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Podcast Episode Notes: Broken Record with Chino Moreno
Episode Overview
- Podcast Title: Broken Record
- Episode Title: Chino Moreno
- Guests: Chino Moreno (Lead singer of Deftones), Leah Rose (Host)
- Date Released: [Insert Date]
- Description: The episode features an in-depth conversation with Chino Moreno, discussing his experiences with Deftones, their recent resurgence, the making of their latest album *Private Music*, his personal journey, and reflections on the band's past.
Key Themes and Discussions
- Resurgence of Deftones
- Deftones are experiencing a resurgence as new generations discover their 90s hits, particularly through social media.
- They are currently selling out arenas while finalizing their newest album, *Private Music*.
- Personal Challenges and Growth
- Chino discussed the impact of guitarist Stephen Carpenter's health issues due to type 2 diabetes during album recording.
- Chino stepped up to handle more guitar parts and reflected on the clarity he found after getting sober.
- Early Days with the Band
- Recollections of the band's early days living together with late bassist Chi Cheng.
- Chino shared stories about their humble beginnings, prioritizing music over traditional schooling, and the chaotic but fun lifestyle they led.
- Album Creation Process
- Chino described the sequencing and songwriting process for *Private Music*, noting the importance of the album's opening track.
- They recorded in various locations, including Shangri-La and the desert, and maintained a specific album sequence during tracking.
- Hidden Tracks and Album Artwork
- Discussion about the popularity of hidden tracks in the 90s, recounting a humorous hidden track experience from *Around the Fur*.
- Chino reflected on album artwork, highlighting the unforgettable cover of *Around the Fur* and its significance.
- Influences and Sound Development
- Chino embraced diverse musical influences ranging from Morrissey to Pantera and how these shaped his unique sound.
- He acknowledged feeling more confident about his vocal abilities in subsequent albums after the first record.
- The Role of Sobriety in Creativity
- Chino emphasized that achieving sobriety allowed him to gain clarity and focus, improving his delivery as a musician and bandmate.
- He shared that he still connects deeply with music and emotions, often drawing from past experiences.
- Personal Life and Family
- Chino opened up about his family, reflecting on the challenges of balancing parenting with a music career and his hopes for his children’s future.
- He admitted feeling lucky that his children are responsible and hardworking despite his youthful indulgences.
- Future of Deftones
- Although the album just released, Chino hinted at the possibility of finishing leftover material for potential soundtracks, but emphasized enjoying the moment.
- Cultural Impact and Legacy
- Chino expressed gratitude for the band's longevity and the variety of fans spanning generations.
- He shared a sense of amazement witnessing the audience's engagement during concerts, signifying their cultural relevance.
Final Thoughts
- Chino Moreno’s conversation reflects a genuine passion for music, personal growth through challenges, and a nostalgic yet hopeful view of his journey with Deftones.
- The camaraderie among band members, especially during difficult times, illustrates how their shared experiences shaped both their music and personal lives.
- The episode ends with an invitation to check out a playlist of Deftones songs and a reminder of the band's continued significance in the music industry.
Resources
- Listen to the episode [here](insert link to the podcast).
- Explore the Deftones Spotify playlist [here](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qc4e3UBSjGceJGH9guKPh?si=882788fd00164ce5&nd=1&dlsi=1083c586954c4cd1).
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Transcript
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0:10Chino Moreno is the lead singer of Deftones, the Sacramento band experiencing resurgence as a new generation discovers their 90s hits on social media. This year, Deftones have been selling out arenas while putting the finishing touches on their latest album, Private Music. During the recording sessions, guitarist Stephen Carpenter's health took a turn when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Chino stepped in to handle more of the guitar parts, approaching the album with newfound clarity after getting sober. On today's episode, Leah Rose talks with Chino about the band's early days living with their late bassist chi chang he reflects on the story of their around the fur album cover and shares his post-show ritual which often includes winding down with rom-coms in his tour bus bunk this is broken record real musicians real conversations this is an iheart podcast Every great music conversation goes beyond the surface.
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2:54JPMorgan Chase Bank and a member FDIC. Copyright 2025, JPMorgan Chase & Company Here's Leah Rose with Chino Moreno I was just listening to Private Music and I was curious, like, the album starts so hard, so fast It's got, like, that sludgy riff right off the top Like, how important is that first, like, three seconds when you're sequencing the album? It's pretty important I mean, when we wrote that song I kind of knew right away that I wanted that to be the first song on the record. Because I think, like you said, it's kind of this bombastic sort of sludgy riff. And I loved Abe's drumming on the song.
3:37I think it's really creative what he does in the verses and the staccato intro as well. It's just like, it kind of has a lot of elements that we're sort of known for. So it's familiar, I think, in the beginning for the first thing to introduce the record. But I also think it's powerful. And then the song itself sort of has this great introductory feel, I think, to what's to come. Yeah. You know what's crazy is that we wrote the record in different sessions, like just getting together, playing. One we did in the desert, which we probably wrote like five or six songs there. Went to Shangri-La, did another five or six songs, wrote them there.
4:19Didn't record anything there, but recorded what we were doing, but it wasn't the actual recording. we went actually after that we tracked it so when we started tracking it though i already had a sequence in mind once we added the songs so we actually tracked the album in the sequence of the record which was kind of cool so that's something that i kind of like figured out early like i really had this mindset of like creating a album the kind of that started in one place went somewhere and ended somewhere i kind of like that idea of doing that yeah have you guys ever done like a hidden track or anything like that like any like special yeah we we did um that was like real popular in the 90s i think yes on cds so we um we had one on our second record around the fur and it was uh pretty funny because it's like it has to be a part of the last song on the record so the last time that being like 30 something minutes long or whatever because we had like there was like a 20 minutes like break of silence it's pretty funny we we had that was back when answering machines were still people still had answering machines in their in their apartments or whatever so we were staying in this apartment uh in seattle we were recording and uh stephan abe and myself shared a apartment so we had our our answering machine and our um it was attached also to the intercom too so like when friends came over they'd press the intercom to call us and then they'd leave messages from either downstairs in the you know in the intercom to our answer machine or if someone called, whatever.
