"what the hell is the solo to "Zero" btw. like it's this out of key weird alien sounding thing. have always liked it but didn't know if it was just achieved with a fuck ton of pedal effects or if I was just mashing frets in the 22 - 24s and bending them weirdly"
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
- Blind Willy Corgs
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
It's a shame 2 c both 'U Hurt Me Deeply' and 'What Sign R U?' get no votes in hindsight.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
Well first is better when you add "in my heart" so I get that one (esp. when you imagine him tapping the Superman S on his chest).
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
'What Sign R U?' would make a great Prince song title, come 2 think of it.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Sunday, 24 April 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
what the hell is the solo to "Zero" btw. like it's this out of key weird alien sounding thing. have always liked it but didn't know if it was just achieved with a fuck ton of pedal effects or if he was just mashing frets in the 22 - 24s and bending them weirdly
― Neanderthal, Sunday, April 24, 2016 10:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's one of James' rare shining moments in a SP studio recording. painstakingly pieced together, and yeah it's run through like half a dozen harmonizers and pitch shifters
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 April 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
"Zero" is a remarkably powerful and compact song, their shortest epic. one of his most distinctive riffs, for sure. lots of layering going on with the rhythm tracks:
"Zero" We like to call this style of our music "Cybermetal." "Zero" has six rhythm guitars, with two line-in 12-string acoustics, plus those wacky Iha leads. Tracked live with overdubs added later, this is a true mover as well as the first song that was recorded for Mellon Collie, James has always said this reminds him of Judas Priest.
http://www.starla.org/articles/gw5.htm
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 April 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
I actually bought that issue of GW!
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 25 April 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/65426-billy-corgan-disses-bernie-sanders-on-conspiracy-theorist-radio-show/?mbid=social_facebook
― how's life, Thursday, 12 May 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
ok now he's gone too far
― Sharia Laws and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 12 May 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
why Prince and not this jackass
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
if we had to lose one chemtrails believer...
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
Why does he look like a hobo
― Pentenema Karten, Thursday, 12 May 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
sometimes hobos have valid ideas. See: Regis Philbin, Kenneth Arrow, Charlotte Bronte
― Poliopolice, Friday, 13 May 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
Regis Philbin was invented by a hobo?!
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 May 2016 02:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMc2x8DZLZc
― flappy bird, Friday, 13 May 2016 02:34 (eight years ago) link
http://boingboing.net/2016/05/13/billy-corgan-upset-that.html
Billy Corgan upset that "the wrong racial epithet" could destroy his career
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
billy-corgan-upset
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
When was the last time you saw a hobo with a monogrammed hat?
― Sam Weller, Friday, 13 May 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
welcome to Boston
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
to be fair, we do have some weird problem in our society where we say that people are the worst things they've ever done or said. It's not a great way to view the world, in my opinion.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 13 May 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
heresy
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 May 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
we have this other problem with white bros who are preemptively worried that if they start spewing some racist garbage they might get their feet held to the fire a little instead of just given the "aww, Billy, he's just being Billy! let the man have his epithets, after all he's made so much terrible music!" treatment
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 13 May 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
Billy's just such a pathetic fucking dweeb.
― Elvis Santana (stevie), Friday, 13 May 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
Going after that Gamergate dollar like a chump.
― Elvis Santana (stevie), Friday, 13 May 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
so i ended up falling in this alex jones hole because of corgan and anyway i found this crazy ass sequence where he went on a reverie to The Doors and I ended up making a negativland type LA Woman/Alex Jones thing....the last 2 minutes when it's just him is stunning radio
http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/mojowars-feat-al3x-j0n3s-the-d00rs
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 May 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
Love this - great job! Rich lung cleanse baritone, just like Morrison.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
the power of DNA force
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 May 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
billy corgan has a career?
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 16 May 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
SP sorta flies under the radar these days but they sell out every place they play. granted, those are 2,000-5,000 seat theaters, but he's doing pretty good for himself. fwiw, this latest run of In Plainsong shows was the best he's sounded in years.
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 May 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
so basically, he is at the same stage of his career now as the guy from styx was in 1992
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 16 May 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Sounds approx right.
― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 16 May 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link
Chris Cornell is doing the same... Pearl Jam are the only contemporaries of his that are still playing arenas & stadiums.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
m@tt this is awesome! have you tweeted this yet? can i tweet it?
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
Yeah go ahead and tweet it anyone and thanks!
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 11:39 (eight years ago) link
Chris Cornell just played the Royal Albert Hall in London, which is pretty prestigious tbh, and Soundgarden headlined Hyde Park a few years back (though it did not sell out, and they were support to Sabbath there two summers ago)
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
SP just did three nights at the Beacon Theater in NYC, I saw them at the Lincoln Theater in DC, all were sold out... i think they're operating at the same level rn
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
i tweeted it
― goole, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
chris cornell has a valid and estimable solo career
― akm, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Billy-Corgan-surprises-Laredoans-with-impromptu-10887693.php
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 January 2017 06:15 (seven years ago) link
I just watched Author: The JT Leroy story on Amazon and did not know how involved Corgan was with the whole saga!
Better yet I can now confirm actual audio of a phone message in which Billy refers to himself in third person as "the Corganator"
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
oh my god that is excellent news
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 01:05 (seven years ago) link
I heard the dude gets all superfan on BC and asks all these questions about the effects pedals on Gish. Need to see it still.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah that part is so funny (though that's not the dude the dude, it's like the husband of the woman wrote "JT Leroy" and the brother of the woman who played "JT Leroy")
the whole thing is so weird
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Just going back to this... why are his sleeves so long?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojAXUqL--mY
― Sherman's Shermits (S-), Thursday, 11 May 2017 06:26 (seven years ago) link
he wears a lot of layers
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 May 2017 06:36 (seven years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 May 2017 06:38 (seven years ago) link
there's a classic Billy quote in the 1994 SPIN Artist of the Year piece by Azerrad:
Corgan is still wearing that lumber jacket. "I hate being cold," he explains. "It reminds me of when I got punished when I was a kid and got sent down to the basement."
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 May 2017 06:39 (seven years ago) link
Never forget.
― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 May 2017 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Chris Cornell is dead but Billy Corgan lives.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link