| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 04/21/2006 : 12:05:52
http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/
don't know yet if I should be happy or sad
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| 35 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/29/2007 : 13:24:21
Charlotte Observer.
Posted on Thu, Jun. 21, 2007
THE SKINNY ON MUSIC COURTNEY DEVORES
Skinny on Music| Is Pumpkins visit a reunion?
The Smashing Pumpkins' nine-night residency at The Orange Peel in Asheville begins Saturday.
Tickets to the shows -- Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, June 29 and 30, and July 2, 3 and 5 -- sold out in three minutes. And as with Tom Waits' Asheville show last August, promoters are making it difficult for scalpers: Buyers have to pick up their tickets and immediately enter the venue.
Still, some enterprising folks are selling single tickets (face value: $20) on eBay for upwards of $300 and offering to meet the buyer at the venue. Personally, I wouldn't be able to justify buying a $300 scalped ticket unless the show were going to include guitarist James Iha and either female bassist D'Arcy or Melissa Auf der Maur (it won't).
Don't get me wrong. There's certainly no crime against Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin continuing under the Pumpkins' name. And I'm sure next month's "Zeitgeist" will fit snugly into the Pumpkins' catalog.
But calling this a reunion is a bit of an exaggeration.
Last week, my former editor argued that Corgan is Smashing Pumpkins. From a creative standpoint, it's true -- he's the voice, the writer, and the defining thread. But D'Arcy and Iha were household names, as visible as Corgan back when the band's videos flooded MTV.
(I mean, would I have driven cross-country for a Pixies' reunion that featured only Black Francis and David Lovering? I think not.)
When the shows were announced, I think I was more excited about the validation the booking gives North Carolina than I was about seeing the Pumpkins again.
Instead of Atlanta or New York or even Philly, they chose Asheville. That's the coolest part.
Whether you go or not, get all the info at www.smasheville.com. |
| ruzom |
Posted - 03/28/2007 : 11:25:55
You know the best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees.
I want money. That's what I want. That's what I want. That's what I want.
That's what I want.
Now give me money. |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 03/28/2007 : 03:05:43
wow!
"FIRST Smashing Pumpkins show.
May 22, 2007 at the Grand Rex in Paris
Tickets on sale April 11th
http://www.legrandrex.com/"
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 03/22/2007 : 04:23:57
Looks like I will be seeing them at Reading Festival too now.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 03/22/2007 : 01:18:07
Virgin Festival
Toronto Island Park
The Smashing Pumpkins headlining on Sunday, September 9th, 2007!
Gates: 1pm
All Ages
Tickets:
Two-day tickets are $125.00 (including all sales taxes), plus $1.00 for Virgin Unite and $12 for the ferry to and from Toronto Island.
Available at all Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.ca, Rotate This, Soundscapes, or by calling (416) 870-8000.
Onsale Saturday March 24th 10am
Support = The Killers, and many more!
The rumors are true! The Smashing Pumpkins will headline Leeds Festival on Friday, August 24th and Reading Festival on Sunday, August 26th. Other bands playing include Nine Inch Nails, Lostprophets, Fall Out Boy, Funeral for a Friend and +44. Tickets available now by calling 0870 060 3775 or online at meanfiddler.com & seetickets.com. Also check out www.readingfestival.com & www.leedsfestival.com
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| Carl |
Posted - 02/22/2007 : 07:36:24
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Yeah but I don't have a stalker.
Oh no? Take a look out the window. |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 02/22/2007 : 06:33:26
quote:
Originally posted by WolfManMikeLonely
So has there been any announcement of what exactly the line up of the reunion is going to be?
unfortunately, not yet
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| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 02/21/2007 : 06:58:10
So has there been any announcement of what exactly the line up of the reunion is going to be?
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
www.transposed.net |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 09:30:29
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
First you're showing off that your going to Primavera, now you're showing off that you've got a girlfriend.
I'm bloody sick of it Homers. Bloody sick of it.
Yeah but I don't have a stalker.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 08:02:12
That little "Beautiful Soul" statement reminds me of some aimless drivel Perry Farrell would come up with. I get the feeling that he takes them Pumpkininny tunes a little too seriously. Go forth and save the world Billy!!!
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OFFICIAL INTERNET TOUGH GUY |
| Carl |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 06:53:01
First you're showing off that your going to Primavera, now you're showing off that you've got a girlfriend.
I'm bloody sick of it Homers. Bloody sick of it. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 04:55:31
They are now playing the Primavera Festival in Barca too. Looks like I'm finally gonna see them.
I'm sure my girlfriend will keep telling me how they were so much better on the Siamese Dream tour.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 02/12/2007 : 00:53:01
yeah I know...
"More European festivals dates were announced today!!
They include:
June 9th, 2007
The Lisbon Festival
Stay tuned for more information on purchasing tix
and line up details.