5:48But we had our greeting on there. It was like super funny. It was like Stefan was taking a bong hit and like, you know, call us back. You know what I mean? But we actually took that tape and we put that on there so that our little message thing was on as part of the hidden track. And then like a couple of minutes later, a bonus song pops in out of nowhere. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, I remember Alanis Morissette had one of those and it came in like 20 minutes after. So if like you left the CD on, just like all of a sudden it would start playing. You were like, whoa, who is that? Was that on the Jagged Little Pill album?
6:22Yeah. That was a great record. I mean, it's crazy because that was also Maverick Records, which was where we were at at the time. So our records came out pretty close to each other. Our first record and her record. Yeah, we had a kind of a close thing with that record. Okay, that's so cool. Yeah, that was an awesome era. So speaking of you guys living together, I know that I think like right after or maybe while you were still in high school, you lived with Chi, right? Yep. Right out of my parents' house. I was still 17. I kind of just stopped going to school. I was a senior, quote unquote senior.
6:58the normal high school i went to and ended up going to a continuation high school which is like sort of just where you go and make up credits and whatever still get a diploma but you like um you know you just kind of do textbook work there's not really teachers in there teaching you're just kind of like going through textbooks and whatever but we started playing shows actually um and we started taking little trips from sacramento to like oakland and san francisco and just like the outskirts of of a town and playing shows so so we'd get back from playing shows like you know three in the morning and then like and then i would just like end up staying over cheese house and then i'd wake up in the morning be like i'm not going to school today like i kind of already had my mind made up that like you know not that i would be successful with the band but like i just was like that was kind of like my priority and my parents were supportive i mean they were bummed i think that I like stopped going to school, but they were also a little preoccupied.
7:54My parents were actually going through divorce at that time too. So it was like, I kind of slipped through the cracks a little bit where like, normally my parents were pretty strict about stuff, but like they were kind of dealing with their own things. So like, I kind of just like was able to do what I wanted for the most part. And they really like checking up on me, like, are you doing this? Are you doing that? Are you doing this? Whatever. So in a way it was kind of, I guess I got lucky in a way because I got just dive deep into music as opposed to like trying to do school and that. Yeah. I was able to really like focus on music stuff.
8:23But, um, but it was weird. You know what I mean? It wasn't like, you know, I was still kind of, it was a bummer. You know what I mean? I was like one of the only kids at that point. I had a lot of friends whose parents were divorced, like when you grow up, whatever. And I was always so proud, like my parents are still married. Oh, and then right. Like, you know, senior year of high school, they get divorced. It wasn't like something you saw coming. Not really. No, no. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Did you guys sound like Deftones in the beginning? Like when the band first started playing together, like what did you sound like?
8:53I think, yeah, some of the DNAs there. I mean, obviously we were trying to figure out like we were trying to figure out how to play our own instruments. I was emulating a lot of what I liked. So like, you know, some songs I would try to sound like Morrissey and sound like Danzig and like those things don't match. But like in a way, like I kind of came up with my own sound maybe because those things don't match. And I just like what I liked. And I was trying to take, I was just taking influence from the things that I like enjoyed. Yeah. Also, like I listened to a lot of rap music back then. So I used to like to try to rap as well.
9:29And to me, I didn't think it was that weird to like put like rhythmic singing over some of the stuff, whatever. my lyrics weren't really like I guess rap oriented lyrics where I wasn't like you know talking about things that I didn't really do but I think just the format of like the cadences and things like that like that were inspiring to me so I put like all those things together screaming from like I loved Pantera and Bad Brains and so like just I guess all those little elements whatever I was just kind of you know emulating maybe each one at certain points like a little bit more like where you can really tell oh he's trying to do this and I think over the time I've been able to like I guess find myself within all those things and kind of have my own voice I guess I hope yeah when did you find your voice like when do you feel like you were squarely standing in your own sound I mean it would probably be I think definitely after our first record because our first record is still hard for me to listen to because I can hear like myself not still like not being confident and not really knowing what I was doing I mean I was so nervous on our first record that I didn't even write a lot of lyrics like a lot of it's just like freestyling syllables and whatever like and then so like if you notice like uh inside there's there's not lyrics in the record there's some scribbled notes of me that I wrote whatever so there's some words in there but like some of it's not because I was so scared to commit to like what I was going to say yeah just kind of like used my voice as an instrument more yeah so that record's hard for me to listen to because i i can see exactly where i was whatever just kind of not non-confident like sort of still figuring it out whereas maybe our second record i think you know touring a lot from our first record and just kind of like actually getting the opportunity to make a second record which a lot of bands don't even get that chance right we got assigned to a pretty big label and Yeah.
11:26And, you know, we didn't sell anything close to like what Atlantis sold, right? So that was our label mate. So like, I mean, honestly, that probably helped because I think our label was making so much money from Atlantis. Oh, yeah. That like, they probably lost a lot of money on our first record, but allowed us to go and make a second record. Really, honestly. Did you have to like show and prove at that point to the label? Was there anything that you had to, in a way, promise them that we're going to bring next time to make the next album do even better? I don't think that there was really ever that discussion.
11:59But I think within ourselves, I think we wanted to. I know I wanted to. I wanted to show and prove like, wow, we can do so much better. Because even after our first record was done, I knew that it wasn't as good as the band that we were becoming. So with the second record, I really think that we made a statement. i think it's probably still one of our strongest records to the state and then after that we made the white pony record which was a like a pretty big left turn to like where music was sort of at that point where like a lot of new metal music what they were calling it at the time which i guess they still call it that but but it was like kind of that was like kind of pop like on the rate all day long and we steered like far left of that and made the white pony album and the label wasn't actually really that stoked on it because of that.
