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| http://guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2011/0...opez-interview/CITAZIONE Matt Warnock: Why do you play Orange amps as opposed to say Fender or Marshall?
Omar Rodriguez-López: It’s not really something that I can put into words. I tried out a bunch of different amps and Orange sounded like a real amp to me. Everything else sounded like it was missing something. Because I don’t know a lot about the technical stuff, it was just a feeling thing. Orange just sounded like me.
Matt: How much does tone influence your writing, as compared to notes and rhythms?
Omar: I think it influences expression, not really writing. I think that writing in its basic form is just an arrangement of notes. So really, they just come out in how you want to express that particular composition, and tone is more about expression.
Matt: With the high level of energy and creativity in your music, how do you see the Mars Volta fitting into today’s music scene, which seems to be leaning more towards Radio Pop than creativity?
Omar: I don’t really think about it in those terms. I don’t see myself as having to fit in or out of anything. I’m just a guy trying to do his thing. Eat healthy, play healthy and be outside as well. I’m just kind of doing my thing.
I don’t really think about what’s going on outside the band. I mean, there are groups that I think are great. I’ll hear a group and it’ll influence me to get in the studio and have fun, but I don’t think about it as me in contrast to something else.
Matt: Because of the experimental nature of your music, how much was jazz an influence in your playing when you were coming up?
Omar: Oh yeah, jazz was a huge influence, because jazz was an influence on Salsa music, which is traditionally where I come from. So, once the Puerto Rican musicians went to New York they started influencing jazz records, especially in the early ‘70s with the hardcore Salsa movement, which was a big influence on my playing.
Matt: Where are you in the writing process between now and the release of your next album?
Omar: I wrote our next album a year and a half ago, I’ve just been waiting for Cedric to finish his lyrics. Actually I’m here and I’ll record him, then we’ll wrap it up.
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