2008 Woodie Awards
Pumpkins smash on twentieth anniversary tour
Matt Altieri
Issue date: 10/1/08 Section: Arts
It has not been a good summer for the Smashing Pumpkins, or what remains of them. Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin had big plans that came to a big crash on July 24.
Mere days before the Pumpkins' late summer tour began, former Smashing Pumpkins members James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky-Brown filed a suit against Virgin Records America, claiming that Virgin had negotiated a deal with Corgan and only Corgan in 2005, five years after the break up of the original four, over "electronic transmissions." This refers to ringtones, computer digital files, etcetera.
How does this affect Corgan and Chamberlin, who now represent the Smashing Pumpkins name? The planned "Gish" (Caroline/Virgin Records, 1991) box set, a release of all the b-sides and original tracks of the band's first recordings, is now put on hold. Put this on the list of recordings that Corgan and Chamberlin have stowed away in their Macs and PCs. From the legendary "Final Metro Show" to Billy Corgan's infamous solo show "Chicago Songs," these may be more of the Smashing Pumpkins tracks we may hear being released when we're forty or fifty.
The Pumpkins have also recorded a new single, "G.L.O.W." but aside from hearing a poor quality live recording, the only place you'll be able to hear it currently is on the radio or on the new Guitar Hero! Talk about a tease.
Aside from that, as the fall progresses, things are getting better and better for the Smashing Pumpkins. They announced the release of a new DVD entitled, "If All Goes Wrong." How ironic. The DVD is listed to be, "115 minutes long and will feature fifteen songs from The Fillmore residency shows."
Corgan and Chamberlin also announced that they'll be kicking off their Twentieth Anniversary Tour and be appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel Show Oct. 24. Two days later they'll be playing the 22nd Bridge School benefit in Mountain View, California.
Corgan has also stated that the cities with two tour dates we be performed under a banner of "Black Sunshine" or "White Crosses." He explained the concept of the banners in his blog on SmashingPumpkins.com, "No song will be repeated means exactly as it sounds, if you go to show #1 of a 2 night stand…you wouldn't hear anything on night #2 that you heard song-wise on the first night. The cities where we are playing only 1 show will feature an amalgamated show that will most likely have some songs we won't be playing in the 2 night format shows, but take from both the sunshine and crosses show."
Mere days before the Pumpkins' late summer tour began, former Smashing Pumpkins members James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky-Brown filed a suit against Virgin Records America, claiming that Virgin had negotiated a deal with Corgan and only Corgan in 2005, five years after the break up of the original four, over "electronic transmissions." This refers to ringtones, computer digital files, etcetera.
How does this affect Corgan and Chamberlin, who now represent the Smashing Pumpkins name? The planned "Gish" (Caroline/Virgin Records, 1991) box set, a release of all the b-sides and original tracks of the band's first recordings, is now put on hold. Put this on the list of recordings that Corgan and Chamberlin have stowed away in their Macs and PCs. From the legendary "Final Metro Show" to Billy Corgan's infamous solo show "Chicago Songs," these may be more of the Smashing Pumpkins tracks we may hear being released when we're forty or fifty.
The Pumpkins have also recorded a new single, "G.L.O.W." but aside from hearing a poor quality live recording, the only place you'll be able to hear it currently is on the radio or on the new Guitar Hero! Talk about a tease.
Aside from that, as the fall progresses, things are getting better and better for the Smashing Pumpkins. They announced the release of a new DVD entitled, "If All Goes Wrong." How ironic. The DVD is listed to be, "115 minutes long and will feature fifteen songs from The Fillmore residency shows."
Corgan and Chamberlin also announced that they'll be kicking off their Twentieth Anniversary Tour and be appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel Show Oct. 24. Two days later they'll be playing the 22nd Bridge School benefit in Mountain View, California.
Corgan has also stated that the cities with two tour dates we be performed under a banner of "Black Sunshine" or "White Crosses." He explained the concept of the banners in his blog on SmashingPumpkins.com, "No song will be repeated means exactly as it sounds, if you go to show #1 of a 2 night stand…you wouldn't hear anything on night #2 that you heard song-wise on the first night. The cities where we are playing only 1 show will feature an amalgamated show that will most likely have some songs we won't be playing in the 2 night format shows, but take from both the sunshine and crosses show."
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