12:49But they did support us a lot because they knew that it was still a good record. And honestly, that was probably one of the best decisions we ever made doing that because I think it helped with our longevity for sure. How hands-on was Madonna with the label? Because it was her label, right? Yes. Yes. Was she involved with like the artist sound? Would she sort of be in like an executive producer position? Did you have any conversations with her, like creative conversations about what you were putting out? No, you know what? No, not really. And I can only speak for us. Maybe she did with some other artists.
13:21But I mean, I remember the first time that we, when we very first got signed, I went to the office and I didn't even know she was there. I went to go sit in my A &R's office, the guy who signed us, his name's Guy. And I was sitting talking to him and like staring at like you know face to face with him the door is behind me and the door opens and he starts talking to her i just hear a female voice and i look over and i look up and it's her and then she's like oh this is a new artist blah blah and uh i was just freaking out because i was like a 10 year old in myself was just like oh my god and then she ended up coming to a few of our shows and um like i remember one time we were backstage and we were about to go on stage and she was like looking me up and down she's like are you gonna get ready i looked down on my clothes i was like yeah i'm ready She's like, that's what you're going to wear.
14:10And I think I just had a pair of Dickies in a t-shirt or something on, whatever. She was like, that's what you're going to wear? And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. She's like, come here. And then she helped me, pulled my pants up a little bit, helped me fix my belt and whatever. And it was just surreal right now. But those kind of things are like a story I can tell today that still brings joy to me. Totally. So I was going to ask you about back when we were talking about you living with Chi. since you've known the guys for so long, I feel like you can tell a lot about a person by the way their bedroom is.
14:44Do you remember like growing up what people's bedrooms were like? I totally do. Yeah. Like Abe's or Chi or? Yes. I mean, so I'll use Abe as an example because this is great. I went to Abe's house for the first time. I think we were in seventh, maybe eighth grade. We were in junior high school. And I go to his house after school, skateboard over there and i go into his room he's got a little tiny room i mean it's you know pretty small but the drum set takes up his whole room and it was his dad's drum set uh his dad passed away when he was a couple years before that actually and uh he was in a band he inherited the drum set from him and he had so his room was just the drum set and then he had a little tiny like mattress on the like in the corner like where he slept i don't even know if it was a mattress i want to say it was just like blankets or sleeping bag whatever but he sacrifices like comfort so it was like his room was just like his drum set and then back then as when we had cassettes so we had a whole wall of just like cassettes and a lot of like dubbed cassettes because that's what we used to do back in the day like dub cassettes and then like do our own artwork on them whatever so a whole wall of cassettes you know so i was just enamored by his cassette collection and it's just music like his music ruled his his his life so like that was his little world right that was awesome now now cheese so we shared a bedroom when i moved it was a one bedroom apartment that we lived in and he lived in there actually with his girlfriend at the time when i would go stay the night over there and then him and his girlfriend broke up and it could have had something to do with that i was always asleep on the couch in the other room whatever and she was probably like yeah it's either him or me or kind of thing whatever but yeah but she ended up moving out and then so i moved in officially and then um we both shared rooms so we had two like twin mattresses on each side of the room but our room was a fucking mess i mean our whole apartment was but it was like college life and it was actually on the college campus because he still went to school if the deal was his dad would pay half the rent as long as he was in school oh so his dad paid half the rent and then she and i split the other half where the rent was so it was like the rent was like nothing it was like 150 bucks a month and it was in an apartment on kind of off campus, Sac State University.
16:52And I worked at the dining commons there, where they serve the kids in the dorms, their lunches and dinners, whatever, the dining hall, whatever. So you could take food? Yes. So we used to come home with food. That's how we lived. But it was mostly just beer. We just drank beer. And he's a couple years older than the rest of us, actually. So he was old enough to buy beer at that point. I was still young. And he might not even been 21 yet, but there was a store across the street that we could buy beer from. And it was cheap beer, like the cheapest beer you can buy. So our whole balcony was just full of beer cans.
17:29And it was like a total, I don't know, I guess what I would expect a frat house to kind of be. It was just like us two. And then all our friends were there all the time. The hangout spot. It was just the hangout spot. Yeah. But it was awesome. So you must have been over high school. I don't know, You seemed like you were beyond high school at that point. Like, I know you're going to the continuation school, but mentally it seems like you were already, like, graduated. Yeah. So, yeah, I just stopped going to school. I stopped even going to the continuation school. And it was probably almost towards the end of the school year anyways.
17:59So I was kind of bummed that I didn't graduate. My parents were bummed that I didn't graduate. But other than that, I was just like, yeah, it was already like we started playing shows. And, you know, we started to guard small following, even around Sacramento at the time. And we practiced almost every day. And we just had fun. We were right by the river, so we swam all summer. We were just swimming. And it was the time of our lives, really, making music. And did Abe come up with the name Deftones? Stefan did. Oh, Stefan did. And we were going to play one of our first shows. And we had to buy tickets.
18:38It was one of those things, pay-to-play kind of thing, where we buy all the tickets. And then we can, we bought the tickets for a dollar a piece from the promoter. And then we can sell them for$3. So we can make a couple bucks off each ticket. But we didn't end up doing that. We ended up just giving away to our friends at school and whatever. So we can have a pact for a show. And we were like, well, we need a band name if we're going to play a show. So Stefan said, oh, we're going to be called Deftones. And I was like, okay. So then Abe wrote it on the ticket, but he didn't even know how to spell it.
