Dude, I get it when you're pseudo-mocking them saying they're "trying to be the principals" when discouraging moshing, but specifically at Big Day Out they were the canary in the coalmine. They tried to warn the herd, who probably held the same attitude of thinking they were trying to be "bossed around" by the "principals" and look what happened. It's about situational awareness and a basic modicum of empathy and compassion for your fellow human beings around you. Rest in Peace Jessica Michalik ❤
This kid clearly learned everything about music and ATDI from the internet. So little of what he mentions mattered when the band was around. Who called them the Q-Tip boys?
There are plenty of bands who do it right.... You can get the crowd to listen with the right approach. ATD lambasted the crowd and made fun of them, it was part of their shtick... to like stick it to the jocks who picked on them in HS... Cedric would always say some stupid shit like this when he was young... The truth is bands like Drug Church talk to the crowd about catching people and being cool to females etc, and have security single out dipshits.. The idea is to have fun, and be safe, not go to a show and practice abstinence... it doesnt work that way... Hence why ATD and TMV were treated the way they were by crowds..
@@juanticimo It's wild to think that atsome metal shows theywould do that whole wall of people running at each other. I think Lamb of God used to do that, probably before it lead to someone getting hurt/dying etc. I love LOG, and I used to think that was so crazy looking, but in hindsight, probably not a good thing to encourage at all.
I remember when in/Casino/out came out in 98. I got a free cassette. no idea who they were. I swear that that tape never left my car's tapedeck for a year. It's a masterpiece.
I bought my CD copy off of Cedric from the tour van in a parking lot in Toronto! They opened for the Get Up Kids at a little club called the Big Bop and I had never heard of them but suddenly there were two big afros lurching around the 6 inch tall stage and I was totally blown away by their set. Cedric was standing by himself watching the Get Up Kids’ set from the back of the club and I went up to him and told him how they were the best live band I’d seen in years etc. and he was totally nice and laid back. He told me a bit about El Paso and how he was excited because they had just been asked to open a tour with The Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys and they thought things might get big soon. I asked if they were selling any albums as there wasn’t a merch table and he said he had some of their latest cds in the van so he took me out there and sold me a copy. I played that thing a lot and tried to turn a bunch of people in to it to the pint of annoyance I am sure. Then Relationship Of Command came out and they were everywhere.
Such a shame that first album Wire Tap Scars is amazing you should really give it a chance Its literally At the drive in minus Cedric and Omar. That album is a no skip.album for me .
I was at the video shoot for One Arm scissor video. The same production company that put on shows for my band associated invited my band. I walked in behind Mike D, and they made him pay to get in. He seem kind of stunned, and seem brief argument held us up but his handler paid the $10. Pretty much watched the show with my friend, Mike D and his handler guy chatting about music. Then I saw them without all the crazy cameras and celebs around…smaller gig with the Murder City Devils and sat on side of stage. It was a very dead crowd but they put on a good performance. Fest fwd and I see the Mars Volta thing. Went to a show and was blown away. Then I worked Bonaroo for Trent Reznor (lots of friends in common from New Orleans back then) and Mara Volta ends up being the opener before NIN. The drummer was a bit newer for them, younger and kind of disrespectful. He kept getting pissed people had cameras in the crowd. Cedric was staring me down like I’m an asshole, they wrecked the trailer. I had to kick out two groupies that couldn’t hold it together. And the band refused to use the normal entry and kept jumping the fence in. Plus the trailer got wrecked, and the drummer was rolling blunts on NIN outside setup for meet and greets…I thought that was a bit disrespectful. Trent didn’t really talk to them at all, like avoided them completely. But he was very chummy with me and the rest of the crew. Not sure if bad blood there for some reason? Those are my run ins with them from 99-2010. Good music, but singer came off as an asshole and the guitar player as just a very nice shy dude focused on his work. They seem to get way more serious towards Mars Volta and Cedric dropped the asshole attitude as far a I could see as the years went by. I probably sound like a dinosaur but I’m 40. I was about 16 for the At The Drive in Times, but got into the shows due to the production company that booked my band. I was around 25 during the Mars Volta stuff.
Was the drummer Thomas Pridgen? I saw Volta when they toured the Bedlam In Goliath album in 2007. Amazing live show. Fast forward to 2014-2015 Cedric and Omar made an album called Antemasque and did a small tour for that record. They came to Houston and played a legendary venue, Fitzgerald’s (that was unfortunately torn down a couple of years ago) essentially a big 2 story house to which they would be playing upstairs. Travis Barker was playing drums for them wich was a pleasant surprise me being a drummer, I appreciated Travis’ playing. When I say that THAT show (and I’ve been to many many many shows) couldn’t have been any better. Everything from the sound, to the temperature to the energy and to the performance. All just blended perfectly. Unforgettable night. Last May a friend got us tickets to the System Of A Down, Deftones, And Mars Volta out in San Fransisco. The show was great all around, but wouldn’t compare the two Volta shows. I get it tho. We got older. Thanks for sharing your story!
