Its 2024 and I still come back here. One of the most underrated bands of all time. The friction in the chemistry, the complex, chaotic beauty of the music, the energy. This band was, is and always will be perfection. The band the taught me, 24 years ago, that doing your own thing, your own way, is the most beautiful thing
The guitar is Jim's Gibson 61' SG Jr. He said his parents bought it for him when his guitar playing became more serious and it was his favorite. Ultimately it was lost (I think during the Sparta days) when their van was broken in to.
Rarely ever do you see so much raw energy coming out of five people on stage. They are drowning in this song, Omar forgets to sing in front of the mic, Cedric forgets the lyrics, Jim forgets to sing. This incredible performance had beet floating around RUclips in potato quality for years. Thank you so much BBC for reviving it in all its glory.
Not sure why there are not many more tributes to this Greatness?? This band changed my life when I was a teen. One of the most under-rated bands of all time!
Somehow forgot Cedric plays rhythm on this. Even stranger in HD. Probably a good thing only grainy videos of ATDI existed on YT when I was a teenager because the 16 yo fangirl me couldn’t handle the HD Cedric lol
From a guitarist's point of view, even though Cedric doesn't usually play guitar, he's surprisingly good at rhythm guitar, and add to that, his singing, making it all pretty impressive. Jim Ward sounds really cool on keys. Omar sounds good in this too. I don't know why in the "One Armed Scissor" performance, Omar is mostly doing feedback, then eventually throwing his guitar, and dancing the rest of the way! I want to see the "One Armed Scissor" performance in this quality! They all had this crazy energy and were super interesting to watch. This is a great version of Rolodex Propaganda, though. Better than the studio version, IMO.
I think a string or two went out of tune early on in One Armed Scissor. It seemed like he tried to play around it at first, then gave up and went wild instead lmao
Paul and Tony never get the credit they deserve and are always overlooked in favour of Omar, Cedric and Jim due to the split. Enfilade is a fantastic track and their rhythm section makes the track complete. The drumming is amazing on that track.
A lot of people kinda think it was just omar and cedric being weird but honestly that performance was not their fault imo. Omar's guitar seems to have some sort of fucked jack or something cause you'll see him fiddling with it a lot when it gets really feedback heavy especially when he plays pattern against user. This performance was before he started getting other guitars so he only had the two squires. The video shows that his guitar goes out of tune and the feedback starts bleeding in so he quickly swaps to a different one and then the high e-string breaks off so he just gives up (because he has no more guitars at this point) and picks up a tamborine. Its actually kinda cool that although the performance was basically over they managed to kinda play it off.
That makes a lot of sense that the jack for the guitar was all messed up. It’s happened to me live once, so I understand the frustration that Omar must’ve had during One-Armed Scissor.
Saw them at T in the park the same year, sandwiched between aereogramme and my vitriol. Going into a random tent to get out the rain changed my entire musical taste.
The way the barely coherent feeding-back guitar rejoins back into the chorus around 0:58 is the best example of why the insanity of ATDI works. It's mental beyond comprehension, but it's beautiful order out of chaos.
omar sounds unwound as hell here, down to the feedback. that said, both bands ran at roughly the same time to each other, so it's just great minds thinking alike, really.
This is intense. While I appreciate that, I gotta say for me, I prefer the studio version. I'll never forget the first time I saw them live, it was a shock to my system.
Well yeah. The whole album was produced by Ross Robinson. And the studio version has Iggy Pop on it. Of course it’s going to be better than a live rendition
@@michaelgraham9774 100% agree, Jim’s vocals are fucking amazing live, it’s got so much raw emotion. I’d even argue that Jim’s vocals sound better than Cedric’s.
BRO i was honestly surprised when i saw this, at 0:04 you can see Jim accidentally pick up the wrong instrument but he corrects himself and you can see Cedric get kinda pissed at him so he double checks him when he looks left and back right. funny enough this is when Omar and Cedric weren't getting along with Jim which is unfortunate because it foreshadows what happens in the future. thankfully TheMarsVolta is coming back soon so im looking forward to it.
Cedric fucked up more than his fair share of songs with his shenanigans. I don’t think he’s in any position to complain to Jim. Jim, Tony and Paul kept every song from falling apart.
@@0161GHM It's been a while since I've seen it, but from memory: performance ends and camera pans to Jools and Robbie looking a bit shell shocked. Robbie made a comment to the effect "Oi, my mate says he wants his chair back" 😅
This is genuinely the greatest performance in Jools Holland history. I'd say it's the best live performance in TV history if not for the Wolf Like Me performance TV On The Radio did on Letterman.
