The Mars Volta and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez live performances: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, John Frusciante & Flea Live in Los Angeles, 2004: ua-cam.com/video/XO9jkruNd78/v-deo.html The Mars Volta Live in Philadelphia 2005: ua-cam.com/video/A7OocJUWZuU/v-deo.html The Mars Volta Live in Philadelphia 2005 (Cassandra Gemini): ua-cam.com/video/76SiQ2uDFlQ/v-deo.html Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet Live in Cologne 2005: ua-cam.com/video/Pn3qnBlf3Ck/v-deo.html The Mars Volta Live at The Catalyst Club 2006: ua-cam.com/video/F8kNbH76t7s/v-deo.html The Mars Volta Live in Köln 2008: ua-cam.com/video/9dZEn5Ap7Zw/v-deo.html Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Live in Melbourne 2011: ua-cam.com/video/pWL89GbI6-0/v-deo.html Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Pasha Dodonov Live in Moscow 2011: ua-cam.com/video/_xu7-4mUUb4/v-deo.html Bosnian Rainbows Live at Reeperbahn Festival 2012: ua-cam.com/video/8lgPMQh3XOM/v-deo.html
@@alvinduran5540 saw them perform this song once and that concert made me a fan for life. I loved how they improvised some of the songs throughout the show.
I may have to grind my ass off with fury, amass millions of pounds and then blow it all on getting them to perform this live again 😅, gutted I missed the Volta in this era.
Everyone in the comments here was like…. Yup I was there, I had 15 hot girls with me, we partied for 75 days straight, this concert changed my whole existence. After this I was a saintly figure, bought hooked on phonics, learned to read, and built myself a school with my bare hands, after that I wrestled a bear to the ground and trained him how to steal me beef jerky from the local market, all because I saw the “Volta” live that day 😂😂😂
lol the girl at 22:45 "they dont have an intermission when they like start again, its like straight forward" she probably doesnt know it is all one song
VoltaStuff I actually thought these were separate songs until recently because the CD release is different tracks for the movements. I heard they had to split them up in order to get paid for a full album and not an "EP" even though it's over an hour long....the music industry is so one-dimensional sometimes. If that's true, that is.
@@psychicpain Yeah that is the reason, but the song didn't actually get split between its movements, it was split arbitrarily. The song has 5 movements but it was split into 8 tracks because 12 tracks is how many they needed for a full LP.
Always wished TMV would have did a live show of just Frances .. but in reality several of Frances songs are actual Transitions from other earlier projects but this is by far one of TMVs most iconic albums
Frances is the only mars volta album i actually ever enjoyed. Always just been an at the drive in guy. Had they ever announced a full playthru of frances I'd go in a heart beat
been waiting for years to hear Cedric sound this level good and it happens to be in the best song they made. Cassandra is a masterpiece and he nailed the vocals here. Tour de force.
It's that in more recent years his voice has gotten weak or worn out and he can't hit these notes like he could back when this was filmed. It's kind of painful to watch sometimes.
Oh, yeah, I had thought that was what you meant. He blew out a good amount of his chest voice in At the Drive-In and I think he used a lot of whistle tone in TMV. He still sounds great, but yeah, his range has definitely decreased.
+Dr StrangeLove I wouldn't say he sounds "great". I mean, I love the guy, he is (or at least was) a great singer in the studio, and is an amazing frontman, but his voice is all but destroyed these days
Saw this at the Greek theatre in it's entirety. Had horrible seats and my buddy said his aunt knew the sound engineer. So 30 mins before the show. We walked down to the booth and asked for him. He arrived 15 mins later and ended up hooking us up with pit tickets. Greatest fuckin concert moment ever. What a beautiful experience
To whoever uploaded this; thankyou for sharing something awesome with us and helping spread not-so commercial music to a larger community. Subbed and liked.
it's hard for me to find words that describe the feelings i have for this performance. i just can't believe they had the gumption to pull this shit live ... it just doesn't seem humanly possible lol.
@@teslaraj5619 they are indeed back. I just don’t think they have the personnel to pull off a good chunk of older material. Sad Juan won’t be back but it’s nice to have Eva rejoin.
@@dutchmastah07 feels like the new stuff is more akin Nocturniquet mixed with Octahedron. Would like to hear how the rest sounds cause currently it sounds…hopeful which I wouldn’t describe most of their other music
@@teslaraj5619 I agree with it sounding like Octa and Nocto, maybe material they had written after Nocto? Either way I’m just glad they are back making music.
I wish I could see what the backdrop is doing properly at that point! I see blues and reds and both spinning lights in action. The rotating circle graphic over the "Present" head of Los Tres Ojos that starts when "Tarantism" kicks in - and that vertical spinning light fixture that comes out at the "return of the Tarantism" riff.
ahhhh, no 'sarcophagi'... actually it makes more sense to just punctuate it that way live rather than wind it down with the album's bookend. plus, i'm pretty sure they didn't have anyone playing teakettle.
