The Smashing Pumpkins - Reel Time Sessions 1989

Smashing Pumpkins - Reel Time Sessions 1989
Studio soundboard recordings @flac +vbr

 

Two bootlegs from early Smashing Pumpkins studio sessions - tracks 1-20 are full-band electric, tracks 21-33 are just Billy on acoustic. Some of the songs were used to make the Moon demo tape, others were released on Gish or as singles, and some have been left in the past.

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More recording sessions with Mark Ignoffo, intended to constitute the first Smashing Pumpkins album.  Fortunately for the future of the band, these sessions did not produce an album as anticipated but the second demo tape Moon.  Billy Corgan also compiled a tape from these sessions called Gish, used for bookings and label solicitation in 1989 and 1990.  Corgan also made a number of homemade mix tapes for friends and fans that featured different configurations of material from these sessions.  While about half of the sessions have  appeared on various releases, the remaining half can be found on bootlegs, the highest quality as unmastered final mixes compiled on a DAT tape that had belonged to Mike Potential.

According to Corgan, the album originally came from Smashing Pumpkins' early vow of poverty. "The roots of Gish are the fact that the band had a policy then that nobody made any money from the shows, so we could save up to record," he explains. "It was amazing that everyone agreed to it because none of us had any money back then. So by 1989 we had collected a couple grand from playing club gigs. A guy named Mark Ignoffo, who lived in the neighborhood near where I worked at the used record store, had just graduated studio-engineering school. It turned out he had set up a studio in his parents' basement, so in 1989 we took that saved money and made an album — even though we had no one to make an album for. There was absolutely nobody interested in our band. So we just made an album-plus worth of material hoping somebody would become interested. And if you listen to that material, it sounds very much like Gish turned out. ~ More at Fandom 

 

  

Tracklist:

Egg
    Bury Me
    Bye June
    Cinnamon Girl [Neil Young cover]
    C'mon
    Daughter [extended]
    Daydream
    East [alternate version]
    Honeyspider
    Honeyspider [alternate version]
    I Am One [original 7" version]
    Love [not the MCIS track, a different song with the same title]
    Not Worth Asking
    Psychodelic
    Rhinoceros [alternate version]
    Rhinoceros
    Snap
    Stars Fall In
    With You
    Waiting for You Now
    Fat Man Blues [false start]
    Fat Man Blues [partial]
    Fat Man Blues [partial]
    Bleed
    She [abandoned]
    Vanilla
    My Dahlia [abandoned]
    A Trip Unto Bountiful
    Sun [abandoned]
    Stray Cat Blues [Rolling Stones cover]
    I Am One, Part 2
    My Dahlia
    Sun

 

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