At The Drive-In’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Speaks On Reunion, Confirms No New Album
At The Drive-In‘s upcoming reunion shows are highly unlikely to yield any new material. Band guitarist/vocalist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has been doing press lately and told Kerrang!:
“Will there be a new album? No, no, no. At The Drive-In is more of a nostalgia thing – it’s songs we wrote when we were all in our 20s and we’re doing a couple of shows.”
He also spoke to NME.com, revealing that financial reasons played good part in their decision to reunite. On that he stated:
“We’re not getting any younger and there’s been an offer of money every year. You can’t avoid that. You’d be a fool and a politician to pretend that wasn’t part of it.”
Current At The Drive-In reunion shows include:
04/15 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival
04/22 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival
07/12 Benicàssim, SPA – FIB Festival
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Well, at least he admits the reunion is all about the benjamins. Should be fun shows regardless.
Yeah I like how he’s answering the poo-pooers saying “Pff, whatever man, they’re a nostalgia act now, just doing it for the money… pfff…” with a big ol’ “Yup. Bang on.”
I bet this is more just Omar’s opinion then the rest of the guys in the band, especially Ward. This has always been his baby, while Omar has always just kinda had the whatever attitude with the group since it wasn’t experimental enough for him.
Kick Omar out, and get a new album done.
is that possible? have you heard the first sparta record? Omar is a must!
Why would he make Sparta sound the same as ATDI? It was a completely different band.
the lineup you are proposing is Sparta with Cedric on vocals
Are you trying to say Omar is the only person who can do what he does?
Well, either you get a cheap Omar imitator or you get a new voice which changes the band… in which case, there’s no point in releasing a new AtDI album instead of just continuing with Sparta and TMV (though both of them have been losing inspiration… here’s hoping Noctourniquet has something really unique to offer. The first single says it does.)
I agree with the frog
That “a couple of shows” better be an understatement.
I like to hear the truth but either way, this guy is and always will be a prick. I know him personally and has always come of as pretentious. But that didn’t stop me from loving the music I grew up with. A new album will never happen due to individual egos bigger than Ulrich & Hetfield combined.
*off
His musical/artistic conviction is just so inspiring.
Appreciate the honesty…. feel he regularly comes off as a douchebag. That first solo album of his, which I’m sure he thinks was brilliant, was unlistenable at best.
I tried to get into that, too… Failed.
Failed, indeed.
his first solo record was actually decent imo… some of the later ones were reeeaaallly bad though
I love ATDI, but I am now an eager convert waiting for new MV & solo Omar outings. I would shit for a new ATDI, but not under a “forced” or cash in mentality.
For the record, I love this band. I’m pretty sure the real answer there won’t be another album is that Omar knows he can’t come close to matching the intensity and creativity on “Relationship of Command”. Let’s be honest here, “Acrobatic Tenement” and “In/Casino/Out” were straight garbage. Omar wants to keep this band a “nostalgia thing” because any future albums will ruin the legacy of this one album wonder.
correct about acrobatic, wrong wrong wrong about in casino out. fantastic record. as is vaya.
Vaya rocks super hard duder! and the others are just recorded bad. Your opinion i s wurst WURST.
however, I have not science of data of any kind to prove that statement. so…
science OR data…
science NOR data
i wish i was wrong, pahtnuh.
Tom is right. But Omar already topped Relationship of Command with the first four TMV records IMO
What would there be to say on a new AtDI record? It would be a step backwards.
I agree with Tom too but it’s been long enough of a break to have a new cd not really be tied to the legacy of the band.
In/Casino/Out is garbage? Once again showing you know jack shit about music.
man, what is with the internet? ‘You disagree with my opinion about music which really isn’t based on anything, therefore you must know jack shit about music.’ or ‘I don’t like this album for any reason I can quantify, therefore it must be straight garbage – everyone agrees with me, right? Because I’m right.’ I’m sure everyone who makes these statements has a master’s degree in music and is a highly competent, well-studied musical virtuoso that therefore has the authority to make statements like that duet superior knowledge and skill.
Because all of you do, of course, know much more about music than everyone else – not because you’re highly educated in it and you’ve dedicated your life to studying it and becoming the best musician possible, but because the opinion is yours and that somehow automatically makes it superior to everyone else’s.
*due to, not duet
Are you replying to me with this? If so, my comment wasn’t directed at you.
I’m aware of that. I’m replying to you, Wurst, and everyone else that insults others for disagreeing with them despite having no authority on the subject.
No, Wurst just has a shitty opinion.
“It’s a way to right my wrongs,” Rodriguez said in the BBC interview. “When I split up the band I was very young and self-centered.”
Bixler convinced Rodriguez to do the reunion by suggesting the guitarist lighten up and that it could be fun.
“We got into a room together just to play music and see what happened,” Rodriguez said. “We knew if we got into a room together we’d know within five minutes whether it was a good idea or not. The chemistry was still there.”
“People always say we broke up out of nowhere and we imploded because of the popularity, and that’s something that always makes us laugh,” Rodriguez said in the Alternative Press article. “We still laugh about that (rumor) because (the breakup) had nothing to do with that. It was just that I felt it was our time. I felt that the lifespan of the band was over and I broke the band up. It was all personal affairs. It was very much a life thing, it had nothing to do with external pressure and all those theories.”
“Going back to this point again about the way people say that we imploded out of nowhere, they don’t understand the context that we broke up at least three or four other times before we finally broke up,” Rodriguez said in the Alternative Press interview. “There were three or four times where I or Cedric or Cedric and I both talked about leaving the group because our desires were so different (from the rest of the band). Looking back on it, it’s part of the beauty of that band and what made it work. It wasn’t what we wanted versus what they wanted. It was a really special dynamic, even though it was volatile in that way. It was what made the band what it was. I don’t regret it at all.”
“We’re all good friends now. We all talk now. I invited Tony and Jim and Paul down to my house in Mexico and had them over. I flew them down here. We’re all good friends… .”
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