanted to pick "something that would just stand out but you know, not be all cheese-ball at the same time." Carpenter combined the hip hop slang term "def", which was used by artists he listened to such as LL Cool J and Public Enemy, with the suffix "-tones", which was a popular suffix among 50s bands whose music he also enjoyed (e.g. They were soon after signed to the label after showcasing three of their songs for Freddy DeMann and Guy Oseary. While closing for another band in L.A., after the majority of the audience had left, the band impressed a Maverick Records representative. Within two years the band began playing club shows and later expanded their playing territory to San Francisco and Los Angeles where they played shows alongside bands such as Korn. After playing with several bassists, the band settled on Chi Cheng and recorded a four track demo soon after. When Moreno found out Carpenter played guitar, he set up a jam session with Cunningham and the three began playing regularly in Carpenter's garage circa 1988. They were childhood friends and remained friends through the skateboarding scene in Sacramento.
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It has been reported that the driver paid Carpenter a cash settlement that allowed the band to purchase equipment, but drummer Abe Cunningham commented in an interview that this was "a myth about how our band was started."Ĭarpenter, Moreno and Cunningham went to the same high school. It was at this point that he began teaching himself guitar by playing along to bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death and Metallica. This left him confined to a wheelchair for several months. When Carpenter was 15 years old he was hit by a car while skateboarding. They have released six albums to date, with their most recent Diamond Eyes in spring of 2010. As of now, the band is scheduled to embark on a North American tour at the end of July, though those dates could end up being postponed or canceled because of ongoing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.Deftones is an American rock band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1988 consisting of Chino Moreno (lead vocals and guitar), Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Chi Cheng (bass), Frank Delgado (keyboards and turntables), and Abe Cunningham (drums and percussion). Just therapeutically playing together.”ĭeftones are prepping a new album, the follow-up to 2016’s Gore, that’s expected to arrive later this year. When we did reconvene as a band to kind of sit down and talk about what it is we wanted to do, instead of planning stuff, we were so happy to be in the same room together and just like looking at each other and telling stories about Chi, we just picked up our instruments and started playing. As time went by, Chi’s state was uncertain - he could’ve woken up one day, or he could’ve carried on as he did for a good five years.
I don’t think there was any instant thought that we would carry on, or could carry on without him. When Chi had his accident, our future as a band was very uncertain. In a recent interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 radio, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno spoke about the 10-year anniversary of Diamond Eyes, saying, “It was sort of a rebirth of us as a band, for sure. The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here) 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules'
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