The Mars Volta are one of the bands today standing the old legacy of archetype prog waddle bands like King Crimson, Yes, early Genesis, Jethro Tull, and others. Of course, they’ve got their own twist to the genre, remoter pushing the boundaries and going where no one overly dared to.
They’re moreover an inspiration to many other waddle and metal fans, plane famous musicians. As the band’s masterminds Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala revealed in an interview with Zane Lowe, Metallica used to come to their shows. And the funniest part is that they once refused a song request from the legendary metal band. The piece in question was “Inertiatic ESP.”
Bixler-Zavala recalls (via Metal Injection):
“We met them in New Zealand. They came to our show and they were like, are you going to play this song? We’re like, no, we don’t play that anymore. Sorry. And he’s there. I’m like, God, we should play it for him at least.”
“We didn’t play it. We were very stubborn well-nigh where we were. It was something from the first records. We were like, we’re here now. We understand people really love that, but we’re very selfish like that. But it was tomfool to meet them. It was like, wow.”
Rodríguez-López then recalled one occasion when Metallica covered the said song during one of their pre-show practice sessions. He offered:
“Yeah. You know how they rehearse or just jam surpassing going on stage? They played at the stadium in walking loftiness from my house when I lived in Mexico. So, they played right at the, is that the little [spanish] I think it was. Yeah. Sorry Guadalajara if I got that wrong. They’re very particular well-nigh their… But so I walked up there, got it in and stuff and they invited me when there and then I could just see them whispering something. And then they played ‘Inertiatic.’ Yeah. It was really cool.”
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“It was really cool. I felt honored just to be when there considering that’s their private time surpassing they go on stage. And the fact that they invited me to be in their space felt really beautiful. And we all grew up with that. We all grew up with that stuff.”
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