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Deftones In person

One of my favorite bands growing up was in town for the first time in over ten years. This was one in person opportunity I could not pass up as I heard all the guys in the band are friends of the sharpie. So I braved the cold and headed to the venue around 11am as I had a suspicion they would not be staying at the hotel. My suspicion proved correct and I creeped up in my car to the back of the venue and the busses had already arrived. The next couple hours saw a couple band members go in and out but did not get out of car. The venue is notoriously ornery towards collectors and didnt want to blow my cover unless I at least had a shot at Chino Moreno the lead singer. Plan worked out and Chino could not have been any nicer and signed 6/6 Album Covers and 2/2 Album inner Sleeves ! Apologized for the cold weather and thanked him for the years of enjoyment. Decided to call it a day and grab something to eat before the show. Deftones played a amazing two hour set to a packed house. After the show waited it out and was able to add guitar player Stephen Thompson to 6/6 albums. Was getting real late and cold decided to call it a night with 2/5 members having signed the albums. Anyone else a Deftones fan?

Here are the pics !

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Permalink Reply by David on March 22, 2013 at 2:40pm

Nice story :) It makes me want to go out and hunt for autographs too, but sadly not many celebrities visit my neck of the woods.

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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on March 22, 2013 at 2:59pm

That's really awesome, What do the venue do to collectors ? Like how do they really prevent you from getting to them? The venue near me normally won't get big acts but the access to them is very nice and open being next to public property you can stand there, or set up a lawn chair and wait out the day.

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Permalink Reply by Chris David on March 22, 2013 at 3:05pm

Well the access is in the back of the venue. So they can tell you to leave. They normally dont mess to bad if theres not a ton of fans back there. But after the shows theres usually a bunch of screaming drunk fans so it makes sense.