June 16th, 2007
The Heineken Festival
Venice, Italy
Also playing that date: Aerosmith, Incubus and more."
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 05:53:31
Talking to yourself Cass?
And you say I'm strange.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 02/08/2007 : 23:14:34
yeah, I've just seen it on their site...
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 02/08/2007 : 23:13:47
you're serious ruz'?
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| ruzom |
Posted - 02/08/2007 : 18:38:27
The new album will be called Zeitgeist and should be released on 07.07.07! |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 02/07/2007 : 02:07:45
"06/02/2007 08:00 PM - Rock Am Ring Festival
Nürburgring
Also playing: Linkin Park Beatsteaks Muse Billy Talent Mando Diao Evanescence Wir Sind Helden Korn Slayer Dave Matthews Band The Hives Arctic Monkeys My Chemical Romance Kaiser Chiefs Jan Delay & Disko No. 1 Mia. The Kooks Wolfmother Stone Sour. For more info. go to: www.rock-am-ring.com
06/03/2007 08:00 PM - Rock Im Park Festival
Nürnberg
Also playing: Linkin Park Beatsteaks Muse Billy Talent Mando Diao Evanescence Wir Sind Helden Korn Slayer Dave Matthews Band The Hives Arctic Monkeys My Chemical Romance Kaiser Chiefs Jan Delay & Disko No. 1 Mia. The Kooks Wolfmother Stone Sour. For more info. go to: www.rock-am-ring.com
06/15/2007 08:00 PM - Nova Rock Festival
Nickelsdorf
For more info go to: www.novarock.at/" target="_blank">http://www.novarock.at/ Also playing: Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Incubus, Slayer, Billy Talent, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, and more!"
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| Carl |
Posted - 01/12/2007 : 07:32:40
Here's a blog thing about SP:
http://instrumentalanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/01/throwback-thursday-smashing-pumpkins.html |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 01/08/2007 : 03:42:51
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=9685952&blogID=212636860&MyToken=795bd326-81ab-4382-99df-ebfcdf85a153
2 janv. 2007 00:00
2007 (from billy)
Catégorie : Music
"Dear Beautiful Souls,
Happy New Year to you! May 2007 prove to be a blessed year in every respect and every way...I send you every ounce of love I have in my heart...May the grace of Mother be with you...This year for us will see a new album of songs and a world tour of tears, and we truly look forward to playing again for fans young, old, and missed...So yes, tunes are being dusted off, while others are being asked to kindly submit to an upstart millennia and all it's asking...In our daily prayers, we send out the signal that all who should hear us come forward and be seen, and by extension, heard...when we opened the lid on this music box, we were pleasantly suprised at the music that played: familiar yet unknown, welcoming but not sentimental...and that is all we can ask...God has absolutely blessed us in every respect...for many years there were private laments about opportunities missed and hearts so broken, but no more...we have turned the page and moved on, from places and faces, names and games...this age calls for resolve and certitude, and the fire within to burn ever bright...if that fire should be connected to absolutely deafening guitars, thundering drums, and the melodies of snakes, then so be it! We love you! If you are meant to be with us, find us!! We have need, and our arms are ever-open...although I can say definitively we don't need jugglers...but we do need ???? (what?) what do we need!
With a smile and a wink,
billy corgan"
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 12/04/2006 : 02:48:08
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=9685952&blogID=199812236&MyToken=6f658fe9-c5fa-4df9-94af-e4922c854232
30 nov. 2006 00:00
Jimmy's Love Letters .6
Hello again!
I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday. We have been very busy carving up the sonic landscape with oceans of guitars and a sea of fuzz bass. We are four songs deep and about a hundred guitars in! Every day is a little louder and every night is a little darker! Last night for instance, we were working on a song...a very beautiful simple song we had been playing since we got back together. A song that was never questioned because of its poignant simplicity. Suddenly, Billy looked up and said that he thought we should try to find something else in the song. A different feel. A new approach. Something besides drums, bass and guitar. We had Bo' (our assistant) bring in an old organ to see if that would change the vibe. Instantly the song was transported to a new place . A place of symphonic majesty that made us all smile.
It's really moments like these that make it all worth it.
Sometimes you just have to ask the question...........
At any rate, it sure was nice to play something quiet for a change!
JC
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 11:13:41
quote:
Originally posted by HeywoodJablome
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
quote:
Originally posted by HeywoodJablome
And he's bald too...
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"No one cares about your shitty band."
And?
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
BALD.
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"No one cares about your shitty band."
You'll have to make yourself clearer I'm afraid.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 11:11:20
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
quote:
Originally posted by HeywoodJablome
And he's bald too...
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"No one cares about your shitty band."
And?
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
BALD.
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"No one cares about your shitty band." |
| Carl |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 10:41:22
Hopefully, thet'll do another Homerpalooza, and decide to break up again...
