

They took us on the field and gave us jerseys and everything with our names on 'em and it was awesome." "It was brought up last year, like 'What do you think about doing it there?' So, we went down maybe six months before the actual festival and looked at the space and the people there were super nice and to get support from the Padres and Live Nation, who we've partnered with on the festival, it was just a super cool vibe down there. "I don't really actually have a definitive answer for that," he said. It's a beautiful park and the grounds, where the actual festival's at, are outside and it's a really cool vibe," Moreno said during a recent morning phone call. "Last year was sort of the perfect vibe, I loved the setting, and this year, there will be a few minor tweaks as to where things are situated, but overall the vibe was good so why change it? Let's do it again!"Īmusingly enough, Moreno himself doesn't exactly know why the beloved post-hardcore/shoegaze/rock group - who came up in the early-'90s via Sacramento and, aside from Moreno, is comprised of guitarist Stephen Carpenter, drummer Abe Cunningham, keyboardist/turntablist Frank Delgado, and bassist Sergio Vega - chose our fine city as the destination for the band's namesake event (which takes place this year on Saturday, Nov. Just ask Deftones frontman Chino Moreno, who debuted the band's very own Dia de los Deftones fest at Petco's Park at the Park last year. 1 ranked Major League Baseball stadium in the nation according to USA Today (and plenty of locals). It turns out that there are worse places to host your music festival than San Diego's Petco Park, the No.
