{"id":1147,"date":"2008-01-18T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-18T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T00:38:08","slug":"could-i-dig-the-mars-volta-if-i-only-lis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/could-i-dig-the-mars-volta-if-i-only-lis\/","title":{"rendered":"Could I Dig The Mars Volta If I Only Listened to Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the whole show is better than the parts, wouldn&#8217;t you say? A couple of weeks ago I caught <strong>The Mars Volta<\/strong> on <strong>Henry Rollins<\/strong>&#8216; talk show, which I come across on some music cable station now and then. I&#8217;d <em>heard<\/em> a little bit of this band before and was slightly impressed by all the noise they cooked up, but mostly I laughed at how over the top it was. <em>Seeing<\/em> them play this racket, however, was much more impressive. I was still laughing at how over the top it was, but I got into the revolutionary vibe. It was like Hendrix, Miles, Santana, the MC%, and Geddy Lee decided to jam. <strong>Hrrundi<\/strong> and <strong>Saturnismine<\/strong>, I&#8217;m especially interested in hearing what you think of this:<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8YLDb2hiLU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd this:<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghZulDIbsvY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Has anyone tried listening to these guys without accompanying visuals? Does it hold up, or is the <em>Rilly Big Shoe<\/em> as essential as I fear I&#8217;d find it should I shell out the money for one of their albums?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the whole show is better than the parts, wouldn&#8217;t you say? A couple of weeks ago I caught The Mars Volta on Henry Rollins&#8216; talk show, which I come across on some music cable station now and then. I&#8217;d heard a little bit of this band before and was slightly impressed by all the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/could-i-dig-the-mars-volta-if-i-only-lis\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}