I agree acrarsenal is an amazing song, one of their best imo. I don't think relationship of command is a great album though. i think it's got a couple of great songs, a couple of ok songs and a bunch i would just skip. i'd gladly take in-casino-out or vaya over ROC.
@@ThatBlindGuy247 lol dunno why I didn’t see this after revisiting this vid (didn’t get the notification😒). Yeah the dude was insane with energy throughout their career and I think it shows that when he stays grounded he can really hit it. I do love his insaneness though. Maybe one of a kind?
I remember reading somewhere on the Coma back in the day that there were quite a few music label people in attendance so they wanted to make this show spot-on. Well... well done!
That's why I can't stand the atdi reunion... The album sounds just like every other omar/cedric band from the 2010s but the least like atdi... Them being wild lunatics was the essence of atdi, good for them that they have theur shit together niw but bad for this band
Yeah, it's really hard to find good videos of them. In this performance, a little more attention to playing - rather than jumping, really paid off. Great show.
I do like the first two albums of the Mars Volta, but I honestly think that the chemistry between At The Drive In members during this time period is hard to top. I would’ve liked to hear one more album of this before they broke it off. Good video. 👍🏻
@Hooked On Chronics Imagine a place where your opinions matter, if you imagined me in this comment section, then you would be wrong. Let other people decide what they like, no need to hide opinions as a fact. You could say that you personally like them more than coheed, but in the end, nobody really cares because what you like is what you like, and what I like is what I like. And I'm happy enjoying both bands with the same amount of respect.
@25:44 Love this version of Quarantined, specifically for how Cedric changes the outro going high instead of low when he screams 'FIIIIRRRREEEEEEEEE!!!'. Love their passion for what they do!
there's something about the groove during the bridge of Pattern Against User. it sounds both slipshod and imperfect, but also indicative of a band that's been playing and practicing constantly for 7 years, all at the same time. it's perfect.
wow they're really on good form here. i remember an interview from noctourniquet era, cedric said atdi for years did opening sets on tour and were at their best with 20 minute sets. Then Relationship made them blow up, and they were asked to play for an hour or more at every gig, and he was completely unprepared to put on good performances of that size. I guess he compensated later with those ridiculous volta sets.
@@keithwaynejones fall of troy put out some good stuff, then much like this band, drug problems and egos got in the way of the group staying together. last i remember, there was some kind of incident either with thomas erak (the lead singer/guitarist) having a total freak-out, or their drummer or something, on stage at one of their shows, after they let their bass player back in the band. shame, their album 'manipulator' is fantastic. i actually even liked the album they cut with the replacement bass player, "in the unlikely event...", was solid. most of the other stuff they've put out is kind of meh imho.
I watched like 3 versions of this video yesterday and now I’m watching it again today. Their energy is immaculate I also love the modular stuff Cedric is doing cool asf 👆 Jim and Omar harmonizing on quarantined is insanity
This is by fast the most real ATDI performance I have encountered here in youtube land. It is so good to finally hear Cedric respecting the album's version of the songs he is performing. lol
lol Mara volta and Sparta songs were being already at this point in their career especially backstage Jim And Omar would warm up with their fragments of their fmfuture songs
@@ItUnidentified oh cool. How dod you know ? feel free to share a little more. That makes total sense, how did you come to know about that information ?
@@iamwe7035 Not OP, but it has been mentioned in interviews and stuff over the years. “Viscera Eyes” from Amputechture was actually originally written for ATDI.
@@BigBeefNCheddar Interesting fact. I was just pointing out how clear Cedric sings on this performance. I met him in 2004 we talked about it. Is his voice, he was struggling with his voice for lack of technique back then. I also met Omar and all the Mars Volta crew also seen Sparta live in SF back in 2005 same thing. Sparta and Mars Volta are so different though I assumed they would write their songs separately.
That version of Quarantined was fire 🔥🔥🔥 easy to see how Mars was formed by the long interlude section ... Ced and Omar were always much much more than just your run of the mill punk rockers. It's good they broke up after RoC ... Adds to their legend.
