The Dead and Hell in the Bug

"I just wasn't going to be patient and sort of like have this whole campaign and record we were supposed to do and then him make another band with somebody else," he says. "There's just a lot of darkness happening with him and he needs to kind of handle it, you know what I mean? You're like, what the fuck dad? What's wrong with us?" The Mars Volta has been playing three-hour gigs for more than 20 years. They've had some pop hits but no one at the show ever wants to hear them.