An older taper buddy managed to record all of their first stops in town. Just pulled these from his tripod.com (lol) "trading page". I'm sure they don't sound all that great but I've still hoped he would some day transfer the DATs, Minidiscs or whatever the hell he recorded them onto.

Deftones 12-07-95 35 G+ Mirage Club
Deftones 08-05-96 35 VG Target Center
Deftones 12-08-96 58 VG- First Avenue
Deftones 03-17-96 42 VG 7th Street Entry
Deftones 12-09-97 70 VG First Avenue

o we doin' b-sides & hidden tracks?

don't mind if i do!

oh yes

Saturday Night Wrist had great stuff and I'm sad Ero's never saw the light of day. The songs that leaked from those sessions were sounding great.

Heck of a show.

Ero's

Erro's

best half of tracks on White Pony and s/t would made a fuckin' great album

This should've been on White Pony, not just as a bonus track to certain editions...

Man, this is good. I've never listened to anything after White Pony.

well fuck, if you like that track definitely give the full self-titled a shot (+ b-side "Lovers," if you're so inclined :beatup:)

Koi No Yok is still prob my favorite thing they've ever done

Diamond Eyes is consistent and a great introduction but man Koi No just kills it w/ that atmosphere, those songs




those tones

I think I agree with that. Everything works so well. What happened to you is a stunner of a closer too.

I should get into Deftones. I've listened to most of their albums once each.

I wanna hold a Deftones listening party with a bunch of Deftones fans and get high with them and get really into the music with them.

Pot for around the fur and cocaine for white pony is what I’ve read works best.

But for real you should. They’re very good.

I listened to Gore yesterday and it is also excellent. Prob most adventurous since white pony maybe?

I'd rather not do cocaine. But if it's going around I can't say I wouldn't be tempted to try it just so I know what it's like.

I mean the record is called white pony

So, being unaware of everything post White Pony, I should dig into S/T and Koi next?

Self titled is kind of a grind

Diamond Eyes and Koi rule

Koi first. Self titled has some fantastic songs (there is a drum fill in Minerva that gives me literal chills) but it’s not as perfect.

God hexagram is such a fucking great opening track though

s/t is patchy but it would prob make the most sense for a dude who only heard White Pony & prior - after that tho, i'd say anything goes

Lord I just listened to it. My god.

You can prob skip Saturday night wrist. I like it but it’s clearly their worst.

By it I mean the Minerva drum fill

Is Abe the most underrated drummer in the world

Also can we talk about chino in the you’ve seen the butcher video.

Minerva is perfect

“Aaaannnd god bless you aaaaallll”

it's not my favorite but man does it have some of their best-ever songs

Hole, Beware, Combat, Kimdracula are way up their in my best Deftone tracks list

but yeah it does kinda lull in the middle, admittedly

The thing about anal sex in the middle is a seriously odd choice

yeah that's definitely a "one & done" segment, lol. some people really, really hate that track just cos of that outro - but hey, there's always the clean version!

I enjoy that song actually. But the anal part is a little weird lol

I have to check this out.

there are communities that call Saturday Night Wrist their best album so... who's to say!

I've been listening to Koi, and man, it's very fucking great. Production is v nice on it as well.