This bands awesome live and this interviewer dead ass burned a picture of the president on live tv. Need more bands like them and more interviewers like him.
Relationship of command is in the top 5 albums so far this century coming out in 2000, with the money store and kids see ghosts you got to pump a butterfly then funeral by arcade fire i like Contra too but at the drive-in led the way Cedric and his Burroughsian lyrics
Yeah, you can definitely see Omar and Cedric changing time, most likely intentional, to fuck with Jim. They obviously had a hard-on for Jim then and continue to to this day. Sad. They were the last great band to come out of the underground. They were the end of an era.
They were sharing tour dates around the Big Day Out shows (along with PJ Harvey) & I think it was actual genuine ‘chumminess’ rather than ironic. In one interview at the time there was some amusing chatter about them collaborating on a country record. ATDI struck me a pretty open-minded bunch so I don’t see why they wouldn’t have got on with Martin & co... who are similarly open minded. I saw Coldplay tour with a bunch of screamy Welshmen called Terris in 2000 & there was plenty of love going back & forth on that tour too.
@@ben_has_hobbies honestly x and y is an incredible album it’s just marred by Fix You being probably the beginning of the end for them. I know you said this two years ago but I just saw it now whoops.
and we all look forward to mysterywhiteboy78's creative output...YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE GREATEST ARTIST EVER TO HAVE EXISTED!!!...and i for one am waiting with baited breath.....pfft
0satanisboring0 The new ATDI is just for their old asses to have a bit of fun and make money. They know punk music is for the young and what they're doing is garbage.
Oh to listen to them now, talk about the weirdness of the new GWB administration and their hopes that the electoral college will be abolished and a new voting system put in place... I remember those days and how hopeless, fucked up, and dull it felt in the US, especially after 9/11. I would give anything to go back to a time pre 9/11 and pre ATDI break up. Things felt so much lighter then; so much so that most of the things we had to be angsty about were petty bullshit. There were SO many great underground bands and bands like this that came up through the underground scene by touring like mad. I miss that so, so much. I feel like the entire energy of the world was irrevocably changed just a few months after this. And it's just gotten weirder and weirder. At least they're back to help us through this new administration.
Dude... the burning-in-effigy of Bush Jr. was gold, but I really love the jam band-y instrumental parts of this set. I really miss them & that era of music. Mars Volta's fine & great (never got into Sparta), but the raw emotion & power ain't there. To me, Mars Volta seemed like a quest to be "respected."
But it was the 2000s, man… Going noodly with “prog” and incorporating elements of other stuff like jazz, dub, and salsa into your music for the heck of it were pretty much a suicidal move by marking yourself & your band for ridicule & insults by the public, much less gaining any modicum of respect (maybe unless you were Radiohead); it was actually pretty impressive that they were pretty well received and found an audience back then. I think rather than being “respected”, it seemed to be more of a quest to wing it and be COMPLETELY self-indulgent (which I believe Omar & Cedric themselves would earnestly agree with). Possibly as a retaliation against the strained dynamics within At the Drive-In at that time where every creative input needed the approval of the other band members. Speaking of which, maybe the palpable “raw emotion & power” that we all felt can be credited to the actual tension within the band itself 🤔
"Arcarsenal" as the album opener for "Relationship Of Command" is one of the biggest statements they could of made. An absolute epic album.
I agree acrarsenal is an amazing song, one of their best imo. I don't think relationship of command is a great album though. i think it's got a couple of great songs, a couple of ok songs and a bunch i would just skip. i'd gladly take in-casino-out or vaya over ROC.
@@turdle2080 I feel the same. Love the first 5 songs. then the rest of the album I dont spend alot of time with.
Arcarsenal is hands down the most hype intro ever written!
@@turdle2080 you guys are smoking absolute methamphetamine
@@turdle2080 it’s probably one of the best albums of all time man, IMO. Top to bottom gold for me.
I think this is the best vocally I’ve heard Cedric. He’s never off pitch in this video.
