"as far as the remix,its for a song called drop. hopefully me and todd can finish it soon cuz i think they want it like *now*. originally frank was supposed to work on it too but then he went outta town.the songs kinda poppish...i would like to kinda *darken it up* a little."

Q: Are you currently involved in any other side projects, or do you have any plans for future projects such as guest appearances, collaborations, etc?

Actually I recorded a song the other day with Team Sleep, which is Chino from the Deftones, his side project. We went in and did a Cure cover, which I don't know if it will end up on the album or not, but it might be like a b-side or something, but yeah, I played guitar and Chino sang and Abe from Deftones played drums. It was kind of a like spontaneous thing. I was over at his house probably a couple of days before that and we just started jamming on it, and he was like, "we're going to be in the studio on Thursday. Why don't you come down and we'll record it." So, I said sure. Of course I'm not going to say no. But yeah, it was fun.

Q: Well, I mean you did have the chance to work with the Deftones and for most people that would be like a dream come true..

I mean honestly, even though I've known those guys forever, and they've always been my friends, it's still like... I mean when I first heard White Pony that was kind of like...when you know somebody and they make cool music, it's not really the same as if you buy this record and you're totally into it and you donıt know the person. It kind of like, it adds that mystery. But, when they did their last album and I got it, I was kind of like, "whoa!!" It went from being to the friend to the fan guy. Like I was way into it. I was mainly just proud of them for what they had made. So yeah, recording with them was awesome, and I'm never going to be one to jock them or anything. I respect them immensely for what they've done and how they've done it and yeah I think theyıre an amazing band. So yeah, it was great to work with them. I mean I would love to work with Billy Corgan. I would love to have him produce like some songs or something because I think he has a really good ear for like production and stuff. I don't know, there's many others.

Fellow Deftones fans, as you all may know a video of the Deftones performing at the Guild Theater in Sacramento in 1990 exists and was said to be readily made for the public shortly after screen shots and the information had hit the internet. Well, the video is now available to buy and only for a very short time. It is ONLY available through this and other Deftones webpages. It is a copy of the original video shot in 1990 of the Deftones (consisting of Chino Moreno as the vocalist, Chi Cheng as the bassist, Stephen Carpenter as the guitarist and Dominic Garcia as the drummer). It was filmed by a mutual friend of all of the bands that played that night at the Guild Theater. It is shot from the side of the stage. The video is approximately 1 hour long, and that means the Deftones are on the video for 1 hour, not other bands. It includes never before heard Deftones songs that are older than the Like Linus demos. Included with this email, webmasters have received a short video clip of the video. The clip does not do the actual copy any justice, as it is only 15 frames per second in order to keep it at a minimum file size. Stephen is on the left of Chino and Chi is on Chino's right. Dominic is in the back with the drums. The actual video offers a lot more than the clip shows, it is merely there as a sample. There is only one copy of this video in existence. That copy was duplicated and then re-mastered into a limited amount of videos which can now be purchased. Each video is $23.95, which includes shipping. The videos are in NTSC format, so this is for U.S.A. and Canadian residents ONLY. Money must be shipped in the form of a personal check, cashier's check or money orders ONLY. There is a very limited amount of videos for sale , so only 1 video per customer, and money must be received by the end of November 2001. Since there is a limited number of copies, all buyers must email videodude1990m@excite.com and give your name and address, so that we do not have an excess of buyers. When the email is received, the buyer is then placed on a list, securing their spot for a video, and then given the name to make the check or money order out to and the address to send the payment. Please make the subject of your email "Deftones 1990 Video". Questions can be directed towards that email address as well. All videos will be sent out in time for the holiday season (December 25th, 2001), so please allow until then for delivery. We encourage all Deftones webmasters to post this information on their websites.

New Info: Many more countries will now be able to purchase the Deftones 1990 video. The following countries that we can now ship to are: Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda Island, Bolivia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Burma, Cayman Island, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guiana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Johnston Island, Korea, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Midway Island, Montserrat, Mynamar, Antilles, Northern Marina Islands, Okinawa, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Solomon Islands, St. Grenadines, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Surinam, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad, Venezuela, and Virgin Islands. Please note that these videos are still in NTSC format and should be viewable in the above counteries. Since shipping is more money for these international packages, the price for the video and shipping to any of the above countries is $30.00 in American currency.