I didn't realize crowds were so bad to ATDI early on. I saw Mars Volta open for APC shortly after they released deloused and I couldn't believe the crowd. Almost everyone was sitting down, seemed like no one cared, it was weird. Me and my buddy stood up and sang along to show support. Cedric had this huge flash light that he shined on us from the stage - it was cool to be recognized by our favorite band. Thanks Cedric!
I remember when the first came out. As a teen girl who was super self conscious of my Afro and straightened my hair, they inspired me to say eff the straightener and embrace my fro.
Definitely ahead of their time and underrated, I love At the Drive-in. Nobody sounded like them. Their EP Vaya and album Relationship of Command are fkn great. Honestly I don't mind that they broke up because we got The Mars Volta, incredible live shows. Just got my ticket for September, first time seeing them since 2005, I can't wait.
I remember a Fugazi show where they wouldn’t let anyone in with spikes on their jackets lol. Also, during a Mars Volta show, the singer threw a cymbal at a fan requesting music.
Dan, At the Drive In were phenomenal!! Great vid, I remember downloading some songs from the big day out from limewire back 20 years ago and being amazed at how wild they were on stage! I always wondered what happened. Thanks! 🥞🥞🥞
Could've been the biggest band of 98/99/00. Fucking great live band, great musicians. Total showmen that strutted their stuff. I saw them back then at the Metro in Chicago. VAYA fucking killed.
I love ATDI and bought the album from Grand Royal who tacked on extra fees so they could "keep the lights on" (they literally said that in an email to me) and then proceeded to inundate me with spam until I had to block them. There was NO unsubscribe button, no customer service, just an onslaught of unwanted advances by Mike D. and company. Mars Volta is OK.
5:30 usually the crowd controls this sort of thing. I saw some dude moshing outside the pit and he kept bumping these dudes girlfriends. Bro learned a lesson when he ended up on the floor.
One time we played this benifit for a library at a high school. I think it may have been in Fairfield. It was a daytime show and it was hot. Super hot. We were all pissy, uncomfortable and nonplused about the show. There were hardly any people there. I don’t think there were even 20 people and we were playing in the dirt, on the highschool track. There was …..I think the Gut Monkeys…us…and a band I’d never heard of called At the Drive In. Gut monkeys were fun and played a goofy sloppy set to a few kids and parents. We watched from the shade of our van. I was imagining reasons i might give for us not going on. It was WELL over 100 degrees in the California heat and out on the track there was zero shade. Our time to go on arrived and we drug ourselves out onto the track. We had wet ourselves down in a drinking fountain but it still sucked. Many of the people who were there left. By the time we finished plodding through a lazy 1/2 hearted version of our set it seemed like the show was kind of fizzeling out and I felt bad for whoever this last band was. We had been hiding in the shade and i dont think we had interacted with them much. As I watched them setting up i thought,”man, these guys are gonna die playing dressed in all black, long pants and these cool duds.” We had all not even bothered to try and look cool and we could be pretty hipster punk at times. It was just to hot and nobody was watching anyway. Typically I thought of us as being a pretty crazy live band. We defiantly could get carried away and there were times when paying our instruments took a backseat to rocking out. So I was no stranger to emotionally charged performances. I thought I’d seen my share of musical throw downs-and if you’d asked me if I was about to see anything worth mentioning on that highschool feild in the 110 degree Fairfield summer sun id have just laughed. There in the a dusty cloud of old chalk that marked the starting marks from last weeks track meet i watched At the Drive In play, dance and go absolutely stark raving nuts. It looked to me as if I was watching a band cast to play the Mc5 in a modern bio pic were drunk after a day of shooting and playing a house party. Grand rock poses, epic goofball leaps and stances that evoked Marc Bolan one sec and Joe Strummer the next were mixed with genuinely the emotional sincerity of an east coast hardcore band. They seemed to be nearly in tears at one point and it could be my tendency to aggrandize and romanticize the past but I think I may have been a little choked up myself. Could have been the chalk dust and dehydration but I swear it was the greatest rock roll performance I’ve ever seen. And it was a lesson I never forgot. One about how every time should be like it’s life or death. Unless you play like you are the rolling fucking kinks every time and for whoever is standing there sweating along with you …..you are no full tilt boogie rock and roll band. You are just wasting everyone’s time. ATDI wasted nobody’s time that day. Man they were good. I ain’t proofreading this Im tired.
