to be more specific... for the ultimate corgan sound... just use what he used for Siamese Dream. Marshall JCM800 with KT88 tubes, all EQ rolled to full gain on full, use the post gain as volume... Fender Strat with Lace Sensor pickups with pickup switch set to position 2 (on a 5 way) high tone rolled to 3 and low tone rolled to 8. Fender Blender is a good octave/distortion box. Fuzzface. There ya go.
LOVE that bell sharp crisp tone of his guitar in the beginning. Fender on Fender...? This song brings back so many memories. Ahhh... Summer days of no responsibilities, baked out of my skull listening to Pisces Iscariot with friends long lost through the slipstream of existence. Man, getting old is fucked... but memories are precisely that.
The end part = One of the coolest things ever. I'd give anything to have gone to their concerts back then... Though they're still AMAZING live today, I saw them only three weeks ago, it totally blew me away!!! The crowd surfers are funny, I don't really see that happen these days much anymore, at least not to that extent. Through this live performance you can see that everyone was a lot more relaxed back then...
this version is kickin for real... : ) at the virgin festival billy said " this next one is a song i wrote during a period i was taking a lot of mushrooms. So if you're on mushrooms, this will sound good to you, and if you're not on em it will too." ha i always thought this was for sure one of if not the trippiest tune the pumpkins have....... 93 versions have so much more energy though, billy basically screaming every line, thats how i like my starla........... : )
a long time ago, for my English class, I had to present a song I like to my classmates & teacher, I choose that one. hehe, you guys can imagine their facial expression! aaaah! good times!
Amazing song..how I wish I could go back to 1991 to 1994 and go to these awesome gigs the pumpkins put on.. not as good these days live unfortunatley :(
Billy and the Pumkins prove they are on another level. Seeing the Pumpkins live a few times was some of the best times I've ever had. It's like The Velvet Underground and the Doors had a baby and that baby sweated pure MDMA and musical orgasms through it's pores.
Really wish Billy would have embraced the fact the he Is Smashing Pumpkins, rather than deciding he needed to Become Radiohead. It all went to Hell after (and during) Mellon Collie.
i was there 11/8 in greensboro, They played This very Awsome, and I also enjoyed "set the ray to jerry" They were so good, I also liked how the crowd was, So many tru fans, seemed like everyone knew every word allmost.
Sorry to add this in also, if you listen closely you can hear the octave pedal tracking bad in a couple of parts. It makes an odd "warbling" kind of sound where the pitch shifts back and forth from the input octave to the pedal produced shifted octave. Thats why I figured its probably the Fender Blender. But it does make a nice chimey doubled kind of sound.
It's hard to discern exactly effect it could be, but the chime is most likely from a Fender Blender octave/Fuzz pedal. Corgan used that effect a good bit. It basically shifts the octave 1 step higher and also adds the fuzz effect. Nice pedal, originals are kind of hard to come by though.
Don't forget the various pre-amps that he has used during various times. Gish: ADA MP-1 Siamese Dream : Marshall JMP-1 & Mesa-Boogie Tri-Axis. I'm not certain but the Mesa may have only come along for touring. Various changes after that.
djtopp: you must have had a really, really, REALLY similar memory to me. i so know what your saying and totally love this shit, and kind of wish time could stand still (and go back some years) to keep this awesome music alive!..
This was about the last point from the early/mid period of the band that he actually sang the vocal lines to songs properly. He spent the next 4 years screaming himself horse during most shows.
it's the b-side to the gish version of i am one. (not worth asking was the b-side to the origonal version). it was later released on pisces iscariot, which is a proper release of unproperly released songs. a compilation if you will. not a "real" album.
on the pieces album they recorded this song in chicago and if listen carefully you'll hear police sirons in the background they did it in one take fucking amazing song
@groovey65 If I remember correctly he said"..WE took lots of LSD..", not "they" or "the rest of the band". Maybe you're right, maybe not. Let's not argue about this. Let's agree that Starla is an amazing song from an amazing band, whether they were high or not.. :)
I agree with nirvanarugby...I really haven't heard any of SP's new stuff and I don't think I want to so not to ruin the SP I grew up with... Billy in a dress and all!!! I think I've seen SP about 10 times... best was at a club called the Ritz in Phoenix sometime in the 90's. Viva SP and Viva Morrissey!!!
