Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group - Live in Cambridge, Massachusetts
March 30th, 2011 @
Middle East
w/ Zechs Marquise
Setlist
Notes
In Spring of 2011 The Mars Volta returned, only they were touring under the guise of the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez group for reasons not worth getting into here. For a brief run of shows the band began to debut the material that would be featured on Noctourniquet when it was released over a year later. Their show in Boston is incredibly powerful, with a relentless 25-minute Jacob Jam starting things off. The audio quality is a little rough (the NYC show the day before has a cleaner boot although the show is much worse), but the performance is worth straining your ears just a little bit.
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Show Recording(s)
Recording Information:
Taper: Horacio Oliveira (horiveira.com)
Source: CA-11 > CA-9100 > Tascam DR-07 > WAV > Logic Pro [EQ, Limiter] > WAV > FLACFLAC > WAV with xACT > Audacity to re-track > WAV > FLAC & 320kbps MP3 2020-11-30
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Tour Era
As was often the case with The Mars Volta, the end of a tour often indicated the next album was just right around the corner, its menacing fangs peering in the shadows. Things instead were a little more confusing than that this time around, with a plethora of mixed signals and false starts that ultimately led to the band’s splintering. While the Octahedron tour technically concluded in late 2010 wit... read more