Soundcheck Pumpkins
Whilst I really like recorded music and performances, what I love more than anything are rehearsals. Much as I like the finished product, it's the development that fascinates.
Someone put this on YouTube. Billy and the band working on a new song during a soundcheck.
I love it. Not just the basic riff, the whole long, meandering improv thing, the Hendrix-esque guitar sound, the fact that it's a soundcheck and they don't seem to have turned his mike on for vocal levels, but just for the glimpse of how he works and develops ideas.
I have a sinking feeling that, even if this makes it onto the tour, it won't make it onto the next album without being produced to death.
Somewhere along the line they'll clean it up and it won't sound like he's channeling Jimi through his fretboard.
I was playing Machina and Gish in the car the other day, although it's winter and Machina, for me, is better in the summer with the roof down. I like them as albums, but they don't stop me in my tracks or make my jaw drop. Hearing this little clip did. All the layering and mixing in the studio detracts from just how stunning I find him on a guitar. I know there are technically better players than him, but the feeling and emphasis he brings to his playing is more appealing to my ears.
I wish someone would tell him to leave it unfinished from time to time. And while they're at it, can someone tell him to eat more, get some rest and have a massage. This is a man who managed to look about 20 in some photos from last year, so when he appears looking his age now...
...I'd do it myself but I don't have his number.
(Oh, and if anyone knows where I can get the rest of this....comments...
Someone put this on YouTube. Billy and the band working on a new song during a soundcheck.
Click to viewI love it. Not just the basic riff, the whole long, meandering improv thing, the Hendrix-esque guitar sound, the fact that it's a soundcheck and they don't seem to have turned his mike on for vocal levels, but just for the glimpse of how he works and develops ideas.
I have a sinking feeling that, even if this makes it onto the tour, it won't make it onto the next album without being produced to death.
Somewhere along the line they'll clean it up and it won't sound like he's channeling Jimi through his fretboard.
I was playing Machina and Gish in the car the other day, although it's winter and Machina, for me, is better in the summer with the roof down. I like them as albums, but they don't stop me in my tracks or make my jaw drop. Hearing this little clip did. All the layering and mixing in the studio detracts from just how stunning I find him on a guitar. I know there are technically better players than him, but the feeling and emphasis he brings to his playing is more appealing to my ears.
I wish someone would tell him to leave it unfinished from time to time. And while they're at it, can someone tell him to eat more, get some rest and have a massage. This is a man who managed to look about 20 in some photos from last year, so when he appears looking his age now...
...I'd do it myself but I don't have his number.
(Oh, and if anyone knows where I can get the rest of this....comments...