This was before every camera man avoided her and every sound engineer turned her way down in the mix. Go watch SP concert footage and see how shamelessly everyone but her gets face time on stage. It's like cameramen all conspired to avoid anything more than a second here or there. Truly bizarre.
I was there! Halloween 1993... Front row balcony, me and 2 others... After they played, we were backstage hanging with the entire band, host Christian Slater, legends, Sandler, Farley, Hartman, Deuce Bigalow, Meadows, Spade.... I was in the elevator with half the cast, like a fucking dream.... Went to SNL studio right after a JV football game in pouring rain... Corgans guitar has stickers of bats on them for Halloween... I got all 4 autographs on the sleeve of the Gishh album, ON CASSETTE!!!!
Marcus Aurelius-Quinn I'm not sure you have enough evidence to convince us??? 🤔 What JV game did you go to? CASSETTE huh? Stuck in an elevator with half the cast? Must have been a big elevator... 🤔 hmmm, Sandler, Farley, Hartman, Deuce Bigalow... Wait, Deuce Bigalow was a movie. HA! I knew it. Can't get one by me, better luck next time.
More amazing than the time Michael Jackson came over to your house to use the bathroom? More amazing than the time you saved those old people from that nursing home fire, right? Yeah, and I bet it was even more amazing than the time you ate your weight in Godfather's pizza.
PJ Neslo the grunge/alt rock movement of about ‘89-‘99 was probably the last great wave of pure artistry to crash the mainstream before the digital age. I’m so glad it happened. So raw and gutsy. I graduated high school in ‘95. It was a magical time for music.
I miss these days so much..I was 9 years old when this took place and was really starting to get into music. I was more into the gangsta rap during that time but I really enjoyed songs by Smashing pumpkins, Alice in chains, Pearl jam, Faith no more nirvana etc etc..Now that I'm older I despise modern rap and only listen to 90s rap occasionally but I ADORE the grunge and alternative bands of this era. Wish I had appreciated it more when it was actually happening.
afirefox my guess is because the musicianship was real. It easier to mesh real instruments as opposed to some real instruments and tracks. And more tracks.
Its simpler than that....analog baby. Beta max baby. All broadcasts are on betamax....sure. Knowledge in part to "6 days to air"...imagine all the bs digital filters it goes through bc they condense it into analog to broad cast it via betamax....the audio takes a shit off that alone nvm the mixing and sound checking....thats also on the band to sync up with what snl has to offer.....prime example arcade fire....they give a damn...enough to not sound like shit on snl like most "modern shit acts". Im not even a big fan of theres but they put out a respectable effort that gains my respect....to actually sound check for an hour....bc classic snl respect of playing live etc on snl....vs some hack out there to collect a check and have kids going "the album versions better trust me" to their parents...."cant play live...or do a sound check right" eat shit as far as im concern....ramones always #1 snl and again not a huge ramones fan...just another prime example of "not blowing it on snl" at its best....all those damn mics and band members though with arcade fire ro sound that good....rappers and wanna be rock bands with 3-5 chords of progression will sound exactly like the terrible shit it is im glad
@@itsadamtruitt as a shitty musician who had a PA in high school my band got invited to all the shows where they needed a PA, so I've mixed lots of crappy bands and a few tight ones. I can say the number one thing that makes a band sound well-mixed is their musicianship and how tight they are. I've seen setups where a band sounded horrible then the next act came out on the exact same equipment and sounded incredible.
I must be the luckiest bastard in the world. Born in 1961. I remember the Beatles, early years of high school was Disco dancing. Late High School and early college I was there for Punk and New Wave. Early rap in the mid 80's. I was 29 in 1990 at the start of the Grunge movement. Wow. I never realized how much I was enjoying it all until recently. I still seek out interesting music and the picking are getting slim.
Modern new wave of music is bladee, and best modern rock bands are title fight, pretty sick, portrayal of guilt, the Chats, and an Autumn for Crippled Children. This coming from someone who loves all the types of music you mentioned(besides disco lol:p)
I caught an SNL performance in person once (not SP, Wilco). I can attest that the mix was probably the best I have ever heard for a live rock performance.
