lunarpower666 (38 minutes ago)

food for thought. why do u feel the need to tell me what u like or dont like about my career choices in music. hopefully some have your own backyard that u can fill with your own bias. i for one dont like avocado that much cuz its makes my mouth itch like a muthafucka. doesnt mean i need to speak to the manager of my fav mex spot and ask him to make me special. WORRY BOUT YOUR OWN ART i could give a shit less bout what your preferences are. stop and think before you try and communicate. does this apply to all of you? fuck no, mind your fucking manners and just be glad that music ignites anything in you....just go ignite away from me, cus i got too much fire of my own to worry about.

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lunarpower666 (1 week ago)

sorry bout the new channel look. i liked the old one better. change is good i guess

lunarpower666 (1 week ago)

@norsefly1 lok at the past comments, but as far as porcupine tree goes they didnt invent the term in absentia.

lunarpower666 (1 week ago)

yup lars mixed the noctournoqueef

lunarpower666 (1 week ago)

@jeremytrujeque its safe to say that you are not the only one with this complaint\/question. evryday i get people asking me that question, and once again i have to say i am not at liberty to say or disclose any kind of info like that.

lunarpower666 (1 week ago)

@pouranothericepick. if there is anyone to thank for that track in particular its jeremy ward. he wrote the skeleton of it on his drum machine. i added keys later and the i am cuba sample.

lunarpower666 (3 weeks ago)

the last thing i want to do is listen to what i just did after a show, and it seems like u would have to do so in order to be cool and confidant with how you played. not really interested in selling instant recordings of what we just played. too much too soon. just my opinion and im sure I will change it

lunarpower666 (3 weeks ago)

@mastadon6889 look at my playlists there is more than enough stuff on there that probably started off as a book to use as a grocery list of movies, music and lit.

lunarpower666 (3 weeks ago)

no trinkets pale of moon on the album is the regular version. if u come see us live, the ticket price ensures a tailored experience that allows for extended versions of certain songs....such as that one. maybe one day we will release a live version of that song as we do record a lot of live shows, which are better quality than most stuff found on fan sites. it will appear somewhere

lunarpower666 (3 weeks ago)

im pretty sure given my previous history with being involved with bands that do vinyl releases....that i would release my own record on vinyl. its kinda obvious dont you think?

lunarpower666 (3 weeks ago)

@anilo you are gravely mistaken. there were no problems with our label at all. it was in fact me that took my time combined with the fact that president had resigned or was fired so a whole shift in the company took some time to get built back up. the internet and the previous comments have answered this before. its not so black and white.

lunarpower666 (3 weeks ago)

@bobkat not really. song writing is melody and lyric. drum content was birthed as reactions to the song structure. with suggestions thrown in here and there. no orders are given but suggestions are made for the better of the song. D is pure beast and he aint no corny nam show toddler and tiaras type drummer. he is equal parts machine equal parts levon helm\/ringo star type drummer but can shred with the best, but he knows how to respect a song and our song writing process was nurtured even more by his art form. drums guitar and vocals were collabs.

lunarpower666 (4 weeks ago)

jared wren who plays guitar in CRIME in CHOIR the an original guitar player for ATDI. kenny hopper who plays keys in crime and choir played bass in ATDI. they are both on the first 2 7" records that ATDI put out. jared did our first 2 american tours and kenny only did one. this was 1994-95 atdi. zach hill plays drums on one of crime in choirs albums

lunarpower666 (4 weeks ago)

yeah and of course he is in that band that can sell that kind of stuff. wait whats the name of that band....oh yeah nine inch nails. its not 2003 anymore. we barely press 5,000 vinyl and sargent house is still sitting on a fuck load. so if u want to lend us the money to do this "special"kinda of stuff , then yeah lets package the record in baby skin. u should attend a seminar on the reality of the record biz and its current financial state.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

here is a novel idea to people posting comments on here, and if it doesnt apply 2 u then dont freak out ....... but if you dont have any love for what i do then just go about your biz. i think this planet would benefit more from people trying to make art than from people chiming in about their personal taste. farting on about how your personal taste has not been satisfied usually goes hand in hand with people who are bummed with the fact that no matter how hard they try...they cant make music. which side of the fence are you on? i decided when i was 5, what about u, did u decide to comment on life or did u decide to fucking live it?

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@thereid ...a "tad ripped off?" perhaps you are familiar with a little thing called the western scale as it pertains to the limitation of chord structure and repetition of melody? perhaps you have entered the game of music making where u actually put your music out in the real world and understand comments that are kind at the start then hit below the belt at the end. thats called covert hostility. words and manners and how to be nice to people are always impotent to the peanut gallery. u ever hear the lyric"what goes around comes around!" did u stop to think that a snippet could never really represent the whole song? i thought volta fans were a little more aware of fundamental things like ethics and perception

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@andreccardoso in more ways than just that lyric. they were an inspiration since atdi opened for them in 95. we have been friends ever since and damon did the cover. the cover of vaya was a bit of a coincidence though as my copy of broadcasting system was a cassette copy w no cover. i remember the guitarist handing me a trenchmouth pin in 95 and saying "u are in the army now" it blew my mind. jim had gotten a hold of their record before they into town cuz he booked them and i didnt stop listening to it .

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

there is no such thing called "eat the sun". some dumb ass named a piece of music that we performed early on that rather corny ass title

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

in absentia has nothing to do w porcupine tree and zed and two naughts leans more to the way peter greenway uses it. as in ZOO zed Z 2 naughtsOO HOWS THAT FOR TAKEN THE FUN OUT OF FIGURING IT OUT FOR YOURSELF? why on fucking earth would we cover porcupine tree. in absentia actaully means something and they did not coin the phrase. its called home work people...do it

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

hella tasty too

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@IlBoiaScarlatto108 no thats a cool idea, and when u get to the bottom of the bowl there would be a graphic!

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

a dashiki merkin, a braille french tickler, inflatable oatmeal, tetragrammTHONG, roulette nair, kotexpaxi( ! ),eriaparkas, frances the lube, asilos maggie gylenhalls- mentholated gum, vermacider,miranda that dip just aint guacamole anymore, day of the baphomittens, teletators, ......

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

been done.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

please dont say tote bag, id like to think volta fans have the ability to think outside the box. and yes the band DAS OATH has already made custom dildos...so there goes that idea

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

i will mention the belt buckle in my merch meeting today. anybody want to offer suggestions? especially female suggestions in the way of merch?

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

time does not heal wounds. taking responsibility for your past choice of action and an effort to make amends is what heals wounds. affinity reality communication. its what most boyfriends and husbands and leaders need to apply in life to make any relationship work. the ability to listen, the ability to understand and not just force to be understood. this is the reason atdi is on the mend. it is a gift to immediate family of friends involved, all who are there to witness are exactly that, a witness to the power of redemption.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@battinglashes11 is your name claire? are u about to have a baby while stranded on an island? is your love interest a member of driveshaft? will jack man up and face that fucking smoke monster? is sawyer reading the wind in the door and wondering why volta used the cover for a back drop?

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@carbitrox most expensive vinyl ive bought? a raspberries record and most recently a terry reid record.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@snicklefritz(great name) am i singing for pepsi? is my little ass wrapped up in a sugar fee red bull endorsement? is ice cube not allowed to make childrens movies? its a bit insulting that after 10 years of asking pop culture music to bend over for us with no butter...that u would assume i was selling out. at this point in the game, a sane person who is actually involved in the heart of the matte, u might realize atdi was an old family wound that needed to healed, which dwarfs any concerns of mutiny. in short u can always not come or participate in atdi so it really falls on your lap. people that didnt like duran duran could always just geek out on the power station.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

I LOVE ABBA SONGS

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

my hounds of love is dark grey with a little pink in it.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@SquidlySpooch6 sorry for that. you break the mold. thanks for listening. and for the record we do attract all walks of life not just dudes, then again thats their perception.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@remedyzskate...its FIREHOSE !!! (mike watt,gearoge hurley and ed from ohio!!!) they are reuniting at coachella. this was the band they made after the minutemen. i posted this version because its the way i discovered it as a kid. mothers milk by chilli peppers references them as well....."tell u about a band called firehose"

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@zoarii007 i apologize but i dont really want to go into detail about that song or my beliefs. every time i talk about my beliefs all these bullies start taking shit. we live in a world were intolerance and personal taste are confused with fact.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

no it has nothing to do with this snazzy backdrop. ive had this image for a while, just wanted to put it up.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

call it what u like kind sir. we are not

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

no we are not playing the neon desert festival. we havent played together for 11 years ...we will be rehearsing then.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

thanks pommery. its good to know that you listen so faithfully. some people act like jocks and its usually cuz its their only release. sorry we sometimes attract dickheads. and sometimes we attract wizards and mother and daughters who are sci fi geeks! once again thanks for listening the way u do.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

keep your ears to the tracks people, something might come rumbling your way marty robbins style.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@jmanno1989 keep up that chin up and grab that dream by the balls and never let it go!!!

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@rysreed glad u like it, now pay me...

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@heyheyjack come and see is one of my fav movies ever!!!!!

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

the lions roar by FIRST AID KIT ! go buy it !

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@spitfireatme I HATE to admit political affiliation but fuck it man I DO ENDORSE RON PAUL !

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@robbiejojo i guess GG is ok especially if u dont mind getting a hepatitis shot from standing in the front row. i guess he's cool if you enjoy cowardly assaults on women, although his version of david allen coe is amusing as well as his version of warren zevons carmelita...he is best enjoyed through the safety of a tv screen. great front men? james brown, james black,ian svenonius,iggy pop,wendy o williams,andy kaufman(so great he didnt even need a band) i could go on...i feel like coffee today

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

bxlvr.....i dont know have anything to do with omars solo stuff

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

go buy THE LIONS ROAR by FIRST AID KIT scope their channel, watch their videos...my favorite band right now !!!!!!

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@cntrlxmyslf i disagree!!! i dont think noctourniquet is bonkers....on the contrary i think its WILLY FUCKIN WONKERS!!! as in the boat ride sequence making omar and I..... a 2 headed gene wilder....making you the listeners ......the children on the boat ride

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@isoleamebuthappysoul in answer to your question.....because i have a sense of humor thats why i do that. im not claiming its funny but maybe if u read the lineage of "tweets" it might make sense to u, then again i dont really think i have ever ventured outside of nonsensical in the general scheme of things, and if u haven't picked up on that yet....well.....there is not much i can do for you.....(awkward silence) how bout them raiders?

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@knuckles492 I hate to break it to you, but if u actually read the credits for xenophanes u might realize that I dont have anything to do with that album. I am not on it. it might be dedicated to me but thats all. that is omar singing on it. i dont really follow what happens in that world unless i am there singing myself. so just be clear i dont have anything to do with xenophanes, i only sang on cryptamnesia and other scattered material. as well as drums here and there.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

all TMV and ATDI plans will be announced in due time PLEASE STOP ASKING

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

ATDI jammed econo( or chicanomicaly ) from 1993 till relationship of command euro tour that we shared a bus w\/ murder city devils. we went through 2 vans and totaled one in colorado. TMV jammed chicano style for 2 US tours and 1 euro tour. it only changed for TMV when deloused came out cuz we had a crew with extensive overnight drives. we toured DIY with TMV during tremulant on purpose. then earned a tour bus when the band got slightly bigger. . IT SHOULD BE A PREREQUISITE FOR ALL UP AND COMING BANDS. EARN IT YOUNGBLOODS

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

i have not heard that. i have always been suspicious of anybody who needs to hide behind a mask in the name of anything. they will only help us sell more records and raise more visibility to our music so if anyone from anonymous is reading this and they do .....then all i can do is let them work for free...by raising more attention to us. thank you anonymous.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

the song in the skate video above is called BRAVE CAPTAIN by FIREHOSE from the album "RAGIN' FULL ON" featuring 2 members of the band THE MINUTEMEN FIREHOSE will be playing COACHELLA lots of love for mike watt and goerge hurley

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

to anybody who cares...do yourself a favor and pick the new record by FIRST AID KIT "the lions roar" its my favorite....they are my favorite band

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

and no i dont get sick of answering questions, i just get sick of dickheads who confuse personal taste with fact. for the most part i welcome all interaction.

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@tremulantgtrist as i have said before there are 4 horsemen to the streetpocalypse in sk8boarding. NATAS KAUPAS,MARK GONZALEZ,RODNEY MULLEN,STEVE ROCCO honorable mentions got out to TOMMY GUERRERO,MATT HENSLEY,MIKE VALLELY,JESSE MARTINEZ,JASON LEE,PER WILENDER, AND NEIL BLENDER( because he didnt view it as a threat and embraced it with pure comedy) also LUCERO these are ll pros who shaped streetsk8ting to what it is today

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@imarobot7 the sample on live private booths is from the movie SHOCK CORRIDOR one of my favs! there are many samples in that song(in the spirit of negativeland) the intro is from a show called disinformation, having to do with time travel and the montauk project(govt sends someone to retrieve blood from christ while he is on the cross) the other samples are from a horn used during an african witchcraft ceremony and one of the breaks i placed a mini tape inside a hand held tape recorder, pressed record then threw it in the micro wave for 30 seconds....so the sound of tape being eaten is tape being fried : )

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

SO I SWITCHED THE FIREHOSE VIDEo to show it in the way i discovered as a young skate rock poser. same song but with the MIGHTY NATAS KAUPAS paving the way!!!!!

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@chickenluva1 confederacy of dunces is a fun read. the pangbourne massacre is very village of the damned, ....if you like graphic novels go find pride (of baghdad) great story about a pack of lions who escape from a zoo in baghdad during the gulf war through their eyes. its one of my favorites. need a movie? try werner herzogs my son my son what have ye done staring michael shannon. need a natural cola thats safe and healthy to drink....any flavor of zevia will do!

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

thanks every body for such kind words u can also find visual updates on my instagram. please be nice @cbz1974

lunarpower666 (1 month ago)

@gerrymoinea yes im very aware of that

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

BONAFIDE ROJAS IS IN THE FUCKING HOUSE!!

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

mr dullfangs...what you got there is an original pressing of our first defacto record. there wasn't even 500 pressed. its the album that introduced us to sonny kay all over again. jeremy had just started a bench making biz. i used to work for him cutting the shapes and sanding them in tuscon and el paso. i went to tuscon to finish the job but we ended spending all our time recording in his little house.the bass guitar and bass drum share the same mic, and we were blessed by that rare toy called the DD5digital delay pedal by boss(used on the drums) we also used jeremys old drum machine loops and sampled from movies like i am cuba and belly. i was personally super into the last trenchmouth record called the broadcasting system(fred armisen from SNL on drums) and lee perry and augustus pablo. only 300 copies ever got printed and we mostly gave them away. sticker was done at a kinkos and the art for it and the insert were done by jeremy.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

dullfangss (9 hours ago) Hey cedric I have the De Facto vinyl How do you dub? you fight for dub. you plug dub in. But this vinyl seems very unlike the ones I have seen online. It has no artwork on it besides a paper sticker comic on the bottom right corner. A friend of mine gave it to me as a gift. He said you guys had personally taken it to rosewood studio in El Paso. How many of these were made cause it looks pretty low budget and badass. Maybe it has some value even to you cause it looks like you guys put it together yourself. Just wondering about the history of it if you can remember or understand what I am talking about.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@mr donkey...umm i guess no offense taken yet im pretty sure that there are a fuck load of people who will be happy to see us right before snoop dog and doctor dre.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

TMV will be touring in support of their new record. just hang in there and we will be making some TMV related announcements soon.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

well the running joke should be...can u mix an 8 piece band that is super fucking busy? lets see...i dare you. paul played what u would call..rhythm guitar. . most choices that lead to the current status of tmv were just a necessity of change. no drama no story

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i dont know how im going to sing the atdi stuff? its all a rather fun challenge for me: ) do i HAVE to scream? or more importantly do I have fun and please my bandmates? all i do know is that adam levine and solange knowles will be meshed together in a secret lab in vienna to make the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. ladies and germs i give you SOLANGE LEVINE

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

sorry guys there are way too many comments to approve but i do read all of them, even the ones from the little dickheads whose life is so boring that they have to spread it to me. so thank you for the support and even the hate....it means you actually give a fuck. thank you to all the fans ATDI fans,VOLTA fans, DENNIS RODMAN fans, HARRY AND THE HENDERSON fans, P90X fans (muscle confusion!!!),SOOKIE STACK HOUSE fans,MONTEL WILLIAMS fans,SOLANGE KNOWLES fans,ADAM LEVINE fans,NE NE LEAKES fans,.....thanks

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

guys all i can ask is that you let whats going to happen....happen. enjoy it.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

let me also just say that yes MARS VOLTA will be dropping a record and we will tour behind it.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@MrKenmcmullen i can see how many of u would think we only might be in it for the money, but like i said. people change, if you dont believe it....well im not really going to lose sleep over it. in fact im going to have the time of my life doing. what kind of artist would i be if i didnt contradict myself? shouldn't u just relax and let the good times roll? fuck man....i am

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

the ATDI line up will be jim ward, paul hinojos, tony hajjar, omar rodriguez, cedric bixler. all questions will be answered in due time. for now keep your ears tuned to atdi's twitter page and here if you'd want. VOLTA's new record will dropping soon as well. it is very possible to enjoy both entities as both offer very different styles of music. a little variety never hurt anyone.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

YES ATDI IS REUNITING FOR SOME SHOWS. AND YES A MARS VOLTA ALBUM WILL DROP VERY SOON AS WELL.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

it used to be casa jurado. but i always go to moes with my folks and i love g n r's. leos is ok too. but if i want to destroy myself i will head to chicos tacos. i use to work at charcoalers on the west side. those snobby ass coronado high school brats that went there at lunch time sucked. a majority of those litt assholes ended up at atdi shows and i hated them cuz i knew how they treated the staff at charcoalers. i recently went to a place called vera cruz? i think thats what it was called. great food

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

ive already answered justin pearson and tera melos questions. i just did a quote for justins book. look at the past comments

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i have no idea why we havent done pacific northwest shows. it usually has to to do with logistics that dictate where would we play before and after certain areas, or how much touring we want to do and where...

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@HookedOnMneumonics there is not much of a story behind that documented stupidity. we happened to be at the same shop that system was in and the owner of that shop invited us in to their "taste off" we could have gone to a museum instead. i am not very proud of that at all. it's a little corny.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@Ravi7525 well as far as my opinion goes all artists should cut their teeth working shitty jobs. it builds character and helps humble you and can have an invaluable effect on you as an artist and a human. i have always been suspicious of people who have never participated in the food industry and i have an enormous amount of respect for any artist who has come up on a job where you bust your ass physically. i say go get a job and be self sufficient. i wrote most of my lyrics for in casino out while i was waiting tables on my order pad.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

one of my favorite bowie records is LOW

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

yes zed and two naughts is a peter greenway reference but only in a slight nod. its really used to describe what the initial letters spell out. i really have a special place in my heart for the theif the cook the wife and her lover. it is one of my favorite movies.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

im not sure if its going to be a graphic novel per say. all my solo record stuff has gotten in the way. i have to edit the fuck out of it and figure out an ending still. fingers crossed

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@Ridirkulous89 i think ween are a great group. i first listened to their album with the scotch guard gasmask cover along time ago in the early 90s becuase the bassist of rollins band recorded them and i always loved his style. they were sort the next on the butthole surfers throne of absurdity. omar and i met them once as atdi in 2000 and they were very nice to us. i think they were obsessed with omar. he has the effect on people.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

all lp6 questions will be answered when the record comes out. thank you for the interest . all i can say is that most of the music and artwork is the complete opposite of everything we have done. as is with our band name it is a new leaf with some small familiar aspects. we have stripped down much of what people are used to when it comes to us, so chances are alot of you might not like it but i think a real volta fan understands that change is good, especially in terms of artwork and singing style and of course drummers. it is our duty as an artist to make the comfortable and complacent volta fan feel uncomfortable. anyway u slice it there is always a polarizing effect that comes from our musical choices. its been happening since deloused and a lot of people didn't "get it" or like it then. so just imagine how this one will be perceived.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

if you are interested in getting the new 7 inch from ANYWHERE go to valleykingrecords.com its called infrared moses and it will only be pressed on a limited 500 black vinyl, until we find a home for thecd version of all these song, but really we all knowCD'S are for fucking chumps. go get a slice before its gone

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

Anywhere "Infrared Moses" limited edition 72033 pre-order information...and more! Posted in Anywhere, Carlton Melton, New Releases, other merch, Spiders, Sweet Apple with tags Anywhere, Cedric Bixler Zavala, Christian Eric Beaulieu, Mike Watt, Toshi Kasai on January 3, 2012 by Secret Serpents Valley King Records next release will be the second single for Anywhere! This record will feature a slightly different line-up: Christian Eric Beaulieu (Triclops!, Liquid Indian), Cedric Bixler Zavala (The Mars Volta, At The Drive In), Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE), and Toshi Kasai (Big Business). This release, as with all Valley King Records releases, will have silkscreened packaging with art by Alan Forbes (who is widely known for his album cover art for The Black Crowes, AFI, and many others!). This will be a limited pressing of 500 copies. The last Anywhere single sold out VERY quickly, so get this one while you can!

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

there is a song on the new volta that goes by the name in absentia but it is not the record title.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

I am afraid that is not the title of latest volta record. we will announce it soon. it really is just around the corner.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

the most offensive thing a fan said to me was in 2001. this kid told me that the reason why omar and i could "salsa" dance so well( mind u i dont know how to dance salsa) was because latino people were missing certain bones in the hip region, there fore allowing us more agile mobility, compared to his stiff german bones. he was clearly(50 years on down the line) a rather side by product of hitlers eugenics myth. maybe his sad uniformed parents had read PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION one too many time and passed on the false data. that being said omar and i will competing with each other next season on dancing with the stars. of course its a CG version w blue colored special needs kids called dancing with the avatards. we are going to fucking kill it.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

mr bandito thank u for the offer but we are entirely too busy and have our own films etc etc that we are working on. and yes i get warm feelings every time we play cold ones too...depends on where we are playing(culturally speaking of course...). sometimes they are good sometimes they are bad.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@simon4815 ...zed and two naughts has never been played live. but i am sure we will get to it.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

yes we do have a song on that video game and it is from our new album. it is not a cover. i was just made aware of the vacuum cleaners song w the same title but they have nothing to do with each other.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@wildheart7777 ...as a matter of fact a friend of mine named harry gold is a pretty great sculptor. my wife bought me one of his pieces that was inspired by bedlam. its a beautiful ship that is on his website. please by all means go check his shit out. he is at harrygoldart.com

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

thank you for the kind words. as far as self releasing something...it could be a good idea then again the 2 bands that u have cited have done well enough for themselves where they can afford the luxury of doing it that way. radiohead have creep and ok computer clout and loot and puscifer happens to have the advantage of being tool related(another lucrative and established band) im not quite sure we live in a time were those systems would really work for smaller bands. we do live in a time were we bare witness to a lot of prototype systems for mass communication with commerce involved. so maybe 6 years from now it will change? until then u can co op with a machine to work out ways of reaching places that the internet doesnt reach.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i doubt its leaked and how does the record being delayed a year make it alright to down load it with out paying? does that really make sense to you? does no one have a clear understanding of ethics? maybe if i waited around at every corner and denied you a bite of your food everytime you tried to eat...you might get it. my stance is clear. intellectual property should be paid for and not given away for free. i appreciate your question and your compliments but the question is a bit loaded is it not? the internet has brought about a lot of profound stupidity in terms of what people think they are "owed".

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless was something that charged me up with some inspiration for this record. Bruce Haack's Electric turn to me, Galaxy 500, Virgin Prunes- a new form of beauty,moebius-tonspuren, the monks. the movie moon by duncan jones, lectures by L Ron Hubbard, the greek myth of Hyacinth and little childrens nursery rhyme about solomon grundy, and a song by a band called the godfathers called birth,school,work,death.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

well for trout mask or safe as milk he was rumored to make his musicians go over everything with a meticulous vengeance ....stories of locking the band i a room and going overing material over and over until they were a bit fried. we dont do that. and we dont rehearse like crazy. we do the exercise of going over the set list twice repeating what needs to be repeated here and there, but for the most part i really dont know what the captains process was like. i wasnt there. id like to think a lot of rehearsal happens live, with mistakes as hidden intentions...and we have a knack for working with drumers that dont play the material the same twice or like the recording. i guess that why the live setting is the best. for what you pay for, even if the set is the same, it is never really played the same

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

by the time atdi did its 1st record we had a manager. for the very first tours were we were self sufficient we did it on our own. the bigger the band band gets the more likely u will need some management. it all depends on the individual circumstance. what worked for us may not work for you. at some point u dont want to handle all that red tape on your own, u want to be able to focus on playing. like i said each circumstance is different. what does make it mean to you? have you established your band already? dont place all your eggs in the do it yourself internet age basket. sooner or later you are going to need a peter grant type figure to chop heads and go to bat for you.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i love vocoders. of course if everyone who uses them just sort of uses the same settings and doesnt progress past the way they were originally used then they might just end up being cheating trends\/ fads like the auto tuner. that being said the auto tuner as well can be used tastefully especially if u dont just T pain along lazily, then again maybe that works for what your doing...who am i to impose taste as fact. but i love vocoder

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY MAY YOUR LIVES AND ARTISTIC PATHS SHINE BRIGHTER WITH EACH DAY. 2012

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@Resonantfrequency9 i would have to say that for me, bands like talk talk, the wipers, and the pretty things are bands who have heavily influenced the way i like to present albums i work on.. when i was working on deloused i was really into SF SORROW by the pretty things and lamb lies down on broadway by genesis. but i wanted to make our records sound the way some of our favorite movies look. i was also listening to tago mago by can and laughing stalk by talk talk who's influence u can hear on the the song frances the mute. i loved the relentless drum tones from flowers of romance by PIL and was also really into lemmy era hawkwind.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

yes i enjoy tera melos. nice people great band

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

the term relationship of command was taken from a book on guerilla warfare by mao tse tung. i believe it was a chapter in this book i had. i used a lot of sayings from mao on that album...a single spark can start a forest fire....uproar east strike west....mannequin republic. its not like im pro socialism but i was for a while infatuated with its aesthetic and with its david and goliath approach towards the usa. do i believe socialism works?fuck no. i was enamored by his struggle but very much turned off by his human rights violations.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@MOL2083 yes i have a solo record in the works of primarily acoustic music, so that is something different from tmv and volta. its mostly ballady type stuff...a very sunday morning record. very soft.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@mfdjuve my apologies. sometimes i get a little over whelmed by people coming up to me, but i appreciate that you said hi and tried starting conversation. i really couldn't say anything in my defense so all can say is sorry for making u feel that way. i wanted that ICA gig to be a good one one but something crept up on me and i just stood there dazed. one time jeremy, omar and I saw Lou reed in amsterdam and we followed just trying to think of something to say and just bailed. ive met jon pertwee at a whovian convention and we made me feel invincible. forst time i met damo was at big day out and he was the coolest.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i dont know really remember what happened with the puerto rico show maybe it was something to do with sponsors backing out and or the venue changing. it wasnt our vault thats for sure. it would be rad to play puerto rico again

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

no sorry i dont think there is anything about infected mushroom or that other thing, that i could find myself getting into. sorry im not dissing them but both projects do absolutely nothing for me.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

richard ramirez is from el paso he lived in a neighborhood over by the colosium near a catholic school. in the early 90s there was a gang named after him that didn't really last very long. they took on the rather limp name...barrio night stalker. of course like most chicanos they pronounced it varrio not barrio and there fore used the initials VNS. this moment in brown history has been brought to you by cottonelle wet wipes. : )

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i will keep that in mind. indianapolis fingers crossed

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

im glad u graduated to brainiac from linkin park and dont worry about not paying, besides i dont consider that stealing music

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@pirate james Mr. issac brock was gracious enough to let the mars volta sleep over at his house on tour when volta opened up for ugly cassanova and les savy fav around the time of tremulant. he had a rather healthy porn collection on the floor of were he let us sleep, and was a really supportive of us. when i wrote the song lopsided on in casino out that was my personal nod to modest mouse. they are an epic band and he is a master songwriter. who else can get johnny marr to join their band. issac brock thats who.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@guitarisforgrin...we actually have played canada a lot, just not recently. the best way to support a band is in the live medium, its where we all make our money and lose it too. sorry we have not been to canada but its never as simple as saying lets go here and play music. the bigger the band the more of a surgical strike must be applied so that everyone down the ladder gets paid...booking agent, manager, accountant, roadies, day to day runners, bus drivers, merch company guy, and merch company. if an area doesnt seem so hot to play regardless of how u did last year then its probably not a good idea to play there. times were a lot more simple when it was just a bunch of us in a van but you have to get past playing to 5 people for the sake of playing, the band ends up paying dearly for thosekind of moves

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

and yes i have met gay skinheads from bakersfield( very nice ska fanatics ) who were hanging out with regular non racist skins....who invited atdi to party up at skinhead hill. i dont know what was more strange, that or the time this guy let us sleep at his apartment in germany where he had a pink furry swastika hanging on the wall while explaining that hitler was misunderstood....as he watched us sleep. i could not embellish this even if i tried.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

ah mod faggot, much like the oxymoron known as gay skinhead or black white supremacist it is beyond me what a mod faggot is. perhaps it was used (in regards to DEFACTO ) as a slur that indicated our reluctance to join the usual boring mohawk mania club of punk music that sometimes runs rampant on a gilman street collective bill.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i dont listen to much dubstep to be honest. ive been to busy trying to write my own music. when i do listen to music its usually from a seasonal mix that elvin(dj nobody ) makes. he also plays guitar for the band BLANK BLUE and i sang on one of their songs with nicky on the brain feeder label. great stuff. like a psych rock galaxy 500 very dreamy and lush

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

there is no sample on cygnus.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

im afraid this is my personal copy. watt,fannan,and beaulieu were just over at my loft for an ANYWHERE photo session and we signed these copies. i have a grip of the regular ones but Beaulieu has most of the colored copies on silver print. i only have 2 of these type but about 10 regular ones left over. we are in negotians with ATP records to all the vocal related songs as a vinyl release(fingers crossed) and maybe jim ward(fingers crossed)might release all of it on cd on the tembloroso label he runs. but this early 500 run are over sorry.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

review by justin mcniel AQUARIUS just thought id print the kind words this gentleman said about me and christian's project. scope the mike watt signature on my copy...fucking priceless!

