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Billy Corgan Stratocaster

The Billy Corgan Signature Stratocaster was released in June 2008, after two decades of Billy Corgan devoting himself to Fender. Boasting a hardtail bridge, 1970s-style headstock, and three DiMarzio humbucker pickups, the guitar was "made to Corgan's exact specs to create his famous mid-’90s buzz-saw tone." Reportedly, he built it to re-create his Gish guitar which was stolen after a 1992 show.
Early prototypes of the guitar were used in recording Zeitgeist. During the Zeitgeist tour, he used his signature Strat "every night." Come the The Other Side of the Kaleidyscope tour (2011), he was using one of three all-white signature guitars. One had a "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" with an octopus sticker and was used for standard-tuned songs. Another used for E♭ tuning featured "76" / "BURBANK" stickers, while the third had a glittery "X" and several red Devo "energy dome" stickers used for songs in drop D.
The Billy Corgan Stratocaster was in production from 2008 through 2012, with its listing on their website removed by June 2012. In a 2018 Instagram Q&A, when asked if he'd work with Fender again, Corgan said "Never. They disrespected me and I would never go back." Pressed for details, he replied that it's "too petty to get into."
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File:Billy Corgan Stratocaster (with X Devo Energy Dome stickers).jpg|with X / Devo energy dome stickers (drop D tuning)
File:Billy Corgan Stratocaster (with 20,000 Leagues sticker).jpg|with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea & octopus stickers (standard tuning)
File:Billy Corgan Stratocaster (with Burbank-76 stickers).jpg|with Burbank/76 stickers (E♭ tuning)
File:Billy Corgan Stratocaster headstock promo.jpg|Headstock
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Billy Mohler

Billy Mohler is a Grammy-nominated producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently the bassist for Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, and is a good friend of Chamberlin. The two first met when Mohler auditioned for Zwan, though he was not hired. After Zwan split in 2003 and Chamberlin secured a record deal for his solo project, Mohler was the first person he contacted. Mohler contributed greatly to the band's first album (Life Begins Again), co-writing and co-producing it with Chamberlin, playing bass guitar, bass, electric guitar and keyboards throughout, and singing in "Streetcrawler" and "Newerwaves". His godfather, Bill Medley (The Righteous Brothers) also appears on the album.
In addition to his work with Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, Mohler has his own band, War Tapes, who opened for The Smashing Pumpkins in 2007. Mohler has also worked with Lady Gaga, Aimee Osbourne, Liz Phair, Kelly Clarkson, and Macy Gray, among many others, as well as serving as the bassist for the multi-platinum band The Calling.
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Billy and Greg's Home Demos: Vol. 1

Billy and Greg's Home Demos: Vol. 1 is a demo cassette from Billy Corgan's first band, Coat of Eyes, who he formed with Greg Bates. Very little is known about this tape aside from the track listing, which is almost identical to the Coat of Eyes demo and may actually be the same recordings.
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The 1985 release date is a guess, as that was the final year Coat of Arms was a band before transforming to The Marked.
Birch Grove

"Birch Grove" is a Smashing Pumpkins song that was an accompanying A-side to the "Anno Satana" single released on October 9, 2020. Billy Corgan has said he wrote the song for his children,Billy Corgan. November 29, 2020 Instagram Q&A and it is also The Smashing Pumpkins' tribute to Italian composer Giorgio Moroder.Billy Corgan, October 10, 2020 Instagram Q&A The song was written on a piano.Billy Corgan, November 1, 2020 Instagram Q&A
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*Katie Cole – background vocals
*Sierra Swan – background vocals
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Bjorn Thorsrud

Bjorn Thorsrud (October 7, 1963 – October 20, 2021) was an American music producer, programmer, and audio engineer who had also engineered, mixed, or has contributed production or programming to every Smashing Pumpkins record since 1998's Adore to 2012's Oceania. Billy Corgan estimates that during this era, he spent more time with Thorsrud in the studio than he did with other band members. He considered Thorsrud as part of his own family, and there was even a Christmas holiday or two shared between only the two of them, as they had no one else to spend Christmas with.Billy Corgan. October 21, 2021 Instagram post
Thorsrud previously worked for the Taj-Motown Record Company and established his own record label, Tri Records. He held a bachelor's degree in physics and music from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Other artists he had worked with include The Frogs, Dave Mason, Whitesnake, and Shania Twain.
On October 20, 2021, Thorsrud died suddenly of what is believed to have been a heart attack.
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Black Oblivion