His vocals are always a little rough live, but they're still fun to see. I remember seeing them at Maxwell's in New Jersey back in 1991 at the recommendation of a friend who was living in Chicago at the time. They didn't disappoint. I was a fan from that night on. Gish and Siamese Dream are still a couple of my all time favorite albums.
for what is supposed to be just a practice rehearsal, they sound incredible. tight and visceral. goes to show their musical prowess, when it was actually the 4 of them together.
I love it too but the band is centered around Corgan. Much like the way Nirvana was centered around Cobain. Both assembled the perfect band for their thing. Chamberlin on drums was probably the bands greatest asset.
Longtime "SNL" stage manager Joe Dicso, who had the job from the original premiere in '75 until retiring on the June '96 finale -- which had Jim Carrey as host. (In fact, the lady who succeeded Joe has been in the job ever since Sep. '96)
I love how Jimmy grabs the drum key to tune his low tom after just ONE song. That guy was (and still is judging by his newer jazz work) incredible. And just as some "extra credit" you can hear how the drums even for live TV are stereo-panned with the low tom hard left. SO that makes the recorded panning musician-orientation instead of audience-orientation in case anyone has some bets to win or lose on that question.
Real good sound for such an old vid. The music is still so amazing. I'm still in love with D'Arcy and the guitars -wonderful. Thank you so much for the upload.
It is a raw performance that just blows me away. This is awesome to watch and wish I could see some great new bands live that play like this. Its like I went back in time to when I first bought the album.
Wow, it's crazy to think in only a few hours River Phoenix would OD and then the following April we'd lose Kurt. So much amazing music during this time and so much heartache.
I actually drove by that night and saw the OD of R. phoenix.....my brother and friends went to a halloween party in LA, that night...right down the street.
In the early 90s I would watch SNL music performances from the 70s and they seemed so aged, from a time I saw as so long ago, historic. Damn. This 1993 footage now seems ancient to somebody else, and really, it kinda is. Damn.
Yeah the VHS quality is what makes it look dated. If the quality was better it could pass for something films recently. Maybe because I feel that the clothing and hairstyles could pass in modern times while clothing from the 70s really looks dated.
I remember watching that episode. I was excited and wanted to show the group to some friends who were still into hair metal. They hated them and I was wtf. They thought they wouldn't go anywhere but the bands that they were into were the ones that disappeared into obscurity.
Just to think that bands like the Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, ...were once mainstream, and thus were on every radio and every bar PA all over the world makes me very nostalgic.
man i was 21, i was really not into the whole thing that was going on at the time. i was very frustrated that everything underground "music, films, comics" was exploding into the main stream and getting over exposed. now its like i took a nap and my whole life just passed by and the things i was irritated by seem so trivial. and everything feels so much worse than it was back then.
Billy, I’ve never told you directly but your vocals on SD are untouched and have changed my life. I love this raw SNL rehearsal shit it’s actually some of my favorite smashing pumpkins
I was never a big Strat sound fan. Always wondered why I loved the Pumpkins guitar sound. Then realized James plays a Les Paul so the mix of them sound great to my ears. Love Billy's style though.
Back when The Smashing Pumpkins first debuted I was about 10 years old but I knew they were something special I didn't realize 26 years later they would have such an impact on music or even be around I am so glad they did!
I still have a copy of this live performance on VHS. I watched it so much. The entire show was great. Halloween episode. Christian Slater hosted. Chris Farley was a gigantic pumpkin. Smashing Pumpkins fucking slaughtered. One of the greatest SNL episodes ever.
SP were and still are the best band of their era - their ferocity, competency and vulnerability were what set them apart from their peers - Corgan is a genius on the guitar (that TONE!!!) and Chamberlin is hands down flawless - this moment of their career was truly special - I had a hard time following them from here on out, as they only ever occasionally were able to re-create this magic, but capturing lightning in a bottle is no easy task for any band - I'm so thankful for this video, and D'arcy's bass sounds positively crushing and monstrous!!!
I was waist deep in college studying civil engineering back in the 90s. I would crank this album along with 5 others in my 6 disc CD player and work on thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, soils and steel design homework. I'm a C- student but God man...I feel like an absolute genius when I listen to this stuff today.
there's an organic magic about watching SP live that few other bands can emulate...Tool and Steely Dan maybe. I listened to this through my phone and it was still pure and incredible.