19:05So we spelled it like D-A-F-Tones, whatever, right? So we gave all the tickets away. And he's like, no, that's not how you spell it. It's all like deaf, like, you know, like the rap. Yeah, yeah, like deaf jam or whatever. Yes. So I was like, oh, okay. So like, yeah, it wasn't anything that was like well thought out or other than just, you know, Stefan said that's the name of our band. We said, okay. It's a great name. I mean. Do you like it now? I don't know. I mean, it's worked, I guess. It's like you probably can't even think of it like objectively. It's silly. I mean, most band names are silly.
19:40There's a lot of silly band names, but you kind of like, the name takes on its own thing after a while, right? The music is kind of like whatever, and then you don't really think so much about the name itself. We'll be back with more from Chino Moreno after the break. The greatest music stories aren't always in the songs themselves. They're in the late night studio sessions, the chance encounters, and the cultural moments that shaped entire movements. For music lovers who find themselves going down rabbit holes about their favorite artists, Claude, an AI thinking partner, helps you explore those deeper questions.
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23:55You know, I always, I never do anything with that. Everybody at least like saying, hey, what do you guys think about this? And then there, everybody's pretty easy going and they trust me, which is rad. Cool. But it's myself. And then there's a guy at Warner Brothers who has been working with us since the White Pony album by the name of Frank Maddox. So him and I like get together and brainstorm and like, he's really good with graphic art and photography. And so, yeah, we just come up with random stuff and then we just sort of start like brainstorming. Do you enjoy that part of it? I do. I really do.
24:27From everything from our t-shirt designs to our content. So when we play our live shows now, we have like these huge LED screens behind us, whatever. So there's like different content that goes on during the songs. and then like some of it's iMag, which is basically like the live feed of us on stage in the crowd. But like we throw filters on that kind of stuff, whatever. And just the color palettes, everything. Like I'm just like really, that kind of stuff is fun for me to do. Yeah, I've seen like still shots of it and there's like pink, like a woman's face. Yeah. And I saw people on Reddit trying to figure out where those images come from.
25:07Yeah, a lot of stuff I research and find And like archive.org is one site that I've been going on for years and years and years. And it's just like all this like old archival footage of stuff, whatever. Some old movies, like I like to find like old, like rare, you know, stuff. And yeah, imagery and like sonics, like those two things to me, like I love marrying those things together. Whether it's like, I mean, when I listen to music, a lot of times I'll see images and vice versa. I'll like look at an image sometimes and I'll kind of hear music. Wow, really? Burying those two things is always fun.
25:42Wow. And you've done some scoring recently, right? Some movie scoring or show scoring? I've done some of it. I did this Hulu thing once. Yeah, but it's something that I want to do more of. I haven't done anything recently, but I love, I'm really into soundscapes. That seems like something that you'd be really, really good at. It still takes, I mean, you have to know what you're doing. It's hard. uh like coming up with the ideas to me that's the easy part but like actually doing it i like i definitely need help with that kind of the technical side of things and then again it's like musically i'm not trained professionally i don't understand theory i understand some um i'm trying to learn more but that's kind of been my goal lately actually is especially as i get older is uh just working on piano playing piano taking lessons playing guitar learning chords, tunings, everything.
26:38That's kind of where I find fun now. Yeah. Learning stuff like that. Yeah. I heard Stefan saying that, I guess, while making private music, he has type 2 diabetes and he started talking about it. But because of the illness, you had to do more of the guitar parts. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's crazy because I didn't, I knew something, we all knew that something was going on with him at the time whatever he was like very lethargic like during the writing sessions where he he was there he was present but he was just like he just seemed run down and like um we'd start working on stuff and he'd kind of come in and he'd like he just seemed like very slow and it was hard sometimes because i would take it as like like we got in a couple arguments a couple times where i was like dude like what's wrong with you do you like not want to be here like i would just ask him and then he would get mad at me you're like what are you talking about and I'd be like how could you ask me if I want to be here I'm here and I'm like yeah I know you're here but like you don't seem interested in what's going on he's like and he would get mad at me for asking that but everybody else was thinking it but no one else was asking it so then he'd get mad at me for like confronting him about it but we soon realized that man maybe something's going off this health and then we were playing Coachella maybe I don't know a few months after that after that one of those sessions and um and we got off stage and he just like came up to all of us and And he was like, you guys, I'm really sorry that I played so bad.
28:05And honestly, I didn't really realize it. I noticed that he was a little sloppier than usual. But he was like, yo, I was having a hard time standing up. He was like, and my hand wasn't responding to playing these songs. Wow. And so I was like, yo, you need to go figure out what's going on with you. and he's been one of those people who have always tried to self-diagnose himself like are gone youtube and like be like oh well this is what's wrong with me and i'm like dude no you need to go to the doctor and no one really likes to go to the doctor i get it right it's like you know sometimes it's like scary too right especially if you feel like something's wrong with you you don't want to hear you know what i mean but you you gotta know right so um so eventually he faced up and he went and then like and then i just like you just watched his whole like he just changed it was like once he knew what was wrong with him then he was like okay and then he started to figure out the tools of it to deal with it and now he's like he's an obsessive person where it's like anything he gets into whether it's like um anything just like he gets into he gets obsessed with it so like now it's his health that he's obsessed with so like we share a bus together and he um every night he's just like he's like has this like his uh sugar monitor like thing on And he's just like, look at numbers and he's like, oh, look at my thing is spiked here and it's blah, blah, blah.