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

The B side adds vocals to the mix, Fannan's hazy stoned croon, perfectly complimented by the warm, whirling acoustic strum and toy xylophone like percussion, the song ebbing and flowing in soft swells, even more than the first side, sounding like some lost sixties band, all Laurel Canyon, witchy folk flecked psychedelic classic rock, brooding and moody and darkly dreamy. Gorgeous stuff for sure, and here's hoping they can manage a full length! LIMITED TO 500 COPIES! Already sold out, we have the last 20 copies, and then this is gone for good. Like the other Valley King releases, super swank sleeves with striking cover art by artist Alan Forbes, signed and numbered, includes a sticker as well.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

The label explains how these folks all fell in together, but even then we weren't sure what to expect, but whatever it was, it wasn't this, a weird sort of psychedelic rhythmic acoustic guitar driven dronerock, laced with electronics, and tabla like percussion, a bit proggy and druggy and dreamy, the A side plays out like the first movement of an epic sidelong prog masterpiece, the guitars lush and shimmery, those tabla sound rhythms often run through glitched out effects, the melodies majestic and soaring, some classic sixties psych guitar laid over the top, it's a shame it ends after only 5 minutes, when we had been plotting out the rest of the imagined song in our heads. Needless to say, it was a hugely pleasant surprise and had us hankering for more.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

ANYWHERE "Pyramids Mirrors" (Valley King \/ Secret Serpents) 7" 9.98 Local label Valley King are on fire, after singles by local space rockers Carlton Melton, SF psych stoners Golden Void, witchy Swedish rockers Spiders and Sweet Apple, the project of Witch's Dave Sweetapple, comes this, the debut from L.A. supergroup Anywhere, which we have to say, we were a wee bit skeptical about. Not just because of the often bandied about 'supergroup' tag, but also cuz it seemed like a strange hodgepodge member-wise, Cedric Bixler Zavala of The Mars Volta and At The Drive In, Christian Eric Beaulieu of the late great Triclops!, Mike Watt of the Minutemen and fIREHOSE obviously, and finally Rachel Fannan from SF dreampsych combo Sleepy Sun. Weird right?

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

sorry to get all soap box on you. its a sore spot and usually the person who leaks the tracks is not doing it cuz he loves the band and wants to share the music. he or she is usually coming from a place of malice and they should be dealt with a s such. what can you do though right?if you ever see a music seminar involving robert caranza ask him for an earfull of the reality of who gets fucked when assholes leak shit or rip off songs from the net. hopefully one day when some of you guys follow your dreams you will fight tooth and nail for your art, and quite frankly get fucking paid ! aint nothing wrong with a little cheddar. you conceive it, you write it, you work hard, you play hard, you earn it. it aint free. intellectual property is a difficult concept for younger computer savvy people to grasp because there isn't a like button attached to it.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

@elpasoty it was just boring to me. and i knew it should be scrapt for parts. i knew that the lyrics and vocal delivery did not belong there for conceptual reasoning. it reminded me of some of that jesus lizard\/ troubleman records stuff that i wanted to move away from. it was a cool song but i just felt with all due respect to every one involved, that we could do better. there were no repercussions for who ever leaked it, there should be. fines jail time etc. why? because its called intellectual property and only until you yourself start entering the trenches that involves song writing that puts food on your table ..will u ever really understand that. maybe u do? until then the anonymous free loaders of the internet will continue to think that music should be free, it hurts the engineers, the runners, the band(their families) and the independent labels when people leak or rip shit.

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

i hope that answers your questions about my guitar playing, its hard to deviate from the chords i come up with cuz they utilize a lone string ringing in dissonance ( thank you thurston more lee renaldo and guy picciotto! ) or like i said before the chords i make can be like a game of twister and its what gives it that sound, you couldnt possibly get the same emotional impact by coming up with a "correct way " to play the chords and it would sound plain. so in a nut shell that is my playing i just never asked for guitar or singled out writing credit. ah to be young and naive( or as we like to hide behind...) to be idealistically "punk"

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

porfirio diaz was one of mine as well, picket fence cartel, devil among the tailors(not a very good song total wanna be brainiac on my part) oh yeah i also wrote lopsided on in casino out all the lead guitar stuff was omar and we all chimed in on arrangement but it was pretty much set in stone because of the lyrics so i did write it. song writing IS melody and lyric

lunarpower666 (2 months ago)

well to answer your question i didn't think to ask for a guitar credit on relationship of command but i did play all of ARCARSENAL. I think i did rolodex propaganda too. its been soo long but i do remember the stuff that i would write was a bit too arthritic as far dissonant chords go for finger placement so jim would tell me to track it and he just figured it out later for live purposes. i wrote most of farenhiet , tickilish from acrobatic , came up with drums for incetardis, wrote catacombs most of it give or take little parts that i didnt, but catacombs was originally written from being inspired by watching golden play when defacto opened for them, it had more of a golden feel, but i wrote the chorus and verses so i guess u could say thats my guitar playing too.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

sound manipulation is tricky when u are on a low budget. i would have to set down for a very long time with the catalogue to the toys we used for manipulations and its all swahili to me. i dont have the patience. it would probably require an in ear monitor sound guy to make sure that certain volumes dont jump or are tooo quiet through a PA system. one day though, one day maybe, you never know

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

depends what era of dregtones u are talking about. my personal favorite era was when we were a 3 piece where i played drums and sang. we were a low budget grand funk rail road\/ mountain type band. our demo was recorded in jeremys room off stonebluff on the westside of el paso and it was called HEMPENSTEIN. i dont have those 4 track tapes anymore. the stuff u heard was probably from 93' called 5 song alibi which is very santana with world beat reggae and dare i admit ska. heavy police influence as well. we toured all over the u.s with another band i played drums in called FOSS that was very dinosaur jr\/rites of spring. right after that 93 summer tour ended jim and i formed atdi.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

blizzard of oz was my first cassette as a kid. i wanted to be randy rhodes so bad. mr crowley etc etc now technically my first 8 track was destroyer and love gun by kiss. i had to return my duran duran record cuz the needle on the record player was broken so my dad said to go back and trade it in. somewhere in the time period michael jacksons thriller was on high rotation but it was kiss meets the phantom of the amusement park broadcasting around halloween time on tv, that reminded me as a 4 year old what my purpose was this time around.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

if you dont to want to hear the vocals and if u want the cops to cut the set short(as in the middle of the 1st song), with no place for the band to relax away from people who dont know how to respect personal space,long lines to one toilet, drunks asking you to speak to somebody on their phone(that you dont know)....then yeah a volta house show sounds like fun....no problem.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

we didnt get paid that much for the get him to the greek spot and u know what i dont mind getting paid for my hard work sometimes fans are tacky in their approach of questions. pixies were fun to open for didnt get to meet them at all. i did meet frank black on a flight from portland once and he was nice. kim deal produced a braniac 7 inch.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

who isnt a fan of slints spiderland once again, with all due respect i was not born under a rock. i am not an expert but i do know my basics.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

yes wolf eyes and locust are my cup of tea. i just did a quote for JPs new book coming out. we asked locust to do our ATP of 2005. does no one remember we curated ATP back then. i always get asked if i like certain bands and i think the entire weekend line we choose shows that we do like a majority of the suggestions alot of u guys think we dont know about

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

sorry opeth is just not my cup of tea. i dont like metal. i have my fav heavy rock bands and thats all i need.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

last time i saw adrian he was at jeff jordan and soony kays art show in DTLA we spoke briefly, i have not kept up with what he is doing. he is a great musician with a lot of heart.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

dan the automator approached us to do the 2nd handsome boy modeling school. he told us rza had completed his parts so i went home and wrote a melody and words for a chorus and i think omar came up with something on the spot as well. there were 2 song options open but we just did one. we did this around the tie we were tracking in eagle rock for france the mute

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

dave lombardo stopped by the studio the other day to show robert caranza a rough of a new project he was working on. what a drummer man. talk about an artist who transcends the stereotype of metal. his son was engineering his new project, how fucking rad is that? i think its ipecac release called FILM. spent around an hour listening to them discuss drum sounds. what a magnificent art form and who better to consult than a master like robert caranza. like ive said before i am not a fan of metal but slayer is a must and lombardo was really a nice person doing knew things. more power to him.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@QNT3N no not really my cup of tea at all, nice guys though

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

greetings romania thank you for the love. i would love to visit and play music in your country. i cant even imagine some of the hidden gems of cold war psychedelia that might be buried in your government libraries or grand parents collection

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

usually the term cult film just means that a huge audience isnt hip to it. now the term midnight movie as coined in regards to lennon\/el topo era means a certain kind of audience.lunatic fringe perhaps? i believe omars movie has the ability to speak to the masses....u just have to not rely on having your hand held for explanations all the time...like REAL cinema. the audience should be working a little as well.i believe marley and me is a cult movie. : )

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

i do not drink tea onstage. tea dries out all chords related to singing it is hot water. sometimes with a special elixir that is made by ron anderson that prevents swelling of the chords. i couldmt begin to tell you whats in it because ron keeps that a secret. its base is loquat which can be found in most asian markets. its a syrup form in a black bottle. i do not recommend using only this i recommend rons elixir, it is expensive but if your touring a lot and you are in clubs that are dry this can save you. as well as any form of heat to make the environment humid.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

hells angels 69 is one of the best biker x ploitation flicks ever, 2nd only to wild angels and born losers check it

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

sorry guys i dont print too many comments anymore. there are a bunch of jocks who troll around here.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

dont worry about it ryan the lion, tolerance does not come easy i just hope u actually can apply it to your fellow beings.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

thank you for listening. once again we are nothing with out the audience, even if we dont agree with them half the time. maybe one day u might annoy your kids with cryptomnesia. after all that is what rock records should do, annoy the young and old alike.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

cryptomnesia is my version of trout mask replica and lick my decals off. i love to cruise around aimlessly in my car while working on melodies especially ones that have to fit so specifically to all that chaos. i am very proud of that record. i hope one day we can play it live. we would have done it had zach not broken his foot. some day maybe. fingers crossed.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@icegears...unfortunately i was not present when zach and company tracked live together. it was juan,jonathe,zach and omar who tracked all the music. it was directly after the very last show of the SOAD tour that volta and hella opened for. everyone went straight to the studio and i went home. took me a while to come up with stuff for it. i would blast all the instrumental tracks and go cruising while i wrote in my head.omar turned everything into actual songs. i eventually got to a point where i had small spines to bounce off of and improvised actual words on the spot. i wanted it to be my version of captain beefheart. some stuff i wrote at home but most of it was on the fly and utterly nonsensical. i finished it in australia.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

when i lived in venice california i spent just about all my money renting movies from a store called VIDIOTS. yes i am fully aware of all these things like netflix but their selection is best suited for some generic marley and me shit.(not always) if you like vhs and rare out of print stuff this is your haven. i destroyed their sam peckinpah selection and they have the theif the cook the wife and her lover as well a great deal of passolini flicks not just SALO. their cult section is great but their spaghetti western section is awesome. whats more their staff dont make u feel stupid i.e they are not elitist hipsters laughing at you for renting ZARDOZ if you are in the area give them your biz. i dare u to rent the entire 60s series THE PRISONER not the amc one

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

i have no planned release date for my own material. its still in the infant stages of tracking. i will be looking for a proper home for it and i will post any updates on it on here as soon as it unfolds. there 2 separate albums. 1)has music written by D and myself and a current 2) one that is more acoustic and ballad based. the later is the one i am focusing on right now.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

disposable history of sk8...... is a must for any collector. i tend to use it here and there for reference as to the value of my own collection, but there is a website that is more in depth about price value for different NOS mint gems idly waiting for some wife or mother to give it away cuz it looks ugly in their home. my personal collection resides in the streets of venice skateshop in california in the foxboro mall in culver city. its owned and operated by dan from EXCEL. im very proud of my collection.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

check one of my old posts on here for the music credit to eleuthra. its a long name and i dont have time to repost sorry.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

thank you linearpink. i greatly appreciate your time and energy. keep yours eyes open for the ORLG and butcherettes australian tour happening in a few days. i will not be there but D and juan will be there to tear it up.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

yes rick rubin had a commanding presence on deloused and i am so beyond pleased with the result. i talked a lot of stupid mad shit. and was in a bad head space so i could not appreciate him. he rules and is a fucking master hands down. i honestly wish i could work with him again

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@Orochieddie ok at the risk od sounding like i am not well versed, let me just say that i am NOT the worlds authority on afro beat but here are some people i like..... K FRIMPONG, JINGO, MARIJATA, SULLEY OSCAR AND THE UHURU DANCE BAND, THE HYGRADES, THE FUNKEES, TONY GREY SUPER 7, THE BENDERS 0026amp; TUNJI OYELANA, ORCHESTRA POLY RYTHMO, OFO THE BLACK COMPANY,

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@nkhamoza1 i generally dont drink. i occasionally have a shot or a drink but usually u might see me nursong the same drink the entire night. hot toddys are great especially if you sick and the alcohol in it is pretty much boiled. jim ward makes a pretty great drink called a kick stand. furnet makers and a cherry(just one please) and lots of water.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

one of my favorite authors is OSCAR ZETA ACOSTA you might remember him from benecio del toros portrayal of him as hunter s thompsons attorney aka doctor gonzo in the movie and book fear and loathing in las vegas. he was from el paso. he was an attorney, a priest, a sailor, a neer do well, and an outspoken chicano who could tear it up and has written some epic books. its probably a little too obvious to a lot of you but some body on here asked and i answered

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

my relationship with el -p is just one of mutual admiration. he makes great music. we met around frances era. sang on a song called tazmanina pain coaster

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@valmurah1 im a late bloomer when it comes to cocteau twins but i do dig them. i still have chinos(deftones) cocteau twins records that he left at the place we did amputechture. he was turning me onto it. its just one of those bands you put off cuz theyre stuff is every where. but he loves them. im currently on a philip k dick binge. who would have known he has a book called the simulacra. not a big reader. i tend to grab phrases from people during conversation for lyrics, hence shake is for graders

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@Abracadabra418 glad you like soothsayer, it was one of my favorite songs to work on. we tried it recently but i couldnt get the timing right and it really needs the sax or clarinet whatever it is i forget.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@ 4dharm yes it is savion glover. sometimes the riddles and references are a little more obvious than other ones are.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@vac i was never approached to write anything for xenophanes. its only dedicated to me. other than that i have nothing to do with it.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@FBN1238. If u liked blade runner then read the book it was based off of " do androids dream of electric sheep" by Philip k dick. He is a true fucking master and just about everything he has written has come true. I guess he wasn't so paranoid after all

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

Someone here compared me to the singer of chrome and thought the Robert plant comparison was lazy journalism. Bless you and thamk u for having such a varied taste and ear. Sometimes common colors are used to describe stuff that can't be described. Not that we are so fucking original that u need more colorful adjectives but fuck I'm trying to move away from that stuff we are known for and for the record terry Reid came before plant and was the original version of that style can u imagine what zepp would be like if he had not declined their offer. Still plant is pure beast and one hell of a harmonica player. Chrome is fucking great too. For me I am still trying to perfect my Timmy Taylor\/ mark e smith\/ Kathleen Hanna\/ Greg sage approach of singing but truth be told I just want to have noddy holders voice

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

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lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

Mr stamplh here is a fun fact .... I generally don't respond well to fans who over stay their welcome by asking me to do anything. If I feel like answering a question I will. In short be cool Youngblood your being annoying : )

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

I don't really care for Madonna but god damn it sure is a beautiful world we live in when u can say that she and Volta are your favorites. Good for you If it moves you then fuck just embrace it

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

Yes Astor piazzola is wonderful. I remember putting him on mix tapes during atdi 96 tours Omar turned me onto spinneta who rules as well

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

I can't really go into Scientology details anymore on this page. I would love to but a lot of people on this page just can't have that kind of info about it because they are too stubborn to accept the reality of what it is. There is not enough tolerance in the average Volta fan base and if u disagree then I'm not speaking to you or about you. Let's just say your truth is your truth and mine is mine. I accept you and if u don't accept my beliefs well... Just don't lose any sleep over it

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

@meegzter yes i play on a project called ANYWHERE with mike watt on bass and christian from triclops. we are trying to find a home for it but so far valleyking records is putting out a 7 inch of it. only 500 were printed and they have sold out.

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

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yes i enjoyed the social network. it is highly likely that my taste in music and or cinema does not rub every one the right way. dont lose any sleep over it. shit i happen to like yoko onos records too which is probably not a very popular choice in music unless you know about how wonderful her music is and you ignore the shit talk. social network may not be what you expect that i like but i liked it. it is the story of one of the greatest swindles to have ever happened. it is interesting and the soundtrack in my humble opinion is great as well.

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the music in eleuthra is by SEQUENTIA chants de l'exstase song is called O tu suavissima virga (responsorium)

lunarpower666 (3 months ago)

ah the all too familiar post 90s question. how do i feel about refused? well for starters i am not a fan. if you want to know where all that stuff comes from you need only to look into the originals who didnt use boring metal riffs and who were far superior in output. the nation of ulysess. words can not express their influence on modern music especially in terms of live show and actual songs. the NOU leaves the later in the dust and comes a whole 10 years before refused and is just so much more appealing.

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its been 3 years since ive seen it and i almost forgot how much i love this film but if you have not had the chance to watch it then please try and find william peter blattys THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. i bought it based on the cover alone. you cant go wrong especially cuz blatty wrote the fucking excorcist but dont think it is anything like it. it might be hard to find but its one of my favorite films ever. "This movie combines a completely unbelievable, even cartoonish, depiction of mental insanity; Stacy Keach speaking almost entirely in monotone; Vietnam; lines like "I wish you'd douche, sincerely"; the question of God; Jason Miller trying to stage Shakespeare with all-dog casts; a wickedly brutal bar fight; and one of my favorite openings in film history. Don't ask me why all this works, because I don't know, but it does."

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

i dont really think the wb is going to drop all the rock acts in favor of electronic and hip hop r 0026amp; b. WB is being run by 3 people one of them is rob cavallo. he is the guy who produced dear you by jawbreaker so you know its not just going to be one style of pop coming out of them. who knows what will happen. the real point to this whole thing is that volta has done a record a year since 2003. they are not easily understood pieces of music. shit half of the people that praise us took at least 2 years to understand our first record then by the time they came to a show, we were balls deep into tetragrammaton. trust me not a week goes by that someone doesnt admit to me that our first record was hard to grasp.(?) as if the fucking pretty things SF SORROW had gone unnoticed ! let em catch up its a lot to digest

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

ive been working on my own record at robert caranzas studio on larchmont. its just simple sunday morning music much in the style of astral weeks or terry reid and its very ballady like a stripped down version of big star or badfinger. its acoustic based material that is simple and to the point. i play drums and acoustic guitar and sing. juan has been laying down tracks for me as well as caranzas friend johnny who has dropped slide guitar on it as well. i have an old rickety acoustic box guitar made by kingston and it sounds very warm especially because i dont use picks just my fingers.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

thank you mr blair hicks i can appreciate your honesty and your apology. i dont expect anybody to agree with my life style choices or my musical choices. i opened up this channel simply to promote positivity. lets keep the cheer at 10. anything else is toxic.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

met david yow at a vatonegro show. now that is a front man

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

volta really doesnt have anything to do with the VEVO channel or facebook or myspace. somebody else runs that stuff, we take care of the actual content that is of interest(music) and images. we are kind of dated in that we dont keep up with the whole immediate interaction of twitter. this seems to be the only real source of fact about us, and even then i dont remember a lot of the detail that went on behind the making of a lot of material. i try to answer as best as i can and yes at times its overwhelming but its a good thing. i figured some fanatics have it so wrong that they reinvent all our history much in the way a music critic tries to promote taste as fact. so i communicate with some of you despite some of your lesser opinion on my spiritual choices,life style choices and wether or not you believe i am who i am

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

for the record and some of you guys need to realize this most obvious observation. my name is cedric, this isnt omars channel. its 2011 and people still call me by his name.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

growing up at all my parents functions was a lot of oldies and freddie fender. very chicano based music. santo and johnny, lowrider style soundtracks. my dad listened to a lot of buddy holly, chuck berry. the bee gees ballads were always playing on my moms radio. my dad had an old reel to reel player that he would play all his amercian stations that broadcated during his stay in vietnam, then came a 8 track players.by the time i was 4 I had already found a strong affinity with rock music and a small collection of kiss 8 tracks, mainly destroyer and love gun. those are my roots.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

thanks everybody. i really appreciate your BD wishes.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

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lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

i did see a door man pummel omar during an atdi show. well i missed it and when i got there only the murder city devils jumped in while the international noise conspiracy just stood there watching afraid of getting there clothes dirty. the security guard in question was a PE coach. he issued a fuck load of racial slurs towards omars mother and all because omar didnt have a pass

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

thanks for b day wishes. just had a friend lay down some piano and some slide guitar for my record. i aint afraid of no twang.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

to answer your question i have had the chance to throw a punch before...at a cholo ...in juarez. my friends laughed because they said i looked the same i do when i perform hahaha.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

hmmm fight story. well omar once got a closed can of coke chucked at his head during an opening slot for the 90 day man at gilmans street collective. we were playing as defacto. its recorded but my copy got fucked up. it was recorded by the infamous marshall stax (blatz) rob lowe from 90 day men was the first to chas the kid down then iket jeremy and i follwed. crazy fucking night. unfortunately gilman handled it very poorly. the kid was offended that a bunch of "mod faggots" were allowed to play there. i was honored to be considered a mod faggot...which is almost as unique as black gay skinhead which i did have the pleasure of meeting once at a show atdi played in bakersfield in 95.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

off to the studio

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

yes i do love me some harry nilsson. who doesnt even people who dont know his music can recote any of his melodies or sing his lyrics with out ever knowing it was harry nilsson. what an amazing song writer. me and my arrow is probably one of my fav songs. i found a really great picture of harry orchestrating a session that had kieth moon and alice cooper on vocals with t rex on guitar. cant even imagine what that shit sounds like

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

I did not stop skateboarding because i got older I got older cuz i stopped skateboarding.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

around the same time in 2009 we made octahedron boards which did not sell very well so I have a fuck load of them as does our warner brothers online store. one is the cover and the other is one of our back drops. the backdrop one did not come out so good. we also made regular popsicle shaped boards with the wings and eyes design we "co-opted" for shirts and back drop, but they were only a european release. unfortunately from my understanding a lot of volta fans are pretty snobby about us making sk8boards and have questioned our age, as if we in some midlife crisis.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

i donated this particular board to my friend binki shapiro who sings for the band little joy. if you have not heard them i say you are missing out. she asked many different people from bands to donate an item for an auction to benefit earthquake relief in haiti around 2009. i think this board went for 175.00 : ) jeff did the actual artwork and I scribbled all around it with my furry bird people that I obsessively scribble every where. i also tend to draw klansmen and fetal fallout : )

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

here is a prototype volta sk8board that was made in 2006. it never went into full production because the screen print job was a little under par. it was just a little on the saturated half tone DIY side for my personal taste. i tend to like graphics to be clean unless there is an aesthetic choice for it to look a certain way. factory 13 did the first run of volta boards that were patterned after the eric dressen model from santa cruz in "mini" with the chalice head man graphic that can be found on shirts and on the vinyl of the scabdates record. i only have a pink one left of those models cuz i gave so many away for free. the black ones looked the best

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

thanks for all the support.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

yes we record to tape(drums at least and not all the time for every song but a good hand full of them)then dump it to the computer.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

@nomanibot999 dont worry no offense taken. sounds like you want us to meet your expectations.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

my spelling is horrible i rush to get my point across

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

if you have ever lived in el paso then you might know what MOUNTAINS OF AVARICE represent. just read the white catch phrase on the mountain that sits boldly in juarez mexico. a true testament to some archaic redneck bullshit.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

some one ask why we arent not more political. why dont we fly che banners or charge 5 bucks a head. its simple. i play in a band that beat J lo for a couple of days in 2004 with an album filled with 9 minute and 30 minute songs. in short: A SINGLE SPARK CAN START A FOREST FIRE

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

my fascination with the 70s stems from the fact that i was born in 1974. everything i soaked up as a young sponge stems from the seeds of that golden era. it was a pre punk landscape that gave way to some over the top silly shit that is hard to ignore. the answer is kind of obvious is it not. some people cant stand that era, some people think its played. but when you born in it and grew up in it? shit man its roots plain and simple.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

look for the record i dont know what this saint goober shits all about. i could care less about the developments on some chat room. its already enough that i am part of making the art that they all talk about. then again when u sent your music to a mastering place(corporate or ma and pa)there always stands to be some little snot nosed tech savy intern kid who will leak the material and even go so far as to talk shit on it. even one of the ORLG RLP cameramen do that stupid shit. in short who cares

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

im not going to lose any sleep over peoples disapproval of me drinking coffee or their not understanding it. is it a drug? yeah i guess it is, especially if u want to be anal about it. it is my last vice. other than that i dont partake in anything else.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

julio did not do the art work for 5 song alibi. that was my drwaing on the cover and on the inside was art by a guy named matt makelvine.(probably misspelled) and matt is the one armed scissors inspiration as his arm was ripped off by a passing train many years ago. i used julios sigil back then as well. it was a communal device that represented our group of friends.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

julio venegas was a musician,a painter, and an impromptu mind fucker. i stil have some of his sketches.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

i dont know if we played a confusing set in hamburg on the eve of the iraq war. it might have been confusing because of the technical side of our music being showcased in a large cavernous venue meant for simple music. all ghost notes get lost and our album was not even out yet, so what would be confusing to be people is that we did not sound like atdi, and at that time thats what everyone knew us as. the jam with michael rother was recorded but some one at the airport stole the video camera. special moment lost in time. for thos of you who dont know who rother is he was a member of kraftwerk,neu and harmonia.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

horrible spelling sorry i have not had coffee yet

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

yes ive gotten sued by a man in denever who took an empty trash can to the face. he was getting maried so i think his wife stressed about the wedding photos. at least it seemed like the bride to be was the reason for us "ruining" her perfect day. so she she sued us for money we didnt really have. i beleieve we settled but thats the same thing. i hope they bought a a bitchin honey moon courtesy of the bedlam in goliath.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

if you like adebisi shank you should check out TRANS AM and or six finger satellite bith these bands paved the way for that sound. i dont really have a relationship with anyone at sargent house. sonny works there sometimes and so does our tour manager chase but i dont really have anything to do with them. great label great people.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

if you are going to start with 3RA1N1AC start with bonzai super star. there is one record that they debuted on grass records and its rad i just prefer starting with bonzai. very hard to find but im sure you will find it.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

i cant post all the questions there are way too many. that would take a lot of time sorry but i have things to do. i barely answer this stuff. when i see that its younger kids asking advice or its an interesting question, i answer it.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

never met timmy taylor but atdi were always one day away from them on tour in 96 97. thats the only reason we never met, because we were touring at the same time and never crossed paths. ive had the pleasure of meeting schmersal and met juan who told me timmys mom was stoked that we always mention her son in interviews. RIP TIMMY TAYLOR AS HIMSELF

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

never toured with blonde redhead but opened for them once in san diego then asked them to play at our ATP of 2005. they are gentle people who write incredible music.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

if u wish to stay sane during band tension then just seek to understand .....not to be understood(wait your turn). listen and dont just wait to say your opinion. be willing to grow and accept others points of view. be willing to get red in the face take a walk cool your head and never give into a reactive mind. trust me it will bring you closer. dont forget to tell your fellow band mates how important they are. dont be afraid to admit when your wrong.its u against the world. ive done the opposite of all this advice and have had to rebuild burnt bridges from letting the craziness of band life get to me. just remember they are not real problems. wait tell you flip a van or burn one down to the ground on a tour. seek to understand not to be understood. that is glue.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

mr don smitty kong.... for me i knew something was a float when the drummer of mudhoney decided to watch 5 little underage brats(who couldnt even be in the bar they were going to play until they played)play at a bar in LA. him and about 8 other writers from flipside magazine stayed and watched. the drummer bought one of our 7 inches . i was a huge mudhoney fan. i tend to think in piss ant terms of just getting people who i had listened to growing up...listen to me. that in and of itself was success to me. i never had the bigger picture in my head which is why it probably fell on our lap, because success to me was to copy what i had learned from the movie called another state of mind.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

here is what i think about occupy wall street.....i think crass should reform and play on a trailer sponsored by venture capital one with alec baldwin as the MC, then to counter attack the crass reunion i think huey lewis (minus the news) should set up across the street on an opposing trailer and tell us all that its hip to be square. in all seriousness i heard patagonia is providing the protesters with free tents. i lent my support by dressing up as a combination of solange knowles and adam levine. protesters called me SOLANGE LEVINE.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

@seabab what old timers have u been hanging out with?

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

@babyplas29 a pixies train? clearly you were not on a pixies train because kim deal produced a braniac ep called go freaks go! and the pixies were huge fans as was jeff buckely who once shouted out at a concert "timmy taylor from braniac died! 3RA1N1AC 4 ever!!!

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

henry rollins sent an assistant to find us in long beach. then we got on the phone with henry and jeremy omar and I went down and i layed it down. i think dukowski was there. i changed the lyric from girl i wanna ball to boy i wanna ball just to be funny. they thought i was being brave haha. as far as the wm3...its really obvious that the father of the victim over sells him self. i think he did it. what a fucking shame for them. what a sahme for the victims as well. the dad did it.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

reluctant to give power to a word that only evokes roger dean images. reluctant to add fuel to the stereo type. ive also said in many interviews that i love the term progressive if its used in the dictionary sense. what most journos want to get us to say is that we are part of some movement where capes and dragons run free in a field of bearded sword fights amongst robin hood looking motherfuckers trying to get their duelling banjos on ...no thanks. i grew up with punk music. that means im a nerd and except all forms of noise and melody. i just dont have patience for boring ass metal.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

just scored myself a pelham blue 2011 non reverse firebird. i need to restring it with flat wound strings.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

try lying down on your back while singing.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

i do not post anything on the comatorium.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

Unfortunately the ANYWHERE 7 inch record on valley king records has sold out. it was a limited run of 500. we are planning on releasing the full recordings 2 songs at a time in 7 inch series. maybe we will do a repress later if there is any interest. but maybe that all might change if we find a home for it. very excited to get my copy.