What made their sound so cool was the wall of sound. You had everyone in the band basically playing the same thing. They would just get behind the root notes and create a rhythm that kept going without any breaks. The rhythm was relentless. It was so different from the rhythm of the 1980's in which the guitarist would maybe do a few downstrokes with his chords and leave empty space all over the place. They would let one chord ring out for too long. So much space. All they cared about was playing their solo. The only thing keeping the groove going was the bass. Rhythm guitar was so shitty in the 1980's. In fact, you could barely hear it in many hit songs from that era. Not so with Smashing Pumpkins. Their rhythm had no empty space. They filled up all of the space. It was really kind of a revolutionary thing. It's almost as if the guitarist were playing the drums with his guitar, if that makes any sense. I started playing guitar in 1992 and Smashing Pumpkins played a major role in the way I play guitar.
It’s amazing how clearly I can hear D’Arcy’s bass lines. Great mix.
@@maninamerica2046 I saw that too
Over the sound of her gas?
Over the sound of her gas?
I smelled the melody @@paulapsley3712
This was before every camera man avoided her and every sound engineer turned her way down in the mix. Go watch SP concert footage and see how shamelessly everyone but her gets face time on stage. It's like cameramen all conspired to avoid anything more than a second here or there. Truly bizarre.
I was there! Halloween 1993... Front row balcony, me and 2 others... After they played, we were backstage hanging with the entire band, host Christian Slater, legends, Sandler, Farley, Hartman, Deuce Bigalow, Meadows, Spade.... I was in the elevator with half the cast, like a fucking dream.... Went to SNL studio right after a JV football game in pouring rain... Corgans guitar has stickers of bats on them for Halloween... I got all 4 autographs on the sleeve of the Gishh album, ON CASSETTE!!!!
Marcus Aurelius-Quinn I'm not sure you have enough evidence to convince us??? 🤔 What JV game did you go to? CASSETTE huh? Stuck in an elevator with half the cast? Must have been a big elevator... 🤔 hmmm, Sandler, Farley, Hartman, Deuce Bigalow... Wait, Deuce Bigalow was a movie. HA! I knew it. Can't get one by me, better luck next time.
Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Schneider, Molly Shannon...etc...etc...
thats the coolest story ever
More amazing than the time Michael Jackson came over to your house to use the bathroom?
More amazing than the time you saved those old people from that nursing home fire, right?
Yeah, and I bet it was even more amazing than the time you ate your weight in Godfather's pizza.
Darcy's bass sounds huge, I love it
Who else misses those days? Some of my best memories are from the 90's, the grunge scene & music was the best...!!!
PJ Neslo the grunge/alt rock movement of about ‘89-‘99 was probably the last great wave of pure artistry to crash the mainstream before the digital age. I’m so glad it happened. So raw and gutsy. I graduated high school in ‘95. It was a magical time for music.
Rick Kelly -I graduated in 92, yes sir those were some magical times!
I miss them everyday.
Hell yeah. I was 14 or 15 when this album dropped. Best time of my life. STP, Nirvana, Pearl Jam... They dont make it like that anymore.
I miss these days so much..I was 9 years old when this took place and was really starting to get into music. I was more into the gangsta rap during that time but I really enjoyed songs by Smashing pumpkins, Alice in chains, Pearl jam, Faith no more nirvana etc etc..Now that I'm older I despise modern rap and only listen to 90s rap occasionally but I ADORE the grunge and alternative bands of this era. Wish I had appreciated it more when it was actually happening.
in 1993 late night shows knew how to mix sound better than in 2019
afirefox my guess is because the musicianship was real. It easier to mesh real instruments as opposed to some real instruments and tracks. And more tracks.
