How I love The Smashing Pumpkins

[Armadillo]

dialogue from a film: (can't remember which one)

Her: we have nothing in common...
Him: no, we have loads in common
Her: Like what? Do you like Smashing Pumpkins?
Him: Yeah yeah, I do that all the time

[Sicklecell666]

Dude, don't roll your eyes. Some c**t throws a shoe at you, what are you gonna do? You're playing for these people, and someone throws a shoe - hardly the act of a fan.

I nailed the singer for Monster Magnet with one of his own vitage guitar pedals when they cut their set after 15 minutes..

[Stupid American Pig]

Dude, don't roll your eyes. Some c**t throws a shoe at you, what are you gonna do? You're playing for these people, and someone throws a shoe - hardly the act of a fan.

I agree, but there are better ways to manage that then shorting the other 5000 true fans that are there... I dunno what some peoples problems are- why would you throw a shoe? that is utterly retarded.

I dont blame billy really, but damn they played like 1 and a half songs. I was broke and I spent 35 bucks on a ticket, just sucks all the way around...

[stick-in-the-mud]

'For Martha' is a great late-night song to crash out to with headphones... (from Adore)

Oh btw - Gish was shit...

[seamoss]

Pieces Iscariot is their best album...

I saw them in 93, someone threw a shoe on stage and hit billy, he then threw a tantrum and left the stage after like 2 songs...

I then saw them again at lollapolloza 94, and he said "I dont care what you throw on stage this time, WE'RE PLAYING." He then sat there for 10 minutes while everyone decided to throw anything within arms reach on the stage. Finally he said, the longer you throw stuff on stage the longer we wait to play...

Then they play, and they are rocking, until billy sits for 25 minutes and sings "rock and Roll" over and over and over and over to fill up his set.

so I didnt like them live, but they are a great band and billy is an enormous talent...

I was at that show too.

everybody was pissed about them cutting their set so short over a lousy shoe.

I remember they came out rocking with geek usa

[ResonantOrder]

Dude, don't roll your eyes. Some c**t throws a shoe at you, what are you gonna do? You're playing for these people, and someone throws a shoe - hardly the act of a fan.

I nailed the singer for Monster Magnet with one of his own vitage guitar pedals when they cut their set after 15 minutes..

Which tour was that?

I understand wanting to throw things at people who frell around after I've paid for a ticket. I know when I saw Monster Magnet during the Superjudge tour, Dave was so high the show started off with 30 mins of feedback, he mumbled his way through a couple of songs, and stumbled off-I felt like pegging him with something. Before that tour, and after that tour they were great; but, damn that show pissed me off.

People here in texas like to throw dren at the performers. I have no idea why. I've seen En Esch get knocked out with a bottle, the drummer for fugazi put out the same way, Manson lost one of his front teeth to a shoe, someone decided to throw darts at Ministry. Then again, I've seen bands totally frell up the audience. David Yow pegged some girl in the face with a beer bottle so hard it broke the bones in her face, GG Allin...well, Mayhem decided to throw raw meat and caught a few people upside the head who weren't paying attention.

What does this have to with the smashing pumpkins? Not much. I've always been interested why bands and fans seek to both destroy each other on occasion.

[birrbits]

my 2 cents: some great writing, some great music, great songs, but man, billy can't sing to save his shoelace, I would love to plug an autotuner in his mic chain....(just my 2 cents so don't say "signature sound blah blah blah")

edit - make that 2 autotuners, so he has a backup when he blows the 1st one

[Amberience]

I think he's a really good singer, but oh well!

[clueless]

"toniiiiiiiiiiiii-I-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite..."

sounds like REALLY hard work

makes my cat's ears flatten against his head

[Amberience]

I'm thinking of doing a cover of Today for my electroacoustic 2 assignment.

[vurt]

shoes rock!

[multree]

It ended with Gish.

edit: although 'Drown' is one of my all time faovrite songs..

well I made it till SiameseDream but Drown IS superb

[Squids]

I have a Smashing Pumpkins story. I was in LA and around the time they were recording the Adore album I was at a friend's studio who was working with their ProTools engineer, Bjorn Thorsrud. I overheard on the phone that they thought the Arp 2600 they had was broken and that Flood wasn't there who knows that stuff. So, I thought for sure it was just that the filter wasn't being modulated open (usually the problem) so I offered to go down there to "fix" it.

I also brought a few more modulars just in case they wanted to try those. When I got there I met D'Arcy (I always liked her) and then I met Billy who was surprisingly VERY tall. I set the Arp up in about 2 minutes and then hung out to listen to a bunch of their tunes (they had two albums worth of material recorded). Then as we were talking I explained that I did sampling and I ended up sampling a bunch of Mellotrons and Optigans for that record. They were also going to need a keyboard player for the tour but that was later and I never auditioned for it. Might have been a good gig though. Maybe not.

But, that was fun. Technically I could get a platinum record for that album but I'd have to hunt down the guy at the record company to do it and I just don't want to spend time on that just to have a record to put on the wall. I didn't get a credit on the album though either but there weren't too many credits at all on it (bummer).

Anyway, that's my Smashing story. Maybe not that interesting but I offer it none the less.

[mckenic]

Ive loved 'em for awhile but I have a strange relationship with 'em

I was at their show in Dublin when a girl got crushed and died... twisted my head for a bit later when I copped that I was having a great time and some girl was lying backstage dying...

Couple of years later I was talking about going to see them with my then GF and she ups and says she wont go because one of her friends was killed at the Dublin show

So anyway...

Dave

[seamoss]

I have a Smashing Pumpkins story. I was in LA and around the time they were recording the Adore album I was at a friend's studio who was working with their ProTools engineer, Bjorn Thorsrud. I overheard on the phone that they thought the Arp 2600 they had was broken and that Flood wasn't there who knows that stuff. So, I thought for sure it was just that the filter wasn't being modulated open (usually the problem) so I offered to go down there to "fix" it.

I also brought a few more modulars just in case they wanted to try those. When I got there I met D'Arcy (I always liked her) and then I met Billy who was surprisingly VERY tall. I set the Arp up in about 2 minutes and then hung out to listen to a bunch of their tunes (they had two albums worth of material recorded). Then as we were talking I explained that I did sampling and I ended up sampling a bunch of Mellotrons and Optigans for that record. They were also going to need a keyboard player for the tour but that was later and I never auditioned for it. Might have been a good gig though. Maybe not.

But, that was fun. Technically I could get a platinum record for that album but I'd have to hunt down the guy at the record company to do it and I just don't want to spend time on that just to have a record to put on the wall. I didn't get a credit on the album though either but there weren't too many credits at all on it (bummer).

Anyway, that's my Smashing story. Maybe not that interesting but I offer it none the less.

definitely an interesting story.

unfortunately, I guess you didn't meet jimmy, eh?

superb drummer.