Today was the Deftones concert. Doors were at the insanely early time of 5:30pm, we didn't get there till 8:30 because quite frankly no one gave a rats ass about the opening bands.
They opened the show with Minerva, then went on to some old school favourites, such as Shove It, Around the Fur, then some Pins and Needles. It was a pretty good selection from their past four albums. Near the end of the night Chino took a minute to thank us old skool fans "Who have been listening to adrenaline for years now", he said this is for you and blasted off into Bored, at which point we proceeded to "tare the roof off the mother". From Bored they went right into an ear splitting rendition of 7 Words. When they hit the part of the song where it mellows, before blasting off into "squeal like a pig when you're, big fucking..." they inserted a musical interlude. An interlude in the form of a cover of Weezers Say It Aint So. It's not the first time I've seen them do that live, and regardless of my opinion on Weezer, I still enjoy hearing them do their version of it. After the interlude, they picked up where they left off on 7 Words, Chino yelled out "big fucking big fucking, AHHHHH!" and we all went nutty in that pit until the song ended. I think Chino was in the moshpit at this point, but from my point of view all I could see was the annoying 16 year old girl I was punching in the back for flailing her legs while body surfing(bitch hit me in the face[and this was after Chino said "hey retarded newbie kids that's not proper body surfing etiquette" - paraphrase]). Anyways after 7 Words they then kicked into a new song and I can't recall what else, and then it was all over.
To wrap things up. They had a really solid setlist, that lasted a bit over two hours, and I quite enjoyed myself. Of course there are other songs I wish they would have played, but alas when you have four albums under your belt you can't squeeze everyone's favourites into one show... unless you have a 5hr show... which I would not at all be opposed to. The last thing I'll mention is that I caught one of Steffs guitar picks, so YAY me : )