You have to understand Billy is an artist and you can't stay in the same place emotionally, over the years you grow and you change, it's just part of life. It would be very boring as an artist to write the same style songs for twenty years and if Billy is anything like me my life depends on growth and change both musically and spiritually or I will die.
His sound can be achieved through fuzz pedals octaves and some reverb. but mostly fuzz. lotta fuzz distortion and old amps like vintage vox or something like that I recomend you buy the Fender octave fuzz stop box. its all you'll really need
@BLURCEG Dude, He's one of the most talented songwriters of my generation, and he highly messed up with the feelings of millions of people around the world with his art. I don't know him, I don't know if he's an asshole, and I don't care. In fact, he can be what he wants, because he's Mr Billy Fucking Corgan, we owe him for all the amazing work he has done. Amazingly talented people like him are not common person, they have special license to be whatever they want.
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Best song ever in the history of everything.
i can barely breathe.. this is such a brilliant version of this song..
When he cut his hair, he lost his evil powers. Let this be a lesson...
you cant trip acid in front of a crowd if you dont have hair to hide your eyes. Let this be a lesson
Male pattern baldness, there's only a couple of comb overs you can stomach before you shave the whole thing.
To be fair, he had medium-length hair in the videos for Siamese Dream, lol.
he had evil powers after he cut his hair
To disappear takes so much time.
No one else fails like me; in my eyes I burn alive.
Billy understands. He'll always be my zero.
I miss Billy on LSD...
to be more specific... for the ultimate corgan sound... just use what he used for Siamese Dream. Marshall JCM800 with KT88 tubes, all EQ rolled to full gain on full, use the post gain as volume... Fender Strat with Lace Sensor pickups with pickup switch set to position 2 (on a 5 way) high tone rolled to 3 and low tone rolled to 8. Fender Blender is a good octave/distortion box. Fuzzface. There ya go.
The whole Starla solo was recorded most likely with this Jaguar. Whammy bar all over that shit. So good!
god i love the way he pronounces his 'er' s. "heart" "disappear" etc
I like how he pronounces his “ire,” like “vampire” and “fire”
Best psychedelic rock song period
i just feel compelled to comment on how fucking badass these vids from '92 are. thanks
I remember this show... my god, has it been 17 years already?!
No, its been 28 😉
[cough]
Not 28 but 30 years now.
The song that sets the pumpkins apart from their peers. Thanks for posting this. Great Jaguar noise solo.
LOVE that bell sharp crisp tone of his guitar in the beginning. Fender on Fender...? This song brings back so many memories. Ahhh... Summer days of no responsibilities, baked out of my skull listening to Pisces Iscariot with friends long lost through the slipstream of existence. Man, getting old is fucked... but memories are precisely that.
This is a gem !!!
Maybe their best song, along with X.Y.U.
@wardcurry
I remember buying this with Plume & I Am One on it before Siamese Dream was being released. Well in advance actually.
The end part = One of the coolest things ever.
I'd give anything to have gone to their concerts back then... Though they're still AMAZING live today, I saw them only three weeks ago, it totally blew me away!!!
