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Rick Nielsen

Richard Alan Nielsen (born December 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist and primary songwriter of American rock band Cheap Trick.
Nielsen and Cheap Trick have performed alongside The Smashing Pumpkins several times, and Nielsen provided additional guitar on the Pumpkins track "Blissed and Gone". Billy Corgan also used a white Hamer guitar during the Machina sessions that was given to him by Nielsen.Christopher Scapelliti, "Machina Shop: The Tools of Billy Corgan and James Iha's Trade", Guitar World, April 2000.
== Album appearances ==
* Live At The Riviera – (1995 bootleg of The Smashing Pumpkins) – guitar on Cheap Trick covers, from the October 23, 1995 performance
* Paraphernalia by (1999 Enuff Z'Nuff album) – writer of "Everything Works if You Let It", which Corgan played lead guitar on
*Judas O (2001 The Smashing Pumpkins compilation) – additional guitar on "Blissed and Gone"
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Rick Rubin

Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records. Rubin is probably best known for helping popularize hip-hop music with artists like Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy and Run-DMC. In 2007, MTV called him "the most important producer of the last 20 years",What's Up With That Bearded Guy From The '99 Problems' Video? – MTV.com and the same year Rubin appeared on Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Rubin first worked with The Smashing Pumpkins on "Let Me Give the World to You" in 1998, then later on Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. and Billy Corgan's second solo album, Ogilala.
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Ring of the Shadow

"Ring of the Shadow" is a song by The Marked, with Billy Corgan on vocals. In the early recordings, most vocals are whispered and incomprehensible.
In October 2021, Billy Corgan performed the song at the William Patrick Corgan Early Years 1985-1990 residency at Madame ZuZu's. The lyric book that was handed out at these shows indicate the song was written in 1986.
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Riviera Theater

The Riviera Theatre is a concert venue located on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. Among several shows, The Smashing Pumpkins have played release party for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness at this venue. Later they used the venue to rehearse for the The Sacred and Profane tour and recorded some demos, including the David Essex "Rock On" that was included on Judas O compilation.
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Robin Zander

Robin Wayne Zander (born January 23, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist. He is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick, but is also a solo artist. Billy Corgan joined Zander and other members of Cheap Trick on stage occasionally throughout the years. He and Corgan both appeared as guest musicians on the First Love, Last Rites soundtrack.
Rock Invasion 2 tour

The Rock Invasion 2 tour was The Smashing Pumpkins' first proper tour since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A tour sharing the same name was originally scheduled for spring 2020 in the United States, but had to be cancelled for safety reasons. Only two of the originally booked cities (Greensboro, NC and Memphis, TN) received a rescheduled show. The tour included four festival dates: Beale Street Music Festival, Beachlife Festival, Welcome to Rockville, and Summer Camp Music Festival.
The May 24th date at Portsmouth, Virginia was cancelled due to "non-covid illness". The venue website said the band was "deeply saddened but this decision was not made easily and was far beyond their control."
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Rock On

"Rock On" is a cover of David Essex's 1973 hit performed by The Smashing Pumpkins on Judas O. The song was recorded live and is the only known Smashing Pumpkins recording to feature bassist Melissa Auf der Maur.Billy Corgan, October 28, 2020 Instagram Q&A The recording took place at a rehearsal show on April 6, 2000 at the Riviera Theater in ChicagoBilly Corgan, October 30, 2020 Instagram Q&A and features lyrical interpolations from Van Halen's "And the Cradle Will Rock..." and "Everybody Wants Some!!"
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Roctopus

"Roctopus" is an instrumental song by The Smashing Pumpkins that first appeared live in November 2008 during the 20th Anniversary Tour. The song is entirely a drum solo by Jimmy Chamberlin, however the BMI database credits Billy Corgan as the sole songwriter.BMI Repertoire database No studio recording is known to exist, however live recordings from the soundboard were released on Live Smashing Pumpkins.
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Roseland Ballroom

