stochastic24 neither, but there’s been a few incidents that people have called him out for. 1 is for smoking weed on a Skype lesson and refusing to teach his student how to actually play, 2 is his backstage ego where a fan got invited backstage by a roadie and Thomas Pridgen played the ‘who the fuck is this guy?’ card and made him look like an idiot. There’s more stories but he really does sound like a tool
Lewis Jones bullshittttt lmao Pridgen is the chillest dude ever ! Hung out with him last year in Denver he was touring with Residente at the time , super cool dude! Badass drummer too !
This band is so impossible classify because Omar Lopez admits he doesn't even know what scales he uses. His sound is simply a collection of notes that come from nowhere. It's also what makes them so awesome.
Uhh if I believe the songs came from the Ouroboros demon that was trying to inhabit Cedric through a haunted Ouija board throughout the recording process....
@@asior34 Obviously he has an intuitive sense, but a lot of great guitarists can't describe, in an academic sense, what they are playing or how. Myself and a few of my friends have been playing guitar for 20 years and still have no idea what we are playing, but we like the sound all the same.
Imagine some 55-year-old boomer-ass housewife sitting down to listen to the Letterman show fifteen years ago and being hit in the face with this. Jesus Christ, how beautiful.
This is my first time ever hearing this band. This is the strangest combination of sound and style ever. I'm so caught off guard I don't even know if I like it yet...
Definitely listen to their other stuff. Their first album is by far my fav. They first is also probably the most accessible. I’d say start with “take the veil Cerpin Taxt” or maybe “roulette dares”
@@mgall3844 Omar not a guitar god? Jeez how many endorsements and magazine covers do you need to be considered one in your world? Because Omar definitely has had a grip of them.
Roger Ball Dude what's his name.Im a big fan of them and At the drive in, but my nigga right here killing them drums like the doc in bronx,lol for real tho this dude stage presence is on point.I consider my stage presence above expectation such as the homie in the vid.I remember buying the ep for deloused and got heavy into Volta but it was at a time were I was getting more influenced by metal.The rant is real.This what happens when you smoke a blunt and whant to remember the roots of one's artistry.lol
As a person who doesn’t play an instrument I can honestly say and I’d put money on it that all these guys all the way down to the clarinet player are probably some of the top musicians of their instruments in the world .
John theodore was their best drummer. He did the first 3 albums. Too bad Omar and Cedric were too much focust on themselves back then. They really gave him not enough credit.
Well, Cedric said otherwise, that they hated Pridgens sound, also said that the sound of TMV was all thanks to Theodore. Look for the audio interviews, "why theodore left TMV".
That’s what I was thinking. There’s no way Thomas would be able to play like that unless it’s damn loud, so that means everything else would need to be loud too. The audience got blasted.
I wanted the band to explode after this performance. Saw them in St. Louis and Memphis. Killin it. TP was incredible. My best rock shows 1. Sting & Peter Gabriel 2. Foo Fighters w/Gary Clarke Jr 3. The Mars Volta
These guys are artists of the highest level. Granted, the music is excessively abstract, but that's o.k. because it's apparently purposeful. It's art without limits.
Yeah, I can only hope it sounded better in the studio because really my only complaint here is the mix, he sounds like he's performing in a low budget high school gym with a bad PA system.
Considering the unavoidable fidelity drop in a live performance, I think they did well here. Cedric doesn't sound identical to the album cut, but without studio post-processing he couldn't possibly match that sound. He still manages to hit the right notes and doesn't pussy out of doing the tough falsettos; the only possible complaint being that his voice doesn't cut through the instrumentals as well as the album cut -- the aforementioned unfair criticism.
I watched this twice, scrolled down to see a lot of hate, and had to share my thoughts... Fuck that, this performance was fucking killer. Everything about it. Obviously Tom stuck out, he usually does. And I enjoyed Cedric's vocals, a pleasant change from the studio version(which has seemed to be their schtick since ATDI, leaving the studio version for the cd, and improvising live shows). So yeah. Take that internet.