29:24And I know if I eat this, if I, you know, and this, whatever. So he's just like, he's excited about it. And so like, I just engage with him about it. And it's like, I'm just seeing him like his like life come back into him, like physically and mentally. Like he's just like awakening because he, you know, it's a, it's a real positive thing that I'm happy with. But back to what you're saying about as far as the writing stuff. So like during that time, I, I didn't realize that I was doing that. it was more or less like okay well we're here and we're just going to keep busy so um if he wasn't engaging i would just be like okay here's an idea come on let's go boom boom boom and then we just start working on stuff but before you knew it we had like almost an album's worth of material that were a lot of it he didn't spearhead because of what he was going through whatever so um so in in hindsight yes there was a lot more i think where i picked up the slack on whatever but But I enjoy doing it too.
30:16I mean, I love writing music and I love playing with Abe and the other guys. And it wasn't like a thing where I wasn't mad about it. And he wasn't, now, I mean, I'll see. It took him a while because he was, I think before he knew what was going on with him, whatever, he was like, and he's always kind of maybe been a way where he's never really told me that. But it was weird when we did the Zane Lowe interview, he, in the middle of the interview, he's like, I just want to say that, you know, Chino really stepped up and he really came through and blah, blah, blah. That was the first time he ever complimented me or acknowledged all the hard work that I put into the writing and stuff like that.
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30:57I kind of got a little teared up a little bit. Funny the camera panned away from me because you can't see me. I kind of put there with my mouth open just like, wow. Thank you for acknowledging that. Oh, that's so sweet. Right? Yeah. I mean, I was just, it was like a, you know, sentimental moment between friends. Yeah, that was a cool interview. I liked that. It was just cool seeing you all together. When you're in the studio, are you sort of, I don't know if you saw the Beatles Get Back documentary? Oh, yeah. Great. It was long, but it was like worth watching, especially if you're a musician, like watching how they work and their dynamic between those guys.
31:33It turned them into real people for me. Like, I didn't think of them as real people. It's like I understood their personalities and how they work together. And I had no idea like seeing Paul's role, how he stepped up and he totally was like the taskmaster and he's like the band leader. It's so rad when you see him in there like like George and they're just like showing his riffs and stuff too. And you're like, oh, like, I don't know. I just love watching that because it's pretty funny because like most bands are the same. Like we all like there's so many cliches. like we all do the same shit and like relationship wise and like the kind of fight for you know this like underlying fight for like you know who's kind of steering the ship sometimes right yes um and there's like with the Beatles especially there's like there's a lot of great songwriting amongst all of them individually right so it's like how they made that work and how like you got to pick your battles and then you have to sometimes like not say what you're thinking and then sometimes also like tiptoe around certain things because you know that might trigger somebody or this or that, whatever.
32:35Try to get your ideas heard, but not dictate what everybody should be doing. Let people come up with their own parts. It's a part of being in a band. It's definitely psychological work. You know what I mean? But I was thinking about that, picturing you now in the sessions for this new album. Are you sort of like the Paul McCartney of the group? I don't know about that. like as far as you're like getting everybody in order like organizing the chaos yeah i guess so um i mean we have a producer there that especially with this with uh this record nick rascalinx who who did this record he also did a couple of other records but one of the main reasons why aside from him being a great producer but one of the main reasons for hiring him for this for this record specifically was for him to take on that role you know kind of take some of that off my plate because you know as much as that band does trust me on on certain things whatever i still don't want to be the person that that's always kind of dictating like where we're going what we're doing and okay we're working on this song now or whatever blah blah and a lot of times they just like when we were at soundcheck like okay what song are we playing i'm like i don't know what what song do you want like like like i don't don't ask me all the time right i don't want to um and i don't get mad about it but it's just like but it is very helpful to have someone else there in the room that sort of can just like be the sort of ringleader right and i can just work on my part but but yeah i mean i i think especially to like i've had like three years of sobriety and just like a very clear-minded now and focus so like it feels natural for me sometimes to like make an order of things and like kind of keep track what's going on whatever like my memory is like really crisp right now you know what I mean sharp and so I'm able to remember things really well and uh like if I'm working with Abe on a drum part whatever like I can like literally like three minutes ago you played this whatever blah blah and he'd be like and I'll remember you know things like or maybe you know five years ago I would have just not remembered so it's cool to to use those things right um especially when we're working in work mode Yeah, totally.
34:52And it keeps you it keeps you sharp. I mean, that kind of stuff is just important for overall health, for brain health as we get older. Totally. You know, now that you're sober, you strike me as someone who's sort of romantic and dreamy and emotional. And I don't know if I'm just saying that because of the type of music I know that you were into as a kid. but that's actually a lot of it i mean honestly i mean i'm just like a sucker for like all the stuff that i loved when i was a teenager yeah and i still like look back to that time my life is being like i can smell what you know what the air was like and what like i'm just like really in tune with that time of my life and i reflect upon that time of my life a lot and you know what's when i fell in love with music that's when i fell in love that's probably one of the first times I had a crush or this or that, whatever.
35:43All those things are like really like milestones of like the human experience. So like I always draw from that. Would it help you with the substances to like get deeper into those feelings or can you still go there now being sober? Oh, you know what? I thought it was like a big lie. I think I kind of fooled myself into believing that it was right. But yeah, but just being creative in general, like you soon figure out that like, yeah, I didn't need all that. I mean, not that I didn't make good music, like you know being altered here and there but um uh and a lot of great music has been made that way or with with uh being influenced by mind-altering substance whatever but the fact that you know you go through your whole life because i was pretty much since high school i've been you know like i was telling earlier just drinking beers and whatever i never made music you know without that so it was scary at first right to think that can i do this is it possible and then once you do but you're like, oh, of course it is.
36:37Yeah, that's good. All the clarity, like I was talking about earlier, comes along and then it's like, oh, well, I'm even like, I can do this and I can do this and you just start to get, it's like everything's more in focus and then you can make sense of things a lot easier. But yeah, I mean, I still get lost though too. I get lost in a good melody and a good story. I mean, I watch rom-coms. That's one thing I do still, like on the bus every night when I go, whatever. I just like like romantic stories too. What's the last rom-com you've seen that's really good? I mean, I like dumb movies too. I like like Proposal, stuff like that.