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

thanks i did not realize that today is a 10 year anniversary. first show was at the chain reaction to a bunch of hardcore kids. yikes! i remember being out of breath and shuffling to some afro beatish song in progress that we had recorded with mike D in a studio. people said we sounded like PIL and or the doors, others immediately threw out the zepp card while a whole grip of people thought we would play 1armed blah blah. there was no way in hell we could ever sound like PIL. next thing we did was open up for les savy fav and ugly cassanova(modest mouse side band?) then came europe with les savy fav and the apes ending in a tv spot on rockpalast along side jon spencer blues explosion. and yes i sang horribly on that show just horribly. : )

lunarpower666 (4 months ago)

the first thing i did when i got that iphone 4s was ask siri if she was involved with the hal2000 back in the day. she acted all nervous and was like "i cant answer that" i then asked her what happened to hal and then she answered "we all know what happened to hal at the end of that movie". i promise you i am NOT lying. she really said that. my wife and i stared at each in utter shock. well played mr jobs, well fucking played.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

im well aware of bob forestt he was jeremys go to guy when he went to rehab. im sure the book is great, but my personal experience with watching jeremys decline was that no matter how much affinity you have with a fellow addict, be they famous or not...rehab only works on people who are ready to get better. all drugs stay in your fat cells and can re-stimulate you when they secret through sweating or other various functions your body goes through. whats the use of a godhead concept at the top of a 12 step triangle if you have not gotten rid of the chemical or the urge. indeed rehab is for quitters. an i mean that in the most sincerest form of critique towards the betterment of the human condition

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

yes octahedron was recorded in greenpoint brooklyn. only luciforms was tracked in guadalajara. bedlam\/brooklyn\/LA\/SF ampu\/LA frances\/eagle rock\/burbank\/LA\/ny deloused\/LA the new one\/guadalajara\/eagle rock\/silverlake * * U

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@leftrism.....if you look closely by flipping back on the comments section. i was ASKED a question about drugs. i answered. t the most important part of your question is what makes you think we like it. I DONT THINK YOU LIKE IT.... I KNOW FULL WELL IT IRRITATES A LOT OF PEOPLE TO HEAR THAT DRUGS ARE TO ARTISTS WHAT STEROIDS ARE TO ATHLETES. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT GO EAT A BAG OF DICKS. I CAN SAY WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT TO ON HERE....IT IS YOU THAT DOES NOT HAVE TO RETURN.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

there are healthier ways of remembering. lsd is like raft made of raw meat that swims the Lethe river.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

yes i do feel very bad about ever suggesting drug use in any way. wether it was subliminal or suggestive or in your face, especially in some videos or interviews. i almost jeopardized entire tours because of shitty habits. can u imagine the amount of studio time i could have bought for a record of my own doing let alone gear i could have right now? drugs are the worst thing to have ever happened to me

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

no i dont play video games

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

the biggest down fall that western man has suffered is that he treats his mind like a tv set. all remote control. steve jobs was a great being but i completely disagree with any body promoting any drug. salvia,dmt,mushrooms etc etc. you are not supposed to see that because you are not ready. there is no gradient its just straight horror show. you go through life preparing yourself to be able to handle the kind of information that others might think you crazy for saying out loud. hence pineal secretion during life and birth. intro outro. there are sober ways of getting there. steve jobs would have created everything he did even if he didnt do drugs. lets put it this way are you defined as a being by the drugs u ingest? how fucking limiting. thats a fucking square wheel rolling uphill.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

those ideas were always there. lsd and dmt are what steroids are to athletes. cheating shortcuts whose after effects stay in your fat cells and creep up on you when u least expect it. TESLAs ideas were of sound sobriety and are the foundation of what makes everything easy today. no profound sumer of love horse shit. what about the other genius minds that got sidetracked by that care free way of thinking? do u hear about them. no u dont. its hard to get your story told under the veil of a nervous breakdown and medication.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

even with out lsd he would have come across his ideas because they were HIS ideas. he was supposed to do everything he did. he had his game plan set in motion well before he was ever born. as far as a catalyst for the domino effect of evolving for the sake of furthing mans technology.....well thats HIGHLY unethical and irresponsible because lsd is the biggest mental gamble we as beings have ever faced. he is lucky that his mind did not have a pre exsisting condition that might have given him an allergic reaction and sent his ass to the luny bin.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

manupod=vessel....simulacra...003cwbr003e0026shy;00ad.corpse....body... made up dystopian term for ship as in a body jumping from a bridge assuming a crescent shape as in we are not bodies as in i dont have soul i dont have energy I AM A SOUL. I AM ENERGY. I CHOOSE THIS VESSEL you asked i answer

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

cant really say much more about the locust as a gang in omars movie. i dont know when it will come out but from what i have seen it is worth it.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

just watched troll hunter. lots of fun. the ranglefinch looked like where the wild thing are.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

time travel.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@stranger01199 thanks already know it. thanks for the heads up. i love reading about ritchie blackmore's rather uncomfortable encounters in the studio meek. that bug eyed man was rather talented

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

nice one demoncleaner what would life be without monocles?

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i would never judge an entire country based on one degraded being. besides the guy who robbed me probably had some reason for it. i was a little mad at the time but he at least he has an ipod filled with rare oldies

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i try not to read reviews but i will say this, the opposite of love is not hate, its not giving a fuck. the fact that anyone takes time to describe in detail how much they might not like what we do is just one of the many polarizing effects our music has on the public at large. so if all we are is pretentious wanking to someone that just writes about music...then i cant really let it ruin my day. at least im out there trying to do something about it. which is a hell of a lot more than an anonymous MASKED approach of music critics. the pen may be mightier than the sword but our sword goes to 11

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

in my experience pedals dont work live for vocals because they are not designed for vocals. in a controlled environment like a studio they work but with the travelling and getting banged up and their unpredictable nature with monitors and lack of volume control (some not all depends on what you like ie not setteling for some generic delay from boss etc etc ) gibby haynes has the perfect rig because they are rack mounts installed in movable podium type set up, but you sacrifice any and all live movement standing in front of your toy which is boring to watch. in the many years i have been doing this trust me ive exhausted all means. only a front of house tech works great and he better know what you like and how freaky u wanna get. a pedal board is so obvious that it does not work. its not as simple as pressing a pedal for desired effect.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

we will try to get down there to all latin american countries. even if i get robbed at knife point again in colombia : )

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

like ive said before TMV is not doing anything till next year. we are done for the remainder of the year. as far as playing venzuela or any where else that is off the beaten path....... so long as the promoters are not shady and can meet our guarantee and provide a descent place to play...we are there. we can not afford the luxury of doing shows simply because the fans want it. i wish we could. i really do. in these times we have to pay bills and just like everyone else and the cost it takes to do tours is a lot even when we strip down. i would love venezuela but we have never had an offer for there that works for us. sometimes schedules conflict too. but it would be fun if there was a good offer.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

not smoking pot has actually helped my creative process. i personally think viewing or hearing music a certain way when your high is just utter bullshit. the weed isnt making the music, and the weed isnt listening to it either. you are the creator you are the listener.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

max ernst? umm yeah did you fail to see the frances the mute campaign? we used his shit all over shirts and back drops during that era...so yeah we kinda like him

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

have not heard that song by rjd2 but we have spoken on the phone together for a collaboration but we stopped communicating for some reason.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

calibration? well its not like each record has its own month long individualized recording session. when u work with omar everything is thrown at you and he divides it all up on what he wants it to be in. so u dont know what goes where. he asked me to sing some butthole surfers style song. i had no lyricz so i improvised a "jesus built my hot rod" style gibby haynes delivery. our friend GREY did the cover.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

if omar had done back up vocals on anything dont you think he would have had the credit on the record sleeve?so yes kind sir you are most certainly going up the rails of a crazy train. : )

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

soccer full of secrets or saucer full o" sucrets?

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i prefer piper at the gates of dawn but sucarful is great too.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

the kid who threw the bottle of piss on us was 17 years old and....... was there with his mom. he was arrested. say what you want, boo us, spread rumors, but DONT FUCK WITH OUR GEAR pee pee and pedals dont mix very well.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

I had a great TLA show: )

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

confederacy of dunces is a great book as well as the boy who kicked pigs by tom baker(the muthafucking 4th doctor!!!)

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@zoarii007 no i dont do any drugs at all. i am a little over a year of being completely sober. as some regular subscribers might well know i use to be a huge pot head. ive stopped and have no real affinity for it or the money it costs. i grew out of it. drums are expensive and singing is cheaper so i gravitated to being a singer as a relief to my parents ears and wallets, but then mirabile dictu my voice was just as loud.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

being a kid in the 80s was magical. breakdancing,punk rock,skateboarding, blizzard of oz, i grew up idolizing the kids that seemed like extras from the movie over the edge. anybody seen that movie. mat dillons first movie where the kids take over the school and burn it down in colorado with a awesome soundtrack that had van halen,cheap trick,the cars etc etc its where dazed and confused took a lot of its ideas from

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

good lord what song of ours is called mountains of abraham? that sounds like some hot topic midwest stretched ear lobe band! ha ha! my fav was once a song of ours was called eat the sun. of all the tangent ramblings i put forth....and for some fan to be like yeah its called eat the sun. ha ha i dont know what song your talking about? but some songs are just saved for later. remember we have yet to really tour for our new record so everything is open.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i choose lunar power from an old santa cruz sk8 video where the pro had it written on his griptape. it always struck me as a kid and stayed with me. u add numbers so that you can actually keep the name and use it. nothing esoteric,nothing occult related nothing that interesting

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

ah the 90s. what a shitty time period. the outskirts of major city life sucked but it was awesome too. cassettes, and videotapes. lots of word of mouth and maximum rock n roll's book your own life(the original tour bible) i use to listen to machine gun ettiquette by the damned cuz it was produced by nick mason and it is the coolest punk album! piano,mc5 covers,maracas,long drone jams,and i also listened to my shitty cassette version of raw power all the time. before it was remixed so it was all treble(bowie+cocaine=no bass....let that be a listen to all engineers...alcohol and drugs diminishes your ears abilities)

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

worst traveling experience is just flying in general. it brings out the rudest side of humanity and takes its toll on your body

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

OK KIDDOS I CAN POST THE NEW ZECHS MARQUISE SONG FROM THEIR NEW ALBUM "GETTING PAID" I MADE THIS VIDEO FOR THEM BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BUT TRUE RESPECT AND LOVE FOR THESE YOUNG GENTLEMAN. MARCEL,MATT, MARFRED, MARCOS AND RICO...THATS RIGHT M.M.M.M.R ! WHICH IS THE SOUND THEY MAKE WHEN FLOODING TOILETS ON TOUR.... ARE A FORCE OF NATURE TO WATCH OUT FOR WATCH THEM AT LOWEND THEORY TOday

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

just simple repetitive drumming for big sir. i like playing with those acoustic style druming sticks. u know the ones that look like little wrapped up bundles of skewers. to me it makes the vocals breath alot more and just has a cool sound on the drums. there will be no dub drumming or electronic style stuff. i play simple stuff that takes a back seat and respects the song. i can barely swing let alone be some fusion kung fu dickhead.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

DID I FORGET TO MENTION THE ALBUM WELL BE RELEASED ON RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ PRODUCTIONS THROUGH SERGEANT HOUSE!? CHECK OUT REFUSED TV FOR MORE OR SERGEANT HOUSE RECORDS IN GENERAL.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

OK KIDDOS I CAN POST THE NEW ZECHS MARQUISE SONG FROM THEIR NEW ALBUM "GETTING PAID" I MADE THIS VIDEO FOR THEM BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BUT TRUE RESPECT AND LOVE FOR THESE YOUNG GENTLEMAN. MARCEL,MATT, MARFRED, MARCOS AND RICO...THATS RIGHT M.M.M.M.R ! WHICH IS THE SOUND THEY MAKE WHEN FLOODING TOILETS ON TOUR.... ARE A FORCE OF NATURE TO WATCH OUT FOR WATCH THEM AT LOWEND THEORY TOMORROW.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

yes i suffer from hearing loss.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i like my drums to sound like a pair of sneakers dangling from an electric wire in a bad neighborhood.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

im not what u would call an avid reader, but i have my moments. i have not dove into any of james joyce"s material but i plan to. i dont like video games in the way that video games are a staple in most peoples diets but i do play tetris on high speeds all the time but i just consider that fast organization. im a ravenous collector of 80s skate boards. i derive a lot of inspiration from the archaic art and shapes of the boards.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

as a kid skating turned me onto a shit load of crazy music. trasher magazine's first ever skate video showcased a lot of great bands. tales of terror, screaming sirens( all female mohawk mania by way wendy o williams) and of course when you are a kid and see the DRUNK INJUNS play your mind is blown. they had these hand made masks and their music was epic, i learned about firehose,minutemen,eight days a week, the faction,mcrad,etcetc etc etc. ethan fowler skating to the chamber brothers "people get ready" was mind blowing. ritchie jackson skating to pentagram or the gonz skating to coltrane. the younger the sponge, the more potent his output will be. then again louie barletta skting to young turks by rod stewart is fucking hilarious!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i coat my throat with tarter sauce thats how ! i would nt really be able to tell you how i do it other than after singing a while you get a little hoarse or a little unicorn depending on what you believe in.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@vac there is no different mix on cd its all the same.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@Gliebhard ANYWHERE is a project that christian from the mighty TRICLPOS! and i started about a year ago. he plays acoustic guitar with open tunings that have raga middle east flair(raga not reggae...i hope u know the difference :)) he asked mike watt to play bass on it and then christian found rachel fannan and so we made it for fun. looking for a home for it. i play drums and sing on a couple of tunes. to me its like jehu being asked out on a date by sandy bull while vashti bunyan serenades over the top. i hope rachel doesnt mind the comparison but i am trying to use broad descriptions to give u a small idea of what its like. check out some sandy bull records they are great!!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

MASTODIZZLE

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i dont consider mastadon metal. i consider them a rock band. sure they have some stuff that qualify them as such but the more they change the more they evolve into a fine rock band. they are great.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

rehearsal today with big sir ! shaking the rust of my hands. tuesday i welcome a blue 67 del ray tiesco into my life.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

DRATS ! a majority of DTLA streets are closed for filming of new batman movie.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

PLAYING DRUMS FOR BIG SIR THIS WHOLE WEEK !!!! THEN LIVE AT THE BOOTLEG IN L.A. ! cant wait!!!!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

that theatre in particular places the PA system on the actual stage. add that to fact that because people act like that they add barriers. insurance policies are there because a lot of fans have parents who would sue us if something were to happen. that theatre place us so far away from the audience that it just seemed absurd. everyone freaked out including our people. its sad that people treated omar that way. what can you do. its seems to be the UK's M.O.. in general.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

when i need a fresh foot forward in music i listen to brainiac, with only 5 releases under their belt...in every brainiac is some sign post up ahead of the TRUE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. bonzai superstar and especially electroshock for president and hissing prigs 3RA1N1AC 4EVER !!!!!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i was in a "lick my decals off baby" kind mind when i did my vocals. i made sure to have my best trout mask tangent inflection on. to me its not angry its just a cluster fuck and i wanted to paint court jester invocations of sweet nothingness over the tops of it. of course i am referencing alot of beefheart in case u dont understand the references. but u probably do. : )

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

your right its not a eunuchs chord progression its the effect on the guitar.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i really regret saying that everyone should try LSD at least once. i was arrested once on LSD in el paso. i was trying to chew the tires off a cop car, i didnt even recognize my own mother when she came to pick me up from the west side station off of mesa st. i woke up in a hospital having blacked out most of the MISadventure.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

that being said kroq means well, but on a constructive note they need to re-ivent themselves. especially cuz they have the common ear in mind. to elevate the state of music they should hire people in on the know. real music nerds, with real tastes who are not afraid of NOT playing violent femmes or the pixies. shit if i had my way i would hire all new djs and give rodney a 3 hour slot on fridays. but thats just my silly uninformed opinion some day a real change will come until then KXLU !!!!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i doubt we will ever get asked to play a KROQ event ever again cuz of that. also of course mr striker was talking shit about us on the air then i asked any volta fan to give him hell during an opening slot for the pixies. the type writer thing was omars idea. i have no affinity for kroq. indie 103 was better despite its name. funny how they vanished and were the superior radio station and kroq stayed? watch striker in the documentary about rodney called mayor of sunset strip. that pretty much sums up kroq. they need to give rodney a proper slot again.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

marcel- elvin apples and oranges.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

calm down FOLTANSON so u dont like dj nobody jeez relax. breath holmie.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@TheGregZ yes i subscribe to certain philosophy but the amount of intolerance and bigotry it attracts is just not worth talking about on here. i find myself blocking or deleting many supposed fans on this channel due to their rather hostile and jock like mentalities.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i am sure he is a big fan, but come on if we put as much time and energy into actually being the mars volta(give or take the human condition of having a bad performance).... then put some effort into it. and afro wig and some high school metal guitar just goes to show that he doesnt even have the comedy chops to make me laugh....and i look in the fucking mirror everyday and have the best laugh. put some work into. his video is on some why did the chicken cross the road type shit. the only thing i can really appreciate is that he cares enough to take 30 minutes out of his life to take the cosmetic parts of us and TRY and be funny about it. other than that....clown shoes

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

coffee time watch out

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

askepios remix is great. elvin estrada aka dj nobody maker of the best seasonal 70SAM GOLD mixes also plays in BLANK BLUE. there new album will be on brainfeeder. i sang a song with nikky on that record. should be out soon.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

jonathons role in cryptamnesia? hmm well its the bass that is not holding the fort down, its the bass thats spazzing sweet james blood ulmer all over the speaker.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@sheputyderiif what comes around goes around but im very certain we weren't sitting around trying to copy PERIGEO but i agree i do hear a similar chord progression of sound that we have in eunuch provocateur. when there is western scale involved you are bound to hit something that was similar many moons ago. good ear though man good ear.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@ShroudedInVeilz what can one say about ian svenonoius that hasnt been said already. you know in my ears he sounds alot like malcom mooney,just listen to CAN's "little star of bethlhem". Ian is a rare dying breed. not enough credit goes to him and his projects and how they made most modern music what it is today.or i should say he has been ripped off and prepackaged in so many bad ways. i for one will always be indebted to his role in redefining what a front man is. so few brought sexuality,intellect,comedy, and raw energy. his lyrics and his aesthetic spearheaded such a great era in music like beatnik mods throwing molotov cocktails at the scruffy flannel generation of rock. he still owns it check out his newest project called CHAIN AND THE GANG

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

wow what a waste of time this gomez video is. id like to think that i have a sense of humor as is evident in my omar videos,(check the uploads!) but this could have been done better especially with whats out there visually and sonically. i think my omar videos smoke this clowns video and fuck thats me making fun of us. if i can do a better job at taking the piss out of my own band then i dont know. i suggest the SHREDS version of our letterman performance. now that is funny. i'm embarrassed for him. like i said my xtranormal cartoons smoke this shit. its pure clown shoes.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i think GG allins material is entertaining in the same the ghetto boys are entertaining. there some strong punk chord arrangements in his shit. of course now i dont think i would want to watch a show up close, and i love his version david allen coes scumbag and warren zevons carmelita....a softer more intimate GG hahaha

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

of course nothing happens to you you live there. your immune system is use to it. dont take offense homey, but its true. thank god for pedialite

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

http:\/\/valleykingrecords.wordp003cwbr003e0026shy;00adress.com\/

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

dont forget gas and vehicle rental? what about unexpected obstacles like drinking the water and getting sick ...its not a stereotype its happened to me and almost everybody in volta. that shit(no pun intended) can set you back some sick days that you end up paying for. cheaper country also means cheaper standards unless you build your immune system which seems just as expensive. now on the other hand there is that cool little instrument called mellotron

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

you factoring in hotel,food,studio cost,engineer fees,string player fees, and how many songs and how many days it will take?

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

if i could afford it. lesson number one with strings and string arrangements. they cost ALOT!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

we met sunshine through sonny kay and the infamous tour machine known as paul drake. i remember their bass player had a huge pentagram tattoo on his back and kay the singer was the this giant. very sweet guys and i mis them. they were rad

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

sadly i have no animal collective in my playlists but they are one of my fav bands.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

http:\/\/valleykingrecords.wordp003cwbr003e0026shy;ress.com\/

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@thomj18 an escape from new york soundtrack sounds amazing ! cant deny some goblin too.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@TheJevonjames i dont know this is being handled by the guitar player from this project, but it sounds like 500 might go fast and i do have to give props to the song that is on there that is sung by rachel. she has an a great voice....very wicker man

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

first off tarantism we are not DIY we might have come from there but we have grown. second there is no corporation putting a stamp on us. it is an aesthetic choice by 2 person team called mexican chocolate. it is his signature and not some implant chip used to show ownership over our visual presentation. its as simple as we like mexican chocolate's posters. he shows us the finished designs, we say cool we like it. there really is no massive conspiracy whistle to be blown here. maybe u should start using the barter system instead of money as it is painfully obvious that those symbols are found on our money too. what are we with out our obsessions? what are we without our idle machinations and hyper sense of paranoia? i applaud your tenacity but really there is no illuminati affiliation here. nickelback on the other hand.....now there's some esoteric connivance for you.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

Anywhere "Pyramid Mirrors" limited edition 72033 available now for pre-order! Posted in Anywhere, New Releases with tags Anywhere, Mike Watt, Pyramid Mirrors, Rachel Fannan, The Mars Volta, Triclops! on September 20, 2011 by Secret Serpents Valley King Records next release will be a single for the new 'supergroup' project: ANYWHERE. Christian Eric Beaulieu (Triclops!, Liquid Indian) and Cedric Bixler Zavala (The Mars Volta, At The Drive In) are joined by Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) and Rachel Fannan (ex-Sleepy Sun). Recorded by Toshi Kasai (The Melvins, Shrinebuilder). As with all Valley King Records releases, there will be silkscreened cover art by Alan Forbes (signed and numbered by Forbes as well!). The artwork will be released shortly, but you can reserve your copy now! There will be a one-time only pressing of 500!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

my most sought after guitar would be a 67 non reverse firebird !!!!!! in blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!003cwbr003e0026shy;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!003cwbr003e0026shy;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!003cwbr003e0026shy;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!003cwbr003e0026shy;!!

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i just bought a squire jagmaster cuz i didnt really have an electric guitar to play, i only have an old dark wood kingston with old strings that i recorded acoustic solo stuff with. i am eagerly awaiting a blue 1967 tiesco del ray guitar to land in my mailbox. fingers crossed. i am recording at robert caranzas studio when ever i get the chance so that i can demo off more of my solo material. some of it is very big star acoustic stuff some of it is deantoni park material that is very trashy mix of gary numan and giorogio moroder.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

it might look like simon lebon but it couldnt be further. any kenneth anger fans out there? his stuff should be pretty standard fair especially since all his films got released recently. lucifer rising etc etc are some of the most beautiful pieces of art to have ever come out of the underbelly of those witchy 60s and 70s. and by that i mean it no flower power type shit.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

word game by bruce haak is one of my favs. if i put any of songs on a mix i start off by playing the word(narration) then word game right after it.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

rascuache metronome arthritis catacombs shaking hand incision non zero possibility

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@spanktheplum well i personally think that our first 3 albums dont sound alike and thats the same drummer on all 3. it will always be in our best interest to not have any album sound like the one before regardless of the addition or subtraction of members. as far as the music goes and my vocal approach, thats just a natural instinct to make some sort of left turn even if the audience doesn't think its left enough.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

we dont use an illuminati logo mexican chocolate who designs a lot of posters for us uses that as stamp.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

once again i suggest looking at the playlists or previous answered questions in the past comments section. looking for latin type shit its in the playlists.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

@Ciretserrof you have to understand that when we play japan, we are very removed from anything that might appear in ruins. we played tokyo and osaka. the people seemed in high spirits, lets not forget these are people who have survived hiroshima(etc)only to come back and blow any and all futuristic culture away. it was buisness as usual as far as i could see. liam gallagher being hounded at the bullet rain station wearing a parka in 100 degree heat, shopping ants feeding the machine, lolita goths flexing lace parasols, black leather greasers bopping to gene vincent swagger, robotech coiffe's and orange tans littering the streets.....as far as i could tell the only thing abnormal were the earthquake apps ringing everywhere. i even felt a mild tremor. spirits were high and i think a lot of black PR is being used to cover the severity of the areas most effected. a lot of pride from a people who will not go down with out a fight. i dont blame them japan is such a unique place.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

for more heavy or folky psych especially that which falls in the witchy category check out or subscribe to DARBLUES channel. he is in my subscriptions. i highly recommend his channel for this type of material. you will not be disappointed but you might be overwhelmed with the amount of variety he has in this field

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

just to be clear mr.Gerry Roslie wrote the song strychnine. which was performed by the sonics. im sure the cramps covered it though as it falls neatly in place with their aesthetic. if u have not heard the sonics version (which is the one i use to quote a lot) then i suggest that version over the cramps. : )

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

sure send me a link

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

ah yes i have heard them. sometimes you forget to connect the dots.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

no video for baphomet. there is footage for an ATTEMPT at that song as a video but no actual video. footage is somewhere in storage, i highly doubt it will see the light of day.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

and thanks for the suggestion

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

might ? i love her especially the songs bavaar kon, gomshodeh, marham, and airiligh. those are my favs and i am pretty sure she is somewhere on my playlists already

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

been reading about the stranglers but not heard them

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

volta documentary? not that i am aware of

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

poland is great. our first experience their was really great our 1st euro tour didnt hit poland it was later with a czech band called SUNSHINE.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

no aegis does not talk about high school.

lunarpower666 (5 months ago)

i took a picture of these Matryoshkas in moscow when we played there about a month ago. there are a grip of little stands around red square that sold them. they had obama ones, and michael jackson ones. i was hoping to find a ethel rosenberg one, but it was not there. and i just got all up in their faces and took a picture.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@telescreen times are tough and we cut back to save money and to change up the modus operandi for which we are known for. sorry but when we get the shit off the ground then MAYBE we can do that again. it costs a lot of money to print backdrops. especially cuz some of them are done by hand not all just some. for now the music is all we can offer. that and my little ass and giant forehead

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

thank you very much

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

It seems as though with the internet and all, that the underground railroad is not so hidden as it once was in say 1992. touring might be a lot more fun with smart phone apps that hold your hand for food options and places to camp out in. what u should prepare yourself for is the soul crushing monotony of nobody giving a fuck about you. its the american way. u would be spoiled by a euro tour in lets say germany. they treat artists with great appreciation. but just take it day by day and have a blast. get lost. starve.play to nobody, sleep in your van,get paid in ramen,eat taco bell every day. expect to witness and participate in the worst parts of the human condition.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i only used the beta 58 because it takes a good beating and it sounds alright. i remember dipping it into a glass of water once during an atdi show(by accident) and it still worked. they just look horrible.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

rap thing? do you mean the handsomeboy modelling scholl series by prince paul and dan the automator. the first album is the best in the series. the one i worked on was the 2nd album. the person rapping on the track is the RZA. omar plays guitar. the automator was in the studio when we worked on it, but not the rza.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

ive never worked with funkadelic. i would have a million questions to ask them if i did but i have not. do you mean telefunken the microphone company? they recently sent me a mic to use. great shape and our sound man painted it white for me : ) but it didnt make after the last japanese show with all the kicking and whirling but i am in the process of having them make something for me with a stronger grill.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@ApricotStairway i dont mean to be intimidating. some days are good some days are so good. for the most part there are a lot of assholes out there. not that you are one but i never knew what im going to pull in? somedays i meet the nicest people, some days i can see right through people. i bet you if you said hi and were nice i would treat you the same.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i think jeff buckley is a bit obvious in influence.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

nomeansno should be in everyones steady diet. justin meldal johnston who played upright on televators turned me onto cymande when he played in imarobot. my fav jesus lizard song is the one with boilermaker on it. goat. just met david yow at a vatonegro show in LA he was shorter than i am and he told me that he couldnt tell me apart from the audience. i laughed .

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

havent gotten around to valis but i am fully aware of it. currently reading the barbie diaries by john varley, hollywood babylon by kenneth anger then i have to catch up on everything that is considered classic.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@MikeTheGuy00 there is too much sloppy punk influence in our work to even dishonor mahavisnu by comparing us to them. theodore is much more bonham and michael shreive even zz top in his approach than billy cobham. omar is much more sonny sharrock greg sage greg ginn in his phrasing.....and thats all just from a certain era of our band. shits not even like that anymore listen closer to us and vishnu......they are miles beyond.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i saw in utero tour in 93 with jawbreaker opening. no one in the audience gave a fuck or knew who pat smear was. BLASPHEMY !!!! they made fun of themselves playing teen spirit and butchered it on purpose. Pat was one of the first people to listen to FTM straight from the mastered CD. i wasnt there but i was proud that he dug it. D just finished remixing the nirvana acoustic performance and its really great.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

my old 2007-2010 microphones were custom made for me. if you have ever been in a studio you might have seen what is called a seinheiser mic. bands like the creation,the who sam and dave etc etc...use to use them live but they are mainly a drum microphone. they sound horrible so i kept the body and filled it with the inside of an audix which still sounded like shit. so now im in the process of trying to get telefunken to sponsor me then maybe i can convince them to dig up some old 60s mic bodies. your "shampoo"bottle is my throwback aesthetic paying tribute to all my fav shaped mics from the 60s and 70s. beta can take a nice cuban heal to the grill but they look lame. sometimes there are so many detailed things in our presentation that fall on blind eyes. are there any pop culture nerds out there?

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

of course i like me some venetian snares

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@FruscianteLennon311 wrong again holmie i dont hate them or their music but seeing as your account name is what it is, and seeing how common sense dictates that you are the millionth person to ask me about them.....u can see how down right useless a question like that is especially when there is a grip of people they worked with all over my playlists and you could be asking about them instead. PIL,gang of four,funkadelic,ornette coleman,zappa,dh peligro,jah wobble,michael rother,pat smear....all responsible for their sound or connected to them and in dire need of your attention.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i think if i get asked one more rhcp question my bowels will shit inside my stomach and then i will go septic. lets talk about boyd rice or anita harris or delia derbshire but fuck man enough of the teenage frusciante phase questions please. anybody wanna talk about fad gadget? or nina simone or fuck how about aproximately infinite universe by yoko? anybody got a favorite wipers song? i'll be damned if i have to talk about rhcp.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@unserekleinefarm88 70s yakuza aesthetic has always been a part of my armor. shark skin suits especially the ones worn by the 2 villians in big trouble in little china are just down right undeniable. omar and i watched gozu in a theater in nyc during the FTM mix process and it was just wonderful to watch it with only 4 other people in attendance. takashi mike is fantastic, even when he is not trying to freak u out. i love the audition. i love yakuza aesthetic especially from the era in which i was born 1974!!