Yeah but the singer (dont know names well, sorry) was waaaayyy sharp for most of the performance; he sings in a range that is way too high for him in my opinion, to the point where he can never pinpoint the exact tone and is always slightly off.
+ThatCheapDrummer That has always been my biggest complaint with Cedric. Give the guy a studio, and he'll give you an excellent performance. Put the guy in front of a crowd on stage, he'll fail miserably. He has *always* struggled to stay in key whenever he sings in a higher pitch throughout his entire career.
honestly i think it takes a person with a different perspective on music to appreciate this. its beautiful and those who cant find the beauty in this are missing out.
@@treefingers1183 Its not pretentious. He didn’t say his tastes were objectively better than other peoples. It really does take a “different” perspective to appreciate this kind of music.
@@raz0rcarich99 Zappa is one of those artists like Prince and Dylan that i just take people’s word for. Not that i dislike them, I’ve just never tried to get into their works, but i trust they are the geniuses everyone says they are.
They must do a lot of studio tricks to Cedric's voice for the albums. It sounds great on record, but it seems every live video I watch his voice sounds like frickin hell.
He's just not that great of a singer. People foolishly assume that being able to hit high notes makes you great, but if you can't even stay in key in the higher ranges then it's pointless.
What Wheelio said plus Ced was always pushing his voice beyond what it is comfortably capable of. You can do that in a studio with plenty of warm milk and rest periods between takes but live, with day upon day of 40+ minute sets in clammy, hot rooms it's bound to take a toll. He probably sounded pretty good on the first song of the first set of a tour, and it'd be an uphill battle from there.
@@michaelmetcalfe4882 In fairness, for studio recording, those are just octaves. He records some lines down the octave then overdubs them over up the octave. It's a common recording method. I've used it several times. Since it's not possible to "split himself in two" and sing both lines live, he has to pick a line and go with it. When he picks the high line people say "he sounds like a stupid cat" When he picks the low line, people say "He can't hit the notes, so he has to go down the octave" The truth is you would simply need two singers to recreate the effect live. It's not difficult or dishonest it's just a matter of physics. I'm sure there are people lining up to offer to sing with the mars volta, and most tribute bands have at least two singers, but they're perfectly entitled to perform their songs live with however many musicians they wish.
CBWAVY yeah Omar used to do that a lot before not in the more recent performances, and the singer Cedric used act like if he was on 50 lines of coke before too
So if 300 Mhz is the brown note, does that make the pitches he reaches here yellow notes? Because listening to him sing this makes me need to piss like crazy.
@@La_sagne What compelled you to post this in reply to an old comment like that? It was a joke Cedric made on a video of the At the Drive-In song, 300 MHz. Damn.
Prigden: Excellent Drummer Omar: Overall excellent musician Cedric: lets keep it in the studio... Honestly, i LOVE the mars's volta but his live singing drives me crazy, but the instrumental guys are just soooo good...
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i tried to sing this song and now it seems like i have my voice from when i was 5 years old help
That means you’re singing it right
This is hands down one of the most insane drumming moments on TV that has ever aired live. Pridgen truly killed it that night.
Pridgen has always been my favorite TMV drummer, had a special energy that i've never seen elsewhere.
@@stochastic24 Too bad he's a massive douchebag
@@lewisjones284 Never met him.
stochastic24 neither, but there’s been a few incidents that people have called him out for. 1 is for smoking weed on a Skype lesson and refusing to teach his student how to actually play, 2 is his backstage ego where a fan got invited backstage by a roadie and Thomas Pridgen played the ‘who the fuck is this guy?’ card and made him look like an idiot. There’s more stories but he really does sound like a tool
Lewis Jones bullshittttt lmao Pridgen is the chillest dude ever ! Hung out with him last year in Denver he was touring with Residente at the time , super cool dude! Badass drummer too !
Thomas Pridgen is a BEAST
Andres Serrat yeah hes fucking sick
he gets off at the end though...Pridgen
Everyone Else: "This is David Letterman's show, let's wear our best suits!"