I was here. I waited in line for like 4 hours and was on the baricade in front of Juan. I have never had to piss more in my entire life. Got pulled over with an ounce of weed and a few bags of heroin in the car on the way. Happy I was here instead of in jail.
i was at that show and yes that is one of my all time favorite written pieces from volta on any album i was very dissapointed they didnt include that part
Tarantism? On CD its track 6 right? And it's the "brick by brick the night eclipsed" (the first time it happens, directly after "shock lest shackles free you") part I'm sure of it. It's here.
@@redacted1402 no the streaming track called tarantism is wrong, the real movement starts "i think ive become like one of the others" and ends "there was a frail syrup"
This band change my life when I saw them open for system of the down in Oakland they made ruined system for me cause they blew my mind and forever will beat band on earth
that time he did nail it but he usually didnt cuz he was allways moving around really fast and throwing the mic all over the place it would take skill to do all that and land every note
+Kanye East I am just seeing this now. There is so much unmusical experimentation happening here that I can't agree with you. Every note played by Yes is intended, it has a place and deliberation. I can't sense deliberation here, but approximation. Yes will always be the king of this genre.
The Mars Volta and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez live performances:
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, John Frusciante & Flea Live in Los Angeles, 2004: ua-cam.com/video/XO9jkruNd78/v-deo.html
The Mars Volta Live in Philadelphia 2005: ua-cam.com/video/A7OocJUWZuU/v-deo.html
The Mars Volta Live in Philadelphia 2005 (Cassandra Gemini): ua-cam.com/video/76SiQ2uDFlQ/v-deo.html
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet Live in Cologne 2005: ua-cam.com/video/Pn3qnBlf3Ck/v-deo.html
The Mars Volta Live at The Catalyst Club 2006: ua-cam.com/video/F8kNbH76t7s/v-deo.html
The Mars Volta Live in Köln 2008: ua-cam.com/video/9dZEn5Ap7Zw/v-deo.html
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Live in Melbourne 2011: ua-cam.com/video/pWL89GbI6-0/v-deo.html
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Pasha Dodonov Live in Moscow 2011: ua-cam.com/video/_xu7-4mUUb4/v-deo.html
Bosnian Rainbows Live at Reeperbahn Festival 2012: ua-cam.com/video/8lgPMQh3XOM/v-deo.html
When I get a time machine, I think I will use it to go see this show
Saw them perform this at the Greek theatre. I think my brain is still melted on the floor from that experience
@@alvinduran5540 saw them perform this song once and that concert made me a fan for life. I loved how they improvised some of the songs throughout the show.
I was there. One of the best concerts I've ever seen.
I may have to grind my ass off with fury, amass millions of pounds and then blow it all on getting them to perform this live again 😅, gutted I missed the Volta in this era.
I was there. Traded my extra ticket to a guy in the parking lot, for six hits of acid. Longest, most amazing concert I've ever witnessed.
Anthony Pinkos sounds like it was a great decision
I wish I could trade that experience for 5 years of my life or something because I'd do it in a second
@ 3:50 is where it comes rolling around like a heavy freight train
*rocks out hard, dancing and shrieking like a mad man for 34 minutes.*
*music stops*
"Thanks, guys."
"Have a good night."
He was just seeding into dad mode lmao
Everyone in the comments here was like…. Yup I was there, I had 15 hot girls with me, we partied for 75 days straight, this concert changed my whole existence. After this I was a saintly figure, bought hooked on phonics, learned to read, and built myself a school with my bare hands, after that I wrestled a bear to the ground and trained him how to steal me beef jerky from the local market, all because I saw the “Volta” live that day 😂😂😂
well I would as well if I had just fucking seen Cassandra Gemini live 😬
Probably true. I mean, it is Cassandra Gemini.
lol the girl at 22:45 "they dont have an intermission when they like start again, its like straight forward" she probably doesnt know it is all one song
I like to think a friend invited her to see the Volta for her first time and she like them a lot!
VoltaStuff I actually thought these were separate songs until recently because the CD release is different tracks for the movements. I heard they had to split them up in order to get paid for a full album and not an "EP" even though it's over an hour long....the music industry is so one-dimensional sometimes. If that's true, that is.
And to think that the homonimous song didn't even fit in the album.
@@psychicpain Yeah that is the reason, but the song didn't actually get split between its movements, it was split arbitrarily. The song has 5 movements but it was split into 8 tracks because 12 tracks is how many they needed for a full LP.
I was there! 15 years old and stone cold sober cause I was on probation! I'll never forget this night.
lmaoooo after all that super high energy performance, he ends off with a humble "thanks guys" so cool
i mean if i played a 32 minute song i think the only sentence i could say without passing out would probably be "thx lol"
2005 was such a good fucking year for these guys. they were on top of the world. it's unreal how they were a band.
