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I really, really hope this doesn't happen. Omar keeps saying it never will and that they have been offered a tonne of money to play Coachella every year. Sorry to be a hater, I just want more Mars Volta and not this!

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You know I never would've thought I'd get to the point of reacting with cynicism towards bands like these getting back together but does anyone stay split up anymore?

Incredible live in their day mind, if they can replicate say 70% of that they'll be blowing people away.

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Cedric: YES ATDI IS REUNITING FOR SOME SHOWS. AND YES A MARS VOLTA ALBUM WILL DROP VERY SOON AS WELL.

:omg: :OMG: :omg:

Over the years I've started to prefer Omar's solo stuff, but every now and then I kick back to some ATDI and quickly remember how amazing it still is.

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I hope it's not just a one-off for Coachella. Relationship of Command is my favourite album but I didn't manage to catch them live the first time around, but would love the chance to do so this time.

Refused have also reunited for the same Coachella. Were it not so expensive I'd be there like a shot!

tl;dr version: :omg: :OMG: :unsure::omg:

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As an aside, apart from an otherwise good line-up, Coachella's taste in dance music is fucking awful. Weird about At the drive-in.

It's cool for people that never saw them live I'm just not a fan of bands reuniting. Still, it does no great harm either I suppose. I just love the Mars Volta!

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I saw At The Drive-In live after they released Relationship of Command and they were fantastic, whilst playing their songs. Then there would be 5 minutes of hectoring about how people shouldn't be pushing or that this song was about the death of one of their friends so people should show more respect. Then they'd go back to smashing seven shades of shit out of their equipment, handstands, mad jumps etc and playing fantastic music.

Then five more minutes of "If you don't calm down we'll leave the stage" and so on and so forth. Was a weird show where they seemed to do everything in their power to make sure people weren't enjoying their brilliant music.

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I don't think it's anything remotely to do with not wanting people to enjoy their music, they just didn't want people to get hurt (even moreso since one of their friends apparently died at a show as you say) which is fair enough, I think. You can enjoy a show without moshing and crowdsurfing, just dancing or whatever. Having said that it's easy to imagine people seeing them on something like

(sorry about Zane Lowe there), thinking "Yeah I'll go down to the show and go fucking mental like they are", then being a bit taken aback when they got there.

Fugazi were the same only their crowd gradually got used to it over the years for the most part. Their early shows had a much greater ratio of talking/pleading to music. I guess ATDI were relatively new to most people back then so they were effectively at that same early point.

To be fair though, the few times I saw them there was hardly any of that talk, people just danced and had a good time. I certainly wouldn't say it was a defining feature of my experience of seeing them live.

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You know I never would've thought I'd get to the point of reacting with cynicism towards bands like these getting back together but does anyone stay split up anymore?

Incredible live in their day mind, if they can replicate say 70% of that they'll be blowing people away.

Sales of music isn't where the money is at anymore. It's no longer profitable to stay split up and let the royalties roll in. Live music is the place now, and you can't fake that so they have to get back together.

Reunions are killing new music. Everyone is so obsessed with seeing the band they liked 20 years ago they don't care for emerging talent. That said I can't deny I went to see RATM 4 times when they got back together, if your not part of the solution and all that...

At The Drive in is a special one though, as is Refused. Bands that surely would have reshaped music over they lifespans had they stuck around long enough to go mainstream.

Refused are at Groezrock in Belgium, and hopefully they'll pull ATDI out of their arses too and it'll be the best thing ever. I'm so excited.

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Sales of music isn't where the money is at anymore. It's no longer profitable to stay split up and let the royalties roll in. Live music is the place now, and you can't fake that so they have to get back together.

It's fair enough and I don't think anyone would particularly blame them for it (well there's always gonna be someone I guess) but it does always feel a bit weird with bands who land on the punk spectrum to some degree. I suppose a big part of how any reunion will be judged depends on the specifics. The worst one I've encountered was Gang of Four charging £25 a ticket at Leeds Met when they got back together.. Twice the price of pretty much every other show there and from a band who always traded very visibly and audibly on Marxist thought and left-wing sloganeering. One of my favourite bands ever but fuck them if that's how they're doing it, I could live without going.

Reunions are killing new music. Everyone is so obsessed with seeing the band they liked 20 years ago they don't care for emerging talent.

Or alternatively, emerging talent is so lacking (for countless varied reasons) that people are forced to look to the past for some sort of a thrill. Part of me thinks this might be down to people (well, me and my mates I guess) getting old and grumpy but there's a bigger part that thinks that music is just fairly shit now on the whole and has been for a good few years. Not that there isn't any good stuff, I'm just speaking very generally. Anyway that's a big subject and it's probably better off in some other thread.

At The Drive in is a special one though, as is Refused. Bands that surely would have reshaped music over they lifespans had they stuck around long enough to go mainstream.

Just curious; in what way do you think they would have done that?

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It's fair enough and I don't think anyone would particularly blame them for it (well there's always gonna be someone I guess) but it does always feel a bit weird with bands who land on the punk spectrum to some degree. I suppose a big part of how any reunion will be judged depends on the specifics. The worst one I've encountered was Gang of Four charging £25 a ticket at Leeds Met when they got back together.. Twice the price of pretty much every other show there and from a band who always traded very visibly and audibly on Marxist thought and left-wing sloganeering. One of my favourite bands ever but fuck them if that's how they're doing it, I could live without going.

Yeah, I had the exact same problem with Gang of Four. Even worse, bands charging £70-£100 for tickets like Cream really piss me off.

Or alternatively, emerging talent is so lacking (for countless varied reasons) that people are forced to look to the past for some sort of a thrill. Part of me thinks this might be down to people (well, me and my mates I guess) getting old and grumpy but there's a bigger part that thinks that music is just fairly shit now on the whole and has been for a good few years. Not that there isn't any good stuff, I'm just speaking very generally. Anyway that's a big subject and it's probably better off in some other thread.

But new music has never had such a chance to jump out at people. Myspace created a whole raft of new acts, the much hyped return of British guitar music a few years ago with people like Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, etc etc. The boom in Dubstep/Drum and Bass/Jungle etc, there is absolutely no shortage of new, decent music imo. However you take a look on the front of any music press on any given week/month and it's some band getting back together to play some shows or put out a new album. I think it's unfair to suggest the general quality of new music has dropped across the board.

But yeah, you're right, probably for it's own thread.

Just curious; in what way do you think they would have done that?

I don't know how old you are, but do you remeber Nu-Metal? That scene turned into 'Nu-Metal' when Rage Against The Machine broke up and no one had a reason to follow those beliefs anymore. Refused and At The Drive In for me were two of the bands who had that same feeling. Bands that could have turned us away from Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Korn and towards a more experimental, thoughful type of rock music, at least on the alternative music scene, but if they'd had the same chance to go mainstream that those bands did who knows?

Wishful thinking.

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Ugh, just no. The last round was awful and Omar doesn't want to be there. Antemasque's new stuff ain't great either.

Reform Mars Volta please :(.

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Saw Mars Volta live at the Astoria 2003 off of the back of the phenomenal Deloused album. It was fucking awful. It was more of a jam/soundcheck with horrendous amounts of poorly performed guitar wankery.

One of the most painful gigs I have experienced in about 100.

I think their ship has sailed. After hearing stuff from Francis onwards, I put Deloused s brilliance down to Rick Rubin.

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