Thomas: "Fuck that, I'm not even wearing a shirt."
The Mexican flag as well. Great
Everyone talks about Thomas’s amazing drum part and Omar’s Guitar line, but the bass line in the chorus is gorgeous
That bass line makes the whole song stay together and how.
That bass line is badass in the chorus.
Juan really does keep the band together after Jon Theodore got fired.
and the vocals while not enjoyable by themselves fit like a glove and that clarinet solo.. holy shit
@@masterbeat04 why did jon get fired?
This song got a grammy. That's real progress in the music industry to me.
I believe in The Mars Volta!
And now look what we have.
a grammy in the category of Most Boring and Poorly Mixed Single
@@rickdeckard1075 When you comment just to try to agitate people, you only come off looking ignorant.
@@rickdeckard1075 boring? BORING? are we all crazy?
@@Namelesssoul yes.
Most people in that audience probably went to Letterman that day not knowing who the band was... and were probably freaked the fuck out! haha
This band is so impossible classify because Omar Lopez admits he doesn't even know what scales he uses. His sound is simply a collection of notes that come from nowhere. It's also what makes them so awesome.
T R I T O N E S
Im sure he knows, hes too good lol
Uhh if I believe the songs came from the Ouroboros demon that was trying to inhabit Cedric through a haunted Ouija board throughout the recording process....
@@asior34 Obviously he has an intuitive sense, but a lot of great guitarists can't describe, in an academic sense, what they are playing or how. Myself and a few of my friends have been playing guitar for 20 years and still have no idea what we are playing, but we like the sound all the same.
He has frets, his notes come from the basic dodecaphonic tones everyone uses.
Boy the congas really sounded killer in that mix...
"L" to the freaking "O-L"
"thanks bruce" lol bruce willis opening for the mars fuckin volta. u cant make this stuff up
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the fact that Bruce Willis opened up for The Mars Volta, right before they dripped all over the stage?
Imagine some 55-year-old boomer-ass housewife sitting down to listen to the Letterman show fifteen years ago and being hit in the face with this. Jesus Christ, how beautiful.
Yeah, and frantically headbanging to it, sending her curlers flying through the room.
The attention that this performance commands is borderline inappropriate for late night television fucking absolutely outrageous 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is my first time ever hearing this band.
This is the strangest combination of sound and style ever.
I'm so caught off guard I don't even know if I like it yet...
Definitely listen to their other stuff. Their first album is by far my fav. They first is also probably the most accessible. I’d say start with “take the veil Cerpin Taxt” or maybe “roulette dares”
Listen to “at the drive-in”
hahah 🤣🤣 I feel the same way and I've been listening to this band for 10 plus years
So...we're checking in. Do you like The Mars Volta after 10 years? And if yes, did you buy their box set?
@@dinothegonzo You beat me to it.
How did The Mars Volta soak after 10 years?
The only thing I like about Letterman is when he gets a band like this on who completely destroy the sensibilities of everyone watching.
It was nice when Omar looked happy and passionate about playing his guitar.
one of my favourite things is that Omar, a guitar god, is notoriously on record as saying he hates the guitar more than anything
@@eveadams9923 He's not really a "guitar god" he's a decent player with a unique style, his real strength is the song writing/composing
@@mgall3844 I count those talents toward his divinity :)
@@mgall3844 Omar not a guitar god? Jeez how many endorsements and magazine covers do you need to be considered one in your world? Because Omar definitely has had a grip of them.
Now thats how you play drums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Roger Ball
Yes. Fast, precisely, powerfully.
Roger Ball Dude what's his name.Im a big fan of them and At the drive in, but my nigga right here killing them drums like the doc in bronx,lol for real tho this dude stage presence is on point.I consider my stage presence above expectation such as the homie in the vid.I remember buying the ep for deloused and got heavy into Volta but it was at a time were I was getting more influenced by metal.The rant is real.This what happens when you smoke a blunt and whant to remember the roots of one's artistry.lol
PhotiOz Blunted that's Thomas Pridgen. Straight up one of the best drummers in the business.
no, but thats how Thomas pridgen does it.. and does it well
@@photiozblunted8875 god tier comment
RIP Ikey. Thank you for the good times. You will be missed.