It's absolutely wild that these guys were poised and primed to take over the music world, yet so few people know a thing about them, let alone who they even are. Can't remember how I even came to first know them back in the day as an Aussie, but I feel so lucky that I did. Channel V were probably playing them as much as they could.
I saw ATDI at Big Day Out on the Gold Coast, and with the power of hindsight it was pretty obviously a band on their last legs. It was scrappy and antisocial but not in a fun way.
Extremely thorough history of the band and information is well-compiled. Information you would have to scour the Internet for is summarised well in this video. My only constructive feedback would that at 12:55 you mention "Mental health or whatever"--I wish you could expound on this more because there is more reason behind it if it influenced them to hiatus/disband. Nonetheless, a very informative video overall which I will be sharing to other ATDI fans. Thank you & keep up the good work!
Love at the drive in so much. REALLY recommend looking into some of bootlegs of them playing in the late 90s especially the legendary performance in a Pennsylvania school house
Saw them in 2000? First time they came to the UK on the back of major hype in the mainstream alternative media coverage.. Very good live show but I remember the 'anti mosh' centiments most 😂
Brother I was there. Saying they were being looked at like the next Beatles is like saying today ….. that clay Aiken was gonna be the next Michael Jackson. Chill bud.
The Mars Volta didn't take to me at first and I still don't like all their stuff but when they're good, they're really really good. That opening track on Fancis the Mute is amazing. I'll have to check out more ATDI. I do think it's weird that he would verbally discourage moshing. I have never seen that at a show before. I was at a show that said "No crowd surfing" but it was a sign made by the venue and post of white paper on all the walls. By the time Lamb of god went on, everyone was crowd surfing. It wasn't containable and the signs were ripped down.
❤️ this band and during middle/ high school I went down the whole rabbit hole and got obsessed! Just saw TMV live for first time this last year and it was amazing!
One of my favorite bands of all time and I agree that The Mars Volta and Sparta were nothing in comparison! My favorite song of theirs is Picked Fence Cartel!
accurate. very well said dude. Great band. The split was inevitable. you could clearly see how the 2 dudes with afros where more connected with each other than the rest of the group ps: i like the mars volta better because im weird and i like weird music, but at the drive in could had been as big as nirvana but they chose their integrity over selling out and thats respectable
💜 kinda like their unofficial spokesperson/defence 😊 you are brilliant . Loved how At The Drive In forged their path and how u tell it. Thank you. RTAM, Iggy, Mike D Beastie and more. Love how souls gravitate to each other. I searched One Armed Scissor for the thousandth time. And this vid comes up 🔥
In my opinion Mars Volta is better than ATDI. I only hear In/Casino/Out probably heard some songs from Vaya, and Relationship on Command. Relationship is the only album that I live from beginning to end. The others I like some songs here and there, but it seems like they were still trying to find their style. Mars Volta o love all their albums with the exception of one song on Octahedron. I wasn’t a fan of Noctourniquet immediately. In fact I hated most of it I only liked 3 songs. But I decided to listen to it again a couple of years later and really pay attention to the lyrics and the instrumentation and fell in love with it. It’s just a very different album, but I kind of relate to what it’s about more than any other of the albums. I think I might be their second most personal album after De-Loused in the Comatorium. But ultimately I don’t think it’s right to compare the two bands just because of similar members. Musically they’re very different. That’s my opinion.
this is a tough one: i’m glad they didn’t get huge cuz the music definitely would’ve suffered. at the same time it sucks how shit when down. ATDI are amazing. you could play them for someone today & they’d think it was a new band. that’s how well they held up. but i don’t agree with the no moshing thing. obviously mosh based tragedies are horrible-some of these boys get overzealous and aren’t aware that not everyone is as tall as them -but it just makes ATDI look pretentious. like “WE can rollick about the stage but YOU must stand still and listen to this very important song we wrote” anyway. in my opinion: mars volta was cool for the virtuosity aspect but that’s about it. sparta sucks.
Ya your tripping if u think Sparta sucks I know music is subjective but their first album WIRE TAP SCARS was so good its a no skip album for me I don't get how anyone can be such a big ATDI fan and not like that album it's literally ATDI they still have that unique sound idk if u have actually given it a chance but you should but ya after that album They only have like 2 songs I like.