The crowd surfers are funny, I don't really see that happen these days much anymore, at least not to that extent. Through this live performance you can see that everyone was a lot more relaxed back then...
this version is kickin for real... : )
at the virgin festival billy said " this next one is a song i wrote during a period i was taking a lot of mushrooms. So if you're on mushrooms, this will sound good to you, and if you're not on em it will too."
ha i always thought this was for sure one of if not the trippiest tune the pumpkins have....... 93 versions have so much more energy though, billy basically screaming every line, thats how i like my starla........... : )
I am a grown man and can listen to anything I want. This video gets played on a regular basis. Magic at 5:52 and beyond.
a long time ago, for my English class, I had to present a song I like to my classmates & teacher, I choose that one. hehe, you guys can imagine their facial expression! aaaah! good times!
and a few hours after this song was performed, i was born at the santa monica hospital in los angeles, california. damn. i just missed it.
words cant even describe how fucking awesome this song is. its just beyond belief. .....wow
thank you for this coolasicecream! it made my day
One of the best SP songs. Fuck fuck fuck, I love this version.
Thanks for posting.
Amazing song..how I wish I could go back to 1991 to 1994 and go to these awesome gigs the pumpkins put on..
not as good these days live unfortunatley :(
Billy and the Pumkins prove they are on another level. Seeing the Pumpkins live a few times was some of the best times I've ever had. It's like The Velvet Underground and the Doors had a baby and that baby sweated pure MDMA and musical orgasms through it's pores.
Really wish Billy would have embraced the fact the he Is Smashing Pumpkins, rather than deciding he needed to Become Radiohead. It all went to Hell after (and during) Mellon Collie.
love this track play it everyday on the way to work.
i was there 11/8 in greensboro, They played This very Awsome, and I also enjoyed "set the ray to jerry" They were so good, I also liked how the crowd was, So many tru fans, seemed like everyone knew every word allmost.
Beautiful absolutely beautiful
Sorry to add this in also, if you listen closely you can hear the octave pedal tracking bad in a couple of parts. It makes an odd "warbling" kind of sound where the pitch shifts back and forth from the input octave to the pedal produced shifted octave. Thats why I figured its probably the Fender Blender. But it does make a nice chimey doubled kind of sound.
LUV the Pumpkins. Such talent, such creativity... And they make it look so easy! ROCK ON GUYS!
We can only hope for the era shows to bring us something like this...
this song is fuckin amazing... and the solo... masterpiece!
hehe, i can't believe i randomly stumbled across your vid here. i love this song though! Starla kicks ass! :D
It's hard to discern exactly effect it could be, but the chime is most likely from a Fender Blender octave/Fuzz pedal. Corgan used that effect a good bit. It basically shifts the octave 1 step higher and also adds the fuzz effect. Nice pedal, originals are kind of hard to come by though.
Don't forget the various pre-amps that he has used during various times.
Gish: ADA MP-1
Siamese Dream : Marshall JMP-1 & Mesa-Boogie Tri-Axis. I'm not certain but the Mesa may have only come along for touring.
Various changes after that.
Holy hell! Billy using a whammy bar! 6:53
Now, that's rare.
What a sound! Grunge!!!
Love this song, it's literally freaking awesome. Wish they'd write more stuff like this now......
djtopp: you must have had a really, really, REALLY similar memory to me. i so know what your saying and totally love this shit, and kind of wish time could stand still (and go back some years) to keep this awesome music alive!..
This was about the last point from the early/mid period of the band that he actually sang the vocal lines to songs properly. He spent the next 4 years screaming himself horse during most shows.
you can call me wrong but i think this is there best song ever..............
you're perhaps right
it's the b-side to the gish version of i am one. (not worth asking was the b-side to the origonal version). it was later released on pisces iscariot, which is a proper release of unproperly released songs. a compilation if you will. not a "real" album.
I love how most of the people I see posting old concert stuff from SP has a very SP inspired name to their YT channel.
+100 pumpkinyness ❤
I think the reason is that this guys were an almost perfect team....(the real fab four).You just take one out, and the magic is gone.
on the pieces album they recorded this song in chicago and if listen carefully you'll hear police sirons in the background they did it in one take fucking amazing song
pure rocking awesomeness....
my favorite pumpkins b-side EVER
@mjakephoto read the description... Chicago 07/24/92
I still love Ye Olde Pumpkins!