Its simpler than that....analog baby. Beta max baby. All broadcasts are on betamax....sure. Knowledge in part to "6 days to air"...imagine all the bs digital filters it goes through bc they condense it into analog to broad cast it via betamax....the audio takes a shit off that alone nvm the mixing and sound checking....thats also on the band to sync up with what snl has to offer.....prime example arcade fire....they give a damn...enough to not sound like shit on snl like most "modern shit acts". Im not even a big fan of theres but they put out a respectable effort that gains my respect....to actually sound check for an hour....bc classic snl respect of playing live etc on snl....vs some hack out there to collect a check and have kids going "the album versions better trust me" to their parents...."cant play live...or do a sound check right" eat shit as far as im concern....ramones always #1 snl and again not a huge ramones fan...just another prime example of "not blowing it on snl" at its best....all those damn mics and band members though with arcade fire ro sound that good....rappers and wanna be rock bands with 3-5 chords of progression will sound exactly like the terrible shit it is im glad
@@itsadamtruitt as a shitty musician who had a PA in high school my band got invited to all the shows where they needed a PA, so I've mixed lots of crappy bands and a few tight ones. I can say the number one thing that makes a band sound well-mixed is their musicianship and how tight they are. I've seen setups where a band sounded horrible then the next act came out on the exact same equipment and sounded incredible.
True story.
Analog
I must be the luckiest bastard in the world. Born in 1961. I remember the Beatles, early years of high school was Disco dancing. Late High School and early college I was there for Punk and New Wave. Early rap in the mid 80's. I was 29 in 1990 at the start of the Grunge movement. Wow. I never realized how much I was enjoying it all until recently. I still seek out interesting music and the picking are getting slim.
Obey The Law check out this new London band called black midi and another UK band called Idles they’re both awesome
Modern new wave of music is bladee, and best modern rock bands are title fight, pretty sick, portrayal of guilt, the Chats, and an Autumn for Crippled Children. This coming from someone who loves all the types of music you mentioned(besides disco lol:p)
@@bananaboydan3642 can't say enough good things about Idles
Goldd but title fight hasn’t released anything since 2015 :(
Music sucks now compared to the 90s. We need new groups like the Pumpkins and Nirvana to bring rock back to life.
I was 15 when this aired.
Im 40 now. kind of crazy. billy made me buy a strat that year..I still play that beauty every day.
Brian Christie I was 14.
420mastah I was 13.
@A A so was David Duchovny
40 y/o here too. something magical about the pumpkins. this and waynes world were the 90s suburban kids' required learning.
Not too late of you haven't to start a band. My bassist is 42 and a microbiologist. I've been playing in anf out of bands for 15 years and I'm 32.
Billy’s love for music (and especially his guitar) shines through in this footage!
Alex Xander Jesus your beauty shines through my eyes you are very pretty ! what's up (:
God...they sound almost perfect. The soundboard and mix here is superb.
I caught an SNL performance in person once (not SP, Wilco). I can attest that the mix was probably the best I have ever heard for a live rock performance.
His vocals are always a little rough live, but they're still fun to see. I remember seeing them at Maxwell's in New Jersey back in 1991 at the recommendation of a friend who was living in Chicago at the time. They didn't disappoint. I was a fan from that night on. Gish and Siamese Dream are still a couple of my all time favorite albums.
i thought they were playing along to the recording. it actually confused me for a second. damn good mix and performance i agree
@@apathyvideo4816
Wilco could play in an outhouse and have the mix and acoustics sound incredible.
@@mathien1985 I was thinking the same thing. FFS man what happened to music? The music world is overdue for another revolution.
Judging by Billy's hair, this must have been around the time that he was A LIIIIITTTLLEE BOOOOOOYYYYYYYY
😂
genius 10/10
@@yyguuyg Pull up your crooked teeth; you'll be perfect just like me.
Tell me all of your secrets.....
so old in his shoes
06:44-11:18 Cherub Rock
19:31-24:01 Cherub Rock
29:09-32:13 Today
34:14-37:17 Today
DonQuixote this was I think before corgan became an ass hat
Thank you!
ty bro
K R how did he become an ass hat?
@@kreed1004 LOL nicely put
Cherub Rock starts at 6:41 Take 2 at 19:29 Today starts at 29:00 Take 2 at 34:06
for what is supposed to be just a practice rehearsal, they sound incredible. tight and visceral. goes to show their musical prowess, when it was actually the 4 of them together.
check out the REM rehearsals for "shiny happy people" on SNL...
they are not really my bag, but they are amazing. stunning!
@@toddinthemiddle sure thing! I will do that. not the biggest REM fan, but they were great musicians. outstanding band
@@kristopherryanwatson now, I need to go watch it again 😎👍
30yrs later. I just realized. His name is Bill
Sometimes I wish I lived in America in the 90s to see the Pumpkins live. You guys are so lucky.
