At the Drive-In - Rolodex Propaganda

[TheBeenCrazy]

Cant wait for Coachella!!!!!!

[sinr1one]

wisht I could have seen ATDI at least once in me life.

[jakeb]

THE MARACAS REALLY BRING THIS TUNE TOGETHER

[Vartex]

What Omars playing at the beginning sounds like Take the Veil almost.

[juangodfrid]

Tmv is my favorite band... and i also love ATDI, but when i heard them i can't compare them... their just to different

[jonms1138]

Damn this is cool as shit.

[cris11cros]

why do you keep discussing whos better? you have 3 bands, ATDI, Mars, and Sparta, different concepts, different times, 3 great bands that have their own signature... just listen to all of their records and all the good records that have been created in the history and thats it........ what we need to reallly discuss is what we can do to kill Bieber, Gaga, Spears, etc, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

[ricardo0123456789]

@cris11cros there are actually 4 bands, don't forget 'bout De Facto

[cris11cros]

@ricardo0123456789 yup, you are correct, last week I found out about De Facto, thanks for reminding me. As a matter of fact I just saw last night Sparta @ EL Paso in the first gig of the tour... they were freaking awesome

[lamecasuelas2]

i just remembered when i was 16!!!!!! awesome shit!!!!

[tanvo93]

ATDI is better than the mars volta..why? simple enough, BALANCE..Omar and cedric brought the element of experimentation while Jim and the other kats brought the traditional feels..TMV is super off the wall experimental and thats why i love them too..Sparta is traditional yet unique in their own sound, tone..which is why i love them too

[Oli4drums]

love the description :P

[treeburning]

check out treeburning

[PARGALATSOS1]

tMv are way better than AtDi...if someone doubts that ,just check out asilos magdalena live,listen to miranda that ghost isn t holy anymore and travel to Mars with Vismund cygnus(live).

[Redeemedsinner17]

Manuscript replicaaaaaaaaaa

[adamphogwood]

oh shut up and play you big haired flan

[bigbirdtalent]

turn up the guitar on the monitor

[xIAMDAVEx]

wish they still had that same energy, they did during deloused era, but they kinda getting old lol

[fishcomputer33]

i guess it would sound better if you were actually there lol. Live recordings always sound bad.

[refusedchad]

@fishcomputer33 I was probably underage and like 2000 miles from this show when it happened, so I'm pretty happy this footage at least is here for me to witness

[SoaringLotus]

So fucking raw man love this shit!!!!!!!!

[esuba77]

fucking brings a smile everytime

[iAple]

i freaking love ATDI, but i always think of it as cedric and omars teenage riot period, the mars volta on the other hand is an artistic masterpiece, much more mature, musically improved. Still you can catch their juvenile hardcore roots in TMV as well. Ill always be happy and kill myself for those guys as long as they never turn mainstream.

[RomeSkateFoSho]

@iAple honestly though, if Cedric and Omar ever did go mainstream, would it be so bad? you know they won't make shitty music anyway. it just means that the masses will listen to better music.

[Mcruled]

cedric on guitar should has been a standard with atdi

[TheBellesProject]

0:58 - 1:00 roulette dares

[mrgreen05]

at 2:12 you can see cedric asking to plug in his guitar or maybe just turn up his guitar..

[LedZeppelin18]

@mrgreen05 lolol his movements were really fast though it was awesome

[sparky89104]

Gibson SG-X fuckkkkkkkk!

[vvAtever21]

i hear the FUGAZI influence in this band

[iMartha182]

man,how i wish i could have been at this show, it looks like it had so much energy!

[SoaringLotus]

Does it matter these guys make good music listen

[canthinkverywell]

whenever i listen to at the drive-in it sounds like they have only 1 guitar, did cedric even need to play in this one??? o.O

[xman682]

wow. ignorant much? 2 guitars at all times, 2 singers too. this one adds cedric on guitar, adds omar on vocals, and jim is on keys instead of guitar.

[canthinkverywell]

yeah i understand that, but if you just listen to any song from at the drive-in you'll only hear 1 guitar, i guess recently since i've listened closer i've been able to hear omar doing arpeggio and jim strumming, but if nobody was able to hear that like i wasnt able to before then what would be the point of 2 guitars, meaning if jim switched to keyboard for this song did anybody really need to pick up a 2nd guitar or was omar good enough by himself? think about it

[xman682]

the reason u hear 1 guitar is because the band was tight enough that it only sounded like one. Don't get me wrong, I think Omar is the better musician of the two, but the band wouldn't have been what it was without Jim on backing vocals and rhythm guitar. but seriously how can u not hear 2 guitar parts in any of the songs? its always pretty obvious.