There will never be a late night appearance like this again
I wish the cameras panned to the audience to see their reactions
Same lol
Probably look like they just witnessed a brutal murder
I wonder how Bruce Willis reacted.
@@teiladnam Hopefully he realized he had no business sharing the stage with true musicians.
As a person who doesn’t play an instrument I can honestly say and I’d put money on it that all these guys all the way down to the clarinet player are probably some of the top musicians of their instruments in the world .
kinda looks like a soprano sax rather than a clarinet. I could be wrong though.
@@noidea26it’s both, watch the whole thing
Whoever set up the sound on this deserves a raise. They sound great. The audience was probably blown away
this band is unreal, the musicianship is mindblowing
THE MICROPHONE IS ON!!!!!!!!!
Foreign Truth BUT NOTHING ELSE IS ON
The microphone is still on. ⚡⚡
TP is such a beast on drums it's really amazing to watch him do it live.
Ben from Kaboom?
Thomas Pridgen is awesome! This is one of my favorite drum tracks.
Thomas Pridgen was so perfect for The Mars Volta. One of the many reasons why Bedlam in Goliath was so classic.
John theodore was their best drummer. He did the first 3 albums. Too bad Omar and Cedric were too much focust on themselves back then. They really gave him not enough credit.
perfect for Bedlam, not so much for mars volta in a long run
Well, Cedric said otherwise, that they hated Pridgens sound, also said that the sound of TMV was all thanks to Theodore.
Look for the audio interviews, "why theodore left TMV".
@@Gias1 Fk right.
Totally. Love Deloused, but Bedlam is their best album.
their sound was waay too big for that room..
cuttygrass their sound is too big for damn near any room.
feels like the mushroom got the jump on ya
That’s what I was thinking. There’s no way Thomas would be able to play like that unless it’s damn loud, so that means everything else would need to be loud too. The audience got blasted.
@@craigdale5586 Absolutely, now take ALL of that into account all while trying to properly mix 8 musicians on 11 different setups...
@@craigdale5586 This band is killer...I'm thinking Living Color may have the loudest, maybe even painful....
the cursed album in his hand, letterman is now sharing the curse with all of us
The microphone is ONNNNN! Nothing else is on!!!!
aww I was waiting for Dave's "Nice drums, are they yours?" hahah
Like what he did on ray lamontagne's drummer
When ATDI performed Letterman said, “Don’t quit your day job fellas.” Maybe why Omar has such a big smile.
pridgen on the drums is an ABSOLUTE TREAT!!!!
Pridgen is fucking awesome!
"A talented group of musicians"... simple but effective.
Saw Mars Volta in Adelaide Australia
@
Thebarton (Thebby) Theatre
2011 still ranks in my top live gigs ever
Paul and his band are hiding. They probably cried for a few days before touching their instruments again.
lol
😆😂😭
The house band is super legit, make no mistake about it
Wow overplaying at its best...
Lol nah dude. They might not write weird Omar stuff but they could play anything. Stop it nerd
damn, they're sick! This was an amazing performance. They're so good live.
you know dave's audience was like "what the fuck just happened." haha
lol I kinda wish I was there to witness the reactions 🤣
Some of the things Prigden does on the drums I can't even do in my imagination.
I love this comment
Insane performance, stellar. Most powerful version of this song I've heard.
que ganas de verlos en vivo.. debe ser una descarga de energia importante!!....
It had been a long time since a band with this talent and energy level hit the stage.
The sax player and drummer were putting in WORK. Good god.
