Pack Your Heart You Might Need It – Deftones at the Ventura Majestic Theater 8/6/2010

By Haaris Ahmed On August 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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Another night in Southern California and another kickass show, this time by the Deftones.

These dudes always manage to come through to Ventura Majestic Theater and blast the doors right off. Yes this was a sell out show and looking at the set list you can see why.

1.Needles and Pins
2.Dai the Flu
3.Risk
4.Beauty School
5.Knife Prty
6.Digital Bath
7.Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
8.Lotion
9.Hole in the Earth
10.Diamond Eyes
11.Rocket Skates
12.Prince
13.You’ve Seen The Butcher
14.My Own Summer (Shove It)
15.Elite
16.Sextape
17.Lifter
18.Change (In the House of Flies)
19.Bored

Encore:
20.Caress (Drive Like Jehu cover)
21.7 Words

I TOLD YOU. Deftones have a large enough library of awesomeness that they could have played anything I would have been happy. As you can see the set list was super aggressive and they were on stage for quite a bit. The jams were tight and the acoustics were surprisingly crisp. Ventura Majestic Theater is an awesome venue, but it can be tricky on sound but lucky for me and the rest of the sold out crowd that was not an issue.

Chino was having way to much fun, smiling, screaming, running around and talking shit. Smack in the front center they constructed a raised level so Chino can be elevated so everyone could see him as he would rock the fuck out. The lights were pretty cool as well, they had these spot lights that looked all fragmented like in a comic book or something, you had to see it for yourself.

The only thing I didn’t like was the merch dude who wouldn’t sell me a limited edition poster print, he said it was for people that bought VIP tickets, damn that dude for doing his job!!!!!

4 Meaty Meats

Oh this is me talking with Chino outside the show. Funny story I met him at my first radio promotion for 89.5 WSOU Seton Halls Pirate Radio, we were doing the midnight release of White Pony at a Menlo Park Mall and I was lucky enough to me Chino and the rest of the Deftones and they were super nice. Thats what I told Chino outside, and although he doesn’t remember our 30 second encounter 12 years ago he does remember the midnight release and was still super nice. Big ups to Jen and her ninja camera skills for taking this candid shot.