This video is the best thing on the internet. Cedric & Omar were fucking genius.
Saw them twice in ‘05, Cedric’s voice was amazing. It’s a crime against humanity that they couldn’t just get 1 professional videographer at the time
His voice is amazing in this video.
Ah classic TMV, how I miss you.
Omar is simply a man who loves his echo boxes, pitch shifters and phasers.... and uses them to great effect.
For me no band will EVER be better than TMV. Been to at least 7 shows and all amazing!!
when they were on, they were gods.
Always wished TMV would have did a live show of just Frances .. but in reality several of Frances songs are actual Transitions from other earlier projects but this is by far one of TMVs most iconic albums
Frances is the only mars volta album i actually ever enjoyed. Always just been an at the drive in guy. Had they ever announced a full playthru of frances I'd go in a heart beat
Preferably if it was with "Frances the Mute" added to the set as the opener, too.
@@radboi90 and a closer
been waiting for years to hear Cedric sound this level good and it happens to be in the best song they made. Cassandra is a masterpiece and he nailed the vocals here. Tour de force.
Wow.
I did not know they performed the whole thing live.
Sweet.
But the sound quality is blasphemous
pallerdog As was cell phone technology back in 2005....better than nothing :)
@@pallerdog they performed it at basically every '05 show, theres some better quality recordings i could point you to if youd like
hot damn cedric's voice is so on point
Hearing this today makes me pretty sad for Ced's voice...
Still it's wonderful to hear even just a recording of this.
What's sad about his vocals, if you don't mind me asking?
It's that in more recent years his voice has gotten weak or worn out and he can't hit these notes like he could back when this was filmed. It's kind of painful to watch sometimes.
Oh, yeah, I had thought that was what you meant. He blew out a good amount of his chest voice in At the Drive-In and I think he used a lot of whistle tone in TMV. He still sounds great, but yeah, his range has definitely decreased.
+Dr StrangeLove I wouldn't say he sounds "great". I mean, I love the guy, he is (or at least was) a great singer in the studio, and is an amazing frontman, but his voice is all but destroyed these days
That bloody spinning light at the end absolutely blew my #%#*ing mind when I was 17 and saw this show
" and I peel back all of my skin, I peel back and let it all run. " fucking love that
Saw this at the Greek theatre in it's entirety. Had horrible seats and my buddy said his aunt knew the sound engineer. So 30 mins before the show. We walked down to the booth and asked for him. He arrived 15 mins later and ended up hooking us up with pit tickets. Greatest fuckin concert moment ever. What a beautiful experience
NOW THERE'S NO LIGHT
wow! These guys are in their own realm
back when TMV was the best band on Earth
still haven’t heard a band better than them
They sound better on current tour than ever
To whoever uploaded this; thankyou for sharing something awesome with us and helping spread not-so commercial music to a larger community.
Subbed and liked.
it's hard for me to find words that describe the feelings i have for this performance. i just can't believe they had the gumption to pull this shit live ... it just doesn't seem humanly possible lol.
14:08 THIS SONG'S SO LONG, GOD DAMN.
20:00 those high notes are fucking INSANE
It’s those demon sounds that get me. Heard it for the first time when I took DMT my 1st time and had an intense ride haha
At around 14:07 does he say "This song is so long"
sounds like it lol
I....I think he does
"yeaaaaah! thissongissolongbaby! yeahh!"
“This song is so long, goddammit”
@@adamrose6969 definitely this one.
Cedric was GOD in this!!!!!!!!
How the fuck do they remember the whole thing?
ikr those lyrics..
Mark Magick practice, homie
Because... They wrote it? :___D
LOL
Omar wrote it, the rest learned it as he told them haha
RIP, Ikey.
Mind blowing, wish I couldve seen this in person.
my first concert ever! so glad i found a recording of it! My iphone 6 was out of memory and i couldn't record it
i was there! this song is fire. unfortunately i'll prob. never see this again.
+Gabriel Oliverio Even if they reunited in some way(Mars Volta not Antemasque). This would probably be the last song they would ever go back to play.
@@teslaraj5619 they are indeed back. I just don’t think they have the personnel to pull off a good chunk of older material. Sad Juan won’t be back but it’s nice to have Eva rejoin.
@@dutchmastah07 feels like the new stuff is more akin Nocturniquet mixed with Octahedron. Would like to hear how the rest sounds cause currently it sounds…hopeful which I wouldn’t describe most of their other music
@@teslaraj5619 I agree with it sounding like Octa and Nocto, maybe material they had written after Nocto? Either way I’m just glad they are back making music.
Be happy we were there. 🤘🏽🍻
Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight, night forever morrreee
Fucking A, I saw the video uploaded before got taken down and got really worried. Thanks a ton for re-uploading!
