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Originally Posted by Copperpot5
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Nice bit around 1:03:17 when Porcelina has kicked in, where Billy is smiling at James and clearly digging James' guitar work, playing off of him.
Matt was totally legit...there are plenty of times where it's clear there's no comparison to Jimmy, *BUT* there's never a time where he sounds like "Ehh, good enough", unlike Mike Byrne, who seems to just resort to brute force whenever he doesn't know what else to do. I really enjoy listening to how Matt paid careful attention to little key Jimmy parts that are essential to the songs...little high hat accents and important fills. It's obvious Matt studied his ass off to learn these songs and was very detail oriented. Byrne sounds like he's just kind of skimmed over the songs and recycles the same dumb uncreative fills repeatedly.
Jimmy is absent in this video, but it still feels like SP because Matt did his homework. Mike Byrne hasn't picked up on JC's subtleties...he has a generic, generalized idea about it, and that's all. Matt isn't even as flashy, but he grasped the feel of The Smashing Pumpkins soooo much better.
Throwing in La Dolly Vita at the end of Porcelina was great. Love when they'd do stuff like that.