37:16Like I love some J-Lo movies. I love Anne Hathaway movies. I'll watch like all this like, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know why. I just like those movies that kind of like turn off part of my brain, I guess, whatever. And just like, I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I want to ask you, because I know when you were a kid growing up, it seems like with a band, you all of a sudden just made the jump and became a singer. Did you sing at all as a kid? Were you in choir? Were you singing around the house? Was it unexpected? Were your parents surprised that all of a sudden you were a singer in a band? I think so, yeah.
37:52Especially because I was shy, too. Pretty shy when I was young. I would sing along to records, but just to myself. right not in front of people so it was it was kind of out of nowhere and really i wanted to i wanted to play the drums to me that seemed like the funnest thing ever just like bang on these drums i really love rhythm and i still do but yeah i met abe when i was in junior high school and he was already like a brilliant drummer like you know at 12 years old or i don't know who you were so um so i needed to find something to do if i wanted to be in the band with everybody so yeah stefan actually he's the one who's like oh you're gonna be the singer and i was like okay and he said he actually said he's like i heard you i heard you singing along with uh danzig record or something whatever before he said you can sing and i was like like and like yeah i was like okay so it was like kind of cool that like you know he made me believe that i could sing i really couldn't i mean it was really like trial by error a lot of it you know and it's kind of still is i mean i still don't really know what i'm doing i just kind of i don't I guess just figure it out as I'm going still to this day.
38:57Have you ever taken any lessons, like vocal lessons or anything like that? I did try at one point and it was just super awkward. I probably should have stuck with it, but it was one of those things where I didn't like. And maybe it was the teacher because it's probably like therapy. It's like you have one bad experience and then you can't say that it's all bad. Maybe it was just the actual thing, but it just felt really awkward to me. It's like they were trying to teach me how to sing a certain way that just didn't feel natural to me. I've always sort of just responded sonically to what the music is kind of dishing out at me.
39:38And this is where I'm responding with this sound. So if I was thinking too hard about it, I'd be like, well, this doesn't even, it's not even fun. I don't feel like I'm naturally wanting to do. So that was my excuse for not going back, whatever. But I'm sure there are techniques that I should probably not too old to learn. I mean, I did take from that. I did take a lot of these like kind of warm up exercises and things like that that are important that I still use. What do you do to protect your voice? I know at one point you had like some serious vocal issues just from screaming. Yeah. On stage like.
40:10Well, to be transparent, I think it was some screaming, but a lot of just like living wild to like, you know, drugs and alcohol and whatever and like not sleeping. and you know and so I think I just liked whatever but I've noticed like the biggest thing for me is like proper sleep yeah lots of fluids I drink a lot of water tea and um there's really nothing I can do as far as like because I do scream and I do sing and I do it straight for you know an hour and a half two hours you know a night and physically like you you have to rest so it's like that's the main thing it's like after the show i'm usually quiet i usually go on the bus and i don't talk much yeah and i'm really like i really love getting good i sleep and now that i don't drink like i sleep really well and uh so yeah waking up and feeling invigorated and then kind of just like you know do a little little warm-up i warm up in the shower yeah yeah yeah what do you do to sort of like get yourself in the headspace and just like physically get ready to be on stage and just to give all that energy.
41:13Yeah, so music is always something that gears me up. So I listen to music, and then I also make playlists every day, which is really fun. So there's like a 35-minute time where they change over from the band before us to when we go on. So I make a 35-minute playlist that plays in my dressing room, but it also plays in the venue, so the crowd hears what I'm hearing backstage. Oh, that's cool. It's kind of neat because I kind of feel like it maybe puts us all in the same sort of frame of mind before like the show show. Totally. And it changes. It's always like a pretty wild mix of stuff, whatever.
41:49But they tell me like three, two, one, play. I'll play it in my dressing room and it'll be playing in the venue. And then I get in the shower right then. The shower sort of just like regenerates me, I think, a little bit. The steam helps with my voice. Yeah. And then I get dressed, brush my teeth and then ready. I'll do some, maybe I'll do some pushups or whatever. I have a little rolling, um, a foam roller. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I stretch on that. Nice. Yeah. I just kind of maybe some jumping jacks and just kind of like hype myself up. That's pretty much it. And then what do you do when you get off stage?
42:22Like how do you come down? Same thing. Shower right away. I think the shower invigorates me for the show. Then obviously when I get off stage, I'm soaking wet usually. I'll just get in the shower and then, you know, put on dry clothes. And, um, usually they bring me food in because I don't eat usually like, I don't know, four to five hours before we go on stage because that's weird. But I'm never hungry when I get off stage too. So you feed me food in and I'm always just like, just take it to the bus. I'll eat it later. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. But yeah, I usually call home and check in.
42:52And then I've been going pretty much straight to the bus. I'm pretty boring, man. I don't like it. It's not as crazy. At least it was at one time, right? Yeah. I don't drink anymore. So it's like, you know, I don't have the need to like go out and socialize too much. Yes. Are you like peopled out at that point? Like, do you want to be by yourself? Kind of. Yeah. I mean, I really do enjoy like the silence of just like, you know, being on the bus. And it's just on our bus now, it's just myself, Stefan, and then our assistant and our photographer. So it's just four of us on there. So it's really quiet.
43:28Nice. Yeah. watch movies, play video games, kind of just really, really relax. When you call home and you talk to family, like if you talk to your wife or whatever, like do you tell her about the show or do you just talk about regular stuff? Yeah. I mean, she always asks me, how was your show? And like my, it's like, you know, when somebody asks, how are you? You always say, oh, fine. You know, at the show, there's stuff going on. I always just say, oh, it was fine. I won't get into too many details of it. The show's having great, but, you know, sometimes there'll be a little like an audio thing or something will go haywire.
