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that was a pretty awesome blog
i liked it a lot…anyone else notice that the Billy and Jimmy were the last to do blogs, and that jeff, ginger and lisa had done blogs before them?
maybe they were introducing and setting up those three to make them look like established members to all the pumpkin heads out there
Show some more spirit guys. This attitude will get you nowhere. Ask lilkitn what to do. She trusted me with her very first private demo’s a while back and now she is all over the place, advertising herself and practising even harder to reach her goals. I’m proud to have had my little share in that. I’m pretty sure you can do the same. Do not "wait till later because everything will be better". Start now and give ’em hell.
[/quote:12q8wcw3]heh… maybe
i’ll see. wait ’till i build my confidence a bit, or whatever. i mean, i have lyrics for over 70 songs, would be a shame to let them go to waste 
yeah, you’ll get pics of me wearing the shirt only when it’s vaguely interesting pics. im sure you dont want just a pic of me posing it (hah, i know I don’t want to do that
)do it now, I said that in high school that i’d wait blah blah and now im about to finish grad school, next semester and im still im my room with my guitar playing songs no one hears, no wonder i like SP.[/quote:2ne491ds] yeah i do want to. it’s just that no-one i know personally is interested, and i’m not really comfortable advertising for members whilst i have no experience
i’m just waiting till uni’. should find some people when i’m thereThis is only a third of the pix!! By the way, TONS of people asked where i got my SPFREAKS shirt, and where to get one, or if i had some to sell. There should be some ppl joining the site soon!![/quote:178ydzsg]HAHA! awesome!
see, those t-shirts really are awesome
get the online store up already arthur and awesome photos too, Toad32r!
i love that blue thing Billy’s wearingGotta love a keytar.[/quote:1dg1jnes] hell yes! they really are awesome, in that really gay, pathetic way (like Power Metal
) and it’s cool that he’s showing support for something that’s been really influential on music, generally speaking
ugh who could compare my chemical romance to the Pumpkins? I mean, sure, MCR has had a few songs but overall, at least to me they’re just overgrown emo kids. I can’t believe Gerard or whoever he is can compare himself… they are completely different animals… In my opinion, obviously SP wins by far.. MCR is just too emo for me. plus… this is a pumpkins site… doesn’t it seem obvious that most people would say the pumpkins?[/quote:14edw68s]
(sorry for the following hostility but this is a topic i am VERY hot on…)
MCR aren’t emo
and if you’re calling them emo, sorry, you have no idea what emo isemo is a genre that started in the late 80’s (yes, seriously) when NYC hardcore band Rites of Spring got bored with singing songs about killing the prez and started singing personal songs, songs that meant something to THEM. and the ‘more-hardcore-than-thou’ HC dudes started mocking and disregarding this movement, coining the term emo (as in emotive hardcore). this label died somewhere in the mid-90’s, but you can still find real emo bands in places. what’s being branded as emo these days (mcr, fall out boy, panic! at the disco etc.) are NOT emo, it was just some lazy journalist stealing a name.
think of it as the alternative label. we ALL know how much of a catch-all-genre name that was, and it became meaningless, right? and that is sort of what this modern ’emo’ is, except with more negativity surrounding it.and frankly, SP could be considered more emo than mcr. fact.
mcr have songs that are very obviously trying to help a depressed youth, whilst also giving an outlet for the bands depression, but not whining.
SP have some veeeery obviously ‘whiny’ songs, or songs that seem to conform to the stereotype of what an emo song should be. off the top of my head, ‘pink ribbon scars, that never forget’. a reference to
shock! self harm!so yes. please know what you’re talking about before you start criticisng/accusing or whatever.
*ahem* i’ll be nice now
promise! haha… that’s pretty cool. i love hearing these little stories of bands getting strange stuff
mmm… belgian chocolate *homer drool*
hmm… a band i’ve very recently got into is this one called ‘mew’
they’re really strange… spacey, psychadelic nightmare pop
best description i’ve got
185 (and counting) downloadable liveshows here:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query … sort=-date
They come in all sorts of quality, from lossless formats to MP3, and there is even a netstream available.
Have fun, I love ’em
Arthur[/quote:k1j60q6u]yup. not only did i find mp3’s of the bbc broadcast of their reading festival slot, someone bootlegged (most of) it and it’s in .flac (lossless)
It’s probably a good idea… people always get hurt. But seriously, how do you enforce that?[/quote:2pwakzwg]
moshing?
you don’t. well, not officially. but there are the unspoken rules of the ‘pit however. 1) someone falls over, you WILL pick them up immediately. 2) you find a shoe/shirt etc. on the floor, you hold it above your head so someone can claim. 3) don’t be a cunt. just because you and others will get hurt, doesn’t mean you go in looking for a fight etc… if that makes sensethanks to those rules i’ve been generally fine.
but also, to stop surges and crowd surfing, just put up barriers halfway through the crowd, so that the people right at the back arent pushing on the people right at the front.
in the end, it all comes down to how well the place is set up to stop moshing etc. and also other people helping, which they usually do.
ah you’re voice sounds really good
quite beautiful
but try getting some good-ish recording equipment, as the quality reduction doesn’t do your voice justiceok, i just found this (i have no idea how it’s related to the google search \"17 seconds smashing pumpkins\" but hey…)
http://mikethepod.com/BIUL_Smashing_Pumpkins.jpg
woops. that was really too large to embed. so have the link instead
and i believe some french guy who came over to watch those residency shows said he was going to be making a very large withdrawal from his bank soon
ok… how do i play this? it took me ages to download (including my internet crashing whilst i was downloading
) but the file format isnt recognised by my media player… help?funny thing i notice: these are all the songs that have a ‘ in the file name. this cannot be a coincidence. i guess this is a configuration problem on the new server. i will contact the rspaa owner about this.[/quote:1ryqpj94] nice spotting! didn’t notice that myself
in the link name/address bar it did seem to leave letters out… and they were, in fact, the ones after the ‘ !
so yeah, nice spottingWhy all the hostility? And when did this become an NFL forum? Oooh,…flaming thumtacks (aka titans) are soooo scary.
[/quote:3vka9eu9] i assume you guys are talking about american ‘football’so i think i’ll settle the debate with yet more hosility!
American football is for pussies. you wanna play a man’s game, you play rugby!
whoa… that is amazing how much research you put into there… a lot of the stuff you pointed out i would never have even known to look for
well done!