"Black Oblivion" is a song co-written and sang by Billy Corgan for Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi's debut solo album, Iommi. Each song on the album features an all-star guest vocalist who co-wrote the song with Iommi, with "Black Oblivion" being the sole exception of not being also being co-written by producer Bob Marlette.
Corgan is credited as vocalist, bassist, and additional guitarist, while former touring Smashing Pumpkins drummer Kenny Aronoff served as drummer,https://www.discogs.com/release/2535113-Iommi-Iommi essentially amounting to a what many fans would consider a Pumpkin-esque track.
Before the release of the album, a rough mix version dated November 6, 1998 was made available to fans, and at the time the song was known as "Firewall".
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Blank

"Blank" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins, originally released as a B-side to "Tonight, Tonight" and later appearing on the box set The Aeroplane Flies High. Despite not officially being released until 1996, Corgan has stated that the song was recorded in his apartment around the same time as "Soothe" from Pisces Iscariot.Corgan, Billy. "Aeroplane Track by Track", The Aeroplane Flies High 2013 reissue liner notes
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Blank Page

"Blank Page" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album, Adore.
An early instrumental version was known as "48 chords", as it was comprised of 48 successive unique chords before repeating.Billy Corgan, Starcrossed, and Subsequently, a Door is Opened. livejournal, April 12th, 2005.https://www.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/oxzl9g/trying_to_hunt_down_a_workinprogress_song_billy/ Lyrically the song deals with Corgan's divorce, and was the first to touch on the subject among the new songs written for Adore. According to himself, he felt it was odd he had not written about the divorce earlier, but only with this song could express how he felt about it.
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Blast

"Blast" is an instrumental song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was released on the 2012 reissue of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. A clip of the song is featured in "Pastichio Medley" at around the 5:26–5:48 mark. A much longer and faster version was included on Billy's Gravity Demos I.
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Bleed

"Bleed" is an early song by The Smashing Pumpkins that appeared on the Mashed Potatoes compilation album. It was recorded during the summer 1989 sessions at Reel Time Studios, but didn't make the cut out of one of the early demos.
Live versions were released on Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88 and on the 2012 reissue bonus DVD of Pisces Iscariot.
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Bleeding the Orchid

"Bleeding the Orchid" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins's seventh studio album, Zeitgeist. It is about the commercial exploitation of the early-90s alternative rock movement, was deliberately styled after the music of Alice in Chains, a band that Corgan now greatly admires. The song was indirectly inspired by the 2002 death of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley.
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Blew Away

"Blew Away" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' 1994 compilation album, Pisces Iscariot. It was originally released with the "Disarm" single on March 22, 1994. The drums were performed by Kerry Brown because Jimmy was on vacation at the time.
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* Kerry Brown – production and drums
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Blinking with Fists

