I love how every three to four minutes, a bunch of the crowd starts clapping like the song is going to end. But no. This is Tetragrammaton. This song never ends.
@@sunyata1016 I'd argue that performances before the release of Ampertecture Cedric still sang and focused on singing well. The mid-era of Volta lead to poor live vocal performances. Adding squeaky vocals on Bedlam didn't help
@@redshiftproductions7158 he clearly fucked his voice up sometime between Frances and Amputecture, and just never said anything. It's all been downhill since.
I don't know how anyone can point out something wrong with this performance. keeping up with tempo is not a drummers' task, it is everyone's. besides, everytime they nail it getting back "in the tune" together and the guys are having so much fun, you can tell that by their expressions. chill out and enjoy, bitch!
everyone calm down about his voice! If he put no passion into it and just concentrated on "hitting the right notes" the energy and passion would be gone. TMV is the GOAT! (greatest of all time)
I saw them live a couple times with this line up in Michigan when this album came out and they were really good shows. I loved their original drummer, Jon Theodore, but Tomas Pridgen was a great choice to replace him at the time.
Jon showed a lot more restraint and had a much better pocket and groove than Tomas imo. Tomas is to flashy at certain points and he loses the timing because of that. Jon was a perfect combo of chops and style fitting their sound perfect. Don’t get me wrong pridgen is immensely talented, maybe just a little too overboard for a well balanced sound, especially music as complicated as this which is near impossible to mix properly live
hate to break it to you but... Blake Fleming is drumming on the Rollin's show... As Cedric once described him...Blake is the father of the Mars Volta's beats...like Roulette Dares and Cicatriz ESP... even on Frances the mute...google him
no los entiendo estos videos en vivo creo que son de lo mejor, creo que a ustedes les gusta the mars volta solo por un par de canciones mas extendidas y normalitas, pfff nooooooobs!
Because, as far as I've seen, Rush improvises their long stuff and I've also never watched a Dream Theater performance. I like that I wrote this on Tetragrammaton before watching them do Cassandra Gemini anyway haha.
Michael Coronado yeah, but i dont think they suck or anything i just dont like them. But i put that example cuz everyone is complaining about cedric singing being too loud and screeche, and i think maynard is the opposite to that
+Leandro F I've seen both Tool (in '06) and The Mars Volta (in '05) live, and Maynard sang perfectly, while Cedric....ehhh not so much. And that was over a decade ago when his voice was healthier. Then again the entire band was kind of off in general, not really staying true at all to the studio tracks and just freewheeling every song to a fault. They were opening for System of a Down, which we liked a lot, but we mainly bought the tickets for The Mars Volta. Long story short though, ate too many pot brownies->mars volta plays and insanity-laced set->one of my friends had his head in his lap the entire TMV set->finally a TMV set ends, small reality check, then SOAD comes on to play us into a more calmed, orchestrated state of mind...that shows how nuts TMV set was that System of a Down calmed us down haha
You know all their names? lol Got posters on the wall? I don't see these guys having any trouble. Some fans might, the musicians themselves don't seem to have any issue following.
Theodore didn't played the drums in the first albums, also Bedlam in goliath and Octahedron have some of the most craziest drum beats ever, also Xenophanes (Omar´s solo album) and some other are incredibly well played by Pridgen. C'mon even Deantoni can't even play goliath properly.
Anticipated what was recorded as an almost drumless section of this song with some solid guitar work...got that section with almost no guitar and pridgen having what can only be described as an epileptic fit on his drum kit, with no regard for the music at all. His over-filling of other sections also threw the rest of the band on a few occasions. All in all, someone needs to tell that guy to calm the fuck down.
No bueno! Creo que si tuvieras la capacidad de tocar de esa manera, bueno, lo digo por mi misma, no te u vieras reservado nada! y mucho menos con esta gran canción, creo que para eso son las presentaciones en vivo!, para improvisar, alargar, disfrutar y dar toda tu energía y hasta sumarle agresividad, y hasta cambiar la canción, por que no? que aburrido escuchar todo perfecto como la pista, si es así, mejor me quedo en mi cuarto a escucharla con los audífonos. A mi me encanto esta presentación, conociendo a TMV y sabiendo de que nivel es su música, a mi parecer, no me molesta que Pridgen tocara así, al contrario, mis respetos :)
Yes if it sounds good, why not? But this doesn't. And it would be fine if he added another element to the song that made it interesting to replace the section of song that was missing, but instead he did what he always does......had a spasm and played at a million miles an hour. Ruined it. No one wants to see a live performance identical to what is on the record, but if you want it to be different, you want it to be more interesting. This is not
Se escucha impresionante. Si no fuera por el afán estúpido de los "metaleros" por seguir oyendo a Mars Volta como un grupo más de metal, cuando en realidad, lo que producía era más arte que buenos riffts-brutales. Por eso Omar terminó hartandose.
@@fallethbecauseyourock Nada que él mismo Omar no halla declarado ya públicamente. Mi punto es que una de las razones por las que se acabó Mars V. fue el rumbo que empezó a tomar la banda en términos del público-mercado que pretendía alcanzar y satisfacer en sus últimos años. Se supone que, según Omar, en entrevistas, Mars Volta nace como una banda experimental en dónde se le daba cabida a la improvisación y demás performance. Posteriormente el rumbo de la banda toma otro camino... y esta es una de las razones por las que el propio Omar Rodríguez deja la banda, entre otras, claro. Por otro lado... creo que estaba muy drogado cuando escribí ese comentario, no te claves.
@esqueleto12 People like you need to realize that playing fast does not make you good. Just cause Thomas hammers out ridiculously fast drum lines (and I mean that literally. some of his drumlines attract ridicule because they are so sloppy) doesn't mean he is anywhere near John Theodore in terms of technicality and tact. Point being: Thomas is clearly the one that got lost, not the rest of TMV's all-star cast.