Probably cause he's not running and leaping off stuff 😂 same goes for recent Mars Volta shows he sounds in top form
@@ThatBlindGuy247 lol dunno why I didn’t see this after revisiting this vid (didn’t get the notification😒). Yeah the dude was insane with energy throughout their career and I think it shows that when he stays grounded he can really hit it. I do love his insaneness though. Maybe one of a kind?
dude was dialed in
I remember reading somewhere on the Coma back in the day that there were quite a few music label people in attendance so they wanted to make this show spot-on. Well... well done!
These ppl don't understand sarcasm
00:13 Pattern Against User
09:56 Arcarsenal
13:32 198d
19:02 Quarantined
Thank you
you're doing god's work bud.
Being young sounded like this in the beginning of the 00's.
That's why I can't stand the atdi reunion... The album sounds just like every other omar/cedric band from the 2010s but the least like atdi... Them being wild lunatics was the essence of atdi, good for them that they have theur shit together niw but bad for this band
Relationship of Command is like the Millenial version of Raw Power. It just kicks every sort of ass
This is some of the best footage I’ve ever seen of the band.
Yeah, it's really hard to find good videos of them. In this performance, a little more attention to playing - rather than jumping, really paid off. Great show.
this kinda band only surfacing once in every 100 years
Must have been fetus punk in 1900.
I was at the perfect age for this band when they hit the scene. I'd safely put it in the top 10 albums I've ever heard in my life.
💯 agree. I was 14 and it blew my fucking mind
I was 18 living in the bush and it completely blew my mind. Their back catalogue is grouse
I think this one and the first mars volta full length and refused shape of punk to come
Jabba, the walking ice breaker. Absolute national treasure!! 🤘
9:20 "Probably your last chance"... He had no idea how right he'd be. Those were legit their last shows ever, excluding Jim's wedding
Unfortunately I believe we will never see anything like this again in our lifetime.
Ward playing Air at the end of PAU. This performance was incredible considering they were at each other’s throats at this time.
That Quarantined intro bassline...E-P-I-C Mr Pablo!
Such a great bass line and that tone is freaking legit
It always sounded like they were saying "I'm drinking with Jell-o" in Quarantined to me. Tightest live performance I've ever seen from AtDI.
I do like the first two albums of the Mars Volta, but I honestly think that the chemistry between At The Drive In members during this time period is hard to top. I would’ve liked to hear one more album of this before they broke it off. Good video. 👍🏻
the recent tour was awesome!!
This is pretty late, but coheed and cambria definitely is on even grounds
@Hooked On Chronics Imagine a place where your opinions matter, if you imagined me in this comment section, then you would be wrong.
Let other people decide what they like, no need to hide opinions as a fact.
You could say that you personally like them more than coheed, but in the end, nobody really cares because what you like is what you like, and what I like is what I like.
And I'm happy enjoying both bands with the same amount of respect.
@Hooked On Chronics A lot of your favorite bands have written albums on heroin.
@@bebinewk only the first album.
Whomever did the Channel V audio for bands was incredible, thankyou for all the amazing sounding gigs. 🤟
"this is for our boys in coldplay"
haha yeah, they were friends with Coldplay
9:56 That 2001 sample intro is the best
@25:44 Love this version of Quarantined, specifically for how Cedric changes the outro going high instead of low when he screams 'FIIIIRRRREEEEEEEEE!!!'. Love their passion for what they do!
man he fucking killed that note
Jim Ward is the heart of ATDI, and their founder. Reunion without him makes no sense at all.
this is insane. maybe one of the greatest live rock performances of all time. wow.
Then you should also check out Rolodex Propaganda on Jools Holland.
there's something about the groove during the bridge of Pattern Against User. it sounds both slipshod and imperfect, but also indicative of a band that's been playing and practicing constantly for 7 years, all at the same time. it's perfect.
