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06-23-2009, 12:16 PM
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The Mars Volta's new record is out today.
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06-23-2009, 12:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Frederick, Maryland | | | LOL, some of us have had it for 3 weeks...
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06-23-2009, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jacojacojaco  The Mars Volta's new record is out today.
Thank you! | yo, juan!!!! im ashamed to admit to you that ive already heard the record, but i bought it cuz it sounds great and i have every other volta album. |
06-24-2009, 11:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Canada | | | i picked it up on tuesday although I had heard it before, and it's an excellent album! it's different from Bedlam, but I'm digging it a lot! and there is some very cool bass work on it! Looks like I have some new stuff to learn! thanks Juan!
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06-25-2009, 07:32 AM
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ALSO also really wants to be Omar Alfredo Rodriguez-Lopez | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Walrus, New York | | | I'm a huge fan of your work and The Mars Volta, and I definitely like this album more than I liked Bedlam. I've always been a fan of your older stuff, but this new album nice, with its head in the right place. It emotes just as much as De-Loused and Frances the Mute, but in a different manner. Make sure to keep it coming!
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06-25-2009, 09:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Crown Point, IN | | I went to Best Buy soon as it opened Tuesday, and they didn't even have it out!? I made them check in their warehouse and they came out with an unopened box of them! 
So I got the first one!
I like it alot, very different!
Cotopaxi is my new favorite song! Awesome job! 
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06-26-2009, 04:19 PM
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I am very proud of this record. I got to play a lot of fretless which always makes me super happy.
I am curious as to what Best Buy didn't have it out. I want to sick Warner Brothers on them!
Juan
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06-26-2009, 04:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Orange County, CA | | | I love this Album and I especially like your place in the mix along with Thomas. You guys are groove central.
BTW...the show in Ventura, CA, was my first time seeing you guys live and you delivered 150%!
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06-26-2009, 04:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sycamore, IL | | | i'm off to best buy to pick it up now. thanks for making really good music.
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06-26-2009, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by jacojacojaco I am very proud of this record. I got to play a lot of fretless which always makes me super happy. | I loved you fretless work on "Agadez".
And my favorite cut on Octahedron has got to be "Desperate Graves".
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06-26-2009, 05:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sycamore, IL | | | ...annnnnd it's fantastic! and this is completely off topic but i was listening to ourobouros earlier and has anyone else ever heard the wood block? crazy....
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06-26-2009, 05:44 PM
| | | The last track is my favourite. Unfortunately i downloaded the album a few weeks ago but will buy a copy as soon as i have some pennies (the curse of being a poor student)
Going to be seeing you chaps in London next month and I cant wait! See you down the front Juan! |
06-26-2009, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Antelope CA | | | This album made me fall in love with them again. Omar is an amazing composer. He writes 7 solo albums, 2 albums with Zach Hill, 5 Mars Volta albums and STILL doesn't sound over played and still creates new and exciting music.
My only problem is that this was the only album where the kick was very present and it's a slower album.
But Desperate Graves and Copernicus are amazing.
EDIT: And since context clues lead me to believe Juan himself is in here...Your work with TMV has influenced my playing incredibly and I want that lakland signature bass of yours to come out.
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06-26-2009, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by antiochbass ...annnnnd it's fantastic! and this is completely off topic but i was listening to ourobouros earlier and has anyone else ever heard the wood block? crazy.... | Of course!
TMV's got an awesome percussion section.
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06-26-2009, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Jambi | | | Juan, the fretless is amazing. Especially on the bridge of "Desperate Graves". "Teflon" is my favorite song off of the album. I pre-ordered it on iTunes, and got the live version of "Cotopaxi". It's better than the studio version.
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06-26-2009, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by frozilla Of course!
TMV's got an awesome percussion section. | yea, it was cool seeing them in 06 with only 5 people then in 07 they had like 7-8 on stage. lol. |
06-26-2009, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by jacojacojaco I am very proud of this record. I got to play a lot of fretless which always makes me super happy.
I am curious as to what Best Buy didn't have it out. I want to sick Warner Brothers on them!
Juan | Just out of curiosity, were you playing a Darkstarred fretless Lakland? The fretless during the bridge of "Desperate Graves" blew my mind.
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06-26-2009, 09:57 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | I love Juan's playing. I think he's possibly the most underrated bassist going these days. As for TMV, I love Juan's playing 
Just kidding...I actually like some of TMV's stuff. Sometimes it's grating, but sometimes it's very interesting. Nobody can accuse them of selling out to the Man, that's for sure!
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06-26-2009, 10:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Canada | | | it's an excellent album and I really enjoy the fretless work on it! it makes me want to go out and get my own fretless!
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