do you like the way the water tastes

Rob, Doug, Jon and I went to the Family Values Tour last Tuesday at Riverbend, where we met up with Christy, Alex, Alex's sister, and their friends (actually Christy rode with us but let's not get picky). The gates officially opened at 2:00 but seeing as we didn't care about seeing anyone until the Deftones (the only band I cared about) we didn't get there until 6:30. That still ended up being too early and we were stuck listening to most of Stone Sour's awful set. Obviously it had been raining all day so the lawn was very, very muddy. Thankfully it barely rained the whole time we were there, and we managed to mostly keep out of the mud.

The Deftones took the stage right around 8. They opened with a good version of "Feiticeira" followed by the popular "My Own Summer." After that came "Beware the Water", which I believe is a new song from their upcoming album. Next came "Passenger" which was the song I'd hoped to hear the most. The White Pony version is my favorite Deftones song, and while the live version doesn't have the guest vocals by Tool's Maynard James Keenan, it was still the highlight of the show for me. "Change" was another highlight and probably got the most reaction from the crowd. They threw in some good tracks from Adrenaline like "Nosebleed" and "Root" and "When Girls Telephone Boys" from their self-titled album. We got another new song with "Hole in the Earth" before they closed with "Headup" and "7 Words". I thought it was a good set and the band sounded really good live. The shortness of the set was disappointing (11 songs in about 45 minutes) but since the Deftones were not the final act it wasn't too surprising. Jon and Rob wanted to stay for Korn so we did. I'm sure it was a good show if you're a Korn fan. As far as their music goes they actually weren't bad, but I'm just not a fan. They played for too long, and then we went home. Riverbend was really, really muddy (and half the people there were intentionally covered in it) but at least it barely rained while we were there. Even though the Deftones set was short, it was well worth the $10 lawn tickets to see them live. Their new album comes out October 31st; their previous effort wasn't their strongest but after hearing two of the songs, I'm pretty excited about Saturday Night Wrist.