One day before I was born :O
Sensational song no question
i agree...the solo is so crazy and melodic
Very well written song. One of billy's best.
Just take your time and imagine about this alternate universe... What if Billy Corgan was one of the Beatles.
@djtopp
Very nicely put, my friend; and very true!!! :)
i love this song!!!!!
luv the ending..
The tone, my friend.
starla dear
fuckin quality pumpkins, you wouldnt see billy like that now. Bring back the old pumpkins!
holy shit this song is amazing. did billy break one of his own strings to create that effect at the end?
amazing song !
10 years since that comment of mine that I didn't expect to find here this Saturday morning I wanted to listen to this song.. still amazing song
I like the crowd.
Stoned right now, sir. YOU ARE CORRECT!!!!
@alternatehistories
I'm not certain that you have the cause and effect correctly postulated.
@groovey65
Then why does he say they took lots of LSD on the audio commentary to "Rhinoceros" on the DVD with all their commercial videos?!?
...i'll be waiting!
in my opinion best guitar solo in a alternative rock song.
He said he used it on Cherub Rock... Both of those albums used similar equipment anyway. Aside from the amps.
@groovey65
If I remember correctly he said"..WE took lots of LSD..", not "they" or "the rest of the band".
Maybe you're right, maybe not. Let's not argue about this. Let's agree that Starla is an amazing song from an amazing band, whether they were high or not.. :)
Apabullante,que guitarras! Billy Corgan los Dioses del Rock estan contigo :)
@bladerunner1b
I would give anything for that =( The pumpkins were the most epic band in the history of the universe when they were all tripping balls
I agree with nirvanarugby...I really haven't heard any of SP's new stuff and I don't think I want to so not to ruin the SP I grew up with... Billy in a dress and all!!! I think I've seen SP about 10 times... best was at a club called the Ritz in Phoenix sometime in the 90's. Viva SP and Viva Morrissey!!!
You have to understand Billy is an artist and you can't stay in the same place emotionally, over the years you grow and you change, it's just part of life. It would be very boring as an artist to write the same style songs for twenty years and if Billy is anything like me my life depends on growth and change both musically and spiritually or I will die.
Clapping at 3:50 . No one knows this song obviously .
Sooooooooo FFFFFnnnnngggg GOOD!
I wish he stayed with this style of singing
His sound can be achieved through fuzz pedals octaves and some reverb. but mostly fuzz. lotta fuzz distortion
and old amps like vintage vox or something like that
I recomend you buy the Fender octave fuzz stop box. its all you'll really need
I wish I had seen them before they split up. I'm sorry I missed them by a generation D=
well said!
WoW!!!
@Sikamikanico999 nope he never touched drugs! after his dad who was also a musician got addicted he vowed never to do them.
La puta madre, esta cancion y una buena mina... y si que vale la pena estar vivo...
Billy playing something other than a strat? unheard of.
Aah, I wish people still jump at concerts like that.
that was fucking awesome!
wish this was better quality
AMEN
8:38 yeah
@cheapy2006 just looked it up, Bernadette O'Brien. my bad
@TheSPumpkin100 1988-1990, the band's starting point. Look up "East" if you don't believe me. So yeah, your argument is invalid.
I'm proud to be born this year, along with my gf
Rofl, love the crowd surfer at 3:28
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-AMAZING
Yup
is that a jaguar?
And 96...
me too, i guess at that time i was playing lego in a kindergarten, damn =(
@BLURCEG Dude, He's one of the most talented songwriters of my generation, and he highly messed up with the feelings of millions of people around the world with his art. I don't know him, I don't know if he's an asshole, and I don't care. In fact, he can be what he wants, because he's Mr Billy Fucking Corgan, we owe him for all the amazing work he has done.
Amazingly talented people like him are not common person, they have special license to be whatever they want.
Although it sounds a tiny bit like the Gish era Pumpkins (something Billy wanted to avoid in SD) there is no reason why this shouldn't have graced SD.