[atlantaprog] The Mars Volta, The Tabernacle, 4/29/05

First of all I guess I should consider this show a rite of passage of sorts  
since it is the first concert I have ever attended where the overwhelming  
majority of the audience was younger than me, (I'm 33.) lots and lots of high  
school and college aged people.  The concert was excellent.  It gave  me sense 
of what it must have been like to have seen one of "the greats" when  they were 
young, hungry, on the rise and approaching the peak of their  powers.  I 
think that I can best describe the overall vibe the show  generated as "Led 
Zeppelin meets Bitches Brew."  Cedric seemed to be  simultaneously channeling 
Robert 
Plant and Freddie Mercury.  There was  quite a bit of jamming and improv and 
the band seemed more than equal to the  challenge.  The intensity of the music 
literally put me into a sort of  trance in several places.  I was gone.   
 
CH

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