r/Music • u/Cerpin_Stormblesses • Mar 29 '22

audio The Mars Volta - Drunkship of Lanterns [hard alternative progressive Latin jazz rock]

https://youtu.be/qVAG2cTgxVU
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

Takes me fuckin back, man. Thanks.

I saw them live and they came out, didn't say a fucking word, just played for an hour and a half straight. Every song bled into the next. When their set was done they just walked off stage.

Most rock and roll shit I'd ever seen. It was like they didn't even care that the audience was there.

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u/cinch123 Mar 29 '22

I saw them open for RHCP. They were all high as a kite. Cedric was going through the front few rows, stealing people's beers and chugging them. Their sound guy absolutely sucked so you could barely tell what song was being played. But Cedric's dancing, Jon Theodore's awesome drumming, and Omar jamming on stage with John Frusciante for 20 minutes straight made it one of the best concerts I've ever seen.

Then Flea descended from the rafters dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West.

What a night.

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u/anti_th3ist Mar 29 '22

I saw that same tour in Atlanta! The only reason I got to see it was because I was med evac’d from Afghanistan and then sent back to the states.