Deftones/White Pony 12" Double Gatefold Vinyl

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Rare 12" Double Vinyl LP. Excellent condition (Brand New, never played)

From Wikipedia:
Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno (lead vocals and guitar), Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Chi Cheng (bass), Frank Delgado (keyboards and turntables), and Abe Cunningham (drums and percussion). Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident. They have released six albums to date, with three Platinum (Adrenaline, White Pony, Around the Fur) and one Gold certification (Deftones). Their most recent studio album, Diamond Eyes, was released in spring of 2010.

White Pony is the third studio album by American metal band Deftones. Released in 2000, it marks a significant growth in the band's sound, incorporating New Wave and shoegaze influences with the alternative metal edge the group had become known for. To this end, it is generally regarded by fans and critics alike as their most mature outing and is also their highest-selling album to date.

The album features three successful singles as well as the 2001 Grammy Award-winning track for Best Metal Performance, "Elite."

Background and recording
After a break from touring, the band spent four months in the studio writing and recording White Pony, the longest amount of time they had dedicated to an album thus far. Moreno explained that the majority of this time was spent trying to write songs, and that the writing of "Change (In the House of Flies)" was the turning point where the band began working as a group.

Despite being pressured to release the album sooner, the band decided to take their time making the album. Cheng explained that "We didn't feel like we had anything to lose, so we made the record we wanted to make." Moreno did not have a common theme in mind lyrically, but made a conscious decision to bring an element of fantasy into his lyrics, explaining that "I basically didn't sing about myself on this record. I made up a lot of story lines and some dialogue, even. I took myself completely out of it and wrote about other things."
The album features guest vocals by Maynard James Keenan on "Passenger", Scott Weiland on "Rx Queen", and Rodleen Getsic on "Knife Party".

Album name and cover
White Pony is street slang for cocaine. However, there are more likely meanings for the album name, including an obvious sexual reference:
"There's a lot of different references for White Pony. One of them is a cocaine reference and there's a lot of stuff... have you ever heard stuff like in dream books that if you dream about a white pony then you're having a sexual dream? There's a lot of stuff that kinda goes around it. And there's an old song (that goes) 'ride the white horse.' That's obviously a drug reference song." Crystal methamphetamine use is commonly referred to as "riding the white pony."

The original gray cover for White Pony is rumored to have been inspired by the album cover for the Hum album, You'd Prefer an Astronaut., of which Chino stated in an interview "...it's where Deftones get a big part of our influence from, tone-wise." and "Deftones were definitely influenced by it." The art mimics the mostly empty one color cover, with Hum's zebra in the lower left corner being replaced by a stallion in the lower right of the Deftones album.

Credits
Art Direction [Creative Director] – Kim Biggs
Art Direction, Design – Frank Maddocks
Bass – Chi Cheng
Drums – Abe Cunningham
Engineer [Additional] – Ulrich Wild
Engineer [Assistant] – Jason Schweitzer, Michelle Forbes, Robert Daniels, Ted Regier
Engineer [Pro Tools, Additional] – Scott Olson
Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
Mixed By – Terry Date
Photography – James Minchin III
Producer – Deftones, Terry Date
Programmed By – DJ Crook
Strings – Steph Carpenter*
Turntables – Frank Delgado
Vocals, Guitar – Chino Moreno
Written-By – Deftones

Notes
Recorded at The Plant Recording Studios, Sausalito, CA. ?Additional recording at Larrabee Sound Studios, West Hollywood, CA. ?Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios, West Hollywood, CA. ?Mastered at Master Disk.
Maynard James Keenan appears courtesy of Volcano Records.
Maverick Recording Company, 9348 Civic Center Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210-3606; ?75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019-6908. ?Manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Time Warner Company. ?©? 2000 Maverick Recording Company. All Rights reserved. ?Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. ?Maverick logo is a trademark of Maverick Recording Company. ?Made in Germany by WARNER MUSIC MANUFACTURING EUROPE.

Deftones – White Pony
Label: Maverick
Catalog#: 9362 47685 1
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 2000
Genre: Rock

Tracklist

A1
Feiticeira 3:09
A2
Digital Bath 4:15
A3
Elite 4:01
B1
RX Queen 4:27
B2
Street Carp 2:41
B3
Teenager 3:20
C1
Knife Prty 4:49
C2
Korea 3:23
C3
Passenger (Featuring Maynard James Keenan) 6:07
D1
Change (In The House Of Flies) 4:49
D2
Pink Maggit 7:32

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