PRP: Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter made a guest appearance on the track "Rizzo", how did this collaboration come about? Mark: I met him in L.A. sometime last year. Turns out he was turned on to us by a mutual friend. Yes, that means he actually liked our band, so when we were recording we saw him almost every night and he kept telling us he was going to come down and jam. We never thought he would do it. It is an honor for us to have him on the record, we are all huge Deftones fans.

"Maverick wanted us to do some covers and we know what would happen if we did a cover song. They would take it and run with it and try to make it a hit, so we actually stopped that shit from happening. Maverick are in the position right now where they need to put out something huge and they'll do anything at any cost and we're not ready for them to have us blow up on a fucking cover song." He also commented on the bands current writing process of new material, saying: "We've been buying a bunch of equipment and just recording in our rooms and on the bus, but mainly its just about us getting along and not writing a song at all, but just us being creative and laughing together. It was the opposite way with "White Pony" so far as productivity." When asked on what to expect from the new material, he went on to state: "Probably a hybrid of everything that we've always been, but I think everyone's been wanting to rock a lot more too again, but there's no telling. It could be anything with us"

''Yeah, we hung out at Ozzfest and became buddies,'' says Godsmack bassist Robbie Merrill.

''Everybody is excited. These are two bands that play rock the way it was meant to be played,'' Deftones singer Chino Moreno says of their pairing tonight and tomorrow at the Tweeter Center. ''We may come from different areas of rock, but everything is going to be cool.''

''I'm going to make music as long as I can stand up, and I'll be in this band as long as it is a band,'' says Moreno.

''The Deftones were one of the first bands we wanted on tour with us,'' says Merrill. ''They draw a good crowd, and we wanted to get both of our crowds together.''

'' This tour is great because all the pressure of selling a record is off our backs,'' Moreno adds. ''We were going to sit at home and make a new record, but then [Godsmack's management] called, and here we are. And, really, we wanted to go out this summer and have fun anyway.''

I want to clear up any confusion about the reports that I am appearing at the upcoming breast cancer awareness benefit in Los Angeles. a little over a month ago, I was asked if I would be interested in participating in the benefit. I support events such as this and expressed interest in possibly performing, schedule permitting, but could not confirm at that time. somehow that fact was overlooked and, unfortunately, it has been wrongly reported that I am confirmed at this event. also, the idea of collaboration with the deftones was never discussed. I love the deftones, and I think it would be great to play with them, but had not heard anything about this idea until it was reported in the press. I am still interested in being a part of this very worthwhile benefit, but can not yet confirm?we?ll make an official announcement if and when the time comes?

Wilkenson, who is both confident about and intimidated by the chance to release his debut on a Warner Bros. label, puts his friends' success into context: "When we were in high school, there were always these rich kids, and compared to them, we didn't have any money. So we had kinda messed-up clothes, but in a way, we were like, 'Fuck that, I'm better than everybody. I can do whatever I want, even without money.' It was kind of a conceited attitude, too, but we always felt like we were as good as anybody. So to see [the Deftones] blow up, it wasn't like they got bigger, it was like everything else got smaller... I mean, I haven't even played a live show in my life. All I've done is make melodies on a four-track, and the next thing I know I'm in a studio with [Deftones, Pantera, and White Zombie producer] Terry Date making a record."

"I really enjoyed doing Team Sleep," Moreno Says. "I could work on the music by myself and use ideas that I hadn't used for the Deftones. It's a very moody record, very beat-oriented. Each song has a different theme, a different sound. There's a lot of fantasy going on, and instead of writing songs about myself or my life, I've just let my imagination go crazy. I expected the album to be a lot more mellow than it is, but just by nature, it ended up being a little more up tempo that I anticipated - but it's good."
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"We want to rock like we used to, the next album will be more metal. We played a show recently to 200 people in a small club and it was just amazing. There was a lot of energy and we just rocked through the whole show. Our last album was mellow and had a more mid tempo feel, but thats becuase i'd been listening to a lot of electronic stuff and I just had to get it out of my system" Despite the success of White Pony he says "maybe we were trying to be too arty and mellow. In the back of our minds though we've always wanted to rock."