[joshingledew]

@canthinkverywell if you took out the second guitar out of at the drive in songs they wouldn't be as good, listen to it in stereo then you will understand

[canthinkverywell]

"i guess recently since i've listened closer i've been able to hear omar doing arpeggio and jim strumming" I said this a minute ago -_- haha yeah i understand know i can hear omar's appeggio and jim's strumming, but i started learning guitar it all just sounded like one sound

[joshingledew]

yeah on the chorus omar's playying arpeggio and you cnt hear it much i only realised about a month after listening to it

[AmoebaLandsCraft]

Can't you see him play? haha

[Th3SundanceKid]

when was that? anyone any idea?

[tsisme123]

u can easily tell cause cedric is right handed and omar is left handed

[canthinkverywell]

cedric and omar look alike and i cant tell who's doing the lead vocals, so in this video, i know a lot about at the drive in so yes i know cedric sings, but in this video which one is using the green guitar???

[spikedbasser5]

lefty and righty=omar and cedric

[canthinkverywell]

i never knew that! actually i can easily tell now, i was barely glancing at the screen when i first saw this, was on the phone lol

[croninburg]

Omar's voice cracks me up

[dsuleyma]

ha yea

[PureCore]

Aqui hay mas webos, mas ira, eran mas jovenes

Creo que es algo natural que al pasar el tiempo los musicos quieran experimentar con cosas digamos mas digamos churriguerescas jeje, igual ambas bandas son excelentes

[may301985]

I LOVE THIS PERFORMANCE OR Rolodex Propaganda Cedric Jamss on the guitar solo part OMAR is always cool i like how he also says the lyrics in the begining AT THE DRIVE IN did PiLLS And smoked out

[jaaamesmartin]

They did a lot more than that, buddy. Learn your ATDI history!

[operah143]

hahaha omar is forgetting the manuscript replica part hahahaha

[PimpSonnyMax]

4:40

everyone going apeshit part from maraca boy lol

[nateballs1]

that's Jim Ward to you, sir.

[thecomfortisnow]

@nateballs1 that's Mr.Jim ward to both of you.

[TempleWildcats0and10]

hahaha my neighbor used to find them weed and coke hook ups when they were in temple

[TempleWildcats0and10]

waaay back in the day...they're not a band anymore, they broke up into two diff bands sparta and the mars volta

[DannyCakkes]

Do at the drive in do drugs?

[operah143]

yup

[AttentionSpan]

DeLoused and sometimes Frances the Mute where good.

but it will never top Acrobatic Tenement,CasinoInOut, Vaya or Relationship of Command

[geemoney3333333]

I definitely agree, I dont think TMV is as good as ATDI. But on the other hand I think Deloused is one of the best albums of all time.

[AmoebaLandsCraft]

@geemoney3333333 I don't think they should be compared, totally different. I love both bands though.

[Marsdevilsvolta]

@geemoney3333333 they are just two different bands. the tremulant ep and frances were also pretty dam good id say.

[3V4NK13FF4]

@geemoney3333333 I couldn't agree more. They are two completely different bands and I love them both. I just love At the Drive-In more lol. As of De-loused in the Comatorium being one of the best albums, all I can say to that is HELL YEAH. I love that album and is one of my all time favorites.

[pageseventyfive]

This is probably the tightest song ive seen them do live.

[AICnSP4EVA]

ATDI > TMV

[bridgadellic]

sometimes, but whyd you have to comment it on this ATDI song

[brunobliss]

is that cedric with a guitar? now thats odd

[AttentionSpan]

jims doing synths.

[MentalSentinel]

ruining the song

[AttentionSpan]

yeah they're Wayyyyyyyy too loud.

[DJScallywag]

i just fell of my comp chair!

this is such a mother fucking wonderful song

[platinumdynamite]

Who is Cedric signalling to at 2:14, his guitar tech or something?

[thomaserak7]

yeah pretty sure at his Guitar tech, pretty fast signal he gives

[SeanithanEgan]

He's motioning to the monitor engineer, telling him to put more of his guitar in his mix so he can hear it.

Speaking of the engineers, who the hell turned up the keys so damn loud.

[NiTuS14]

Yeah, the same thing in 3:04 (Jim seems to be motioning to someone).

[godhatesugly]

its like that in the album version too i noticed a few times after listening the synth is pretty loud in the chorus

[RootBeerFloatz]

pinch history feel the pinch blistering between dreams cause im still not listening.....YEAH Bad Ass Song!!!!

Squirming through cuts at the throat!!!!!!!!!

[TriEdge212]

This Song is bad ass i give it a 10-10

[marsvolta091]

manuscript replicaaa!!

it's awesome how ced point to the sound dude to turn up his guitar considering this is basically the only song he plays guitar... I could watch these vids over and over

Reunion show anywhere in the world and i am there.