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@isoleamebuthappysoul check the playlist thats why they are there....to show what i am into. thanks for the question.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

some of you people have alterbridge in your playlists and your not being ironic. im fucking scared......truly scared.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

check my playlists they should sufficiently answer all influence questions

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

yup videodrome is great

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i highly recommend anybody to subscribe to mr darublues channel. especially if you are interested in any and all things psych, prog and pre hessian. all the unknown greats of this genre can be found there. especially if u like some of that witchy type psych rock then head over there. its a virtual treasure chest of gems.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

until then enjoy some kim fowley from my new playlist COPACETIC MERKINS

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

sorry guys i gotta keep megaslap private until sergeant house aproves of me putting it up because the album isnt out yet, and the band has to see it as well

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

above and beyond trying to show some of you the cautionary punchline of something like say CATCHER IN THE RYE, thank you for the kind words. now maybe try channeling less creativity into me and more into your own life, you deserve it

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i dont think its healthy to obsess on people you dont know, especially ones who dont want to tell you about themselves personally. i dont believe in meditation as it focuses too much on the reclusive and egotistical nature of the self. im not into introverted safe houses. there are a number of other people out there in life to take influence from( not a xeroxed copy of what they have achieved ) but usually rock stars, in their reclusive paranoid state of egomaniacal inconsistencies....are not the best examples of humans. some of my fav musicians didn't even know how to be a good father let alone a good person. so i must warn you I am not everything you think i am, and i will let you down as a human because i am still in the process of riding myself of a reactive mind.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i have no relationships with any RHCP PEOPLE PAST OR PRESENT. if anything omar is the one with a relationship with them not me. i do not hang out or collaborate with them in any way. i have never sat down and worked on music with them (as in writing process)if i have i dont remember and i am not going to share it with any of you. go make your own memories.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

yes we have control over were we play but its no longer 1999 and we dont sit in a room a plan tour with a map in front of us. we would make no money that way and lose a ton of cash. you have to consider a grip of variables when dealing with a bigger booking agency and a band that for all practical purposes grows in fanbase(not always) to worry about playing somewhere like new mexico is probably not a financially viable thing to commit to. we dont play a place based o how shitty the response was its based on bigger things, money being the biggest one. if that was the case i would constantly vote against playing phoenix az.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

most answers to all questions so far are buried in the playlists. you just have to exercise all your senses when watching these clips. all maner of influence ...lyrically sonically ....are in the play lists.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@iorispiegel thats not me in any of those sound clips on crypt i just sang on the record, thats all

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

digging that triangle of toms on the top of his kit huh!?

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

and when i say step up the game, don't think i wanna talk about prog rock either let alone anything by muse or coheed, or metal.....good lord you guys are putting me to sleep. if i wanted to compare prices at walmart i would have asked. hit the god damn snooze bar please.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i post a jobriath song on my channel and all i get is RHCP questions!? really!? an openly gay theatrical rock version of klaus nomi.... who was seconds away from dethroning bowie in the visual and music department....then suddenly vanished from the face of pop music..... and you want to ask me about RHCP? this is what i wake up to? are there any real music fans out there? ones who would like to venture outside their comfort food zones? step up the game people.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

please refrain from any and all RHCP\/FRUSCIANTE questions they are annoying and i dont hang out with them or really collaborate with them on anything. there are no new questions that any of you ask that have not been asked before. everytime we do any interviews thats the first thing most generic journalists ask me. we generally leave countless amounts of riddles in sound and lyric, so much show so that it might go above and beyond many heads, and i would hope that you could come up with some better questions. i have no tracking system for omar and or anything RHCP related. it might comes as a shock to a lot of you but there are other interesting artists that have come before them and after them, in short earth is a big planet go out and visit it some time.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

and i might add i did both at the same time for a long time. playing music and working a shit job helps build character and makes u fucking earn it. how long it took before one took over is irrelevant because my experience will never be the same as yours.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

when people ask how old i was or how long it took for me to do anything I sense some bizarre sort of time frame to establish as an example. the reality of it is everyones life is different. there are a number of artists that blossomed later in life. age is merely a suggestion. you are not a body or a mind you are a spirit. the body and mind( in my humble opinion )are merely tools to use for what u want. the future is now or whenever you want it to be. age means nothing. your life is yours, handle and confront that shit.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

meet and greets are the worst idea to have ever crossed an A0026amp;R's mind.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

*i meant prize

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i dont remember hanging out with a contest winner but i do remember playing with mike d spinning records. it had to have been some one from europe who got all the answers right seeing as how that were we spent most of our time. i could care less about being forced to hang out with someone because the label thinks its a cool price. i usually do that on my own and walk around before a show in the audience. i honestly dont remember who one. i shot a lot of footage on our old video recorders. someone broke into our van and stole alot of it. there were lots stop motion movie we made in the stuff stolen. alot of that footage was salvaged and converted. i kept a copy of me tracking with iggy.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i dont play scrabble. bloody knuckles on the other hand......

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

CYCLONOPEDIA by REZA NEGARESTANI

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

oshiri pen penz is the best japanese group ever

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

that and all things fania

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i meant listen*

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

might i make a correction. kiko and the lavender moon is from los lobos but manifolds de amor is latin playboys, and if you lisen closely to the whole 1st latin playboys record, you can hear its influence on such songs as concertina, the begining of baphomets,asilos, etc etc. and to spell it correctly the prodeucers name tchad blake. he is the fucking man!!!

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@anjldust bone machine is great. glad to have helped in some weird way. that producer for bone machine is the cats fucking claws. chad blake( im misspelling his name) he made this record with los lobos side project called latin playboys( i highly recommend this record to everybody!!) and he has the best overblown percussion sounds ever. imagine a stripped down version of los lobos that sounds like bone machine. kiko and the lavender moon is a great song and video, some spooked out arsty east LA tomwaits type shit check it!!!

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

special shout outs to other skate legends jesse martinez,tommy guerrero,ray barbee,neil blender,cardiel,hosoi,jason lee,matt hensley, and ron fucking allen. yes im sure i missed a grip but these fools reached kids in the burbs and did it with style and just plain owned it !

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

mark gonzalez is the andy kaufman\/basquiat of the skateworld. who else could skate like him and yet be so enigmatic and alluring? who could wrestle a chair in the middle of a circle of scary white trash people in the movie gummo? who would skate to a 10 minue john coltrane piece for his part? who would go to war against powell peralta? natas kaupas, mark gonzalez,rodney mullen,steve rocco. those are the 4 horse men of the streetpocalypse !!!! everything that is skating today was invented by those 4 cats but it was mark and natas who were the artists. rodney was the mathematician and rocco was the hustler.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

fav beatles tunes...tomorrow never knows,flying,sexy sadie and happiness is a warm gun. then again they always change but i usually gravitate to those songs in particular

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i showed my wife the john carpenter version of the thing a little while ago cuz i had been talking to juliet lewis's brother about carpenter flicks. long story short she loved it! doesnt it suck that we live in the era of remakes!? it would way cooler to go see a re-release!! theyre even remaking sam packinpahs straw dogs!! FUCKING BLASPHEMY !!!!!!

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

hopefully many of you understand why at least i feel this way. i live and breath this thing everyday. omar and i have worked really hard on building it up to what we see it to be.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

there might be a slightly smaller amount of songs but we might put them on. some are worth it some aren't. songs are always a gamble. i must stress its is the interest of the band to not let that material be available to the public because it takes away from the discography's potency. it creates to many cooks in the kitchen (opinions) focusing on what could have been when that is the roll for the band and no one else. no one else deserves that more than the band does which is why it sucks that there is stuff floating around out there with out our consent. not all information should be free. i can appreciate the ravenous concern from the fanbase but frankly its not for anyones eyes or ears unless we give permission. there is a reason its not been released by us. that reason should be respected and honored

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

why did we record miranda? ummmm cuz we like making music? i think your question is oddly phrased? do u mean why is their an acoustic version? because that was how we put the idea down. u go back later on add to the idea with full band(strings etc etc )do u mean the frances era demo idea or the elitch era live version. 2 entirely different things. and the reason for all of this is cuz we like to do it that way. u will find that its kinda a normal way of jotting ideas down before u commit them to a record. i.e. demo version then final version.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

when anyone asks what my favorite anything is....an i do mean anything...just look on my playlists you are bound to find some sort of reference ive made lyrically or acted out on stage. thats why they are there.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i like when SRV played on bowie records but for the most part there is not one thing he can do that hendrix or eddie hazel cant do better. im a bit more of a eugene chadbourne, sonny sharrock, james blood ulmer kinda of guy myself. i dont dig a lot of boring blues by white dudes sorry just my opinion. even if i myself am guilty of going down that beaten path.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

for the record let me say that jon theodore,blake fleming,and thomas pridgen were all fantastic additions to voltas music. it has been in the very nature of the band to new things(musically and musician wise). you can not impose taste as a measure of quality, this is something best reserved for anything but art. there was no best drummer for volta, they were all the best drummer volta has ever had including mr parks. they are all equally undeniable and great.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

because jon was the only other person that we knew at the time who could fill blakes shoes. jon didnt seem to think so but i think we eventually pushed him to do things that he did not know he was even capable of doing. plus jon was a ton of fun to be around and had an infectious jovial nature, not to mention he has a certain way of playing that is undeniable. saw him rip a drum solo with his hands in el paso when he played in golden. sold

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

the other members of laddio ballacko have a band called the psychic paramount that is just down right undeniable ! they get my vote for being the cats claws.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

unfortunately for blake we just did not get along with him at all. we tried again in 2006 or so and once again we were at odds with him. this led to deantoni. blake is a fantastic player and i would never say one word of ill concern about him. he taught me alot.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

it was at paceland in silverlake and they had no place to crash so we invited them to stay with us in long beach at our house called anikulapo. we made friends. they broke as atdi went on hiatus and omar had kept in touch w blake from europe were we conspired to jump ship from our old skin with him in tow. blake had a phenomenal sense of style and he wanted to create a very burlesque\/vaudville aesthetic that retained the live show that omar and i were known for. he wanted to utilize alot of bolan aesthetic and loved using the term pop music.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

we met blake fleming during a trans am show that they opened for. it was during the futureworld trans am tour. laddio blew everyone away with roxy music\/music machine look and their morphine\/amrep centipede sound. kack black was in front with a look like he had been hit by a freight train.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

we always play for fun we are just not naive enough to do it for free. unless there is a real good cause, people have to eat, drink and thats not counting tech(roadies),TMs, and cost of getting there. this is the real world, creature comforts cost money. basic rudiments = good shows. i played all the free shows i had to just to get to the point were i didnt have to play for free. its part of a game plan i set into motion when i was 5. nothing is free not even dying.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@ TenEtTiwa i have no idea what u are talking about?

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

band tattoos? its your body, why should my opinion matter?

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

do u really think its ikey ? and if so what can i possibly do about it? he made his choice a long time ago. he is a fantastic musician. your question doesnt offend me and I highly doubt he would do something so beneath him, especially because he is constantly creating music as a player and producer.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

someone asked about dregtones? it ended the day our bass player jimi hernandez died of cancer. we did a full u.s. tour in summer of 94. i sang for them while playing drums for a band called foss on the same bill every night. we made beer runs in arcada shot fireworks at eachother on the freeyways in the south and just tore up the u.s. that summer. very fond memories

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

might i add that there are far many more stand out tracks from our past and "plague" is not one of them.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

its easy an easy pick when it comes to a favorite doctor who. there is no question who was the best. TOM BAKER was the best and no one could touch his performance. he signed a book he wrote called the boy who kicked pigs which is a fantastic childrens book to corrupt potential little artists. he wrote to cedric and omar remember the living are just the dead on holiday have a good tour

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

no we dont always have someone filming us on tour. only every once and a while. we had the director of buffalo de la noche documenting our pridgen era of an australian leg. we have had to scrap it cuz pridgen wanted to be excluded from all things volta....his last wishes. its too bad cuz there was some great stuff there including a melbourne show that was a lot of fun.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

handsome boy modeling school came about through dan the automator seeking us out for the project. i was on tour with atdi when i heard the first HBMS record and felt honored to make the second album. rza's parts were already completed so we never met them, only the automater. juan use to play with dan the automator as well under some dr.octagon incarnation ... i think.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

i have no idea what the lyrics are fro plague, all i know is that the song was scrapt for parts and the melody and approach was reimagined for baphomets. i dont think would ever write a lyric about ducks, or howard the duck but i do play a wicked mean game of duck duck goose.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

volta is off until next year. we just completed a world tour. i had a fucking blast. we will not be doing anything until next year. until then big sir will be playing the bootleg theatre sometime towards the end of september and will join them on drums and vocals.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

if i have to spell out why i dont allow comments on my videos then you obviously think that all fans are nice people. there are some dickheads out there. the proof is in the random asshole comments on here that i remove constantly, then again it shows im doing something right if my music or my taste in music or my beliefs are bumming people out : )

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

pere ubu, the fall, james chance, eno\/bryne, flowers of romance, christian death(yes i consider them post punk), etc etc

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

yes there are about 3 songs that didnt really make the cut for octahedron. one ended up on the new one and its called called MOLOCHWALKER the other stuff ....well who knows what will come of it? maybe scrapt for parts? bible and the breathalyzer was a last min piece for a b side done in a hotel room in canada on a day off.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

@ domani85 maybe u saw an un inspired show, but I always dance, wether it be a small amount or a large amount. you better believe that youngblood.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

who knows when TMV will end. I still plan on using my current time off to finally start ironing out my own solo record.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

there is no subject to shed light on as far mr. pridgen goes. it was the best of times it was the worst of times. together we accomplished a lot and we also hit many bumps in the rod. he is a force of nature to be reckoned with and a fantastic drummer.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

there are no samples at the end of cygnus but field recordings and manipulated ambient electronic stuff. some of raadel digital indian instruments as well, probably one of the drone machines?

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

yes i have seen many pieces of a manual dexterity. mike d is in it, leslie from murder city devils, the locust(as a gang) and many friends. jeremy ward is the main star as well and for any long beach people out there....KEN THE ALL NIGHT ROCKER is in it too

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

duchess and plastic palace people and all of scott 2 are my favs

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

please dont take my salmon jump reference so literally, then again sarcasm doesnt have a good way of translating on here in comments. i only mean to see humans often benefit from proper fuel.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

D johnston is fantastic. sort of a precursor to flaming lips style singing that is sometimes heard in that all too catchy meets lazy slacker j mascis style singing i love him and all his grandchildren.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

there really aren't any b sides cus frankly they dont represent the band well. chances are they will still get used. scrapt for parts etc

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

plague on you hissing children was never supposed to see the light of day. it was stolen from a hard drive and uploaded without our permission. somethings should never be seen or heard unless u yourself prefer it when your parents dig up old photos to embarrass you with. same context. some material is obsolete and should not be heard as they are or were works in progress. the age of the internet seems to bestow an annoying sense of entitlement. i sure as hell dont want to hear steve albinis in on the kill taker, fugazi got rid rid of it for a reason.

lunarpower666 (6 months ago)

we would like to release as many songs as WE see fit. out of 14 10 or so make the cut because those are the ones we want people to hear. we never planned for everyone to hear all of them. some dont make the cut cuz they are just not good enough. RELAX

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

no my nails are not painted black but my toenails...well thats a different story

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

I am not vegan or vegetarian and have not been for at least 5 years now. when I was my shows were highly inconsistent and lacked strength, you might have seen some great ones on youtube but you dont see the result of the next day. Performing the way I do and singing the way I do requires REAL protein. I now eat according to my blood type, and my body says thank you on a daily basis. I use to think being vegan had all these benefits but there is entirely too much gluten and over processed chemicals in all that fake meat stuff. i could have stuck to vegetables but lets be honest after a physically draining show your body craves everything but rabbit food. I do however enjoy eating a raw food diet from time to time or macrobiotic just to take a break from eating fish or meat. I always eat 4 hours prior to show time so that I am not burping and catching my breath from the digestion process. this picture is the result of grilled salmon, and mind you I was sick. real fuel for real results.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

electro counts more than you think ! it was the shape of things to come. in that short ep sprouted most modern rock music and dance music today. electroshock was the only alnum in my opinion to merge electronic shit with rock in a unique garage rock way. it should the growth of the band. that one is one of my favs

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

omar graduated only i dropped out. el paso doesnt have a lot to offer by way of tolerance in education, especially in 1993. and for the record it was my art teacher at tech that recommended that i do my own thing. i cant even recall her name but she pulled me aside and said u dont belong here. that summer i went on my first tour playing drums in a band called foss and i have not stopped since then. you try keeping a flock of hormones in check

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

one mans disturbed is another mans coldplay

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

I would love to hear mexican kids revolt against all things US and UK. to revolt against all things narcocorrido to revolt against the blues, against electonica, etc etc. and i am sure that they are out there..somewhere, plotting,gestating,designing instruments out of the irrational sculptures of tesla coils, concrete walls with broken shardes of glass as teeth at the top. i guess my problem is that i will never find it at the festivals we play. but from what i have seen. mexico is like new york was in the 70s and 80s. now im just waiting for the musical realization of what i crave from such a beautiful place.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

i dont like plastilina mosh. alot of modern mexican rock music suffers from an identity crisis. its as if though there is a head shop in every corner of mexico selling nothing but american based counter culture music. i wish mexican music had a revolt much like germany did in the early 70s. if it doesn't sound like polka music then it sounds like bad american versions of the cure or rap metal. give me some old school torch song classics from the 30s and i will be happy. i have nothing but respect for mexican artists but they still sound american to me. personally i want to hear the sound of a foreign land that has not been tainted by anything american. sometimes i dont crave this as is evident in my love for 60s mexican psych rock. but it still sounds american.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

i am not a doors fan. i was when i was 15 0r 17 but after a while there music and its fetish became dull to me. i dont hate their music i just hate the inbreed mentality that a large portion of their audience holds. its border line jugaloo to me. that being said i do have a found memory of them growing up but when u start doing your homework on who came first well lets just say i prefer bands like LOVE and SPIRIT and especially THE MUSIC MACHINE

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@murdoc870715 no one lives there anymore and im sorry but we would not allow anybody to just drop by the studio, because it was a house that omar use to live in. much like our tour bus life it is private. who knows maybe by now it has been paved for a parking lot, which was the plans that the stupid ass landlord had for it

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

i have no opinion of casey chaos or his music. i dont listen to anything metal.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

yes ive heard of goblin and argento is a madman!!

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

my parents played fleetwood mac, rolling stones and in particular my dad played lots of buddy holly and chuck berry. my mom loved boy george and my first album was destroyer bu kiss, followed by duran duran and blizzard of oz, then came breakdancing (mostly herbie hancock and tour de france by kraftwerk, and the beat street soundtrack, then came motley crue shout at the devil, then came sex pistols, drunk injuns , social distortion, youth brigade,the faction,screaming sirens, minor threat, m.o.d, d.r.i, rythm pigs then i hit my death rock phase with 45 grave,christian death, the accused, siouxie,samhain,southern death cult, etc etc

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

yes ive played theremin live before but nver in a linear traditional way. in fact i threw my whole theremin set up into the audience at a show somewhere. imagine playing a fretless instrument, now imagine the fretless nature being open space. clara rockmore is a genius for being able to hit calculated notes with it. she sis on the theremin documentary. her story is a beautiful love story.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

yeah i usually make my little mini films with my iphone. not that much of a secret. not that much of what should be considered film either. i consider them rough sketches and glimpses into moments of my life on the road our at home. more to come soon from australia, hong kong ang and japan

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@eggiweggs....u should try listening to our music sober. its much more exciting that way. thank for even listening in the first place. i would never advice listening to our music while indulging in psychedelics. too much of an impending bad trip.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

portlandia =fred armisen drummer of one of my most favorite bands in the world trenchmouth !! who became the eternals. atdi opened for them in 95 and fred filmed atdi's performance at this aint no picnic in 2000.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@yeahfontaine of course we know buctherettes! omar produced and played bass on their album. jonathon who plays bass with them played 2nd bass on the cryptamnesia record. we know their drummer gabe from the locust. gabe and i just spent an hour geeking out over harry nilson and scott walker. teri is a fantastic performer and songwriter.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

the video part of youre making me invisible is from my trip to moscow. i filmed a holocaust monument while we were all walking around it. yeah its an i phone video, nothing serious just for fun.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

covert hostility=smiling through rotting teeth like a snake in the grass. if and when i do suffers fools gladly its only to show grace under pressure.its one of the reasons why i disable comment sections on all my uploads. if i feel someone is being a total colostomy bag ...then i will just empty their shit casket for them. this channel comes equipped with digital fabreeze and plunger. i opened up this page to rally the positive volta fans, to remind them that they are not alone, that at least the voice gives a fuck. what i dont care for is snobs. they were the very hurdle atdi had to fight against to get noticed. and now strangely they act like they care. i can spot the assholes from a mile away, careful with how you translate your affection for the band. living in LA long enough will do that to you.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

i pick damon's brain every once in a while and i always ask about trenchmouths days touring with brainiac and he always makes fantastic mixes to listen to as well.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@southgalltin at first this egg design which i personally call "a huevo !", was just something being made for a tour book but then WB mocked up some great versions of it on shirts and it always stuck out to me as eye candy. i see it as exactly as you say. the shedding of old skin. then again we still want to play some old favs even though we talked about no old ones. its ok to change your mind.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

rick rubins concertina version was never released simply because there wasn't anything special about it other than some arrangement changes and some vocal mistakes that he thought were cool mistakes. its floating around somewhere on some hard drive in a digital ghost world.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@the marsvo1ta your perception of the bubble around you called life seems to be a rather egotistical and snobby one. this is the very substance( or should say lack of ) that the "less money making " indie rock world produces. which is to say the very element that we never wanted to have anything thing to do with. if we did have a more mainstream audience we would be rolling in the moolah. which we are not. the time in which we were most succesfull was during our first 2 records( both having a deeply indie connection...yawn). my question to you is ...who are you to place your self in such a high and mighty category of artistic wealth? downgraded? yikes! you sound like hipster who makes you feel dumb for asking questions at a music store. your question is covertly hostile and you have missed the point of the band entirely. music is for everybody. even you or someone who likes linkin park.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@harleen666 to see you guys get excited made my night, so thank you for even caring ! its little moments like that remind me of how much the fans mean a great deal to us. you guys were a spiritual boost of energy for me. onstage I know you were there and I felt less intimidated by the new un-initiated people. thank you so much

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

this background design is just one of many things sonny kay and I manipulated for a t shirt design. available now at our WB merch site. we will have some pretty nice womens off the shoulder fleece sweat shirts that i think look pretty cool. then again thats just me. consider the next set of merch designs that will be coming out soon the last of this style. we will exploring a different look very soon.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@athousandhalfloves CONGRATS on your sobriety.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

if u dont know about nardwaur then i cant explain it you. there is actually nothing wrong with him, he happens to be into music is that really so strange? his band the evaporators put on one hell of a fucking show, atdi opened for them in 1999 and they blew us off the stage. who else can crowd surf with a farfisa organ and sell 8 tracks of their music while wearing plaid bell bottoms?

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

diamanda galas is royalty. she was a pleasure to work with at the festival. we sent her flowers when she played ucla a while back. she is the queen bee and no one can touch her.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

what does deantoni bring to the band? he is an artist, and furthermore he is the first real artist we have had as a drummer. everyone else who has contributed to our records are great drummers, but D is a great artist and tackles songs with one of the most unique ears i have ever had the pleasure of working with. when u are john cales main go to guy for drummers it says alot about your aesthetic and your ability to be a good listener. nothing but mad respect for all our past drummers but D is from a different planet.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@athousandhalfloves ive never really had a problem with dope. my poison was freebase,weed, and pills. kicking is easy when one of your band members dies from intravenous drug use, its a little catalyst called death that can truly inspire someone to stop. unfortunately. there are a number of places that can help. i dont believe in a AA or NA because those places have low success rates and emphasize drug addiction as a disease. in my humble opinion it is not a disease, it is a choice. so to answer your question you have to want to quit, which is a choice.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

@cantthinkverywell....yeah well what can i say a death in the band can kinda have that effect on people. who cares if we didnt smile. its called being in character.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

am currently listening to a track by the walker brothers called the electrician. it belongs in a lynch film. from an album called night flights.

lunarpower666 (7 months ago)

not offended by tool being mentioned in the same breath it just gets old and makes me wonder how far some fans are willing to go to break their comfort zone. metal music is just boring. god im getting sleepy just writing about it again. any fans of scott walker out there? porter wagnor? professor long hair? james blood ulmer? eric dolphy? dorthy ashby?joe meek? dusty springfield? diamanda galas?lisa suckdog?mia zapata? sonny sharock?ketty lester?terry lyn? teengenerate?slant 6? tiny tim? unwound? virgin prunes? xenakis? 16 horsepower? troublefunk? esg? nina hagen? amon dull? the monorchid? ronettes? Oumou sangare? grow up people there is a huge world outside of your silly metal training wheels. :-)

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

@ cantthinkvery well....i can tell the good ones. they are usually the ones with the sense of humor who have as much fun as we do and are not covertly hostile. i love our fans. even the dicksheads who hate on us, because it takes a lot of passion to even hate on us

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

september 27th zechs marquise will release their new album GETTING PAID on RLP

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

the volta twitter revolt sounds romantic and endearing. i doubt it will mean anything to a machine that deals with numbers but hey its worth a try.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

i have no singing tips for anybody. i made the mistake in the past with trying to make suggestions but everyones voice is different and how could you ask someone who's performances are inconsistent?

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

for the record i dont hate muse. i have nothing but respect for all fellow touring musicians. does it mean i like their music? who cares. does anybody else like their music? who cares? all i do know is metal music comes in many shapes and sizes, so the real question is....who has the balls to ask for more from their music, and who has the balls to grow out of their teenage comfort zone. you might as well ask me if i enjoy twillight or true blood.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

if there is anybody else wanting to use tool as some sort of comparison or mention.... all i can ask is please dont, its highly remedial if not border line idiotic to mention us in the same breath as them. we do our thing they do their thing. besides it shows the boring metal head side of your musical taste and lets be honest metal is some boring music. i dont care how u dress it up complicated,simple,trance,clas003cwbr003e0026shy;sic, whatever. its still a awooky dragging its knuckles through the golden arches of fast food harmones that tend to overwhelm young men. god i get sleepy just typing about it.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

*known for

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

visuals...like hand gestures and shadow puppetry? yes back drops and the usual thing we are none for? who knows. its in our best interest to not repeat ourselves and to keep everything low budget, so that we can make money. just a band and their spirit.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

if i told u how i made my videos then it would take half the fun of it away. its kinda of obvious

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

AEGIS is and the other is called THE MALKIN JEWEL pronounced like walkin.....after midnight....searching for my baby.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

@supaducko I WOULD SUGGEST NOT EXPLORING AGGRESSIVE SINGING. here is why, and mind u , u do what u gotta do. that shit has been played out for over 20 years. we dont need another aggro sounding voice. find yourself and what works for you. harmones are confusing enough as it is dont let your art suffer from it. now tibetan or siberian throat singing hmmmm, no ones made that a mainstream attempt. just a thought.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

actually its called TRINKETS PALE OF MOON.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

thats not what i diss about it. i diss my inability to stay consistent inperformance and my lack of discipline when it comes to maintaining it during years off. weather conditions dont always help but it all falls back on me. do i want to grunt uncontrollably due to moving around to give into the spirit which helps blow my voice or do i just stand still and make it sound like the record. i always opt for the performance. but hey people have muse. they seem to be perfect. but not me i am human

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

chris martin? met him during "yellow" period while touring w atdi. spent some time with them during big day out. actually have dug up a lot of photos of those guys hanging around back then. they were very nice people.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

spinetta is great

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

if you want ot check the helsinki preshow playlist go to the podcast section of the digital store available through finders keepers record and no that was not a remix of the healer by badu it was the original. they dont list the names so u have to hunt and decide what u like for yourself. and i cant remember for the life of me but its a japanese track with lots of screaming and little kid vocals.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

my guilty pleasure is U2. krautrock roots and the ability to communicate straight forward to the point music that always makes me feel like it was the last day of school. one of the only bands that has the ability to make a gigantic venue feel like a personalized one on one feeling of uplifting power. i could give a fuck less how lame i am for admitting this.

lunarpower666 (8 months ago)

rapped a bit with kim from SG. very nice guy. he was pushing for atdi to open up the SG shows but he was happy to get TMV. cornell was very nice to me after first gig. crowds look a bit stunned but thats the point isn't it? preaching to the converted tends to make u complacent. i love a good challenge. no one is mean spirited like a RATM crowd can be. harmones are a hell of an obstacle, thats why teachers are the real rock stars especially the ones who are good listeners and good communicators.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

important generational how to music documentary manuals for the improvement of one's musical taste: nuestra cosa(our latin thing), decline of the western civilization(the punk one),another state of mind,the pistols doc by julien temple,the krautrock docs by channel 4 bbc(check my playlist) synth brittania by channel 4 bbc,ladies and gentleman the fabulous stains, we jam econo...the minitemen doc,anything u can find on youtube regarding the court battle between negativeland and u2, give me shelter, any strummer or clash doc,instrument,friends forever, the power of salad,your breaking my heart, urgh amusic war, and an athens georgia doc that i cant remember featuring the flat duo jets. maybe its called athens?

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

@ drumsurf 7 maybe maximum rock n roll still exists. if they do get a copy of book your own life and use the net to be as frugal and effecient as possible. go out there. eat shit. play to no one. set up your grass roots campaign. bring a novelty item to sell at your merch table in case your shit dont sell ( like wrestling masks...they are cheap in juarez or tiajuana or on line ) and work that underground railroad like if tomorrow was earths last day. until everyone has the name of your band on the tip of their fucking tongues. wether it be them saying your band name in good or bad context...make them talk about you that is key. make the name of your band be the word that turns flesh.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

no i dont think tool play caveman music but their fans sure act like it. im not really interested in their music but i also have nothing but immense respect and admiration for what they do

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

@taylorwmell actually credit should be given to people like primal scream, the make up, brian eno, and the edge for the resurgence of interest in all things krautrock. also lets not forget a little indie label that still exists called thrill jockey that houses bands like trans am who were the first to re introduce any of that influence well before 2001. the first 7 inches of the make up even have that can delay malcom mooney sound and radiohead was covering can during ok computer. and as far as tmv turning anyone onto it...that would be jeremy ward and omar turning on our fans.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

@vac you are as blank as a fart

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

i hope so. its a horrible stain on their legacy. they are responsible for 80% of modern day aggressive music. in every form !

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

the big boys and MDC are the reason why bad brains showed their true jock like colors in the early 80s. story goes something like big boys scoring a bag of weed that bad brains didnt pay for after they found out members of big boys were gay. they trashed their house and spray painted homophobic slogans on the wall and remained to this day, like most rastas, gay bashers. love bad brains music cant stand their message. what good is a positive mental attitude if you can't be tolerant of others? i mention MDC because HR could not believe that dave the singer was gay. check the bad brains lyrics for dont blow no bubbles off the quickness album. shameful and ignorant.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

i own a pretty huge old school mint condition early,mid and late 80s skateboard collection. hosois,salbas,mostly all zorlac metallica decks,a couple of gonz's,a whole bunch of alvas,tons of bones brigade era powell peraltas,etc etc. in my zorlac section i have a purple mint condition BIG BOYS siamese twin baby skeleton design that i am very proud of. my entire collection as on display at a skate shop called STREETS OF VENICE in the foxboro mall close to the santa monica area part of town in LA it is run and operated by the singer of old school skate rock legends EXCEL. his name is daniel. he rules and his collection is intertwined with mine in what looks like a giant skate gallery complete with mini ramp for the gromits to hit during the day. check it fools!!