The Roseland Ballroom was a multipurpose hall, in a converted ice skating rink, with a colorful ballroom dancing pedigree, in New York City's theater district, on West 52nd Street in Manhattan.
For concerts, the venue accommodated 3,200 standing (with an additional 300 upstairs). In addition to hosting The Smashing Pumpkins and other musical acts, the venue hosted Hillary Clinton birthday party, annual gay circuit parties, and movie premieres.
On October 18, 2013, it was announced that the venue would close on April 7, 2014. Lady Gaga completed a short residency as the last performer before the Roseland Ballroom closed.
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Rotten Apples (song)

"Rotten Apples" is a song from the box set The Aeroplane Flies High, originally released on the "Tonight, Tonight" single and later on the band's Rarities and B-Sides compilation. Corgan has since said that "Rotten Apples" was "probably one of the best songs [he] ever recorded",Wild, David. "The Aeroplane Flies Higher Than Ever: A Return Trip Into Mellon Collie's Existential Backwater", The Aeroplane Flies High 2013 reissue liner notes and that he regrets not spending more time on the song.Corgan, Billy. "Aeroplane Track by Track", The Aeroplane Flies High 2013 reissue liner notes
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Run2me

"Run2me" is the fourth single from The Smashing Pumpkins' ninth studio album Monuments to an Elegy. The accompanying music video was premiered on Vulture.com on October 22, 2015.
==Song description==
Most music critics noted the song's deviating from the band's traditional guitar sound. In his review of the album, Spins Andrew Unterberger compared the song to the work of synthpop duo Erasure. Speculating on possible influences, the Rolling Stone's Dan Hallman characterised the song as "Killers-ish". In similar vein, Drowned In Sound's Andrzej Lukowski described the track as a "blippy homage to Corgan’s beloved New Order". In contrast, Consequence of Sound's Michael Roffman likened the track to the band's previous album Oceania.
==Background and recording==
The song was featured on several preliminary track listings for the album posted on the band's website.
The final version that appears on the album seems to be considerably different from its early demo version. In an update on the recording process posted on the band's website on April 14, 2014, Billy Corgan described the song's sound as being more Big Country than The Smashing Pumpkins, with producer Howard Willing criticising the "80s drums" on the track, triggering a process of "deconstruction". In a later update on May 16, Corgan described "stripping away previous guitars so that all that was left were [..] drums and [...] bass", then adding an "arpeggiated figure" reminiscent of The Who's "Baba O'Riley" as well as strings reminiscent of the band's own song "Tonight, Tonight". On June 18, 2014, Corgan announced the song as being "done" in another recording update on the band's website.
== Music video==
Directed by longtime Corgan collaborator Linda Strawberry, the music video features "magical orbs, eerie incantations, and mysterious hooded women". Strawberry elaborated on the video's narrative: "The Magician is symbolic of transition and inspiration, while the protagonist in the video is afraid of who she is about to become, she learns, accepts and then lets go of whatever was holding her back."
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The Guardians Kitty Empire noted the song "glides past appealingly" while "[crying] out for a Euro-rave remix". In similar fashion, Drowned In Sounds Andrzej Lukowski described the song as "gorgeous". Consequence of Sound's Michelle Geslani even called the song a "standout" of the album.
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SOMA San Diego

SOMA is a concert venue in the Midway neighborhood of San Diego, California, adjacent to the San Diego Sports Arena. It has been described as San Diego's "leading all-ages venue for punk and alternative-rock concerts."
In 1994, SOMA moved to a warehouse on Metro Street, which is the location The Smashing Pumpkins performed at during a two-night run in January 1996. That venue closed in 1999, and reopened in 2002 at its current location.
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SPFC

The Smashing Pumpkins Fan Collaborative (SPFC for short) is one of the oldest and most comprehensive databases cataloging The Smashing Pumpkins and related acts, which ruled supreme as the authority on SP for decades. Much of the data you see here on SPCodex was imported from them, with permission. At the bottom of every article, a link to SPFC is available where applicable, nodding our heads to their hard work that helped get SPCodex off the ground. We offer our endless thanks to them and wish the site continues to serve the family for many years to come.
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SPRC Downloads