[tghooker]

the phaser makes it sound trippy

[StreetSpirit008]

what concert is this from?

[schnabby12]

hey fuck you they are the best band so shut the fuck up

[Smallmo123]

What...? It was a response to someone elses' comment saying 'they r gay lol who da fuck would lik dem' I'm a fan of ATDI and The Mars Volta.

[schnabby12]

oh haha k good hahaahahah i thought that you were saying that ATDI was worse then rap haha i was like no dice

haha sorry about that

[0captain0eddie0]

NICE!! never seen Ceddy on guitar before.

[lamecasuelas2]

i think this is after lopsided

[hotwireauterus]

nice observation, captain obvious.

[beatrix716]

Jim sounds like TIMMAY from South Park.

I miss his screaming

[crackheadedV]

hey fuck u fag mars volta and at the drive in are bad ass but sparta is gay exep for one song

[Mavarik]

haha fan boy

[Mavarik]

haha god your such a douche

[Mavarik]

yeah course :D

[doc998]

yea cuz sexual orientations are such a good insult....your disgusting

[Emeianoite]

I miss ATDI... fuck marsvolta, seriously.

[smloveskittycats]

I do prefer atdi over mv, but the songs "Inertiac ESP" and "Eriartaka" (don't know how its spelled) were what got me convinced that Cedric and Jim are still badass. Of course i've expanded the playlist, but MV's fusion of spanish and english is fucking genious.

[elfidox2]

if only i could go back in time.

just for one day.

i wish i could have been at that concert.

[theoutsider000]

Yeah for sure, its super hard to find Bands that are ahead of everybody, "on the tip of everyone's tongue." And on top of that, seeing said band in a tiny tiny club/bar for hella Cheap !

[hockfuzz]

que bello

[adolfomoreno]

this song is too good for my ears and all of ours.

[mexicanhitmen21]

haha cedric at

2:12

haha!

[mathematicalpi]

haha

[AFROIVIEXICANO]

And their was MARSVOLTAAAAAAAAAA!

[coheed09cambria]

there

[emugrint]

is that jims guitar that cedric is using?

and omar does a good job of trying to pull of the iggy pop vocal

[kamikazefever]

the very best song ever! atdi is the best band ever!

[shitpro25]

why did these guys have to break up. they were awesome

[blajke]

because the mars volta needed to be created. 100% necessity.

[HoracioGo15]

from what i hear is bcuz

1)The pressure of bcoming the next "nirvana"

2)Cedric and omar saying that there was bo room for improv or conceptuality

.......u do the math it makes sense in the end

[emugrint]

they were better then nirvana

[Jf1ve]

agreed, better than nirvana, but different genre. Besides, it is 100% true that ATDI was stuck in the posthardcore genre, period. Anyone listen to thursday anymore? get my point?

[mexicanhitmen21]

god damn

so many people

saying

why did they brake up,not be bitchy at you

but they broke up

because omar and cedric didn't wanted to be labeled just post hardcore

progressive or punk

so there was The Mars Volta that doesn't have a genre they play whatever

and Sparta which is both

alternative and post hardcore

[incetardis45]

these guys as AtDi were nothing but pure musical genius, they fuckin rocked

[stimpyf]

hey man, where and when was that show??? date and place.... pleasee I need to get it complete, it's so fuckin amazing!!

no need to analyze who should sing or who should play the guitarr, they blew everybody away when they perform, just shut up and enjoy one of the best bands.

great video

thanks for let us see it!!

[HockeyPwnsBaseball]

St. Andrews Hall in Detroit. I think it was February 11, 2000

[therealsoulproduct]

THAT FUCKING ROCKED!!!!!

I miss these guys so much!

[agentanaranjado]

i just realized that omar's 19/16 solo in 'take the veil cerpin taxt' sounds like a more developed version of the line that he plays in 'rolodex...'. you can really tell at the beginning of this video when he slows it down.

[E3tiger]

Yeh come to think of it it does.

[dhaimy]

none jim is just bad ass

[stickinginmyeye]

Does anybody know whta kind of synth Jim uses in this song?

[andrewstubeaccount]

its a magic one only atdi can wield

[fenrando]

Yeah, I agree with the few that say that the 2 minutes of tuning is damn pointless.

[dhaimy]

its not pointless that was their style and the mars volta does the same thing you're just a playa hater

[pangtjoff]

He's not tuning, that's his playing style. It is a part of the music, whether people like it or not.

[KillaKDilla]

So good! Breaks my heart these guys are no more. Best ATDI song next to Fahrenheit.

[yogi818]

i fucking love you man... couldnt have said it better myself. us two got the same choices of songs.

