The bedlam that is the Mars Volta.

yeah love their latin/punk/prog influences.  I've heard interviews where they make fun of metal music so i'm not sure if they're into that or not.

the only reason it would've been a double album is if they released the title track on the actual record. FTM would be an hour and 30 min which doesn't fit on a single disc so they would have had to split it in 2 somewhere. they are gonna re-release a double vinyl with the title track, can't wait for that!!!!!

if you want some amazing bootlegs you should check out this thread in the comatorium http://forum.thecomatorium.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=114276. i recommend:

2003 - BBC, Maida Vale, London England
2004 - Club Quattro, Tokyo, JP
2005 - Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, AUS
2006 - The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
2007 - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
2008 - Bren Center, Irvine, CA
2008 - Detour Festival, Los Angeles, CA

I've seen them twice and i consider them the best live show i have ever seen

Omar has suggested that it will never be released, but I hope that one day Frances The Mute II (which does exist) leaks out in some form.

What happened is FTM was going to be 2 discs but the label wasn't really all that keen and there was a lot of band talk about how the album would suffer from a disc change anyway so it ended up confined to one, though the title track which couldn't fit on was released seperately. But they still had a whole disc of stuff left over so Omar went to work on it dressing it up as a sequel but apparently became a bit disturbed by the whole process and lost interest and nobody in the group really seemed into the sequel thing to begin with so it died and they recorded something off the cuff with no concept for a change in pace- Amputechture.

I like all the Volta albums alot, i have seen them live 5 times. My first time seeing them was in 03 when deloused first came out.  It was their fist tour in support of their first album, and the played all of deloused!

Oh Bedlam is definately a great album, though the concept is a bit... I mean, its awesome but so weird. Wonder if their next album will be conceptual, I'd like it to be, I think their highly ambiguous lyrics plus a concept gives you hours and hours of possible meanings

If you aren't used to cedrics vocals, The Bedlam in Goliath probably isn't for you yet, he spends half the albums manipulating his voice in all kinds of fun ways

I haven't seen an interview with the guys since just after Bedlam came out 'cos they got all quote samey, but he said something about the dvd is being saved for when the have come to an end, not sure if that was an tease though.....

^and i'm not sure about that dvd, they've been talking about it since amputechture. jon theadore is playing with juan and omar in japan w/vato negro. does that mean they made up?

Almost forgot: A new live DVD is in the works! Can't wait for it!

Yeah, it's not super likely he'll come back, but I'm still super excited for lp6. there working on it right now, and apparently Omar is gonna let everyone collaborate this time. so it's gonna be good.

Textbook wrote: I'm pretty sure Jon's not coming back. He has said that he doesn't like their music.