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Old 06-17-2021, 11:49 AM   #1
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Dude who played pedal steel on "Take Me Down" and all of Let It Come Down (as well as a million other things with different artists).

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...rview-1172942/

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Going back here, can you talk about playing with the Smashing Pumpkins on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness? You’re on the James Iha track “Take Me Down.”

That’s another one of those random things. I just got contacted. I forget if it was directly by James Iha or the management. It was just that Billy Corgan was allowing James to do one song on a double album. [Laughs] He was like, “Here’s this carrot. You can do anything you want.” He asked me to come to Chicago and I was there. I overdubbed on the song. He had Flood and the other producer [Alan Moulder]. They had two different studios in the same complex. Billy was in one room working on his stuff and James was in this other room working on his song. It wasn’t much.

Later, I did play on a James Iha solo album [Let It Come Down] that Jim Scott produced. I went back to Chicago and worked on that with James. Another funny story is that when we were in the studio, he had a banjo. I didn’t have one and said I’d like to play it. A couple of months later, a box came to my house and it had a banjo in it. It didn’t say who it was from. He basically gave me a banjo. I learned how to play it and I’ve now played it on a couple of records. It’s kind of funny.

 
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Old 06-17-2021, 11:54 PM   #2
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Further (as if it was needed) proof that James is great.

 
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Old 06-18-2021, 04:48 AM   #3
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It was just that Billy Corgan was allowing James to do one song on a double album. [Laughs] He was like, “Here’s this carrot. You can do anything you want.”
Sounds like Willy didn't make a lot of friends in his heyday [laughs in japanese-american]

 
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Old 06-18-2021, 06:07 AM   #4
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[laughs in japanese-american]
What?

Sorry i don’t get it

 
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Old 06-18-2021, 07:14 AM   #5
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What?

Sorry i don’t get it
Not my problem, old chap. Get some help.

 
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Old 06-21-2021, 04:36 PM   #6
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Not my problem, old chap. Get some help.
I got it, was good.

 
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Old 06-21-2021, 08:00 PM   #7
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I got it, was good.
Thanks zerospaced

Help me enjoy this joke when u get a minute

Still trying to figure out what a laughing japanese American usually sounds like

 
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Old 06-21-2021, 08:26 PM   #8
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I got it, was good.
I'm glad to hear that you got some help and that it was good for you

 
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Old 06-21-2021, 09:34 PM   #9
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[laughs in Ratched]


 
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Old 06-22-2021, 05:13 AM   #12
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I often wondered was Billy even ON Take Me Down - this suggests he wasn't.

 
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Old 06-22-2021, 10:26 AM   #13
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Billy doesn't even know the song exists

 
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Old 06-22-2021, 07:38 PM   #14
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Billy didn't know about James deal for a solo record until it had happened.
And was also upset for not having been asked to join the recordings of Let It Come Down, proclaiming it would have gotten better with him as a producer.

 
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