SPRC Downloads is a collection of songs by The Smashing Pumpkins that were released in late 2011 through the Smashing Pumpkins Record Club on the band's official site. 
== Track listing ==
Most songs were released individually, except "Frail and Bedazzled" which was exclusive to the SPRC Welcome Package. This package was given to those who pre-ordered the Gish or Siamese Dream re-issues through the official website.
== Release history ==
The release mentioned below is for the SPRC Welcome Package, which did not include "Have Faithe, Be Merrie". See more release information at SPFC.
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SP on the Radio 1988-89 / Starchildren Live 8.18.90

SP on the Radio 1988-89 / Starchildren Live 8.19.90 is a two LP archival release from Madame ZuZu's that documents early radio performances by The Smashing Pumpkins, as well as the August 18, 1990 performance by the Billy Corgan-led side project, Starchildren. The album was announced on May 6, 2024,https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ofalYseMq/ and released May 11 for online and in-store purchase. 1,800 copies were pressed on glass-colored vinyl, with 100 copies autographed by Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin which quickly sold out,https://www.instagram.com/p/C61fsLkL7my/ with reports of Shopify being unable to handle the influx of international orders.Madame ZuZu's. May 11, 2024 Instagram story: "Our online store is having technical difficulty … We have added 50 autographed versions due to the technical difficulty we experienced from Shopify"
== SP on the Radio 1988-89 ==
The SP on the Radio portion of the release documents some of the earliest recordings of The Smashing Pumpkins, back when Jimmy Chamberlin had only recently been recruited to the band. Some tracks even make use of a drum machine. These recordings were submitted to Chicago college radio stations WZRD and WNUR. While bootlegs have existed of the songs that aired on WZRD, SP on the Radio was pressed from the pre-broadcast tapes. The recordings are among the first, if not the very first, examples of The Smashing Pumpkins performing live on FM radio.https://madamezuzus.com/products/xxxx
== Starchildren Live 8.19.90 ==
Starchildren was an early side project of Billy Corgan that performed a few live shows from 1990 to 1994, each usually featuring a different lineup of band members with only Corgan having constant involvement. Starchildren Live 8.19.90 documents the August 18, 1990 performance at the Metro which featured Corgan on guitar and Jimmy Chamberlin on bass playing to a drum machine. The show was recorded by Mike Rubano, who recorded many of the band's shows in the early years, some of which appeared on the previous archive releases The Rubano Tapes Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
The release features four songs written by Corgan that were previously unknown to fans: "Past Midnight", "Faeding", "Lolly" and "Reasons To Shine". The final Starchildren track, "Blue Light", was previously performed live by The Smashing Pumpkins on March 30, 1990.
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Sacred and Profane (Berlin song)

"Sacred and Profane" is a song by American new wave band Berlin from their 2002 album, Voyeur. It was co-written by Billy Corgan.
Berlin singer Terri Nunn collaborated with Corgan while working on Voyeur. Nunn told Rolling Stone, "I played him three songs we were working on and he said, 'Wow, that's really good. I could do something with that.' And it happened to be called 'Sacred and Profane'." Nunn went on to say the song was influenced by Michael Hutchence of INXS.
Despite the title, there doesn't appear to be a direct connection to "The Sacred and Profane" by The Smashing Pumpkins. The title is also the name of Berlin's 2000 live album, Live: Sacred and Profane. "Sacred and Profane" is said to have began as a "rough draft" that was reworked with help from Billy Corgan.
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Sad Peter Pan

"Sad Peter Pan" is a cover song by The Smashing Pumpkins of Vic Chesnutt. It was recorded in autumn 1995 at Soundworks Studio and was first released on Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation and later on the Rarities and B-Sides compilation. It was recorded with members of Chicago-based alternative rock band Red Red Meat.
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Samantha