[xdrumsoffirex]

at 2:11, why does Cedric stop playing, point at the guitar he borrowed from Jim, and look over and wave his hand at Omar?

[dannynanner]

I think he is signaling for someone to turn the guitar up in his monitor.

[xdrumsoffirex]

oh yeah that would seem about right thanks

I thought like he was mad at omar for something haha

[berad51]

awsome song

[casualties92]

what kind of guitar is cedric using?

[xdrumsoffirex]

hey casualties92:

that's actually Jim's guitar, Cedric just borrowed it for this song so he could play guitar and Jim could play keyboard. it's a Guibson SG Junior.

[xdrumsoffirex]

whoops Gibson not Guibson lol

[mandocreep]

is that a texas flag on it? or puerto rico flag?

[ronjonsurf]

Puerto Rico

[ronjonsurf]

Wait, my mistake I thought you were talking about the flag on Omar's Orange. On the SG its a Texas Flag

[casualties92]

lol cedric's mini solo at 2.47

[theeeyez]

the videos from this performance seem like they really make everyone forget about the drama of ATDI and just remember that these guys actually had fun while they were doing this

[pintsbbrukin]

god i love this song

[SentinelConvergence]

Lol at when Jim forgot where he was in the chorus at 3:13.

[Luciiz]

The tuning at the beginning was 100% necessary, faggots. It's what made the video.

[SentinelConvergence]

It really was quite awesome.

[robchrist91]

oh yeah? why was it so necessary then?

[salvofury]

BUILDING THE SUSPENSE!

[berad51]

uhhh i dont know, do you want the song to sound like shit?

thats usually why people tune there guitars so it sounds just right for the next song.

you try playing a song with an un-tuned guitar

see how it turns out.

[asublimefan]

AWESOME

you shold edit this vid though, I agree the tunin up was unnecesary... (2minutes??)

[sbyrne1]

Did we have to have the minute of tunin up skitting about. Skip his ego and get to the music :)

[NortherlyNanook]

Porcelain=Wiretap Scars>Threes

De-Loused>Frances>Amputechture

I find it quite awesome how three different vocalists are used for this, even if the recorded version only uses two, one not even being in the band (Iggy).

[TheNinjaNoire]

Holy Crap that keyboard is fuckin freaky

[millencolinman]

first encounter with At the Drive-in? you get used to it

[reefergoat]

cedric's vocals are so much better than jim's on this performance. I mean, normally they're better, but not so drastically.

[mrkuma]

Poor Jim.

[WarCRYsnake]

i would liek to see this song or any other song on guitar hero III

[navhammond]

I'd hate to see at the drive-in on guitar hero because little kids will be saying HEY THAT SONG IS FROM GUITAR HERO

[WarCRYsnake]

if i herd a kid say that.. i would beat them senselessly..

[refuzd]

hell yeah. that is the only proper response, what?

[SentinelConvergence]

I like how Jim forgot the lyrics. =]

[Jambiyan]

obviously Jim isn't so much of a virtuouso :P

[SentinelConvergence]

Oh burn. =P

Poor old Jim, he does try, he's just a bit hit and miss vocally. =]

[Jambiyan]

True, I guess it comes with the territory =P

Sparta's a lot more tight these days though

I miss the rawness of ATDI =/

[SentinelConvergence]

Yeah, I thought Threes was pretty inane at times, Wiretap Scars was better.

Anything's better than Francis the Mute though, I'm one of the minority who hated it. De-loused was awesome, Amputechture was ok, Francis wasn't. =[

[Jambiyan]

I thought Cassandra Gemini was awesome, and so was L'Via but the rest sucked a bit.

as for de loused and amputechture, I think they're both awesome...

and wiretap scars will always be the best, though porcelain was good effort, I especially liked breaking the broken =)

[SentinelConvergence]

Thank fuck I'm not to only one.

What was atrocious was the fact I misspelt 'Frances', what a retard. =]

[jayfiz]

What's up with Cedric's singing on the chorus? I can hardly understand what he's saying. Other than that awesome song and performance! ATDI rocks!

[Vegankjh]

So damn good.

[xSm4ok2er0x]

Best Band Ever..wish i got a chance to see them live.

[refuzd]

what other band had three other singer/players in such a fashion, with that rythm section..

[SentinelConvergence]

Omar is no replacement for Iggy.

[GuillotineCancer]

CEDRIC ON GUITAR! Holy shit! That boy is amazing in so many levels!

Omar and Cedric's singing is great, considering that it's ATDI, but Jim just sounds like the Cookie Monster on crack.

[Gwenkat]

I LOVE THEM!!

[dawiky]

omar should sing in mars volta

[zerocrossrock]

smexy video. i wish i could have seen them live

[gallows4gracesuckass]

FUK YEH

[hugoba]

POWERFULL!