Idk man, mars Volta musically is far more out there and progressive. There’s just far more thought and emotion in that kinda music I suppose. I like at the drive in, I don’t think it really stacks up against the mars Volta once you’ve really acquired the taste for those sounds
They had a choke hold on the scene like no one ever did and probably since. And then it was over. But then I'll never forget I was riding in my home boys car smoking a blunt when he put this CD in that someone had left in the car it was a blank burnt CD and I was like either I'm high as fuck or that's AT THE DRIVE-IN it drove me crazy not knowing what this CD was and finally I found out that Cedric and Omar had started a new band called The Mars Volta and that album blew me away it was an Instant classic. But ya ....AT THE DRIVE-IN
Thats not what happened at all man, I was there in 2001 and its impossible to understate how bad ATDI were. They were over 40mins late, Mudvayne had long finished and the crowd had got really rowdy. I was there, in the pit and the crowd was against them from the start, booing them when they came on and shouting between songs. Cedric spent the 11 minutes they were on stage calling out the crowd and then walked off. The rest of the band stayed, unable to understand what had happened, then they left. Long story short is their entitled, bullshit behavior turned the crowd so bad that by the time Limp Bizkit played the crowd had lost their collective minds and patience. The resulting chaos was directly caused by ATDI, one of theost dissapointing group of fuckwits ever to make music.
I was at the BDO show in 2001. They were the reason I was there. ROC was intense. I was like 19 or 20. To this day when I listen it makes me wanna break shit. ATDR absolutely delivered. I can still remember it. Cedric called us sheep. They were loose and wild but still sounded like the record. The energy was crazy and the tension in the crowd was palpable. Everyone knew we were watching history. It remains one of the best shows I've ever seen. The record remains in the top 5 of all time. These guys were a flash. They burnt so bright. And for a moment they captured perfection. I'll never forget ATDI. 🫶🤘
Dude, I get it when you're pseudo-mocking them saying they're "trying to be the principals" when discouraging moshing, but specifically at Big Day Out they were the canary in the coalmine. They tried to warn the herd, who probably held the same attitude of thinking they were trying to be "bossed around" by the "principals" and look what happened. It's about situational awareness and a basic modicum of empathy and compassion for your fellow human beings around you.
Rest in Peace Jessica Michalik ❤
This kid clearly learned everything about music and ATDI from the internet. So little of what he mentions mattered when the band was around. Who called them the Q-Tip boys?
It ain’t that deep
There are plenty of bands who do it right.... You can get the crowd to listen with the right approach. ATD lambasted the crowd and made fun of them, it was part of their shtick... to like stick it to the jocks who picked on them in HS... Cedric would always say some stupid shit like this when he was young... The truth is bands like Drug Church talk to the crowd about catching people and being cool to females etc, and have security single out dipshits.. The idea is to have fun, and be safe, not go to a show and practice abstinence... it doesnt work that way... Hence why ATD and TMV were treated the way they were by crowds..
@@juanticimo It's wild to think that atsome metal shows theywould do that whole wall of people running at each other. I think Lamb of God used to do that, probably before it lead to someone getting hurt/dying etc. I love LOG, and I used to think that was so crazy looking, but in hindsight, probably not a good thing to encourage at all.
this is why you gatekeep your hobbies from women!
I remember when in/Casino/out came out in 98. I got a free cassette. no idea who they were. I swear that that tape never left my car's tapedeck for a year. It's a masterpiece.
Their best album imo
This is forever...
I bought my CD copy off of Cedric from the tour van in a parking lot in Toronto! They opened for the Get Up Kids at a little club called the Big Bop and I had never heard of them but suddenly there were two big afros lurching around the 6 inch tall stage and I was totally blown away by their set. Cedric was standing by himself watching the Get Up Kids’ set from the back of the club and I went up to him and told him how they were the best live band I’d seen in years etc. and he was totally nice and laid back. He told me a bit about El Paso and how he was excited because they had just been asked to open a tour with The Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys and they thought things might get big soon. I asked if they were selling any albums as there wasn’t a merch table and he said he had some of their latest cds in the van so he took me out there and sold me a copy. I played that thing a lot and tried to turn a bunch of people in to it to the pint of annoyance I am sure. Then Relationship Of Command came out and they were everywhere.
Also one of my favorites. At the Drive In, Sparta, Mar Volta...so many good memories.
Never got into Sparta. But that first Mars Volta record blew me away
Such a shame that first album Wire Tap Scars is amazing you should really give it a chance Its literally At the drive in minus Cedric and Omar. That album is a no skip.album for me .
@@oddblood- The follow-up album is also a masterpiece. Porcelain I think it's called? I never could get into Mars Volta.
I was at the video shoot for One Arm scissor video. The same production company that put on shows for my band associated invited my band. I walked in behind Mike D, and they made him pay to get in. He seem kind of stunned, and seem brief argument held us up but his handler paid the $10. Pretty much watched the show with my friend, Mike D and his handler guy chatting about music. Then I saw them without all the crazy cameras and celebs around…smaller gig with the Murder City Devils and sat on side of stage. It was a very dead crowd but they put on a good performance.