@YellowOnline was it Glastonbury?
Corgan’s guitar playing is always so tight.
Like ur mums cookie
cannot express my love for this band enough. what a great band, chemistry, sound, everything.
those were the days ...saw them a few months later in Holland & they crushed the day + Festival with 100,000 people attending .
Their sound is everything!!
I love it too but the band is centered around Corgan. Much like the way Nirvana was centered around Cobain. Both assembled the perfect band for their thing. Chamberlin on drums was probably the bands greatest asset.
I'd forgotten how good the solo was. Billy absolutely murders it. What a band.
He nails it best at 22:22 IMHO - the 9:39 one he was still warming up
"Guy with Headset" was the best host ever.
Dude kills it every time.
i love his joyless clapping
He was just doing it to simulate the audience doing it after they announce the band.
Longtime "SNL" stage manager Joe Dicso, who had the job from the original premiere in '75 until retiring on the June '96 finale -- which had Jim Carrey as host. (In fact, the lady who succeeded Joe has been in the job ever since Sep. '96)
From what I understand, he'd pronounce the band names wrong from time to time.
This must be among the coolest videos on TH-cam
I love how Jimmy grabs the drum key to tune his low tom after just ONE song. That guy was (and still is judging by his newer jazz work) incredible. And just as some "extra credit" you can hear how the drums even for live TV are stereo-panned with the low tom hard left. SO that makes the recorded panning musician-orientation instead of audience-orientation in case anyone has some bets to win or lose on that question.
Ah look a drummer that was awesome back then and is still awesome today. Amazing drummer 💖
This is priceless! It should be kept in a museum.
OMG. This is such an awesome /breathtaking rehearsal /concert /whatever you want to call it. Thank you Pumpkins!
Cheers for posting this... very valuable and important footage... love this band in any incarnation... but love This particular line up more.
Thanks for posting this. I watched every minute and it brought me right back to college.
Real good sound for such an old vid. The music is still so amazing. I'm still in love with D'Arcy and the guitars -wonderful. Thank you so much for the upload.
I always loved Jimmy Chamberlin's flow on the drums. Very inspirational.
Billo1281 He often made drumming look effortless.
Billo1281 Dude... Fuck yeah
Yeah, that comes hand-in-hand with being the best fucking drummer on the motherfucking planet.
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look up Danny Carey
This is what you use your good headphones for.
The greatest ever just at the brink of stardom. Thank you for this!
It is a raw performance that just blows me away. This is awesome to watch and wish I could see some great new bands live that play like this. Its like I went back in time to when I first bought the album.
Wow, it's crazy to think in only a few hours River Phoenix would OD and then the following April we'd lose Kurt. So much amazing music during this time and so much heartache.
Dude so true.
I actually drove by that night and saw the OD of R. phoenix.....my brother and friends went to a halloween party in LA, that night...right down the street.
I lived through this, nobody gives a fuck. Stop with the fucking celebrity worship.
We didn’t know what we had
@@johnscanlon2598 The coroner did-they did a tox scan on him.
20:53 D'Arcy's voice
Sounds like a highschool first alto singing in choir. It is kind charming.
they play Cherub Rock so effortlessly & with so much power that it’s almost scary
Yeah full blast stage energy and don't seem at all phased
The way Iha stabs at the strings has always intrigued me.
Yep. Weird picking style.
I had someone claiming to be a doctor examine my prostate once, turned out he wasn't a doctor at all..
@@TheMaxKids Corgan's picking style is wierd too, on some of the most recent lives his hands strums in a backwards wave motion.
In the early 90s I would watch SNL music performances from the 70s and they seemed so aged, from a time I saw as so long ago, historic. Damn. This 1993 footage now seems ancient to somebody else, and really, it kinda is. Damn.
It's a crappy VHS footage. It's analogue, it degrades. Digital footage today will not age as badly.
Yeah the VHS quality is what makes it look dated. If the quality was better it could pass for something films recently. Maybe because I feel that the clothing and hairstyles could pass in modern times while clothing from the 70s really looks dated.
@@winterlynn9012 Clothing from the '90s looks dated lol.
