The Mars Volta, live video from Sasquatch 2008 from Dave Allen
Earlier in the day The Mars Volta lead singer Cedric appeared very calm and mild-mannered when he agreed to be interviewed on video. About 4 hours later, as you’ll see in this video, he tore straight into the first song of the set like a man possessed. During the song he picks up one of the drummer’s cymbal stands and hurls it into the audience…the whole thing, stand and cymbal. Then he found one of the floor lights on the stage, and yes, that got hurled into the audience too. Then he ends up in a wrestling match with one of the video crew as he tried to wrench the video camera from the guy…no way was the camera guy going to let go, he knew where it would end up. So here’s a video, 7 minutes of true mayhem - the spirit of punk rock in all its glory…I think I just found a rock band I can love and these guys can’t be pigeon-holed either. Let’s not forget where it all started - with Cedric and Omar’s first outing, At The Drive-in an amazing band too….
Thank you for posting this footage. What an unbelievable opener from The Mars Volta.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pmone of the best shows i’ve been to i was right by that camera man who almost got his camera stolen. do you have anymore footage of their set because the jams during goliath and cygnus were godly
May 27th, 2008 at 11:22 pmI remember seeing ATDI and the old Luluna (then called Pine St) and Cedric acted just as crazy. He was wrapping himself with gaffers tape like a mummy for the last few songs. When he was completely covered including his mouth and eyes he did a stage dive into the drum kit to end the show. I’m glad to see he’s still as wound up after all these years.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:14 amanyone remember that whole the Doors scandal when Jim apparently whipped his dick out and all the people in crowd went on the news and said how Jim was inciting riots and partaking in crazy stage antics and they said it was the worst show of their lives? Cedric keeps that spirit alive — he wakes people the fuck up. people go to rock shows and take pictures and maybe nod their head — cedrics shakes you out of that. you’re here. and you going to experience something more than just the notes on the record. all the magazines and people who said it was the worst 90 minutes of their life or complain about how terrible it was are boring people. Mars volta puts raw emotion into their music, how do people not enjoy and respect that? i don’t understand it. at least they get some form of emotion out of the people. hate is better than ignorance.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:26 pmat the drive-in > mars volta
May 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am