Fest fwd and I see the Mars Volta thing. Went to a show and was blown away. Then I worked Bonaroo for Trent Reznor (lots of friends in common from New Orleans back then) and Mara Volta ends up being the opener before NIN.
The drummer was a bit newer for them, younger and kind of disrespectful. He kept getting pissed people had cameras in the crowd. Cedric was staring me down like I’m an asshole, they wrecked the trailer. I had to kick out two groupies that couldn’t hold it together. And the band refused to use the normal entry and kept jumping the fence in. Plus the trailer got wrecked, and the drummer was rolling blunts on NIN outside setup for meet and greets…I thought that was a bit disrespectful. Trent didn’t really talk to them at all, like avoided them completely. But he was very chummy with me and the rest of the crew. Not sure if bad blood there for some reason?
Those are my run ins with them from 99-2010. Good music, but singer came off as an asshole and the guitar player as just a very nice shy dude focused on his work. They seem to get way more serious towards Mars Volta and Cedric dropped the asshole attitude as far a I could see as the years went by. I probably sound like a dinosaur but I’m 40. I was about 16 for the At The Drive in Times, but got into the shows due to the production company that booked my band. I was around 25 during the Mars Volta stuff.
This is incredible lol, thank you so much for sharing
Was the drummer Thomas Pridgen? I saw Volta when they toured the Bedlam In Goliath album in 2007. Amazing live show. Fast forward to 2014-2015 Cedric and Omar made an album called Antemasque and did a small tour for that record. They came to Houston and played a legendary venue, Fitzgerald’s (that was unfortunately torn down a couple of years ago) essentially a big 2 story house to which they would be playing upstairs. Travis Barker was playing drums for them wich was a pleasant surprise me being a drummer, I appreciated Travis’ playing. When I say that THAT show (and I’ve been to many many many shows) couldn’t have been any better. Everything from the sound, to the temperature to the energy and to the performance. All just blended perfectly. Unforgettable night.
Last May a friend got us tickets to the System Of A Down, Deftones, And Mars Volta out in San Fransisco. The show was great all around, but wouldn’t compare the two Volta shows. I get it tho. We got older.
Thanks for sharing your story!
Sparta and jim are wickedly underrated and nobody will ever change my mind.
I didn't realize crowds were so bad to ATDI early on. I saw Mars Volta open for APC shortly after they released deloused and I couldn't believe the crowd. Almost everyone was sitting down, seemed like no one cared, it was weird. Me and my buddy stood up and sang along to show support. Cedric had this huge flash light that he shined on us from the stage - it was cool to be recognized by our favorite band.
Thanks Cedric!
Who s APC?
@@WalkeeTalkeeManis it A Perfect Circle?
@WalkeeTalkeeMan armoured personell carrier
What a legendary band goddamit
Goats
@@danframpt0n they suck as per our friend Finn, insufferable
He's has literally no taste
@@danframpt0nagreed
@@danframpt0nthat's funny because my impression of him is, he likes everything
I remember when the first came out. As a teen girl who was super self conscious of my Afro and straightened my hair, they inspired me to say eff the straightener and embrace my fro.
fros are amazing.
Definitely ahead of their time and underrated, I love At the Drive-in. Nobody sounded like them. Their EP Vaya and album Relationship of Command are fkn great. Honestly I don't mind that they broke up because we got The Mars Volta, incredible live shows. Just got my ticket for September, first time seeing them since 2005, I can't wait.
Agree. I got tix for Red Rocks in Oct. Last time I saw Cedric and crew live was opening for SOAD back in 2005.
I remember a Fugazi show where they wouldn’t let anyone in with spikes on their jackets lol. Also, during a Mars Volta show, the singer threw a cymbal at a fan requesting music.
Dan, At the Drive In were phenomenal!! Great vid, I remember downloading some songs from the big day out from limewire back 20 years ago and being amazed at how wild they were on stage! I always wondered what happened. Thanks! 🥞🥞🥞
Relationship of Command is a perfect album. Front to back it slaps and doesn't stop. One of the best bands ever
Could've been the biggest band of 98/99/00. Fucking great live band, great musicians. Total showmen that strutted their stuff. I saw them back then at the Metro in Chicago. VAYA fucking killed.
I honestly can’t believe I haven’t seen these guys before
The set up keeps evolving and woooooo
Loved seeing them live. Remember Beastie Boys found and signed them. One Armed Scissors was such a bad ass song! 🥞 🥞 🥞 🥞 🥞 🥞
I love ATDI and bought the album from Grand Royal who tacked on extra fees so they could "keep the lights on" (they literally said that in an email to me) and then proceeded to inundate me with spam until I had to block them. There was NO unsubscribe button, no customer service, just an onslaught of unwanted advances by Mike D. and company.
