Maynard & the Deftones??

[Hogpile]

This might be old news to some of you, but here goes. I was listening to Deftones White Pony last night, and Track 10 is a song called Passenger. Right when the singing started, I realized that it was Maynard in the background, and I was like what the fuck? Sure enough, I looked in the liner notes and not only does he sing most of the song, but he is credited with co-writing the song. Does anyone know how this collaboration happened? Is Maynard friends with someone in the band? Their not even on the same label so this struck me as a strange combination. If anyone knows how this came about, I would sure like to hear it.

[Scratch]

I'm pretty sure Maynard is friends with Deftones. Don't know how that came to be though.

[cradled]

I'm guessing Maynard was on there because of Chino Moreno, the singer of the Deftones. The guy has connections.

[Hogpile]

Well, I figured he must have some connection to someone in the band, otherwise he wouldn't have made an appearance on the song. I'm curious to how that connection came about though. I mean there are some pretty bad ass Deftones songs out there, but that shocked me that Maynard did a song with them.

[pacifister]

The way I heard it Chino pitched the concept of the song to Maynard and had him write it. He sent it to Chino with a few blanks for him to add his own lyrics.

There was a thread exactly like this on the Socialize forum. What's it doing under AEnima anyway?

[Hogpile]

I posted this here..........because fuck it, I just did. There is no general Tool information place to post, so I just posted it here because this is my favorite post section. Like I said its probabily old news, but it was new news to me, since I haven't read every post on this site and I haven't seen anything on this subject. By the way, not only did Maynard co-write the song, he sings most of it on the cd, so I seriously doubt the whole fill in the blanks theory. Thanks for the information though it was still interesting.

[4th Eye]

There's some interviews about Maynard in www.deftonesworld.com/interviews.htm

Check 'em out if you want info.

And that fill in the blanks theory is real according to Chino Moreno (unless he's lying). It's all in the interviews...

[Eulogy33]

Maynard TOTALLY owns this song.

[blindfold_off]

Passenger is a kick ass track. I think that Tool and Deftones or rather MJK and Chino have collaberated on other tracks too.

[Hodge]

i don't think they have

but yep, passenger is an amazing song and white pony was the last good deftones album

[blindfold_off]

I thought they did something called "Super Genius" together. It's probably bogus though. The info I mean.