When the house band looks at their instruments like..."crapppp"
I love how they've put the drums way up in the mix. "Ok, at least the drummer knows what he's doing. Let's give the drum bus a few extra dbs"
I wanted the band to explode after this performance. Saw them in St. Louis and Memphis. Killin it. TP was incredible. My best rock shows 1. Sting & Peter Gabriel 2. Foo Fighters w/Gary Clarke Jr 3. The Mars Volta
along way from the At The Drive-In performance.... yet I love it all the same.
This band is one of the greatest things to happen to our planet, jesus christ.
Our planet's called Jesus Christ?
These guys are artists of the highest level. Granted, the music is excessively abstract, but that's o.k. because it's apparently purposeful. It's art without limits.
cedric sings awesome, and the rest is pure gold! i really cant see why so many people dislike it!!
This song is crazy can't believe it was on TV
Thomas Pridgen = drum god.
The best
He's an idiot.
Holy shit, Cedric actually hit a good amount of those notes, fantastic live performance
Yeah, I can only hope it sounded better in the studio because really my only complaint here is the mix, he sounds like he's performing in a low budget high school gym with a bad PA system.
@@treefingers1183 it's a 240p rip of a video that's over 10 years old mate
This is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen.
the drummer is just fantasticccccccccccccccc !
Considering the unavoidable fidelity drop in a live performance, I think they did well here. Cedric doesn't sound identical to the album cut, but without studio post-processing he couldn't possibly match that sound. He still manages to hit the right notes and doesn't pussy out of doing the tough falsettos; the only possible complaint being that his voice doesn't cut through the instrumentals as well as the album cut -- the aforementioned unfair criticism.
I watched this twice, scrolled down to see a lot of hate, and had to share my thoughts... Fuck that, this performance was fucking killer. Everything about it. Obviously Tom stuck out, he usually does. And I enjoyed Cedric's vocals, a pleasant change from the studio version(which has seemed to be their schtick since ATDI, leaving the studio version for the cd, and improvising live shows). So yeah. Take that internet.
Yeah but the singer (dont know names well, sorry) was waaaayyy sharp for most of the performance; he sings in a range that is way too high for him in my opinion, to the point where he can never pinpoint the exact tone and is always slightly off.
+ThatCheapDrummer
That has always been my biggest complaint with Cedric. Give the guy a studio, and he'll give you an excellent performance. Put the guy in front of a crowd on stage, he'll fail miserably. He has *always* struggled to stay in key whenever he sings in a higher pitch throughout his entire career.
He doesn't sing too high, his voice is high as shit. Just needs better technique.
Since I first watched this, 14 years ago, I loved how everyone was weirdly vibing in the drum
Amazing performance.
magnificent drums behind a cat meowing
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only reason that drummer is on Letterman is because of the cat meowing...only reason we know who the drummer is...
John Doran so fkn true
John Doran the most overrated underrated "artist"
honestly i think it takes a person with a different perspective on music to appreciate this. its beautiful and those who cant find the beauty in this are missing out.
I hope you grew out of this elitism phase because man this is one pretentious comment lol
@@treefingers1183 Its not pretentious. He didn’t say his tastes were objectively better than other peoples. It really does take a “different” perspective to appreciate this kind of music.
@@TheAlibabatree Most people just haven't heard about Zappa. It's the main background you need to decipher this kind of music.
@@raz0rcarich99 Zappa is one of those artists like Prince and Dylan that i just take people’s word for. Not that i dislike them, I’ve just never tried to get into their works, but i trust they are the geniuses everyone says they are.
@@TheAlibabatree I was spoon-fed Zappa by my dad when I was little. It's in my DNA.
I'm so used to the SHRED version of this performance that almost forgot how good it was.
This performance is just fucking phenomenal! One of the greatest performances on a show ever!
Don't fucking scroll down! And enjoy the music :)
They must do a lot of studio tricks to Cedric's voice for the albums. It sounds great on record, but it seems every live video I watch his voice sounds like frickin hell.
He's just not that great of a singer. People foolishly assume that being able to hit high notes makes you great, but if you can't even stay in key in the higher ranges then it's pointless.