Seeing this in HD is unreal. This is such an incredible and important document, of a band in their prime, a fireball that burned brightly and suddenly went out way too soon
Holy crap I have the same SG but in black! It has a Texas sticker in the same place as his sticker but just a little smaller. 1991 SG1 is the model of mine.
I saw these guys play in Reading at a leisure centre a few years ago. Cedric entered the stage by throwing a plastic gym chair and destroying it in the process!
It's sloppy, incoherent, disjointed, intoxicated, unrehearsed, and could've been better....but damnit it is beautiful. Punk rock just hasn't been the same since Relationship Of Command....don't at me.
*PLEASE UPLOAD ONE ARMED SCISSOR IN THIS GLORIOUS QUALITY.* Come on folks, sign the petition!
Please!
pleaseeeee
Pleeeeeaseeee
Especially if they leave in Robbie Williams' reaction at the end 🤣
🙏🙏
Its 2024 and I still come back here. One of the most underrated bands of all time. The friction in the chemistry, the complex, chaotic beauty of the music, the energy.
This band was, is and always will be perfection. The band the taught me, 24 years ago, that doing your own thing, your own way, is the most beautiful thing
Absolutely. Refused might be my favorite band, but this is my favorite song
Indeed
Well said.
The final sentence of this comment nearly made me shed a tear. Awesome.
Amazing to see an At The Drive-In video in HD
Amazing to see Cedric playing a guitar in HD
Right. They need to re-upload one armed scissor.
Especially compared to the other version they had on RUclips. Amazing difference in quality
Cedric playing the guitar is something I never thought I'd see.
me too
That SG special is a really cool guitar too
look up ZAVALAS foo .
The guitar is Jim's Gibson 61' SG Jr. He said his parents bought it for him when his guitar playing became more serious and it was his favorite. Ultimately it was lost (I think during the Sparta days) when their van was broken in to.
@@Awstihn shoot that's really sad, man
Jesus. I'm not used to seeing ATDI live footage in such high quality.
So unusual.
Rarely ever do you see so much raw energy coming out of five people on stage. They are drowning in this song, Omar forgets to sing in front of the mic, Cedric forgets the lyrics, Jim forgets to sing. This incredible performance had beet floating around RUclips in potato quality for years. Thank you so much BBC for reviving it in all its glory.
holy fuck they actually kinda kept it together for this song.. can't say the same for one armed scissor lol
I've got a three and a five year old who have been refusing dinner for the last hour. This performance is what I needed tonight. Thanks, BBC.
😂😂😂...kids are devils ! Mine is nine and she thinks she's the big one in the house !
Oh shit. Ive got an 8 and 5 yr old doing the same
Totally understand you, I also have two kids almost that age, seen this live atdi performance it’s a relief
Not sure why there are not many more tributes to this Greatness?? This band changed my life when I was a teen. One of the most under-rated bands of all time!
#metoo
ATDI are widely regarded as the greatest posthardcore band of all time.
@@Molotov_Milkshake I thought that was Fugazi? But what do i know :P
@@uwentv5302 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Robbie Williams wants you to upload One Armed Scissor
We all want this
Where is Robbie?
well this wish came true
He wants his mate to have his chair back
The most amazing live band of their generation!!
lmao.... you have low standards.
@@mikechapman2283 and what are your standards?
Amazing to see Cedric playing guitar! 🖤
They did Jim dirty in this mix
His vocals are never loud enough live. He's always screaming until his neck muscles bulge but the mic volume isn't loud enough. lol
The fact that they are still together and playing these songs makes me cry literally
love how it escalates immediately from the start, what a badass band ATDI was
The enlightement in our faces when someone answers ''no'' to ''have you ever heard of at the drive-in?''
0:04 Jim grabs the tambourine instead of the maracas haha
Hahaha good catch!
I think this may be my favourite RUclips video ever. Every thing about it is close to perfection for me.
20 years ago. My god I’m old
we all are...
Cedric is killing it on the guitar
Still one of the best live performances on Jools.
As much as I love this band, this is not a good performance. I've seen them live and they were a lot better.
why are they so mad about that manuscript replica?
It just sucks
@Cayetano Borotto - You’d be mad at the manuscript replica too, if it left a beard half-eaten crawling with legs. C’mon man, _think!_ 🤦♂️
Coz they lost Iggy along the way
Somehow forgot Cedric plays rhythm on this. Even stranger in HD.
