Drum talk: your favourite Jimmy moments

[Lucky Day Spa]

get your drum talk fix at drumtalk.com

[morespsoon]

Originally Posted by Lucky Day Spa

get your drum talk fix at drumtalk.com

Judging by how controlling Smashing Pumpkins fans are, you'd think that Billy Corgan is the type of artist that would require mobile phones at his shows to only be set to airplane mode or something.

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by amoergosum

...just stumbled upon this clip >>>

Billy:
"...me and my best friend here...my number one partner in crime...he's got the muscles."

We're really fucking pissed off again.

[jimmy drevpile]

http://www.alternativenation.net/?p=45106

On May 2nd, (Scott) Lucas will team up with drummer Jimmy Chamberlin (formerly of The Smashing Pumpkins) and bassist Matt Ulery under the band name Mary Shelley for a unique live performance during CIMM (Chicago International Music & Movies Fest). The trio will score Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film masterpiece “Battleship Potemkin” at 1st Ward (2033 W. North Ave.). More information about CIMM here: http://cimmfest.org/cimmfest-2014-in...-announcement/. Lucas, a film buff who also writes about movies for Chicagoist (see his work here: http://chicagoist.com/profile/Scott_lucas), jumped at the chance to combine two of his biggest passions..

[Trotskilicious]

OH MY GOD I WOULD SO GO TO THAT

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by spidrr

heres the pro-shot Umphrey McGee 'Cherub Rock' video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXGh7...ature=youtu.be

By the way...they released a Blu-ray/DVD set >>>

Disc 1:

A Mild Sedative
Plunger
Much Obliged
Kimble
Morning Song
The Floor
Slacker
Syncopated Strangers
Hurt Bird Bath
The Crooked One
Comma Later

Disc 2:

The Triple Wide
Hajimemashite/Glory
Hangover
Thin Air
Red Tape
Bad Friday
Night Moves
Der Bluten Kat
Divisions
Believe The Lie
Cherub Rock

The first disc features a mix of tracks from the first two nights of the Riviera run, while the second disc blends songs from the final two Riv shows including a cover of "Cherub Rock" with original Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin behind the kit. Those purchasing the DVD or Blu-Ray will also get to see the full version of "All In Time" filmed by GoPro cameras, a portion of which we posted earlier this month.

Both the DVD and Blu-Ray sets are available for purchase via TourGigs.

Source:
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/1211...VD-and-Blu-Ray

[Shallowed]

Originally Posted by jimmy drevpile

The trio will score Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film masterpiece “Battleship Potemkin”

This following so closely after Billy's bloop bleep Siddhartha is amusingly coincidental

[pavementtune]

Originally Posted by Shallowed

This following so closely after Billy's bloop bleep Siddhartha is amusingly coincidental

Help me out here - where do you see a connection between Battleship Potemkin at a film festival, and synths to a Hesse novella? ?

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by Kreatorkind

it could be pretty cool. I wanna see it.

Yep.

[Shallowed]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

Help me out here - where do you see a connection between Battleship Potemkin at a film festival, and synths to a Hesse novella? ?

They are both musical accompaniments to previous non-musical classic works of art.

[SlingeroGuitaro]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/20...ntent=03282014

[Ram27]

Jellybelly is some serious shit.

[Shallowed]

I'm sure there are far more rudiments in between phrases there.

[SlingeroGuitaro]

Yeah. It's like transcribing ragtime. Play it straight and it sounds like shit, but it is technically correct.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by SlingeroGuitaro

Yeah. It's like transcribing ragtime. Play it straight and it sounds like shit, but it is technically correct.

This

[jimmy drevpile]

Was this posted already? Sorry if it was.

http://www.out.com/entertainment/mus...usty-comes-air

[amoergosum]

Frank Catalano says that the shows him and Jimmy played in Chicago earlier this year have been filmed and not only that but him and Jimmy are going back to the studio to record even more new music.

As part of CIMMFEST - Jimmy will be appearing on a panel entitled "Live Streaming: From Consumption to Cache" on Saturday, May 3rd at 1:30 - 3:00PM (murica Time). One presumes the panel itself will be live-streamed somewhere, though I can't see mention of it on the festival page. Anyway, this is in addition to Chamberlin's performance in his new band "Mary Shelly" and their scoring of the classic Battleship Potempkin.

Source:
http://themachinesomehow.blogspot.de...-round-up.html

[amoergosum]

New clip with Jimmy...audio is distorted unfortunately >>>

Petty Fest at Metro 4/23/14: A Benefit Show For Sweet Relief, Sponsored By Jameson

The night was full of really big highlights, but my favorites were as follows: Jimmy Chamberlin of Smashing Pumpkins came out to play drums while Cory Chisel sang “It’s Good To Be King.” The song also featured an awesome guitar solo by Robert Ellis that I was not expecting at all.

Source:
http://www.music-defined.com/2014/04...ed-by-jameson/

[amoergosum]

Mary Shelley ready to rock ‘Potemkin’ score at CIMMFest

In July of 1998, the late film critic Roger Ebert sat outdoors in Three Oaks, Mich., and watched a film he’d seen many times before, “Battleship Potemkin,” projected on a massive screen.

Shortly thereafter, he expressed renewed admiration for director Sergei Eisenstein’s silent Russian revolutionary classic in one of his “Great Movie” reviews.

But it wasn’t merely the bucolic setting — a balmy and starlit summer night — that led to Ebert’s reassessment of the 1925 propagandistic feature, where fed-up sailors mutiny against their superiors and soldiers clash violently with citizens yearning to live free from oppressive Tsarist rule. It was also the live musical score, performed by the southwestern Michigan rock band Concrete.

