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Title: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: Dryalex12 on Jun 09, 2016, 11:34 PM
My first experience was the Blackdiamondskye Tour. It was my first concert back in 2010, and i was excited to see my favorite band.....AiC. When Deftones came up, i was interested, but sadly the only parts I remember is when they played ATF, MOS and Sextape. After that day, I heard MOS on Pandora and i went to see what else they had. and that's how i got into them. I bought Koi no Yokan around the time AiC Released TDPDH.

What about you guys?
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: illthrowROCKS@U on Jun 09, 2016, 11:59 PM
Interesting...  That was a pretty decent tour.  AIC is okay, and I really like Mastodon.  I saw them on that tour too, near the DC area.

I first learned about Deftones from an exgirlfriend of mine in high school, sometime between WP and ST, so like 2002-ish or so.  She was a huge fan and so I just went with it, honestly not that crazy about them at first.  We broke up and a few years later (like 2005-ish or so) they came up in a conversation and I decided to look into what they'd been doing since.  Needless to say, I heard the Self Titled and I was hooked.  The following year they released SNW and it was just game over for me.  Those two are still my favorite Deftones albums.
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: ANattyRat on Jun 10, 2016, 12:34 AM
Came across some random dude on MySpace who wrote poems and one of them quoted a line from Beware. I thought it was interesting so I googled it, found the song, listened, fell in love with it. Tried to listen to their other songs but hated them. It took me about six months before I actually got into most of their music. It was a very slow process, especially with the heavier stuff because it was never my musical preference, but eventually it won me over and now they're my favourite band.
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: Penicks on Jun 10, 2016, 12:34 AM
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/95559 (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/95559)
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: laurapalmer on Jun 10, 2016, 01:03 AM
Hearing Change on the radio the summer of 2000. I was 14. Bought White Pony days later, it was all over after that.
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: Freedomsoldier17 on Jun 10, 2016, 01:11 AM
First heard Change on the radio when I was 7 or 8, must have been the mid 2000s. Although I was little, I distinctly remember the song when I first heard it. It was dark, unorthodox, and overall different sounding than other music on the radio. I wasn't a particularly active kid, as I spent long hours in front of the TV and in the house. But that song really got the wheels turning in my head. It was strange...in a good way.

A couple years later, 2008 or 2009 maybe, I was on one of my usual youtube video watching binges which could last all afternoon. I stumbled across a post-apocalyptic short film with Pink Maggit playing as part of the film's intro. PM, like Change, just captivated me. It was mainly the intro, those first couple minutes. Chino's whispering vocals, Steph's raw riffs, along with the dark, mournful atmosphere, I just loved it man.

Fast forward to March 2013. I'm an angsty and rather depressed teenager, had just turned 15, was having lots of trouble making friends, and was struggling in school. I was learning how to really explore music, and it had become an escape for me as my life got more difficult. I had stopped listening to the up-beat rock and pop punk of my childhood and was getting into heavier music, like A Perfect Circle for example.

I remember one day I wanted to listen to Change just because I hadn't heard it in a while or something, and looked it on on youtube. I noticed YT had a whole playlist of Deftones, and since I was figuring out how to "explore" music, I figured screw it, and clicked it. That's when My Own Summer came on. Now I grew up listening to some hard rock like Linkin Park and Breaking Benjamin, so the metal vibe didn't alienate me, rather it attracted me. From the start I dug MOS' menacing riff and Chino's vocals, it was like LP and BB but magnified and heavier. That entire playlist was filled with songs which would become my favorite. Bored, Be Quiet and Drive(which to this day has had a profound emotional impact on me), Sextape, Hole In the Earth, mainly the music videos. And I had fallen deep in love with the band.
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: chuckles on Jun 10, 2016, 02:27 AM
back in 200o-2001... heard Change & didnt like it at first but then my cousin gave me around the fur and the next is well...  8)
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: mothraw on Jun 10, 2016, 02:08 PM
a girlfriend of mine gave me a cassettetape of adrenaline 1 month before around the fur came out.
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Post by: pony_01 on Jun 10, 2016, 02:41 PM
it was 2001 when i first heard "7 words", then in 2003 they dropped "minerva" and that was the time when i found myself dedicated to this band.
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: mono on Jun 10, 2016, 04:43 PM
When Korn released Follow the Leader album, I asked it to my dad as a gift. In the record store, they gave him ATF cassette as a gift (assuming "similar" type of music). Love at first sight, and still my favorite album (with S/T)
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Post by: hockball26 on Jun 10, 2016, 05:47 PM
Quote from: Penicks on Jun 10, 2016, 12:34 AM
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/95559 (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/95559)

Dude...that fucking thing was intense.  Holy Shit.  One of my good buddies basically lived something like that.  Change playing over that was brilliant.
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Post by: hockball26 on Jun 10, 2016, 05:52 PM
It's hard to believe I have listened to them for coming up on 20 years.  I caught them first time on tour with Kiss in 96 in Chicago.  They really jumped to the top of my favorite bands after ATF and when White Pony came out and Digital Bath hit me.
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Post by: B_S_79 on Jun 10, 2016, 06:21 PM
Deftones opening for White Zombie/Pantera in 1996.