What Wheelio said plus Ced was always pushing his voice beyond what it is comfortably capable of. You can do that in a studio with plenty of warm milk and rest periods between takes but live, with day upon day of 40+ minute sets in clammy, hot rooms it's bound to take a toll. He probably sounded pretty good on the first song of the first set of a tour, and it'd be an uphill battle from there.
@@michaelmetcalfe4882 In fairness, for studio recording, those are just octaves. He records some lines down the octave then overdubs them over up the octave. It's a common recording method. I've used it several times.
Since it's not possible to "split himself in two" and sing both lines live, he has to pick a line and go with it.
When he picks the high line people say "he sounds like a stupid cat"
When he picks the low line, people say "He can't hit the notes, so he has to go down the octave"
The truth is you would simply need two singers to recreate the effect live. It's not difficult or dishonest it's just a matter of physics.
I'm sure there are people lining up to offer to sing with the mars volta, and most tribute bands have at least two singers, but they're perfectly entitled to perform their songs live with however many musicians they wish.
Actually if you hear asilos magdalenas AoL live it sounds pretty spot on
@@Aurongroove Spot on.
I LOVE his Voice!!!
Mars Volta are amazing!!
Goddamn that was nine years ago. Why does time go by so fast?
It's 13 years now 👍
Am i the only one who thinks Omar looks like Moss from The I.T Crowd?
I always think that!
or eric andre a little bit?
+findanewgoddd Maybe a little bit. I bet they both do drugs together. Fucking legends.
Or Eric Andre
Good lord yes.
best live performance i have ever....ever....ever seen!
Holy shit, that was amazing. Would have liked to see Dave's reaction to it though.
It brings a tear to my eyes to know that this pure black and brown excellence took place on live television at one point.
What do you mean?
quite possibly the best drum performance on late night tv in the past 20-30 years...
Thanks again, Bruce and sorry this next band is gonna tear your music a new one
Wow! they´re the best.
Love how they have the Mexican flag hanging in the back.
lettermans drummer just got showed up LOL
Ice Hockey is Pretty Pretty Good nope 👎
Pridgen had his "Queen @ Live Aid 1985" moment that night.
This is ART
Meow meow meeeoowoow
letterman's drummer got showed up that night
SUCH AN ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD!!
The Mars Volta is organized chaos. Its not for everybody, but the people who like it absolutely love it.
2:25 onwards thomas pridgen showing us what ultra instinct sounds like
the guitarist loos like eric andre
+amped buff are you on crack?
They are both gods among men, and they probably do drugs together as God's usually do.
It is Eric Andre
Garylasereyes believe it or not, Omar has been clean since leaving At the Drive In.
Joey Clemenza lol yea right
Epic sound quality with the drums. That high hat sounds like its right next to me! :D
blew my mind!
I love how the guitar player is having the best fucking time of his life lol
CBWAVY yeah Omar used to do that a lot before not in the more recent performances, and the singer Cedric used act like if he was on 50 lines of coke before too
Omar is the mars voltas spirit. Everone else just dances to his tune.
Crowd's reaction: O.O
A real toe tapper!
increible el finall!!!
So if 300 Mhz is the brown note, does that make the pitches he reaches here yellow notes? Because listening to him sing this makes me need to piss like crazy.
300 MHz is not audible. you mean 300 Hz which is 0.0001% of 300 MHz
@@La_sagne What compelled you to post this in reply to an old comment like that? It was a joke Cedric made on a video of the At the Drive-In song, 300 MHz. Damn.
is his microphone on?
Why wouldn't it be?
It's been 13 years and has come close!🙌🏾💪🏽🤯
Salute sir Thomas Pridgen!
Prigden: Excellent Drummer
Omar: Overall excellent musician
Cedric: lets keep it in the studio...
Honestly, i LOVE the mars's volta but his live singing drives me crazy, but the instrumental guys are just soooo good...
Jokes on you all. It was all Omar.
the drummer is a beast!
Ok man. You really just blew me out of the water there.