43:58Like last night we were playing a show and there's a few songs that I play guitar on that I use the RF mic on and it wasn't turned on. So like the first verse, I'm like singing into it and I'm like, oh, there's nothing coming out of this. So then, you know, tech runs on stage and he goes and he like turns the mic on. Okay, there you go. It wasn't turned on. But so like, it's like, come on, dude, 101. You got to turn it on. But I think, you know, it's one of the things where like, I think years and years ago, I probably would have like lost it, you know where yeah i think my patience is like a little better these days where i'm just like okay shit happens and um and uh kind of just laugh it off and and you know i think people understand i think i think probably back in the day i would have like maybe felt embarrassed or like just mad exactly like that's 101 what the hell i got mad about it whatever but it's like it's a mistake and yeah it was like the first half of the verse was not there but yeah and it's probably like so loud in there anyway like maybe people don't really notice you know oh i think they realized oh really yeah i think they definitely realized but you know that's part of the live experience though it's nice to see like you know bloopers and stuff like that don't you know use playback how about that one last break when we back with leah rose's conversation with gina moreno The greatest music stories aren't always in the songs themselves.
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48:35where you can see the sky. Best business plan based on a combination of advanced network performance, coverage layers, and security features. Best network based on analysis by Ukla of Speedtest Intelligence Data 1H 2025. Going back to the Deftones album covers, what would you say are your top five favorite album covers from Deftones? from deftones uh i like the koino yokan cover which is a photo uh taken by the artist futura oh wow yeah it was like he we had talked to him about designing an album cover for us and then um we did a couple different things but ended up just gravitating towards this this photo of his which was like he took it and it's in this hotel somewhere in china or something but the picture itself like you can't really tell it almost looks like outer space it's just like it's really like you back stare at it whatever and kind of figure out what it's the actual place and it's like i think it's a view through this it's glass through towards the elevator or something but i just it looks kind of otherworldly and and it's just like it's pretty and i i like that cover a lot um what else what other album cover do i like what about around the fur and honestly like now i can appreciate it whatever but like you know um and it's so weird that like even like uh as far as like our merchandise goes like that t-shirt with that album cover on it like is like one of the biggest sellers like so many but it's such a random photo it makes no sense at all and it was honestly just like we were the our photographer the guy who was doing all our photos for that that record this guy named rick kosik and he was uh from this magazine big brother from it was a skate magazine and he ended up going on to do like jackass and all that stuff whatever so he's like in all the jackasses and stuff like that but he's like the videographer photographer and he was a good friend of ours and he came to seattle when we were recording that record and he took all the like a bunch of photos of us and and then just photos of us hanging out like outside of the studio so with that record we were like all like 22 maybe we were still pretty young and like when i look back at that record it was like i don't remember hardly any of actually like recording the record i remember everything outside of it like just like we were just like wild like out every night partying driving around listening to the the roughs from the day and like that album cover was it was like after the we had like this uh jacuzzi at our apartment the same one that were me and haven and steph lip where we have the the answer machine thing there was a uh yeah a hot tub downstairs whatever so we every night we'd like you know after at the end of the night after all our bar hopping we'd go with everybody we'd meet from the bar let's go back to our place we're gonna go and uh that photo was just like from a random night there whatever and it was like it got mixed in with all the other photos from the thing so when they came and spreading all the photos out for the album cover that picture was there and like it was literally just like everybody pointed at that one it's such a cool photo yeah i mean it's very 90s too it's like so 90s so 90s so it like really represents that time it's kind of funny do you know who that girl is i mean uh kind of um she was she was a friend who we befriended uh while we were there in seattle and uh i did see a thing the other day it was cool that she was uh they showed like you know then and now so it was her like now she's probably our age now too like you know maybe late 40s early 50s and uh she's holding up the album cover and she's like smiling whatever this is me you know to be whatever when she when she was young as well but um who knew right it's like that like even when she was asked hey we want to use this for the album cover but then thinking that like 30 something years later, whatever it is that like, that would be such an iconic photo with like t-shirts and all these like teenagers now wearing that picture on their t-shirt.
52:27It is very 90s. That's such a good call. Like it's kind of like, has like that kids, like the movie Kids, that aesthetic or even like pre-American apparel. Totally. And it has, but like the fisheye kind of lens effect, whatever. So it's like, you know, it's very like, kind of like Beastie Boys, kind of like sort of like 90s kind of like yeah flair do you ever think back on those times like the debaucherous times they're just like oh my god i can't believe i survived that totally i had a lot of good time i mean we had fun yeah i mean you know we were kids we were probably doing what we should have been doing right i mean for the most part we were like in a rock band like you know touring the world like going places and doing different things like i was out like walking the streets in Paris or whatever, you know, three o 'clock in the morning going into, you know, different bars and meeting random people and do whatever.
53:16It was like, yeah, I mean, like, you know, let's have fun. And it was my youth and whatever. But, you know, at some point, yeah, it's like, I realized that I'm not one of those people that could just like, just like have a little bit of fun and then just like, you know, go to sleep. Like, I just like, I'm having fun. Let's keep going. And that's, I think what, like the definition of like someone who's an alcoholic, right? So I had to learn that. I don't denounce like A, I think A is great for people who especially works for, I don't do it, but I don't live under the pretense of that. Like, you know, I'll never have a drink again either.
53:48I think that's kind of helped me stay sober too is because like, I don't feel like, oh my God, I'm never going to have a drink again. Like, I honestly like want to be in my seventies sitting on my porch, you know, as an older man, drinking a beer, petting my dog or whatever. Like I can foresee that at some point in my future. But I just think like right now where I'm at, I feel good. I'm on tour. I'm out here. Like I like doing this sober. I like this part of life and doing it. But so I don't look at it as like, and I'll be all thing and you know, whatever this and that, whatever. But I just know it works now and I feel good.