Mars Volta is OK.
5:30 usually the crowd controls this sort of thing. I saw some dude moshing outside the pit and he kept bumping these dudes girlfriends. Bro learned a lesson when he ended up on the floor.
drop a like NOT the ball!
Pancakes framp is yu wearn “overalls” get down niggah!❤
One time we played this benifit for a library at a high school. I think it may have been in Fairfield. It was a daytime show and it was hot. Super hot. We were all pissy, uncomfortable and nonplused about the show. There were hardly any people there. I don’t think there were even 20 people and we were playing in the dirt, on the highschool track. There was …..I think the Gut Monkeys…us…and a band I’d never heard of called At the Drive In. Gut monkeys were fun and played a goofy sloppy set to a few kids and parents. We watched from the shade of our van. I was imagining reasons i might give for us not going on. It was WELL over 100 degrees in the California heat and out on the track there was zero shade. Our time to go on arrived and we drug ourselves out onto the track. We had wet ourselves down in a drinking fountain but it still sucked. Many of the people who were there left. By the time we finished plodding through a lazy 1/2 hearted version of our set it seemed like the show was kind of fizzeling out and I felt bad for whoever this last band was. We had been hiding in the shade and i dont think we had interacted with them much. As I watched them setting up i thought,”man, these guys are gonna die playing dressed in all black, long pants and these cool duds.” We had all not even bothered to try and look cool and we could be pretty hipster punk at times. It was just to hot and nobody was watching anyway.
Typically I thought of us as being a pretty crazy live band. We defiantly could get carried away and there were times when paying our instruments took a backseat to rocking out. So I was no stranger to emotionally charged performances. I thought I’d seen my share of musical throw downs-and if you’d asked me if I was about to see anything worth mentioning on that highschool feild in the 110 degree Fairfield summer sun id have just laughed.
There in the a dusty cloud of old chalk that marked the starting marks from last weeks track meet i watched At the Drive In play, dance and go absolutely stark raving nuts. It looked to me as if I was watching a band cast to play the Mc5 in a modern bio pic were drunk after a day of shooting and playing a house party. Grand rock poses, epic goofball leaps and stances that evoked Marc Bolan one sec and Joe Strummer the next were mixed with genuinely the emotional sincerity of an east coast hardcore band. They seemed to be nearly in tears at one point and it could be my tendency to aggrandize and romanticize the past but I think I may have been a little choked up myself. Could have been the chalk dust and dehydration but I swear it was the greatest rock roll performance I’ve ever seen. And it was a lesson I never forgot. One about how every time should be like it’s life or death. Unless you play like you are the rolling fucking kinks every time and for whoever is standing there sweating along with you …..you are no full tilt boogie rock and roll band. You are just wasting everyone’s time. ATDI wasted nobody’s time that day. Man they were good. I ain’t proofreading this Im tired.
I love at the drive ib
Omar only played bass on Acrobatic Tenement, that was another reason why that album sounded so different from their later output
Also, the distorted guitar tracks got lost and what your hear is the d.i. scratch tracks.
They just need to pull out the Quija board again, so that they can unsell their souls.
Soothsayer
It's absolutely wild that these guys were poised and primed to take over the music world, yet so few people know a thing about them, let alone who they even are. Can't remember how I even came to first know them back in the day as an Aussie, but I feel so lucky that I did. Channel V were probably playing them as much as they could.
Relationship of command is such a masterpiece. One of the best mixed albums of all time.
At the Drive-in were soooo damn good. But IMO The Mars Volta surpassed ATDI by alot. Both are legendary.
Agreed.
Absolutely. If Damon Albarn from Blur has Gorillaz then Ced and Omar has TMV.
One of my favorite things to do is to post pics of Cedric zavala and tag matt Mahana from I set my friends on fire. That makes me happy
I saw ATDI at Big Day Out on the Gold Coast, and with the power of hindsight it was pretty obviously a band on their last legs. It was scrappy and antisocial but not in a fun way.
I grew my hair out just like them in college in early 00s. What a time to be alive.
Extremely thorough history of the band and information is well-compiled. Information you would have to scour the Internet for is summarised well in this video. My only constructive feedback would that at 12:55 you mention "Mental health or whatever"--I wish you could expound on this more because there is more reason behind it if it influenced them to hiatus/disband. Nonetheless, a very informative video overall which I will be sharing to other ATDI fans. Thank you & keep up the good work!
8:46 no way!
wait!! Another Limp Bizkit festival tragedy???
