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Sleepercar is massively underrated. Go listen to them.

1:23 can confirm. I only met him once but he seemed like a genuinely nice dude.

Jim does a good job of sounding calm and reasonable but I just wonder how so many of Jim's people have chosen Omar and Cedric over Jim. Jim's cousin Jeremy played with TMV. ATDI and Sparta's Paul left Sparta to join TMV. ATDI drummer's Tony didn't stick by Jim's side when he was let go, and his role was replaced by someone else in Sparta. In the press, Jim definitely seems like the mature one but it just amazes me how all these people didn't stick by him. Makes you wonder what it's like outside of the press.

That was actually really lovely I agree with that ending too

In casino out is their best album, which is the most “Jim” album of their catalog.

Kind of lionel messi style 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

If you really cant tell what happened, just look into Cedric and Omar a little bit. They were into a lot of things that Jim didnt want to be a part of. Those things were easier to avoid and less pervasive when they were teens and early 20s, but he didnt want to be a part of it now that he was an adult. Drugs and the drug lifestyle were a large part of it.

He said a whole bunch of vague word salad. Obviously it was a contract dispute. That's always the case when a key player pulls out at the last minute. He probably made a bluff and got called on it.

The decision to "remove" Jim is the reason the newest At the Drive in album didn't pop off with the fans.

I love Cedric and Omar but it seems like they can't stop being assholes to this man

There's some real wisdom here

It's so perfect that he joined just in time to make Set Your Body Ablaze.

What a killer story. I can imagine everyone’s reaction when first hearing Geert’s voice. When the split with Another Victim came out, I was such a massive Shai Hulud fan already. And when I saw that split at Newbury Comics one day, I was sideways with excitement. I bought it, tore the plastic wrapping off of it, tossed the cd in the cd player in the car and grabbed the lyric booklet. I had no idea that Chad was no longer on vocals at this point. I remember reading the names of the band lineup in the notes. And I remember feeling so bummed. But when the sound came over the speakers..”Heat, upon heat..upon HEAT” And the song exploded into existence, I was so incredibly impressed. The feeling in my chest..my Shai Hulud obsession was instantly magnified. Geert was a perfect fit for the band. His stage presence was the best I’ve ever seen. Shai Hulud shows during that era were epic. The energy was visceral as fuck.

ATDI was 110% better with Jim in it. They fucked up big time by removing him.

Excellent Interview!

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I love the fact that it was Seth doing that screaming/noises on this track!!!! The track is twisted as f**k. Amazing.

Just say it straight man. Confusing.

They have been together since they were kids... I love this band it was our band of the generation but think about this how many people are close now with their friends growing up. Egos and drama will rise no matter what. ATDI shows are a little weak it just seems forced.

He was racist to the mexicans

This was fantastic. I love Seth Putnam stories. The guy was an absolute legend.

Jim is class. Respect to him. Thank you for being so respectful to the band I once loved.

Cedric and Omar are the reasons why ATDI went to shit

I love Jim Ward. Best ATDI song is hands down HourGlass

what was the reason?

Dude I swear to god where can I hear this

I need to hear this fucking album

I love you, Jim!!! 1:51

not a big deal, its punk, dude was in most of the bands discography. He already contributed as much as he should have.

sounds like some victim mentality with a lot of "buts"

At the drive in is HIS band he started it.

Whatever happened to the preview song they recorded when the reunion was announced? It sounded so good like something off of relationship of command

We love you Jim. We seriously love you.

this guy sounds gay

I wonder what he's dancing around. Drugs?

Hedonism is such a participation sport.

Sadness will prevail is a must listen.

Man, you can't argue with a single word of what he says at the very end of this. Very well said Jim..

Love Jim

I love jim and without him there's no atdi.

That's so messed up. Going over to sub to your channel now

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Geert is the best . Shai hulud should have had many more albums about LORD OF THE RINGS or whatever Geert wrote about

Sin él en la banda NO ES AT THE DRIVE IN

Yeah inter Alia was a very weak lacklustre album and I wish it never was released. I think El gran orgo E.P didn’t have Jim on though and I liked that.

