The Mars Volta - Live at the Electric Ballroom (London, 2003) full set 

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LOL!!! I LOVE THE MARS VOLTA... BY FAR, ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK BANDS OF ALL TIME...

I'm out of the loop, what's this in reference to? (besides mudvayne ofc)

@@TheRikkarikna haha, just watch the first couple minutes of this show! cedric makes a joke before the set.

@@TheRikkarikna 0:12 Cedric was known for making jokes like "We are Mudvayne" or sometimes "we are latin Danzig" lol 😂

That guy whacking away trying to upstage everyone? We get it.

This guy right here

Its great he can hit those crazy notes IRL.

Gordon Freeman I remember when the album came out and so many dismissed it as an effect. Ha.

🤘still listen them daily lol

right here also my bad

Thursday377 I feel very lucky to have caught them in 2006 and then again in 2009 I totally miss those guys

ikr, 2 of them dead, 2 in one band, 1 in another, fuck man its pretty sad

Im 13 and this is one of my favorite bands and deloused in the comatoriam is my favorite album ever i would kill to be there i hate people who say im born in the wrong generation but i truly am i wish i was born in 1989 because of this band

And by the way im not just like oh this band is great i found this band last week and listened to it about 8 times and frances the mute 5 times

I saw atdi in 99 but NEVER got to see The Mars Volta.....this line up was so on point......

holy shit I was just going through a box of my old books and I found the ticket stub which I was using as a bookmark for a prententious book which I won't mention the title of.. Cool! imgur.com/a/qbqb7

fucking sweet dude thanks for sharing!!! image proof makes this like 1005% times better.. thank you for sharing your excellent mars volta history with us !!! >:) im jealous

You set the bar very high early on.

AWESOME!

grunkert mamon

Legend thanks for taking the time to do this!

Lucas Montenegro exactly he’s the glue of that band through all the lineup changes

Yep. Fucking aces. Frances era live shows when they added Adrian were insane. Masterful.

Lucas Montenegro And Ikey

@@pablojaramillo1279 This. Ikey is gawdawfully underrated in this unit too. And even though Omar actually WROTE the parts for all of them, without said foundations there'd be more people still thinking his playing is plainly "subpar".

yeah the bass on the first album was poo

Abso-fucking-lutely!!!!!!!

Surpassed by the Philadelphia

Minus Tira me a las aranas.

I was lucky enough to see them in 2003 twice! Once in May (St.Paul,MN) and later that fall in October at the quest club. I stood right above the drums by the bar. It sound amazing behind and above most of the speakers! 👋

+John Sanabria He is the best! Pure feeling.

He was

One of my top 5 drummers ever. His rhythm and structure in the early Volta stuff is delicious. Used to put headphones and (attempt to) play his work. His ad-lib and listening is second to none.

One of the best drummers of our time. I’d even go as far as saying he’s better than say John Bonham.

I think he's the best drummer of this decade at least.

Check out King Gizzard - Live at Bonarroo ‘22 You won’t regret it

SAME!

Nagarjuna Zhen i think i'm in that phase right. now

Isaiah De la Cruz excellent!!!! if your really love the volta go find a pdf of the deloused storybook. its really interesting. hopefully we will get some fresh music before these trash politicians burn the world and run to their underground bunkers. it wouldn't hurt to go try meshuggahs album OBZEN if you can digest volta you may dig it.

Nagarjuna Zhen the novella was crazy...but i really enjoyed it

Amber Miller lol yeah i had to read it slowly

srsly dude

The drums are mixed gloriously loud on this recording, freakin love it.

Exactly Worst mistake they made was kicking him out nobody comes close to him

@@darryljudd7361 closest they got imo was Deantoni Parks, still not the dynamic n aggressive Jon Theodore vibe, sucks not to have him around.

I read an interview with Cedric where most of the drums on this record- and even some of the drums on the Frances the Mute album- had already been written by Blake Fleming before Theodore came along. www.verbicidemagazine.com/2006/11/07/interview-cedric-bixler-zavala-of-the-mars-volta/

Dick Dousche listen to August Burns Red

Dick Dousche his name is Jon Theodore and he drums for Queens of The Stone Age now.

Dick Dousche Listen to tech death metal, or mathcore, etc. So much drum appreciation available for you.

I'm sorry but death metal drumming is mostly about speed. Once you have the endurance for the style, it's not hard to blast beat. This drumming is far more taxing, as it's all over the place, with strange rhythms and style switching.

Lol, you funny guy you.... psshh, death metal

This gig changed my life, I'll never forget it

ditto! What a beast.

@@drakegravely5261 I really liked the Bedlam in Goliath album they did with Thomas Pridgen as well. I saw them live with both Jon and Thomas and Thomas’s playing was so erratic/manic that it seemed to throw off the performance at times, he was quite good on that album though.

@@alelollipop1903 he's become my favorite drummer ever since

Probably you already have, but if not, check out the other projects these guys were involved with, such as ATDI. Enjoy.

and some whites too haha

I think everyone in the band in this concert clip is either black or Hispanic - though you could count Flea who played bass on the album and Rick Rubin who produced as the essential white guys :-)

This is the most accurate description I've ever read.

Well, mexican americans and blacks ever participated on rock since their born. Omar Rodríguez is a surprise because puerto ricans have no a strong identity with rock or metal music

@@gnosticreverend6354 He's white. Being Jewish doesn't just make you not white if your skin is white.

Oh man best band I've ever seen

I saw them when I was a teenager and they got booed because the audience was all there for System of a Down. It was a shame, they are pretty awesome live.

