Omar A Rodriguez Lopez-Love him or hate him?
 

I personally really like his guitar style, quite weird and unique. I hear not many people like him as his solos are too similar/repetitive and his heavy use of the delay pedal. I really likes his solo album also. What does everyone else think?

Totally indifferent to him.

I like him, I'm a TM fanboy though so anything I say after this is meaningless.

I think alot of people moan about his reliance on effects, but it's doesn't really matter as he gets some of the coolest sounds I have heard through his experimentation. I'd also consider him a really sloppy player but this just adds to his unpredictability, which I quite like in a way. My favorite guitar work of his is on Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt and on Eriatarka.

I haven't listened to him enough to comment, but from what I've seen it looks like he should get a rack unit. More manageable.

Unless....he has all those pedals for asthetics.... No. Never.

i think he's brilliant

His playting is so sloppy.

His playing sounds good enough on the Mars Volta cd's, but the live videos I've seen were a tad sloppy. However, what he lacks in technique, he makes up for in creativity, thus making him an average guitarist in my book.

who?

[QUOTE=Scott Herren]who?[/QUOTE]
just a nobody from a band no one knows about.

good

I think he's great. I've heard some live stuff and he sounds rather sloppy, but it doesn't change the fact that what he has done in the studio has been rather brilliant. Aside from just being a guitarist, he's also damn good at putting together some great songs.

I wouldn't call it love, but it's certainly something similiar to a schoolgirl crush.

he's undoubtedly shown the greatest growth of any rock guitarist musically in such a short span of time, going from incompetent punk/indie rocker to a shredder who's a little TOO good to rein himself in. It's as if Mark Hoppus could suddenly play "Tommy the Cat" or Meg White tackling "YYZ." It's a very noticeable change in playing from [i]Acrobatic Tenement[/i] to [i]Frances the Mute[/i].

I definitely agree that he's had an incredible amount of growth. (I believe he actually started as a bassist.) Anyway, I think with the Mars Volta, he's picked up quite a bit of style, while sacrificing some of the straightforward, catchy intensity that I liked about him in ATD-I.

He was never the most technical guitar player, Omar is more about the emotion and improvisation of the moment. The songs rarely sound the same and that is what is so great about it. But I do miss some of the really good lead parts off relationship of command that seem to be missing on the mars volta stuff. Well actually that was a stupid statement. Those are two completely different bands so I shouldn't even be saying that. I love all that he does and am a complete fanboy so please disregard all that I have said.

My love for TMV has dimished over the past few months, but reading this thread makes me want to listen to them again.

Sloppy but Good

I like me some Omar.

You have to hand it to the fact that he writes all the songs for TMV. I dig his solo album.

Meh.

I like his chemistry and style in Atdi but not tmv.

[QUOTE=BlindWriting]I think he's great. I've heard some live stuff and he sounds rather sloppy, but it doesn't change the fact that what he has done in the studio has been rather brilliant. Aside from just being a guitarist, he's also damn good at putting together some great songs.[/QUOTE]
You just gonna remeber that most of his live stuff is improvised, i wonder when a manual dexterity pt 2 will come...

I liked him way better in ATDI.

I like his songwriting

I used to think The Mars Volta were an average, but tolerable band. Then I actually [i]listened[/i] to their albums in full.

Awful.

I like ATDI though.

He's a master.

[QUOTE=Iai]Totally indifferent to him.[/QUOTE]
That's the ticket.

I want to have his children. Come on, he is the man. The fro', the skinny arms, the glasses. And his solos are pretty sweet too.

He has one of the most thin, and sometimes annoying tones that I have ever heard, but somehow it's a very pleasing thing to hear. I think his arrangements, especially on [i]Frances the Mute[/i], are far better then his guitar playing, which can become a little hard to digest sometimes. I admire his overall understanding of music and his own roots, and even his philisophical views concerning his band and their music. Actually, he's very good in just about every aspect that I can think of, though it varies from song to song.

[URL="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/andrewsnow/omar1.jpg"]Who doesn't love this man?[/URL]

Great musician.