Watch Deftones’ Chino Moreno join Smashing Pumpkins onstage
Deftones frontman Chino Moreno hopped up for a run through of Pumpkins’ classic Jellybelly.
Because it’s not already enough that Smashing Pumpkins are currently opening for Green Day on their U.S. tour (yes, jealous), fans in Portland got an extra treat last night, September 25, when they were joined onstage by Chino Moreno.
The Deftones frontman got up to lend his voice to heavy banger Jellybelly from Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. And, as we say, we’re not jealous at all. Check out the video below…
Speaking to Kerrang! recently, Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan explained how he goes about balancing older, fan-favourite songs like Jellybelly with deeper cuts and new stuff.
“When Jimmy [Chamberlin, drums] and I brought the band back in 2007, we resisted the nostalgia thing. And we got basically beaten up constantly over it, including by the fans. But the good part of that was it kind of broke the spell of, like, ‘Look, if you only want to see us because you want to see our old music, well, that's just not going to work.’ It took me years to figure out, let's call it ‘the balance’, that's necessary.
“It's hard to explain unless you've lived it. Because there’s the classic thing where there's a devil on one shoulder and angel on the other, and the devil goes, ‘Hey, man, if you just write in these extra five songs that people want to hear, you're going to have a really easy night, and no-one's going to be mad at you.’ But that's not why you're up there. And you have to remember that there's this other part of the audience that wants to see you today. I'm not talking about you play a whole show of new songs – they want to see where you're at today. They don't want some ageing relic, they want somebody who's really emotionally engaged in their music.
“So, the key is finding out the old and the new songs that you feel very emotionally engaged in, so that when you play, the audience is like, ‘Wow, this band still care. This band still plays with some fire.’ That's the key to that. So, what I do is, I don't play any songs I don't want to play. I don't care if they're a classic or not. If I don't want to play it, I just don't play it. I don't put that on the audience like, ‘Well, I've got to play this one for you.’ I think that's kind of cheese.”
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