More tour spoilers: horns, violin, and “Sunkissed”
October 20th, 2008 by jjbtags: tour, band, news, interview, studio
AOL’s Spinner music-news site — which was also the source for Jimmy Chamberlin’s original suggestion that “the next time the Pumpkins tour, you’ll see a big stage presence with eight to ten people as opposed to just five” — reports today that, indeed, the Smashing Pumpkins are about to hit the road with additional musicians in tow:
“We really treated it as a special one-time event, so we have horns, a violin player and we’re playing a lot of songs we wouldn’t normally play,” [Billy] Corgan says. …
“The two-night format of playing two totally different sets is really challenging because what the hell are you gonna close Night Two with if all the best stuff is in night one?” he says. “We’re really excited about playing the song ‘Sunkissed’ off our EP, ‘American Gothic’ — it’s about a six-minute long song. It’s very gentle and we’re playing with the horns and everything. It sounds great, but it’s the type of thing that’ll totally kill the crowd and everybody starts throwing [shit].”
So is all the best stuff on Night One, Billy? (Not that telling us so would be very informative, really.) And who are the supporting players?!
Corgan also says something about how the next album project will be “a very new media-based way to interrelate a visual and a long song cycle”, which…I mean, sure, maybe, whatever. This is making me think of the “interactive music video” for “The Crying Tree of Mercury” (which is not here), but I was able to ignore that at the time, so, bring it on, I guess.
(Thanks to PistolPete for pointing out the AOL article.)
October 20th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
I was just explaining how brackets in a quote work to my room mate, and now here I see this quote with the word “shit” in brackets. How does “shit” get in brackets!? Did they ask him “what do you think of the word ’shit’”, to which he then said “We’re really excited about playing the song ‘Sunkissed’ off our EP, ‘American Gothic’ — it’s about a six-minute long song. It’s very gentle and we’re playing with the horns and everything. It sounds great, but it’s the type of thing that’ll totally kill the crowd and everybody starts throwing it.”? Also, is that really how brackets work, or am I totally wrong and about to do poorly on an essay?
October 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
LOL, I’m so glad someone picked up on this. Spinner censored him by writing it “s—”, and I was quoting Spinner and this is not a family blog, so I replaced it with the word Billy almost certainly actually said…but since MY quote was technically of Spinner I believed the brackets were warranted.
rC: “Catharina Orange”
October 20th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Having now read the article and the lack of ’shit,’ I can now concur that yes, your brackets are for real. We are bracket-champs!
rC: runner yale (from the bracket-scholarship)
October 20th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Hmmm. Now Billy is doing setlist spoilers? What is this, Netphoria?
reC: school medical
October 21st, 2008 at 10:18 am
Violins! Yay!
For new multimedia way of interrelating a long visual and song cycle etc., I am thinking online multi-player game.
Or my name isn’t rC dom MILLVILLE
October 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Thats so exciting! I love that the Pumpkins are willing to go beyond the 4-piece band (or even 5-piece). My favorite performance of theirs has always been 1979 from the grammy awards with chris vrenna AND matt walker on drums. So needless to say, Im thoroughly looking forward to this tour. Now I just have to figure out how to keep up to date on the news without ruining every surprise hereonin.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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