"Samantha" is a song by Hole that was co-written together by Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, and Linda Perry. The song was originally planned to be the lead single for Nobody's Daughter, but ultimately was not released even as a single reputedly due to the controversy over its composition. It did however have an official music video, directed by Pablo Ganguli and Alphan Eseli.
== Background ==
"Samantha" is one of twenty-six original songs that Courtney Love wrote following her six-month lockdown in rehab in September 2005 after violating drug probation. With additional musical input from Billy Corgan and Linda Perry, the song was composed and recorded in 2006, and later reworked the 2008-2009 recording sessions for Nobody's Daughter.
As on Hole's "Celebrity Skin", Billy Corgan composed the main guitar riff to "Samantha" whilst rehearsing with Love at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. Corgan's lead guitar recording, originally featured on a studio version of the song, was omitted from the final mix by Love and replaced with a cello. Corgan has claimed that the song, along with others such as "Pacific Coast Highway", cannot be released without his approval, saying that he "has not signed off on any of those songs" and "so it would be a real big problem." "Pacific Coast Highway" was eventually released as a single, indicating that Corgan's issue may have been resolved.
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Sarabande

"Sarabande" is the fourth movement of George Frideric Handel's larger "Keyboard suite in D minor" that was played at Smashing Pumpkins live performances in 2019 as both the intro and outro music. Only the first minute and a half was used.
The sarabande is traditionally the music written for a dance in triple metre. Handel's version was composed for solo harpsichord at some point between 1703 and 1706 and first published in 1733. It has been used in numerous pieces of modern pop culture, perhaps most notably in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film Barry Lyndon and an early 2000s commercial for Levi’s.
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Saturnine

"Saturnine" (sometimes listed as "Satur9") is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was released on their sixth studio album, Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music. It was an outtake from Adore that was rerecorded during the Machina sessions.
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These lyrics were transcribed from the Adore version.
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Save Me

"Save Me" is an obscure song from James Iha. Based on the BMI number (3871426), it was registered during the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness era,http://repertoire.bmi.com/DetailView.aspx?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=False&blnAltTitles=False along with other Iha-penned songs such as "The Bells", "The Boy", and his solo album.
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Schwa Productions

Schwa Productions was a recording studio in Chicago, and is where The Smashing Pumpkins' first demo tape was recorded. The owner was Paul Chabala, who was engineer for the self-titled demo album. He was also a regular sound assistant at the Avalon Niteclub, where the Pumpkins frequently performed at in their early days. In the banter of the August 10, 1988 performance – the first with bassist D'arcy Wretzky – Billy Corgan can be heard thanking Chabala. It was at this show that the two met.
The studio existed at the North Lincoln Ave location for about three years.
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* The Smashing Pumpkins (1989)
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Screamer

Screamer is a 2019 album by Third Eye Blind. It features the song "Light It Up" which was co-written by Billy Corgan. Corgan is also credited as the "musical consigliere" (advisor) for the album.
In an interview with The Cornwall Seeker, Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins told of his experience working with Corgan:
Exclaim! rated the album 8 out 10 stars, highlighting "Light Me Up" as applying an "alt-rock grind" to "the proggy post-rock power ballad with excellent results." Vinyl Chapters meanwhile considered the song the "true ballad of the album" that is "sure to be on future set lists for a much-needed singalong."
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Screaming

"Screaming" is an early song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was recorded during the fall 1988 sessions at Billy Corgan's father's home studio, before D'arcy Wretzky and Jimmy Chamberlin joined the band. The studio recording has never surfaced, however, and it was performed only once on August 10, 1988 at The Avalon, which was D'arcy's first show.
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See My Friends

See My Friends is a collaboration album by Ray Davies of English rock band The Kinks. Billy Corgan sings and plays guitar with Davies on the final track, which is a combination of the Kinks songs "All Day and All of the Night" and "Destroyer". Other artists featured on the album include Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Mumford & Sons among others.
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September-December 2009 – Pumpkinland II