Blinking with Fists is the debut book of poetry by Billy Corgan. The progress and writing of the poems was covered in Corgan's blogs. The Volume of 57 poems was published by Faber and Faber in 2004. The book peaked at #24 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
The jacket of the book was designed by Charlotte Strick and the artwork and author photograph are by Yelena Yemchuk, who was involved with artwork for The Smashing Pumpkins. Interior design is by Gretchen Achilles.
== Tour ==
In support of the book, Corgan went on a brief US tour that included book signings and acoustic poetry readings.
Date 	Venue 	Location 	Type
2004-10-12	Herbst Theater 	San Francisco, CA, US	Acoustic poetry reading
2004-10-14	Virgin Megastore 	New York, NY, US 	Book signing
2004-10-15	Harvard Bookstore 	Boston, MA, US 	Book signing
2004-10-17	Barnes & Noble 	Washington, DC, US 	Book signing
2004-10-17	9:30 Club 	Washington, DC, US 	Acoustic poetry reading
2004-10-19	EDGE 102.1 FM Studios 	Toronto, ON, CA 	Interview
2004-10-19	Chapters Festival Hall 	Toronto, ON, CA 	Book signing
2004-10-19	Church of the Redeemer 	Toronto, ON, CA 	Acoustic poetry reading
2004-10-20	Joseph Beth Booksellers 	Lyndhurst, OH, US 	Book signing
2004-10-20	Beck Center for the Arts 	Lakewood, OH, US 	Acoustic poetry reading
2004-10-21	Borders Bookstore 	Ann Arbor, MI, US 	Book signing
2004-10-22	Loft Literary Center 	Minneapolis, MN, US 	Book signing
2004-10-23	Tattered Cover 	Denver, CO, US 	Book signing
2004-10-23	The Soiled Dove 	Denver, CO, US 	Acoustic poetry reading
2004-10-24	Chapters 	Vancouver, BC, CA 	Book signing
2004-10-24	Arts Club Theater 	Vancouver, BC, CA 	Acoustic poetry reading
2004-10-25	University Bookstore 	Seattle, WA, US 	Book signing
2004-10-25	Mirabeau Room 	Seattle, WA, US 	Acoustic poetry reading
2004-10-26	Powell's Books On Hawthorne	Portland, OR, US 	Book signing
2004-10-27	Virgin Megastore 	Los Angeles, CA, US 	Book signing
2004-10-29	Border's Bookstore 	Chicago, IL, US 	Book signing
2004-10-30	Tower Records 	Bloomingdale, IL, US 	Book signing
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*Four poems from Blinking with Fists at alittlepoetry.com
*Corgan's poetry on Livejournal
Blinking with Fists tour

The Blinking with Fists tour was a short US tour that Billy Corgan took in support of his first poetry book, Blinking with Fists. He was accompanied by Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo.
== Book signings ==
In addition to the ticketed events listed below and a radio interview on October 19, Corgan made several stops for book signings:
Date 	Venue 	Location
2004-10-14	Virgin Megastore 	New York, NY, US
2004-10-15	Harvard Bookstore 	Boston, MA, US
2004-10-17	Barnes & Noble 	Washington, DC, US
2004-10-19	Chapters Festival Hall 	Toronto, ON, CA
2004-10-20	Joseph Beth Booksellers 	Lyndhurst, OH, US
2004-10-21	Borders Bookstore 	Ann Arbor, MI, US
2004-10-22	Loft Literary Center 	Minneapolis, MN, US
2004-10-23	Tattered Cover 	Denver, CO, US
2004-10-24	Chapters 	Vancouver, BC, CA
2004-10-25	University Bookstore 	Seattle, WA, US
2004-10-26	Powell's Books On Hawthorne	Portland, OR, US
2004-10-27	Virgin Megastore 	Los Angeles, CA, US
2004-10-29	Border's Bookstore 	Chicago, IL, US
2004-10-30	Tower Records 	Bloomingdale, IL, US
Blissed

"Blissed" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was first released on a limited edition flex disc in May 2012. There were around 5,000 copies and all were given exclusively to fans who waited up to a month for their copy of the Gish or Siamese Dream reissue due to shipping delays. The song was released with the 2012 deluxe reissue of Pisces Iscariot.
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Blissed and Gone

"Blissed and Gone" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins's B-side compilation album, Judas O. It was an Adore outtake that first appeared on the promotional EP Still Becoming Apart. Three versions of the song later appeared on the 2014 deluxe reissue of Adore. The 'CRC Demo' and 'Sadlands' versions are also known as "I Need You Around" and have different lyrics.
The original Judas O version is more electronic and features additional guitar work from Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen. It has never been released to streaming services. In early 2021, a mobile app that tracked the phases of the moon sent thousands of users to an unofficial upload of the Judas O version on YouTube. App developers developers may have been giving the a nod to the song, tying in with lyrics like "the sun has blessed, the rays are gone", following a recent lunar or solar event.Read the comments section on YouTube
The track "17" on Adore is the same melody except played on piano.
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Blue-Sky Research

