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Nice Story, Arthur
Nowadays Pearl Jam is a phantastic Live Band.
I like the recordings from the ‘Official Bootlegs’. Lots of good and great live performances. (glad that i’m not a Pearl Jam Collector). From the studio albums i like ‘Ten’ and ‘Binaural’ the most.np: State Of Love And Trust
Haha, your so silly Benway.
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Oh, no i’m not silly… and voting for the ‘animal’ isn’t silly either…dancing bananas are silly!
Davin, I’ve arranged an interview with John van Luyn, the guy that managed to hire the Pumpkins in 1995! Also, he is diving in the Melkweg Archives today to check what is left of contracts, posters, etc. (but he
warned already that he is afraid that most will be destroyed already…)
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That sounds very promising… I’m curious to hear moreso-
do you need it?
then I will scan those pages from (t)here within the next month or so?!
lemme know!
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this would be appreciated…
would be a phantastic addition to the magazine-category on spfreaks…I have over 150 copies just sitting here, so I figure I’d try a fixed auction and let as many people who wanted one, pick one up. We’ll see if it works. hehe.[/quote:jaao87mr]
Phantastic
I have only three (#5167, #5169, #5170), i think i’ve bought them from you, some years ago.
One is framed, one is for listening and the third… hmmm… can’t remember…cool!!!!
great stuff and effort!!!
do you still need: (t)there magazine?
an art mag with handwritten pages of txt by BC and pix by Yelena?[/quote:326n38jq]
years ago, i’ve had the scans from the photos / text. very nice.
but lost them at a computer-crash. all in digital heaven.i think the magazine is still available at the (t)here-magazine website.
[And yesterday i didn’t win a muzzle promo on EBay (for the 5th or 6th time, grrrr
)[/quote:3vd5l1ie]That sucks Benway, better luck next time.
Muzzle is a regular on eBay, i think i see one, once a month or something like that.[/quote:3vd5l1ie]
Ahh thanks…
Many times when i’m watching the ‘Muzzle’-Auctions, i forget bidding…Now, could someone pls put AU Siva cd singel on Ebay!!
I so want that,I so want that,,I so want that,,I so want that,,I so want that,,I so want that,
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yepp, me too…@Mayo & Arthur: Cool finds.
And yesterday i didn’t win a muzzle promo on EBay (for the 5th or 6th time, grrrr
)I received this update link http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/pages/a … k-2-post-1 (I have an error on my IE). I’m unable to read the content…so I’m not sure if any of you could access to that link?[/quote:dvrynvjf]
It works fine for me…Problems with IE? Use Firefox: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
Portable version (download Firefox_Portable_3.0.7_en-us.paf.exe, run .exe, choose a folder, the .exe extracts all required files into this folder, all bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords were stored in the selected folder, so you can take all this information with you (copy this folder to an usb-stick and you can use this on every computer) )
And use adblock plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1865And here is the siren: <a href="http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/pages/articles/sp-siren-week-2-post-1:dvrynvjf]SP Siren: Week 2, Post 1[/url:dvrynvjf”>
JIMMY SPEAKS…
[fake] Billy tweets pretty often and on myriad subjects, usually concerning (but not limited to): how the Cubs and wrestling are his only interests these days, how he is Smashing Pumpkins and the Smashing Pumpkins are him, being pissed at Courtney Love, doing whatever manager Irving Azoff tells him to do (including speaking to Congress on his behalf), how dropped D is the only tuning to write music in, how often he f–ks porn stars (namely Sasha Grey winner of the 2008 AVN for Best 3-Way), wanting more silver pants and/or Victorian dresses, talking about his goofy lawsuits that he has already defaulted on multiple times, and how the radio needs to pay him more. The joke well runs deep and plentiful – and sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. "The one thing to remember is that this guy is a HUGE Smashing Pumpkins fan ("Luna" may be his wedding song), but like a lot of people in the community, he has become jaded not so much on dissatisfaction with the music, but because of the press and the mythos surrounding Billy Corgan. Bloggins calls it "associative listening experience," where we "associate songs with ideas, memories, moods, and the like. The idea of something being overrated or underrated originates from this phenomenon – as you associate a piece of music or an artist with the press it gets. Billy’s infantile actions, since they are novel and epic in scope, have overshadowed the music for me and a lot of other folks."
