You didn't know?
No. My drummer just asked me the same thing. I didn't know. :scowl:
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The Mars Volta
- Thread starter MakiSupaStar
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No. My drummer just asked me the same thing. I didn't know. :scowl:
Saw them a few times. They are one of my favorite bands. Amputecture sucks though. New cd is better. FTM is their best stuff to date.
ATDI was aweosme too but TMV is better, and this is coming from someone who played in an ATDI cover band.
ATDI was aweosme too but TMV is better, and this is coming from someone who played in an ATDI cover band.
haha...I read somewhere that he was actually ATDI's first bassist...hmmm....omar sounds like a guitarist who got stuck playing bass.
Did you check out the link I gave for De Facto? That was a side project for the guys in ATDI, and the band that hooked them up with Ikey Owens who worked with a number of reggae acts and is still working with them as the keyboard player for TMV.
De Facto had Cedric on drums and Omar on bass and was very much a dub/reggae influenced project. Those two guys seem to have a very wide array of influences, but since they did this project, people assumed dub must influence all their work, which largely it doesn't.
omar sounds like a guitarist who got stuck playing bass.
Yeah, he does. But Juan Alderete said that Omar has a tremendous understanding of the bass and it's role, which is why they work together so well in The Mars Volta.
i absolutely couldn't stand frances the mute when it first came out, but now i like it. i'll usually just listen to the first three songs, though. the other two have a very high not music-to-music ratio.
Agreed. Frances the Mute is a god damn masterpiece.
I totally hated their live show though. No dynamics, all spaztastic glory. Seems like most fans disagree, but a good handful of us give John Frusciante the real credit behind the group's studio wizardry.
i don't really know which parts john plays on the cd's, but i know that he didn't play guitar on "deloused," and that has, imo, the best guitar work.
hmm, i was under the impression that he played on a few songs from deloused. that's how i found out about them.
or was it just flea?
i wouldn't doubt it. doesn't change the fact that, IMO, he sounds like a guitarist playing bass.
Big +1. That album is scarily intense! I've kind of dropped the ball on TMV, I need to catch up on their stuff.
Big deal...
...I "discovered" one of my all time favorite bands "Rocket From The Crypt" the day after they broke up.
There is so much great music out there... I don't expect to ever hear it all. Oh well...
