I prefer Brandon Boyd's voice to Maynard's. Stylistically, Maynard's strays much farther from the norm, which makes him that much more unique, however, when it comes to actual singing, Brandon Boyd has a better range than Maynard. Lyrically, though, they are about on the same par with their brilliantness (is that even a word?) unfortunately, there just aren't very many lyricists like those two in the business anymore. 🙁
Originally posted by total nettlehead
most of what you said was true, but Brandon is not better than Maynard. there are very few people who can emote like Maynard. Daryl Palumbo, Jonny Santos, Chino Moreno, Anthony Kiedis...there an elite few. Brandon is one of those few, but he cant compare to Maynard in my opinion.
I guess it's all in what you prefer. I do agree with what you said about emoting. Sometimes, when listening to a Tool song it's almost like Maynard has just slit his body, opened himself up, and laid himself out on a table for all to see. I very much respect that, as it has to be (although cathartic) a very hard thing to do. I get the same feeling from Brandon, but on a slightly smaller scale. I don't know who Daryl Palumbo or Johnny Santos are, but as far as Chino and Anthony go, I guess Chino is good at it, I like the Deftones older stuff, but all I really got from him was growling. I've never really felt much emotion from Kiedis at all though, but he is a great singer. (lol, and my mom has a crush on him 🙂 )
Have you seen the Deftones live? They put on a pretty good show.
yes thats very true. Maynard is a lot more dramatic, Brandon is more cool and calm in style. and yeah i prefer Deftones older stuff, Around The Fur is a phenonemal album. Chino can be very emotive at times, but he is even more dramatic than Maynard.
Daryl Palumbo is the singer from Glassjaw, and Jonny Santos is the (former) frontman for Spineshank, both terrific vocalists.
like Chino, Kiedis is kinda hard to get at times, but for a different reason. he is very laid back and soft voiced, its really all in his lyrics and attitude.
hell yeah ive seen Deftones a couple of times. they blew me away. Chino has such a massive stage presence.
Not only does he have a great stage presence, he's funny as hell! When I saw them, it was back probably in 97 when they were promoting "Around the Fur". Chino had stage dived, and someone stole his shoe. When the song was over, Chino went back up onstage and asked whoever stole his shoe to please give it back. He made this huge deal about it, and then said "I may be rich and all but I still have to buy my own shoes!" I don't know why, but I thought it was hilarious. I've heard Spineshank before, just didn't know the singer's name. Are they even still around? Personally, my favorite Deftones album is "Adrenaline." I still love the song "Engine No. 9"