They just made a album last month so they will tour again next year. I seen them 2011. I don't remember them going wild live like this show. But yeah awesome seeing them.

​@@rhelferstay that was the same tour where Hella opened for the both of them too

Colton Hubbard Right! But this was before that album so I wonder if they came back around to using it because they liked it.

I wonder if anyone from the crowd recognised it when it was released 2 years later. It's so distinctive compared to the rest of deloused

I love this band so much, that it hurts... They are undoubtedly, one of the greatest Rock bands of all time... Their live performances, are nothing less, than pure alchemy and magic - or just total perfection... Oh God, I can't stop myself from gushing over this band, and I really need to take a time out... PERFECTION!

Taylor B listen to their entire Frances The Mute album straight through. their best album in my opinion

Nero7713 I've really been sticking with De-loused so far, but I have Frances coming in the mail pretty soon. I'll check it out when I can!

listen to scabdates

Welcome to the rabbit hole, my friend. My favorite album is Amputechture, but take your time. Very few people are casual listeners to TMV. Most tend to either hate it or spend years obsessed.

Walter Bored I have yet to get to that one. I've been checking out Frances, and parts of it perplex me. I'm planning on spending more time with it.

rip

Saw him live with QOTSA this year. He tore the fucking roof off the building. He is hands down my favorite drummer of the last 30 years. Over Danny Carey. Over anyone dude. So fucking good.

@LeBum Omar and Cedric are from El Paso man not sure what your trip is. Easy google search shows they’re from El Paso.

@LeBum lmao they are the band fool

YASSS

That solo!! those effects!!! Juan is a freaking machine

Best track on deloused

sneak preview. i love that part

According to some, it was originally part of Drunkship of Lanterns but once they started working on Frances the Mute, around 2004 they stopped playing "Facilis Descenus Averni" (the segment we just heard) in the middle of Drunkship of Lanterns.

1 month later...they went so hard that tour

i was there

Saw Volta countless times, but that Frances The Mute tour in 2005 flat out changed my life.

+Luke Watson agree with you about Ikey rip but I feel the volta wont deliver like they did without Theodore

+Saul Goodman if they come back, it has to be with Theodore

rip ikey. such a fucking loss. no one plays keys like him.

the beginning is so stripped back its great

it really is

Right on, Ju.

Imagine the gigs that were not recorded and we didn't get the chance to see.

if they were good they wouldve been recorded. existential crisis averted

Theres one from brussels in 2005 that theres only a 5 min part of thats as fire as this band got

Si hay futuro en el país :')

He did for at least the first track lol

a last Dragon I always said that when I was in college at parties.

a last Dragon Compare Drunkship of Lanterns and Achilles' Last Stand.

Mike Hegarty okay, although I do think the comparison can be criticized you are absolute wrong. saying these guys have no groove is so stupid I can't even..

Led Zeppelin with La Fania xD

Saúl Sánchez Cortés y un toque de Pink Floyd

I hope UMG didn't have the master tapes...

might wanna check that out right now. no set records afaik, but there's vinyls for sure :D

Adam Boyle dude me too I saw em with older siblings... life changed forever after that

+Saul Goodman the only time, I'm pretty sure.

Writing Alias Why would you assume that? I heard them play this in Sacramento 2004.

I read in an interview that the only time they did deloused start to Finish was the most boring show they ever did It must be this one and it’s far from boredom from a listeners Perspective

Alexandro De Lucio Guerra me somehow I just started listening to them.my buddy introduced me to them recently great fucking band I'm hooked

I would give a part of my body to go back in time to see this show in person.

yeah they were playing a good show that night for sure

2019

@@goldenstatedrifters2040 ditto. Food for the mind and soul.

What do you mean by this?

@@johnnymarin5035 Omar hated the guitar at first, and tried to cover it up with effects, as he preferred bass and keyboards over guitar, but was forced into playing it

@@philz_corsia you got some source ? i wanna read more about that

@@blackskate_unltd95 not in particular, just kind of looking at interviews/other things from the ATDI era :P

@@blackskate_unltd95 oh it's all over the place, even wikipedia states it. Omar talks about it all the time, if you look for it something'll come up, he's mentioned it many many times. Originally omar joined the band to play bass on at the drive in's second or third release(one of the EPs after their first release, he was on bass for acrobatic tenement though), but ended up switching to guitar around in casino out I think? I know he was on guitar by In-Casino-Out, but I don't remember when he officially started. But yeah that is the exact reason he used so many effects. He originally was just hesitantly filling a role that needed to be filled. Edit: omar switched to guitar when they began working on the EP "El Gran Orgo", right between acrobatic tenement and in casino out.

A Moment In Time It truly was an epic *moment in time* ;)

+Josh Harrell saw em in 04,08, 10 and 2005 right after frances dropped...the 05 show was fucking amazing they were all good but jesus christ they were magical during that show

+Reggie “Batman” Hammond Yep, saw them in Chicago '05. Favorite live show ever.

Jon Maravelias Greek Berkley good times man

I was introduced to them by walking in on them opening for A Perfect Circle, in Sacramento, in 2004. Changed my life. Incredible performance. No live video comes close to that performance.

saw them in berkeley at the greek theater in 05 right after frances dropped as well :D

I showed my freinds this album also while we got really have high.

used to play this recording in my taxi. was giving a ride to my dispatcher's son one night, he exclaimed "i love this album. me n my girlfriend would drop acid and listen to deloused on repeat"