So with the new SP twitter and a rumoured Billy Corgan twitter underway, what will happen to Bloggins and his satire? Well, if he doesn’t receive a cease and desist letter, than I’m sure the REAL Billy Corgan will do enough to fuel Bloggins for at least the rest of the year.
Bonus: Some excerpts from fake Billy Corgan twitter:
* Well, I wanted to shoot some make-up pool with Jimmy tonight, but *someone* is a little too upset to answer their fucking phone.
2:15 AM Mar 21st from web* Back from California, ready to get my antique on
11:40 AM Mar 23rd from web* Doing a dropped D version of Boot Scootin’ Boogieabout
15 hours ago from web* No. Space boots, not cowboy boots. Matches the black tunic better.
29 minutes ago from web in reply—————————————————————————————————————–
from: http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/pages/n … aks-at-usc
KERRY BROWN TALKS SHOP…
As reported by SmashingPumpkins.com, Kerry Brown had a speaking engagement at University of Southern California this weekend. Presumably he spoke shop about audio engineering and mixing, but his long time buddy Billy Corgan was with him.
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LISA ON HER OWN…
[regroup] than James and the Pumpkins."James, a little uncomfortably replies, "I wish them the best, Billy’s very talented, but yah, I’m not really a part of the new thing."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOXlRHI0 … r_embedded
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WALKER LOVE…
Matt Walker, the touring drummer during the MCIS tour and recording partner of Billy Corgan has been profiled again this week by PMM Writer BlackChicago. This time we take a look at Matt Walker’s other projects like Cupcakes, Ashtar Command, Beautiful Assassins, Of A Thousand Faces, and Impossible Recording Machine.
Matt Walker recently gave percussion support to Jimmy Chamberlin during the Chicago shows on the recent 20th Anniversary Tour.
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Mr.BenwayIs this GLOW-Promo factory pressed or a CDR?[/quote:fo4jb9vd]
factory pressed.http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=2582[/quote:fo4jb9vd]
Ohhhh, thanks. I didn’t see that. Perhaps i need some new glasses
[ I’m a big fan of Catherine but haven’t got around to it that much (the Catherine-collecting)…[/quote:2m4ec1le]
I’ve found them for little money on the German E-Bay. And yes, the ‘Hot Saki’ is very good. I didn’t know them before. Nice pop-songs for a sunny spring day @Arthur: Congrats.
Is this GLOW-Promo factory pressed or a CDR?
@all: phantastic lists
@Arthur: This matchbox-like CD looks really cool.
@Mayo: When did you buy all these stuff? Crazyyy…
I’ve browsed through my collection, but i didn’t find that many rare CDs:
– Machina 2 (4 cd-set, UK Acetate/CDR, In-House Promo?)
– Les Inedits de \"The Aeroplane Flies High\" (Frnch Promo)
– Try³ (Summersault Tour Dates) (Canadian Promo)
– Untitled And Other Choice Cuts (Canadian Promo)
– Adore (Canadian Promo)I have also 2 or 3 other CDR-Promos, but i’m not sure how rare they are. I’m not very interested in collecting CDRs.
What about the following CDs, does someone have more information. Are they \"rare\"?
– Thirty Three (UK Promo HUTCDJ78) i’ve read somewhere, this Promo was withdrawn and only little numbers where pressed. Why was it withdrawn?
– True Power, True Faith Rarities & B-Sides (Promo for the Smashing Pumpkins Digital Catalogue)
– Some of the first Australian Relaeses: Siva & I Am OneMr.Benway
Congrats Honeymade.
I’ve bought:
– Smashing Pumpkins : ‘That’s The Way (My Love Is)’ US Promo
– Catherine : ‘Four Leaf Clover’ (CD-Single + Promo-Single), ‘Whisper’ (CD-Single), ‘Hot Saki + Bedtime Stories’ (Promo-CD)http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3045
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Phantastic! I can only repeat myself: Good work, Arthur! Thanks a million for this site.
