Pumpkins announce residency DVD details: feature-length documentary, 2 hours of music; tracklist eschews hit singles
September 17th, 2008 by jjbtags: if all goes wrong, news
From a press release on SmashingPumpkins.com:
Directed and produced by Jack Gulick (Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Steve Miller Band, Godsmack) and Daniel E Catullo III (Steve Miller Band, Godsmack, Rush, Dave Matthews Band), the two DVD set contains the 105-minute documentary, also titled If All Goes Wrong, plus The Fillmore Residency, a full concert filmed in late July and early August of 2007 over five of the 11 sold-out nights at the famed Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA. …
[The documentary] traces The Smashing Pumpkins during their 19-show residency, which began with eight shows at Asheville, NC’s Orange Peel in late June and continued through 11 sold-out nights at San Francisco’s famed Fillmore Auditorium. Interviews with band members, fans, journalists and fellow musicians reveal the fears, excitement, determination, exhaustion and tension inherent in main singer-songwriter and lead guitarist Billy Corgan and his newly revitalized musical unit.
“We went into the residencies hopeful to play some new music, with the idea I would write during the day and we could maybe even play new songs that same night,” Corgan comments. “What I didn’t anticipate is how much the process would inspire me, positively and negatively, to report what I was seeing and feeling from the shows. The documentary shows that process in an interesting way that reveals the link between the band and our audience.”
The documentary also includes Voices Of The Ghost Children, a featurette about the band’s fans, and an interview with The Who’s legendary guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend as bonus material. …
With 15 songs in all, the concert - captured in 5.1 Surround Sound and state-of-the-art high definition from 12 cameras - showcases the band as they explore the freedom afforded to them in a live setting, including the 30+ minute opus “Gossamer”. Along with the new tracks, the concert also includes alternate versions of fan favorites and a selection of Pumpkins rarities. The Fillmore Residency also includes five songs recorded live from the floor of The Fillmore that gives fans an intimate glimpse of the band as a performing entity.
Do not allow the above references to “a full concert” and “the concert” confuse you; the disc of music is an assemblage of tracks from five different nights:
- The Fillmore Residency*
- 1. The Rose March*
- 2. Peace + Love*
- 3. 99 Floors*
- 4. Superchrist
- 5. Lucky 13
- 6. Starla
- 7. Death From Above
- 8. The Crying Tree Of Mercury
- 9. Winterlong
- 10. Heavy Metal Machine
- 11. Untitled
- 12. No Surrender*
- 13. Gossamer*
- 14. Zeitgeist
- Bonus Tracks: Live From The Floor Of The Fillmore
- 99 Floors*
- Peace + Love*
- No Surrender*
- Mama*
- Promise Me*
*previously unreleased
Pay little attention to the asterisks, as they seem rather confused. All 19 of the tracks are previously unreleased; six of the seven different asterisked songs have not seen commercial release in any form, “The Rose March” being the exception.
The devoid-of-singles tracklisting drives home to me that this release is a major effort by the band to break some expectations that surround them as a “reunited” entity, particularly the perception that their every reunion must be about reselling the old hits.
September 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Everyone’s favorite font returns!
September 17th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
With a cover that trippy I don’t get the “american gothic” label.
September 17th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
so that amazon link posted here a few days ago was pretty much BS…
hmmm….
September 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
For new artwork it looks dated - probably because of the font. Too bad…..
September 17th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
american gothic jeanne d’arc revival :)
September 17th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
“ryma”: so that amazon link posted here a few days ago was pretty much BS…
What was wrong about it? I don’t see anything wrong with it - November 11 is the release date, two discs, the length is correct. Still don’t know about “Aphrodisio”, but the rest is now known to be spot-on.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
wow, I just found out about this when I saw the cover large as life on the Pitchfork homepage. lol
Off topic, but I am in the middle of my first hour as a radio DJ! First song I played: “The Boy”
September 17th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Me and a few mates were interviewed and filmed by Kristen Burns standing in line for the Pumpkins’ Wellington concert back in March.. I wonder if we’ll be in the cheesily-named Voices of the Ghost Children part. :D Hope so!
reCAPTCHA: “female closed”
September 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
so there are no asheville performances? that sucks! asheville shows blew filmore shows away!
September 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
So….how does one rip the audio from DVDs onto CD??? that is my main concern.
The tracklist for disc 2 is fantastic!
September 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Well poopers. It was shot in HD, so I was hoping to get a blu-ray release. Still looking forward to it tho :)
September 17th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
(10:29:14 PM) q-dog: no zeitgeist album songs
(10:29:19 PM) jjb: i noticed that too
(10:29:23 PM) q-dog: that’s weird
(10:29:40 PM) jjb: maybe they were afraid people would say it was “heavy on material from zeitgeist” if there was even one track
(10:29:45 PM) q-dog: lol
(10:31:33 PM) q-dog: nothing from gish/sd/mcis/adore
(10:31:42 PM) jjb: lol
September 17th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Tracklisting is interesting but also bad ass, would have been cool to see some other rare songs they played during the residency shows eg AFH
September 18th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Is that Billy’s face on the cover?
If so.. eww.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:02 am
@Jimmy: here’s a quick shell script that’ll rip a whole DVD (let’s hope this renders properly):
for f in $( dvdxchap /dev/dvd|grep NAME=|cut -c8-|sed -e ’s/NAME=.*//’ ); do
mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:file=${f}_track$f.wav -chapter $f-$f dvd://
lame -h -b 192 ${f}_track$f.wav ${f}_track$f.mp3 && rm ${f}_track$f.wav
done
Adjust as needed for other OSes/encoders/etc, but you can get mplayer for any. :)
rC: gestions Mar (??)
September 18th, 2008 at 6:25 am
the face looks wierd like a decapataed head, the rest of the picture is ok, just that face freaks me out. but i am excited to get this.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:40 am
It looks like it is messed up around the head. I think she has done better art than this, but whatever it’s all good still….
September 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
My first thought was this painting of Queen Elizabeth I.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
who cares about the artwork - the documentary sounds ace and the set list/ track list is awesome. thanks godness no bwbw or zero! Seriously!
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September 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Where the hell is the Blu-Ray release.
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