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
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
