Talk:The Mars Volta
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Drugs
There's a lot of drug references in the article, which I wasn't sure what I thought of. In a way, they almost seem a bit editorializing, and not focusing on the facts of what the band actually does. However, I didn't want to remove the drug discussion...if that is a fair thing to mention with regards to the band, I'm all for keeping it in, but I don't know the band well enough to make that call. Does anybody have an opinion on this, or information they can point to that discusses the band's drug usage? EvilPhoenix
I thought exactly the same thing. I've only heard vague references about the band using drugs, not any explicit statements citing that the band ever did or does endorse marijuana or any other illegal drug. Although many of their "characters" like Cerpin Taxt abuse drugs, this does not mean that they necessarily follow suit. I think these drug references should be removed until we have a more objective view of this situation. (As an aside, I should like to point out that I don't really care if TMV does or doesn't do drugs; I just don't want to misrepresent them here.) Cassius987
- Alright, I am going to remove the drug references that seem somewhat POV, in my mind. If anyone objects to that edit, please discuss it here. EvilPhoenix 18:29, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
I think that EvilPhoenix's edit was definitely the right move since the band is supposedly clean right now (minus marijuana use by Omar, for its "songwriting enhancing" properties). Matterson52
Punk Rock...
I'm not sure about my classification of Mars Volta as punk rock, but it's the closest thing I could think of. - CrazyCanuck
I'd say they are a primarily Progressive Rock band instead of Punk Rock..
i saw the mars volta at the filmore last year in SF, and hands down it was the best show ive ever been to. JoeSmack (talk)
Fix
Fixed the information about Jeremy, mainly just cleaning / polishing it (and fixing the spelling of Inertiatic from "Intertiatic".
Added information about L'via.
Major Revision
Tonight I'm going to do some major revising for this page, basically just putting things into a table of contents, removing album-specific details to their proper pages, and writing a bit more history and such. I've already updated the members and album lists, since they were stagnant. Time to get down to work. CRTrue
Cleaning Service
Good, it's up for cleaning. Now perhaps some work will get done. Crtrue
Contributing Artists
I'm moving the Contributing Artists sections to their respective albums, since that makes more sense (at least to me). Junkyardprince | Tark 01:29, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Picture
There are tons of good pictures of the band out there, we don't need that one anyway.
Huge source of pictures (http://www.thecomatorium.com/board/index.php?showtopic=35237)
New Tour Info
I put up that they were touring with SOAD "in Europe beginning May 27th" and someone took it down to replace it with "in the USA" which is just plain wrong. Please dont change it back again.
paul
someone work this info in
http://www.thecomatorium.com/board/index.php?showtopic=39429