We're old. Ha ha!
But man, I don't FEEL old...
"Stand by please!"
Billy - "Sorry..." lol
This brings back so many great memories. My favorite band of all time.
90's music was incredible and there will never be anything like it again.
Thank you, amazing footage...
This is the best recording live I’ve heard the bass drums hit way harder , thank you for this
I remember watching that episode. I was excited and wanted to show the group to some friends who were still into hair metal. They hated them and I was wtf. They thought they wouldn't go anywhere but the bands that they were into were the ones that disappeared into obscurity.
Thank you for uploading this!!!!!!!
This is so cool! Love seeing behind the scenes.
Thanks for uploading this!
Sounds really good, very clear and balanced. Just figured when I saw the flickering crackle of VHS at the start that it would sound terrible.
omg thank u so much for this....i'm in tears now...
same
I'm in my pyjamas
This is very cool to see! What a time capsule of a moment in 1993!
Just to think that bands like the Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, ...were once mainstream, and thus were on every radio and every bar PA all over the world makes me very nostalgic.
@Vincent Mileto far left? What are you soming, dude? 😂😂😂
they are the modern day zeppelin in terms of radio play. pumpkins are still in normal rotation on mainstream classic and modern rock stations.
Now we have terrible rap everywhere. Not even good rap. Rock is soft now. We need harder rock. Sometimes I'll blast slayer to counteract the softness.
Joe Tavarez good thinking.
So much better than the crap on today.. Ha ha! I think LITERALLY every generation feels the way I do.
I AM becoming my parents! Ahhhhhh!!!!!
man i was 21, i was really not into the whole thing that was going on at the time. i was very frustrated that everything underground "music, films, comics" was exploding into the main stream and getting over exposed. now its like i took a nap and my whole life just passed by and the things i was irritated by seem so trivial. and everything feels so much worse than it was back then.
The audio is remarkably good on this old tape.
yeah, i gave up with the video. I just listened
Hi-Fi at its best
analogue sound is great. analogue video not so much.
Even VHS Hi-Fi was very good in the 6 hr mode.
I was thinking the same thing. When I record stuff at concerts with my phone it always sounds like shit.
No clue how you got this footage and don't care. AWESOME to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Billy, I’ve never told you directly but your vocals on SD are untouched and have changed my life. I love this raw SNL rehearsal shit it’s actually some of my favorite smashing pumpkins
Man, I feel like I traveled through the space-time continuum. This recording makes me happy for so many reasons. Thanks so much for the upload.
That's the truth ... amazing!
dude, this is mixed like it could have been on an official release... amazing!
Thank you for preserving this!
26:15 "Hmm ok, I just play and do everything subconsciously" - D'arcy
Wonderful. Thanks.
why are these guitar tones the most beautiful sounds that mankind has ever made
They just ripped that song and at 11:17 went right back to looking around and talking like that didn't happen. Freaking magic.
It's not magic. It's a shit load of repetitious hard work to get to that point.
@@thetranya3589 It's both
I still have this SNL performance recorded off TV on a VHS! crazy to see the rehearsals. hope more get released
Nice to see the camera on DAarcy longer than most videos, I can watch her all day long!
I was never a big Strat sound fan. Always wondered why I loved the Pumpkins guitar sound. Then realized James plays a Les Paul so the mix of them sound great to my ears. Love Billy's style though.
also Lace Sensor pickups in the Strat adds to the difference...
Back when The Smashing Pumpkins first debuted I was about 10 years old but I knew they were something special I didn't realize 26 years later they would have such an impact on music or even be around I am so glad they did!
Thanks for posting !!!!!
this music, this time period and vibe cannot be duplicated today
Just watch me
I was 11 in '93. I remember this episode. Look at Billy Corgan! He had hair! Good old days.
Hell, yeah. I was born in 82.
@@hacksdp3 sweet Jesus! 👏👏👏
sound production is really good here!
I really loved the pumpkins. Special time in my life all around.
Those drums are absolutely iconic. Eo strange seeing a live recording of them
I still have a copy of this live performance on VHS. I watched it so much. The entire show was great. Halloween episode. Christian Slater hosted. Chris Farley was a gigantic pumpkin. Smashing Pumpkins fucking slaughtered. One of the greatest SNL episodes ever.
