deftones: white pony

Terry Date, producer: I didn’t want them to feel stifled by one person. I wanted to make sure that if they go in a different direction with someone else, I’d be happy with that. It was a conversation [Soundgarden singer/guitarist] Chris Cornell and I had once or twice. [Cornell] didn’t think it was healthy for a band to work with the same person too much.

Cunningham: We did meet with Jerry Harrison from Talking Heads, and Rick Rubin. Rick would come out to our shows over the years, but he would just call us “The Tones,” you know, because he had that whole funeral thing for the word “def.” He wouldn’t say the word “def.”

the more I read about Rick Rubin the more he seems like the most annoying person alive

so basically, bullet dodged

man, this is a corny old opinion of mine. slipknot s/t loses momentum in the second half but so much of it is great

Yeah, but you are still otm about Iowa being 100000x better.

Carpenter: Fools got wasted. Did Abe tell you about stabbing himself in the head?

Cunningham: I got stabbed in the head.

Carpenter: I wasn’t there when it happened. It was days later, and they were talking about it. Abe was laying in bed, and he just rolled onto a knife somehow. I was like, “How does that even happen?” I know of the physical action of stabbing, but I was like, “Holy shit, dog, you could have killed yourself.”

they are such morons I love them

Rodleen Getsic, “Knife Party” guest vocalist: I had gone [to Larrabee Studios] because a friend of mine and amazing bass player, Rob Wasserman, was doing his solo record. I was going to check out his recordings.

There was this lounge/greenroom-type area upstairs at Larrabee, and everyone was taking a break. Someone put in a cassette recording of a show I had just played in San Francisco. Chino heard it and brought me aside and said, “Hey, will you sing on our record?” I said, “Well, I’m sure it’s possible. If it hits my soul, I can do it.”

When I heard the band name, Deftones, I seriously thought it was going to be a ska band or reggae.

They started playing a little bit of the song, and right away, I was like, “Stop it, let’s press Record. Let’s go.” I was feeling the song right away in my soul. I knew something was going to come out of it. It wasn’t very long in the recording booth. It was improvisational and spontaneous. It was just a few takes. It all happened very quickly.

20 years old today

Chino is also 47 today. Is it weird to release your major album on your birthday? It's like getting married on the day you started dating.

I think it's great that one of the very best singers in rock is also a massive fuckin dork

De Stijl by the White Stripes, Rising Tide by Sunny Day Real Estate, Quality Control by J5, Anarchy by Busta, Domestica by Cursive, One Wrench by Avail, and the Deftones' White Pony all dropped on the same day in 2000?

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) June 20, 2020

This is an aside, but a cursory glance at Terry Date's production credits include:

Mother Love Bone - Apple
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Screaming Trees - Uncle Anasthesia
Prong - Cleansing
Fishbone - Give A Monkey A Brain

and best of all (I'll be alone in this) Mind Funk - Dropped.

That's quite the lineup!