Blue-Sky Research is the third major label album from Ann Arbor, Michigan rock band, Taproot. Billy Corgan wrote the track "Lost in the Woods" and co-wrote "Violent Seas" and "Promise". He also contributed some guitar parts, vocal melody and general advice for the direction of the album.
== Background ==
Taproot reached out to Corgan after hearing he had worked with Breaking Benjamin on 2004's We Are Not Alone. They spent six days in Chicago working with Corgan, during which he critiqued what they had written and offered his suggestions on how to improve the material. "He really helped us to build a little bit of anticipation with the music rather than just have heavy parts and soft parts," frontman Stephen Richards told MTV News. "He helped us turn songs that were already 8 or 9s [out of 10] into 11s." Corgan also gifted the band with an additional melody and guitar riff. "We totally didn't expect that," Richards explained. "He basically wrote a new song for us with us in mind."
Corgan's critique helped Taproot focus on a consistent feel through the songs. "There's more room to grow as songwriters and musicians when you strip everything down and try to write great songs, and that's why we asked Billy to work with us," Richards explained. "We used to throw in extra beats and use odd time signatures just to fuck with your head. This time, we wanted to have more straight-ahead, good songs, and I think we do."
== Critical reception ==
Blue-Sky Research garnered mixed reviews from music critics who admired the genre shift and lush production but found it wasted with angst-filled lyrics. However, Johnny Loftus of AllMusic added that while he considered the self-deprecating lyrics formulaic at times, he found the contributions from Corgan to be a nice addition to the band's improved musicianship, saying that "even without the hired guns Blue-Sky Research is the most dynamic Taproot album yet … and the album's heightened textures and less predictable turns successfully updates the band's sound."
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Blue (Bird Shake mix)

"Blue (Bird Shake mix)" is a James Iha-engineered remix of the song "Blue" by A Perfect Circle. It appeared on the band's 2004 compilation, aMOTION. The original song is the third single from their sophomore album, Thirteenth Step, which did not feature Iha as that was prior to him joining the band. The remix is electronic, and despite not being a single like the original, it received moderate radio airplay.
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Blue Light

"Blue Light" is an early song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It has only two known live performances; one from March 30, 1990 in Madison, Wisconsin, and another as Starchildren from August 18, 1990. A recording from these shows appear on The Rubano Tapes Vol. 1 and SP on the Radio 1988-89 / Starchildren Live 8.18.90, respectively.
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Blvds of Splendor

Blvds of Splendor is a 2019 album by American musician Cherie Currie. The title track was co-written by Billy Corgan, who also performs the guitar, bass and backing vocals. Currie started work on the album in 2010, and was on the verge of releasing it in 2016 before she suffered a near-death accident while chainsaw carving.
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Bob English

Bob English was a long time friend of Billy Corgan's who served as his guitar tech and The Smashing Pumpkins' touring manager for the first few years of their existence. He played bass on the Starchildren track "Delusions of Candor". At early 1990's shows, he often introduced the band, and occasionally provided vocals for the Blue Öyster Cult cover "Godzilla".
English is credited, at least by James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky, as coming up with the band's name.https://www.starla.org/articles/dares.htm Not much more is known about him, though he was also Corgan's roommate during (at a minimum) the writing of Siamese Dream. English and Corgan had a falling out somewhere near the end of the Rock Invasion tour and Corgan has generally spoken disparagingly of him since then.
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Bodies

"Bodies" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. During the Infinite Sadness tour it was sometimes called "The Rattler".
At the 30th Anniversary show on August 2, 2018 in New Jersey, the song was sang by Chino Moreno of Deftones.https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/smashing-pumpkins-30th-anniversary-setlist/
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Bodies (album)

Bodies is the eleventh studio album by American rock band AFI. It contains the single "Dulcería" which was co-written by Billy Corgan. The song "Tied to a Tree" was written without Corgan's assistance, although it was released with as a double A-side single and featured a music video by Linda Strawberry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvs2ZOqy24g
Songs like "Dulcería" and "Tied to a Tree" helped push Bodies into the US charts, reaching number 36 on the Independent Albums chart and number 33 on the Top Album Sales Chart. AllMusic highlighted "Dulcería", which it described as a "throbber", as one of their recommended tracks.
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Boom! Boom! Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom! is a 1997 album by The Kelley Deal 6000. It includes the track "Baby, I'm King" by The Last Hard Men, featuring Jimmy Chamberlin on drums. In the liner notes, Chamberlin is credited as simply "JC".
== Tracks of interest ==
"Baby, I'm King" is track 4 on the European release.
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Brad Wilk