Something tells me Cedric and Jim aren't on the best of terms

Jim was always the backbone of atdi. Whenever the band did stuff without him it showed

he seems to always be the bigger man in these situations

He dodged a bullet. New ATD-I album sucks ass.

The bad part of this is while it may be just a band, I am angry about what happened because Cedric and Omar were not only beyond dishonest, but they couldn't have possibly been bigger, disgusting hypocrites. From promoting the original line-up, and then dropping the news the day before the tour, and then announcing a new album with Keeley (meaning plenty of time to have known Jim wasn't going to be there thus plenty of opportunity to have been honest and transparent about that), and then on top of that charging the exorbitant amounts they did for that tour. Some of those tickets ran over $50 to $100. Omar couldn't be bothered to show positivity when Jim was there, and for some reason was the one ruling out any new music. Why couldn't they have said fuck him then, and then recorded an album together? This was Jim and Cedric's band in the beginning, after all. Of course this was while Jim was there. Jim's not there? Not only do we get a new two-year long tour, a new album, a new EP, but an Omar happy to dance around and solo his happy little ass off all over the live shows. So what is all this, the fuckin' Omar show now? Omar is so important and so great, thus he gets to call all the shots? And then everyone (Cedric especially) simps for and utterly follows him because I guess he's so great. It really feels like Omar/Cedric are trying to bring AtD-I down into their little Rodriguez-Lopez family gimmick (all his little side projects and Bosnian Rainbow cronies, or RLPprojects for short) and I couldn't possibly be more disgusted by it. To me it is not a matter of question when I speculate that all of this drama comes down to Omar. And I'm really beginning to think he's an egotistical, power hungry little prick that wants to control every little bit of success that has come his way in life, even regarding a band that had little, if anything, to do with him initially. Little Dictator, am I right? Little bitch, the way he is towards Jim, morelike. The same for everyone else in the band who doesn't stand up for Jim. And then I think of Omar and his full of shit Bosnian Rainbows-era discussions about not wanting to be Little Dictator, and to start thriving on connection, family, and diplomacy. Yet curiously enough Jim was left out of all of that. Even Eva (original Mars Volta bassist) got to punch him out in his "Running Away" video, but not Jim. And then don't get me started on the shit Omar talked about Jim when asked during 2018 about his absence. Completely full of shit and up his own ass. And what's with Cedric claiming to not know if Jim posseses the, and I quote, "chemical ambiguities?" Like what a pretentious little cunt for, 1) one, but, 2) what does that even mean? Considering Jim is the other co-founder of AtD-I. This is the guy you (Cedric) made all of those influential and cultural landmark records with. So why are you over here trying to act like Jim isn't one of the main reasons AtD-I, let alone Sparta, let alone his solo work, let alone his work with Sleepercar, were so incredible? Trying to rewrite history behaving like that I reckon. Which is ironic considering the Mars Volta broke up because Cedric was so pissed off at how Omar treated the 2012 reunion and then ran off and formed Bosnian Rainbows. Oh but that's all fine now I guess, and now here you are, both of you, talking shit about Jim yet again. How hunky-dory, you pretentious little hypocrite cowards. Long live Jim Ward. He's a good, honest man, and didn't want to be bothered with petty, dishonest, pretentious little people. Let alone the friends from Sparta, the leftovers, that ended up betraying him, turning their backs on him, to get back together with the Dynamic Afro Duo, and their pretentious little gang of pompous, avant-garde misfits. I'm looking at you, Gender Bender 🙄 By the way, regarding Paul Hinojos? I bet it felt good to run away from Sparta the way he did, only to be sidelined as a sound manipulator, and then kicked out merely a couple of years later. Captain Hindsight surely said, "how's it goin'," on that one. Long live Jim, fuck the rest. 🙏❤️