Unusually clean and focused performance, probably because there's no audience
wow they're really on good form here. i remember an interview from noctourniquet era, cedric said atdi for years did opening sets on tour and were at their best with 20 minute sets. Then Relationship made them blow up, and they were asked to play for an hour or more at every gig, and he was completely unprepared to put on good performances of that size. I guess he compensated later with those ridiculous volta sets.
One of their better performances, they’re actually in tune. 🤣
Mostly 😁
They’re actually out of tune in the recording too
@@emilianodiaz5071but it sounds good
Damn. 20 years later and we're still waiting for the Electoral College to be abolished.
who would’ve thought the 5 month break they were about to take where Jim said “I’m getting married man!” would be the time that they broke up
We need more bands like this.
ever heard the fall of troy?
@@keithwaynejones Yeah I like them too.
@@keithwaynejones fall of troy put out some good stuff, then much like this band, drug problems and egos got in the way of the group staying together. last i remember, there was some kind of incident either with thomas erak (the lead singer/guitarist) having a total freak-out, or their drummer or something, on stage at one of their shows, after they let their bass player back in the band. shame, their album 'manipulator' is fantastic. i actually even liked the album they cut with the replacement bass player, "in the unlikely event...", was solid. most of the other stuff they've put out is kind of meh imho.
I watched like 3 versions of this video yesterday and now I’m watching it again today. Their energy is immaculate I also love the modular stuff Cedric is doing cool asf 👆 Jim and Omar harmonizing on quarantined is insanity
'there's members of Coldplay here'. I can't think of a band further away from at the drive in.
They get a shoutout too.
Solid upload. Thanks much. This performance of the 4 songs is great.
This is by fast the most real ATDI performance I have encountered here in youtube land. It is so good to finally hear Cedric respecting the album's version of the songs he is performing. lol
lol Mara volta and Sparta songs were being already at this point in their career especially backstage Jim
And Omar would warm up with their fragments of their fmfuture songs
@@ItUnidentified oh cool. How dod you know ? feel free to share a little more. That makes total sense, how did you come to know about that information ?
@@iamwe7035 Not OP, but it has been mentioned in interviews and stuff over the years. “Viscera Eyes” from Amputechture was actually originally written for ATDI.
@@BigBeefNCheddar Interesting fact. I was just pointing out how clear Cedric sings on this performance. I met him in 2004 we talked about it. Is his voice, he was struggling with his voice for lack of technique back then. I also met Omar and all the Mars Volta crew also seen Sparta live in SF back in 2005 same thing. Sparta and Mars Volta are so different though I assumed they would write their songs separately.
That version of Quarantined was fire 🔥🔥🔥 easy to see how Mars was formed by the long interlude section ... Ced and Omar were always much much more than just your run of the mill punk rockers. It's good they broke up after RoC ... Adds to their legend.
The people with afro's went one way and the ones without went another
Willie Poe I guess the Afros has to “pick” a side...
Very good observation
Not true the bass player is Mexican and did not go with Mars Volta
@@suenoconbelugas . Ya, can't win em' Everytime
LOL youre not wrong
This bands awesome live and this interviewer dead ass burned a picture of the president on live tv. Need more bands like them and more interviewers like him.
The interviewer was bad and should feel bad. how much coke was he on?
@@ericcieslik6061 The interviewer was awesome what are you talking about?
Jabba was an awesome interviewer. He wasn’t a phony like most music TV presenters. Channel V in general had better VJs and presenters than MTV.
@@taffysaur hey thanks a lot! That means heaps!
I think the interviewer was on speed. Really good footage btw! I’m just now seeing this
I love ATDI's antics but it was good to see them concentrate more on playing. Also at 3:18 I do believe I hear the intro to "Air" (Sparta)?
This amazing set still gives me chills. 🙏🙏
Watching in 2020. They sound great live
Such an amazing band... what would have been. I know they are back together but it’s not the same 18yrs later
god what in the hell is this 198d It's been 15 so years and it still cuts beyond the core
(15 years since i first heard it i mean, not since this video. i can count)
So powerful I had 198d tattooed one hands knuckles and walk away on th other 👊🏿🖤
Relationship of command is in the top 5 albums so far this century coming out in 2000, with the money store and kids see ghosts you got to pump a butterfly then funeral by arcade fire i like Contra too but at the drive-in led the way Cedric and his Burroughsian lyrics
Invert your left and right headphones for the real stereo ;)
One month before the band broke up.
