The mars volta

Citation : after joking about cedrics hair there is a quote from omar complaining about people who want rick rubin back as the producer.
he said: “these people just dont know what they’re talking about because to work with rubin causes too much compromisses AND THE PRODUCT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE….US (clear statement i think). instead of complaining they should tell rubin to produce records for musicans who make volta-ish music and then they could all live in a wonderful garden with beautiful flowers and stuff.”
next theme was the roll of mr. john frusciante in the band. omar said that you can hear john on the right and him(omar) on the left channel during the guitar solos on bedlam. omar tought him all solos and because john is on the right channel it sounds very atmospheric, dense and strange. he also said that on amputechture he was just lazy playing guitar and let john do all the work.
the last theme was the story behind bedlam (i will skip that part cause i think you all know it).
there is a very personal statement by cedric why they used that board: “it’s addictive.after years of taking drugs it was a more or less healthy way to have fun.although we’ve lost lots of friends because of drugs and we ask ourselfs ‘what if we could ask him a question now?’ that sort of curiosity let us play with that board.” (get in contact with jeremy??? - a bit sad)
then there are the well known facts of the killer goliath, the papers with the hebrew poems on them, the flooding, technical problems during production and the breakdown of that sound-engineer and of cause the burial of the board.
at the end there is another cool statement by omar: “frances the mute was a monster-record for me. i constantly had problems on a technical level. beside the technical level there was a new aspect with bedlam, in a spiritual, metaphysical and psychological view. things we imagined and things which were really there. it was like living in a nightmare. after the problems with frances i thought i could easily record every record.but then came this one.”