October 31, 2025 • 9 mins
The SOLD OUT Dia De Lost Deftones is happening tomorrow in San Diego and we were able to get some time with Chino Moreno, the lead singer of Deftones, and talk about the creation of the festival and a behind the scenes look at how everything is planned!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is perfect because we are gearing up for tomorrow.
This is going down tomorrow, the de Los Deaf Tones
happening tomorrow at Peco Park. It is going to be awesome.
What year are we in? Is it third or fourth?
Twentieth year? I saw six? No? Is it really? That's
(00:21):
how I mean? I can't. I have no idea how many.
It's been incredible, you know that this has become a
now annual tradition here in San Diego. We're very lucky
to have this and we are very lucky to be
joined right now by Gino Moreno himself from the Deaftones.
What's up, Gino?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
What's up? My friend? Going to talk to you again? Yeah,
we're good, dude. So, Gino, we're just talking about Diadellas Deptones.
Talk to me about the origin of this.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
How did this all begin? How did this all start?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Wow? So yeah, I think it was probably maybe maybe
a decade ago. I think when we started talking about it.
You know, we've always wanted to kind of do something,
uh festival sort of based like kind of based on
the kind of euro festivals where they're you know, kind
of a big kind of a broader mashup of you know,
of of music, you know, where it's not just so
(01:16):
centric of one uh genre or whatever. You know. I
think I think, uh, the idea of the first time
we went over to Europe and started playing some festivals,
was so awesome to see the variety of music that like,
you know, the same crowd of you sitting there and
sitting through all these different types of you know, these
different types of bands, and it was like, I think,
this would you know, this would be awesome if there's
something like this in America, I mean a lot of
(01:39):
so so, yeah, we talked about it for a while
and then yeah, we we kind of put the first
one together and uh we were lucky enough to get
uh you know, the padres and you know, and and
uh the city here to uh to to host us, man,
and it's it's been awesome. And obviously we took a
couple of years off for you know, during the pandemic.
But so, but this would be the this would be
the sixth one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Now, Okay, but I think you're right, that's crazy, man,
That is unbelievable, and we're we're very lucky to have
this here in San Diego. Has there ever been talks
of moving it or are we just gonna keep it
here in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't know, man, it's been so good. It's been
so you know, like I said, it's been awesome. Everybody's
treated so well, and it seemed to be a great hub.
I think, you know, people kind of come from all
around and it's a beautiful place. Man. I'm sitting out
here looking at staring at the waves in the ocean
crash right now, and oh you're in town. Beautiful day. Man,
I am. I got here a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
What part of town are you in?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Uh? I'm in Cornado?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh nice?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh nice? Now any like Halloween stuff? Since you're in town,
you're away from home? Like do you? I mean, I
know we're adults.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Are you gonna do go trigger treating?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
He's gonna go trigger treating around Tornado. It's gonna be
very fun at a.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Good place to go, hotel Dell stay in that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Maybe I maybe ring it some doorbells later.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, that would be pretty legit.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Man. People are like, what the.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Crazy? Yeah, oh that's great. You know, well, we're excited
about the show tomorrow. It's gonna be awesome. Most of
us are going to be there. It's going to be sick.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
The bill is great too. You know, it's not just
obviously you guys you got it. Just got a pretty
pretty sick bill too, right.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, man, that's it's a it's a great line up
this year.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Do you get a do you get a say in that?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah? I mean we we start like usually like a
month or two after you know, the festival happens, we
kind of you know, start talking, you know, the talks
begin of Okay, I'm going to do you know for
next year. You know this, this what worked, This was
really great. Let's you know, let's try this out. Let's
reach out to these people and uh yeah, you know
we start curating it and it's fun man, really putting
(03:42):
it together.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do you ever run across a band and go, you
know what, they would be really great for the show.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, all the time. I think that, Like for instance,
this year, uh, I think one of the artists, Ecavandal,
who's playing, I had been hearing about it whatever, but
I just it was like a chance thing. I was
like walking down down the street and she like, you know,
we just like literally ran it on the street and
I was like, hey, I know, I know you whatever,
that's great to start talking and like and then and
(04:09):
that was like right during the time we were putting
suff together, I was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw
in her name and that for the festival and early
the next day. Yeah, so it's like, you know, it's
it's really great man. Like I said, it's it's very
diverse and it's a fun lineup and there's something for everybody.
