On November 11th, the Smashing Pumpkins will release If All Goes Wrong, a two-DVD set that documents their comeback gigs in the summer of 2007, when the band played an eight night stand at the Orange Peel in North Carolina, and their eleven gigs at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium.Disc One features a nearly two-hour documentary which follows the New Pumpkins -- Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin with guitarist Jeff Schroeder, bassist Ginger Reyes and on keys, Lisa Harrington -- throughout the nineteen shows. There is also a short video centered around Pumpkin fandom titled, Voices of the Ghost Children. (Spooky!)
"We went into the residencies hopeful to play some new music, with the idea that I would write during the day and we could maybe even play new songs that same night," says Corgan. "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 our band and the audience."
Disc Two is culled from live performances at the Fillmore, with renditions of old school jams like "Starla" (our favorite Pumpkins cut ever), as well as seven previously unreleased cuts like "The Rose March", "Mama", "No Surrender" and the thirty-plus minute epic, "Gossamer."
We like to remember the good old days of the Pumpkins, the Gish/Siamese Dream era.
Does anyone still care about the Pumpkins?
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bobo jenkins | September 19, 2008 9:08 AM
iha and darcy didnt do anything but back up billy and jimmy
and id go as far as saying you could replace jimmy too
their heydays are over but they are still a good band
zeitgeist isnt awesome but it isn horrible either
when are we gonna see a new STP album?
Steve | September 18, 2008 4:21 PM
It's not the same without james iha and darcy....while they definitely made some great albums in the past, their best days are long behind them
lasgames | September 18, 2008 11:14 AM
great rock music,not this pop trash and rap everyone listens to in america.
jimmy | September 17, 2008 4:18 PM
never stopped caring. best band of the 90s.
i heart iha | September 17, 2008 4:08 PM
"disarm" is a classic, neil.
neil | September 17, 2008 3:53 PM
never cared before, why now?