Yeah, you can definitely see Omar and Cedric changing time, most likely intentional, to fuck with Jim. They obviously had a hard-on for Jim then and continue to to this day. Sad. They were the last great band to come out of the underground. They were the end of an era.
25:53
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyaaaaaaahhhh!!!!!
How it should’ve been in the album also..
Much better band with Jim Ward
tobythewuss I agree without Jim ward it feels like it’s missing something
Jim is a lot of the soul of the band
SPARTA
it's irrelevant, Anti-Masque or whatever wasn't good.
@@Kaylbee yea, antemasque doesn’t have Jim in that band either.....
Poderosos Siempre!
11:46 *I MUST HAVE READ A THOUSAND FACES*
Thanks for sharing !
Best interview ever this guy is awesome and of course ATDI is from Texas
At the in drive
@@ryfipassword damn i must have been drunk when i wrote that years ago! now im sober! its ATDI!
Tony Hajjar is a beast!
I must have read a thousand faaces ❤
The bass on 198d is fucking dope
So fucking heavy 🌀🤘
7:38 Cedric makes a Cheech and Chong reference lol
Relationship of Command was one of my favorite albums. I discovered Fugazi shortly before that came out and it just kind of rid the wave I was on.
that host is high as a kite
No that's Jabba Channel V Aussie legend. Just watch this ua-cam.com/video/6ZDJqMG6-t8/v-deo.html
Jabba can do what he wants
ドラムのイントロだけで鳥肌が立つ
4:55 Little did Jim, Paul, Tony & the rest of us know, Jim's wedding was the last time they'd play before the band broke up
Fkn finally thank you
This one's for our boiz in Coldplay. Coldplay!
I gotta get me a pair of them same maracas.
i always wonder what Kurt would of thought of At the drive-in.....
*would've
At the Drive-in was supposed to the next "nirvana" in rock history. but omar and cedirc fucked it up.
@@GeckoPixel I guess you could see it that way, but there's also the wonderful first mars volta albums, so...
Who fucking cares what that overrated hack thinks about real musicians.
Weird hearing Omars guitar on the right instead of the usual left hah
The Coldplay shoutout makes so much more sense now. Although, I liked it more when I thought they were being ironically chummy.
What is the story behind it?
Benjamin Benson I guess they were in the audience. Watch the full video.
They were sharing tour dates around the Big Day Out shows (along with PJ Harvey) & I think it was actual genuine ‘chumminess’ rather than ironic. In one interview at the time there was some amusing chatter about them collaborating on a country record. ATDI struck me a pretty open-minded bunch so I don’t see why they wouldn’t have got on with Martin & co... who are similarly open minded. I saw Coldplay tour with a bunch of screamy Welshmen called Terris in 2000 & there was plenty of love going back & forth on that tour too.
Arguably Coldplay was a cool band in 2001. I was very fond of them back then. The struggle began with X&Y.
@@ben_has_hobbies honestly x and y is an incredible album it’s just marred by Fix You being probably the beginning of the end for them. I know you said this two years ago but I just saw it now whoops.
they were so young ;___;
They probably would’ve been the next nirvana if they didn’t split
awesome!
Amazing how Cedric’s voice could hold up over all these years. So good
switch your headphones around to hear Omar on the left.
For a sec there I thought I'd have to skip through a fucking Dr. Dre video.😅 this is my new fav vid on UA-cam. Thanx for this.
Holy moly
"Fifteen-thousand two hundred and eleven pedals" lmao
Of course it'd be the person with the Loveless pfp to comment about pedals lmao
La hueá güena wm!
I MUST HAVE READ A THOUSAND FAAAAAAAACEEEESSSSS!!!!!
