Big Smashing Pumpkins announcement coming this Monday (March 24th)

[slunken]

mike and nicole (as with the original SP model) aren't crucial at all to the songwriting process.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by glitterlips

Also Let's say he did tour in a couple of years.....who the hell would drumk

*Drum Goddamit!

That's what I'm saying - it would be easier to get an acceptable drummer for a tour later on down the line than try to keep one retained until if and when that ever happens.

"The Smashing Pumpkins" aren't a "band" anymore and haven't been for some time.

[slunken]

np: wasting time - djali zwan - spun soundtrack

[Kreatorkind]

heh...

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by slunken

writing songs is not a touring band - and didn't he say a while ago he was pretty much done with the idea of a touring band?

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This tour shifted something that has left the situation with a big question mark…..Smashing Pumpkins, from the beginning, although it was unsophisticated in the building, was designed to be adaptable to trends. The dinosaur rock business could really only be aroused by kicking it squarely in the teeth. We took great pleasure in that, and obviously during the ‘glory years’, it was an effective thing that we did.

It’s strange to be in a group that’s no longer perceived as being cutting-edge and/or adaptable to trends. In fact, if I played to the stereotype of alternative-guitar-rock, it’s actually going backwards. Encountering my thinking when I made “Adore”, I very much wanted to transform the band away from the first three albums into something much more experimental. Obviously the failure of that led to a set of circumstances which…set in motion a set of failure-and-reaction and occasional triumphs, and the dominoes have not finished falling.

…here we are fifteen years later, and now I’m in a band playing a fairly pleasing setlist. Not really my thing. So having gone in circles these last seven years in different incarnations, I don’t really know… I kinda had an idea what the next step would be before this tour, but having done this tour and come out the other side, I don’t really know what the next step is, if there’s even a step at all. Maybe I’ve checkmated myself.

People treat me like an idiot a lot of the times, but they forget that I’m the one who set the question up… When you take a band out with one original member, you’re asking for trouble. You’re asking for it. And I knew that. In the old ideology of the 90s or even the 80s, you think you can punk-rock your way through this, which is, if we’re really good, and we’re powerful, we can come out the other side.

I don’t really know what makes sense anymore. And I think you have to come to a place where you say, if you continue, you continue with a particular vision, not keep rolling with the tide. Because the tide, as it is, isn’t that great. It’s not that the audience isn’t great, or that the band isn’t great. It’s just that something about it all feels a little too nicey-nice. And I’m not in a rock and roll band to be nicey-nice.

Is it ultimately in the SP charter to make Oceania 2 or even Siamese Dream 2? I’m kind of backed into a corner and I don’t think there’s an obvious next step out. Stopping might be part of that, staying out of view might be part of that, or going back to a very radical, musically –intensive position might be part of that. But you have to accept that position, which is no different than how I felt after Gish, you’re kind of in a corner, and if you’re gonna come out, you gotta come out swingin’.

There’s no doubt in my mind that there’s still plenty of Smashing Pumpkins music to be made, no matter what anybody thinks. As the architect of what worked in each particular era, I believe I can make it work with any combination of anybody--if I really want to. Maybe that sounds insane, but that’s how I look at it.

There’s Smashing Pumpkins music to be made, that can be made at a very high level, and can be as good or better as the past music, but I’m also very realistic about what that takes, and I also know that you need to want to hear journey. Without that (desire to listen), I don’t know how much you can do. So maybe it’s time to turn it off, maybe it’s time to turn it into strictly a recording entity, maybe it’s time to accept that it will never be anything but what the public in general asks for.

I will say, there’s no doubt in my mind – none, zero – that there is Smashing Pumpkins music to be made. But it’s not a band or a system or an idea that is designed to be passive. And to me, fulfilling expectations is passive. To me, that’s the rock and roll version of a 9 to 5 job….[talks about other artists on festival bills]…There’s a general malaise in my business. And I’m part of the problem. And I don’t know if I want to continue to be part of the problem. And I know that people will chuckle at that, because they don’t see me stopping as a problem. [laughs]

There’s a time to fight, and there’s a time to sit still. Maybe the best thing to do is just be quiet, and listen. But I’m convinced there’s plenty more Smashing Pumpkins music to be made.

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Originally Posted by Banana

That's simply not true. They were in studio together hence the tweet that brought it to everyones attention.

Nope, they were not in the studio together.

[Starla]

Okay it's the 24th. I don't have all day. Let's not play games.

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by Starla

Okay it's the 24th. I don't have all day. Let's not play games.

I'm sure Billy did some research...

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Source:
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[Starla]

What are you trying to teach me here?

[Starla]

You think.... I don't KNOW about how social media works? How smug of you!!

[Starla]

Stand back, I'm melting down!! I know about twitter and facebook. Don't teach me you young punks!

[Starla]

[thomas_bland]

Happen to have the day off work today so I'm blasting out Mellon Collie disk two, seems quite fitting if he's calling it a day for SP.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

the news has finally arrived!
BELLY HAS A CHILD IT IS A COUPLE OF YEARS OLD THE NAME IS NOT SHARED AND IT WILL BE "PERFORMING" ON THE NEXT SMASHING PUMPKINS ALBUM PLAYING THE "MUSIC CONCRETE" AND EVERYONE ELSE IS OUT OF THE BAND SO NOW IT'S JUST BC AND CHILD BUT WHEN THEY TOUR MIKE WILL JOIN THEM ON THE SKIN FLUTE IN YOUR FACE LINDA STRAWTITS!

[Cool As Ice Cream]

AND MONTY IS FIRED BC IS NOW LOOKING TO HIRE SOME BODYGUARDS TO SAVE HIS LIFE FROM ETHICAL STALKERS

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PEOPLE WITH MICROPENISES WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED IN AT LIVE SHOWS BILLY IS REALLY SORRY BUT HE HAS TO THINK ABOUT HIS SAFETY

[Cool As Ice Cream]

BELLY IS ALSO STARTING A WEBSITE CALLED 10,000 WHITE VAN JOKES TO BRING BACK JC

[Cool As Ice Cream]

AND ANOTHER ONE CALLED FROM HERE TO THERE TO EVERYWHERE AND BACK TO NOWHERE AND IT WILL BE ABOUT HIS SPIRITUAL JOURNEY AND HIS FAILED MEMOIRS

[Cool As Ice Cream]

omg so much going on at the same time

ALSO SPRC2 WILL BE STARTED UP SOON AND WILL CONSIST OF A SECRET GROUP OF SUPERFANS THAT WILL ACT AS GATEKEEPERS BETWEEN THE FANS AND THE BAND

[Cool As Ice Cream]

gatekeepers between the fans and the band is just another name for babysitters. it's basically the babysitter's club. they go on lots of goofy adventures and solve crimes.

[amoergosum]

How is brand manager Monte going to react? Is he going to videotape his reaction?
Or does he already know?

[Tuscaloosa]

when has announcement revealed?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

where does babby comes from?

[Tuscaloosa]

who can know?

[amoergosum]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Billy posted a close-up of Jimmy's bass drum head...no additional information...just the picture >>>

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n...pseddd280c.jpg

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by amoergosum

How is brand manager Monte going to react?

http://i43.tinypic.com/24l0owh.jpg

[Cool As Ice Cream]

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[Tuscaloosa]

good work