I feel.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, now with it being so diverse, which I think
is so awesome. I love that because most people like
multiple genres of music. But is there any genre that
you guys go like, like for me, countries not my jam, Like,
is there any genre you guys would be like, ah,
doesn't really fit the vibe.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I don't think so. I mean, you know, we we
we stay pretty open minded. I mean, did some great
country music, you know, I don't know. Maybe, I mean,
you know, we'll see, we'll we'll see. I don't think.
I don't think we ever like kind of uh, we've
never really closed ourselves off to being like no that
you know that and work. I think there's a type
of of something that will that will always work. I mean,
(05:03):
good music is good music, and that's kind of the
way we look at it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
That's true. All we're excited, man, we cannot wait now.
You know, I've talked to you over the years, and
you know, I know you're a Cali guy. But one
thing I don't know is what kind of music did
you listen to growing up? What was your influences?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, I grew up in the in the eighties, so like,
you know, a lot of like synth pop music was like,
you know, I was drawn to all that kind of stuff.
A lot of like British you know, British groups like Duran,
Duran and you know, depeche Mon would obviously The Cure.
Those were all the kind of dismiss those are all
like they seem so far away for me as a kid,
like you know, from the other side of the world,
(05:41):
and it just seemed like, you know, crazy to you know,
to like this type music. But it was also kind
of pop music back then too, so but also I
was like, just like everybody else, I love Michael Jackson
and Prints and things like that, you know, but yeah,
those were the times.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So what what led you to this type of music?
Because you know, everybody in the band, like you grew
up with, So, like, what what led you to this
type of music?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Honestly, it was just like my friends. These are like
like Stephen and Abe. I grew up with them. I
met them like around ten, you know, eleven, twelve years
crazy in high school. Yeah, and at the time, like
you know, we lived in Sacramento, so like Metallica from
you know, eighty miles away to go and so like
(06:24):
you know, like the early days of heavy metal for me,
that that's what that was. And and yeah, so like
that was like, you know, so I started getting introduced
to that type of music through them. So they were
really with the music. Actually, aspect of Deftones early music
was definitely inspired by you know, early metal and things
(06:44):
like that. But like I said, I came from a
school more of like a new wave and stuff like that,
so that was my influence. So I think the combination
of like what we did kind of didn't match, but
that's kind of what made it what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know, Yeah, no doubt. I mean we're we're around
the same age. And so when I was growing up,
you know, obviously listen to adam Ant and things like
that until until I got my first van Halen album
and then I'm okay, I think I figured it out now.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that that's kind of
the that's kind of like the way that you know,
I think, what what what's added to I think, you
know where how we look at music and kind of
where we are today even it's just like, you know,
there's kind of no no boundaries. We like what we
like and we do what we do. Sure people seem
to like it, so it's great.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It's just so crazy. You know, you're hearing about you
guys growing up together. Would you guys literally practice and
gam out in like a garage when you were as
were kids, and then you're like, oh, we're actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah. I mean we had we rehearsed in Stephan's garage
and it was like, you know, it was it wasn't
it was a tiny garage anyways, but it also had
like all his mom's like Christmas you know, decorations in
the storage and it and its washer and dryer, and
his mom would like wash clothes and dry clothes while
we were rehearsing. So it was like, you know, it
(07:58):
was like yeah, definitely like a tight situation, but we
made it work Man's.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That's so funny we now talking about where you came
from to today. So my daughter is fifteen and she
brought up your concert to me because she's found your music.
Do you guys like embrace the TikTok culture? Do you
think about that when you write music now? Or you're
just like, nope, we're just doing deaftones and hopefully young
(08:24):
people like it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, I mean I don't. I don't think we've you know,
readjusted the way we do anything. I mean, obviously it's
it's amazing, and I can't explain how you know, a
lot of these these younger generation is like you know,
I mean, yes, obviously you know TikTok, social media and
things like that, but the fact that they like it,
I mean, it's our connect with it, you know what
I mean. It's just it's I can't describe why or whatever.
(08:48):
So yeah, we just kind of, you know, just kind
of like I was saying earlier, do we kind of
just like what we like and we make what we like.
And it's great that you know, we've had this which
has a resurgence in this new generation you know, take
interest in it. It's awesome, It's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Killer well, welcome to town. You know, we cannot wait
for the show tomorrow, the old Steph Tones. It's going
to be awesome right there at Petco Park. Thanks for
the time this morning, man, I have a great show. Yeah,
thanks for having me right on there you go, Gina Morano.