Yeah, somehow this one was worse than Woodstock
Selling out sounds rad tho!!! You mean I get more money for doing shittier work? Let's fucking go bruv.
Bro says "okay" like he's Tarantino
Love at the drive in so much. REALLY recommend looking into some of bootlegs of them playing in the late 90s especially the legendary performance in a Pennsylvania school house
The reason they didn't like people moshing is because they had a death occur during one of their sets.
Saw them in 2000? First time they came to the UK on the back of major hype in the mainstream alternative media coverage..
Very good live show but I remember the 'anti mosh' centiments most 😂
Brother I was there. Saying they were being looked at like the next Beatles is like saying today ….. that clay Aiken was gonna be the next Michael Jackson. Chill bud.
Mars Volta did end becoming bigger but Sparta Cut You Ribbon is my most favorite song of all time shit goes so hard
Anyone counted just how many ‘okays’ we are dealing with here? I lost count and I ain’t going back
You’re dressed like my 1 year old son in his osh kosh bagosh overalls 😆
I still listen to In/Casino/Out, Vaya and Relationship of Command. Mars Volta and Sparta had their moment but ATDI was special.
In El Paso, Texas, they played very interesting places. Jim Ward is a die-hard El Pasoan!
The Mars Volta didn't take to me at first and I still don't like all their stuff but when they're good, they're really really good. That opening track on Fancis the Mute is amazing. I'll have to check out more ATDI. I do think it's weird that he would verbally discourage moshing. I have never seen that at a show before. I was at a show that said "No crowd surfing" but it was a sign made by the venue and post of white paper on all the walls. By the time Lamb of god went on, everyone was crowd surfing. It wasn't containable and the signs were ripped down.
Such a crazy story
It really really is
❤️ this band and during middle/ high school I went down the whole rabbit hole and got obsessed! Just saw TMV live for first time this last year and it was amazing!
One of my favorite bands of all time and I agree that The Mars Volta and Sparta were nothing in comparison! My favorite song of theirs is Picked Fence Cartel!
7:28 ❤
Pretty sure my friend saw somebody from this band with their big ass hair beating up a crust punk in front of Gilman while driving by.
accurate. very well said dude. Great band. The split was inevitable. you could clearly see how the 2 dudes with afros where more connected with each other than the rest of the group
ps: i like the mars volta better because im weird and i like weird music, but at the drive in could had been as big as nirvana but they chose their integrity over selling out and thats respectable
💜 kinda like their unofficial spokesperson/defence 😊 you are brilliant . Loved how At The Drive In forged their path and how u tell it. Thank you. RTAM, Iggy, Mike D Beastie and more. Love how souls gravitate to each other. I searched One Armed Scissor for the thousandth time. And this vid comes up 🔥
Jim's band Sleepercar is incredible. It's real roots bluesy country.
Ian McKai huh? 😂😂😂
Yes
I’m not going to say the last names but we’ve got Jim Ward, and Cedric.
This was going to be Finn Mcenkty's final video...
“Super made fun of”
“Afros” made them unique.
“Big big hairs”
“Giant Afros”
“On the underground”
“They’re the Christian dad”
Just stop
I was lucky to watch and bear witness to this bands rise and peak. Just an unbelievable live show, and band.
never disrespect the mars volta
i never knew a lot of their story. this rules so much
This band kicks so much ass auditorially
So weird - just thinking about listening to this band. Not really a punk guy, but I love this band. Saw them live Melbourne BDO 2001.
Danthony Framtano here
Someone handed me vaya outside a rage against the machine show. First time I ever liked a parking lot tape.
Such a great band
Great fit
Such a great band! Shame they couldn’t keep it together. I caught them on their reunion tour…still really good, but it just wasn’t the same.
The brightest star often has the shortest lifespan. This is why to this day for me ATDI will always be one of my top 3 bands.
i feel like i’m watching i dubbz lol
They flamed out before they really had the chance to sellout.
That’s the most Olympia outfit I’ve seen in a while
You make me thankful for leaving Oly
@ lol. It had its day, that was long ago. I miss parts of it but not much
In my opinion Mars Volta is better than ATDI. I only hear In/Casino/Out probably heard some songs from Vaya, and Relationship on Command. Relationship is the only album that I live from beginning to end. The others I like some songs here and there, but it seems like they were still trying to find their style. Mars Volta o love all their albums with the exception of one song on Octahedron. I wasn’t a fan of Noctourniquet immediately. In fact I hated most of it I only liked 3 songs. But I decided to listen to it again a couple of years later and really pay attention to the lyrics and the instrumentation and fell in love with it. It’s just a very different album, but I kind of relate to what it’s about more than any other of the albums. I think I might be their second most personal album after De-Loused in the Comatorium. But ultimately I don’t think it’s right to compare the two bands just because of similar members. Musically they’re very different. That’s my opinion.
