Entertain Me: A Film About the Deftones

“ENTERTAIN ME” was a tour documentary filmed while the band was promoting White Pony that Maverick wisely decided upon shelving. And it’s for the best really, because as it shows, not all was sunny and bright in the deftones camp. After relentless touring across the world for 5-6 years, and in addition to their tireless gigging in the years prior, the band had become fairly exhausted. Most obviously affected by the stress is Moreno, no longer the soft-spoken shy young man of various earlier interviews. Instead, he is resentful of his label, and of his fame. And, as witnessed to a marginal degree, his own pattern of substance abuse was beginning. Granted, it’s a bit self-indulgent, and the band doesn’t appear to be suffering or display it as much as for example Radiohead would present on their “Meeting People Is Easy”. And weirdly enough, the internal problems weren’t the worst thing occurring for them; after years of refining and retooling themselves into the beast of burden they’d become, deftones were actually becoming irrelevant. And the harbinger of their doom was opening for them as they toured the UK. — Maxwell Cavaseno (http://lyingaboutiguanas.tumblr.com/)