At the Drive-In: We've wrote and mastered a new sub-genre lets go our separate ways and diverse into whatever. The Mars Volta: Welcome to the next gen of music fuckery.
what makes them them is the variety of influences. There's a part of this song that sounds like the punk band Flipper (The Rosalyn Carter bit), partly inspired by egyptian singer Oum Khalthoum who they listened to a lot, robert fripp like guitar riffs, pink floyd, jazz. It's got it all @@molagbal5313
A lot of people say Pridgen overplayed but I think he fit this era perfectly. Bedlam was basically brutal prog and Thomas brought his free jazz/improv influence upfront in the live performances
Exactly, he simply did what he was being asked to do (and pulled it off very well). He’s actually a more versatile drummer than what many people gave him credit for, I think.
I think people are just so into it trying to understand whats going on. Its a lot of tingling info going to your brain. I feeling like that classical music has . Its cool to know these song and follow them. Not all can.
Cedric may be a hit or miss live, but the guy is still such an excellent singer. Not only he writes the craziest lyrics, but also some of the best vocal melodies in rock.
Yeah he's definitely rough around the edges when he tries to sing high notes. It's not that he can't hit the high notes, it's just that he doesn't hit them consistently and the distortion effects can exaggerate the sound of missed note. That and he was probably high as fuck.
I saw them perform live at Cains Ballroom in Tulsa, OK. They went for damn near 3 hours and the crowd is livid yelling for an encore. Cedric and Omar look at each other, then look at the drummer. I shit you not Thomas Pridgen hits a solo and ramps it all the way up; we got a 45min encore :)
@@myrajoyce783 Man, it had to be like 5-7 years ago? Not 100% sure, it's been a LONG-TIME. The second time it was a smaller group on stage and the crowd had some dick heads. Someone threw a water bottle on stage and left almost instantly after that. Don't blame them.
WOW, consider yourself lucky to have seen a TMV encore. They only did encores in their very early touring days. But the way you described it doesn't sound like a traditional encore where the whole band leaves the stage, waits like 5 min, then comes back. Plus, encores are usually around 10 mins of music, 1-3 songs. Not 45mins like you got. I wonder if those extra 45min were just part of their planned regular setlist? And they were just tunning/preparing for the next 45min? They're known for playing long shows. A lot of their songs are longer than 10mins. And when they play them, they often extend solos, making those songs even longer. Seen them live 5 times, all those shows lasted around 2½ hours (actual playing time) at least. 🤷🏾♂️
Pridgen is on a whole other level. 2 hours of some of the most challenging drumming I've seen performed, and he's looking like he just warmed up. Scanning the crowd, smiling and nodding at people, and he's just gunning you down non stop.
Tell me it's over Rusbel awaits I've been to the surface And nothing is there Eyelids sank muffled In the nerve aura sound But when she awakes Will she still be with us My heart is darkclots Leap year is late How did you get here Ask all but the bait From a christ that went hissing Constricting his cells We summon by candle by book and by bell Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence Stuffed the voice inside of God Mirrors to the animals The sermon goes mourning Pricking it's hail Slothful the child That preys on the seed Shall behead the drough Wound under sleeves I hope you have room In a thicket of vines Give me a moment To clean what you've stole The streets will hang high Stretch ribs and let taste We'll cover the smell with silver nitrate Mending the cuts of your prosthetic faith Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence Stuffed the voice inside of God Mirrors to the animals Then so long Dear mnemonic Assume the form You've given me and I'll spill Now hold on Just hold my hand Say that they made you But you brought your own leash Tell me no more no Say I'm the last one Outside By the drift You read my will Of thread and itch Failure to comply As failure to decease And still you won't know everything I've built the fall Sulking drained the fall of my pale will Swarming by your steps Licking the ankles of blasphemer guilts It only meant to drape a plastic Over the stuck pig scalp of head To cover the sock where the flatline had spread The kiosk in my temporal lobe Is shaped like rosalyn carter She says my map is home again But torn face down I have only but a million blemishes To tell you all about In the end they just gagged me To make him come out Gas me the hind Of your five legged snare Tooth picks the eye But no things there Down drags your waltz Cross the alter top From a sleep that Depravation knew Trespass your form I'm void of dusk I'd ask to look But the mask stays on You'll levitate Teutonic print Cruelty is the wrath Of my instrument In the end they just gagged me To make him come out You locked the cuffs Arsenic erupts Will you drink the shadow Of my red hair You and your false Witness to God You've one in the chamber But your finger got stuck Let slip the sound Of a cry for help But all was lost On the night you walked Palms speak through eyes Serve your memory lost I contaminate with insignias In the end they just gagged me To make him come out Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence Stuffed the voice inside of God Mirrors to the animals Wait till it get my hands on you I won't forget a face that left me Just you wait Till I get my hands on you I can't You won't remember Unwrap my corpse And let it thaw In the eye of the needle I can't get out They'll check my wrist I'll faint a pulse I'm not the human You thought I was If you pet the night Sixth pentacle dice If you roll the seven St. michael dies They'll be no ransom Don't shut my mouth I scald the answer You're afraid of
I don't know how these guys do it, but they're a prog band that is sloppy sometimes, and when they are it works in such a punk rock way, they straddle the line perfectly and make both worlds work for them. It make stuff like the Tetra intro sound like its in free-time.
Thomas didn't do a very good job of a lot of the earlier stuff, he often over plays the parts and loses the bar line. But also this band was never really a "prog" band even though everyone labels them as such. They definitely come from a more punk background then most prog musicians.
