Concert0s Galore - Part Uno

Deftones - 6/4/2006

I know I didn't put it up right after like I was supposed to. Nevertheless, I shall get to it all in due time. Onward ho:

'Juna, Bretton, and I got to the show around 730 after dining in some seedy Jamaican place on chicken pockets and coco bread (which tastes surprisingly like normal bread, go figure). The opening act was Fall of Troy. My review of their set can be summed up in one sentence: "Thank god for earplugs, if only i could push them in further." So yes, absolutely spectacular. The last song (which they announced as such) was ten minutes long and consisted of four parts. Every two minutes they would stop and I would think, "Sweet, they're finally done." And they'd start the fuck back up again with their shitty distorted bass and arpeggios played in unnecessarily complex time signatures. As much as I love Tool, I gotta blame them for this kind of crap. Just because you can switch from 4/4 to 6/8, doesn't mean you should.

Nevertheless, Deftones came on around 9:15 or so, and which point the once tepid crowd went bananas. The opening with fieteciera was an odd choice, but the crowd got pretty riled up. They rolled through a lot of their early material at the start of the set, which was kind of disappointing. From looking at some of their setlists at previous shows, it seemed they were neglecting their newer, artier material for the more nu-metallish Adrenaline and Around the Fur. In a way, it makes sense, since that material is more mosh friendly.

Thankfully, they played most of their more recent material at the end of the set, by which time douchebags didn't really mask their need to push and shove people for no reason. At one point I was pushed into the center of the mosh pit and got my smacked in the cranium pretty hard (more of my thoughts on the pit later). Minerva and Bloody Cape sounded incredible and they picked a solid selection of songs for the encore. Considering I don't much care for the song, Head-Up was the perfect end to the concert--I almost went hoarse screaming "soulfly." All in all a great experience, which would have been better if I hadn't had the shit kicked out of me by dumbasses more interested in hitting one another than listening to music.

The Set List (from someone else):

fieticeira
my own summer
lotion
mx
beware
root
one weak
digital bath
street carp
knife prty
hole in the earth
xerces
mein
bored
minus blindfold
rx queen
bloody cape
minerva

Encore:

back to school
passenger
change
headup

I can't get my hands on the pictures for the show or any video from the show, but I figure some old concert footage and other shit would suffice.

Hexagram (live)


Minerva