   Team Sleep - whose core consists of Chino Moreno, his friend DJ Crook and childhood pal guitarist Todd Wilkenson - are close to wrapping up their as-yet-untitled disc, which they've been recording in Seattle with Terry Date, who produced all three Deftones LPs. Maverick Recordings, home to Deftones, plans to release the Team Sleep album early next year, according to a Deftones spokesperson.
   Moreno's Deftones bandmates Abe Cunningham (drums), Stephen Carpenter (guitar) and Frank Delgado (turntables) make appearances on a handful of the album's tracks. In September, Moreno expressed an interest in having former Smashing Pumpkins/Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur lend her vocals to the project but information about all non-Deftones members is being kept under wraps for the time being, the group's publicist said.
   Songs on Team Sleep's debut include the tentatively titled Kool-Aid Party, inspired by the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which 913 people died in a mass suicide; the instrumental King Diamond, which features a harpsichord sample; and Ligeia named for an Edgar Allan Poe tale.
   "Each song has a different theme, a different sound, there's a lot of fantasy going on, and instead of writing songs about myself or my life, I've just let my imagination go crazy," says Moreno. "I expected the album to be a lot more mellow that it is, but just by nature, it ended up being a little more up tempo than I anticipated, but it's good, it's good," Moreno said.
   The Team Sleep project began early last year when Moreno, Crook and Wilkenson began individually adding their musical ideas to a single tape before passing it along to the next member, according to the publicist.

   Stephen Carpenter, meanwhile, is involved with Fear Factory 's bassist and drummer, Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera, and Cypress Hill frontman B-Real in a project called Kush, which could become Dr. Kush if that name is already taken. Carpenter, Wolbers and Herrera have batted the idea around for seven years, but it only began to take shape once B-Real entered the fold in January. Since then, the rap-metal quartet has hit the studio whenever the members' schedules permitted, with the results expected in stores next year.
   Carpenter calls the music, "predominately rap-metal because of its origins," and says it's "not like anything else we do. We have no set agenda. The results are due some time next year," Carpenter said, adding "We're in no hurry. We just want to rock the crowd and blow up the building."

   Abe Cunningham, on the other hand, is looking to his past for what lies ahead of him. In the early '90s, he temporarily left Deftones, who had yet to break out of their Sacramento scene, for Phallucy, a band that seemed to have more promise. Now, after a proper mixing by Cunningham and Phallucy's Dave Garcia (vocals) and Sonny Mayugba (guitar), about 1,000 copies of the band's never-released debut "Valium" will be available this summer via www.deftonesworldwide.com and Phallucy's official website.
   "We didn't want to fix anything, we just mixed it, and what it was is what it is," said Abe. "It's all original material rock and roll, strange-sounding guitars, real trippy. The thing is that even after all of these years, I still haven't heard anything like it."

   Frank Delgado, DJ Crook and Sacramento's DJ Epik have been using what little free time each had to infrequently contribute to a project called the Co-Defendants , a hip-hop-flavored, beat-driven collective that hopes to release an album next year.
   "It's us having fun with our records and drum machines," Delgado said. "Hip-hop beats and breaks that have come from our never-ending search for any and all sounds. We'll take sounds and manipulate them, chop them up, and make them our own sounds. The whole idea is for us to do everything ourselves, whether it's the music or the artwork."
   The group is recording in Sacramento-area studios on portable equipment, with an eye to pressing up the results on vinyl and then taking the act on the road.

   Unlike his bandmates, bassist Chi Cheng isn't pursuing any extracurricular activities at the moment. He's excused, however, since his 25-track spoken-word LP, Bamboo Parachute, was the first outside project released by a Deftones member. Cheng's bizarre musings are still available on the Deftones Web site and at shows.

"Oh, they're overboard. Music in general, even DJ culture over there, it's just so far blown than what it is here. I mean, you've got to imagine these countries having these festivals for the last 30 or so years," he says. "I mean, imagine being a kid growing up in a household where every year you went to these festivals where you could see Bob Dylan, Smashing Pumpkins - I mean, we actually came on before Bob Dylan at one of these festivals and then Jimmy Page and Robert Plant or something. Like, it's amazing, like, you can't do that here in the States, you know what I mean?"