When 33:47 hits
The crowd know that this shit is going down
I wish I could see what the backdrop is doing properly at that point! I see blues and reds and both spinning lights in action. The rotating circle graphic over the "Present" head of Los Tres Ojos that starts when "Tarantism" kicks in - and that vertical spinning light fixture that comes out at the "return of the Tarantism" riff.
it's hard to predict when the vocals come back in during the first part of tarantism because omar does absolutely not telegraph it with his solo haha
Saw them for this tour in Berkeley. Best show I've ever seen.
In the d.arkest of your furtherst reaches there's no light. Woahhh
ain’t that the verse of the century? 🤘
Always will be unique true artists.
Wow. Just....wow.
“IVE SWORN TO KILL, EVERY LAST ONE! EVERY LAST ONEHUH!”
Thank you very much for uploading back this. I have a backup as well.
I was there brings back good memories shroom out
its a dream listen this song alive, lucky mother fks...
21:50 Will always love those Cedric shrieks
A beautiful F#6
@@Vodka-182 so damn high even if he was a girl thatd be impressive
The band most big of the last twenty years!
2022 new album!
ahhhh, no 'sarcophagi'... actually it makes more sense to just punctuate it that way live rather than wind it down with the album's bookend. plus, i'm pretty sure they didn't have anyone playing teakettle.
I think I have become one of them...
I've been looking for this for so long!
18:40
It's a fuccing reference to the Frances the Mute track!!!
Shame it was never added to the album, officially, but only as b-side. Love the idea that it was to open the album and the concept
It sure is
18:34 snippet of Frances The Mute
One of my absolute favorites! I bet he was just riffing at that point and not playing to what’s practiced
@@LaceChaser i think its cuz he ran out of ideas of what to play lol i do it too just pull put random riffs
If this is when they opened for System of a Down I was at this show.
This was the year before
We saw them with System at Wells Fargo
I was here. I waited in line for like 4 hours and was on the baricade in front of Juan. I have never had to piss more in my entire life. Got pulled over with an ounce of weed and a few bags of heroin in the car on the way. Happy I was here instead of in jail.
@radical edward yep and sober now. I don't remember posting this comment fuck.
@radical edward lol, I’m like how tf did he not go to jail for an ounce of weed and a few bags of H. Being white does help lol smh
I'm pissed they didn't include the Tarantism part. Best part of the song imo.
i was at that show and yes that is one of my all time favorite written pieces from volta on any album i was very dissapointed they didnt include that part
Tarantism? On CD its track 6 right? And it's the "brick by brick the night eclipsed" (the first time it happens, directly after "shock lest shackles free you") part I'm sure of it. It's here.
7:56 tarantism is right here
@@redacted1402 no the streaming track called tarantism is wrong, the real movement starts "i think ive become like one of the others" and ends "there was a frail syrup"
tarantism is in here my B
Song starts at 2:56
This band change my life when I saw them open for system of the down in Oakland they made ruined system for me cause they blew my mind and forever will beat band on earth
does anybody have a mastered version of the raw audio from this show??
The Marble Shine project: ua-cam.com/video/YsdaAQzdmpo/v-deo.html
Maravilhoso
Marcos Matias Demais!
oh, so there was once a time when Cedric could kill it at a live performance? Must have been amazing...
that time he did nail it but he usually didnt cuz he was allways moving around really fast and throwing the mic all over the place it would take skill to do all that and land every note
albums are for the song. live shows are for the performance.
@@SpaceMissile this guy knows music
😌
I’m 8 years late but Cedric has plenty of live performances recorded where he’s killing it.
Jon Theodore is the Mars Volta
Remix!!!!! 7:46
10 million likes
Frances the Mute --> best album of 00's?
insane af
look at that stage set and tell me that couldn't be Yes up there
+Kanye East I signed in on a public computer just to dislike this comment
Kanye East Thanks
+Kanye East I am just seeing this now. There is so much unmusical experimentation happening here that I can't agree with you. Every note played by Yes is intended, it has a place and deliberation. I can't sense deliberation here, but approximation. Yes will always be the king of this genre.
+Kanye East That said, after Yes, TMV is the closest to good progressive rock we have. It has every ingredient - attitude, virtuosity, and soul.
+Audrey Hsu That is a good point, they are equals to me because they both attracted Bill Bruford.
I think Cedric's vocals were great until he ran short of breath at the end. I can't blame him.
Pink floyd. Mars volta.
no this vid is just the mars volta. silly
Tbh TMV reminds me more of the more intense Yes or King Crimson tracks than it does Pink Floyd.
and magma
Rush. Mars Volta
Jon Theodore is amazing, but I gotta say I like the groove better with Thomas Pridgeon . Wish I could've seen that lineup 😞