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 10:30:38
quote:
Originally posted by HeywoodJablome
And he's bald too...
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"No one cares about your shitty band."
And?
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| fbc |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 09:54:53
quote:
As some of you know we are indeed creating music again. Music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it.
Ooh, i'm shaking in me boots.
Cheers, Cass. My first big laugh of the day ;) |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 11/21/2006 : 09:14:54
It's hard to not have some disgust for a dude who keeps helping Courtney Love write songs for every come back she tries to make. What are we on #3 now? His voice reminds of a dying cat... And he's bald too...
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"No one cares about your shitty band." |
| mantaraysallright |
Posted - 11/20/2006 : 01:53:33
I'll give it a try I suppose...maybe but my hopes aren't too high. Machina (or whatever there last album was, was a joke). |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 11/20/2006 : 01:32:59
from
http://www.myspace.com/smashingpumpkins
18 oct. 2006 00:00
Jimmy's Love Letters
Greetings from Pumpkinland! Sorry it's taken so long to write! I'm here to tell you that great things are on track for the future. As some of you know we are indeed creating music again. Music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it. We have arrived at a place in our lives where truth and honesty prevail and we are creating from that place. I will try to keep these love letters short and frequent as we welcome you back to a place that rocks! Love JC
20 oct. 2006 00:00
Jimmy's Love Letters .2
Greetings and salutations! Its been a hectic week for JC as we have been tracking drums non stop. Things are sounding fantastic. Tracking drums is a bit like going to another planet for four or five or nine minutes. We recently finished up working with Roy Thomas Baker, (Queen, The Cars!), Working with RTB was not only an honor, but also one of the best musical experiences we have ever had. We are currently working with Terry Date (Pantera, Soundgarden!) and that is going great as well. The universe has a way of letting you know that things are right by introducing people like RTB and Terry into the fold. It..s all part of one big cosmic journey, in so that everyone reading this is hitching their silver chord to the Great Pumpkin Space Train! Hope this helps clear some things up for you. Don't forget to cast your eyes skyward this weekend.... You may see a shooting star. Love JC
26 oct. 2006 00:00
Jimmy's Love Letters .3
Greetings! Just a quick note to say that things are still in orbit around Planet Pumpkin. Almost finished with drums and then we're cutting BC loose to work his magic. Its great to see a bit of light at the end of a long musical tunnel. I definitely feel proud and privileged to be a part of this journey. I hope you are ready........... We are! JC
2 nov. 2006 00:00
Jimmy's Love Letters .4
Catégorie : Music
Hello again my friends. I hope this finds all of you well! We have been working day and night in the studio and I am happy to say that the drums are finished! After almost a year of work, to finally sit down and listen to the drum takes, one after another, was a truly joyful experience. I can honestly say that this has been one of the most musically satisfying and spiritually rewarding trips I have ever been on. And what a long strange trip it's been! Our music has pulled us ever closer to the Heart and the Heart is beating true. We are moving closer to the light now, so about halfway there. I hope you can join us 'O Children of the Sun' Love, JC
p.s. We would like to thank The Grateful Dead, Rush, Billy Thorpe for their guidance in this hour of need.
15 nov. 2006 00:00
Jimmy's Love Letters .5
Catégorie : Music
Hello all! A quick update. We are moving along nicely in the studio. BC pulled off a magnificent guitar symphony last night and it is still ringing in my ears this morning. Eight guitars resonating in one big harmonic handshake! And the drums...........of course! Yes, things are sounding great my friends. Today we will be working on vocals and solos, tomorrow, who knows. We are channelers. Sonic students.
Thanks to everyone who has sent in artwork.
You are brilliant!
Love, jc.
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 10/18/2006 : 04:43:39
yeah, I guess that's the big matter with him...
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| ruzom |
Posted - 10/18/2006 : 04:39:00
I think he is. But able to control the drifts of his brain, well I'm less sure. |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 10/18/2006 : 01:26:07
it might be, but I'm really curious about how it will sound like, and if Billy is still able to write good songs...
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| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 10/11/2006 : 14:32:09
This Smashing Pumpkins reunion might be one of the worst reunion ever since the Velvet Underground.
Long live Doug Yule.
++++ |
| KingOfSiam |
Posted - 10/11/2006 : 10:54:15
quote:
Originally posted by Cult_Of_Frank
Sad. Actually, I don't know. Never really listened to them one way or the other. All I know is that someone needs to stop the senseless violence against fruits and vegetables.
 "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
Dean you are quiute the comedian - Fucking hilarious! |
| ruzom |
Posted - 10/10/2006 : 13:28:47
Great article, thanks Carl!
I agree with that point of vue, but I'm almost sure that in Corgan's mind, Smashing Pumpkins is more a concept or a state of mind, whatever you'll call it, that necessarily all the original members, even if that, indeed, counts a lot.
By the way, there's a new design now on the official site, still quite empty. |