The trio, Ebert wrote, “underlined and reinforced Eisenstein’s approach with an insistent, rhythmic, repetitive score, using keyboards, half-heard snatches of speech, cries and choral passages, percussion, martial airs and found sounds. It was an aggressive, insistent approach, played loud, by musicians who saw themselves as Eisenstein’s collaborators, not his meek accompanists.”

It made Ebert better realize “why this movie was long considered dangerous.”

The Chicago rockers Mary Shelley would surely be pleased by a similar response from audience members when they play their own “Battleship Potemkin” soundtrack on May 2 at 1st Ward, during the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival (CIMMFest), which takes place May 1 through 4 at venues in Wicker Park, Bucktown, Logan Square and the West Loop.

In decades past, silent films typically were accompanied by movie house orchestras or pre-existing pieces of music. In the case of “Potemkin,” Eisenstein hoped it would be scored anew every couple of decades to help maintain its relevance.

In the past two decades there have been several reimagined scores, such as the one Ebert heard in Michigan, and a 2004 take by British pop group the Pet Shop Boys, who performed their techno-infused composition during a screening in London’s Trafalgar Square.

Within the framework of these new interpretations, there is often room to riff.

“The emotional dynamic is mostly mapped out,” says Mary Shelley bassist Matt Ulery, who composes for and plays with the band Matt Ulery’s Loom. “But improvising is a must. It makes sense.”

Mary Shelley drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, formerly of Smashing Pumpkins, thinks it’s crucial, too.

“Even in classical music these days and in things that have been scored, there’s a real rigidity in the perception of it,” says Chamberlin, who regards “Potemkin” as an exploration of extreme oppression and humanity’s response to it rather than simply a piece of political propaganda. “When these things [soundtracks to silent movie screenings] were being performed live, they were kind of living, breathing organisms that lived and flowed with the emotional situations or the culture of the time. So we really want to try to capture a bit of that element… to grab bits and pieces of what’s happening around us and make that part of the music. And I think in doing that, it makes things a little bit more relevant.”

Though they remain unsure about how exactly it will all come together at the festival, each band member already has a good idea of themes they’ll explore throughout the 75-minute presentation. Above all, Ulery says, it’s a matter of “getting the right emotions that go with the various parts of the movie.”

The most famous portion — a massacre of civilians on an expanse of outdoor stairs (the “Odessa Steps” in Odessa, Ukraine) — is sure to be among the most stirring portions from a musical standpoint as well as a visual one.

“There’s a real density to the subject matter that really lends itself to a real dynamic musical presentation, which I think falls really nicely into all of our musical sweet spots,” Chamberlin says. “So I don’t really look at is as an exploration in rock. More like an exploration in dynamics — kind of heaviness that really penetrates what the subject matter is of the movie. Although there are rock elements in it, I think it is more score-based with more dense music as opposed to rock. It’s not heavy just for the sake of being heavy. It’s heavy because it’s tethered to subject matter that’s very heavy.”

And if the overall experience provokes thought or spurs discussion about current events (civil unrest in Ukraine, for instance) as much as it entertains, Mary Shelley guitarist Scott Lucas (of Local H) says, that’s a bonus.

“There’s no harm or foul in getting people to think of political recidivism in the context of art exploration. Art’s job, in and of itself, is to get people thinking outside the box.”

Source:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainmen...l#.U2MwVy__xeU

[Araneae]

That looks interesting. I wouldn't mind hearing that. I've heard a few other silent 1920s films redone by contemporary bands and they've turned out really well. The drums are usually the best part, too.

[pavementtune]

JC has a good feeling for visuals, he could make some great film scores imo.


80 minutes Potemkin from hell, Like a Hurricane as encore.

[jimmy drevpile]

http://cimmfest.org/live-streaming-consumption-cache/

[amoergosum]

[slunken]

...says Chamberlin, who regards “Potemkin” as an exploration of extreme oppression and humanity’s response to it rather than simply a piece of political propaganda.

lol. wow jimmy how eloquent.

[slunken]

how it probably went down

"so jimmy many people have said that potemkin is an exploration of extreme opppression and humanity's response to it rather than simply a piece of propaganda would you agree to this?"

"uh sure"

[amoergosum]

Mary Shelley (former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, Matt Ulery on bass and Scott Lucas of Local H on guitar) continued that trend Friday night at 1st Ward, albeit in a slightly more rocking fashion, as a screening of classic silent film Battleship Potemkin was projected behind them. For seventy-five minutes, the band never stopped, matching the emotional impact of the film with music that was at times psychedelic and other times punk. While Chamberlin's propulsive fills were a highlight of the live score, it was the equally intense guitar playing of Lucas that fueled Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane" for nearly ten minutes during the encore.

Source:
http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-at...le-may-3-2014/

[jimmy drevpile]

Originally Posted by amoergosum

...

Sounds / looks like some bits were quite interesting and worked better than I had imagined. Some bits not as sure about. Would like to have seen the full thing & at least it seems a great deal more palatable than the 6hr siddhartha.

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

Like a Hurricane as encore.

>>>

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by jimmy drevpile

Sounds / looks like some bits were quite interesting and worked better than I had imagined. Some bits not as sure about. Would like to have seen the full thing & at least it seems a great deal more palatable than the 6hr siddhartha.

Jimmy playing drums ≥ Billy solo stuff

[amoergosum]

"Vic's Drum Shop ‏@VicsDrumShop 10. Mai
@PBOUVET @mikeslessons @MattBandhappy #drumclinic #soundcheck @VicsDrumShop with Jimmy Chamberlin looking on!"