I heard, what song?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
They did "Silvery Sometimes" and "Knights of Malta." Billy without a guitar, shuffling around the stage like an early 2000s Ozzy Osbourne and looking like Marlon Brando in the Island of Dr Moreau. James took a solo and had some weird malfunction. I don't know. I like "Silvery" fine but it's not a show-stopper. Billy -- what can I say. I don't mind him dressing like a circus ringmaster in drag but I just...don't get it.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
billy regularly going without a guitar is pretty easily the worst thing about the current incarnation of the band, his stage presence without it is so weird
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
otm x2
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
"we're gonna make this ha-pun!"
what, Billy?
disappointment
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
he's disenchanted the romantics
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
After hearing the new album a couple more times, this is increasingly becoming a "So long Billy and thanks for the memories" type of situation for me.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
only 18 years late!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 14 December 2018 06:37 (five years ago) link
Well, not really - the band were inactive for 7 of those years and Billy put out the actually really great Zwan album in that period.
There's been Oceania and to a lesser degree his solo record, but otherwise it's been a very frustrating decade to be a Pumpkins fan. He's put out a lot of music in the last 11 years that just doesn't cut it.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 14 December 2018 07:39 (five years ago) link
Maybe he's trying to compete with the overwhelming charisma of Jeff Schroeder.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 14 December 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
Haaaaaaaaaaah!!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 14 December 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link
Zwan reissue(!): https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/12/billy-corgan-nine-projects/
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 24 December 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
oh god the prospect of a new SP best-of is....not a good one, for many reasons. pls stick to the Machina and Zwan reissues billy
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 24 December 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
we will get one of these projects in 2019 if we're lucky
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
Holy shit! He found the yellow Gish Strat!!!!
After 27 years, Billy Corgan has finally reunited with his "lost love" guitar stolen in 1992. The story behind the reunion is even crazier than you think https://t.co/HBNXG81Mlc pic.twitter.com/OpuBmATQb4— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) February 6, 2019
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
Was just about to link this. Amazing story.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
“If you look at Billy, he’s very stoic,” says Heiche, who coordinated the reunion. “He doesn’t give a lot of facial expressions. But he looked down, and as she opened the case, he looked at it for a second and froze. Everybody was dead silent. And he goes, ‘That’s it.'”
crying
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
He slowly opened the case and froze. “That’s it,” he said. “That’s my hair.”
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
I'm not really a fan of this band, aside from a few minutes here and there, but I've had "Quiet" stuck in my head all day. (I had to look it up because I didn't know the title and don't have a copy of "Siamese Dream.")
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
will he be paying James the $20,000 reward he offered in 2009 for the instrument? “She didn’t want anything,” he says.
oh ffs buy her that hot tub at least you cheap shit
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
NOhttps://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/billy-corgan-guitar-portrait.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
Billy The Pimp
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
maybe he did buy her a hot tub but doesn't want to brag about it
or he didn't know about the hot tub before the story was published
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
Truly, a hot tub time machine.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
my man wearing a coat made out of weed
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
The coffeeshop at my work has been playing a Pumpkins song lately that I can't identify; guess it's one of the new ones? They usually play very mainstream/familiar stuff.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
Does he say lover a lot
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
Ha ha -- I'll have to listen more closely next time I get a small light roast
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
Btw -- I saw them play in Detroit, and searched to see if maybe it was *that show*... but no, it was Nov. '91 (opening for RHCP, with Pearl Jam).
So guess I saw him play with that guitar!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I would have too -- late December 1991 club show with Hole.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
July 1991 in Northampton, MA, hardly anybody there. I remember a short set, they were restless afterward and Billy invited us back to their hotel for drinks. We said no!
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
Then he wrote a song about you.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
Mayonaaise is about that night, yes
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
man I just went looking on spfc.org to see if any of those shows were taped but nope, not even any setlists
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
only decent closeup show I can find with the Gish Strat. good showcase for it, they open with an early version of Drown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXIaxN2SQ6U
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
Wow — great sound in that video!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:16 (five years ago) link
Man, did I love this band in this era (in high school).
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyjBDmEcKAE
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 28 February 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
Any footage of Billy talking is immediately improved by just 5 seconds of James.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 28 February 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
I love James and his sense of humour. I think even Billy comes across pretty well in that video though, it was a better watch than I was expecting.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 28 February 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link
lol @ james
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 February 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
the little bit of the "drown" riff he plays at the end, wonderful
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 February 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
i confess i feel very happy when i see them getting along.
― Nourry, Thursday, 28 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
I still didn't finish listening to Billy's Cotillions but it already seems his best songs since zwan or machina.
― Nourry, Friday, 22 November 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
listening to it now and it's sounding pretty good, pleasantly surprised. though i did think Shiny & Oh So Bright Vol. 1 was surprisingly good for what it was too so maybe he's finally making a return to form of sorts. Shiny & Oh So Bright Vol. 2 & 3 is being recorded at the moment apparently and it's going to be a double album with 24 tracks (not sure if it's being released as one or two albums though).
― ufo, Friday, 22 November 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
yes, Shiny & Oh So Bright Vol. 1 was way better than his previous albums, but i never felt the need to return to it. but, as you said, with this new one i'm also pleasantly surprised. let's hope he keeps in this form.
― Nourry, Friday, 22 November 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
Billy has apparently discovered country music about 25 years after James Iha's Gram Parsons phase.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 22 November 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
This sounds nice but seems way too samey to be this long?
― Simon H., Friday, 22 November 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
kinda feeling that too. but still surprised.
― Nourry, Friday, 22 November 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link