Post by MercurySolo on May 21, 2010 22:04:18 GMT -5
What's up? Me, I'm good, just one more class away from that bachelor's degree.
My new music obsession: Vinyl. We have a pretty cool new and used record store over here, so I've been hitting up the used section a lot. Now I have a bunch of Zeppelin, Queen, Bowie, Pumpkins, and Santana's first one, plus lots more. Even snagged the White Album for $12.
I don't know what it is, but vinyl sounds fuller to me. Not that I've thrown away my iPod or anything, that's way more convenient. But sometimes, I just gotta have the vinyl going. Makes listening to music feel like more of an "event", though it gets fucking annoying trying to dust off the vinyl... only to have the static pick the dust up again. And I haven't quite mastered placing the needle on the space between songs if I don't want to listen to the whole album.
and...................
Not sure if this is old news to you, but I was just looking up eBay to see if they had Hell Paso while typing this ($99, no way, good luck to whoever wants it), and in the description, they had a bio of the band... and it ended with this bit I'd never heard about at the end (from cgi.ebay.com/Drive-Hell-Paso-7-OOP-vinyl-LP-Mars-Volta-/380216671581?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5886adfd5d#ht_3569wt_930 ):
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Possible reunion
During an interview with Drowned in Sound in June 2009, Bixler-Zavala stated that he has been in discussions with the band's former members and suggested that they could get back together after they sort their financial business out. He added, "I wouldn't mind it. It might happen, we just have to iron out a lot of personal things. A lot of it we've dealt with already and I've apologized for a lot of things I've said and the way it ended... we'll see what happens."
In an interview by skullcandyTV, Jim Ward was asked if he and Cedric were still really close he responded by saying, "We went through the not talking thing...you know when your band part ways for a while but we are all still good friends..."
Regarding the relationship between the band members, Omar Rodríguez-López stated to The Skinny in July 2009 that:
The fact of the matter is that we’re in our thirties now and that breakup happened ten years ago. As a human being you just don’t want that kind of karma. We did a lot of shit talking, and they did a lot of shit talking, so I just called everybody up and invited them to my house and said ‘hey, listen, we’re in our thirties now, I’m sorry for whatever I said, I’m sure you guys didn’t mean what you said–you guys were upset because I split up the band and we were upset because of whatever. Let’s be friends again. But do I want to reunite and play fucking 15 year old songs? Well, it would be like asking you, ‘do you want to get back together with your first girlfriend?’ You learn some amazing things together, but I just shudder at the thought. We were a band that went out on top, which is good, but it’s just a coincidence. We were also a band that had been together for seven years, and for six of those years played to nobody and had a great time but were also on the verge of splitting up many times before that. It’s an old relationship. People would like to think of it as unfinished business because to them we went out when we were most popular, but that has nothing to do with the creative element. As far as the creative element went, it very much was finished business. That’s why I ended the band! Now, thank god, fucking ten years later, we’re not holding a grudge and we’re all cool with it. People pick up on the difference of attitude and think ‘oh, this could mean a possible reunion’, but that’s just them projecting their own desires upon us.
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So... might there be a revival? Omar's the only one who sounds kinda distanced, and I can understand not wanting to look back to the past, but there's always the future, and an ATD-I reunion could buy Omar a lot of new toys and take financial pressure off of his future projects.
Fingers crossed, but I'm not holding my breath.
My new music obsession: Vinyl. We have a pretty cool new and used record store over here, so I've been hitting up the used section a lot. Now I have a bunch of Zeppelin, Queen, Bowie, Pumpkins, and Santana's first one, plus lots more. Even snagged the White Album for $12.
I don't know what it is, but vinyl sounds fuller to me. Not that I've thrown away my iPod or anything, that's way more convenient. But sometimes, I just gotta have the vinyl going. Makes listening to music feel like more of an "event", though it gets fucking annoying trying to dust off the vinyl... only to have the static pick the dust up again. And I haven't quite mastered placing the needle on the space between songs if I don't want to listen to the whole album.
and...................
Not sure if this is old news to you, but I was just looking up eBay to see if they had Hell Paso while typing this ($99, no way, good luck to whoever wants it), and in the description, they had a bio of the band... and it ended with this bit I'd never heard about at the end (from cgi.ebay.com/Drive-Hell-Paso-7-OOP-vinyl-LP-Mars-Volta-/380216671581?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5886adfd5d#ht_3569wt_930 ):
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Possible reunion
During an interview with Drowned in Sound in June 2009, Bixler-Zavala stated that he has been in discussions with the band's former members and suggested that they could get back together after they sort their financial business out. He added, "I wouldn't mind it. It might happen, we just have to iron out a lot of personal things. A lot of it we've dealt with already and I've apologized for a lot of things I've said and the way it ended... we'll see what happens."
In an interview by skullcandyTV, Jim Ward was asked if he and Cedric were still really close he responded by saying, "We went through the not talking thing...you know when your band part ways for a while but we are all still good friends..."
Regarding the relationship between the band members, Omar Rodríguez-López stated to The Skinny in July 2009 that:
The fact of the matter is that we’re in our thirties now and that breakup happened ten years ago. As a human being you just don’t want that kind of karma. We did a lot of shit talking, and they did a lot of shit talking, so I just called everybody up and invited them to my house and said ‘hey, listen, we’re in our thirties now, I’m sorry for whatever I said, I’m sure you guys didn’t mean what you said–you guys were upset because I split up the band and we were upset because of whatever. Let’s be friends again. But do I want to reunite and play fucking 15 year old songs? Well, it would be like asking you, ‘do you want to get back together with your first girlfriend?’ You learn some amazing things together, but I just shudder at the thought. We were a band that went out on top, which is good, but it’s just a coincidence. We were also a band that had been together for seven years, and for six of those years played to nobody and had a great time but were also on the verge of splitting up many times before that. It’s an old relationship. People would like to think of it as unfinished business because to them we went out when we were most popular, but that has nothing to do with the creative element. As far as the creative element went, it very much was finished business. That’s why I ended the band! Now, thank god, fucking ten years later, we’re not holding a grudge and we’re all cool with it. People pick up on the difference of attitude and think ‘oh, this could mean a possible reunion’, but that’s just them projecting their own desires upon us.
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So... might there be a revival? Omar's the only one who sounds kinda distanced, and I can understand not wanting to look back to the past, but there's always the future, and an ATD-I reunion could buy Omar a lot of new toys and take financial pressure off of his future projects.
Fingers crossed, but I'm not holding my breath.