After several years and two more critically acclaimed albums, for a variety of reasons, Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala left At the Drive-In and the band went on "indefinite hiatus". After receiving a record deal with Flipside Records and recording Acrobatic Tenement with the band, he became their full-time bassist before switching to guitar. With the help of Bixler-Zavala, he was able to return to El Paso where he could begin to reclaim his life from addiction and join At the Drive-In as backup vocalist and bass guitarist. Eventually he got in touch with friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala who suggested he come back to El Paso. At the Drive-InĪt 17, Rodriguez-Lopez left El Paso to hitchhike around the country for a year in the early 1990s, during which he acquired an addiction to opiates. He says he enjoys the company of his close friends and family when not fulfilling obligations to his many bands and projects. He attended Coronado High School in El Paso. During this time he frequently collaborated with his friends and future bandmates from El Paso, which included people such as Paul Hinojos, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Julio Venegas and the late Jeremy Michael Ward. Since then Rodriguez-Lopez has spent most of his career living and working with his close friend Bixler-Zavala. It was during this time that Rodriguez-Lopez met Cedric Bixler-Zavala while practicing with friend Paul Hinojos. He began playing the bass at age 12, but then switched to guitar at 15 because he "needed more strings". Rodriguez-Lopez was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in El Paso, Texas, but spent some of his childhood in South Carolina.
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He is best known for being the guitarist and bandleader of The Mars Volta from 2001 until their breakup in 2012, and is currently the guitarist for the alternative rock groups Antemasque and Bosnian Rainbows. Omar Alfredo Rodriguez-Lopez (born September 1, 1975) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, writer, actor and film director who was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.