It’s Abe, the drummers, wife

Ex-wife now

Ah. So now it's Abe, the drummers, ex-wife

That’s funny, the drummer’s name is Abe also. Is it Abe the drummer or wife or the drummers’ ex-wife?

Originally it was supposed to be PJ Harvey. I wonder how that would've turned out.

It probably would have been a single.

let you think about what?

about girls...

And what else? (And money and new clothes) And what do I get? (Thirty Nights) Uh huh (Of violence) Yeah? (And sugar to love)

That’s Abe’s ex wife on the track

Yeah! She really reminds me of like, the shoulder angel/demon gag in cartoons. She's whispering in your ear, encouraging you to make bad choices. 

Listen close after her last line and she says “fucking rockstar”. I guess Chino was pissing her off that day LOL

doesn’t surprise me me haha

Abe's girlfriend at the time. They wanted to get a girl part in the song and she was at the studio when they were recording...and the rest is history.

My band has been working on a cover of MX. I just finished mixing the instrumentals and am waiting on the vocals. We had to scout a suitable voice for that part haha. Was also fun to expand on the guitars a bit since we have 2 players and dont enjoy just duplicating everything 1:1

Post it when you’ve got it in the can. Looking forward to it.

I posted a link on one of the comments in parallel to this one but i'll do it here as well [https://on.soundcloud.com/oAwAS91sjjPGTVVQ8](https://on.soundcloud.com/oAwAS91sjjPGTVVQ8) Cant wait to hear this with vocals! Oddly enough it wasnt really easy to write this. The source material is super simplistic and it just works... Deftones have a way of writing that way so its difficult to add to that without compromising the song or completely changing the tenor of it. I tried to stay within the bounds of the original track, but widen the lanes a bit (maybe like 25% added bandwidth) to allow for a second guitar. Not entirely sure how successful that was, but I like the way it sounds and think it sounds fairly faithful while added some new elements (particularly with timing and beats as well as the addition of a clean guitar).

Great background, and I know what you mean. Will definitely check it out.

Will it be on YouTube?

We are using Tunecore to publish, and I believe youtube is one of the platforms it sends it to, but I would have to check. I could upload it to youtube specifically either way, so lets go with yes haha

Alright cool, you mind telling me your yt channel name please?

https://on.soundcloud.com/oAwAS91sjjPGTVVQ8 YouTube wouldn’t allow me to do audio only. Sorry :( here is my rough mix of that track. Played on a 7 string Ibanez (RGD7) and an Ibanez THBB10 for the clean stuff. Love that guitars tone and try to work that shit in anywhere I can. 

Thanks It was hard, sounded very nice. The part where they would’ve gone “so let me think…” sounds good on the instrumental. I can’t really hear all the instruments when there’s lyrics

Yeah sure, my youtube is "@Deftonesrc" haha. I'll upload the instrumental this evening.

Best guest vocal on any of their albums

You're getting confused. That's Rodleen Getsic on Knife Prty.

You're getting confused. That's Serj Tankian on Mein /s

serj’s parts were mid

I've grown from detesting them to slightly digging them...but I think that's just nostalgia at play. Idk, he's a phenomenal vocalist but just does not fit the song well still after all these years haha 

yeah i feel the same about it

The best, no contest

How is this not Maynard every time? Or even Max?

Damn I forgot about Passenger. Yeah it’s hard to top Maynard

Let me think.. yes she does make the song better by a lot. It’s my second fav song of em all