News from the Archive: Newsletter No.2
THE SMASHING PUMPKINSARCHIVE NEWSLETTER #2
Hello again,Welcome to the second Archive Newsletter. I am now entering the third week on the job, and I just want to say that I’m really excited about the project. I want to get into the more technical details about the archive. One of the biggest problems with storing media that is over 20 years old is tape deterioration. One example of this is the Ignoffo Demos. Mark Ignoffo was a studio engineer that worked with the band in 1988-89. The band would record demos at Reel Time Studios and then sell them at shows. The Moon Demo was a demo tape that was sold at shows in 1989 for $5. The songs from this period would include Stars Fall In, Daughter, and Bye June. These songs have been widely bootlegged out, but the quality has been questionable because many of these were sourced from old cassette tapes. The band has the original reels from those recording sessions in the archive. Throughout the years, these tapes have started to deteriorate and flake. Recently, the band has started to rescue these recordings. A technique to rescue tapes that are starting to flake is through baking. The tapes would be placed in an oven, and baked for a specific period of time. This restores the tape so that it can be transferred. In these cases, we often have one chance to transfer the tape before the tape is lost for good. The Ignoffo Demos were baked for 72 hours! Then they ran them through Pro Tools at 24-bit/96kHz, and the outcome was amazing. They sound so much better than the bootlegged versions that fans have. This would definitely be an upgrade if you already have these songs.
The next step is to rescue other tapes and reels that have started to deteriorate. All of the material in the archive is stored in a climate controlled environment in order to preserve them, and slow down the effects of time. Tapes and reels aren’t the only material that we have to carefully monitor. Paper is another concern for us. I’m currently going through and cataloging the band’s posters. I have found some early posters from the Gish era, and there are a few that have started to show their age. A way to combat this is to store them in acid-free polyester Mylar sleeves. The Library of Congress also uses the same types of sleeves for archival storage. I’m creating a system that will catalog and preserve all of the posters and artwork from the band. Eventually this system will include all of the promotional material that I’ve talked about in my recent blog post. I hope this sheds some light on what we’ve been doing. I’ll talk to you all next week!
Frank
[/quote:q61afz4b]Interesting fact: Posters and SP Promo Material are also in the Archive. I’m curious about it, love to see them. And more stuff for SPFreaks.
Can somebody please copy that article of Sunky on SP.com, called "Dawn of a New Era"?
[/quote:3q8ujno6]Problems with IE? Use Firefox: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
Portable version, no Installation, and use adblock plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1865Here is the article of sunky:
Dawn of a New Era
March 22, 2009 | 1022 Views
At the start of this year I wrote a piece on the next chapter for the Smashing Pumpkins and what we could possibly expect in 2009. This was based on the various media interviews given in late 2008 and at the time it seemed like we knew what to expect. However, as Billy once sang ‘all things change’.As the news on Jimmy Chamberlin’s departure appeared on SP.com, one word sprung to mind: ‘unexpected’. With the community reading the news in disbelief and some claiming this ‘has to be’ nothing more than an early April Fools joke, the shock announcement of a few days ago still hasn’t sunk in for many fans.
"The SMASHING PUMPKINS’ guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member Billy Corgan has announced that drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left the group. Chamberlin joined the band Corgan founded in Chicago in 1988 and played on all their albums except Adore (1998).
Corgan will continue to write and record as SMASHING PUMPKINS with plans to head into the studio this spring."
At the time of writing this article there is no official word from Jimmy as to his reasons for leaving the Pumpkins. While this adds to the confusion from fans searching for an answer to the main question of why, there is not doubt that most people agree this decision could not have been an easy one. We could speculate reasons for weeks on end, but until the band are ready to divulge that information we should be wary of any rumors we read.
Billy and Jimmy – Kansas City, MO – November 24, 2008 – Photo Bruce Moore
The message is still clear though, this is not the end of the Smashing Pumpkins. It is dawn of a new age for the Smashing Pumpkins; the band has evolved. Any form of change is met with a healthy dose of apprehension. It was (and still is) difficult for members of the fan base not to see the Smashing Pumpkins as those ‘original four’ members. It is undeniable that the music, energy and creativity behind the original force had was truly special. However, we’ve now had a decade since that line up was together for a brief handful of shows on the Arising tour.
