Miscellaneous

                        This picture is a look at Omar's pedal board. It consists of over 20 pedals and is how Omar creates the effects on his guitar.

                    This is an interview with Omar in Amsterdam sometime in 2009. He is a very interesting person to listen to, with some great philosophies on music.


Fun Fact: During the recording of The Mars Volta's 4th album "Bedlam and Goliath" Omar bought a Ouija board that was cursed by evil spirits! The board brought about a serious string of bumps in the road for the recording, Rodriguez' studio flooded, singer Cedric Bixler-Savala injured his foot and had to learn how to walk again. Their audio engineer had a nervous breakdown and quit. Rodriguez spent almost 40 days straight in the studio trying to finish the songs and he couldn't quite figure out why his guitar parts kept disappearing. Despite all of this, the band prevailed and produced an album that would win them a Grammy later that year.

 This is Omar with his girlfriend Ximena Sarinana. Ximena is a singer/actress who collaborates with Omar on his solo work.