This is an EPIC now!
fucking insanely good
I was speaking to a well known producer that worked with them, he said Cedric and Omar were incredibly creative.
Mysterywhiteboy78 not surprising
(De-Loused in the Comatorium )
i had no idea they were creative.
Neither did i. From the live performances going back to ATDI i thought it impossible, even a joke. However who am i to disagree with their producer.
and we all look forward to mysterywhiteboy78's creative output...YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE GREATEST ARTIST EVER TO HAVE EXISTED!!!...and i for one am waiting with baited breath.....pfft
Kinda weird, reminds me of how good ward and bixler are in tandem.
i totally agree
0satanisboring0 The new ATDI is just for their old asses to have a bit of fun and make money. They know punk music is for the young and what they're doing is garbage.
@@karlmarx809 wow, I knew I would disagree with Marx someday
No shit. Wars and Bixler are only two from beginnings of ATDI.
So love Jabba
Oh to listen to them now, talk about the weirdness of the new GWB administration and their hopes that the electoral college will be abolished and a new voting system put in place...
I remember those days and how hopeless, fucked up, and dull it felt in the US, especially after 9/11. I would give anything to go back to a time pre 9/11 and pre ATDI break up. Things felt so much lighter then; so much so that most of the things we had to be angsty about were petty bullshit. There were SO many great underground bands and bands like this that came up through the underground scene by touring like mad. I miss that so, so much. I feel like the entire energy of the world was irrevocably changed just a few months after this. And it's just gotten weirder and weirder.
At least they're back to help us through this new administration.
GLASSJAW shirt nice
I seriously doubt any of them are wearing a glassjaw shirt
Fucking amazing energy!
Omar video recording everything, knowing it's the last interview they'll do before he & Ceddy bear break up the band in about a month or 2
Dude... the burning-in-effigy of Bush Jr. was gold, but I really love the jam band-y instrumental parts of this set. I really miss them & that era of music. Mars Volta's fine & great (never got into Sparta), but the raw emotion & power ain't there. To me, Mars Volta seemed like a quest to be "respected."
But it was the 2000s, man… Going noodly with “prog” and incorporating elements of other stuff like jazz, dub, and salsa into your music for the heck of it were pretty much a suicidal move by marking yourself & your band for ridicule & insults by the public, much less gaining any modicum of respect (maybe unless you were Radiohead); it was actually pretty impressive that they were pretty well received and found an audience back then. I think rather than being “respected”, it seemed to be more of a quest to wing it and be COMPLETELY self-indulgent (which I believe Omar & Cedric themselves would earnestly agree with). Possibly as a retaliation against the strained dynamics within At the Drive-In at that time where every creative input needed the approval of the other band members.
Speaking of which, maybe the palpable “raw emotion & power” that we all felt can be credited to the actual tension within the band itself 🤔
Jim Wardi is heart of ATDI
Tighter than two coats of paint
What’s the presenters name ? Really cool
Anyone know what’s up with the Welsh Flag on Jim Wards guitar?
Taking 5 weeks off… that was the end… Jim got married and they called it done.
Jabba the nutt
11:46
Am I missing something?
Christopher Faulkner Yeah, Jim and Cedric are yelling together the lyrics. gave me the goosebumps first time heard it
Richard Riemersma I MUST HAVE READ A THOUSAND FACES
Christopher Faulkner dumb fuck
You stay classy, San Diego.
Holy shit did paul speak words?
Where the hell did you get this video. One of the best live performances I've ever heard. Like Big Day Out without the gay.
😆
@@jhickssmd still one of the best videos
Tone Loc ....😀
Sounds like Emo Fugazi
Is it just me or is the camera work kinda shitty 🤣 I think these cuts can cause a seizure. I miss ATDI. They saved me in 2001 when I joined the Army.
that's just what good editing looked like in 2001
24:12 mars Volta was born
How cool was this. don't mention it
Fuckin Jabba
projectile transmission!!
"it's puerto rican"