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Old 02-06-2005, 01:18 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ArtistInTheAmbulance
Ah well there was somewhere I saw that said there were six members... I managed to find this though:
"The Mars Volta have a sixth member who always remains unseen. He engineers the sound effects rife throughout the band's recordings, including the bird sound effects on this song." And that was on songfacts.com or something like that..
Thst description is of Jeremy Ward, who died a couple of years ago. He was Jim Ward from Sparta/ATD-I's cousin. Mars Volta is two full members, and they have been through about fifteen or so touring musicians. I think they're settled with about three others for their live shows now.
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