It is perfect because we are gearing up for tomorrow.
This is going down tomorrow, the de Los Deaf Tones
happening tomorrow at Peco Park. It is going to be awesome.
What year are we in? Is it third or fourth?
Twentieth year? I saw six? No? Is it really? That's
(00:21):
how I mean? I can't. I have no idea how many.
It's been incredible, you know that this has become a
now annual tradition here in San Diego. We're very lucky
to have this and we are very lucky to be
joined right now by Gino Moreno himself from the Deaftones.
What's up, Gino?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
What's up? My friend? Going to talk to you again? Yeah,
we're good, dude. So, Gino, we're just talking about Diadellas Deptones.
Talk to me about the origin of this.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
How did this all begin? How did this all start?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Wow? So yeah, I think it was probably maybe maybe
a decade ago. I think when we started talking about it.
You know, we've always wanted to kind of do something,
uh festival sort of based like kind of based on
the kind of euro festivals where they're you know, kind
of a big kind of a broader mashup of you know,
of of music, you know, where it's not just so
(01:16):
centric of one uh genre or whatever. You know. I
think I think, uh, the idea of the first time
we went over to Europe and started playing some festivals,
was so awesome to see the variety of music that like,
you know, the same crowd of you sitting there and
sitting through all these different types of you know, these
different types of bands, and it was like, I think,
this would you know, this would be awesome if there's
something like this in America, I mean a lot of
(01:39):
so so, yeah, we talked about it for a while
and then yeah, we we kind of put the first
one together and uh we were lucky enough to get
uh you know, the padres and you know, and and
uh the city here to uh to to host us, man,
and it's it's been awesome. And obviously we took a
couple of years off for you know, during the pandemic.
But so, but this would be the this would be
the sixth one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Now, Okay, but I think you're right, that's crazy, man,
That is unbelievable, and we're we're very lucky to have
this here in San Diego. Has there ever been talks
of moving it or are we just gonna keep it
here in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't know, man, it's been so good. It's been
so you know, like I said, it's been awesome. Everybody's
treated so well, and it seemed to be a great hub.
I think, you know, people kind of come from all
around and it's a beautiful place. Man. I'm sitting out
here looking at staring at the waves in the ocean
crash right now, and oh you're in town. Beautiful day. Man,
I am. I got here a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
What part of town are you in?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Uh? I'm in Cornado?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh nice?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh nice? Now any like Halloween stuff? Since you're in town,
you're away from home? Like do you? I mean, I
know we're adults.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Are you gonna do go trigger treating?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
He's gonna go trigger treating around Tornado. It's gonna be
very fun at a.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Good place to go, hotel Dell stay in that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Maybe I maybe ring it some doorbells later.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, that would be pretty legit.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Man. People are like, what the.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Crazy? Yeah, oh that's great. You know, well, we're excited
about the show tomorrow. It's gonna be awesome. Most of
us are going to be there. It's going to be sick.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
The bill is great too. You know, it's not just
obviously you guys you got it. Just got a pretty
pretty sick bill too, right.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, man, that's it's a it's a great line up
this year.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Do you get a do you get a say in that?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah? I mean we we start like usually like a
month or two after you know, the festival happens, we
kind of you know, start talking, you know, the talks
begin of Okay, I'm going to do you know for
next year. You know this, this what worked, This was
really great. Let's you know, let's try this out. Let's
reach out to these people and uh yeah, you know
we start curating it and it's fun man, really putting
(03:42):
it together.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do you ever run across a band and go, you
know what, they would be really great for the show.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, all the time. I think that, Like for instance,
this year, uh, I think one of the artists, Ecavandal,
who's playing, I had been hearing about it whatever, but
I just it was like a chance thing. I was
like walking down down the street and she like, you know,
we just like literally ran it on the street and
I was like, hey, I know, I know you whatever,
that's great to start talking and like and then and
(04:09):
that was like right during the time we were putting
suff together, I was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw
in her name and that for the festival and early
the next day. Yeah, so it's like, you know, it's
it's really great man. Like I said, it's it's very
diverse and it's a fun lineup and there's something for everybody.