I don't understand people complaining about this era, they wanted a more chaotic style as shown in boy album and love shows, it was Omar's artistic vision lol so who are we to decide it's bad
Now I know what could have happened if Robet Plant had joined Santana Band and together they had gone to a bunch of Punk gigs and a Jazz Festival, ha-ha
Mitch Grenke i honestly cant stand their lyrics. I felt like it was the weakest part of this band. Its ok to be abstract but shit needs to make at least some sense for me to like it. Cedric said himself none of this is meant to make any sense. Just random words vommited in a page. Anyone can do that.
"Anyone can do that". You're so wrong. Maybe lots of people think they can do it, but finding the right words that will, the words of the late Mark E Smith "put a chill up the spine" is ridiculously difficult. Just from this song alone, the list of great lines is massive. "Eyelids sank muffled in the nerve aura sound" "We summon by candle by book and by bell" "Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence" "The sermon goes mourning" "We'll cover the smell with silver nitrate" "Outside by the drift You read my will of thread and itch" "The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalyn Carter" "Gas me the hind of your five legged snare Tooth picks the eye but nothing's there" "I'd ask to look but the mask stays on" "I contaminate with insignias" Each of those lines is great for different reasons. A lot of them have no real meaning as far as I can tell, they're just collections of words that sound good together, but you just try writing something like that.
Chris Carter He is badass and a child prodigy, but I liked their former drummer Jon Theodore way more. He's the one who actually recorded the drums to this song before he left the band, so if you like the drums they're actually Jon's beats. Luckily he's the drummer for Queens of the Stone Age.
@@MrCrispCookie does he play double kick? I’m not that familiar with his playing here but he’s like a train with no breaks. He’s coming and there’s no stopping him
@@ExternusArmy He plays single kick, there's a video somewhere on TH-cam where he talks about how he plays like that on a single pedal. Absolutely insane stuff
This live performance is boss. A lot of The Mars Volta live performances I find are just mixed so terribly so they can't capture the right balance of each instrument and you end up hearing a muddled mix of junk. This is pretty good.
@@gustavosalmeron2013 next gen doesn't understand rock and roll live. Some rough performances doesn't mean their talent and creatively aren't way above average.
Saw them a few days ago, this is the rebirth of one of the greatest prog rock bands in history my friends. Hand on, hold tight, and enjoy the second go round on this ride!
This is, for me, like watching early Santana playing a mash up of Zeppelin and Yes! I freaking love it! Sounds like HEART OF THE SUNRISE and WHOLE LOTTA LOVE at times! I hope the rest of their stuff is like this! This is the first time hearing I'm hearing them. Sad, I know, but true none the less.
Well...I look at it this way....they always say...save the best for last...so its always nice to stilk have a unique first time experience on music thats been around. I know this band for about 20 years and this song is new to me, also
it makes me sad that pretty much all decent quality live footage we have of amputechture are without jon theodore and cedrics voice already being shot. :(
The Tetragrammaton refers to the "true" name of God given in Jewish (and then later Christian) scripture. It is named such because the name is represented by 4 Hebrew characters. In English the most common representation is YHWH- from which we get "Yahweh."
Honestly I'm shocked i found this randomly looking up yhwhs real pronoucation may you take heed and do not speak the real way it is said if you didn't know may it be forgiven. This stuff sounds like rush. I like rush honestly this is amazing and reminds me of my stuff I honestly am from 1987 and I started playing at 16 and started developing some skill at 18 by 21 I was recording and placing on TH-cam. If your curious I have over 100 songs. Not trying to ad just was shocked this was in existence. They say punk but I'm sure it's like metal with amazing screams before wolfmother had their share in the game I want more of this band to be honest these folks rock. Cheered me up.
6:42 As if those chimes were audible in this recording. Why, Mr. Video Editor? Did you just want to highlight the failings of the Audio Guys who didn't have a mic in the right place for this?
They arent for everyone and can totally sound like a train wreck at times, but those that do like them REALLY love them. It's an acquired taste, that most will probably never acquire. They arent all that popular for a reason, but the guitar is NOT out of tune, he just likes to play off key notes to get a weird sound. Just his preference.
@donisaac5789 This is prog rock. They're basically King Crimson dipped in salsa. There's nothing metal about the Mars Volta at all lol. Prog metal would be a band like Dream Theater or Symphony X.
@@SlappaccinoThey do sound slightly similar to Tool at times, Prog Metal band. I also read somewhere Mars Volta was inspired by them and Dream Theater, some other ones as well that I forgot. But yeah. I can hear it, definitely.
The drumming in this song is really wild! I'd actually like to hear the intensity just pulled back a notch, in the heaviest, loudest parts anyway. I'm a big fan of TMV though.
Any time I did psychedelics with my good friend back in the day we would sit in my car with my system cranked up and play this song from start to finish. My favorite Volta song.. RIP buddy.
All I'm gonna say is two things. 1. This is how you're suppose to play drums man. If you're not playing at this level of intensity, get out of the game. 2. These guys need to get Pridgen back.
Very impressive rendition of this song. Musicianship is so strong. Its clear that Theodore did the work in the studio, his ability to support the songs was just amazing, not taking anything away from Pridgen.
While I really do appreciate Thomas's style of drumming and how deep into Prog they went at this point - Thomas is not Jon Theodore. Especially in his overall feel for what made TMV so musically dynamic. Thomas is overplaying and it's pulling away nuance from the song's composition. Jon understood the ebb & flow and the intricacies of a varied approach. -Dustin
I agree that Thomas did overdo the drumming but that groove at 12:16 is pretty fucking cool! Altho he may have some drummer tourettes I still have huge respect for the guy. So much talent! And also, I will agree that this was an off night for Cedric :/ he still sounded pretty good tho. Huge respect for him as well!
