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The band would also try to predict when their frustrated producer would break. We get an A-plus for that,' Cunningham says.

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Carpenter logged many hours playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on the big-screen TV. The creative disagreements still flared up during these sessions, and band members would retreat to various corners of the studio. The Deftones lived on houseboats a short walk away from The Plant. Carved into the front doors was a scene of woodland creatures playing guitar, drums, violin and horns. 'There was some history in that place,' says Date.

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It was a celebrated studio where Fleetwood Mac recorded the multi-platinum Rumours, where Prince played all the instruments on his 1978 debut, and where Metallica made Garage Inc. Recording soon began at the Plant in Sausalito, California, at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge. I could just feel Stephen thinking, 'What kind of acid-trip crap is this?'' I might as well have been wearing hippie beads and bunny ears. 'I had them each switch instruments, play on the bowls, take one loop and try some improvisation,' Keenan adds. I felt like they just needed a bit of new perspective. Up to that point, they seemed to have been able to navigate through their differences in ideas and approaches. He recalls the band as good company and 'very strong-willed gents. Who knows? They certainly weren't going to discuss that with me, an almost total stranger,' Keenan says now. 'I was told the guys were having a bit of writer's block or some turmoil within the band. The metal bowls are played by tapping or rubbing with a wooden mallet. 'It wasn't really clarified, but he was down to help us work on the record.' Cunningham mainly recalls Keenan coming around with bottles of champagne and Tibetan Singing Bowls - instruments used by Buddhist monks in meditation practice, and as a path toward stress relief and emotional clarity, soothing your weary theta brain waves. I felt like we were all trying to do that making that record.' I don't think we really talked about it back then, but our one mission was to stay away from the pack. 'Frank brought out that the pony was symbolizing how we were treading our own path. 'Everybody gravitated towards it right away,' Moreno says. It was a bit of minimalist clip art, and he recognized it as a potentially powerful image for the band. On the cover of White Pony is a simple outline of a horse in mid-gallop that Moreno found online before a single song had been recorded. One of their best,' says Tool singer Maynard James Keenan, who duets with Moreno on moody standout track 'Passenger,' and played a brief but impactful role during some of the writing sessions. White Pony took twice as long to create as Around the Fur did, and it shows. They teamed again with producer Terry Date, who had helmed both Adrenaline and Around the Fur, and helped Deftones balance their competing influences: Carpenter's seven-string Meshuggah obsessions and Moreno's deep dive into the brooding post-modern sounds of DJ Shadow and Massive Attack.

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Recording sessions for the White Pony album were designed to push ever further, as the classic Deftones lineup hit a new peak in range and ambition: Moreno on vocals and (for the first time) guitar, Stephen Carpenter on guitar, Chi Cheng on bass, Abe Cunningham on drums and, now a full member of the band, Frank Delgado on turntables and keyboards. The band instinctively broke from the pack with 1997's Around the Fur, an album rife with exploratory songs that were agonized and contemplative, soaring and aggro. Deftones had played their part in creating that scene, with rapped vocals and a distinctive metal sound on their frantic 1995 debut, Adrenaline, but now were done with it. Work on the original record began amid pre-millennial angst as Y2K approached, and just as the nu-metal era was peaking with a tsunami of sound-alike acts colliding loud guitars, turntables and hip-hop vocals to platinum sales and MTV stardom. Any hopes for a White Pony 20th anniversary tour are in limbo, but a reissue is coming that will include a companion-piece remix album called Black Stallion (get the White Pony | Black Stallion Vinyl Set with Print at the Revolver shop), and the singer is excited to talk again about his band's watershed LP. Video of Deftones - Change (In The House Of Flies) ДЄs he looks back now, it's the summer of 2020 and the band is scattered to their homes, locked up under coronavirus quarantine.