Like I say, long story but will shorten as its pretty boring TBH haha
My girlfriend at the time (actually now Mrs ArfaLobbon) used to work at Manchester Apollo and was the manager of the entertainments team there (organizing **** for bands and that basically haha) A band called Taproot were supporting Deftones (think it was 2001), my band supported Taproot 2 years previous and i still spoke to Stephen the singer, that's how i got my foot in the door!
I went backstage during Linkin Parks set (cos i ****ing hate them!) and spent the whole evening with Taproot and the Deftones after that getting *****'d. Mate, I was like a ****ing schoolgirl meeting Justin Bieber, but guess who could supply the smokeywokey in the vicinity! Moi, Winner!
Long story inbetween, my band split up, sent Demo's to Mr Moreno, nowt really happened with that, had conversations with him and actually still go on holiday to USA and stay with Stephen from Taproot. Still email Chino and he actually replies and stuff to this day!
Now I am a sales manager in South Africa and I ****ing hate my boring life slogging it out for "the man" everyday haha
Tried to type that withoot sounding like a dick by the way haha thats my little story! The man is pure legend