Thank you Yahoo for thinking every single camera shot needs to be all 'mtv'd out- zoom in! zoom out! move the camera! show the crowd! Can you just stop for one second and show the ripping musicians on stage.
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I love how every three to four minutes, a bunch of the crowd starts clapping like the song is going to end. But no. This is Tetragrammaton. This song never ends.
lol
The song never ends.
It's also jazz! In between masterful music sections, the audience claps! Just like a brilliant improvised section from a jazz band ;)
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Bahahah. Too true
Cedric plays two instruments live:
His vocals
and his FANTASTIC BODY MOTIONS LIKE HOT DAMN GURL
What vocals lol....he cant sing for shit live...and im probably the biggest mars volta fan...but i have to be truthful...there just a studio band
@@sunyata1016 I'd argue that performances before the release of Ampertecture Cedric still sang and focused on singing well. The mid-era of Volta lead to poor live vocal performances. Adding squeaky vocals on Bedlam didn't help
His afro is another third instrument
@@redshiftproductions7158 he clearly fucked his voice up sometime between Frances and Amputecture, and just never said anything. It's all been downhill since.
I always thought Cedric should have maracas live so they would be playing the rythmn of his dancing.
This might be the greatest song ever made.
2022 THE MARS VOLTA TOUR!
out of the world.
Please come back soon.
@megaohmz actually, the singer is a Mexican-German American from el paso texas.
He is playing constant tri-tones and rocking some semitones for good measure.
uff ese baterista es una bestia!!!! muy bueno!
I don't know how anyone can point out something wrong with this performance. keeping up with tempo is not a drummers' task, it is everyone's. besides, everytime they nail it getting back "in the tune" together and the guys are having so much fun, you can tell that by their expressions. chill out and enjoy, bitch!
yeah its not supposed to be perfect they said it themselves its not for your plesure but for the energy they feel while performing
this is so cool
everyone calm down about his voice! If he put no passion into it and just concentrated on "hitting the right notes" the energy and passion would be gone. TMV is the GOAT! (greatest of all time)
The guy with the maracas.
I saw them live a couple times with this line up in Michigan when this album came out and they were really good shows. I loved their original drummer, Jon Theodore, but Tomas Pridgen was a great choice to replace him at the time.
Yea me too. Saw them when they just formed snd they were walking around cobo so high lol...like another planet high lol
Jon showed a lot more restraint and had a much better pocket and groove than Tomas imo. Tomas is to flashy at certain points and he loses the timing because of that. Jon was a perfect combo of chops and style fitting their sound perfect. Don’t get me wrong pridgen is immensely talented, maybe just a little too overboard for a well balanced sound, especially music as complicated as this which is near impossible to mix properly live
I fucking love watching the crowd in tmz videos they're so baffled like they wanna dance but they all like wtff
That's because Pridgen has awful rhythm in this performance
hate to break it to you but... Blake Fleming is drumming on the Rollin's show... As Cedric once described him...Blake is the father of the Mars Volta's beats...like Roulette Dares and Cicatriz ESP... even on Frances the mute...google him
no los entiendo estos videos en vivo creo que son de lo mejor, creo que a ustedes les gusta the mars volta solo por un par de canciones mas extendidas y normalitas, pfff nooooooobs!
Y’all’s drummer GOTTA be built to sustain that intensity for SIXTEEN MINUTES
Because, as far as I've seen, Rush improvises their long stuff and I've also never watched a Dream Theater performance. I like that I wrote this on Tetragrammaton before watching them do Cassandra Gemini anyway haha.
the sound of this is like a life lesson to me
love how the crowd is a few into its
Pridgen gives a spice on the mars volta he does whatever he wants xD
HE FUCKING RULES!!
Im loving this drummer!!!!🔥🇺🇸
maaan its all about deloused in the comatorium. thats the god juices. thats an epic. thats lord of the rings. thats homer. thats god juices
Anybody please please can tell me what kind of scales use Omar rodriguez PLS :D
i hate people trying to replace the members of mars volta, if you dont like cedric voice go listening to tool or some other shit,
Leandro F the thing is, I absolutely adore his voice on the records - but live it's mostly pretty disappointing to me.
***** I dunno man, I would simply say some people are just phenomenal studio AND live singers and others (the more frequent case) just aren't
+Leandro F so you uh dont like tool?
Michael Coronado yeah, but i dont think they suck or anything i just dont like them. But i put that example cuz everyone is complaining about cedric singing being too loud and screeche, and i think maynard is the opposite to that
+Leandro F I've seen both Tool (in '06) and The Mars Volta (in '05) live, and Maynard sang perfectly, while Cedric....ehhh not so much. And that was over a decade ago when his voice was healthier. Then again the entire band was kind of off in general, not really staying true at all to the studio tracks and just freewheeling every song to a fault. They were opening for System of a Down, which we liked a lot, but we mainly bought the tickets for The Mars Volta. Long story short though, ate too many pot brownies->mars volta plays and insanity-laced set->one of my friends had his head in his lap the entire TMV set->finally a TMV set ends, small reality check, then SOAD comes on to play us into a more calmed, orchestrated state of mind...that shows how nuts TMV set was that System of a Down calmed us down haha
I think this needs more camera angels.
You know all their names? lol Got posters on the wall?
I don't see these guys having any trouble. Some fans might, the musicians themselves don't seem to have any issue following.
Where are they from?
controlled chaos!
2022
I am 100% behind Pridgen. I absolutely love him, HOWEVER, he does mess up a by ONE beat at 1:12.. Lol.
Theodore didn't played the drums in the first albums, also Bedlam in goliath and Octahedron have some of the most craziest drum beats ever, also Xenophanes (Omar´s solo album) and some other are incredibly well played by Pridgen. C'mon even Deantoni can't even play goliath properly.