I had wire tap scars by Sparta but i never listened to much of At the drive in or the saturn volvo but i liked what i heard.
truuee at the drive in is just so good
A girl got hurt in a pit thats why they didnt like it, i think she got paralyzed
Never thought I'd see the day that someone would talk about the legendary band. Great video and thank you for talking about one of my favorite bands
People that call bands sellouts must be from wealth. We all gotta make a living. If they were sell outs they wouldn’t still have a cult following.
Music journalism still exists!? haha fuck yeah well done dude!
If you saw ATDI and felt nothing then you are lame.
Love the series, but gotta ask if this is a rough translation of the ATDI chapter in Dan Ozzi’s “Sellout?”
this is a tough one: i’m glad they didn’t get huge cuz the music definitely would’ve suffered. at the same time it sucks how shit when down.
ATDI are amazing. you could play them for someone today & they’d think it was a new band. that’s how well they held up. but i don’t agree with the no moshing thing. obviously mosh based tragedies are horrible-some of these boys get overzealous and aren’t aware that not everyone is as tall as them -but it just makes ATDI look pretentious. like “WE can rollick about the stage but YOU must stand still and listen to this very important song we wrote”
anyway. in my opinion:
mars volta was cool for the virtuosity aspect but that’s about it.
sparta sucks.
Ya your tripping if u think Sparta sucks I know music is subjective but their first album WIRE TAP SCARS was so good its a no skip album for me I don't get how anyone can be such a big ATDI fan and not like that album it's literally ATDI they still have that unique sound idk if u have actually given it a chance but you should but ya after that album They only have like 2 songs I like.
At the drive in is as much a sell out as you are on your soap box monitizing your opinions collecting money from advertisers on youtube. The Irony.
lol good one. I didn't know it was open mic night
very good video. Really education. Love At the Drive-In.
Idk man, mars Volta musically is far more out there and progressive. There’s just far more thought and emotion in that kinda music I suppose. I like at the drive in, I don’t think it really stacks up against the mars Volta once you’ve really acquired the taste for those sounds
They had a choke hold on the scene like no one ever did and probably since. And then it was over. But then I'll never forget I was riding in my home boys car smoking a blunt when he put this CD in that someone had left in the car it was a blank burnt CD and I was like either I'm high as fuck or that's AT THE DRIVE-IN it drove me crazy not knowing what this CD was and finally I found out that Cedric and Omar had started a new band called The Mars Volta and that album blew me away it was an Instant classic. But ya ....AT THE DRIVE-IN
great video, but come on, at the drive in better than the mars volta? i dont know about that. tmv is like peak artistic energy and craftsmanship.
A girl I dated turned me onto them.She was and is one of the worst human beings I've ever met...but she has decent taste in music.
Didn't know grand royal absorbed DEN. I thought they went after them independently from genuine interest
They wanted the audience to dance not mosh.
Hahaha q-tip boyz
I write to remember...
Thats not what happened at all man, I was there in 2001 and its impossible to understate how bad ATDI were. They were over 40mins late, Mudvayne had long finished and the crowd had got really rowdy. I was there, in the pit and the crowd was against them from the start, booing them when they came on and shouting between songs. Cedric spent the 11 minutes they were on stage calling out the crowd and then walked off. The rest of the band stayed, unable to understand what had happened, then they left.
Long story short is their entitled, bullshit behavior turned the crowd so bad that by the time Limp Bizkit played the crowd had lost their collective minds and patience. The resulting chaos was directly caused by ATDI, one of theost dissapointing group of fuckwits ever to make music.
Whats your favorite/the best at the drive in album or song?
Sounds like they were big fans of The Replacements lol.
That somehow makes sense
LEGENDS
They killed off ATDI so we can have Volta 🤘🏻 Can’t wait to see them again soon. Been too damn long
Yep. MV and Sparta had their moments but were nowhere near what ATDI were.
I was at the BDO show in 2001. They were the reason I was there. ROC was intense. I was like 19 or 20. To this day when I listen it makes me wanna break shit.
ATDR absolutely delivered. I can still remember it. Cedric called us sheep. They were loose and wild but still sounded like the record. The energy was crazy and the tension in the crowd was palpable. Everyone knew we were watching history.
It remains one of the best shows I've ever seen. The record remains in the top 5 of all time. These guys were a flash. They burnt so bright. And for a moment they captured perfection.
I'll never forget ATDI. 🫶🤘
damn, DEN was ahead of their time, everybody in showbiz is doin that now...........
anti mosh is not punk. if they did that at a show but went off on stage themselves, that is pretentious
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