The three-day festival features music by heavy metal, alternative rock and hip-hop bands.

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Cheng co-founded The Deftones, a Sacramento, California, alternative metal band, in 1988.

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The United States outgrew it as early as 1810 or so, as dozens and then hundreds of commercial banks began issuing gold-linked paper banknotes as an alternative to metal coins.

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With prices now falling, the attraction of the metal as an alternative investment has waned.

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