Bradley Joseph Wilk (born September 5, 1968) is an American musician, actor, and activist. He is best known as the drummer of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Black Sabbath (in 2013), and Prophets of Rage. In late 2014 until June 2015, he played drums for The Smashing Pumpkins alongside Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder and also Mark Stoermer on bass.
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* 2023 – London By Day
Brat Pack

NME's Brat Pack is a compilation tape that was included free with the January 29, 1994 issue of New Musical Express. It featured a live acoustic version of "Spaceboy" that was recorded for VPRO Radio.
Other bands seen on the tape include Radiohead, Björk, New Order and Elastica.
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Brian Liesegang

Brian Liesegang (born February 10, 1970) is an American songwriter, producer, composer, guitarist and programmer, and a founding member of the industrial rock band Filter, who opened up for The Smashing Pumpkins during the Infinite Sadness tour.
In 2005, he assisted Billy Corgan with programming for the recording of TheFutureEmbrace, and toured on the TheFutureEmbrace tour, playing keyboards, providing live programming, and occasionally playing bass guitar. The band was nicknamed "The Fellowship of Broken Toys".
In addition to his work with Corgan, Liesegang has worked with Nine Inch Nails, Ashtar Command, and Veruca Salt.
Brisbane Festival Hall

Brisbane Festival Hall was an indoor arena located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The venue hosted performances for virtually every major tour by visiting overseas artists. In addition to The Smashing Pumpkins, the venue had visits from legendary modern and alternative rock artists like Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Tool, as well as classic rock artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and The Who.
Brisbane Festival Hall closed on 29 August 2003, and the building was subsequently sold and demolished.
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Bun E. Carlos

Brad M. Carlson, better known by the stage name Bun E. Carlos, is the original drummer for American rock band Cheap Trick, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
In 2009, Carlos, together with Hanson singer Taylor Hanson, current Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, and Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, formed a new band, Tinted Windows. This new project ran alongside each of the artists' main bands. Tinted Windows played its first publicized gig at SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 20, 2009, and appeared on late-night network TV shows. Their album was released on April 21, 2009.
== Relevant discography ==
* Tinted Windows (2009)
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Burnt Orange Black

"Burnt Orange Black" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was recorded during the March-April 2014 – Pumpkinland II sessions and likely intended for Day For Night, which was the abandoned sister-album to Monuments to an Elegy. Ultimately it was "cougared" (marked for non-inclusion) and was never officially released, though it was performed live a number of times in late 2014.
On December 11, 2023, a live recording of the song from December 5, 2014 was made commercially available as a Madame ZuZu's archive release, entitled London By Day.
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By Starlight

"By Starlight" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
In a June 16, 2015 VIP Q&A, Billy Corgan admitted he couldn't remember the meaning of the song for him at the time, but that he did intend to "capture the feeling of nighttime", and credited producer Flood for helping actualize this. He explained that prior to Flood's intervention, the song had an "overly sentimental" style of 1970s ELO akin to "Luna".
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In a 2016 interview with Tape-Op, Corgan said he played a '72 Gibson 335 through a 1964 Vox AC30 guitar amp on "By Starlight". Towards the end of the recording, starting at around the 4:12 mark, Corgan is standing in front of the amp while cranking up the volume, producing feedback and an octave effect. The guitar was double-tracked each offering different feedback tones.
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Bye Bye Blackbird

Bye Bye Blackbird is the second album from the Jimmy Chamberlin and Frank Catalano jazz collaboration. The album shares the name with John Coltrane's 1962 album. The title track itself is a 1926 jazz standard.
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* Frank Catalano – tenor saxophone, production
* David Sanborn – alto saxophone on "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "Sugar"
* Jimmy Chamberlin – drums
* Nir Felder – guitar
* Demos Petropoulos – Organ (Hammond B3)
* Tony Fitzpatrick – artwork
* Aaron Crow – project coordinator
* Dan Steinman – engineer
* Elizabeth Watson – layout