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Topic: Mars Volta...LIVE!!!

Posted By: MikeSweedish
Subject: Mars Volta...LIVE!!!
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 09:08

Monday, the 9th was one of my greatest concert expiriences. At the Worcester Palladium some friends and I attended the Mars Volta show featuring DJ Nobody. First of all DJ Nobody is NOBODY, this 'set' consisted of a half-hour of ambient-synth-pop samples, like a keyboard demo, from a verry sh*tty keyboard. Once the Mars Volta finally came on it was absolute euphoria. Their set consisted of all of 'Frances the Mute' plus select songs off of De-Loused, such as Roulette Dares, I was disappointed when they didn't play Televators, one of my favorites, possibly the lack of Justin Medal-Johnson playing up-right bass. Overall it was a fantastic show, a really energetic crowd(I came home quite bruised). I recomend them to any prog enthusiast to listen to, I recomend seeing them live to already established fans.

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Posted By: MikeSweedish
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 09:12

By the way, Mars Volta will be touring again shortly with System of a Down, another favorite band of mine, I will definately be present at one of those shows. Anyone have confirmed dates or schedules?

Posted By: Ankaret
Date Posted: May 11 2005 at 09:57

Bleh, they're pretty horrible live. I don't blame them, but that stuff is just really hard to reproduce live without all of the equipment and another 3 vocalists, 2 more guitarists, bongos, etc etc.

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Posted By: the musical box
Date Posted: May 14 2005 at 02:04

I saw The Marsvolta live last night in Montreal and they were absolutely incredible.

Their live show has drastically improved since the last time i saw them (two years ago) and they were smack on the money, note for note. They added a percussionist and a saxophonist/flautist, and are completely able to recreate every moment of the albums (in fact Cedric got two standing ovations during songs for hitting glass shattering howls; UNBELIEVABLE!!).

God im still sore....crazy mosh pit guys.....they played over 2 and a half hours.

If you skip out on this tour you are a fool; this cannot be missed.

The set list was as follows to all those interested:

Drunkship of Lanterns
Concertina
Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt
Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus
L'Via L'Viaquez
Roulette Dares
The Widow
Cassandra Geminni (all thirty three minutes and thensome!!)

god....my new fave band!!

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