Then I saw them open for 311 in the fall of 96 which is when I really got hooked.  Then they played a free show at a record store in Philly and I've been a fan ever since.
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: loeir on Jun 10, 2016, 08:24 PM
Quite recently actually...

Koi no yokan was very well received by the press and other music forums so I figured, I'd give it a chance
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Post by: Papa Prune on Jun 10, 2016, 10:15 PM
1996. I was into death metal. In France a tv channel used ti broadcast metal clips during late night. Then they broadcasted 7 words and bored. At this time something caught me. So I managed to find Adrenaline at my local record store. It was a cool record but far from perfection. Then October 1997. I saw them live in France for their first show one or two weeks before ATF came out. The show was insane. other shows I saw from them never manage to catch the first one. Had a blast for ATF when it came out. And since then, it became my favourite band.
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Post by: RavinVsFlud on Jun 10, 2016, 11:19 PM
1995. "listening booth" of a local record store that had adrenaline available to listen. Was floored and played that casette tape ad nauseam in my old beater car. Saw them open up for 311 (during the "blue album" tour) a month later at Newport Music Hall. Their performance was fucking insane. Made sure to see them live anytime I can, since.
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Post by: wkcwkc on Jun 10, 2016, 11:42 PM
First time for me was on some Top 20 Hard Rock video countdown on MTV, they showed My Own Summer.   I was so-so on it then, but also very young.  Then a few years later when TRL on MTV debuted the music video for "Change".  That was all she wrote, been hooked since.
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Post by: nicklav on Jun 11, 2016, 12:26 AM
I heard My own Summer on the radio in 1997 when I was 11. Asked my parents for their albums for Christmas and that was that.
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Post by: darkomilicic on Jun 11, 2016, 01:00 AM
I heard Bored on the radio when it was a single and saw they were an opener on White Zombie and Pantera so I went to the show! The show started and the 1st band came on and I thought it was Deftones and they were awful....turns out that was Eye Hate God!! Deftones were next up and I saw what looked like a Lil Chinese dude scream and croon for 25 minutes and thought oh hell yeah and I've been listening every since!
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Post by: snw9 on Jun 11, 2016, 01:14 AM
First got a hold of Around the Fur. Saw deftones in Hit Parader magazine
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Post by: rainnyx4 on Jun 11, 2016, 04:04 AM
1995, a mixtape a friend played for me that had 7 Words on it. Been hooked ever since. My favorite band since White Pony.
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Post by: only pieces remain on Jun 11, 2016, 05:05 AM
late 98/early 99 sometime in there. seen the my own summer video (on 120 minutes or whatever the late hours show was on mtv that played videos back in the day) and thought it was badass with the sharks. music was killer too
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Post by: Lurid Vega on Jun 11, 2016, 07:26 AM
I heard Bored. That's it ever since. Adrenaline took a bit to get into but then I heard Around the Fur in its full. Favorite band since. Oh... ATF.....
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Post by: stepanas on Jun 11, 2016, 10:59 AM
There was some Tv show, where Amy Lee from Evanescence was showing her favorite video clips. One of them was Hole in Earth.

This happened almost 10 years ago..
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: krook on Jun 11, 2016, 03:08 PM
I was a fan of Static-X in 2010 when I found a track titled Static-X — Change. They just confused the band name. It obviously wasn't a Static-X song but I fell in love with it immediately. Then I found the real band name and started exploring their discography
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Post by: Hidalgo on Jun 11, 2016, 05:15 PM
around oct-nov 1995, i saw 7 words on "the box", a music video channel, and thought it was badass, so i ordered the cd sometime late that same year. so i been lucky enough to have been with them since adrenaline debuted
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Post by: E-Money on Jun 11, 2016, 09:57 PM
Grew up in SoCal listening to KROQ and they used to have this show on Friday night called the furious 5 at 9pm.. Basically they picked 5 songs that were brand new for the time.. I caught the show about a week before white pony came out and they played change. Absolutely blew me away. I was in 6th grade at the time and bought the record the next week the day it came out. White Pony was really the record that made me fall in love with music. It's still my favorite record to this day. That record was so far ahead of its time.
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Post by: fortysixand2 on Jun 11, 2016, 10:38 PM
It was sometime in 2000. I was a big fan of Tool so when I heard MJK was going be on White Pony, I was curious to see what they sounded like. My dad was going on a business trip and I saw the album in a record store at the airport so I picked it up and have been a big fan ever since.
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Post by: cvthedrv on Jun 11, 2016, 10:41 PM
bts on mtv 2001
Title: Re: How did you first get into Deftones?
Post by: deftoneseba on Jun 12, 2016, 10:07 PM
A friend of mine lend me ATF and WP back in 2000. I was into Limp Bizkit and Korn back then, so listening to WP was not a good first experience as I couldn't understand it at my 12 years old... but ATF did the trick instantly!
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Post by: HooiserBowhunter on Jun 13, 2016, 04:49 AM
When I first started using pandora I had a station that played Deftones on it. I slowly started to realize I was hitting the thumbs up button on all of their songs.  So I made a Deftones station and fell in love with their sound. It seemed so calmly violent I loved it. So I bought ATF. I then had a brief period where I listened to them, but wasn't obsessed. Then Diamond Eyes came out, and I loved it. Then Koi set me over the top now I own all of their cds.