This is nothing relatively new in the world of the Pumpkins. Even since the early days of Smashing Pumpkins we’ve become accustomed to the various musicians being invited into the studio or on tour with the group to help explore sounds and evolve the direction of the band. We now find the current hot topic mimicking the same discussion from back in 2007, when we first discovered that Billy and Jimmy would be the only two original members returning under the Smashing Pumpkins banner.
‘What makes this the Smashing Pumpkins?"
There is no right or wrong answer to this. The Smashing Pumpkins mean something different to each fan. It is not just the musicians, it is not just the sound and it is not just the name that we connect with in calling this group Smashing Pumpkins. We’ve now been in an era over the past few years where we as a community have had to ask ourselves this difficult question, even though we’ve had to deal with this in some form or another since the Mellon Collie era.
We have always found reasons, our own reasons for what makes this the Smashing Pumpkins. With the return in 07 some fans could not see this as the Pumpkins because James Iha and D’arcy were no longer involved, but they were the same fans that still called them the Smashing Pumpkins during the Adore and Machina eras without the ‘full original line up’. Was it purely based on the number of members, not the overall idea behind the name? It is always up to the individual.
As a fan base we can admit that we have been here before. We’ve ‘survived’ the departure of an original member before and it still delivered us music with which we’ve fallen in love. Currently as it stands, Billy Corgan is the Smashing Pumpkins. As much as some refuse to admit that, to a large portion of the Smashing Pumpkins and the wider music community out there, that is the way it has always been and always will be. When on The Hour back in November of 2008 Billy spoke about his time away from the Smashing Pumpkins during the Future Embrace era:
"Nobody (the public) wanted to see me not be in the band (Smashing Pumpkins) …
I wanted to move on with my life, but nobody else would."
– Billy Corgan – The Hour with George StroumboulopoulosThere are many popular bands from over the history of popular music that have gone on to have long successful careers with the one creative force and a range of musicians being a part of various eras of the bands life. Artists like Marilyn Manson, Robert Smith of The Cure, Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac to name a few have all been constant members of their respective bands. These are bands that started off as groups, a collective with a common goal but eventually led to one person being the sole key member. We are now in that era of the Smashing Pumpkins.
I’m sure back in the days when original members left and new members joined these acts, fans of the bands were asking themselves the same questions we as Smashing Pumpkins fans are pondering currently. All it takes is that one new song to get you hooked and you can have all your worries put to rest (as mentioned in the press release, Billy is now heading into the studio). So nothing from the ‘original 2009 plan’ has changed, except I think Billy will find fans and non-fans alike will be even more critical than ever before.
The enormity of losing an important member in regards to the sound of the band will be felt both in the studio and in the live arena. Whilst nobody can deny the chemistry between Billy and Jimmy was truly one of a kind, we have seen Billy create amazing music whilst Jimmy was absent. Even though Billy has openly talked about the frustration he felt during that period of the Pumpkins, lost without his ‘musical partner’, somehow out of that difficult time came some ground breaking critically acclaimed work as the Smashing Pumpkins.
So while the future is not what we had expected at the start of this year, there is still a future for this band and their songs. This is not the end, this is something we shouldn’t forget. The idea that created this band 21 years ago is still the same idea today, to create music unlike any other band out there. As echoed by all fans on the forum, whilst we are saddened by the announcement we all wish Jimmy the best for the future and thank him for everything he has given us over the years.
Let’s rock one last time with United States, one of the epics of the Zeitgeist era that allowed Jimmy to shine everynight this was performed. We’ll miss you Jimmy.
[/quote:3q8ujno6]list of articles updated: added the new/updated magazines
http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=2670 (Rolling Stone magazine Germany)
New items, starting with 5 magazines (full articles):
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=2996 up to 3000
[/quote:1322t6pl]reserved for the grey cds, but no pics/tracklists yet[/quote:1d4b8m1v]
you’re a little bit lazy awesome, totally awesome…
thanks a million for this site…
rawk on!ach cool, da war ich auch
[/quote:2dr0okh0]warst du auch beim ghostchildren-treffen am 06.06. (vor dem konzert)?
New album from The Decemberists – ‘The Hazards Of Love’
album stream: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/41689392
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