Cedric writes the lyrics. Omar is just responsible for the melodic and instrumental parts of the music. Omar and Cedric are the Mars Volta. The other members are just performances. But at the same time Pridgen and Theodore were also a large part of the band as well.
I am continuously amazed by their brilliance. Everything they do is spec-freaking-tacular. Like, they're just genious. I wish other bands had their mentality.
Omar Rodriguez-López and Carlos Alomar, in my opinion, are the most proficient rock-music-guitar-players of Latin American descent that have ever existed. I`m from Puerto Rico, as they are, and I find it eery that not many people know about them here... We should build monuments for them! And named streets in their honor!! Hopefully the young-generation does that for Omar, but I`d hate to see Carlos Alomar forgotten in his own country...
cedric and omar built TMV from the ground up after they left ATDi. i think it's perfectly fine for them to have creative control over the band, and i don't think they're being egotistical. everyone in the band knows how things work, and from what i understand who ever omar is recording is always free to offer up suggestions about the music.
not the editing part obviously, but i think Miles Davis used the technique of seperating the musicians of his band to learn parts so that there was greater competition as it were...
I don't understand what you're saying. I was replying to some guy who said he hopes Cedric & Omar aren't gay because they "look and sound gay" to him apparently. Somehow that would make him not want to listen to their music. I only used "Tiny Dancer" and Sir Elton John as an example. What are you saying? If you listen to Tiny Dancer you, yourself will turn gay?
Omar is a genius. Visionary. Same with his brother....the interviewer is not as sharp as would be an interviewer who was an actual musician...he would've asked better questions..
@rollerblaker dude the joke was that i used the incorrected tense like he did maybe if you saw the original comment but i don't remember exactly what it was, cause it was a fucking year ago. Stop commenting on dead comments
as far as live i could see why so many niggas say dat about improvising but on albums everything sounds planned to me...if not then they would never give you dat feel they give you...
so do omar and cedric write EVERYTHING in the music? drums, bass, keyboards etc? do the rest of the band have any credit lol? you never see them in any interview!
@MikeTheGuy00 i believe they have the right to be up tight about everything...omar simply explains it at the beggining..theres alot of misconceptions about the band, based on what everyone wants to believe. not what they know. viva volta.
dang you wrote a whole paragraph out of one question i wonder why people are so sensitive these days and take everything so serious. Relax man. Its just youtube.
ohhh, good one oh and everybody loves me! :) have you heard the saying "arguing on the internet is like the special olympics... even if you win, you're still retarted" just wait a few years... whatever, nice talking to you
or you could just be a group of amazing musicians that sound great live, not chopping some notes, or complaining about how one could have a bad singing day!
"i hope there not" Lol, why? What does that have to do with the style of music they play? They're just like that because they used to be opiate addicts.
Well, they both have girlfriends...might even be married now. Dude...how could you judge somebody like that? Do you go like: "Elton John was pretty good on piano, but he was gay as hell so I can't listen to Tiny Dancer or I might turn gay." Grow up dude. Either you like the music or you don't. Don't get into their personal life.
he isn't pretentious. and he isn't using or abusing cedric. but he's stubborn and wants to do things his way. a lot of good arists are like that. he got pretty popular writing music by himself and he just wants people to help him play it live on instruments that he doesn't know how to operate, that's all really.
