Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez

Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez
Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez
Born	September 29, 1983 (1983-09-29)
Genres	Progressive rock Experimental rock Psychedelic rock Salsa
Occupations	Musician, Drummer, Percussionist, Keyboardist
Instruments	Keyboard Synthesizer Clavinet Bongos Congas Maracas Shekere Drums
Associated acts	The Mars Volta, Zechs Marquise, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Funeral Party

Marcellus Rodriguez-Lopez is a multi-instrumentalist musician and younger brother of Omar Rodríguez-López.

Biography

He has been noted as to playing the bongos, congas, Drums, cymbals, Maracas, keyboards and Shekere.

Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez currently plays in The Mars Volta and the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group with his older brother Omar Rodríguez-López. For a few years he contributed only percussion to both bands, then later became the keyboardist for both. He is also the drummer for El Paso band Zechs Marquise, which includes his brothers Marfred Rodríguez-López on bass, and Rikardo Rodríguez-López on keyboards and trumpet. and creates his own music under the moniker Eureka the Butcher. Since his brother Rikardo joined Zechs, Marcel is now solely drums for the band. He played keyboards on Omar's self-titled record, though performed drums for the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet with the inclusion of Money Mark for that 2005 tour. He formerly played in the band Thieves Of Always, which is led by Ralph Jasso, who was a member of The Mars Volta on tour in 2002.

Marcel also played live with the Red Hot Chili Peppers during The Mars Volta's Amputechture tour, contributing bongoes to "Hump de Bump" and congas to "Charlie." He has also appeared along with the band for the Gnarls Barkley tour, playing nearly every song of the set, starting with the Dallas show, January 13, through the Sunrise, Florida show on January 31, 2007. Marcel also played clavinet during performances of "Warlocks," which was originally played by Billy Preston on the studio recording of Stadium Arcadium.

In addition Marcel has acted in his brother Omar's film The Sentimental Engine Slayer.

At a show of Zechs Marquise, Marcel had this position on fast playing musicians: "You see some guys playing their death metal, but they play really soft with the volume turned up loud to play fast. That doesn't take as much skill as playing loud and fast. If you can play loud and fast, that's a whole new level".

Omar Rodríguez-López recently spoke out about the relationship with him and his brother:

Because of our age difference I didn't really get to know him because I left home at a very young age. We're eight years apart and I dropped out of school and left home when I was seventeen, so he was very small. When I finally came back to the family structure and made amends then I was always on tour. And so I got to discover my brother by inviting him into the band. It was sort of always the idea that I would bring him into the factory eventually. When I did that's how I got to know him - through being on the road and being on tour.

Discography

With The Mars Volta

• Frances the Mute (2005)
• Scabdates (2005)
• Amputechture (2006)
• The Bedlam in Goliath (2008)
• Octahedron (2009)
• Noctourniquet (2012)

With Omar Rodríguez-López

• Omar Rodriguez (2005) (Drums & Percussion, Gong, Keyboards)
• Please Heat This Eventually (2006) (Drums)
• Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo (2007) (Drums & Percussion, Synths, Clavinet)
• Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch (2007) (Drums & Percussion)
• The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange (2007) (Drums & Percussion)
• Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) (2007) (Drums & Percussion, Synths, Clavinet)
• Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead (2008) (Drums)
• Old Money (2008) (Drums & Percussion, Synths, Clavinet, Keyboards)
• Megaritual (2009) (Drums & Percussion, Synths, Piano)
• Los Sueños de un Hígado (2009) (Percussion)
• Xenophanes (2009) (Percussion, Keyboards)
• Solar Gambling (2009) (Synths, Piano)
• Sepulcros de Miel (2010) (Drums & Percussion)
• Tychozorente (2010) (Mellotron)
• Cizaña de los Amores (2010) (Drums, Synths, Piano, Organ)
• Dōitashimashite (2010) (Keyboards)
• Un Escorpion Perfumado (2010) (Synths)

With Zechs Marquise

• 34:26 (2006)
• Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare (2008)
• Getting Paid (2011)

External links

• Zechs Marquise Myspace