Scabdates

Scabdates
Live album by
ReleasedNovember 8, 2005
RecordedMay 2004–May 2005, Various live performances
GenreProgressive rock, experimental rock
Length72:54
LabelGold Standard Laboratories
Universal Records
Strummer
ProducerOmar Rodríguez-López
The Mars Volta chronology
Frances the Mute
(2005)
Scabdates
(2005)
Amputechture
(2006)

Scabdates is the second official live recording from the band The Mars Volta. It was released on November 8, 2005 and features music recorded between May 2004 and May 2005 during the tours in support of De-Loused in the Comatorium and Frances the Mute. In 2011, NME magazine named it one of the 50 greatest live albums of all time.[1] The "And Ghosted Pouts" section of "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" was used in the film Get Him to the Greek.

  1. ^ "Pictures of The 50 greatest live albums of all time - Photos". Nme.Com. 2011-03-09. Retrieved 2012-03-08.