“I think they (Moreno and Carpenter) made more light of it with ‘White Pony,’ the creative differences. “If you ask me, it’s the same argument that’s been going on since day one. Deftones drummer Abe Cunningham, though, chuckled at how the situation was portrayed. Moreno, who had started to learn guitar, also began writing music for some of the material, a move that according to some reports, amounted to the singer invading Carpenter’s musical turf within the band. In particular, singer Chino Moreno and guitarist Stephen Carpenter were said to be in pitched battle over the direction of “White Pony,” with Carpenter wanting a relentless hard-rocking CD, while Moreno favored including more change-of-pace material alongside the group’s familiar furious rock assault. The Deftones’ 2000 CD, “White Pony” gave the Sacramento, Calif.-band a commercial breakthrough, producing a hit single in “Change (In the House of Flies)” and becoming the first million-selling re-lease in the Deftones’ career.īut perhaps the bigger story - if interviews following that album are any indication - was that the “White Pony” project created considerable turmoil within the group.
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