Impossible to feel the groove in Pridgen's drumming sometimes
yes, Tetragrammaton means "4 words (every mean God) that nobody can say"
Anticipated what was recorded as an almost drumless section of this song with some solid guitar work...got that section with almost no guitar and pridgen having what can only be described as an epileptic fit on his drum kit, with no regard for the music at all. His over-filling of other sections also threw the rest of the band on a few occasions.
All in all, someone needs to tell that guy to calm the fuck down.
No bueno! Creo que si tuvieras la capacidad de tocar de esa manera, bueno, lo digo por mi misma, no te u vieras reservado nada! y mucho menos con esta gran canción, creo que para eso son las presentaciones en vivo!, para improvisar, alargar, disfrutar y dar toda tu energía y hasta sumarle agresividad, y hasta cambiar la canción, por que no? que aburrido escuchar todo perfecto como la pista, si es así, mejor me quedo en mi cuarto a escucharla con los audífonos.
A mi me encanto esta presentación, conociendo a TMV y sabiendo de que nivel es su música, a mi parecer, no me molesta que Pridgen tocara así, al contrario, mis respetos :)
Yes if it sounds good, why not? But this doesn't. And it would be fine if he added another element to the song that made it interesting to replace the section of song that was missing, but instead he did what he always does......had a spasm and played at a million miles an hour. Ruined it.
No one wants to see a live performance identical to what is on the record, but if you want it to be different, you want it to be more interesting. This is not
Bueno, es ahí cuando se separan las opiniones y los gustos, como quien dice "cada quien" ;)
Se escucha impresionante. Si no fuera por el afán estúpido de los "metaleros" por seguir oyendo a Mars Volta como un grupo más de metal, cuando en realidad, lo que producía era más arte que buenos riffts-brutales. Por eso Omar terminó hartandose.
osea qe segun tu logica, se hartaron a causa de algunos pseudo metaleros?.. o cual seria el punto al qe tratas de llegar?...
El te lo contó?
@@fallethbecauseyourock Nada que él mismo Omar no halla declarado ya públicamente. Mi punto es que una de las razones por las que se acabó Mars V. fue el rumbo que empezó a tomar la banda en términos del público-mercado que pretendía alcanzar y satisfacer en sus últimos años. Se supone que, según Omar, en entrevistas, Mars Volta nace como una banda experimental en dónde se le daba cabida a la improvisación y demás performance. Posteriormente el rumbo de la banda toma otro camino... y esta es una de las razones por las que el propio Omar Rodríguez deja la banda, entre otras, claro. Por otro lado... creo que estaba muy drogado cuando escribí ese comentario, no te claves.
@@zeregor De hecho, sí, públicamente lo contó, ahí andan las entrevistas en youtube
"I have only but a million blemishes to tell you all about!"
That's because Jon Theodore was on the record.
He makes Mitch Mitchell look like a 95 year old playing a blues shuffle at 90 BPM. hahahaha
Thomas Pridgen is freaking awsome! He is supposed to be heard and he plays really fucking good so what the fuck are ya'll whining about?
@kyletheenigma If you ever saw them live, him and Cedric are borderline midgets. They are both very short and tiny little men.
1:04 es como si fuera Depredador tocando batería😁
thomas over does it bring back jon.
If Pridgen could stop overplaying and Cedric could hit his high notes and remember his lines this would be 11/10.
@esqueleto12 People like you need to realize that playing fast does not make you good. Just cause Thomas hammers out ridiculously fast drum lines (and I mean that literally. some of his drumlines attract ridicule because they are so sloppy) doesn't mean he is anywhere near John Theodore in terms of technicality and tact.
Point being: Thomas is clearly the one that got lost, not the rest of TMV's all-star cast.
What are you saying to me?
At the Drive-In: We've wrote and mastered a new sub-genre lets go our separate ways and diverse into whatever.
The Mars Volta: Welcome to the next gen of music fuckery.
Music fuckery haha brilliant
They are basically a King Krimson offspring in terms of their prowess for experimental fusion of different genres.
what makes them them is the variety of influences. There's a part of this song that sounds like the punk band Flipper (The Rosalyn Carter bit), partly inspired by egyptian singer Oum Khalthoum who they listened to a lot, robert fripp like guitar riffs, pink floyd, jazz. It's got it all @@molagbal5313
I still remember messaging my friend, THE MARS VOLTA ARE EVEN BETTER THAN ATDI!
A lot of people say Pridgen overplayed but I think he fit this era perfectly. Bedlam was basically brutal prog and Thomas brought his free jazz/improv influence upfront in the live performances
I couldn't agree more my friend!
@@ExMeroMotu91aa1aq1a11aa11a1qaqaaa11qqqa
Exactly! That's exactly what Omar was looking for in this era for TMV and Thomas conveyed it perfectly
Exactly, he simply did what he was being asked to do (and pulled it off very well). He’s actually a more versatile drummer than what many people gave him credit for, I think.
Be a lot cooler if he played in time, though. Juan was fighting for his life up there.
the guy with the maracas is killing it
@aimiarc the guy with the maracas's name is Marcel Rodriguez Lopez.. he is Omar's brother..
That’s Marcel, alright. Omar’s baby brother and percussionist.
De lejos el más virtuoso XD
Dude he’s crushing the maracas. I can’t hear him at all but I’m sure it’d be grooving if I could.
@@ExternusArmymaracas aren’t an instrument. Maracas are a lifestyle.
I love that out of this lame crowd you can spot the few hardcore volta fans
Love that huh.
i lol'd
I think people are just so into it trying to understand whats going on. Its a lot of tingling info going to your brain. I feeling like that classical music has . Its cool to know these song and follow them. Not all can.