Probably a good thing only grainy videos of ATDI existed on YT when I was a teenager because the 16 yo fangirl me couldn’t handle the HD Cedric lol
One of my favorites from that album.
I remember watching this performance on tv in Britain 20 years ago.
From a guitarist's point of view, even though Cedric doesn't usually play guitar, he's surprisingly good at rhythm guitar, and add to that, his singing, making it all pretty impressive. Jim Ward sounds really cool on keys. Omar sounds good in this too. I don't know why in the "One Armed Scissor" performance, Omar is mostly doing feedback, then eventually throwing his guitar, and dancing the rest of the way! I want to see the "One Armed Scissor" performance in this quality! They all had this crazy energy and were super interesting to watch. This is a great version of Rolodex Propaganda, though. Better than the studio version, IMO.
Yeah Omar's licks on the chorus are beautifully melodic, giving the song an even bigger sense of "beauty among the roughness".
I think a string or two went out of tune early on in One Armed Scissor. It seemed like he tried to play around it at first, then gave up and went wild instead lmao
Paul and Tony never get the credit they deserve and are always overlooked in favour of Omar, Cedric and Jim due to the split. Enfilade is a fantastic track and their rhythm section makes the track complete. The drumming is amazing on that track.
A lot of people kinda think it was just omar and cedric being weird but honestly that performance was not their fault imo. Omar's guitar seems to have some sort of fucked jack or something cause you'll see him fiddling with it a lot when it gets really feedback heavy especially when he plays pattern against user. This performance was before he started getting other guitars so he only had the two squires.
The video shows that his guitar goes out of tune and the feedback starts bleeding in so he quickly swaps to a different one and then the high e-string breaks off so he just gives up (because he has no more guitars at this point) and picks up a tamborine. Its actually kinda cool that although the performance was basically over they managed to kinda play it off.
That makes a lot of sense that the jack for the guitar was all messed up. It’s happened to me live once, so I understand the frustration that Omar must’ve had during One-Armed Scissor.
Saw them at T in the park the same year, sandwiched between aereogramme and my vitriol. Going into a random tent to get out the rain changed my entire musical taste.
saw them for the first time opening for another band in 2000 and quickly forgot about the other band. still can't remember who it was
Love it when Omar kicks the mic stand at the end.
I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago on Jools.. The energy is insane! 👍🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The way the barely coherent feeding-back guitar rejoins back into the chorus around 0:58 is the best example of why the insanity of ATDI works. It's mental beyond comprehension, but it's beautiful order out of chaos.
I'm not used to seeing Cedric not completely spazzing out throughout the whole performance.
Omar was spazzing enough in this simpler time
this band had phenomenal energy
So much love for this band.
omar sounds unwound as hell here, down to the feedback. that said, both bands ran at roughly the same time to each other, so it's just great minds thinking alike, really.
Rolodex Propaganda is my favorite band
"At The Drive-In" it's my favourite song by them.
Unexpectedly awesome to see this being reupload in HD
WANT MORE !!! COME ON BBC PLEASE UPLOAD ONE ARMED SCISSOR IN THIS GLORIOUS QUALITY!
Any other late ATDI fans here? I was 3 when this performance happened lol
I wasn’t even born lol
I was a newborn baby.
Tell your friends!
I would’ve been 3 as well! Got into these guys when I was about 14.
@@arthurr.r.lucasspublicdoma5621 Same
This is intense. While I appreciate that, I gotta say for me, I prefer the studio version. I'll never forget the first time I saw them live, it was a shock to my system.
Well yeah. The whole album was produced by Ross Robinson. And the studio version has Iggy Pop on it. Of course it’s going to be better than a live rendition
@@jamesd7678 I honestly prefer when Omar and Jim do the vocals.
@@jamesd7678 the band actually hates how the album sounds and say its a disappointment this might sound closer to what they wanted than you'd expect
@@michaelgraham9774 100% agree, Jim’s vocals are fucking amazing live, it’s got so much raw emotion. I’d even argue that Jim’s vocals sound better than Cedric’s.
@@XxidiotXxBosses personally, I have no idea whether or not I’d agree or disagree here. I can’t even here the man that well haha
Después de 13 años lo suben con la mejor calidad de video 🤘😈
Omar = future visionary. Here we are. Thank you
2:30 is the reason jim cannot be replaced
this is so good, had no idea cedric played guitar
yeah it sounds a bit sloppy but it’s the most authentic thing ever.
my dream is to form a band who wants to jam like this
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YES YES YES HIGH DEFINITION AT THE DRIVE-IN
alv cedric tocando la guitarra que perrazo jefe!
