

THAT TRAIN AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL / SP ALBUM UPDATE
Well, there would have been an update yesterday, save for the fact that all I accomplished was nothing. Wait: strike that. We did manage to overdub some radical, Howard-excited alien sounds to ANAISE. Today however I did take TIBERIUS into my sweet hands and love him, I mean it, into submission. My triune vocals complete! 4 down, 5 to go! ANAISE gets the honey treatment tomorrow. And that’s about it in SPland beyond our inability to land the right mixer to finish this. Or how


MEMORABILIA MONDAYS: MACHINA 2 (25/25)
From Billy: "This true copy of the entire Machina 2 set was procured, as best as I can tell, by sale from the fan I'd sent it to; and is the copy from which the initial bootlegs were culled from. But as was custom to that era that same fan also betrayed other confidences by letting out other materials that I'd asked him to keep; costing in effect confidences from others far more innocent. Which explains the availability of certain materials, and how Machina 2 as a project did
TEA CONVERSATIONS with BILLY CORGAN and RODRICK MARKUS
What makes Madame ZuZu's tea unique? Who is blending + sourcing the teas? Why is looseleaf tea so important? Watch the video and see what makes ZuZu's special!


SECRET WEAPONS / SP ALBUM UPDATE
Pictured above are two notable secret weapons, and though you may not recognize them on sight you’d know the damage they do if you’ve listened to SP circa 1993-2000. Put together they make what I’d call a ‘supersonic sound,’ and we went looking for that texture today to blast up the middle of TIBERIUS. TIBERIUS as a work, minus vocal, is there now, having been fitted with a Steiner-Parker Synthacon over the top of the geetars; my detuning driving us nuts; for what is ‘in tune


RESCUE FRIDAYS MR.THOM + SAMMI + ISIS + DARKO
To start off RESCUE FRIDAYS we thought it would be best to show off our brother and sister Isis and Darko with everyone! We were rescued by PAWS CHICAGO and adopted all together from the same litter in a cardboard box by Daddy WPC and Bjorn. Sometimes when Daddy WPC goes on tour we get to stay with Isis + Darko. This photo was taken at a cat party from when we were kittens. We still love to cuddle together. And FYI, this is Sammi typing. Mr.Thom just its on the warm keyboard


DRUMMERS DRUMMING DRUMMERLY / SP ALBUM UPDATE
Pretty simple session: warmed up my voice for a half hour and cut into DRUM AND FIFE; which is essentially finished now. Three down, six to go. “What’s the song about BC?” you might ask if you ran into me at the grocery story. “It’s about what’s coming down the pike for those who have it coming,” I’d tell you cryptically, pretending as such with mendacity that I was only there to make my own salad and nothing more. Let’s say you saddled up close and said with a whisper, “Did
RISING EDGE / SP ALBUM UPDATE
What did we get done today? Fleshed out ‘Bowie Bridge’ with a stack of Voyetra patches, a phased pair of Shredder chords, and some well placed Mini-Moog melodies. And going in a few more steps I pulled the rip chords to see what the section might need another day. Which means that MONUMENTS is essentially done (save for the mantra of BV’s/select lead drops, etc). DRUM + FIFE, right? But who’s playing the battlefield fife? Past conversations centered on perhaps getting someone


SP FREAKS: INTERVIEW WITH MARK IGNOFFO BY GEO FOLKERS
Mark Ignoffo Talks Smashing Pumpkins Link to article here: http://spfreaks.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/mark-ignoffo-talks-smashing-pumpkins/


THE GLEEMAN PENTAPHONIC / SP ALBUM UPDATE
Coming in today the plan was that I have a practice sing through MONUMENTS, and then we’d move on to finishing the remaining musical components (synth/bridge guitars, etc). But after a single take Jeff and Howard agreed that I should try to cut the vocal then and there. Three hours later or so I’d succeeded (or so they thought), and I plopped myself down to watch the World Cup. The rest of the session (once I’d re-animated) was Jeff and I trying to fill what we call the ‘Bowi


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