Band Thread V1. - THE MARS VOLTA - ATDI

Im going to assume that there is a fair amount of user's on 12oz who have, at some point listend to one of or both of these bands. I like both - so here's a thread that cover's bio's/ history/ discography of both bands. *This information will be taken from other site's.

 

At The Drive In:"Combining emotional melodies and an upbeat rhythm moving at an unpredictable rate, At the Drive-In definitely stuck out in their hometown El Paso, TX. Formed in early 1994, the group debuted soon after with their first EP, Hell Paso, followed by a brief tour across the Lone Star state. With a lineup secured around Cedric Bixler (vocals), Omar Rodriguez and Jim Ward (guitar), Paul Hinojos (bass) and Tony Hajjar (drums), At the Drive-In continued on with a second EP (Alfaro Vive, Carajo!) and toured mostly empty houses and clubs across the western United States. A small gig in Los Angeles -- with an audience consisting of only nine people -- somehow got the attention of Flipside Records, who released the band's first full-length Acrobatic Tenement in 1996. With constant energy and a stubborn enthusiasm to continue, At the Drive-In began to develop an audience, helped out by constant touring and word-of-mouth hype. Their 1997 follow-up EP El Gran Orgo had more of a melodic bite, but their musical depth and originality still remained. In Casino Out followed in 1998, and 2000 saw the release of Relationship of Command. After the band went on indefinite hiatus in 2001, Bixler and Rodriguez formed the Mars Volta, while Ward, Hajjar, and Hinojos moved on to Sparta."

 

Bio's:

Omar Rodriguez: Guitar #2 - background vocals

Tony Hajjar: Drums

Jim Ward: Guitar #1 - keyboards - background vocals

Paul Hinojos: Bass

Cedric Bixler: Vocals

 

Discography:

 

*Full Lenth's

February 1996 - Acrobatic Tenenement

CD / Vinyl

label: Flipside Records / Restart Records

01. star slight

02. schaffino

03. embroglio

04. initiation

05. communication drive-in

06. skips on the record

07. paid vacation time

08. ticklish

09. blue tag

10. coating of arms

11. porfirio diaz

 

September 1997 - El Gran Orgo

CD ep

label: One foot / Offtime

01. give it a name

02. honest to a fault

03. winter month novelty

04. fahrenheit

05. picket fence cartel

06. speechless

 

July 1998 - In/Casino/Out

CD / Tape

label: Fearless Records

01. alpha centauri

02. chanbara

03. hulahoop wounds

04. napolean solo

05. pick pocket

06. for now... we toast

07. a devil among the tailors

08. shaking hand inscision

09. lopsided

10. hourglass

11. transatlantic foe

+ 2 extra songs on japanese versions

 

July 13, 1999 - Vaya

CD / Vinyl

label: Fearless Records

01. rascuache

02. proxima centauri

03. ursa minor

04. heliotrope

05. metronome arthritis

06. 300mhz

07. 198d

 

September 12, 2000 - Relationship of Command

CD / Vinyl

label: Grand Royal

01. arc arsenal

02. pattern against user

03. one armed scissor

04. sleepwalk capsules

05. invalid litter dept.

06. mannequin republic

07. enfilade

08. rolodex propaganda

09. quarantined

10. cosmonaut

11. non-zero possibility

12. catacombs (only for european and japanese versions)

13. extracurricular (only for the japanese version)

 

produced by Ross Robinson

 

* Singles and Split's

March 5, 2001 - Invalid Litter Dept.

CD single / Vinyl

label: Grand Royal

 

 

CD 1:

01. Invalid litter dept

02. Initiation (7)

03. Quarantined (Lamacq version)

04. Take up thy stethoscope and walk (Lamacq version)

05. Metronome arthritis

 

CD 2:

01. invalid litter dept.