One of the few shows where you actually perform live which is always nice
love James' playing...saw them back in the day.. Im going to see them in Montreal again this summer!
back when they still mixed guitar nice and loud into everything, soundwise
There will never be a better time than the 90's.
SP were and still are the best band of their era - their ferocity, competency and vulnerability were what set them apart from their peers - Corgan is a genius on the guitar (that TONE!!!) and Chamberlin is hands down flawless - this moment of their career was truly special - I had a hard time following them from here on out, as they only ever occasionally were able to re-create this magic, but capturing lightning in a bottle is no easy task for any band - I'm so thankful for this video, and D'arcy's bass sounds positively crushing and monstrous!!!
in other words, they started sucking live...which they did when I saw them in 94
Thanks for sharing this video.....the SP in 1993 with D'Arcy still in the band....so good, miss this era of the SP.
Pavement my dude
Jane's Addiction 88-91 was lightening in a bottle. SP's came close.
You got that right ! This is magic! .....
Some editing may have been helpful... but in any case, thanks for putting this up. Fun stuff!
I was waist deep in college studying civil engineering back in the 90s. I would crank this album along with 5 others in my 6 disc CD player and work on thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, soils and steel design homework. I'm a C- student but God man...I feel like an absolute genius when I listen to this stuff today.
Bill Schlafly . And they call you "Shaky 🌉 Bridges".
Lol
Did it end up being the right career path?
there's an organic magic about watching SP live that few other bands can emulate...Tool and Steely Dan maybe. I listened to this through my phone and it was still pure and incredible.
Wow!! Thanks for sharing
Sensational, even for a rehearsal! x
I miss guitar music
There's a good amount of non-mainstream stuff out there
it's still out there, just get off your ass and find it
Check out the new Big Wreck guitar heaven
It is too bad mainstream is just a synonym for truly awful nowadays. But yea... There is definitely decent non mainstream music still.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The bass is sweet on this. In fact its all wonderful.
Being on a TV show set is no glamour. I appreciate the hard work of all these people sweating their asses off to make a show happen, band included.
Loved SNL. And this band. Wonderful music. Iconic.
I love how much stank he puts on those lead octaves at the beginning of cherub here
God I miss old Smashing Pumpkins
great upload..tks
what a piece of art this video!
What made their sound so cool was the wall of sound. You had everyone in the band basically playing the same thing. They would just get behind the root notes and create a rhythm that kept going without any breaks. The rhythm was relentless. It was so different from the rhythm of the 1980's in which the guitarist would maybe do a few downstrokes with his chords and leave empty space all over the place. They would let one chord ring out for too long. So much space. All they cared about was playing their solo. The only thing keeping the groove going was the bass. Rhythm guitar was so shitty in the 1980's. In fact, you could barely hear it in many hit songs from that era. Not so with Smashing Pumpkins. Their rhythm had no empty space. They filled up all of the space. It was really kind of a revolutionary thing. It's almost as if the guitarist were playing the drums with his guitar, if that makes any sense. I started playing guitar in 1992 and Smashing Pumpkins played a major role in the way I play guitar.
Just in case anyone wanted to hear the greatest guitar solo in the history of Rock music, it begins at 22:24
yes! it blows me away! had to go back and rewatch a few times.
Not near my top 50, but I love it. Its awesome. Maybe around 75 🤔
@@flipjupiter1 A+ for expression and execution, C+ for melodic inventiveness. But hey, it's a Pumpkins song.
ehhhhhhhhh
Oh man this takes me back to high school! I miss the 90’s!
me too buddy
That greenhouse fan in the third window is iconic; this music stage, and the similar one from 1990-1993 were so cool.
Awesome travel in time. Great then, great now!
Darcys bass tone here is killer
@A A her ass was so plump back then.
Poor d’arcy .. I feel for her
Listening through headphones-those guitar and bass tones are killer.
Glad I got to see them play live...
They were always so tight live
The guitar harmony is heaven.
And with their new tour, I will be seeing them live in July 2018!! Can't wait!
last great decade of music.
and these guys were FAR better than nirvana.
Far better
Yep.
different genre. so i mean in that sense its 100 times better than the beatles and Led Zeppelin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