Let em enjoy the music
I like to imagine everyone in that audience just had a spiritual awakening of some sort.
Cedric may be a hit or miss live, but the guy is still such an excellent singer. Not only he writes the craziest lyrics, but also some of the best vocal melodies in rock.
Yeah he's definitely rough around the edges when he tries to sing high notes. It's not that he can't hit the high notes, it's just that he doesn't hit them consistently and the distortion effects can exaggerate the sound of missed note. That and he was probably high as fuck.
lets admit it, hes terrible here
This is such a hard sound to reproduce live. So much love for these guys.
He's using a mic that changes his pitch
@@colbymarks8887 pretty sure hes talking about all the other shit like the guitar, percussion, all that yknow
@@colbymarks8887 it doesn't change his pitch, it's just an effect, he sings those notes himself
@@colbymarks8887 you're confusing a normal chorus effect with autotune and pitch shifting
I saw them perform live at Cains Ballroom in Tulsa, OK. They went for damn near 3 hours and the crowd is livid yelling for an encore. Cedric and Omar look at each other, then look at the drummer. I shit you not Thomas Pridgen hits a solo and ramps it all the way up; we got a 45min encore :)
Holy shit I would’ve loved to see that I’m from Tulsa. Do you remember when you saw them?
@@myrajoyce783 Man, it had to be like 5-7 years ago? Not 100% sure, it's been a LONG-TIME. The second time it was a smaller group on stage and the crowd had some dick heads. Someone threw a water bottle on stage and left almost instantly after that. Don't blame them.
WOW, consider yourself lucky to have seen a TMV encore. They only did encores in their very early touring days. But the way you described it doesn't sound like a traditional encore where the whole band leaves the stage, waits like 5 min, then comes back. Plus, encores are usually around 10 mins of music, 1-3 songs. Not 45mins like you got.
I wonder if those extra 45min were just part of their planned regular setlist? And they were just tunning/preparing for the next 45min? They're known for playing long shows. A lot of their songs are longer than 10mins. And when they play them, they often extend solos, making those songs even longer. Seen them live 5 times, all those shows lasted around 2½ hours (actual playing time) at least. 🤷🏾♂️
Pridgen is on a whole other level. 2 hours of some of the most challenging drumming I've seen performed, and he's looking like he just warmed up. Scanning the crowd, smiling and nodding at people, and he's just gunning you down non stop.
Tell me it's over
Rusbel awaits
I've been to the surface
And nothing is there
Eyelids sank muffled
In the nerve aura sound
But when she awakes
Will she still be with us
My heart is darkclots
Leap year is late
How did you get here
Ask all but the bait
From a christ that went hissing
Constricting his cells
We summon by candle by book and by bell
Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals
The sermon goes mourning
Pricking it's hail
Slothful the child
That preys on the seed
Shall behead the drough
Wound under sleeves
I hope you have room
In a thicket of vines
Give me a moment
To clean what you've stole
The streets will hang high
Stretch ribs and let taste
We'll cover the smell with silver nitrate
Mending the cuts of your prosthetic faith
Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals
Then so long
Dear mnemonic
Assume the form
You've given me and I'll spill
Now hold on
Just hold my hand
Say that they made you
But you brought your own leash
Tell me no more no
Say I'm the last one
Outside
By the drift
You read my will
Of thread and itch
Failure to comply
As failure to decease
And still you won't know everything
I've built the fall
Sulking drained the fall of my pale will
Swarming by your steps
Licking the ankles of blasphemer guilts
It only meant to drape a plastic
Over the stuck pig scalp of head
To cover the sock where the flatline had spread
The kiosk in my temporal lobe
Is shaped like rosalyn carter
She says my map is home again
But torn face down
I have only but a million blemishes
To tell you all about
In the end they just gagged me
To make him come out
Gas me the hind
Of your five legged snare
Tooth picks the eye
But no things there
Down drags your waltz
Cross the alter top
From a sleep that
Depravation knew
Trespass your form
I'm void of dusk
I'd ask to look
But the mask stays on
You'll levitate
Teutonic print
Cruelty is the wrath
Of my instrument
In the end they just gagged me
To make him come out
You locked the cuffs
Arsenic erupts
Will you drink the shadow
Of my red hair
You and your false
Witness to God
You've one in the chamber
But your finger got stuck
Let slip the sound
Of a cry for help
But all was lost
On the night you walked
Palms speak through eyes
Serve your memory lost
I contaminate with insignias
In the end they just gagged me
To make him come out
Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals
Wait till it get my hands on you
I won't forget a face that left me
Just you wait
Till I get my hands on you
I can't
You won't remember
Unwrap my corpse
And let it thaw
In the eye of the needle
I can't get out
They'll check my wrist
I'll faint a pulse
I'm not the human
You thought I was
If you pet the night
Sixth pentacle dice
If you roll the seven
St. michael dies
They'll be no ransom
Don't shut my mouth
I scald the answer
You're afraid of
does anyone else notice, how badass the bass player is?!...#Juan'sabeast
isaac del valle he's the fucking super glue of the Mars Volta!!
Thats Juan Alderete. Check out his 80s stuff. Class act, my friend.
He was recently in an accident and was put into a coma, hoping he will make a full recovery.
Yesssss
Juan was a legend
I don't know how these guys do it, but they're a prog band that is sloppy sometimes, and when they are it works in such a punk rock way, they straddle the line perfectly and make both worlds work for them. It make stuff like the Tetra intro sound like its in free-time.
+Sure Umm
I think with them, groove and feeling were more important (or as important) as the technical aspects
The drummer actually fucked the into. How can you not hear that lol? He’s badly out of time and you can see Omar shake his head in disappointment.
