Scabdates is the second official live recording from the band The Mars Volta. It was released on November 8, 2005 and features music recorded between May 2004 and May 2005 during the 2004-2005 tour in support of Frances the Mute.
Scabdates is peculiar as only three of the band's songs are represented, constituting mostly of expansions on musical themes which appear elsewhere in their work, or entirely new segments altogether. For example, the len...
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Scabdates is the second official live recording from the band The Mars Volta. It was released on November 8, 2005 and features music recorded between May 2004 and May 2005 during the 2004-2005 tour in support of Frances the Mute.
Scabdates is peculiar as only three of the band's songs are represented, constituting mostly of expansions on musical themes which appear elsewhere in their work, or entirely new segments altogether. For example, the lengthy exposition on "Cicatriz," when combined with its introduction "Haruspex", comprises over 48 minutes of the disc; its lengthy jam incorporating themes which would later be used in "Cassandra Gemini" (the performance excerpted here was recorded on May 12, 2004, almost a year before Frances the Mute was released). Oddly enough, the Scabdates version of "Concertina" is shorter than its studio counterpart released on the Tremulant EP. The album ends with Cedric thanking the audience by telling them to "go home and take a bath."
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