The Deftones 1997 album “Around The Fur” is the band’s most successful and sports two of their biggest tracks in “My Own Summer (Shove It)” and “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away).” The album cover also features one of the most iconic photos from the alternative metal/nu metal era.
The model for that photo was Lisa Hughes. A fisheye lens captured Hughes in her bra and panties, the Washington native looked like she might have just been in a mosh pit at one of the band’s concerts.
Jenkem Magazine recently tracked down Hughes who told the story of how the legendary cover photo came to be. Hughes said she would often go to after parties after bars had closed in and around Seattle, and on one night she ended up back at the Deftones’ rental condo. She didn’t know the band at the time but was friends with their guitarist Stephen Carpenter.
“I found those articles, you know, about like me (allegedly) being a groupie and this and that,” she said. “And I was like, maybe I should just start a little page just about myself and so people know that I’m Lisa. I’m just this awesome chick from Auburn, and I like to have fun. And there’s no groupie action going on here. Just me having a kick-ass time, you know?”
She continued: “It’s a pretty cool looking shot, right? Like with the fisheye lens just looking down. You know, it’s kind of risqué a little bit with my breasts, and people have asked, ‘Oh, look, you got a pimple there.’ I’m like, ‘Who gives a sh*t?’ What does that really matter? I’m a human being. I’m not a model and I could care less really. That’s me. It’s just cool looking. And if you look at the whole shot and the legs going into the hot tub, it just looks pretty awesome.”
Check out Hughes’ interview below.