Thomas didn't do a very good job of a lot of the earlier stuff, he often over plays the parts and loses the bar line. But also this band was never really a "prog" band even though everyone labels them as such. They definitely come from a more punk background then most prog musicians.
@@boogabuga7657 If TMV isn't a prog band then prog doesn't exist
I don't understand people complaining about this era, they wanted a more chaotic style as shown in boy album and love shows, it was Omar's artistic vision lol so who are we to decide it's bad
Now I know what could have happened if Robet Plant had joined Santana Band and together they had gone to a bunch of Punk gigs and a Jazz Festival, ha-ha
And got themselves the duracell bunny on drums...
@@frankyeichler3303 Energizer* but yeah pretty much lol.
Kazuya in Germany we call it the Duracell bunny, my bad
@@frankyeichler3303 they're two different things tbh
who ever thought a bunch of latino indie virtuoso musicians would be the ones to bring back the afro!?!? haha they're so talented
The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalyn Carter.
+Mitch Grenke every time
Mine too...it can't be a coincidence that all four of us have it...
I'll have what he's having
Mitch Grenke i honestly cant stand their lyrics. I felt like it was the weakest part of this band. Its ok to be abstract but shit needs to make at least some sense for me to like it. Cedric said himself none of this is meant to make any sense. Just random words vommited in a page. Anyone can do that.
"Anyone can do that". You're so wrong. Maybe lots of people think they can do it, but finding the right words that will, the words of the late Mark E Smith "put a chill up the spine" is ridiculously difficult. Just from this song alone, the list of great lines is massive.
"Eyelids sank muffled in the nerve aura sound"
"We summon by candle by book and by bell"
"Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence"
"The sermon goes mourning"
"We'll cover the smell with silver nitrate"
"Outside by the drift
You read my will of thread and itch"
"The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalyn Carter"
"Gas me the hind of your five legged snare
Tooth picks the eye but nothing's there"
"I'd ask to look but the mask stays on"
"I contaminate with insignias"
Each of those lines is great for different reasons. A lot of them have no real meaning as far as I can tell, they're just collections of words that sound good together, but you just try writing something like that.
that drummers fucking sick!!!
Chris Carter looks like a certain football player turned wrestler
i always come back to check if my "Like" on your comment is still there. Thomas Pridgen is a beast.
Chris Carter He is badass and a child prodigy, but I liked their former drummer Jon Theodore way more. He's the one who actually recorded the drums to this song before he left the band, so if you like the drums they're actually Jon's beats. Luckily he's the drummer for Queens of the Stone Age.
thomas pridgen monstro sagrado na bateria! inacreditável!!!
2021, I'm still listening them
Nostalgia
Vivir
This just in
2021, I’m just discovering them.
Bet ya feel very unique :)
Those drums man, insane sound. I can’t stress enough about how difficult this is to play on drums, coming from a drummer.
Thomas Pridgen is crazy. I saw them live and dude, recordings don't do this man justice. The way he plays the kick drum, relentless
I agree
Both Pridgen and Theodore are insanely good
@@MrCrispCookie does he play double kick? I’m not that familiar with his playing here but he’s like a train with no breaks. He’s coming and there’s no stopping him
@@ExternusArmy He plays single kick, there's a video somewhere on TH-cam where he talks about how he plays like that on a single pedal. Absolutely insane stuff
Think that's obvious to non-drummers too
This live performance is boss. A lot of The Mars Volta live performances I find are just mixed so terribly so they can't capture the right balance of each instrument and you end up hearing a muddled mix of junk. This is pretty good.
10 years later...
It is just too chaotic, It must be hell to mix so many stuff happening at the same time.
Not to mention Cedric's horrible vocals
@@brandonharris9160 horrible voz? Vos podrías cantar mejor que el? O a lo sumo como el? Es pura envidia lo tuyo.
@@brandonharris9160 how is his vocals bad lmaooo
@@gustavosalmeron2013 next gen doesn't understand rock and roll live. Some rough performances doesn't mean their talent and creatively aren't way above average.
Mars volta will be missed...Thank goodness for these recordings, wish everyone of you guys the best...thankful for that you guys have done.
They are baaaaaaack!!!
I'm so glad this isn't true anymore and I get to see them in two weeks
First show back is tonight!!!
@@FlyingPirahna1 lucky you!
Saw them a few days ago, this is the rebirth of one of the greatest prog rock bands in history my friends. Hand on, hold tight, and enjoy the second go round on this ride!
Finest rock band of our generation.
This is, for me, like watching early Santana playing a mash up of Zeppelin and Yes! I freaking love it! Sounds like HEART OF THE SUNRISE and WHOLE LOTTA LOVE at times! I hope the rest of their stuff is like this! This is the first time hearing I'm hearing them. Sad, I know, but true none the less.
Well...I look at it this way....they always say...save the best for last...so its always nice to stilk have a unique first time experience on music thats been around. I know this band for about 20 years and this song is new to me, also
Better late than never, I always say! Looks like you've got some catching up to do. 😉
Dude I hope you checked out their discography since this comment. If you like this you’re gonna love the rest of their stuff as well
@@blairhicks7129 i have not, but i will! Thanks for the heads up! Always looking to find great music! ✌
Totally got that, Jon Anderson vocals, just amazing! My oldest daughter introduced me to this band, holy shit, loving them
it makes me sad that pretty much all decent quality live footage we have of amputechture are without jon theodore and cedrics voice already being shot. :(
Lol at the casuals who keep thinking the song is ending lmfao
How beautiful music can be AND unpredictable. Awesome set.
rip ikey owens
Sick as fuck. one of my favorite mars volta songs! just omar and Cedric in at the drive in. show was sick as hell. can't wait till mars volta reunion
Tony Tony Tone it will sell out immediately and I can't wait. They are insane
Still waiting
@@victorfelixcpsr Might not happen now that Ikey Owens is gone.
