The Smashing Pumpkins Archive Project

[billycorgan]

The SP archive project, for which we don't yet have an official nom de plume, is now fully underway. People are being hired, wired, and fired up with this insane pile of stuff to go through. The main focus of our tape transfers is to take any materials from 1985-1994 that are relevant to the Gish, Siamese Dream, or Pisces Iscariot albums and get

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[divinelybereft]

Don't buy in, Billy. Money is no friend of mine.

Enjoy yourself!

[nunsarelame]

this is an awesome idea

[nakedmen]

My love for SP comes back very often when I check for Youtube videos of old performances.

My favorite "bootleg" ever was the Arising Tour songs around 2000 before Machina was released. Songs like Virex, Dross, Speed Kills, Wound, were amazing. NOT to insult Machina at all or what the songs turned into, just that the performances were so great.

My point is it's extremely unfortunate that none of these are on Youtube anywhere. I REALLY REALLY hope they're released at some point. I know the recordings are locked somewhere in the vault and it would make the best live album ever. I humbly hope they consider it.

Oh hell yes

[farsea]

I'd pay good money for such a collection. and yeah, i still buy CDs and I would LEAP at the chance to buy this on CD. Vinyl is special, but I don't have any gear to play it...so yeah, I'd need a CD ;) of course if it only came out in vinyl, I'd still buy it. I've bought all the TBK vinyl so far.

Product 19 - 1985

[csos360]

Thought this might be slightly related at best - Len (singer) mentioned in a journal from 2005 - (http://billycorgan.livejournal.com/13518.html)

To hear the Product 19 tape referenced - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=product+19+chicago+punk&aq=2&oq=product+19