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And I have to add this – The Dutch male, in the eyes of Shannen, is basically seen as:
SMASHING PUMPKINS
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I’m really not a cassettes collector, but when I found a seller from Thailand, I ordered all Thai cassette albums he could find, and a set for my modding friend manilla here also. Next to that I think I have the rarest Pisces Iscariot around: from Peru (yes, Peru! of all places!) and it has the CD artwork. No other PI cassette we know so far has that.
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ARCHIVE NEWSLETTER #4
Hello SP World!
I hope all of you are doing well. I want to give all of you your weekly dose from the archives. Quite a few of you have asked me what exactly is in the archives. There are thousands upon thousands of tapes in the archive! Every era of the band has a wealth of material in the archive. If youâre a fan of the early days, there are songs like Death of a Mind (Sun) and Not Worth Asking from live shows in â89. If youâre a fan of the Mellon Collie era, practically everything was recorded. The same goes with Adore all the way up to Zeitgeist. There is definitely something for everyone. The task of going through and picking individual items to release is a tall order. This is why weâve been talking to all of you about different avenues on how we are going to release this material.
Say for instance we just put up a batch of 5 shows for sale online. We would have to go through the archives, and pick 5 shows that would be worthy of putting up for sale. Thatâs not an easy task when youâre looking at 20+ years of shows. Also include the mountain of studio and demo material. Then you look at what happens if a show we put up didnât do so well. That time, money, and effort would have been wasted. You have to remember that a lot of these live shows are unmixed multi-tracks. They would have to be mixed down in the studio in order for us to release it. It would be difficult to break even if one of the shows didnât sell well.
This is where the idea of a subscription service comes in. We wouldnât have to cherry pick the top 5 shows to put out on an individual basis. We can take things from all different eras, and deliver them all to the subscription members. There could be something like a rehearsal from the Arising tour that would be passed through the subscription service that might not do well as its own individual release. Then we can pick out a few of the favorites that we delivered to the subscription members, and offer those as individual releases to everybody else. By having an upfront subscription service, it would make sure that we have enough capital to cover all of the expenses in mixing and transferring material and the digital and/or physical methods of getting it into your hands.
Thatâs where we stand right now. Weâre still in the brainstorming stage, but weâre leaning towards the subscription service idea more than individually putting up material for sale. If you agree or disagree, or have a better idea, please tell us. I frequent the Archives board on the Trading forum on sp.com and I check my e-mail account at frank@smashingpumpkins.com. This is all for you. You are all in on the ground floor on helping us design the best way to open up the archives.
Frank
I LOVE italian food… probably my favorite. Well I love indian food as well… and chinese.[/quote:wlly839y]
Again, now that you mention Indian… I took my girl out last Sunday to this pitoresque little village Delft nearby where we live, to an Indian restaurant called Maharani. We had the most spicy dishes with chicken and lamb: Vindaloo and something else, I don’t remember it’s name anymore… And the best sweet mint lassies (mint! can you imagine? It had real fresh mint floating inside, and it tasted awesome!
) I had since long… and we took a walk in the old centre of the village as it was beautiful weather.We also walked inside here, very romantic…
An old gate to the inner city build in 1400.
Now the question would be, would they increase in value as time goes on, or would they be considered more like 8-track tapes, where you’d be lucky to sell 25 tapes for $1.00?
I also think that the Machina Mini-Disc could be a nice one-off item for future reference.
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I think exactly that will happen: cassettes not very collectible, vinyl on the other hand always will be, and cds, dvds, bluerays and minidiscs will increase in value. Only the rare and special releases that is of course, and vinyl will probably be higher priced in general, as it is an older format, and knows more hardcore collectors… There is also the Mellon Collie mini disc, by the way, but I’m sure you knew that.I wish I could find one of the Zeitgeist 5 track watermarked listening party CDs…….[/quote:29eu8ou2]
See, it does exist… I’m having troubles even finding the standard album promo, let alone this one…
Maybe I can get $15k for them… if you look close enough you can see that my SP records are on the same shelf as my Beatles.[/quote:uwwachh6]
Yes indeed!i wish her all the best of course, but that sounds like a moving on statement.[/quote:1vm6mvh5]
I guess it is.
I want a boyfriend that will take me to Rome to eat lasagna!
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Funny that you mention lasagna… I’m not the biggest chef myself (luckily my gf is, she is a great chef! ), but the other weekend I wanted to surprise her so she didn’t have to cook. So I made… a great lasagna, homemade and all, with fresh ingredients (vegetables, mushrooms, huttenkase, italian salami slices, a great sauce…). The bloody thing was almost 2 kg I guess, and we dropped from the table afterwards, and could only roll ourselves slowly through the living… Only a little corner of the lasagne was left behind on the table. Hehehehe! Anyway… maybe next time you will do the cd research in Rome then, Ayoe. Meanwhile, enjoy!
Awesome story Ayoe! Next time you wake up he is carrying you to a church in Greece, Venezuela or Canada, all dressed up in a wedding gown… wanna bet?
Ive been in Rome this weekend, looooooooooooong story
And my boyfreind is sooo silly,insane and sweet at the same time hihi. [/quote:8gltqnw1]
We don’t wanna know, I’m afraid.
All we want to know is: did you find any rare Smashing Pumpkins releases in Italy? If so, did you buy them? Or were you too occupied by that silly, insane, sweet boyfriend of yours? Wouldn’t suprise me…
Performed: 2008-12-01 The Chris Isaak Hour Raleigh Studios; Hollywood, CA, US[/quote:1vg2gmcy]
Thanks, Tour History updated!
Same seller I started with, now this beats all…
http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie … 0369080448
However, it is very rare. I’ve seen this go for 700 dollar a few years ago, for 1 of the cds only!
That guy really has something… Also this set is in there:
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … S&item=289
And… it’s COMPLETE. The first one I see being complete (next to my set).
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Owata, if I’m right. I quickly watched a few seconds here and there. Will watch the whole thing later. But when was this recorded again, on what exact date/location? Does anyone know?could you zip the VIDEO_TS folder and upload that[/quote:1ikck28w]
Here you go. Bit larger, 145 MB.I agree with Cool. This is homemade stuffs that good SP friends make for each other for free, or for actual costs. Secondly, these are audience recordings, so the quality is very questionable. All in all, it’s an insult to the Smashing Pumpkins fans and to eBay to set up such an auction.
Updated:
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=921 (Tonight, Tonight BBC acetate type 1)
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=2582 (G.L.O.W. promo with sticker pic)
New:
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3101 (Adore Russia)
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3102 (Zeitgeist Russia with obi)
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3103 (Tonight, Tonight BBC acetate type 2)
(I found out the BBC Edit is really an edit, the song has been cut with 12 seconds… )http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3104 (HitDisc 125B US promo compilation with 1979)
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3105 (1991 – 2000 Russian dvd)
Here you go. 21 MB avi file. Didn’t check it now, as I have no speakers at hand, but it should work I hope.
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