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

sentimental engine slayer should set for release through sargent house\/RLP on dvd very soon.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

atdi experienced a lot of shitty competition from bands and bands are usually out to try and one up you instead of bond. but at the same time i miss the true friendships u can strike up with bands who u wouldnt figure as a friend. example MURDER CITY FUCKING DEVILS....I MISS THEM SO MUCH they watched everything happen to us ( atdi ) from playing to nobody to english tv shows to breaking up.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

batteles opened up for volta in japan once. i didnt even want to show my face afterwards. they blew us out of the fucking water, and of course i am bummed about tyondai leaving but i also can understand and embrace the change.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

check out the chase by giorgio moroder from the midnight express soundtrack. that is the birth of techno.....good techno. try some psychic tv. they are less hipster glow stick and more crowley by way of manson techno.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

i dont remember talking about a defacto album in colombia but maybe it was just said as a thought about a project to work on? nothing has been done about this. we all miss jeremy a lot, and we don't know if it would be a good idea to do it with out him. maybe we will...but its all up in the air.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

would love to play wales ! the welsh are cool people.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

sorry cant stand the riverdales and screeching weasal, id rather listen to the ramones. i dont consider that power pop. BADFINGER,BIG STAR,RASPBERRIES,MILK N COOKIES, THE SWEET, CHEAP TRICK,SLADE, that to me is power pop. the other groups that are on lookout are just 90s pop punk.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

CROATIA - i dont know why we have not gone back there? we have switched booking agents a couple of times so maybe there is red tape with the payment and venue capabilities. i would would love to play there again. there are always a lot of politics and red tape behind touring. so we will try and make it there again. last time we came there it was easier to do.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

good morning people!! so many questions to be answered, please dont get your feelings hurt if i dont remember to answer all, its a lot. i will say it is awesome that anybody even fucking cares. so thank you. i will say this if i dont like the way you pose your questions, because a lot of you ( NOT ALL ) seem to confuse personal taste with fact, and ask questions in the form of an insults..... i will simply block you. my channel, my rules, i can do what ever the fuck i want on here, there are a grip of nattering,griping message boards u can participate. this channel is meant for positive dialogue about music. play nice, watch how you ask your question, and try not to confuse personal taste with fact or interpretation. i like nice people not people who are unsatisfied with their own lives and put it on me or the music. i am only a dick if you are an asshole, you could be creating instead.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

not really a fan off anti flag. i dig some OFF ! but thats about it.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

@festin you couldn't be more wrong. i would have to earn that before i promote that, but thank you for your low tone sarcastic attempt at belittling and invalidating me......its the mark of a truly impotent person. on all levels. opinions are awesome, but somewhere along the lines mom and dad forgot to teach the difference between enforcing personal taste with truth. trying to keep someone at your level....no thanks. and when i say clear i mean void of color. when i say bubble wrap im talking about that stuff thats fun to pop.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

one of my favorite texas hardcore bands from the 80s is the FEARLESS IRANIANS FROM HELL. a bunch of stoner iranian kids living in san antonio texas playing up the whole reaganomics era cold war rhetoric via americas dislike of all things ayatollah. my favorite track is BLOW UP THE EMBASSY !!!

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

of course henry cow is in my staple diet. since deloused.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

hopefully u understand that a" bleached hair omar german prostitute" is just a joke i came up with for the content. their werent very many character options on xnormal sites for some who looked like omar. ever since the first two records, volta fans seem to be a little to serious.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

renne fleming was going to change the lyric cuz she thought it painted women in a bad light. we share the same management. i wrote her a long explanation about how it was a call to arms for the notion that women should be seen not heard and how many of the attitudes prevalent during salem still run true to today. long story short she kept the "devil daughters" part and she did a great job. she has a young girl and was concerned about her interpretation as well. she ruled it.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

i know blowfly ! i was supposed to play guitar with him live last time we were on big day out together but he was clear across the other side of the festival and went on right as we did. i was going to play on a stooges cover of now i wanna be your dog that he changed to now i wanna fuck your wife...it was a bush dedication. nice guy. big coke finger nail. ikey did play in a hastily assembled LBC version of his band in 2003 i believe. very interesting story. ikey also played with shuggie otis at the el rey around the same time

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

it is an applied religious philosophy. i apply it in my life, so yes i take it seriously. since applying the tech i learn from scientology, my life has made a turn for the better., and gets better with every day. i only ask that people be tolerant and respectful of my choices. so thanks for being descent about it. there are a lot of little assholes on here who would love for me to be the same 2003 cedric. im happier than i have ever been in my entire life, and that stems from the application of scientology's philosophy to my every day life. when my band members are pulling me aside and saying how wonderful it is to have me back and smiling and joking and performing with pure spirit, it's because of scientology.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

thanks marble shrine. shrine on you marble diamond.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

yes we were shit talking on the nadwuar interview and if u look at the early comments on here you will see how wrong i was for doing so. so you are a little late on that one.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

viscera eyes video was just thrown away. baphomets was also filmed. just a sort of performance piece. if you are need of watching anything close to it then just watch the rollins show version of both songs its exactly where the videos were headed minus any other things omar was going to add.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

we always tour for every album.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

that would make volta the taint of atlantis.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

good looking out rubtank. just inquired about it. god i hate that shit

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

peter fucking dinklage !!!!!

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

deaf con of angora goats was just one of the more non sensical ramblings from using that pesky little ouija. i suppose my infatuation with global thermal nuclear war and ed wood made for a rather funny spelling of words in the ouija's alphabet. maybe a rogue gang of transgender b movie directors was roaming the battle fields in some distant post apocalyptic setting, frantically stroking the soft plush material of his or her angora sweater..... where our defence rating had gone from defcon 4 to a deaf con of angora goats. its a really just word play and im just showing my natural inclination to go all captain beef heart with my lyrics. its best to just embrace the non sensical invocation of word play... i mean fuck what the fuck does i am the walrus koo koo kachoo mean? beats me....but i can't stop singing it, and thats what counts the most.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

classical music is great. honestly not well versed in composers but what i do like is stravinsky and i especially love stuff like bartok and xenakis but i dont know if xenakis is considered classical.

lunarpower666 (9 months ago)

2 cabritox you are missing the book that came with it. if my memory serves me right, i had not finished the story when the album came out so when it did come out it was sent to people who were waiting on a list? some later copies came with the story. in the introduction parts of the different chapters(songs) are the lyrics. sargent house and RLP have been working lately to re issue all the vinyl. i dont know when they will be ready. but hopefully soon. storm also designed the layout for the story. i do not plan on releasing the story again as i think i failed miserably at it and i am very ashamed at the final thing. took me a long time to write that fucking thing...only for it to end being a 3 rd raid scifi book of leaves. people ask me to sign copies and i am thinking of just releasing the lyrics when the vinyl does come out.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

www.ronandersonvocals.com

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@yeahfontaine ....let the right one in(the swedish original version), what just happened,the burning plane,winters bone, and maybe apocalypse now followed by the hearts of darkness documentary( that gives great insight !!!to apocalypse now!) shit have an entire coppola week. the conversation is one of my all time favorite films, especially for showcasing the sound aspect of film making. wild at heart will blow your fucking kids away! and if you want to cover the history of gay cinema start off with cruising...it single handedly destroyed al pacinos career and was ages before broke back mountain ever even decided to tread safe roads that pacino broke the mold for. cruising is pretty hardcore and the germs are on the soundtrack! my best fiend shows hertzog at his most punk rock self and shows the vile relationship between him and kinski and is a must.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

waiting for my flip to render the vatonegro performance from the pasajero club from a while back. warning the sounds sucks but the lights and enthusiasm of the mexican audience should teach all fans about energy exchange.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes the video for since we've been wrong is the inside of the tracking room of the zapopan house. just one of the many rooms in that fantastic house. it was filled with spiders and could house about 15 of us if needed. that is the same room that we threw down the music and concept for ruffalos movie sympathy for delicious.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

early morning coffee gang, vias,french presses,roaming ghost towns in search of clean bathrooms to destroy all day,photo ops,video ops, being in a club atmosphere 24-7,clutters of backpacks,the smell of unwashed bar rags and bar mops,nice promoters,shitty promoters,awesome runners,idiot runners,the endless hum of the tour bunk womb as it rolls into an empty flying j riddled with lot lizards wearing shirts with lighting bolts and wolves,overflowing trash cans,tour bus urinals that smell like the entrance of chicos tacos,bad breath,stockholm syndrome,crate digging at record shops,enduring long pointless conversations with drunk people,cell phone and skype sessions that cut out every 2 seconds. i love it

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

a day in the life on tour is the unglorified part that more up and coming bands need to embrace. full 8 hour sleep cycles, movie watching, stretching, sound checks long long drives,hostile locals,nice fans,obsessive fans,fans who don't look like they would be fans,and asshole suppressive drunks and haters, people who want you to say hi to complete strangers on their cell phones,personal space line steppers,shitty food,great food,endless stretches of highway,blistering colds,whole foods market shopping sprees,midnight cereal club, cont-

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

not for recreational use but yes there are some drugs that are beneficial. but i dont think psych drugs or recreational drugs have any use.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

for digital indian instruments go to radelindia.com

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@ ajd0s7 i know i will sound like a parent and an absolute hypocrite but smoking weed doesnt not offer anything by way of creativity. you yourself are the sole creator. don't let the hype fool you weed is just an expensive way to be lazy. yes it is horrible for your throat and it just because you are young doesn't make it beneficial in ANY creative way. give yourself some credit as a being. you are bigger and better than that. contrary to what the people around you claim, you would be a lot cooler if you did not smoke pot.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

will be assembling a video for zechs marquise that i shot on my phone. maybe i will post flip cam videos too.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@brandon311unity i stopped smoking weed and confronted the prison of my body. it has reconditioned the steering wheel that is my mind and what you are listening to is my spirit's true voice celebrating freedom. i wake up by 10;00 am and drink plenty of water and do vocal warm ups (usually at 5 0r 6 and after show 5 to 10 min warm downs. i eat food that has stronger protein than that of a vegan diet(turkey,fish,meat or egg whites), take lots of vitamins, cut off soda (on tour), and force my self to sleep a full eight hours every day, drink penta water, and i NOW religiously make the club or stage as humid and hot as possible. its a mental change really as ive always followed this discipline ever since frances the mute. ron anderson is my teacher.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

love me some remedios varo, i mean come on! a womens pesrpective and touch in the surrealist movement is such a breath of fresh air. her shit is truly unique.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

LIARS are untouchable. true future punk that doesnt really on that god awful gang of four clone band disco beat. god i hate that beat. lazy dance beat for people who cant dance. listen to the beat on death disco by P.i.L. it was cool for one song by them but a huge wave of bands have embraced this beat and made a shitty genre out of it.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

if we dont add more dates on this leg there will be more to come on other legs. touring is were we make the bulk of our living so we will be through all necks of the woods

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

digital tabla machines are like drum machines for tablas. the helicopter sound on cicatriz before a chorus kicks in is what it sounds like as well as my solo joint live private booths. its the rythmic tablas layered in back of drums. search under RAADEL they make everything from tambora drone machines,tabla machines and electric sitars. the tabla machines have a multitude of settings that are not western friendly hence the great twists and turns u can learn while playing along to it through a pa or amp. hours of fun

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

listening to new zechs marquise record. so proud of those guys!!!

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

no i will look out for it.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes it was. a lot of writing happened there.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

spent all day whipping up t shirt designs for our upcoming euro,puerto rican tour. very gentleman broncos.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i dont remember having a necklace with a star but i have a hankering for some digital sitar, by raadel...the best makers of all digital indian instruments. such nice people. run by a small family. go to RAADEL web site you will be blown away. DRUMMER HINT**** digital tabla machines build great sense of timing and make you play beats u didnt think you could play before.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i dont feel objectified. i have too big of a mouth and too unpredictable of a personality to be objectified. i tend to open my mouth and ruin any kind of attraction ANYBODY has towards me. i dont know about god like. come on give me a break. any one who thinks that is just not well read or well edu-ma-cated musically to consider me even relevant enough for that. im just trying to shake it up a bit in my own small way. im just extremely lucky that there is an audience. my postulates are powered by sheer will and tenacity. i hit more bum notes then i do good ones and im just trying to make any live experience a memorable one.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

hate all you want, but that is an ideal family. not perfect,not flawless, not better than you or i...but undeniably ideal in that a being is a being no matter what form the vessel comes in and the validation and severing of the archaic ritual of fear becomes alien if not criminal when it comes child development.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

of course my parents were scared for my life postulate that i declared at the age of 5. this is why i am so found of someone like willow smith and her parents. and yes for me i like her music because i can see myself in her. that was me at age 5. hate all you want cuz i am painfully aware of the snobbery that exists in the tastes of many of these subscribers. imagine if everyones parents took their little beings as serious as if they were adults. my mission is to give willow smith albums by kate bush,betty davis,edith piaf,kathleen hanna,laurie anderson,celia cruz,suzie quatro,sugarcubes,diamanda galas,emmy lou harris,selda, etc etc. and to let the seeds take root in her already varied taste.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

only time i kept a journal was during atdi's first tour. i just found it. it renders me an asshole of the highest order. what can you do? i dont keep a journal now due to the fact that i believe my mind to be an easily accessible memory bank that when tapped into correctly can give u total recall from multiple angles. its what i have been doing lately to recall and erase the negative charges of past traumatic experiences.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

last night i woke up and thought to myself i have forgot to mention my most prized album of all time in my egocentric and inferior list of prized vinyl. this award goes to my heavily scratched copy of FLOWERS OF ROMANCE by P.i.L. this is a drummers record! unless maybe u are some sort of prog fusion nazi who colors inside the lines, or maybe u are some mild mannered rodent that subscribes to the audio stereotype of your gender, ....then yes u will probably hate it! the whole thing is pure bliss. please make this a part of your life if u haven't already as i am painfully aware that a lot of u all have heard it already. if not give it a chance, its not an instant immediate pleasure but it will make sense with age and repetition. until then KEEP BANGING THE DRUM!!!!!

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@gliebhard watch the movie called another state of mind. it was my bible and my blueprint for how i did everything. it shows the real side of being in a band and why u should do it. never mind the style of music being played but absorb its message. when you you've learned what you can from it, unlearn and apply it to your life the way luke fucking skywalker applies the mufuckin force blindfolded in the mellenium falcon. feel it youngblood

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

. TIP YOUR FOOD INDUSTRY SERVANTS, THEY ARE PROBABLY GOING TO MEMBERS OF YOUR NEXT FAVORITE BAND

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

if u have to ask what is was like working a shit job in order to support a dream then you really need stop living with mom and dad and put your naive asses out there and work a shit job. THE FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY IS WHERE YOU GO TO GROW AND SHARPEN FANGS. YOU SHOULD TRY IT SOMETIME IT BUILDS CHARACTER AND IS A CRASH COURSE IN LIFE. i am well aware that there are heavier jobs to take but that is where a good live show can be born. especially when half the assholes u serve are little dickheads who go to shows and live with mom and dad and laugh at you behind your back while sing along to your music when you hit the stage.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

and luckily unlike my other jobs i didnt have to quit every time a tour came up. you have to work shit jobs to at least pay for gas and tons of shirts to screen yourself and food. i really wonder about you guys sometimes. i was a pretty damn good waiter too. i could handle an entire late night rush on my own after a de la joya fight while jugalling 2 20 tops,14 booths and 7 reg filled tables. i made fucking bank cuz the little pussy ass high school kids would always want to leave when it was dead. i would send them home write when it was dead then wait for the rush.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes of course i had to take a day job. what do you really think i magically appeared in a tour bus or in a van with an instant audience. how do u think i survived after a tour of playing to 5 people every night?do u think it ended with me just sitting around hoping my dream would come true? if rollins and mckaye worked at haag n fucking daas during early DC hardcore days then what do u think i was doing. i worked telemarketing,and waited tables and worked at carwashes. the main thing that i did was wait tables. at carrows in el paso. its where i wrote most of my atdi lyrics for incasinoout

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

well seabab its quite simple. i changed the lyrics to fit the tone of how i was feeling at that moment.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i will try and put together a movie list for the teacher who has attained cart blanche for her cinema curriculum. but as a starter show your kids RUMBLEFISH it should change their lives. it changed mine. THE MOTORCYCLE BOY REIGNS !!!!

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@somethingohmy yes i have a somewhat r n b influence and its something im trying to get away from but old habits die hard. wilson pickett,particularly when he sang i found a love with the falcons,and solomon burke, screaming jay hawkins and tons of parliament can be heard in what i do. i dont really think i do a good job of channeling that influence as i must come off like piss poor blue eyed soul, but hey i am trying. hopefully i can channel my inner damo suzuki (ie glossolalic improvisations\/invocations) im also a big fan of the soul punk band from detroit called DEATH. they are the cats claws.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

foltanson.....just relax

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

7. kate bush hounds of love 8.scott walker scott4 9.dr.john gris gris 10.centipede septober energy 11.the leaving trains -transportational D. vices 12.wipers youth of america 13.sonny sharrock black women 14.yoko ono approximately infinite universe 15.butthole surfers double live record

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

my most prized vinyl records 1.leonard nemoy a touch of leonard nemoy 2.the monks monk time 3.braniac bonsai superstar 4.camper von beethoven the album featuring 'take the skinheads bowling' 5.karoshi cubase rocks 6.ornette coleman twins

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

defacto years were fun. it was fun because we saw how divided it made atdi fans. it was an indication as to who would dig volta. we made a lot of allies and enemies by simply being in that band.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

more insight into the stories behind ampu? hmm watch the believers,lucifer from vertigo comics,everything is illuminated(the movie) because thats just some of what we were ingesting during the making of it

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i dont remember getting octahedron from a graphic novel but i do know that tangerine dream has an album with the same title. my bad

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

im sorry we give u that prog vibe. it sounds so limiting and one dimensional. we will try harder so that you can utilize an entire sentence to describe us rather than a one word category. and no i am not a fan of porcupine tree. just not my cup of tee. thanks for interest in what we do.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

well aware of the gas lamp killer and the burial collabs with york. gaslamp killer opened for us at the echo in LA before we did the SF NYE SHOW a while ago.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

asfar as the soundgarden dates go we dont control that and we are not the only choice for openers. some dates have the meat puppets and queens of the stone age some have us. its schedules and variety choices on their part thats all. if i have a personal lack of affinity for a crowd or place to play, it doesnt mean we will stop playing it. just look at arizona. i have every reason to not like playing there, but we still play it. if ever there is a time we dont play somewhere it is because of the red tape behind payment,schedules, managerial agendas,etc etc etc. sometimes people think the most craziest reasons as to why we dont play somewhere.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i've never had throat surgery, and the way i sound on bedlam? u mean the effects or singing as high as i do? if you notice i dont sing high on every thing i do. i try and pace myself. there was the use of frusciante's modular synths on the vocals but i would say that it was a stylistic choice. when every bodies instrument is battling to be heard in the same frequency it is my natural inclination to sing high to hear pitch and to be heard above the music and busy drums and effects. hence us still being a pop band with vocals. albeit a different style of what is defined as pop but none the less pop.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

thanks juan. cant stop wont stop bad boy

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

sometimes in LA only a low end theory crowd can appreciate shifting from electronic,to afro beat, to hip hop, to obscure psych rock. i tried it last night in a different settings but them motherfuckers were stiff corpses who wanted to hear yes and stooges before a loud rock band came onstage. zombie fake ass wanna be bohemian hipsters. it took the real hippies(all but 3)to come in and let their freak flags fly. and i thank them.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

big ups to the low end theory ! LA's best music night !!!

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

playing some tunes tonight at harvard and stone5221 hollywood blvd in LA the rival suns will be performing as well. i will be playing tons of afrobeat,turkish psyche,indian funk and just some down right fuzzy exotic psychedelic dance music from the 70s. come one come all.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i dont know when the hells kitchen that my wife and i attended will air. perhaps next season jon theodore on an omar recording is probably just old stufff but i did talk with jon at that LA vatonegro show a year ago. omar and i were supposed to do a madlib collaboration about 2 years ago but volta got in the way. maybe we will try again. that inner city teacher is a talented friend of mine named BONA FIDE ROJAS from the south bronx. he is always at nyc shows. omars dad is a true maestro, he played bongos on chanbarra by atdi, and watching guy piccioto(fugazi) play with vic chestnutt in france with members of godspeed in the band was priceless.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i dont remember what we played at abbey road, could have been only 2 songs. i got to do vocal warm ups in a room overlooking where floyd recorded and went in and gazed in awe at the room where the pretty things made SF sorrow and the room that floyd made piper at the gates of dawn. that was success in and of itself.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

any vocal questions should be directed at ron anderson. look him up.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

people with computers can make soulful music too. careful you might start sounding a bit dated. a grip of krautrock music was created with computers and there in lies the soul of the manipulation of that instrument. computers dont play music, humans do. it takes just as much skill and soul to make computer based music. volta uses computers to make music too. ever since deloused there have been computers used to help achieve sounds that could never have happened with only "normal" instruments. it's all relevant and all connected.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@seba let me put it this way a big chunk of the solo record has been put away for the time being as they might be used for something completely left field. ive decided to use the best ones for something in 2012. these are tracks that deantoni made that i was assembling people for. i will take the leftovers and build with them at the foundation and add stuff that thavius beck has made for me too.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

sounds like culotorium gossip

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

ORLG american tour is now officially done. it was the most fun i have had in a long time. playing with zechs marquise was such a pleasure. we will resume in one month.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

our font comes the manipulation of cambodian writing. sonny came up with it. he kept the ones that looked remotely english the same and the rest is history

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

the remedial 1st time around the volta block question list 1.where's flea 2.where's john frusciante, do u have sleep overs at his house? 3.whats it like working with rick rubin? 4.who killed jimmy hoffa? 5.will you ever record another song like" "? 6.why did you cut your hair? 7. will alister crowley play guitar on the new record? 8.is mars volta ribbed for her pleasure? 9.check this metal band out...do you like tool? 10.was hitler misunderstood or just a graduate of Devry?

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

I can appreciate the questions that you guys throw at me. here is a list of questions that you dont need to ask me about because they have been asked a million times before or the answer is located in the above playlists (for the huevones who cant think outside the box, i love u guys bet seriously come on..... list continued-

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

ANY AND ALL MUSIC.MOVIE,BOOK,CLOTHING,DANC003cwbr003e0026shy;ING,SKATING RECOMMENDATIONS CAN BE SEEN ON MY PLAYLISTS.DONT BE LAZY. WATCH THEM THATS WHAT THEY ARE THERE FOR. ITS A SMALL GLIMPSE INTO ME AND WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH CRY AND LIVE TO DO WHAT I DO. IF YOU GOT TIME ON YOUR HANDS LET THEM PLAY FROM START TO FINISH LIKE A TV CHANNEL.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

my least favorite recording i was involved in was everything in atdi up until in casino out(and im still very shy about that stuff) but to me vaya was the hint of were we should have gone.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@seababa im glad u like and barely found that song. but why would we need to make another rockish thing like that one when palpatations all ready exists? sounds like flogging a dead horse which at times we have done but you learn and move forward.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@detachablepenis...thats why we dont play that much old material, because while you were not digging it and afraid of it we were driving the point into the ground and got tired of it. so by the time you came around it was gone. ive gone through the same phase when i was 14 and 15, luckily for me the band i was in at the time made me listen to EVERYTHING and i mean everything from astor piazzola to steven jesse bernstien to the flat duo jets and sade. that for me was punk. a heavy library of variation that was on constant shuffle.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

would love side shows in australia. dont know if they are set up yet or if festival promoter has a rule in his contract that forbids side shows. big day doesnt because big day are the promoters. its less money for the australian promoters if they havent organized side events because then they dont make money. think of it his way for everyone of your ideas there a million other people who feel the same way. its not up to me im just showing you how a machine thinks. i dont blame you for not wanting to pay that money for one band you like.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

no real affinity for crowley in my neck of the woods, and mind you my past work is exactly that work from someone who was in a different mind set. i cant be held accountable for the state that my mind was in 2 or 3 or 4 years ago because ive changed. he is an interesting pop figure in pop culture who possibly had his finger on the right pulse but used it for selfish reasons. maybe he was interested in helping the betterment of humans but he sure when about doing it in some depraved ways that dont seem appropriate for any human to have to through. maybe he is only interesting because he has so much darkness surrounding him. all teenage boys and early twenty somethings are attracted to that which is not good for them. it has a rebellious and seductive flair to it but thats all. its more destructive than constructive.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

fully aware of nels cline, since atdi when we played a festival that he was in called this aint no pick nick. thank you and yes the orchestra polyrythmo has been on rotation on my ipods and turntables for a while now

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

there are many posts about an argentinian show happening and all i can say is check the main websites for real dates if i dont announce them on here or if they are not posted up there then it aint happening

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i dont listen to thursday of thrice, im 36 and that would be going backwards for me. no offense im sure they sound different now and all and their singer personally helped atdi during tours im just not into any of that stuff. all that stuff is a bad reminder of how the 90s were so straight when it came to anything from the HC family tree which i was NEVER a part of. just cuz we played those shows doesn't mean we were ever excepted or part of it. it took that crowd a good 3 years to figure us out and it wasnt hard to figure out. to me its short hair metal music. sorry i cant get with it, i dont like that kind of stuff. but if thats what you like cool. i would suggest giving that stuff a break. check out waxpoetics.com

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

bourdain co wrote the season premiere episode for 2011 treme. i highly suggest this show to all musicians.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

geez last meal? some ethiopian food is great, but maybe something simple and comforting like corndogs or something vegan...yeah i'll stick with my last meal being something vegan...something from veggie wokery just outside of long beach off the 605. probably the orange sliced meat. if its my death meal then all that gluten will chill me out and not make me give a fuck. anthony bourdain is sick he even writes for the HBO show called TREME. its one of my fav shows. i know im not really getting the dirt about nola from a tv show,but it sure feels close. watching that show makes my heart heavy for those folks. its from the same guy that did the wire.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

first evil dead flick is hilarious never saw the others

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

your gonna miss me is heart breaking and just goes to show the power psyche drugs have on our society. now all you have to do to be treated like that show a little human emotion when your young. is the"final solution" to the human condition ritalin,prozac,simbalta? imagine roky had gotten away and wasn't reduced to brutality he faced. bless his soul. the lyrics to bloody hammer say it all, same goes for the life of frances farmer.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

cont-.......learning that the reason scream cancelled the show that my band phantasmagoria was opening for, was because the drummer quit to join some silly band called nirvana, watching delta 72 in a raquet ball court, watching night music and night flight in the middle of the night for my visual music fix, waering my hair in liberty spikes and getting in fights with chilangos and cheros at el paso high, being asked to sing for phantasmagoria when i was 15.....those are some nice 90s memories

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

opening up for archers of loaf at tramps in 98 with atdi, going to golden scissors custom tailor shop in el paso on mesa and arguing with the owner about pegging my pants into high water tightness, walking into a record store in long beach and not being able to sell a copy of alfaro vive carajo for food because the store was filled with wall to wall riverdales 7 inches, waiting outside a bar in LA in 95 then playing to 9 people(all flipside staff and the drummer of mudhoney...the day we first got signed to a label), listening to circus lupus fresh from a dischord mail order in my room, ...cont-

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

when nevermind first came i thought it was cool. my first inclination was not to buy it but to buy their first record and go from there. so i loved bleach. negative creep is great. went to see them during in utero tour in new mexico when jawbreaker was opening up. low and behold pat smear was on second guitar and i felt like i was the only one in the audience who knew. probably not but damn i love me some germs. flash forward to the end of frances and omar is presenting the album after a dinner at fleas house to pat and flea. i could give a shit less about a grammy. the fact that one of the fucking germs wanted to listen to our band was success enough in my book.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

in atdi all of us wrote music.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

lydia lunch is a great spoken word artist. she keeps trying to get me to do a run spoken pieces but im a about baby steps

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes volta is playing the forum with soundgarden. should be a blast!!

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

frusciante is not on the new record and i dont know what he is up to? all i know is he made some super over the top electronic record that is mind blowing.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

just got back from a hells kitchen tv show taping. i sat very close to the kitchen with my wife and some friends. we ate from the blue team (men!men! hahaha) sorry to disappoint all the vegans but i had the scallops,the beef wellington, and the creme brule (white peoples version of flan hahaha!) it was great and the staff of servers were volta fans. gordon ramsey kicked and screamed and kicked a cook out of the kitchen and it was everything i could have hoped for, very very fun evening. we were cheering for this one cook who had a grip of tatoos all around his neck who looked like a hardcore kid named tommy? he ruled it! tomorrow texas, and soon i will be making it my mission to meet roky erickson at the psyche fest in austin see u there!!!

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes adam and i collaborated on a track and it will come out soon

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

big day out and ATP are examples of how its done right

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes there is an apprehension to playing festivals because they are set by people that are not artists. you are unconnected to the audience, surrounded by cave man facilities,awful food,poor sound, dehydrated and hungover meat heads working security, early time slots that are just fucking insulting, horrid weather conditions, and zombie weekend warrior audiences. so why do them? because the money is good. these promoters know they suck at setting it up and only set it up according to how fat their pockets get thats why they pay well cuz they know it sucks for you play these SHITSTiVALS only a handful of festivals know how to do it right.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

man eva is a fantastic bass player. she now plays with Pink. her father was in the (uk)birds and was also the bass player for legendary mod garage rock band the creation. i believe that is his pink bass she was always playing. she is a ethnomusicology major and specializes in playing the gamalan. our first euro tour was sort of the kind of tour that was a personality test to see who would stay and who wouldn't. it was never planned that way but looking back it, it worked out that way. she is a monster of a bass player and its unfortunate that our personalities were not a good fit for each other. last time i saw her i was having to explain jeremy's death but i have not seen her in ages. she is a cross between donald duck dunn and john wetton.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

see u in france soon dont know when but we always come back to france.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

hispanic poet? hmmm....in search of duende was giving o me by some fan once. by lorca. its great. i also know this amazing spoken word artist from NYC who is a teacher named bona fide rojas who is latino. he made an appearance on def poetry jam once and i got really choked up by him. i see him all the time at every gig out there in nyc and man he is a true inspiration.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

ive heard many a great and bad thing about enter the void. i hear from avid DMT devotees that its bulshit and then i hear from other people that it is really great. didnt he make that wonderful first date movie "irreversible" i loved that movie. it gave me anxiety.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@jefecito breath bro its called a sense of humor. i cant expect all volta fans to have understood the concept of sarcasm and irony but for christs sake relax. look at the question your asking do u really want to me to answer that shit?