54:20So I'm just going to keep doing it. Yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Living through what you've lived through, experience what you've experienced as a father, were you like extra protective because you know what's out there? or were you sort of like let your kids experience things the way that you experience things? I mean, you know, luckily that my kids haven't tested me that bad. I mean, I have good kids. I'm so lucky for that, especially my two older sons who, you know, they like, you know, and if you talk about like the parts that I'm probably ashamed about now is whatever, it's like, you know, when my kids were coming of age, like when I used to live in Sacramento, I used to have like a, I had a bar in my house.
55:02I had a tiki bar downstairs, which was awesome. I loved it. Yeah. But it was like, you know, every night, like my friends would be there playing records, you know, sitting at the bar, just drinking whatever. And my kids would be upstairs, you know, and I would like, you know, what do you guys want for dinner? Oh, we want Chinese food. Okay. I'd order them Chinese food. They want a new video game, just buy them a new video game or kind of whatever. And they just kind of like, you know, spend a lot of hours like on their own, just like, you know, doing the same thing as like upstairs, hanging out with their friends, playing video games, eating, you know, whatever they wanted and whatever.
55:33And now look in retrospect, just be like, man, it's like, and I was busy with my friends downstairs, you know, still like living, like I was on tour kind of thing. So now in retrospect, I can't get those times back with my kids when they were at a certain age where I wish I would have spent more time with them. Right. But you were young though, weren't when you, I was 20 years old when my son was personal, I was born. So I was pretty young myself. Yeah. But even in spite of that like i'm so lucky that my kids like have grown up and have been very responsible and are like upstanding citizens and you know they they work and they hustle still and they don't expect like you know just they're good they're good-hearted kid and um yeah my daughter's super smart she's like she uh she's in college and she she's in college yeah she's a she's a junior in She's going to be 21 next month too.
56:27So now they're gone. Because everybody's like, oh, you're an empty nester. I'm like, Nick, I still have dogs. I can't just do whatever I want whenever I want. The dogs are a lot. How many dogs do you have? So I have two little pugs in their rescues. They're awesome. But yeah, they're a lot of work in there. But I love it. Maybe deep down, I don't want to be an empty nester. I think that I have something to be responsible for all the time is something that I need. Yeah. have you guys started working on the next album yet oh hell no no i don't really i feel i mean the record just came out like three weeks ago two weeks ago yes well sometimes there's like stuff left over and no we do though we do have some left over and my idea would be maybe if there's like a soundtrack opportunity or something like that i think it'd be fun to go back and finish those things up if for a specific thing or something like that but um but as far as i going in to make like a complete new record i mean that's like a that's a long process yeah yeah i'm gonna enjoy like yeah just like not doing music and playing i started playing video games again which is kind of yeah i didn't allow myself to play video games while i was working on music because i just feel like if i have time to do this i should definitely have time to do what my job is so what games do you play right now i'm just i i'm playing these star wars like um sort of this platform game fall in order i think it's been out for a while there's a new one now that i but i want to play the beat the first one first so it's just kind of like an adventure game you go and there's like puzzles and stuff i gotta figure out which is kind of cool because i feel like i'm still using my brain and figuring things out yeah but uh but at the same time it's like i'm just like get me a little kidding and just like it's not music as much as i love doing music sometimes it's like it's kind of healthy i think to like do something that's not music i was watching an old interview with you.
58:13I think it was from 98 and it was from some like Dutch TV show. Anyway, you were in a pool hall and you were talking about the thing that was most important to you was that the band had longevity. And you were like, you didn't like care about the sound or the genre that you were placed in. The only thing that was important was longevity. And I was thinking, I'm like, okay, so you achieved it. Like here you are, how many years later, it's 2025. and you guys are bigger than ever, does that feel like a miracle in your mind or does it feel like it was written? Like, no wonder. It definitely feels, I don't know, a miracle.
58:53It's crazy to think about. It really is. I mean, it all happened so gradual though. I mean, obviously a lot more happened over the last few years kind of without our doing, you know? But like our career in itself, like we were never like one day just kind of going the next day we were the biggest band in the world we've always been gradually growing as a band yes we've had some like lulls in our career for sure but to look in retrospect now for sure it's like whoa like you know last night we're playing a sold out arena and i'm looking out there and everybody's holding up their camera lights or their their phone lights whatever and i'm just i'm like mesmerized by that how many because you get to notice when they do that, like how many people are up 200 yards away, like, you know, in a top back seat at a concert.
59:38And you're just like, this is insane. And seeing the demographic be all over the board, across the board of parents and their kids. And, you know, so no, even if I did say that back then, I definitely didn't expect it to come to fruition. So I'm like bugged out by it for sure. It's awesome though. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for doing this. I appreciate it. Thank you. And have fun tonight at the show. Nice talking to you. Check the episode description for a playlist of our favorite Deftones tracks along with their new album, Private Music. And don't forget to visit youtube.com slash brokenrecordpodcast to watch all of our video interviews.
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From the publisher
Chino Moreno is the lead singer of Deftones, the Sacramento band experiencing a resurgence as a new generation discovers their ’90s hits on social media. This year, Deftones have been selling out arenas while putting the finishing touches on their latest album, Private Music.
During the recording sessions, guitarist Stephen [Stef-in] Carpenter’s health took a turn when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Chino stepped in to handle more of the guitar parts, approaching the album with newfound clarity after getting sober.
On today’s episode, Leah Rose talks with Chino about the band’s early days living with their late bassist, Chi Cheng. He reflects on the story behind the Around the Fur album cover and shares his post-show ritual—which often includes winding down with rom-coms in his tour bus bunk.
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