This brought amazing teenage memories.
Been listening to ATDI since the late 90s, and I still don't quite know how to describe them haha
Absolutely amazing performance i remember it well.
BRO i was honestly surprised when i saw this, at 0:04 you can see Jim accidentally pick up the wrong instrument but he corrects himself and you can see Cedric get kinda pissed at him so he double checks him when he looks left and back right. funny enough this is when Omar and Cedric weren't getting along with Jim which is unfortunate because it foreshadows what happens in the future. thankfully TheMarsVolta is coming back soon so im looking forward to it.
I doubt Cedric could be pissed about it, because he himself never sings in a proper way, he is more worried about jumping and screaming.
Omar and Cedric were also smack heads at the time
I’ve heard that The Mars Volta is getting back together for years at this poiny
Cedric fucked up more than his fair share of songs with his shenanigans. I don’t think he’s in any position to complain to Jim. Jim, Tony and Paul kept every song from falling apart.
In the year two thooouuussaaanndd. In the year two thouuuuuuusssaaaaaand.
I miss watching Conan and Andy in the 90s.
@@timalvarez558 Haha! You get it! Dude, same. Those were the days. Time flys.
Haha silverchair??
Una de las mejores canciones q escuché 👍👍 noviembre 2020
whoa cedric with a guitar
One Armed Scissor, with Robbie's humorous reaction please 🤘
what was his reaction?
@@0161GHM It's been a while since I've seen it, but from memory: performance ends and camera pans to Jools and Robbie looking a bit shell shocked. Robbie made a comment to the effect "Oi, my mate says he wants his chair back" 😅
Perfection!
But what the fu** happened to me in these last 20 years?! It seems that my angst is gone.
Omar nailing Iggy's part
L'énergie qu'avait ce groupe !
Pure passion.
This is genuinely the greatest performance in Jools Holland history. I'd say it's the best live performance in TV history if not for the Wolf Like Me performance TV On The Radio did on Letterman.
Nah
That performance by TV on the Radio is incredible
This is raw af!!
Seeing this in HD is unreal. This is such an incredible and important document, of a band in their prime, a fireball that burned brightly and suddenly went out way too soon
I remember seeing this live at the time and I had no idea who they were. It definitely stuck with me though!
Omar does a pretty good "Manuscript replica", no?
i think so :)
The quality is superb. Awesome upload, try and upload one armed scissor.
Gosh this songs amazing
Crew loved these guys because they kept them really well employed.
The day Cedric started playing guitar on stage was they day he said, "Hey Jim, let's start separate bands."
Pure gold!
Post more ATDI please! This is awesome
Love You and miss you
Cedric playing guitar makes me uncomfortable.
I was there😍
Ugh iconic
Epic. Just epic. Love every minute of this.
Manuscript Replicaaaaaaaauuuuuaahhhhhnnnn....
A year later, they put the fire out. Feels like forever ago.
Masterpiece!
Jim is so underrated
Holy crap I have the same SG but in black! It has a Texas sticker in the same place as his sticker but just a little smaller.
1991 SG1 is the model of mine.
Beautiful
Pretty sure I went to see At The Drive-In in Belfast the night after this was on TV.
Amazing. I miss this, compare to their Lollapalooza show in 2012 where they’re basically asleep.
Release the One Armed Scissor cut
Perfomance qla wena weooon ❤️ gracias ❤️
Saw them in a Tent at T in the Park around this time. Mental.
whoever was running that soundboard needs to go back to soundboard-runnin' school.
To pick up their “expertly capturing nature’s finest” award
@@tubstar2000 expertly crapturing that's for sure
Y'all win this onr
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I saw these guys play in Reading at a leisure centre a few years ago. Cedric entered the stage by throwing a plastic gym chair and destroying it in the process!
Thank you Jarvis
Gotta have jim ward to get that lightning in a bottle
And that's a true performance.
This mix is poop, but the quality is exceptional given the time
MORE AT THE DRIVE IN
Gracias por tanto
It's sloppy, incoherent, disjointed, intoxicated, unrehearsed, and could've been better....but damnit it is beautiful. Punk rock just hasn't been the same since Relationship Of Command....don't at me.
LEGENDS
Omar kicked the mic stand and grabbed his guitar from behind his back, played on cue in a flash
❤️
It woulda been wild AF if Iggy Pop were actually there backing them up on this track.
Excelente
Good job turning the mics on
But what a performance. Gutted I’ve not seen them live