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

the lyric at the end of rapid fire goes like this "hey axel foley, show me your chode please....i realy want it now !"

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

the music on desolate lashes is one of krautrocks finest, hans jaochim rodelius. watch the bbc channel 4 kraut rock documentary on my playlists, (it shows some great footage of him and the whole movement)unfortunately the final part is missing the audio cuz of copyright shit. also watch the synth brittania one to see the spawning of rodelius's ides...or should i say what became new wave

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

we have enough roadies as is and we have down sized to one. maybe one more but that's it. lean and mean.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

the name volta is just a term that fellini used as in new scene or change. there is no uses looking for the exact page from the exact book. the reason we choose it what should be focused on. new scene,turn,next phase...the shedding of old skin(fans,sounds, expectations,comfort zones)

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

nothing new from punk excites me anymore, especially when its billed as punk. when something comes along that defies classification or is so far removed from the genre, thats when i personally call it punk. i still see lots of people from old atdi days all the time.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

confederacy of dunces is a great book.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

well im glad u like fela, but we werent the only ones championing him. ian mackaye,zach de la rocha, and mos def have been singing his praises for a long time. check the movie music as a weapon. its really great and watch both french and english versions cuz they are both unique to themselves.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

TMV 10-16-09? man, i dont even know where that was, sorry not my department, i just try and sing for the band and 9 out of 10 times i fuck that up, or even remember the words, so i dont know sorry.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

no reaction can devalue your art, just pick yourself up and keep going, who gives a fuck what anybody else thinks.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

salad dressing should indicate that they in my opinion work better as a name for a salad dressing than music. its good to see some people have a sense of humor out there, but really i cant get with some of that middle america stuff. but it might be mind blowing to some little girl stuck in a moment she cant get out of.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

there is no better vocalist. i dont rate music in terms of competition. i use to date someone who would constantly ask if jon theodore was a better drummer than zack hill. (apples and oranges)the question use to bum me out, because if you spend your time rating things like in sports, then you miss the point all together and should probably spend your time at a sports bar. no offense to your question but there is no better. one mans trash is anothers treasure. i love both ian and guy equally because together they are a sum that is greater than its parts.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i think evanescence is great for salad dressing.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

what necklaces do u speak of? i dont remember.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

our summer tours production will not consist of anything that is past 5 dollars. remember this chicanomy is killing us

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes i riff on the doctor john song walk on guilded splinters. the gris gris is one of the best albums ever. i have to riff on it i was in new orleans

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

yes daniel higgs is probably one of my strongest pillars of influence. he is a great tattoo artist that specializes in that old school sailor look. i sat at rick rubins house once listening to ian mackaye play rick the love is love record. the entire time it seemed like rick was waiting for a chorus to happen, which it did in its lungfish way, while ian said"hey man its an acquired taste" ever since then i quote oh the devil is a flower, plucked from the skye in lots of improv we do.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i love me some slint. seems like a lot of 90s era indie rock had that same jangly repetitive octave chord drone that was made so popular by rites of spring and fugazi. it was like a wildfire.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@ gutsywinds xenu,the easter bunny,the tooth fairy,santa claus,lindsay lohans career. what do all these things have in common?

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

circumstances behind soundgarden tour are simple. they saw the ORLG footage and requested we do some volta. request granted. kim and omar met once at a SOAD show with lars ulrichs dad in tow and spoke for quite a while. anybody remember when soundgarden was an SST records band? thats what im talking about, dont care what anybody says they are an undeniable band with punk roots.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

we always tour germany. i absolutely love playing germany. it took me a while to get use to the cultural differences like the blunt and brutal honesty and the funny preoccupation that SOME germans have with the concept of the starving artist. sometimes sayings get lost in translation in germany and you need thick skin to roll with it, but i love german people and i love germany. if you want to be treated like an artist and given the basic creature comforts that usually you can only attain in america by years and years of touring, then go to germany as a small band, and enjoy.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

no i dont speak fluent spanish. i never have. its part of the lazy charm of being chicano. spanglish was spoken and is still spoken in my parents house. although you wouldn't know by appearances my father speaks fluent spanish, and teaches bilingual education aka chicano studies at UTEP in el paso. he has published several books. his side of the family are germans that live in mexico. they have been there for a long time. so he looks white but could school you on any proper history or linguistics. my mother is dark skin and is from el paso. hence the name bixler-zavala.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@detachable penis if it lights your fuse and you were excited by what came out of you then you dont need any approval from me. follow your instincts. everything is in constant rough draft mode unless you feel for certain in your gut that it is solid. we all need to make mistakes in order to build confidence. part of making art is falling flat on your face. withing that collision is the lesson. if you dig what you wrote,then thats all u need. and yes i have seen akira many many times. my forehead is bigger than his.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

current fav drummer is greg rogove from priest bird and the grogs(devendras back up band). priest bird is just simply the witches tit being twisted in tornado gusts

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

so many questions sorry if i forget to get to your question

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

also special mention to the time omar got up and played on 2 songs with los lobos in japan around 2005.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

sugarcubes+public enemy opening for u2 in EP at the sunbowl 90 something?(i worked at this concert, gangstarr opening for RATM during battle of LA tour(atdi opener) les savy everyday for a month in 2001, de la soul at transmusical festival in france 2000,vic chestnutt in france with guy piciotto on guitar 2008, and one of my all time favs the vss at emos in 1997.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

oo many shows to be able to say which was my fav. most impacting. laddio balako opening for trans am at spaceland in 2001,lightning bolt at knitting factory in LA in 2003,antony and the johnsons at our ATP in 2005,diamanda galas at the same gig,UGLOR live at 3 fountains ditch in EP in 1987,rhythm pigs reunion gig at mesa inn EP 1990, antischism at the deadend in EP in 1991, antioch arrow golden age rec center in EP in 1993, fucking champs at troubadour in 2001, trenchmouth at the attic in EP in 1995, roni size reprazent at big day out in austrailia 2000, diamonds into coal in fargo north dakota 1995, ass baboons of venus at the attic EP 1995, timothy leary spoken word university of las cruces,

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i dont know where to rate anything that has yet to come out. maybe in a 2 years i will have an answer

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

the movie that im talking about that features lamento de un guajiro is called NUESTRA COSA:our latin thing. it features the fania all stars in 70s nyc playing at the cheetah. it has cockfights,santeria rituals,block parties,street life,soundchecks,nuyoricans, and interviews with people like hector lavoe,symphony sid,cheo feleciano,ismael miranda,larry harlow. it is probably the best salsa documentary to ever exist. available through fania records. THIS SHOULD BE MANDATORY VIEWING FOR ANYBODY WITH A PULSE. ITS LIFE CHANGING.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i cant chime in on poly ticks.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

the chorus to l'via which is not just an outro, its an actual chorus, probably does sound like lamento de un guajiro but there are a huge amount of salsa songs that use that exact structure, almost as common as all garage rock groups covering hey joe in the 60s. harlows inclusion adds to it and of course i am influenced by that song but it was just omar trying to include an influence in general from his up bringing. the movie that lamento is from was our bible in 1999 and was one of the ingredients that led us away from atdi. there wasn't a moment that passed by where that movie was not playing. every band that spent the night at our place in long beach and watched it with us was fucking blown away by it. its like a salsa version of decline of the western civilization

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

fav gig,aesthetically speaking was this winter show in sweden during the frances tour. the stage was low and shaped into the crowd with no big metal barriers either. the venue was an old hotel and it was just a beautiful night. now spiritually the first time we played mexico at the flying circus was beyond belief. the amount of love that we encountered was epic. wish i could describe it more.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i would describe omar as an infinitely powerful being. someone who understands the concept of mocking up an unwritten future and willing it into existence within every breath he takes. there are not many people like him on this planet and by that i dont mean prolific guitar hero, im talking about an ancient soul whose understanding of the human condition radiates in everything he touches.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@rigneyclan cant believe u found a copy of F.D.E. in pittsburgh, isnt that the beauty of the bargain bin? this particular band i was in was comprised of 2 girls and 2 guys. the girls sarah and laura are the subject matter for the song napoleon solo by atdi. they tragically passed away in a car accident just outside of el paso after attending an atdi gig in austin. they were only about 18 years old. i miss them like crazy. this band we had together was our version of huggy bear,raoul,bikkini kill and unwound olympia kill rock stars era music. at the time they were the only girls in el paso playing in a punk band and they were beautiful people. this was during atdi's first album. we tried to go and tour but they were about 17 when we first recorded these songs, so they couldn't go. clint who played guitar has gone on to play in a ton of great bands(rhythm of black lines,hades kick and his own solo stuff which is too good for words)

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

MARS VOLTA OPENING UP FOR SOUNDGARDEN IN DENVER ON JULY 18TH, AT THE RED ROCKS....stay tuned for more news

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

my fav tom waits is bone machine. chad blakes production is disgusting. i wish i could make records like him. his production on the latin playboys record is great too. check it.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i wanted rapid fire to be volta. i changed the lyrics to fit with the ones that had been handed to me through the automatic writing process of the soothsayer. i mentioned to omar to add the end part and thomas's natural inclination to speed eberything up made it a meaner and gave it a set of teeth, where as rapid is a little more of stripper pole torch song with its focus on the soft machine style clarinet. just one of those songs that gets plucked and detained for questioning.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

not really excited about the paul thomas movie, because its effect on small minded people will be rather unfortunate. im sure people will walk away believe that everything is fact. i dont know what his motivation or what his agenda is and if he is not a scientologist then i would tread lightly as to why he is making the movie. judging by the amount of fear and negativity surrounding some of the comments on here, you can understand why someone would want to tackle the subject. i only hope he has the best intentions

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

we will try and fit a mexicali date. it sounds like a memorable time. fingers crossed !

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

there is too much red tape happening at warner brothers right now to be able to give a definite release date. people have been losing there jobs left and right over there and the president was fired. we will see what our future is very soon. either way our record is coming soon.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

well lets not take the term punk too literally, we are not exactly making any warp tour sounds, but it is our version of what this band would sound like in the future of punk context.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i am fleshing out a colaboration with zeque pena to make it into a sort of graphic novel. fingers crossed on what turns up.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

as our last u.s. tour ended miserably because of the child like antics of our drummer whose lifestyle choices and behavior were weighing heavily on the bands wallets and reputation. we found ourselves no longer willing to suffer fools gladly no matter how talented they were. omar had a record that he had recorded with deantoni and i suggested that we make that the new volta record. as a year went by new material was added and it became what it became. the movie get him to the greek was a painful reminder of what the stereotype of our band had become. i was personally sick of all the stupid prog rock descriptions and all the lazy zepp comparisons which i was totally guilty of. in my opinion our new record is a future punk record in the vein of tangerine dream being molested by the wipers. lower register singing and shoegazing knots of drum and bass punk blast beats.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

to me in my humble opinion our new record is a combination of influences. when we played the big day out i was really into the last horrors record. it was a breath of fresh air to see that band make such a change. many krautrock elements within their music brought me back to groups like tangerine dream, cluster,cabaret voltaire and the drum and bass groups of the 90s that deantoni parks did a lot of live work with such as breakbeat era and roni size. the work of the grinderman and the fall as well can be added into the mix.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

we will be around every where real soon. even places that i am not found of.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

i have never gotten into a fist fight with omar and if we did he would win. why because he wouldn't fight. neither would i but lets be honest here people he is the bigger being. do the math. thats el jefe numero uno! he is has always been on some straight up eastern zen gunfighter el topo style shit. mother fucker makes a movie or a record every time he shits or sneezes.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@shasaki choose your words wisely and re read how you asked me what you asked. you are being COVERTLY HOSTILE. cult and evil corporations are not exactly a smart way of phrasing a question, as well as please don't tell me that you are a scientologist. I AM . so what now? do you think less of me? all the people you accuse of suffering from scientology all have one thing in common. they do what they were here to do on this planet. which is to create and up the general hostile, bored, angry, and utterly scared and numb tone levels of people like you. its called tolerance, and its the only "kool aid" i drink. get yourself a drink before the multitudes of slothful have it removed from history. "are you or have you ever been a member of the communist party?" does that ring a bell? because of scientology this channel exists and i now interact with the audience and appreciate them in ways i never did before. and respect them and thank them for ever giving two shits.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

lets get one thing straight here people, im not going to sit here and deny any of you an opinion but i am most assuredly going to ask that you be respectful of any and all of my spiritual choices. i welcome all people from all walks of life and all beliefs. if any of u have a problem with me being a scientologist then you dont have to visit this channel or any performance that i participate in. there is a fuck load of disinformation floating around the internet, shit some people believe i shoot lazers from a crystal thats lodged in my baunch(hence the high notes) but i dont see half of you falling for that shit. some of you need to stop sucking on the super information highways tits, cuz a lot of that milk has gone sour.

lunarpower666 (10 months ago)

@shasaki i understand your concern, but i HAVE done my research regarding scientology. to the point where i actually walked into their building to get the info straight from the horses mouth. no thank you in regards to mark bunker. if anything you should do the math. we worked with saul and juliette before i "crossed over" to the evil corporation. as far as beck being mediocre, how is that supposed to convince me that the teachings of LRH are negative in any way. careful justin meldal johnson played stand up bass on televators(guess u cant enjoy that song anymore, cuz he is a scientologist), oh no wait what about all the strings on frances the mute? cant hear that anymore either cuz that becks dad. him too? shit what are you going to do now. oh wait flea completed the puriff too, i guess all deloused is tainted now. WOW is right. if you cant extend the olive branch that grows from tolerance then stop supporting us. remember a little thing called mcarthyism? my "wins" your loss.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

or what is worse is that you might start heading back for more, treating it like some six pack of beer at a liquor store, making you miss the whole point. i dont advice anything like tripping even on your death bed. culturally and spiritually, western civilization is not prepared. the whole concept of drugs is cutting in line or jumping the fence or getting into the "gig" without having paid the real fee. mind you all of this is just my humble opinion. an opinion that has spent an entire night in jail under the influence of LSD,trying to claw my way back to reason. i was not ready to see what i saw and you would be entirely foolish to stare directly into the contents of the arc of the covenant. metaphorically speaking of course

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

cussing just comes naturally and in a way is a sign of inferior expression, but it was my way of having fun. if u listen closely there is too much going on for any vocal effects to cut through. remember there are 2 bass players and effects on drums and a number of guitar tracks happening at once. dare i admit that it would have been too much.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

a few more songs are being mixed for the new record. cover is done just waiting for more layout to be completed. i am very excited about this record. a lot of it was completed during my purification rundown program, so there is a lot of cognition ( confronted realizations) about myself as a weapon of language and as a spirit that were happening during my vocal takes. it is the most vulnerable and the most purest thing i believe i have ever done. the purification rundown and its administrators gave me the power to achieve the biggest wins i have ever had, and you will be able to hear it in the lyrical content and performance of our new record.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

julio was an intense walking time bomb of dadaist performance art. someone who invented his own language and was a great mentor to have in the desolate landscape of my south west landfill. at many times a non sensical animal spirit like in a casteneda book and sometimes the most gentle soul to ever walk this planet. there wasnt a moment that past by where he wasn't being beaten up, or speaking out or getting arrested. i wrote a non-linear narrative that bounced back from court jester to idioglossiac auctioneer. it is supposed to mirror his nonsensical outbursts. a walking canvas. a human exclamation point. it reads in rhyme with no reason. the story of a young spirit being consumed by the sadness and prison of a reactionary mind whose only way out is by way of suicide.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

all i remember about the bible and the breathalyzer was recording it in omars hotel room bathroom in canada somewhere. in that same little session i sat lotus position in his glass incased shower and strummed a tambora on some song as well. b sides are fun for us and song edits as well because we really get to execute stuff that belongs in the audio section of a museum. to think that some major label person is getting a predictable b side "song" makes me smile with joy, because one day when he describes working our record it will be one of the last great stories of art being handed in to commerce. sometimes with the intention of the emperor having worn no clothes and sometimes to just let the freak flag fly

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

yes tera melos are great and maps and atlases as well, but i would never try and do them a disservice by calling them any genre. there are no words to describe cerebral music from restless souls. same thing with marnie stern. a truly great executioner of aura expression. to label any of this math rock is to give way to the shackles of a reactive mind, how about just not insulting any artist with the costume of a category. sooner or later they will stop being that description and the train will pass you by and you'll be left with this empty dust bin filled with cobwebs and ghosts.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

watching the remake miniseries of my favorite movie MILDRED PIERCE!!! love joan crawford and love this version!!!

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i must remind you to pay attention to that spark of muse that will always inconvenience your every waking and sleeping moment. write it all down. with youth comes the ability to seize it all at once. if you want "it", mock it up in your mind. total visualization. know its smell, its taste its cadence,it's texture......it is your future. if its darkness that you wish devour in favor of light then tie it on your mind, it's your noctourniquet. you can do both if your already there, but the sooner and the younger u enter the game, the better...whatever your game in life is. make every day a postulate for success in your art. im sending you pillars of psychic energy to plow forth. in short just fucking do it !

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

@jingowaffle with youth comes extra ordinary ability. freakish tides of sheer will, super human strength that "sometimes" gets lost by late 30s. my advice to you is that you figure out a way to balance it all at once. remember you are not learning anything, you are simply remembering what you already know. cont-

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i was never a fan of plague and thought the melodies belonged somewhere else and then along baphomets which is my take on the movie the believers

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

someone asked about garth merengi and i have to admit that dark place hospital is one of the funniest fucking tv shows i have ever seen!!!!

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i just got back some tracks from my project with christian from TRICLOPS! mike watt played lead bass on it and i just heard some vocals on it done by a lady named rachel fannan. i dont know anything about her other than her voice has made our project ethereal and sentient beyond language. i am very excited about this since we have been working on it since summer time. my drumming is a sloppy imitation of jon theodore and it was recorded in the melvins practice pad. open tuning played like jehu trying out for terry reid in a minimal indian raga blast of drone.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

yes all this new material we have been playing has official names. when we are ready to unveil it, we will. thank you for the rabid tenacity of your curious nature.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i wore my hair as naturally as i could for 15 years. those interviews you speak of are kinda old. we all have to keep our lives fresh and in a small insignificant way me cutting my hair will bring about the poseurs who were listening to our hair in the first place. i had to let go of something i was afraid of letting go in order to advance my instrument as a spirit. there is not a performance that goes by where i feel truly naked and vulnerable and it is the biggest rush i have ever felt. you'd be surprised to see the amount of people that i have let down with my hair cut. may the shallow part of the pond dry and show its true nature as a mere mirage. i seek an endless ocean that understands the caliber of my soul not my appearance.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

yes there is a name but we are waiting to say when. all in good time.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

the only potential math rock had was covered during don caballero's last record. everything else just apes something that peaked 10 years ago. hence the battles not picking up where don cab left off. my point being that the grand kids of the 90s tend to be xerox machines, and do not utilize any new mutated strain. just the same sound with a new name. what potential is there when the grounds been covered by layers of astro turf? give me the original green pastures or give me something new. i can understand finding your personality through a couple of records but after a while i need the adult version of intent not a still life meandering of your older brothers record collection. hopefully our new record will illustrate this point.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i dont know if we are. i should ask perry. he was been really sweet and supportive when ive spoken to him.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

my backwards singing is just me imitating what i think back masking sounds like, anybody can do it.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

somebody asked if i was a nick drake fan on here. umm....yeah. i was trying to get that cover done ever since atdi's album acrobatic"""" was around but jim was alwayss saying that it was to difficult to learn and i even suggested doing it with regular power chords but the whole jawbreaker built to spill crap stuff we were doing took over. i wish i had been more demanding back then. its amazing what compromise can do to vision. that being said i still have a fondness and respect for jim and all atdi members. we had a blast causing our little ruckus.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

not a fan of caifanes sorry.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

yes spinetta is the shit. found out about him through omar.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i finally met ARieL PINK at coachella! he was so nice and it was one of the few times i have ever gone out of my way to meet a modern day inspiration. he is todays version of andy kaufman,mark e smith, and all AM pop harmonies thrown together. a truly unique artist that demands the attention of a lot of todays youth who are fixated on boring math rock and metal. get a slice of ariel pink and your life will be complete.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

it was only the second time my wife has gotten to see me play and she is my favorite audience member to play for.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

big props to zechs marquise for being our roadies at coachella! and for baring the brunt of the sun for us. ian mackaye stopped by to say hello with his little boy and his lady who use to play in a fantastic dischord band called the warmers. check them out. ross robinson was there trying to persuade an atdi song for some japanese benefit (NOPE) and the mighty bobby shaer of bad religion fame was there drum-teching for interpol. if you dont know bobby you are missing out he is an epic pop culture junkie who happens to be one of the last living souls to bare that bunny carlos\/slade drumming style that is missing today in most garage rock bands.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

coachella was fun, although it brings out a rather unfortunate feeding frenzy of casual friends thinking you can bend over backwards for them by way of favors. most people dont realize its a work day in harsh conditions were you sometimes play before 1 in the afternoon. luckily we made all the extra precautions for desert survival. the main ingredient being not walking around at all(at least i didnt) and getting zapped by the sun and taking plenty of salt and potassium pills with serious amounts of water. festival civilian life without access to proper food or shelter is a young person's game.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i only have a single copy of anything volta, and a grip of my 7 " series from GSL. i will probably give it away soon. whats the point in having my own stuff? its a bit redundant. let the kids leave home and make their own way in life. :)

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

soundcloud and myspace are great for promotion, but the money is in the touring.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i don't know if i can listen to our music like u guys listen to it. im entirely to close to it. i know its secrets,its curve balls, its sonic vernacular. i could never be blown away by my own music, and if i am or was ...it was before i sang on it . im just blown away that any of you guys pay attention to it.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

it aint a record unless you release it on vinyl.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

when omar tracked harlow it was pure magic. he brought joints and told epic stories about playing in the legendary foreman\/ ali preconcert that has been repackaged in many incarnations(ie fania live in africa,james browns soul concert) fela was on the bill too and they were executing pickpockets under the stage during the show! yikes! harlow is the man responsible for turning santana on to salsa and was just an extreme pleasure to be around. that was one of voltas pinacles....then we played with him on stage in nyc.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

yes i was in the session when lenny castro tracked percussion on deloused. he is a ball of energy, even when doing that triangle part on televators. he was fleetwood mac's main percussionist at the time.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i am a fan of BJM. jeffey was jeremy wards rehab pal in pasadena and was always nice to us when we cleaned shop at black market music(r.i.p.) in LA

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i was down right stoked for arcade fire for all their epic success!!! they make great music and i would love to open for them. all due respect for the arcade fire. cheers.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i dont know why shiny toy guns are credited that way for the sympathy for delicious movie. all i know is omar wrote 2 to 3 songs and i speed read the script and came up with everything on the spot for lyrics. i improvised a glossolalia preacher thing that orlando bloomed learned verbatim and had a blast doing it. ruffalo,bloom and juliette lewis are the coolest people to work with and it was an honor working with them. i remember showing you tube clips of the birthday party to bloom for inspiration as well as jello biafra clips of dead kennedys playing the off broadway because of biafras expressive hand movements. i hope the movie is ok, either way rock movies are entertaining even when they are bad. rufallo put a lot of heart and soul into it.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i dont mind the fans taping any new material. someones gotta do some street style promo for anything related to our projects.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

ambuletz was done at night after everything was done with deloused. the album laughing stock by talk talk,the pretty things SF sorrow,fando y lis, and pitch black incantations in a house frequented as a seance to summon the ghost of whoduni next to the old zappa house in laurel canyon ....is what was going when we did ambuletz

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

"honor your mistakes as hidden intentions"-brian eno taken from the oblique strategies studio card game.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

creation is the key to any relationship. keep using any relationship as a vehicle to create.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i doubt that omar hates florida. i hate playing arizona but we still play it. its either a schedule conflict or a financial issue. sometimes we get festival offers that are financially in our best interest to do so we choose to go where the money is now so that we can come back later. we will eventually hit everywhere soon.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

ikey is a wonderfully humble and unique human being. his control this record is epic. we dont know what his place will be in the future? i am sure that FMA is a little more of a concern for him.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

thank you to great american music hall. man that is a beautiful place to play

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

although i think that being a music critic is a pretty lame game to play in life, i do acknowledge that their are some great voices out there who do wonders for describing what they are hearing to an audience that needs suggestions. there are some people who only want to imitate the covert hostility of lester bangs, and that is the worst angle to have(ie vice and pitchfork) i could never lower my standards by writing about music cuz im too busy making it. a radio show would be fun. tearing apart the hopes and dreams of all young up and coming artists is the reason why music blogs suck bags of dicks. if you have nothing nice to say why be creative in the field of hurting peoples feelings. silence trims the fat of long winded music critics. then again MOST CRITICS ARE FAILED ARTISTS BENCH WARMING THE SIDELINES OF LIFE, TOO AFRAID TO PUT THEMSELVES OUT THERE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK OF TASTE AND OPINION

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

im pretty sure i rambled on and on at our last cains ballroom show. it is a fantastic venue filled with rich history. i always venture into the back office to stare and take photos of the framed piece of wall that sid vicious punched in on their only american tour. maybe i am wrong but doesnt the book rumble fish take place in tulsa? great people great venue and i still rock some cains t shirts when i can

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

ilyena is named after helen mirrens real name and deals with karmic debt in the myth of eden. it was built from the drone sample and vocal on up. as in first the sample then the vocal then the rest of the song around it. i originally named it after helen mirren because the bridge reminded me of the music from excalibur which features mirren.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i have acted in one of omars movies but it got put on hold because there is a grip of footage featuring live performance footage w pridgen and he wanted to be deleted from our history and not have his likeness on anything volta, so it is getting refigured and rethought.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

ive never heard beat down by grand master fruisciante and i highly doubt he would ever compare us to anything beatleesque

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

GREETINGS ALL YOU WONDERFULLY SUPPORTIVE SUBSCRIBERS!! I THANK U FOR HAVING ANY INTEREST IN THIS CHANNEL AT ALL. HOPEFULLY A LOT OF QUESTIONS GET ANSWERED SIMPLY BY READING BETWEEN THE LINES OF THE PLAYLISTS AND THEIR CONTENT. YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE LYRICAL REFERENCES OR DANCES OR INFLUENCES JUST BY WATCHING THEM. I HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAVING A WONDERFULLY BLESSED LIFE AND THAT YOU SIEZE EVERY STEP AND BREATH AS IF TOMORROW WAS NOT AN OPTION.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

amputechture was the album that separated the volta audience down the middle. at that point there were a lot of atdi fans barely getting what were doing and when ampu came out there no training wheels left as far as song structure. to me there is a structure to it but it's just not as linear as some needed it to be. we had just come off tour with hella and hosted our own ATP, which u can hear on the record. it was moodier,tangled, and at times did what a lot of krautrock does which is repetitive and drone like. it is the autistic child with tourettes while the other albums tend to be the pretty blonde that everyone stares at. sorry if i sound egotistical. ampu is the kid in the trench coat that goes postal.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

yes the jacob jam has a title its full title is jackob van lennepkade...its from one of omars solo albums. its the name of a street he used to live on in amsterdam. it has been played in many incarnations. you guys should know this. the song has been around since 2005. its fun to play and when D plays it, he brings to it the most swing.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i dont listen to much of frusciantes work. i am highly aware of his genius and his horde of stalkers. i remember he let omar and i hear the music he made for the brown bunny and being floored. he is unstoppable.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

no the joke of omar being blonde originated from my cartoons first. there are only a couple of options for characters on the xnormal sight and so i made it a running joke that everyone ask why he bleached his hair. its a comment on how some fans can say some of the most obvious and stupid things(NOT ALL JUST A GOOD CHUNK OF FANS) omar mentioned it at that show because a lot of fans thought i was dissing omar. let's be honest after the seriousness of the first 3 records there was no room for irony or sarcasm even though there was lyrical reference to a kiosk being in the shape of rosalyn carter. some volta fans are too serious for their own good, which is why all the bedlam videos are the way they are.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

do what you gotta do man. first maybe ask him to up his playing skills and explain in a mature calm manner that u have a vision that is being diluted by the process of comprise and that the sum of your art is greater than its parts. be specific in citing what u want, and make sure there is pure communication. i must stress that you should consider the beings feelings because from experience frustration and temper can lead to a bad turn of events. if you must move on after that then move on.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

eric b and rakim, jehru the damaja, cube,and pauls boutique sorry im limited in hip hop. did love the last edan record from like 2004 and anything jaylib,madlib and j dilla do are always great.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

tonight was a rickety show filled with dust filled nostrils and lungs and an altitude problem that winded the shit out of me. nice thing about it was that i could go incognito. once half the audience starts looking like you it's time for a haircut.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

my worst ever chemical induced performances were at the tail end of the atdi,murder city devils u.s tour. i was too high for words and let everyone down, band and audience. too many drugs floating around for my own good some days were manic others were shameful

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i meant ephemera although sephemera sounds like a neat made up word combing serafin and ephemera= useless angels.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i dont collect toys anymore. in fact when i recently moved i left all of my collection in a huge box on the side of the street hoping that some kid would find them and have something to play with. it was filled with apes,daleks,cybermen, mini pyramids, useles sephemera that i needed to throw away. somebody found them and contacted me but i'll just let them go. forward i go

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

im honestly not tempted to smoke weed and its all around me. this kid in boston handed me close to an ounce right after i walked off stage and i just gave it to the people that do indulge in the band. to be tempted would mean that i never confronted my need for it. i have confronted it and i know what it would do to me and to put it simply i have grown out of my stoner phase. its boring and i dont look back fondly about it either. i cringe at the bubble i lived in, at the amount of money i spent on it. weed keeps me from being me, and i like being me.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

now that i dont smoke weed my dream journal is fresh in my psyche. i dont take it seriously for it is all a pun. a fun house mirror to my reality nothing more. but if i choose to embrace its ridiculous projections....then they are fun to re-manipulate for creation

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i would love to play smaller venues with tmv, but to be honest as soon as anything with our name on it is promoted the show would be ruined by the bad seeds, and there would need to be a barrier and there would be the inevitable circus behavior of slam dancing involved as well as suffering all the drunks who express them selves by throwing things. the bigger the band name the bigger the fools in the audience. this applies to any band, do the math.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i hope that being a mamada is meant as a good thing because it doesnt sound like it. i love being a mamon.....but im not degraded enough to think i suck. not the best singer but hey at least i try. key word being I TRY