I feel.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, now with it being so diverse, which I think
is so awesome. I love that because most people like
multiple genres of music. But is there any genre that
you guys go like, like for me, countries not my jam, Like,
is there any genre you guys would be like, ah,
doesn't really fit the vibe.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I don't think so. I mean, you know, we we
we stay pretty open minded. I mean, did some great
country music, you know, I don't know. Maybe, I mean,
you know, we'll see, we'll we'll see. I don't think.
I don't think we ever like kind of uh, we've
never really closed ourselves off to being like no that
you know that and work. I think there's a type
of of something that will that will always work. I mean,
(05:03):
good music is good music, and that's kind of the
way we look at it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
That's true. All we're excited, man, we cannot wait now.
You know, I've talked to you over the years, and
you know, I know you're a Cali guy. But one
thing I don't know is what kind of music did
you listen to growing up? What was your influences?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, I grew up in the in the eighties, so like,
you know, a lot of like synth pop music was like,
you know, I was drawn to all that kind of stuff.
A lot of like British you know, British groups like Duran,
Duran and you know, depeche Mon would obviously The Cure.
Those were all the kind of dismiss those are all
like they seem so far away for me as a kid,
like you know, from the other side of the world,
(05:41):
and it just seemed like, you know, crazy to you know,
to like this type music. But it was also kind
of pop music back then too, so but also I
was like, just like everybody else, I love Michael Jackson
and Prints and things like that, you know, but yeah,
those were the times.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So what what led you to this type of music?
Because you know, everybody in the band, like you grew
up with, So, like, what what led you to this
type of music?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Honestly, it was just like my friends. These are like
like Stephen and Abe. I grew up with them. I
met them like around ten, you know, eleven, twelve years
crazy in high school. Yeah, and at the time, like
you know, we lived in Sacramento, so like Metallica from
you know, eighty miles away to go and so like
(06:24):
you know, like the early days of heavy metal for me,
that that's what that was. And and yeah, so like
that was like, you know, so I started getting introduced
to that type of music through them. So they were
really with the music. Actually, aspect of Deftones early music
was definitely inspired by you know, early metal and things
(06:44):
like that. But like I said, I came from a
school more of like a new wave and stuff like that,
so that was my influence. So I think the combination
of like what we did kind of didn't match, but
that's kind of what made it what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know, Yeah, no doubt. I mean we're we're around
the same age. And so when I was growing up,
you know, obviously listen to adam Ant and things like
that until until I got my first van Halen album
and then I'm okay, I think I figured it out now.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that that's kind of
the that's kind of like the way that you know,
I think, what what what's added to I think, you
know where how we look at music and kind of
where we are today even it's just like, you know,
there's kind of no no boundaries. We like what we
like and we do what we do. Sure people seem
to like it, so it's great.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It's just so crazy. You know, you're hearing about you
guys growing up together. Would you guys literally practice and
gam out in like a garage when you were as
were kids, and then you're like, oh, we're actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah. I mean we had we rehearsed in Stephan's garage
and it was like, you know, it was it wasn't
it was a tiny garage anyways, but it also had
like all his mom's like Christmas you know, decorations in
the storage and it and its washer and dryer, and
his mom would like wash clothes and dry clothes while
we were rehearsing. So it was like, you know, it
(07:58):
was like yeah, definitely like a tight situation, but we
made it work Man's.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That's so funny we now talking about where you came
from to today. So my daughter is fifteen and she
brought up your concert to me because she's found your music.
Do you guys like embrace the TikTok culture? Do you
think about that when you write music now? Or you're
just like, nope, we're just doing deaftones and hopefully young
(08:24):
people like it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, I mean I don't. I don't think we've you know,
readjusted the way we do anything. I mean, obviously it's
it's amazing, and I can't explain how you know, a
lot of these these younger generation is like you know,
I mean, yes, obviously you know TikTok, social media and
things like that, but the fact that they like it,
I mean, it's our connect with it, you know what
I mean. It's just it's I can't describe why or whatever.
(08:48):
So yeah, we just kind of, you know, just kind
of like I was saying earlier, do we kind of
just like what we like and we make what we like.
And it's great that you know, we've had this which
has a resurgence in this new generation you know, take
interest in it. It's awesome, It's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Killer well, welcome to town. You know, we cannot wait
for the show tomorrow, the old Steph Tones. It's going
to be awesome right there at Petco Park. Thanks for
the time this morning, man, I have a great show. Yeah,
thanks for having me right on there you go, Gina Morano.
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