I was lucky enough to catch The Mars Volta in '04. By the end of their set, my cheeks were streaming with tears of ecstatic joy. Half a dozen years later, I think I'd stopped going to gigs altogether because nothing came close; not even near, to their prowess. Jon Theodore played with such bombast, he would've blown Bonzo off the stage. Having lived much of my life on Australia's east coast, my imagination has often wondered across the Pacific to Long Beach, California; to the likes of Sublime, the Dub Allstars and De-Facto; the latter being the interim band between At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta. On balmy evenings, by headlands shrouded in salty spray, I've often dreamt of nights De-Facto would've played and what that would've been like, by the eastern Pacific. Probably not so different from nights on the east coast of buy Australia, it equally as often occurred to me. I'd marvel at the band having emerged mostly out of landlocked El-Paso, Texas; country more reminiscent of Carlos Castañeda settings. Such considerations have always caused me to feel rather free although I'm not about to go sticking lizards to my temples. Despite Castañeda having been revealed as "a diabetic fraud" the lessons of his novels remain relevant, an old friend once insisted to me. Now he's married with children. Excuse me now, I've gotta go stick lizards to my temples.
De-Facto (L to R) is/was Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Jeremy Michael Ward, Cedric Bixler Zavala and Randolph Isiah "Ikey" Owens
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