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

unfortunately san diego is not even close to the mexican crowd. still a fantastic audience to play to but still suffering being spoiled from simply being located in california. something about an actual mexican crowd, not a chicano crowd, is overwhelming. they border on riot. a special breed of volta fan exists in mexico. love me some san diego though. love me some casbah.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i would recommend to all the good seeds that participate in such a low grade medium to go out and seize the fucking day and create something. this place is a breeding ground for music journalism, which is only second to cancer in the game of life. some of us do.... while others talk about the doing. what side of the fence would you like to be on? its like having the option of a time machine or a short bus. culotorium is pure short bus, get yourself a T.A.R.D.I.S. before its gone people.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i have an aversion to all things culotorium. what once started out as endearing means to geek out on the band has turned into an ugly, mean spirited, place for gossip. i realize that all who participate in this medium are not lame and that there are possibly some nice fans on there just doing what fans do, but the bad seeds far out weigh the good ones. usually when something inspires you....you create. there is only talk in that place and talk is cheap..to got out and treat what we do like a harry potter tail gate party ruins it. take the inspiration or the loathing for what we do and apply it to your own art.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

el paso texas is obviously not a small town but growing up there in the late 70s,80's and 90's, it was a small town.growing up in that environment tends to make you a bit of a crate digger in every aspect of pop culture. you use everything as a source including public tv. in the the early 90's the USA network use to air a rather cool show called night flight. it was my bible. other sources where extracted from the pure alienation of nothing to fucking do. it was the biggest gift el paso could bestow on me. to not spoil me like california or new york could

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

coloring in the lines produces a lot of un ironic yacht rock style beat makers and music fakers. its good to enter the dojo only to forget everything you learned in there in the first place or else your doomed to be a film maker watching a movie blurting bullshit lines like oh my god they are breaking the 4th wall! thats all wrong! music speaking of course

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

probably not..... but his effect on the youth psyche that became the class of 1977 is still being felt to this day. you cant get that at a music school. these institutions dont apply emphasis on thinking outside the box so alot of the graduates have the musical personality of a cantaloupe. they have no real voice. YES THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

musical degree seems useless because it seems to produce very stiff soulless approaches from certain people.NOT ALL I DONT CONDEMN AND JUDGE ALL but the ones who become the taste makers and beat shakers who rob and steal from the ones who invented their own school of thought simply by playing the game of touring and recording. if they made workshops with deantoni mandatory it would broaden the palate of the graduate, because they would learn the un-glorified mundane parts of the music making process. its a rather insane concept to grade someone based on taste. would beefhearts trout mask replica not allow him a job song writting for earth wind and fire....? cont_

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

ive been manipulating the bonnie beecher song during the jacob jams. its my favorite twillight zone episode apart from the episode called to serve man. come wander with me has haunted me since i was a child watching KTLA new years day twilight zone marathons in el paso. if you have not watched night gallery i suggest it. rod serling is the host and although he did not write a lot like on TZ its still clean as fuck

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

defacto had similar members but sphinktatorz was a band that had omar on vocals jeremy ward on guitar me on bass and ralph jasso on drums. we were el paso's answer to the dwarves. there are many many excellent photographs of this band that omar has that are truly astonishing. it was a band that dressed in womens lingerie and would occasionally have scary LSD freakouts on stage performing at frat boy parties. literally. no documented music but lots of photos exist and we unfortunately destroyed a lot of peoples gear by mistake and sometimes on purpose.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

well its a vitamin c in a syringe drip bag so not just pill form. it cured me already. i first discovered them on rhcp tour as their personal doctor is a seek(yes i know its mispelled) and she would give them to us and let me tell you vitamin c drips are life healing, no joke.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

and actually i love ohio. any place that gives any traveling band discounts on anything because they are a band is rad in my book, and that whole area by where the grog shop is located is nice...maybe not after 10 on a saturday because of local drunkoids roaming the land and trying to board our bus like rash of testosterone skid marks from the un-wiped ass of the college vote.....but i actually loved it there.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

of course i love jodorowsky!!! atdi ep el gran orgo is named after the phoenix's circus ring leader father from santa sangre! his comics are epic(the incal, the metabarons, technopriets etc etc) he is a phenomenal writer and tarot card reader and invented the concept behind man trapped inside a box for mimes for marcel marceu

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

no ive never smoked cigarettes but i did smoke a lot of pot which hurt me in spiritual and technical ways.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

what is limiting about a major label? i've had great and shitty experiences on majors. bigger budget for things like strings(like on frances the mute it aint cheap holmie read the credits) bigger budget to pay artists to make your cover like storm...he aint cheap either it costs money to make money especially if you want to make records that dont make money. make sense? read your contract and if you are lucky like we were(bidding war over the ashes of atdi)you can ask for things like finished material being sight unseen. meaning no one hears it while its being made and puts in their 2 cents....they just have to work with it. are the people that work there hip and into smashing the system...who gives a fuck? there might come a day real soon when we are not on a major which is fine as well but generally speaking its not limiting at all if anything it opens up your audience to the unconverted.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

my apologies to ohio,kentucky,and chicago. after having completed a solid 11 back to back shows with the ORLG, my body finally gave up on me and i contracted the worst flu ever. i would have loved to have sang at the grog shop, i was there but i was a heaping mess of gelatinous phlegm clumps that could barely muster a single note. having come home early i have been to the doctor and have undergone extensive attacks of vitamin c drips to help my system recover. it seems like i get sick quite easily on tour but it was something floating around on the bus and i was already on antibiotics for a fractured tooth which lowered my immune system. i owe you. its good to be back with my wife,my hairless cat chairmen meow,and brussels griffon ethel rosenburg

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

fuck that friday song. what i am doing is a specific nursery rhyme more light shall be shed upon this very theme in the future.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

tour almost coming to an end. chicago should be fun and then mexico

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i get schooled left and right by omar when it comes to delivering vocal material. some works some doesn't some is instant. some takes a while . some he loves and does not want revision. the trick is that you remember that the sum is greater than the parts. the better of the song is what should be important. cant have an ego when you are creating.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i haven't got a clue as to what was up with the sound? from my standpoint the entire venue was unprofessional and the only saving grace was the gentleman working monitors and front of house sound. something needs to be done about a treatment for sound in that room...its a bit of nightmare for soundcheck. something on the stage itself(made of some material that in my opinion made a crazy racket of echo) the crowd was a bit awkward too. stunned?dazed? stoned? nothing beats a mexican or NOLA audience. had a great time but dont want to play that place again. it is the very stereotype of how american venues are very rude and un-accomodating to the basic needs of a touring band. like they didnt want us there.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

for those who havent noticed marcel is a fantastic key board player. my favorite key board player to play with. ever. he is everything i could hope for in a player. and his style always evolves

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

ONCE AGAIN IF THIS DOESN'T APPLY TO HOW U ACT AT AN ARIZONA SHOW THEN DONT GET YOUR FEELINGS HURT. TRY AND HELP THE BAND OUT AND LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY WHEN WE ARE IN TOWN. DANCE BE MERRY, GIVE INTO IT, HUG YOUR FELLOW DOWN TRODDEN OVERHEATED FAN. IT WILL MAKE AN ARIZONA SHOW MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

and lets not forget a little volta fan who went on a shooting rampage recently. once again i am sorry for offending arizona pride but you guys scare me. great skate spots downtown with banks to ride 70s style. maybe this could be a call to spread the message to the AZ fans. wake up show me your passion. applause dont mean anything if u look and act like zombies. we can only elevate AZ's tone level so much. help change my mind.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i have to be painfully honest phoenix is not my favorite place to play. ever since atdi has had to play there i have found the audience's and atmosphere quite scary. i am very very confident that not all the people and and all the great little spots are scary but it still creeps me out a lot. i have met some wonderful people there but it gets over shadowed by a strange darkness. like i said i don't mean to judge but any place that refuses to recognize MLK's birthday and is that ridiculously hot is suspect in my book. it seems to effect the audience as well.....very dazed and sedate

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

dont worry seattle we will come back.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

black woman by sonny sharock is great. blind willie and portrait of linda in 3 different colors all black are my favs from that album.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

notice i said NOT ALL KIDS ARE SPOILT ROTTEN it helps to read the full comment and i would never bestow my generation as more interesting than any other young or old. no need to get butt hurt if its not your butt im speaking of....but sometimes feelings get hurt when they strike a chord. i love any and all generations. we are all the product of one another. besides in my day i use to walk to school barefoot both way up hills and through water when coke was a quarter.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

actually i like 10cc.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

its simple i asked for time off. maybe if you did the math you would realize that we have spent the last 10 years releasing an album every year. its called a vacation and if you fall for the whole grammy thing then damn, u missed the point of the band just by bringing that up. from behind the comfort of your screen you forget we are human beings that need to recharge....even if it was 2 years. kids today can be fucking spoilt rotten, not all but damn! sometimes i wonder if this generations deserves such fantastic technology and art. it aint burger king young blood. relax. when its ready its ready.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

no tori amos...give me kate bush over her any day. remember the originals, no disrespect to amos she is great.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

here is a thought, can you guess any of the artists from the opening mix tapes that we play before any volta or ORLG concerts? can you list several songs? one song? artist name. i make these just for the people who actually listen. the music on the PA system was chosen for a specific reason....to turn you on to new and old shit. play the guessing game and try not usinf your cell phone apps to guess....but if u must u might be able to see what makes our wheels turn. enjoy

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

umm yes ive heard of tony allen...once again thank you but i wasn't born under a rock. come on guys give me something to sink my teeth into...like this polish kid dropping some polish shit my way. excellent. thank u for that.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

last nights show in ATL was very very very fun to play. great crowd. great energy and it was good to see mastadon people again. dont know if i would sing on another song again because it is in my best interest to not repeat myself. i try not to repeat myself and sometimes it happens and i dont realize but hey im only human.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i think its safe to say that most stuff that we have played live will not be re-visted for a very long time. volta has hit the 10 year mark and some songs that fans were use to or barely catching up to are no longer relevant. its safe to say that cassandra gemini will not be played again.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

what are clean songs?

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

winning a grammy did not do anything but inflate the egos of certain people who dont play in our band anymore. mine is in my closet. i value my GED and a framed picture of sharon tate taking a bath in the movie fearless vampire killers by roman polanski a whole hell of lot more than that paper weight. i appreciate the vote from my industry peers(bands and engineers etc) but it is as usefull as a degree from berkley. you cant measure taste.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

i appreciate all the musical suggestions from u guys but in all fairness and with the deepest respects....i wasn't born yesterday....so if u wanna suggest something....maybe something that is brand new. yes ive heard of big black and thank u for the suggestion.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

our natural essence as beings is that of artists. some of us,through the neurosis that has been passed down from our parents, have simply forgot that we are all artists. our true essence is to build through dreams ( aspirations...goals etc) we are blinded by the plague of this prison planet. we didn't land on this planet this planet landed on us.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

thank you everybody for even more positive feedback. you guys are really making it an absolute blast to do ORL in such little clubs. Nola was the shit last night man you Nola people were fun to play to. thank you for allowing us to UP your tone level.

lunarpower666 (11 months ago)

thanks for telling me i look weird. what is this fucking high school, did you forget to think before u typed. no like covert hostility.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

thank you for all the well wishes and positive feed back. an ORL mini preview of SXSW is coming up soon. sorry about he stage hand confrontation, poor guy was suffering from lack of sleep and was frazzled by the day and started taking it out on us and the band, but other than that the audience was so nice. like an enveloping cloud. thank you so much

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

if your asking about tabs for our music i dont know what to tell you, couldnt you be spending your time working on your own art? i mean that in the most sincerest way. i didnt think we were that kind of band. are you really going to try and match what omars playing. he is far too much on the side greg ginn and sonny sharock to be covered.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

@bgood i know your not all bad, i just think that the concept of the original idea of what those forums are has become perverted by the bad ones. somewhere out there there is a poem u have yet to write, a script you could be fine tuning, a dance you will invent, a language you can learn. maybe its asking a lot but i thought we could maybe one day empower the fans to do these things and create. its fantastic that you talk about the band,and the content, and the anticipation....but you have to understand that if any negative point of view arises from us, then it is aimed at fans who are being negative and invalidating. if you dont engage in this behavior then im not talking about you. but really i thank you for giving a fuck in the first place. now go and take what we have done and go attack culture.....

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

the one album that hits an emotional chord with me is the album LAUGHING STOCK by the band TALK TALK. u might know this band from their big 80s hit covered by no doubt called its my life. by the time talk talk did laughing stock they had done a complete change and it is one of the most saddest,darkest albums ....and i absolutely fucking love every fucking song on that record. it reminds me of jeremy ward and recording deloused. it kinda explains the mellow shit in amputechture.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

steve from flaming lips? when i was 15 i sang for a band in el paso called phantasmagoria. a little unknown band JANUS 18 toured through el paso and we let them crash at our spot and showed them around juarez and generally had an amazing time and a cool bond with them they were very husker and early soul asylum style. fast forward moons later and i meet flaming lips and it turns out steve was in janus 18 and it blew him away that i was that little kid in the band that helped his band out and now i was in this band now (volta) SMALL FUCKING WORLD !!!

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

sorry im not a fan of muse. nice guys though. i do love me some deerhoof....i never know what thy are going to throw at me. muse just doesn't elicit anything at all from me and i sometimes feel like they are a metal version of radiohead, no offense or disrespect but i was asked.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

meant to say you should be shocked thats our job....to keep u guessing.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

@poega take what we say one album at a time. what might great to do for one album might be lame to do another. in other words you can only stand to be complicated for so long. octahedron was the actual realization of a simplified volta and at the same time cryptamnesia came out at the same time. but you be shocked thats what we are supposed to do. through amonkey wrench at your comfort zone or else YOUR band might start to follow what we do. growing as an artist doesn't just mean making "out there music" besides its revolutionary to us cuz we have been on the polar opposite. make sense?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

@ athleticist absolutely not. if anything i was the one who missed the first rehearsal. but this was mine and omar's little beast from day one. he has been its guitar player, its mover and shaker, its card dealer, its booking agent, its song writer......everything that got volta were its at is because of him. he made it happen. the deals, the meetings, all the red tape that gets taken for granted....omar made happen. EVERYTHING

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

@tagonistm there is a song by U2 that says "you've got to get yourself together...you're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it" this applies to the fans who turn their back on us. that isn't passion, thats elitist snobbery. i've been guilty of it myself and now being in this position and can easily say that i ashamed of ever having said the phrase "yeah their first two records are cool, but then after that...meh...." omar and i have been throwing curve balls since 2001, and the fact that those "passionate" fans ignore that is actually quite funny now. they can always watch a bootleg or hit repeat...thats what it's for. sorry we are just not that band. couldn't they tell by the music that we weren't that band to begin with?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

we are not with universal anymore. we are with warners, well at least for the time being i think we are hahaha.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

nope no requests. requests are are shoes that dont fit anymore. you can press repeat on your player or lift the needle and start it over. sorry man. forward we march.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

volta doesnt do requests. never have never will.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

no i dont really believe in the zodiac. i thinks its loads of fun. but i wouldn't make life choices based on it and i wouldn't hide behind personality traits based on it either. im into confrontation of myself and owning up to all my inconsistencies as a human being. its easier said than done, but i take myself one day at a time with a deep breath and the allowance of granting being-ness to others as well as them to me. its in my best interest to own up to things that i choose to do, not because "hey...im a scorpio....im supposed to sting you...that's what i do....thanks for the ride across the water mister turtle...now go die. scorpio rising! " haha like when i threw a trash can at the audience in denver and hit a guy in the face with it and was pissed at him because he sued the band. my fault , my bad. i learn and move on.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

now as for the dreams that we all aspire to in life, the career choices the missions you want to complete in life.....those i think are the highest example of what we should all strive for. too many times a lot of parents tell you to have a plan to fall back on in case your silly music doesnt take off, or in case your paint brushes dry up, or your silly little buildings u like designing topple over.....FUCK THAT NOISE. the reason why there is so much shit in pop culture right now is because of that crippling and invalidating point of view. we are a planet of artists, we create the aesthetic of life. "a culture is only as great as its dreams and it's dreams are dreamed by artists"

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

no i do not think dreams are significant in any way. not the kind that you come up with when you sleep.but if you can write them down afterwards im sure they could work as a great spring board for ideas that can be manipulated further for the sake of painting, stories or music. all those images in your head you are capable of manifesting on your own. they are like a fun house mirror glimpse into your psyche, a pun from the inner dialogue of a reactive mind. paranoia, fear, lack of self confidence ego etc...all warped as an inside joke that is of a useless nature. when you need dreams to make life choices, one can use the actual intuition that being in present time can give you. it has longer lasting elements of control than sleep dreams do. dreams ....the perfect surrealist punchline....

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

time for coffee. must cut back on dry iced americanos with extra shot in them. coffee tends to be like an expectorant so make sure you drink before you eat anything cuz your body wil flush it out along with any and all nutrients previous intake. it also dries you out and dehydrates you, so drink lots of waters after as well or you will have to put the lotion in the basket. im off to get my coffee fix then answer your questions.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes we al have met them. say what you will about them but they are generally really nice fucking people. they came to see us play in new zealand once at a club. all of them did, which was rare for them. james was a little bummed that we didnt play inertiatic. kirk and omar are friends and lars was always inviting us places and being really cool to us. ulrich brought john macenroe to a show in australia and after wards he macanroe and theodore raged into the night until what i heard was like 5 in the morning. macanroe had a match the next day at like 12 or something and whooped the other dudes ass hungover !

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

sapta loka and live private booths did come on vinyl as a limited 7 inch record in the bakers dozen series for GSL. they are on clear vinyl with splattered random paint on it. there is a picture of me on the sticker where the hole on the record is with a mouth instead of a face.(its betty davis's mouth from one of her records that sonny photo shopped in) the other side is a chocolate donut with writing on it as it was the motif for the series. you would pay for the whole collection(a dozen ) and get a new record each month from a random artist who participated in the series. omar and frusciante did one and whole grip of GSL people did one.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

something came over is a throbbing gristle quote

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

have no idea what your talking about ? sorry

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

so many questions, so little memory,so little advice to give. i thank u all of you for your general interest in what we do. i didnt think i would get asked for advice. i really have none to give. just have fun and if you play the game wear horsey blinders and thick skin. thicker than mine. we humans suffer from the constant invalidation of others who project their own failures or lack of experiences at having failed. good roads and fair weather to your enemies and greet each day as if it were your last. remember beauty and taste are in the eye of the holder. be grateful for the fact that you choose to come back and play the game of life in general, if you don't remember its because life has a funny way of making you forget what your mission was in the first place. strive to remember.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes he was fired. unfortunately he overstayed his welcome in volta. he is a fantastic drummer and im glad we could expose him to the fans, some of who had never heard someone play like the way he does. we wish him nothing but positive prosperity in all his future endeavors.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes i have been involved and i was supposed to play the character that ramon play in sentimental(the mexican w long hair) but i had foot surgery and was out for a while and couldnt even walk. but i have done other stuff sense. stuff that is very nonsensical in 200 motels kinda way. im trusting that most people on here have seen or heard 200 motels. if not i have clips on my playlists"centervile"and "magicfingers" are from zappas 200 motels. i dont know exactly what omar will do with it?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

no tetragramma-THONG anymore. it had its time and its place and we played it enough. if we do release the aussie dvd we would have to edit thomas out of it....as per his request to never be used in any and all future recordings(music and film) and i dont know where and it will come out. keep your eyes out for a cool bootleg of it.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i am not aware of any demos for frances. omar wrote everything so i wouldnt say anybody sprinkled anything, but omar steered people in the direction that it became. the drum performances are the way they are because he pushed and pushed for it be performed a certain way. rhythm in cygnus dictates naturally what drums should be doing, bass and keys the same. it was live where everyone sprinkled their personal touches. only demo i know of is a stripped down version of miranda thats just acoustic. u are probably hearing some rehearsal of the songs after or a little before, but generally everybody learned their stuff on the spot and executed it then and there. so i dont know what you are listening too?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

we could never afford john. right now volta is in budget mode. especially after not playing for a year. not entirely sure that he would be into all the lesser amenities of touring like we do. that being said....i dont think it would be in the best interest of what we do to attract any more chilli pepper fans. they, like fans of any huge band, can be rather annoying. if i have to hear the question"where's flea?" in a southern drawl one more time...i think i'll shoot myself. i love those guys but what they built like any big band attracts weirdos. love making music with them but we cant afford body guards and i'm afraid in the volta setting someone might pull a catcher in the rye on poor john. who knows maybe he would be really into it i dont know. i would love to tour with him. not even sure if he's in that head space to do that.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

same goes for cobham george duke shit. well aware of it. maybe not every little detail but i am aware of it. thanks for the suggestions guys.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

its funny a lot of these bands that get suggested to me have opened up for us or have GSL related so ive been aware of jagga jazzist,battles, isis......i dont live under a rock. no offense. of course now something like klaus kinski id never heard. sounds cool. would like to see were they settle into but it was great.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

when we played mexico at flying circus was probably one of the most epic moments in my opinion. we had spent the day before at the pyramids and the audience was pure frenzy. ive never had so many mexican flags thrown at us. i wore one as a cape. 2nd would be our puerto rico show. that was just untouchable, 3rd would be the first time we played italy during our opening slot for les savy fav. all those italian dates were so great, especially playing a legendary castle\/ squat called forte prenestino. 4th spain and there was of course coming home to el paso after all the shit talk of atdi splitting had setteld. it took us a while to get back and when we did we played a beuatiful venue called abraham chavez, which was revenge in and of itself.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i could never play drums for volta

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes soothsayer is something D could actually even improve. no disrespect.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

when i say pridgen as well i mean no can play his parts. his style could be re-imagined.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

sorry but the future looks grim for old volta songs.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes i know of isis...trust me anything remotely metal or heavy has always been handed to us to check out. maybe boris is interesting...but i just cant stand any form of chun chun chun even if its "arty". tired of those boring tones and boring approaches to music. its as if 80% of male musicians are afraid to embrace their feminine side have to stick their balls in their somehow. fuck balls.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i enjoy playing frances the mute the song a lot. i love the tedious beginning and what it does to people. it is equal parts uplifting and menacing. we have only played it a few times, and it was in australia. for the most part im a little over ALL the old songs. i want to get to the point were we dont have to play roulette just to reign the experience back in or any old material. the one thing i have humbly realized is that no one can play theodores parts and do them justice.the only person to come very close was dave elitch. if u pay attention he is the closest. same goes with pridgen as well. we might re-imagine them and play mutated,updated versions of them...despite what people might think.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

ADULT SWIM !!!!!!! especially because back in 2003 they gave a shout out to volta.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

mutantes are legendary the world over. fav songs are ave lucifer and dia 36 i also love the rita lee solo joint ee vou me salvar. pretty fantastic.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

of course i love the hazlewood stuff ! who doesnt!? dusty springfield is ace too !

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

no i dont listen to any old atdu stuff. i was in the band since 95 so i had to listen to that stuff every single day. to say i was burnt out is an understatement. i don't mean to sound snobby but i just can't go there. im proud of the hard work we did and what we accomplished but i cant hear myself like that anymore. you grew up and move on, and you try not to look at your baby photos....because frankly your constantly being reminded about them. great years,great times. love those guys. in fact tony hajjar just sent me two tracks of electronic music to sing on and i cant wait to tackle it. please excuse the snobby attitude we display in our nardwuar interview. we have grown and i can understand how people might be turned off by it.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

one thing i always try and do when i comes to an instrumental melody is to float above it and snake around it creating two paths of focal point to choose from. only really recently have enjoyed mimicking any actual pre exsisting melody by just adding words. im sure i have done that in the past....put it is more natural inclination to make parallel focal points of melody when approaching and song. its what i crave when listening to music and on our new record i do both dual focal points and mimicking the already laid down melody by adding only words as is the common place formula of simplicity in pop music. as in popular music.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

animal collective is great and of course sigur ros is great too.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

about buzzo from melvins comment about volta being a crimson clone, it doesn't bother me one bit. those guys can be scary but at the same time they are some serious elder statesman and oh well what im going to do ? get mad. i've got health, a gorgeous wife, no ass, and i get to play music for a living. i am living a dream that i alone willed into being when i was 4 years old.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

stop HAARPING on his microwave

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

he's making hot pockets that will ooze world order sauce,so just be patient. mufukas gottz ta eat if they gonna prezent uz wif dem ill azz factz

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

patton is untouchable

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

not really a primus fan,sorry,and yes kristin young is rad. its too bad morissey kicked her off the tour for making a joke about him.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

t pain step away from the auto tune and no one will get hurt

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i didnt meet tom baker i just got the book as a gift

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

we should have jumped on that doc who cover along time ago because cmon lets be real hear...the song victorius by muse at least the intro part is the theme of doc who. i met jon pertwee in el paso tx at a doc who convention. he was super cool and said that he liked my name. my fav is tom baker. i have a signed book that he wrote entitled "the boy who kicked pigs" it is an awesome childrens book for the morbid little reclusive artist that has yet to hit puberty. he signed the inside of the book to me and said "have a great tour and something to the effect of...and remember the living are just the dead on holiday!" it was a gift from a friend that worked at the uk part of our then record label.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

tremulant and deloused are two entirely seperate things. although rick wanted to rework them they remained unused.....at least the re recorded version of eunuch and concertina. it just didnt make since to do them over and we also tried changing the key of cut that city for rick....which is floating around from some sneaky asshole who recorded us with out our knowledge when we practiced at swing house in los angeles. so u can probably hear us discussing it on that recording.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

ambuletz was just something we did late night during the end of deloused tracking. we needed a b side and wanted to invent something on the spot. its not much of anything but it was fun making it. it shows a different side of what we do and all the verse vocals are backwards....which make me sound like a banshee in heat

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

thank u for the suggestions. yes i know pere ubu. i really enjoy rocket from the tombs sometimes a little more.....once again if u look up some of our past live performances iv quoted 30 seconds over tokyo a lot.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

grant came to my house when i use to live in venice beach. we were going to try and throw together something for bedlam but he was too busy. he and his wife? or maybe it was his girlfriend that stopped by. he was a general pleasure to be around and maybe sometime in the future i will contact him again and see if he is free for something. i recommend the entire grant morrison catalogue to anyone out there. but i do highly suggest THE INVISIBLES series and THE FILTH series. also look out for any and jodorowsky comics....INCAL, TECHNOPRIESTS, BORGIA etc etc

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

no spanish on the new record. i think sometimes people have the idea that we sit in a kitchen and sprinkle spanglish in our mix just to appease the tongues of a latin based audience. i will say this, the song has to have an alchemical magnetism and a sentient desire to be sung in spanish. u cant just force it. sometimes the sentiment cant be sung in english because sometimes english is just to limiting in emotional resonance. I MUST LEARN TO SPEAK RUSSIAN FOR IT IS A LANGuAGE THAT HAS MANY WAYS OF EXPRESSING ONE THING. sorry no spanish on this record, no zeppelinesque voyages, no santana like flourishes or vishnu accuasations. no congas, no hammond organ stabs, no 30 minute songs, no drums that sounds like mosquitos buzzing in your ear. just future punk. thats the only way to describe it from my point of view.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

new zechs marquise should be out soon and it will slay the udders of cows and pave the streets red with laughter and awe. mark my words, those chuco town fuckers will amaze

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

of course i love the battles. if u do your math correctly, u will have realized that the battles opened for us in japan of 2005. and they also opened up our ATP in camber sands of that year too. they actually played twice because they were a little bummed on having to open up. but when we got there, the first slot was the best....it was fucking packed for them and they just destroyed !!!i dont know that much about tera melos, i asked juan about them and it maybe up my alley? as i've said before, i am currently into loads hans joachim rodelious,moebius,cluster-eno,003cwbr003e0026shy;tangerinedream style shit and lots of burbank late 60s crooner style mellow california AM gold....especially when it has a little psych edge to it. apart from that i cant get enough of that pommegranetes comp that just came out...and yes flying lotus is too boss for words not to mention the gaslamp killer

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i have to say that for me i love the album gluey porch treatments by the melvins. thats as heavy as i'll go. if u put the albums sound into perspective according to year it came out, where it came from, and how un fucking cool(in a minutmen way) they were, then u might just get why its so good. beyond that its content stands alone, and i would suggest anything from their catalogue. may their sludgy dirge tar and feather your very being.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

omar and i have developed into telepathic currents that can finish each other's musical sentences within the bat of one lash. he and i have both been on this earth for many lifetimes and we keep playing the game because its so much fun to play. he and i have set forth postulates at young ages that have blossomed into the fruit that we give to you. it sometimes freaks people out how close we are...and i generally think the more freaked out people become, the more they show how dissatisfied with their own lives they are. although we can be polar opposites sometimes in taste we always manage to come together let the circle remain unbroken. speaking of which......thats my favorite roky erickson song(may the circle remain unbroken. that and "i promise"

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

not sure about odd future, they remind me of the way thomas use to act and thats a bit annoying but the music is cool.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

he was so nice to us and so encouraging.....and i was generally floored and in awe of his presence and last time i saw was at a sunset junction festival in silverlake in CA. i missed my oppurtunity to go to his private screening of brown bunny but omar went. anytime i see him he is super cool to me and i have nothing but immense respect for him as a singer and actor and film maker. i think one of his best performances was in the movie the funeral...for which he had amzing stories about working with benecio del toro.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes we know vincent gallo, he is a really good friend with rick rubin and was present at ricks house when we would listen to playbacks from deloused mixing sessions. he tried to stay in the other room and not be intrusive but we asked him to sit in and listen and i think he generally enjoyed what he heard, he was extremely supportive and had the best stories to tell. he was present for every important pop culture movement that happened. he told us stories of being in a band with basquiat, told us his old b by name(prince vince) and explained the insane process behind getting YES to allow him to use their song in the buffalo66 soundtrack.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

anybody out there ever heard leanord nimoys record "a touch of leonard nimoy...his rendetion of nature boy is just utterly dreamy and reminds me of the twillight zone episode called "COME WANDER". the last horrors record was absolutely genius and lars our engineer has turned me onto a genre of music called rape gaze. awesome. we need more performers like ariel pink and less hot topic spiky hair metal......please!!!!!?????som003cwbr003e0026shy;ebody inforce a mandatory warped tour?ozzfest diet starting ASAP!!!!

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

actually jon theodore was into all that stuff from norway. i know celtic frost is not from there but thats were i draw the line sorry. i would rather listen to porter wagnor and dolly parton, giorgio moroder, or some holland dozier arrangements. i know a lot of you dig some metal but not me. i just dont want to waste my time. all the best to you future headbangers out there but i like my music a little more on the feminine side ...and please don't try and sell me on female fronted metal either....same cookie monster sounding shit to me. ENOUGH METAL SUGGESTIONS AND QUESTIONS PLEASE

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

dear cyrano fransisco send your book to sargent house records. i dont know the address but look on line and get it and send it i will give it a go,cant promise u that i will like it or get it, but hey i admire your chutzpa !