02. take up thy stethoscope and walk (lamacq version)

03. metronome arthritis

04. at the drive-in tv ad (interactive element)

 

 

December 1, 2000 - Rolodex Propaganda

CD single / Vinyl

label: Grand Royal

01. rolodex propaganda

02. one armed scissor

03. extracurricular

 

October 2000 - ATDI / Murder City Devils

Vinyl

label: Buddyhead

1 song for each band. the ATDI title is "rascuache", remixed by the Latch Brothers

 

out of print

 

 

July 18, 2000 - One Armed Scissor

CD single / Vinyl

label: Grand Royal

01. one armed scissor

02. pattern against user

03. incetardis

 

 

April 13, 2000 - ATDI / Sunshine

CD / Vinyl

label: Thick Records / Big Wheel Recreation

01. streamline - sunshine

02. dead electro mix - sunshine

03. line mix - sunshine

04. extracurricular - atdi

05. autorelocator - atdi

 

 

February 2000 - ATDI / Burning Airlines

Vinyl

label: Thick Records

1 song for each group. ATDI's song is "catacomb", produced by Mike Majors (not like the Relationship Of Command version, produced by Ross Robinson)

 

November 1998 - ATDI / Aasee Lake

Vinyl

label: Nerd Rock Records

featuring the ATDI song "doorman's placebo" recorded during the In/Casino/Out sessions

 

June 1995 - Alfaro Vive, Carajo!

Vinyl

label: Western Breed / Offtime

01. bradley smith

02. instigate the role

03. ludvico drive-in

04. circuit scene

 

re-edited in CD format by Headquarter

 

 

December 1994 - Hell Paso

Vinyl

label: Western Breed / Offtime

01. grand mox turkin

02. red planet

03. emptiness is a mule

 

Image's:

 

 

Most info taken from : here

THE MARS VOLTA:

"Picking up the pieces from At the Drive-In, Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez formed the Mars Volta and wasted little time in branching out into elements of hardcore, psychedelic rock, and free jazz that expanded on the boundaries of their previous work. Although their previous band's demise ultimately arrived before they were able to truly capitalize on their mounting commercial triumphs, the Mars Volta immediately impressed with their willingness to eschew conventional logic and push themselves into new artistic directions instead of opting for the more marketable sounds. Interestingly, their progressive yet streamlined approach gave them the early lead among critics against their former bandmates in Sparta, the more emo-leaning of the bands resulting from the split. Enlisting friends Ikey Owens (also of the Long Beach Dub All-Stars) and Jeremy Michael Ward onboard, having played with both in their progressive dub side project De Facto, their debut EP, Tremulant, arrived in 2002. Still, as much of their reputation was built on the strength of their live show, their highly energetic performances resulted in a wave of word-of-mouth hype that elevated the band to near-mythic proportions."

 

BIO:

Cedric Zavala - Vocals

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Guitar

Jon Theodore - Drums

Juan Alderete - Bass

Isaiah Owens - Keyboards

 

Discography:

 

*Full Length's

De-Loused in the Comatorium

A fully realized concept album inspired by the suicide of a close friend of Mars Volta founders Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavalas, De-Loused in the Comatorius narrative consists of fantastic worlds and adventures that Cedric imagines the friend experiencing while in a coma following an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Although the story ends tragically, the creators insist that this is a celebration of the adventurous and daring life that their friend lived.

 

Spit's:

European Tour Sampler

 

GSL 50 FROM SKYSCRAPER ISSUE #13: A free copy of the GSL 50 CD compilation is also included, with songs from Chromatics, Vaz, The Mars Volta, JR Ewing, I Am Spoonbender, Living Science Foundation, Neon King Kong, Kill Me Tomorrow, Pleasure Forever, The Locust, Rash Modernaire, The Pattern, Sunshine, The Starvations, Gogogo Airheart, The Vanishing, Soiled Doves, Starlite Desperation, and Subtitle.

 

X-Ray CD #6ULY 2003 CD THAT CAME WITH THE XFM MAGAZINE ENTITLED X-RAY #6

 

Rock Sound Music With Attitude #50

Included in July 2003 Issue of Rock Sound magazine.

*Singles:

Inertiatic ESP CD

 

Televators [AUSTRALIAN VERSION]

 

Televators

 

funny in an odd way

i was walking in the back of my housing today and some one was playing

inertiatic - and i felt the need to go find the album...good shit indeed - i can't even comprehend what most of the lyrics mean

I love atdi and mars volta...i remember coming back from a buisness trip in central america and i had inertiatic esp playing on the headset and i look down and i can see through the clouds at the people playing on the beach, i love their music and they hold their position as my favorite band of all time.

atdi is easily one of my favorite bands...