The September-December 2009 – Pumpkinland II was the first set of recording sessions for the ongoing Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project, at Billy Corgan's brand new personal studio Pumpkinland II. With the intent of releasing one song per month for free over the course of 44 months, each song was recorded one at a time. The band now consisted of Billy Corgan, Mark Tulin on bass and Mike Byrne on drums.
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The goal was to release a new song each month for 44 consecutive months, giving each recording a unique sonic treatment. An old API recording console previously owned by The Doobie Brothers was used on the first song.Kerry Brown, glittercop blog, September 23, 2009
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Corgan played a 1961 Les Paul Junior Special through a Sound City Studio 20 amp.Kerry Brown, glittercop blog, September 14, 2009
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Mark Tulin was said to have played a 1963 Fender Jazz bass through a 1963 Ampeg Portaflex flip-top amp.
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Adapted from Kerry Brown's September 15, 2009 glittercop blog.Kerry Brown, glittercop blog, September 15, 2009
* An AKG D112 was used for the kick drum, positioned inside it about 3 inches from the beater. Outside the kick drum and about 4 inches from the head were a Beyer M88 TG and an AKG D30 (so-called the "Zep Mic" for achieving the huge kick drum sound used on many Led Zeppelin recordings).
* On the top of the snare, a Shure Sm57 and an AKG 414 EB were used, and an AKG 414 EB on the bottom.
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September-October 2014 – Pumpkinland II

The September-October 2014 Pumpkinland II sessions were for the eventually-abandoned Day For Night album. Meant as the dark and proggy sister to the light and poppy Monuments to an Elegy, Billy Corgan and Jeff Schroeder began the sessions by recording tentative B-sides for the Monuments singles (such as "Queen of the Meadow" and "Roustabout"). Using this as a warm up, the band moved on to the eight songs from the Monuments B-list as the core to Day For Night, then focusing on additional songs. After nearly three months of work, Corgan scrapped Day For Night entirely, deeming the material not up to standard, save a few songs. While "Burnt Orange Black" and "Cardinal Rule" were both performed live in 2015 and 2016 respectively, "The Spaniards" was re-recorded for Ogilala in 2016, "Solara" was re-recorded for Shiny and Oh So Bright in 2018, and "Ramona" and "Starrcraft" were re-recorded for 2020's CYR.Billy Corgan, October 17, 2020 Instagram Q&A
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Throughout the sessions, Corgan had reported several tentative tracklists for Day For Night. In September, the A-list songs were simply most of the B-list roll-overs from Monuments: "Burnt Orange Black", "Cardinal Rule", "Full Sail", "Overjoyed", "Solara" and "Toodle-Loo". In October, the list was refined as being: "Burnt Orange Black", "Cardinal Rule", "Full Sail", "Roustabout", "The Spaniards", "Calx", "Erstwhile", "Sword From The Stone" and "Theme For 9 Planets". By November, the A-list tracks had shifted again to: "Burnt Orange Black", "Cardinal Rule", "Full Sail", "Roustabout", "Calx", "Solara", "Magik, Magik (Everywhere)", "The Song That Shall Not Be Named" and "The Dauphine".
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September 12, 1993 – BBC Radio One

The September 12, 1993 BBC Radio One saw the recordings for the cover songs "Landslide" and "Never Let Me Down". This version of "Quiet" was released with the 2011 Siamese Dream reissue, while "Disarm" remains unreleased but available on bootlegs.
It was during this session that Billy Corgan finished writing "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" on an acoustic guitar, adding the noted "rat in a cage" chorus line.
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September 1996 – Penguin Studios and Chung King

The September 1996 sessions at Penguin Studios and Chung King Studios in New York is where Billy Corgan recorded tracks for the Ransom soundtrack. Recorded in about a week, this was just Billy Corgan and Matt Walker recording riffs. Corgan's scant vocals were recorded on a mini tape dictaphone recorder. These songs were curiously copyrighted as Parallel Stories. "Appels + Oranjes" made its first recorded appearance at this session.
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