Frenzal Rhomb guitarist Lindsay ‘The Doctor’ McDougall has shared a tale of the time Deftones frontman Chino Moreno allegedly threatened to shoot him in the foot. While it’s hard to establish the veracity of the tale, you can read it in in McDougall‘s own words below, as recently told to Music Feeds:
“One year at the Big Day Out, we were about to play our hit* single Ball Chef, a jaunty tune about those good humans tasked with preparing “Rocky Mountain Oysters” or buffalo testicles for eager consumers. Our much-better spoken singer Jason was explaining that these are indeed a menu item in parts of America, something we’d seen for ourselves. I decided to add an extra element to the narrative, albeit a false one, and exclaimed “In fact if you go backstage, Chino from the Deftones is chewing down on a big plate of balls right now!”
Turns out that things you say on stage have a habit of getting back to the people you say them about, and an hour or so later Jason (who is often the target for reprisals being our tallest and most identifiable member) was being cornered by Chino and his merry music-makers, and being told things like “You used the D-word for your own devices!” and ‘If we were back in Sacramento, I’d shoot you in the foot.’
As McDougall goes on to say, they all later got to put it behind them and discuss the incident in a since-deleted radio interview.