 

i dig mars volta too, but they just arent the same for me

What about Sparta..?

Originally posted by splint2@Dec 15 2004, 05:28 AM

atdi is easily one of my favorite bands...

 

i dig mars volta too, but they just arent the same for me

Quoted post

same

ya atdi adn tmv are easily one of my fave bands ever..as for tmv's lyrics..i understand 70% of what they all mean...most of the words are just poetically writen, cedric had loads of help from band mate jeremy ward (rip)... who was a poet/artist himself. as for tmv now, omars lil bro joined the band on bongos/congos..but u can tell with jermeys passing cedrics lyrics have well become more easy to comprehend..ill try and find the link to there new single of "francis the mute"..its called "the widow" im sure if u type it into google ull find it

Yeah, I heard about them from all the hype going on the net. They're pretty good. I'm still adjusting to dude's vocals though. A little too high pitch for me but I can handle shit. Has anyone seen them live?

Ive seen Volta live on 2 occasions, once for the show at the wiltern (where they debuted "the widow") and once opening for APC - who i didnt stay for, infact quite a large portion of the audiance left once Volta finished their set. As far as Cedric's voice, on the new material you can tell he has worked alot on control and his falsetto sound's much better...

Originally posted by High Priest@Dec 18 2004, 11:02 AM

Ive seen Volta live on 2 occasions, once for the show at the wiltern (where they debuted "the widow") and once opening for APC - who i didnt stay for, infact quite a large portion of the audiance left once Volta finished their set. As far as Cedric's voice, on the new material you can tell he has worked alot on control and his falsetto sound's much better...

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lucky bastard..haha..i wanted to see them in vancouver, but it sold out in like 4 hours...and i have that song on bootleg..

 

umm , ive only seen them live on video..and man, i wann be in the crowd when that shit goes down..and if anybody wants anyvideos from either atdi or mars volta just pm me.

Yea, thats a problem with Volta show's they sell out within minutes of going on sale - The show at the Wilter sold out in i believe it was around 10-12 minutes, and due to overwhelming demand they played two other shows back to back, which was great - i had a couple of friends go to all threee shows, but the tickets were not cheap so i wasnt lucky enough to do the same.

 

If you ever get the chance to see them live i recommend it, the material sounds just as strong live as it does on the album, and there is alot of improv. - so you hear alot of things that are specific only to that night.

...so ah what's all this frances the mute talk about...does anyone have info on it? is it out?

Originally posted by decu goldyn1@Dec 28 2004, 01:52 AM

...so ah what's all this frances the mute talk about...does anyone have info on it? is it out?

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WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW.

mars volta en billboard

yea so ^^^there's an article about frances the mute taken from billboard

and this is the tracklisting so far

madness i hope its good i'll wait till march i don't feel like bootlegging this one

 

"Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus"

A. "Sarcophagi"

B. "Umbilical Syllables"

C. "Facilis Descenus Averni"

D. "Con Safo"

 

"The Widow"

"L' Via L' Viaquez"

 

"Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore"

A. "Vade Mecum"

B. "Pour Another Icepick"

C. "Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma)"

D. "Con Safo"

 

"Cassandra Gemini"

A. "Tarantism"

B. "Plant a Nail in the Navel Stream"

C. "Faminepulse"

D. "Multiple Spouse Wounds"

E. "Sarcophagi"

The single "The Widow" has a video that can be downloaded from the official Volta Website, as well as be seen on MTV.

"Frances The Mute " (Frances the talking mule?) in stores/ available as of tommorow.

Sparta.

Originally posted by cantinflas@Mar 2 2005, 09:43 PM

Sparta.

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Im totally not against sparta, but i just dont care at all for the music they have put together - feel free to post all about sparta in here - maybe i should have included them...meh.

Sparta are good.

Mars Volta are better.

ATDI top them both.

The end.

yes, ATDI for sure...i played one armed scissor out until my ears bled.

overrated.

 

 

 

 

 

;)

green tobacco + televators = excellence

 

the sounds of the forest come alive