Apparently Kill Hannah has heard some of the new album

[Rommy]

I'm not sure if this is old news but I thought you guys might be interested:

[Rommy]

Sorry ... i pressed enter by accident...

Very few bands from Chicago have made it to "Pink Floyd status," but Kill Hannah call themselves friends with that city’s number one music son who has achieved that: Smashing Pumpkins’ lead singer Billy Corgan.

"We just had dinner with him in L.A. four days ago," Mat tells me. Before the show, Hannah sound master Ben told me that Hannah had heard some new tracks from the reunited Pumpkins and so I decide to plumb for details.

"We heard two tracks with no vocals. Just one guitar and drums," he describes to me. "I’d say just the very floor plan of two songs and they both sound pretty epic. The two songs could be… I’d say they probably have the intelligence of the [Machina - the Machines of God] record but the accessibility of [Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness]. So I think it’s going to be just what a fan would want."

http://www.popsyndicate.com/index.ph...f_kill_hannah/

[davin]

Originally Posted by Rommy

Sorry ... i pressed enter by accident...

Very few bands from Chicago have made it to "Pink Floyd status," but Kill Hannah call themselves friends with that city’s number one music son who has achieved that: Smashing Pumpkins’ lead singer Billy Corgan.

"We just had dinner with him in L.A. four days ago," Mat tells me. Before the show, Hannah sound master Ben told me that Hannah had heard some new tracks from the reunited Pumpkins and so I decide to plumb for details.

"We heard two tracks with no vocals. Just one guitar and drums," he describes to me. "I’d say just the very floor plan of two songs and they both sound pretty epic. The two songs could be… I’d say they probably have the intelligence of the [Machina - the Machines of God] record but the accessibility of [Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness]. So I think it’s going to be just what a fan would want."

http://www.popsyndicate.com/index.ph...f_kill_hannah/

[douglas78]

Originally Posted by Rommy

the reunited Pumpkins

<<< key point

[Katy Lied]

sounds good to me!

[Shapan]

wow. so billy and jimmy are just recording with themselves only? interesting. i wonder if they're still narrowing down choices for the rest of the band, or if billy would do like he did with siamese dream and just record the entire album himself.

thats funny, "intelligence of machina". i dont think id hear anything and think, "you know what, this might just be just as clever as machina!!!!111" good to here any sort of reference to MCIS though.

[Cherub Angel]

Originally Posted by Shapan

thats funny, "intelligence of machina". i dont think id hear anything and think, "you know what, this might just be just as clever as machina!!!!111" good to here any sort of reference to MCIS though.

Machina had more sophisticated arrangements than Mellon Collie did....that's just my opinion but I think that's what Mat meant.

[Shapan]

Originally Posted by Cherub Angel

Machina had more sophisticated arrangements than Mellon Collie did....that's just my opinion but I think that's what Mat meant.

saying it that way wouldve made more sense, but i see what he means now.

[brendo_91]

Chances are they're just going to Siamese it, and Billy will do all Guitars and Bass himself.

[Kahlo]

Originally Posted by brendo_91

Chances are they're just going to Siamese it, and Billy will do all Guitars and Bass himself.

this is how it is

[Cruiser]

Originally Posted by brendo_91

Chances are they're just going to Siamese it, and Billy will do all Guitars and Bass himself.

do you think the liner notes will still say "The Smashing Pumpkins are Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy and Jimmy Chamberlin" or whatever?

[Katy Lied]

Originally Posted by Cruiser

do you think the liner notes will still say "The Smashing Pumpkins are Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy and Jimmy Chamberlin" or whatever?

that would be scandalous

[Anvil Hands]

How can these people give any sort of good description if they only heard one guitar track and one drum track with no vocals.

Does this mean they are recording in LA or mixing there ?

if the songs are still that barren they can't possibly have an album out by january.
especially if Roy is producing i thought that guy liked to put one million guitar tracks on each song.

what the fuck ?

[The New]

Originally Posted by Anvil Hands

if the songs are still that barren they can't possibly have an album out by january.

So you're saying that artwork pic could be fake?

[brendo_91]

Originally Posted by Cruiser

do you think the liner notes will still say "The Smashing Pumpkins are Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy and Jimmy Chamberlin" or whatever?

I record all the guitars for my band, the singer does all my backing vocals on the recordings etc.

Convenience, mostly.

Does this make me any less of a backing vocalist, or our rhythm guitarist any less of a guitarist?

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by brendo_91

I record all the guitars for my band, the singer does all my backing vocals on the recordings etc.

Convenience, mostly.

Does this make me any less of a backing vocalist, or our rhythm guitarist any less of a guitarist?

Yes.

[brendo_91]

Originally Posted by Gollum

Yes.

How so?

There's an interview with Billy that talks about how when he was doubletracking the guitars on Fuck You, he bent the neck a bit at the end... and then perfectly doubled it on the next take.

It's often advantageous to pick one player and get them to do all their parts, and the parts of anyone else who they can do. Take Metallica for instance: before St Anger, James did all the rhythm guitars, while Kirk did most of the leads.

[ohnoitsbonnie]

nice avatar!

[Rommy]

Originally Posted by ohnoitsbonnie

nice avatar!

Yeah bro! It's the flag of the forthcoming SP revolution!

[douglas78]

Originally Posted by Rommy

Yeah bro! It's the flag of the forthcoming SP revolution!

remember the kiss army? this is going to be the sp army with little midgets running around with skeleton masks

[brendo_91]

del

[Karl Connor]

"accessible" ughh

man i can't help but think this is going to be another Mary Star of the Sea scenario.

[smux]

Originally Posted by Randall Sandell

Mary Star of the Sea scenario.

God willing!

[Reyngel]

Maybe Billy's waiting on James, and recording his and Jimmy's parts until a confirmation comes.

[Cherub Angel]

Originally Posted by Reyngel

Maybe Billy's waiting on James, and recording his and Jimmy's parts until a confirmation comes.

or James could be literally phoning it in. It's not unheard of.

[RopeyLopey]

this thread is good if only for bringing these two things -

'He's gonna Siamese it'
'intelligence of Machina'

[Effloresce]

"Intelligence of Machina", what the fuck does that mean?

[czr]

Originally Posted by Effloresce

"Intelligence of Machina", what the fuck does that mean?

probably more music theory applied in terms of machina's level of sophisication in arrangments etc

[Effloresce]

Originally Posted by czr

probably more music theory applied in terms of machina's level of sophisication in arrangments etc

Oh, right.

Well that's not bad news.

Machina "intelligence" (how pretentious) combined with an updated MCIS-like production would be nice. I was not fond of Machina's extremely loud drowned out kind of feel. They should've made it sound like the Machina live show or some of their Machina b-sides. That would have been ace.

[alisonmonster]

Originally Posted by Effloresce

"Intelligence of Machina", what the fuck does that mean?

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