Mars Volta New Years Eve Show

[B∞Rdom§]

who else witnessed that!?
sadly i had to leave around 1:40ish but i managed to get SOME of the setlist down on my hand, but i can't tell what some of them are so here it goes...

Acoustic Set :
Televators
The Widow
Miranda that ghost... (1st time played live i think)
Asilos Magdalena
Vermicide
a new "unfinished" song


Electric:
Roulette Dares
New Years coutdown
random playing and hugging for 10 min : /
Viscera Eyes
Wax
Goliath (in my opinion best performance of the night)
???
????
Tertragrammation
unreleased song (they claimed they haven't played it in five years)
????
Cygnuis
Meccamputecture

if anyone else was there fill me in on what they played after that
and the ones i missed in betwean

[gmoneyak]

I really wanted to hit this up.. A costume party on New Year's always leads to craziness, add Mars Volta and I would've tripped balls all night.

How was the scene?

[brownbuffalo]

ELECTRIC SET

ROULETTE
VISCERA
WAX
GOLIATH
CONJUGAL
TETRIS
AGADEZ
METATRON
CYGNUS
OUROBOUROUS
ILYANA
MECCA
ABERINKULA
BAPHOMETS
DRUNKSHIP

bootleg is on the way...

[B∞Rdom§]

ELECTRIC SET

ROULETTE
VISCERA
WAX
GOLIATH
CONJUGAL
TETRIS
AGADEZ
METATRON
CYGNUS
OUROBOUROUS
ILYANA
MECCA
ABERINKULA
BAPHOMETS
DRUNKSHIP

bootleg is on the way...

im all over that

[brownbuffalo]

The Mars Volta
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
12/31/07

Recorded with:
Giant Squid Omni Mics > Battery box w/bass roll-off > iRiver H100 w/Rockbox installed
>Split into tracks/normalized/EQed using Cubase LE
>Exported to .wav
>Flac using FLAC Frontend

Acoustic Setlist:

1. Intro
2. Televators
3. Cedric talks about a toy guitar given to Omar by an audience member
4. The Widow
5. Cedric talks
6. Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
7. Cedric talks
8. Asilos Magdalena
9. Cedric talks
10. Vermicide
11. Cedric Talks
12. New Song


Electric Setlist:

1. Intro
2. Roulette Dares
3. New Year's Countdown and Mini-jam
4. Viscera Eyes
5. Wax Simulacra
6. Goliath
7. Conjugal Burns
8. Tetragrammaton
9. Agadez
10. Metatron
11. Cygnus Intro
12. Cygnus
13. Ourobouros
14. Ilyena
15. Meccamputechture
16. Aberinkula
17. Day of the Baphomets
18. Drunkship of Lanterns


*Notes:

- First ever acoustic set- debut of acoustic versions of Televators, Asilos, Vermicide, Miranda, and a new song.

- First live performances of Miranda, as well as a new song.

**Thank you very much to CassandraLA from the Comatorium for creating the awesome cover art!

Electric Set Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UU28OCCA

Electric Set Part 2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WDJWHF1X

Acoustic, Coverart, Info
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1TSUC62V

acoustic set is amazing

[gmoneyak]

I'm checking out the acoustic set.. Thanks

[bmack86]

Interesting thread to spam.

[stinkbutt]

Go on

[Spooks]

Well it looks like the Mars Volta are on an indefinite hiatus

You said that you are open still to doing more with the Mars Volta and At the Drive-In. People on the internet are very afraid that the Mars Volta is done. Are you on a hiatus, or are you on one of those “indefinite hiatuses” like Fugazi where you never actually break up but you also never get back together? Or is that something that you just don’t know?

I don’t know, and I’m not…insecure enough to have to ask myself that. It’s like, we’ve done that for 10 years, 11 years. Now we’re all doing different things, and everything that we’re doing informs how we express ourselves, and so if that happens then it happens and if it doesn’t it doesn’t. It’s not something to be worried about. It shouldn’t occupy a space in the mind. There’s way too many things that are much too important to occupy space in the mind. That’s first and foremost on my agenda: Who’s paying rent in my mind? If you’re a bad tenant, get out.

I was at the first week of Coachella this year, so I saw At the Drive-In’s first set, and you seemed, I would say, fairly unenthused about what was going on up there. Would you say that reunion was worthwhile or was it something more of a chore?

That’s a complicated question, for many reasons, so I’ll be brief on this one. Number one, the most important person in my life had just passed away, my mother, and so…

I’m very sorry, I didn’t know that.

That’s okay, I’m a very private person. I know most people didn’t know that. I had absolutely no desire to be around anyone else besides my father and my four brothers and my aunts and uncles, and I was pulled away from that out of yes, a duty to a compromise I had already agreed to. So, that’s first and foremost what you have to understand.

Second to that…I get asked this all the time, but I’m normally not as straightforward about it as I am right now for whatever reason, but the point I try to make is that it doesn’t matter what people’s perceptions are of what happens on stage. It’s just a band and we’re just playing music. Behind that is five people who have to live very real lives. And so I had that going on, Tony has his two kids and his business going on, Cedric has his life, Paul has his life, Jim has his life.

I think the main thing that I’m trying to say is that people, for whatever reason, tend to forget that a band is not just a product, that there are people behind it. If someone could always remember that then it would be much easier to understand what it is an artist is trying to say. People, they mystify the arts way too much. There’s nothing special about it. There’s nothing special about it at all. It’s just expression. We all go through it. We all cry, we all laugh, we all want to have sex, we all want to be loved. We all share that, no matter what corner of the globe you’re on. Your mother passes, and then you pass, and then your children pass, and their children pass, and so do theirs, etcetera, etcetera. That’s what I think about all of that.

Third to that, I will just add quickly because it directly relates to what I’m saying: At the Drive-In as it was is of no interest to me. I am interested in the five people in the group, because the chemistry between the people…that’s the music. What ends up on a record or on a stage is a result of that chemistry. That’s the thing. I’m interested in being around those guys. I have absolutely no interest or emotional connection to playing songs that I wrote when I was 18 to 23 or whatever. The only emotional connection I have is that I see that it makes people happy when I look out there, people who were way too young to have seen us live when we were actually around. That’s an amazing thing in and of itself, and I don’t want to sound ungrateful for the amazing situation I’m in that people care about something we did 11 years later, but I have no emotional connection to it, because the person I was then has died about three or four times since then.

When you think about the science of it, we shed our skin, we change our skin completely from top to bottom every seven years. And then you go inwards from that to what’s happening in the mind, and so many things have happened since then. I’ve played lots of these shows with At the Drive-In and the people in the front are like, “Come on! Throw your guitar! Do a backflip!” but I have no interest in entertainment, you know? "Dance, monkey, dance!" I have no interest in entertainment, I have interest in self-expression. If something is moving me then it’s going to move me, if it isn’t it isn’t, and if I’m having a bad night… I can’t feel bad about those things. No one should be made to feel bad about what they’re going through, but that’s just something that people do because of the mystification of expression.

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