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

believe me i know a lot of metal bands are influenced by what we do....and its a bit embarrassing.i just dont like it.. what i dont like about it is that no matter how u weave it, clever jazz excursions,blues riffs, etc....its kinda dumb music to me. its like training wheels to middle school rebellion. metal is kind of jokey...like a monster truck event. i cant take it serious at all. im sure these bands u speak are good at metal....its just corny to me......its a dead medium. so your angry and your a young man...... i've met young people going through the same roller coaster of hormones that dont find it necessary to hide jock tendencies behind bruttish music. i know i sound snobbish but metal music to me is just caveman music. sorry there is no convincing me.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

fav hip hop rudy ray moore aka dolemite ghetto boys slick rick wu epmd eric b rakim cube

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

FOSS is the first band i ever toured in. we toured up and down the west coast and canada in 1993 and again all over the u.s. in 94. we were across between dinosaur jr,rights of spring, and galaxy 500. busted my tour cherry with them. one of the best front men ever was our singer arlo klahr. our first 7 inch was called the el paso pussy cats named after a chalies angel type pilot for a tv show. we took bowies sufforgate city and perverted it at the end of our song as a joke. i had just dropped out of hight school and was starting community college with my supposed major being in media production technology, but i got bit by the tour bug and have never looked back.members included mike stevens and robert orourke

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

fingers crossed it will be ready for the record version maybe not the CD im trying. copernicus was my homage to julie cruise who is one of my favorite singers. some of u might no her from the movie eraserhead. she sings in heaven and also is the singer at the pink room in twin peaks. i have a couple of her albums. she is truly angelic

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

whats the bands name again ill give it a try. i just cringe at anything with a tag line that has metal in it...but i do have an open mind and i also realize that i would have to see it live to in order to see if it gives me any kind of goosebumps.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

when we finished our opening slot for SOAD with HELLA......omar took zack ,juan,and jonathon to the studio and tracked it. i wasn't there i went home.the material sat around waiting for me to tackle it. so i didnt work with him directly. i think omar shaped all that stuff around set parts and assembled it all together....but he did do it in parts and some of it was done as whole songs at once. we were going to try and do a tour recently but zach broke his foot. one day we will perform that album. that album was like the other choice for all the people that couldnt get with octahedron...shit i never even realized tangerine dream had an album with the same title. some of our new record is a mutated exageration of the direction of the song copernicus....not all but some of it

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes i am working on a book for the new record where the songs sort of serve as trailers for the actual book. as to wether it is any good....shit who knows....im sure people will laugh or maybe they will like it? either way its gonna happen.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

man i want to say its some sort of baritone sax dipped in radioactive sludge that swelled to enormous brass proportions its fucking clean as fuck huh!? that back up group she is with has a total universal congress of \/ lounge lizard \/ mark ribot bone machine era late 80s feel....im so into them !!!!

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

some of those songs might have been around at the end of ATDI but there was a good chunk of time were we developed them after the end of atdi. sorry my memory has been highly affected by my pot smoking so i cant be exactly be sure if maybe some of those songs like cut that city might have been tried out once or shown in an unplugged version. but drunkship,and eriatarka and a bunch of others were from that era were we were assembling the first version of the band.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

im glad someone recognizes the feminine side of what we do...its what keeps us from belonging in any metal related category.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i am not a fan of metal or alt metal. i dont consider mastadon metal but i can see how most people would. if its heavy....at least for me.....it needs to be melvins heavy. i am skeptical of anything in metal especially cuz a lot of it tends to be hot topic sounding or beard and neck tattoo instrumental yawn fest style metal that i just frankly have grown out of along time ago. sorry to point my nose in the air about it....but 90% of metal is boring and male boring at that. i love high and fire but it stops there....maybe sleep.....but it stops there.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

obelisk was an on the spot improv and i dont remember exactly what it sounds like i just remember using my water kettle as an instrument on a part of it. done at a BBc session no there is no conga solo on the new record, in fact there is no percussion like that on the new record. if there is it is minimal and blown like a chad blake?tomwaits production. we have been there and done that...its time to move on. of course i am influenced by james chance...i have been since 1995. we played an ATP in long beach on the same bill as him he was beyond words

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes i support any and all things jon theodore related. iv'e made the unfortunate and immature mistake of spilling dirty laundry about him in the past and i can't begin to tell you how retarded i was for doing so. sometimes you have to explain why u make your choices as to why certain people don't stay in the band very long and when i explained i went over board. he is a great person and an amazing drummer. ODL is awesome and hopefully we will meet up again in the future and make music for the fun of it. check out jon's drumming on albums by bands like ROYAL TRUX,GOLDEN, and any and all things TIM GREEN related. i believe jon also did some work with bonnie prince billy. there are not that many drummers around like him, and everything he does is bombastic beauty.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes chic corea is pure theta and of course romantic warrior has been sitting in my collection for a little while now and it's epic. makes since that its dedicated to LRH.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

im pretty sure i wrote that stuff for THE BIEBER AND BROTHELIZER ....and i dont remember what i called that song all i know is that i never really liked it. there is reason it didn't make it to the record. i know everyone else liked it, but something about just rubbed me the wrong way.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

no we have never met robert plant. we have jimmy page at our show at the roundhouse in the uk. i don't think mr plant would be keen on meeting us due to the fact that i have veered into the territory of sounding like him....which has changed. it gets a bit annoying when people tell u that you are their generation robert plant. i hate that i have given that impression to people, i don't blame them, but it shows were i have failed as an artist when u can get easily pinned down as so and so....... hopefully i've brought something different to the table on our new record, because if and when people say i sound like plant then it has to go deeper than that....because then i sound like two different people . terry reid and plant. terry was the first choice of singers for what eventually became zepp. terry reid's music is fucking amazing. here's to new volta's

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

omar and i own every piece of art we have used from jeff jordan. omar is in posession of the amputechture piece and i've got everything else...even the little santeria pieces we used in bedlam

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes i do warm ups and i study with ron anderson. ron is pure vocal alchemy. he saved my ass. i started working with him on frances as he was suggested to me by omar through frusciante. i went to him to learn how to maintain and i came out learning how to do it correctly. i suggest him to any body. yes i do hour long warm ups before every time i sing and usually5 to 15 minute warm downs after the show. my diet changed in order to keep up with doing 2 to 3 hour shows.(being vegan means weak ass protein) the worst my voice has been was in atdi, and recently with volta when we played brazil(i hadn't sung in a year...so i lost what i had and have been seeing ron ever since to get me back into shape. which he has done for me. ron is an amazing man with amazing stories from his experiences from working with every one from bjork to axle rose and everything in between pop to rock to classical. i owe him my life.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

HOLY FUCK BATMAN DID ANYONE CATCH LAURIE ANDERSON'S PERFORMANCE ON JIMMY FALLON!!!??? SHE JUST SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF THAT FUCKING AUDIENCE AND MIDDLE AMERICA. BRAVO JIMMY FALLON! IT TAKES BALLS TO PUT HER ON YOUR SHOW!!! DAMN I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!!

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i suggest scott walker album with the song called duchess the whole album is incredible. not for remedial metal head prog thugs. but if you are open to it i recommend all his solo joints. you might be familiar with his music as it was featured in the radiohead movie meeting people is easy. the scene were thom yourke is jus chilling in his hotel room and the opening lyric from the song says"wasn't a good year..." thats scott walker. of course i am assuming a lot of u know his music already. he makes sunday morning ladies records that make jarvis cocker swoon like a school girl.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

will let me say this about glossolalia, i use it as means of honoring your mistake as a hidden intention, and i also use it as a way to make new roads that sometimes end up being the path most used. even though i am 36 i still consider myself a kid so the proper term would be idioglossia(child jibberish) and yes a lot of the times when i am not quoting my fav song i use glossolalia as a form of incantation to see just what it is that i am picking up on from the cluttered inner dialogue of the audience. one channel at a time. it is a real fun way sketching

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

july in brisbane ata festival called splendor in the park in oz hopefully

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

lately ive been trying to embrace my inner croon by way of my immense love for scott walker. so i don't do a lot of that chipmunk stuff. i did the shit out of it and im ready to move on. there are still traces of it but im trying something just a little different.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

cotopaxi is difficult to sing because of the time signature it's in and because of the high notes in the chorus. easy standing still sometimes, hard when your trying to perform. cassandra gemini is hard because there is a not a lot of breathing time in the actual song part as well as the repetition of the chorus at the end. when i first tried to tackle the widow i couldn't do it so i asked ron anderson to help me with it. the chorus is difficult...so he wrote the lyrics out for phonetically and told me not over enunciate the E in free...and pronounce it frea like lead. that always makes all the difference in the world and is the reson why pop songs dont get WORDY cuz its difficult when u stray from common vowels that usually are easy to hit also wax simulacra is hard to sing full on and i often resort to a nasaly falsetto especially when im sick like on letterman. i was sick and couldnt hit it like the record

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

im trying not be a dick about but im sorry, i often suffer from a reactive mind. im only human so here it goes.....what the fuck is wrong with that silly group of mimes that called themselves atlas of id? that is annoying. they took the first 3 records and turned it into a pocket pussy. what they cant invent their own style of music to fuck. where is my rape whistle? oh well they take the most boring parts and mimic it. no soul at all. fucking pure xerox machine.....maybe i should sit on them so they can xerox my ass. at least then they would sound like a bunch of assholes. until then they sound like pocket pussy fuckers.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

have not been to reno since atdi days. your request will not go unnoticed. hopefully we can do something about that for you man.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

@quelub...thank you for the support.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes i love joy division and bat for lashes and yes puerto rico back in 2003 was really fucking cool. ive never seen so many kids that actually looked liked omar(in hair and dress) we spent time at a bar called aqui se puede in old san juan. great audience, we go back there really soon for a festival. keep your eyes peeled. tim and eric are great. odd side note one of them were in a face painter hardcore band from philly that tried to promote some funny kind of vampire shtick. they were called ink and dagger. not my cup of tea but most assuredly a force to be reckoned with. tim or eric also make videos for bands. one the best ones ive seen is a video for health which is just fucking great.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

@defyvoxpopuli...of course those are the great things about the internet. im all for the positive applications that we all can use for education, promotion and idea exchange...it's the lazy little fucks out there who believe it's all free. paying for shit does more than let an artist buy the perks in life, it enables jobs and further tours and furthers advancement in being able to buy other things that inspire and enable progress with art. whenever people steal or buy bootleg flicks that hurts the smaller artist, even when the artist has high visibility....they are probly suffering just like every body else is in these fuct financial times. people need stop the whole wave file bullshit and come back to a time when a record collection took up space in your home not your itunes library. this supports and creates jobs for artists,print presses, vinyl presses etc etc

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i would be a court stenographer

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

BBQBram i dont understand your question? hopefully you dont think because our merch or background has the imagery that it means we are of that persuasion. much like steven king writing a book about werewolves it doesn't mean he is a werewolf himself....although i do think steven king likes to bark at the moon.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

sure quote this for your paper "THE INTERNET IS SINGLE HANDEDLY DESTROYING ANY PROSPECTS FOR TEEN AGE MUSICIANS OF TODAY TO MAKE A LIVING AS ADULT MUSICIANS OF TOMORROW.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

hmmmm let's see , something unsavory, and there was tagging involved?....there could only be one child prodigy smart enough, degraded enough, and artistically impotent enough to do that. anybody want to try and fill in the blank. then again as high as i was back then it could have been me. but yeah ummm not cool, in fact a bit ashamed by that...what were we on warp tour?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

weed just got boring and predictable and no offense to our old drummer but the way he treated weed completely turned me off to it. i can spend money and time on real things that matter now. being in present time is the best. i out grew weed and over stayed my welcome. it doesn't do anything for me anymore....in short...i grew up

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

what is the maida vale wall?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

the audience only needs to stand in the back of the train when it comes to things like personal change set lists caliber of music mistakes and all general items that fall under the obsolete argument of taste. just let us have fun, lose yourself in it, give into it, don't fight it and more importantly turn your cell phones off and treat it like your favorite film. uncross your arms and get real gone

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

that being said i dont mind taking photos with fans but i would love for the fan base to walk away with something more than the tired machinations of what audiences tend to be like. i can appreciate the effort people make when they draw a picture of me....but omar and i don't need anymore...because we have mirrors. if you want to give us a gift or say thank you...then try thinking outside the box....fuck we try and think outside the box when we present our music so why not the audience. with out our fans we would be nothing. i thank the heavens below that anyone had the balls to listen to us. to all the nice fans out there and in particular all the smart fans out there thank you so much, it is always a pleasure to walk out and be greeted by your enthusiasm

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i stopped smoking weed is what happened. you could say i am not as much of an asshole who lives in a bubble. also there is that pesky little rodent sewing circle called the comatorium who tend to make me wary of fans. i realize not all fans are as bad as those people.....but if you are part of those"communities" then u have missed the point of the band all together....city after city, we try and take people somewhere only to be met with stupid questions,photo ops,and dozens of drawings of me or omar. i can appreciate the interest but sometimes it feels like people aren't REALLY listening. cont-

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

oh i didn't realize i said something about pulling a LOLLIPOP KID (shitting on a midget....wizard of oz reference) but yeah i seemed to remember some sort of brain fart happening there. wrong chords?wrong key? fun times.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i don't remember everything i say at shows, and when you are trying to kill time cuz of tech difficulties or as in bonaroo were we fucked up at the begining of goliath....u try and humanize the situation by saying shit to laugh at yourself

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i think storm still has them some where...at least the originals. i also should add that at the time of that comment we had unresolved issues with storm but omar and him have reconciled since then. we have nothing but love and immense respect for storm. check out the trailer for a doc about him. i posted it on one of my playlists. should debut at SXSW we probably only have access to a copy of it.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i don't know what story involving midgets, and poop being thrown you are talking about? i need more specifics as to where u heard this from. perhaps we were being sarcastic in an interview....was it volta related?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes in particular a film called GOZU

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

thank you to all my russian,muslim,swedish,jewish,003cwbr003e0026shy;christian friends who i met during the purification rundown program. you have reminded me of what i forgot i already knew. we are bonded by niacin,salt,potassium, water and sweat. thank you for having my back and thank you for helping me during a trying time of detoxification. especially all sea org members for helping me out.SPECIAL THANKS TO MY WIFE FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THE TEACHINGS OF LRH....you reminded me that .....as roky erickson says....i have always been here before. we promised each other that we would find one another again....i am glad i found you again. our love spans lifetimes. SPIRIT MIND FLESH

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i have completed the purification rundown program and the ups and downs in life course. i am eagerly awaiting to begin the fundamentals of thought course as well. yes these are all courses offered through scientology. so to answer your question....yes i utilize the tech that scientology offers through it's APPLIED religious philosophy. I AM ALREADY PAINFULLY AWARE THAT THIS WILL DISAPPOINT COUNTLESS DROVES OF FANS but for those of you who PRACTICE TOLERANCE then thank you for being open minded, for those who have a problem with it....then go ahead a spend your every waking moment discussing my personal life choices and go ahead and let it ruin your perception of me. thank you to all my russian,muslim,swedish,jewish,003cwbr003e0026shy;christian friends who i met during the purification program.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

new volta still needs to be mixed and needs artwork. and all that is still up in the air. which could take a while.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes i am a fan of jimmy chamberlain he is a great drummer. yes i prefer the TLA over electric factory too, but let us not forget that the TLA(back during the murder city devils ATDI tour) had employed an disgruntled p.e. coach as head of security. this same asshole assaulted omar for no reason at all and threw a barrage of racist puerto rican slurs at him while dragging him by his hair and punching him. electric factories stage is ridiculously high....almost spinal tap in its proportion....but great staff and fun to play.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i can appreciate the sentiment of missing certain eras but i must stress that nostalgia is the sign of a dying culture. within the culture we have cultivated through our music the caveat was written in our name ....mars(foreign to this earth) volta (change). so please understand that emphasis on the later part of the name. when we did an 8 piece, people said they missed the smaller version of the band....and so on and so on. it is a new era. chances are people won't like it and that is the good. it is our job to stir it up. people tend to ask a lot of us and place a high demand on what we do, so all i can ask of you guys is to let some of it go and save it for the time capsule of where u were at that moment. baby pictures are more profound when death rears its beautiful scythe to severe all that was so that any and all remembrance can be done at the eulogy of the project. artistically speaking of course.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i havent sang on any of omars stuff because if i love a song of his...i usually ask him to make it a volta song. i took a year off and was not interested in doing anything volta or ORL related because for me i needed to get away from it all for a while. there has rarely been a significant amount of time off and i wanted a lot more than usual. i needed time to commit to the purification rundown program and i needed to reconstruct my psyche. omar does not stop, but me i need breaks...even if it was a year off. besides i think the fanbase has benefited from hearing different singers with omar. my shit can get a little stale real fast and both he and ximena are great singers with different style that are great.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

we will try. having said that....there are some shady promoters down in south america....and some nice ones too. it costs us money to play down there so maybe. eventually we will but nothing in the next 4 months or so sorry.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

of course there is no reason why we shouldn't be playing tijuana and we would have already but there are always politics within managers that are naked to the fans eyes. we would have played mexico in general had it not been for the fact that within the stable of bands one manages, there are other bands trying to be pawned off in the same areas that dont do so well in places outside of US and UK. we got the short end of the leash because promoters cant make an audience appear for certain bands and we are used as a trade for a job well done with less popular bands. like a trading game or a game of cards. and we need these people or we get shafted by incompatent kid promoters or sleazy adult ones

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

13 moons was not an influence as far as it affecting me. i have not seen it yet but i can say that fassbinder is an influence on omar. perhaps it was playing on one of the multiple tv sets in omars wall of tv's but i dont remember. one of the down falls of smoking weed.....memory loss. hence a music stand with lyrics on stage. according to some fans it's an eye sore. fuck it if john lydon used one in early PIL days then ok by me. then again people need to get over their whole american idol rules of performance. maybe i should just bust out a a huge evangelical podium with a design on the front that can be slung at the audience and whipped back into my hands. whiplash sermon and all.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

my backgrounds are just as god made them. as a man i can relate to scratching my private parts while wearing a unitard, in a pensive moment, just before i enact a rather funion like grip on my opponent ....in the name of that guy who has holds the world record for most consecutive kicks in a game of hacky sack....yeah thats right jesus.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

with my lunarprowl and memphistopheles videos i was just trying to make something for the proverbial skulker. something that maybe induced the spirit of what the manson family dubbed "creepy crawling". i have not seen the any cranes video that looks like it but with humans....what comes around goes around. i just made them on my i phone from when i lived in the hills. the music from lunarprowl is from cluster and eno.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes there will be more info coming soon about the new record. keep your ears and eyes peeled because omar and i are in negotiations with the makers of PAJAMA JEANS for a campaign for the new record. if you like the comfort of pajamas but the hard contour of jeans then keep your ears to the ground.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

my bad i should have been more specific. i meant to say charlie sheen built the pyramids......with an arsenal of colorful language, a life coach named Farroukh, and an ab roller. can we at least agree on the fact that clapton invented the blues? i mean come on can't we all get along?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

please watch one of el paso's own jewels...JJ ARMS. why no one....mainly i mean you cohen brothers...have not made a movie about this el paso legend......is beyond me !!! and yes there were action figures of him in the 70's....with interchangeable hooks. im not kidding. right up there with steve crosno,chuy de la O, bobby fuller, and F murray abraham, ...all el paso legends.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

what pepsi thing are talking about? there are official volta sites and RLP sites u should check. a lot of time i dont know whats EXACTLY happening...i just hear it once then forget..then show up and play. i got too much on my plate to think about when it comes tour dates......like....if snooky is eating fried pickles or if the situation is dealing in grenades

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

will be posting a 16 min jam from the vatonegro show recorded on my flip soon

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

last nights opening band for vatonegro was a group called APOLLO. great energy , armed with a very dirty arsenal of sludgy yet sometimes manic old school rock histrionics. in the vein of blue cheer being molested by pentagram while wearing the tattered fringes of sabbath. one of mexicos best psych rock jems. for those of you who like your psych rock hairy,skinny and fuzzy...then this is for you. don't know if they will ever make it over to the states but if you ever head south of the border, then go see them. my favorite track was called LOBO. lots of fun.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

last nights VATONEGRO show was so much fun. the mexican audience was in epic form as usual. sorry world but nobody beats the mexican audience. there are just enough unimpressed haters out there....whose tone level is below bored and angry that make some shows an uphill battle of crossed arms and furrowed brows....but mexico shows are overflowing with passion. only italy and spain can compare. thats just my opinion. i usually cant see all the excited people in the darkness of a show...so if you are one of the few who give back the energy that we sometimes put out...then thank you. the rest of you guys need to watch any volta related shit in mexico.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

peter yes lord is that old joke where peter had to go through hell and back just to get near jesus as he's on the croos. through roman soldiers, through spectators, up a ladder...until finally he gets up to jesus and he says ...yes lord what is it...and jesus says....i can see your house from up here. hence the song repeating it over peter yes lord peter yes lord....i can see your house from up here.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

hell yes i believe in UFO'S what you think a bunch of malnourished, dehydrated, slaves used a really snazzy pulley system to build the pyramids....fuck no its called the 800 giants that were the spawn of the annunaki. all hail ancient sumerian culture.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

would love to play witht the melvins and we used see dale alot cuz his wife new theodore. i love that band...but the problem is that buzz has openly dissed us in some interview and called us crimson rip off. oh well can't please everybody and i still have nothing but respect for them. i recorded in their practice space with a project including christian from triclops. in my video called baunch therapy that the melvins practice spot and that dale's giant cymbal.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

oso track says thank you for the attention. maybe when all this volta stuff is finally cooked up i will jump back on my tracks.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

in mexico. going over record with everybody. late night cereal club contests, and general relaxation. cant wait to hear rich costey mix our record. new eternals album out called approaching the energy field......fantastic record...and one one that grows on you.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

amputech was like a tv show with different episodes as songs. crypt is jus random

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

kathleen hanna is an amazing singer and i would love to work with her. which reminds of a youtube clip i watched the other of an episode of rosanne where she gets turned onto the concept of riot girl...and listens to bikini kill. my favorite BK jam is rah rah replica......now i live on a new street baby now i live on a new street yeah! today sonny kay and worked on a t shirt design while listening to clikitat ikatowi featuring mario rubalcaba on drums....the song identity crisis by them has a lot of influence on ATDI too. small interesting tidbit. mario was almost going to be voltas drummer before we got a hold of jon theodore. omar had called him up to jam.can't remember why i didn't happen? mario plays in OFF and EARTHLESS...he use to skate for alva skate boards and man ! he is a monster drummer..check his shit!

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

manupod was just a way of saying human vessel, cadaver, carcass. in my humble opinion we all suffer from the prison of flesh. the manupod. crescent in shape....as in a body jumping off a bridge and the image of it's shape being like that of a crescent moon.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

last i heard the melvins were at the airport when the earthquake hit so i think they are ok, they were just stuck and had to cancel a show. im pretty sure they are ok. bless the melvins and high on fire....

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

sending healing postulates to the melvins and high on fire who are trapped in christ church cuz of the earthquake and to the residents of christ church...hang in there

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

my record collection is relatively small. when i moved from venice beach i threw a lot of impulse buys away. i use to buy records simply because the cover looked cool and was usually stuck with a lot of crap that had one great moment or song that recorded digitally then discarded. i was in the habit of dropping 800$ per record store visit. usually at freak beat records on ventura blvd. the two owners of the store have great taste in music and i can usually walk in their and hear what they are playing on their p.a. system and buy it. they are that consistent. it's small and they have about 5 working turntables that you can privately listen to on head phones. their restrooms are clean and it's never packed. amoeba is great for when i want to dig in their ethnic music section.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

fav fugazi jams are ones that feature joe lally on the vocals. also anything off of red medicine and in on the kill taker

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

speaking of percy,as the rest of zepp use to call mr plant because of his eloquent handling of the ladies...if you haven't heard mr. plant play harmonica on the primal scream song called the lord is my shotgun...then go out and buy that album...its an album called evil heat and its got the best fucked up garage rock\/electronic fuzzed out future psych jams ever!!

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

no he didn't come to a show. i think robert plant would hate us and i don't blame him. jimmy page came to our show at the roundhouse in london once and he was super nice, we know his daughter well because she is a photographer who documented a lot of ATDI shows when we were getting hyped in the uk.her name is scarlet page. i made the mistake of asking her what her last memory of bonham was.....not realizing she was one of the last people to see him alive on the night he passed. i felt utterly stupid but she was such a good sport about it. she is the coolest and and damn great photographer

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

yes thats me in alfaro's part. haven't skated with him in forever. lucero told me he would do a volta\/alfaro board, but it never came to see the light of day. adam wrote a song on his gameboy for me, deantoni played over it . it will come out soon. like a teenage punk version of the primal scream track kill all hippies. yes i love the smiths. in fact the song title "miranda that ghost just isn't holy anymore" is a play on the song "that joke just isn't funny anymore". just the title not the actual song. i met johhny marr at night night club once, and he expressed liking omar's guitar work...he said something to the effect of liking it cuz of it's latin influence. i was stoked and in awe. thank for the comparison, but i would never put us in the same class....maybe a more suitable comparison would michael knight and his car kit, frik and frak, cagney and lacey, bo and luke duke, captain cave man and son, EPMD, milli and vanilli, sid and marty kroft.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

there is a story being planned for the new record.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

my wife gave me the fountainhead to read, its sitting above my little collection of"to read" books. no defacto planned. but maybe? i started trying to write something for frances but i settled for what it became. i think the fact that the album works as a book on tape with all the incidental sound design and art work , is in and of itself a story with out training wheels. maybe it lacks the focus of telling you exactly what we trying to communicate, but i think the audience would be able to fill in the blanks with their imagination.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

ebullition had a wonderful aesthetic...even if it all started looking the same. was indian summer on that label? assfactor 4? was it from goleta? i was more of a gravity records kind of geek. particularly antioch arrow and angel hair. in fact if you listen closely to the angel hair full length....the atdi song arcarsenal was a complete rip off of the first song on their record. there's might have sounded a little different but you can tell how young and impressed i was by them as well as the VSS. sonny kay is an incredible lead singer and lyricist.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

i take it malcom cato is mrr? heliocentrics make wonderful albums. they are the missing link of ethiopian jazz funk....god what a corny description. anybody out there who has not heard these records needs to get on the train before it's gone. look it up under wax poetics. my favorite music mag.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

who is MRR? the zine?

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

of course i've heard of los crudos. every where i turned my head in 1995 that record was there to greet me. screen printed cover in silver paint on a cardboard baclground. limp wrist is great too. can't touch that band. i heard there was a reunion show. crudos were friend with a lot of el paso punks from the lower valley.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

my microphone is the sonic screwdriver, volta is the tardis, and every album is the new companion that comes and goes.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

the inspiration behind frances the mute is from jeremy ward. he use to be a repo man for a short while. his stories and collections from the different vehicles he use repo held all the inspiration. omar still owns a lot of those items, namely a diary whose passages we lightly mirrored and created the non linear narrative.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

only working on volta right now. ive cut some drums for a track that thavius beck donated to me and when i get around to it, i will sing and ask some of my favorite players to play on it. he has donated a grip of stuff to me and so has deantoni parks. when i get free time i will try and finish. all my time this whole year off has been devoted to volts with the exception of a project with christian from triclops with me on drums. i dont really think my lyrics are that cryptic, if you use a dictionary and are well versed in humor and pop culture then it's not that out there. in this day and age...we have the internet to fill in the blanks of what might seem alien. it's not like i write in ancient sumerian .....you just have to roll up your sleeves and work a little harder.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

kotex was a joke. as in..... sanitary napkins, which is the name of our new record ...INSANITARY NAPKINS......cuz the music makes you bleed like fucking crazy !

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

mars volta needs more fans that express themselves through art rather than expressing the unmeasurable and intangible inconsistency of taste in message boards and comment sections. even to the people who stand up for us ...you need to start creating more. the real truth is that we are all artists. 80% of us seemed to have forgotten this.....the other 20% are out here playing this non stop game. don't you want to play too? wouldn't you rather occupy your time building up the aesthetic of living? for every blank canvas out there .....there is a spirit waiting to fill it. LESS PRISONERS MORE JAIL BREAKS.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

you said mooger fooger!

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

we will be giving away little tidbits very soon. we are one step ahead of you. keep your eyes peeled. the picture on the right is of me and jeremy in juarez in 2001. this is around the time defacto was in full effect. just went through an old storage unit of mine that i have not opened in 8 years. inside i found a grip of volta and atdi photos. every pair of pants and shirt i used to wear in a box and an old ghetto blaster that doesnt work that was always perched on omars amp during atdi shows. its the same ghetto blaster on the cover of vaya, which was an unconscious rip off of the last trenchmouth record cover from their album entitled the broadcasting system. it has fred armisen from SNL on drums and you might actually hear a shit load of where defacto got it's kick start. augustus pablo, trenchmouth, king tubby,and sandinista were sort of the roots of what we did. in the words of portlandia..we were being openly "reggae".

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

umm....using weed to listen to music with is kinda weird. your own imagination is in there just waiting to take hold. no offense but i don't smoke weed anymore nor do i condone it. it's a drug...any way you look at it. and it's not natural. hydroponics, to mutate something so that you can get fucked up is not natural. i would prefer our audience to actually have the balls to hear us sober. the music is the high. no training wheels or additives. just raw perception. but thank you for liking the music. now try it sober.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

sorry for the shitty show in chile. everyone else was in top shape but not me. i don't consider myself a musician or a singer. the only thing i am really guilty of is not finding the spirit on those two south american dates. i also despise playing festivals. its the worst way to see a band and a pain in the ass for what we do. there are only really a hand full of festivals that work. im only human. not an entertainer or a performer. just a tangent inconsistency with no ass and curly hair. next time i will be pure spirit.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

thank you for all the nice comments. thank you for ever taking the time to listen. hopefully the one thing one can walk away with when we make new records...is that nostalgia is the sign of a dying culture. if you were there then that is yours to keep. our gift to you at that very moment. remember it well. for now we will embark on what we think are new sounds, new approaches, new landscape tantrums. see you in your hometown very soon.

lunarpower666 (1 year ago)

new volta almost done. vocals done. just trying rebutcher it and add bass and finish guitar. in studio until this week then on to mexico to add more quantum entanglement to it. the sonogram of the little beast is looking very good.