Well, good news then
The Tetragrammaton refers to the "true" name of God given in Jewish (and then later Christian) scripture. It is named such because the name is represented by 4 Hebrew characters. In English the most common representation is YHWH- from which we get "Yahweh."
Ye Ho Vah
Those 4 letters are an abbreviation, not a word. Anyone trying to translate the abbreviation, when nobody knows the long form, is an idiot.
where is the kabala of this work. i wonder, really. what r you think, is it an evil work or really godly?(sorry for my english)
Honestly I'm shocked i found this randomly looking up yhwhs real pronoucation may you take heed and do not speak the real way it is said if you didn't know may it be forgiven.
This stuff sounds like rush. I like rush honestly this is amazing and reminds me of my stuff I honestly am from 1987 and I started playing at 16 and started developing some skill at 18 by 21 I was recording and placing on TH-cam. If your curious I have over 100 songs.
Not trying to ad just was shocked this was in existence. They say punk but I'm sure it's like metal with amazing screams before wolfmother had their share in the game I want more of this band to be honest these folks rock. Cheered me up.
We got the whole damn gang here!
Cedric, Omar, Juan, Ikey, Adrian, Thomas, Marcel... man, this was classic Volta!
@5:53 the crowd thought the song was over! Lol 😂😂 not even half way!
6:42 As if those chimes were audible in this recording. Why, Mr. Video Editor? Did you just want to highlight the failings of the Audio Guys who didn't have a mic in the right place for this?
This band is on another level than most music today.
10 years later and this is still true
@@milkmeapollo9048 FR
Jon theodore el único capaz de tocar el intro de esta canción.
1:12 ahi falla Pridgen por querer tocar tanto firulete y Omar gesticula una cara de ojete insuperable. Al poco tiempo lo rajaron de la banda al grone.
@@Francisco_DeAguirre jajajaja sí y todavía menea la cabeza en señal de desaprobación como diciendo "la peíste"
I like more how Jon Theodore played this song, in fact I like more how Jon Theodore plays
Too bad this never got performed live with Theodore
They arent for everyone and can totally sound like a train wreck at times, but those that do like them REALLY love them. It's an acquired taste, that most will probably never acquire. They arent all that popular for a reason, but the guitar is NOT out of tune, he just likes to play off key notes to get a weird sound. Just his preference.
You just described prog rock. This is like progressive metal
@donisaac5789 This is prog rock. They're basically King Crimson dipped in salsa. There's nothing metal about the Mars Volta at all lol. Prog metal would be a band like Dream Theater or Symphony X.
@@Slappaccino i agree with this specific video but their other stuff sounds pretty metalish to me.
@@SlappaccinoThey do sound slightly similar to Tool at times, Prog Metal band. I also read somewhere Mars Volta was inspired by them and Dream Theater, some other ones as well that I forgot. But yeah. I can hear it, definitely.
Pridgen plays so much more chaotically than Theodore lol. Certainly a different way of playing this song.
CTFU I wish the album version also ended with a "YAHOOoOOoo"
Me too
This has got to be the most bad ass Mars Volta song
The intro is very Mahavishnu Like
YES!!
It's "Dance of the Maya" - everybody rips off "dance of the maya"
Kaden Daniels yes!!!!!!!!!
I have always thought that the intro was a Close to the edge rip off (In a good way)
@@cabezadehuevo3117 yes, good point! It's just missing the 'ahhhhhhh' vocal breaks!
The drumming in this song is really wild! I'd actually like to hear the intensity just pulled back a notch, in the heaviest, loudest parts anyway. I'm a big fan of TMV though.
im getting a latin dennis reynolds vibe from the bassist
they look alike yes
Thomas Jaffray hahahahahahahaha
Thomas Jaffray you only like his bass because of the implication.
Casual listeners: "This song is long..." *checks the progress bar to see it's not even halfway*
@seantyler Thomas feels the groove too. He just feels it in a way most people can't comprehend.
Any time I did psychedelics with my good friend back in the day we would sit in my car with my system cranked up and play this song from start to finish. My favorite Volta song.. RIP buddy.
All I'm gonna say is two things.
1. This is how you're suppose to play drums man. If you're not playing at this level of intensity, get out of the game.
2. These guys need to get Pridgen back.
That son of a bitch is like the Jimmy Hendrix of drums and not because he's also black. Just listen!
1:17 with the raise of an eyebrow Thomas Pridgen lost his spot in the band 😂
Very impressive rendition of this song. Musicianship is so strong.
Its clear that Theodore did the work in the studio, his ability to support the songs was just amazing, not taking anything away from Pridgen.
While I really do appreciate Thomas's style of drumming and how deep into Prog they went at this point - Thomas is not Jon Theodore. Especially in his overall feel for what made TMV so musically dynamic. Thomas is overplaying and it's pulling away nuance from the song's composition. Jon understood the ebb & flow and the intricacies of a varied approach. -Dustin
I agree that Thomas did overdo the drumming but that groove at 12:16 is pretty fucking cool! Altho he may have some drummer tourettes I still have huge respect for the guy. So much talent! And also, I will agree that this was an off night for Cedric :/ he still sounded pretty good tho. Huge respect for him as well!
Gotta be honest that's the one part where I feel he was way too overbearing
Thank you Yahoo for thinking every single camera shot needs to be all 'mtv'd out- zoom in! zoom out! move the camera! show the crowd!
Can you just stop for one second and show the ripping musicians on stage.
Annoying as fuck, right?! Ugh.. 🥴
I never really considered this band’s sound as “prog”. It always seemed more like art rock to me. You can hear some prog influence though.