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    I like that song "Let Me Out", or whatever their current radio hit
    is called.
    

Cherub Rock I think it's called.

    Yeah, that's it.
    
    |KS|_not_feeling_too_cherub_today
    

    Ooops, didn't even know what cherub meant... I thought it meant happy
    

Yeah, feeling cherubs'll get you 10-20...

    >Ooops, didn't even know what cherub meant... I thought it meant happy
    
    
    Bwahahahahaha!!!!  Sorry, this just struck me really funny!

     
     Great album, really like most of it, fave song is Quiet...
    
    
     Keith
    

    Like thier first album - Gish - much better - esp. Siva,Rhinocerous and
    Fritessa.  

    The album has influence to be in this conference.  Listen to track 2 of
    the "siamese dream" album and this will tell you why.
    
    I recommend anyone to listen to this, it's a good album !, especially
    the track "silverf**k".  
    
    Give it a listen !
    
    Cheers Russell

    I've heard three songs off this one now and they all sounded great to
    me.  Had "today" buzzin around in my head half the drive across Utah
    (land totally devoid of radio stations playing anything but country)
    Saturday.  This one's approaching the top of my current "I want" list
    of CDs.
    
    Greg

    
     Well, I heard one of the songs they do this weekend...I love the song
    but never knew WHO did it...Now I know.  Gee, now I can say I like
    Smashing Pumpkins.... 
    
      What a Name...almost Like TOXIC Donuts or the CrunchBerries....HA !
    
    

    I heard their latest CD and thought it was pretty cool too...

    I like it, it's not on my top fav list for the week but it is worth the
    12 or 13 i paid for it. I like the sound of the guitars over anything
    else. 
    
    Another item, to anyone who has seen the vidoe for today, I think they
    sound a lot better than they look too. What a scary lookin' bunch.
    B*)
    
    ;@)
    
    chris
    

>    I like the sound of the guitars over anything else.                  
    
    Isn't that just the *sickest* guitar sound??!?  I love it!  Very
    unique.
    
    gh

    
    
       I caught the smashing Pumpkins on some station last night, must of
    been MTV...they did a Mini Concert...Pretty Good.  Although it took me
    a while to figure out that the Lead singer was Not a Woman..and a
    GUy...The bass player is a Woman...the other 2 I think are men...But
    one Never really knows...Hee heh heheh...
    
    /S
    

    regarding : 980.15
    STRATA::LAMOTHE "Fabio is Queer ..."
    
    Nice personal name, dude!
    
    Chris
    

    
    
     Re: Chris
    
        Thanks , Dude !  But I changed it again....
    
    / Sax & SHORT

    Fabio could smash both you guys Pumpkins.   :_)
    
    Didn't this group,On their earliest Recordings,use move Feed_Back
    and Tinnie_Tone_Like Effects on the Guitars??I remember hearin A
    Song 2 Years_Ago(I'm pretty sure it was Smashin_Pumpkins)by these
    guys,from a Movie Sound_Track...ANd the Guitar had Huge"Hendrix_Like"
    effects.
    
                   Crazy_Budda_Bing_Budda_Boom_Al

    The stuff on their first album and a follow on EP had a lot of really
    retro-60s psychodelic sounding stuff in it.  More of that then the
    heavy distortion that seems more prevelant in their current songs
    getting airplay.
    
    gh

>    Didn't this group,On their earliest Recordings,use move Feed_Back
>    and Tinnie_Tone_Like Effects on the Guitars??I remember hearin A
>    Song 2 Years_Ago(I'm pretty sure it was Smashin_Pumpkins)by these
>    guys,from a Movie Sound_Track...ANd the Guitar had Huge"Hendrix_Like"
>    effects.
    
    
    were they on the Singles soundtrack?
    or am I thinkin of someone else.
    
    chris
    

They are.

Drown  -  Smashing Pumpkins

Jimi Hendrix is also there doing  "May this be love"




Oetzi    

    The pumpkins had a concert on the radio here on Saturday night.  It was
    recorded at the Reading festival.  Alot of new stuff.  Overall a great
    concert!  The sound wasn't bad at all.
    
    Paully
    

    ROOLIN!
    
    The Pumpkins, who are touring in Europe, are about to release an
    EP here in the states.  The disc will be titled "Zero", and will
    feature a remix of said tune from the ever-roolin Mellon Collie and the
    Infinite Sadness album.
    
    In addition, TSP will include 5 new tracks of outakes from MCATIS,
    one of which is am 18 minute long song!  Total disc time is about 
    58 minutes, but is still being called an "EP" due to the number of
    songs included.  Sounds like the Dream Theater syndrome to me.

   SMASHING PUMPKINS singer BILLY CORGAN got so stoned before a
   soundcheck in Amsterdam, Holland, he couldn't perform. Corgan says, "First
   thing I did when I got to Amsterdam was to go out and get some hash
   bon-bons. I ate one and an hour went by and I thought, 'It's not working', 
   so I ate another one - and then I went to a rehearsal before the show, and 
   I was so stoned I couldn't even play a keyboard." According to Corgan, the 
   story explodes the media myth that he is always melancholy. "Everyone always
   interviews us so seriously. There's very little room to have any personality
   beyond pontificating about the philosophical aspects of rock'n'roll. No one
   ever asks us about getting high. Everyone asks us why we're sad." Moral of
   this story: Don't eat hash bon-bons right before a public performance, dude.
   Wait until afterwards.

    My Friend Just Told me That he hEard on The Radio that A Member of
    Smashing Pumpkins was Found Dead of an Over_Dose.Possibly the Drummer.
    
    
    
       Crazy_Is_It_True_Al??

    
    NOoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooo !!

    
    Well, if it was that oriental guitarist, that wouldn't be so bad,
    cuz then I could audition!!!

    I Was Was The Key_Board Player.

    They don't HAVE a keyboard player?!  Not permanently, anyway
    
    
    The Pumpkins:
    
    Billy Corgan	Guitar, Vocals
    D'arcy		Bass, Vocals
    Jimmy Chamberlain	Drums, Percussion
    James Iha		Guitar

    Bummer, I have tix to the concert too...  8(
    
    Who was it?

    Yeah I heard it was the drummer...Jimmy Chamberlin...kinda to bad eh?
    
    The Bear is playing Tonight, tonight on the radio right now...when will
    these Overdosers learn?  We lose $#!+loads of great talents...simply
    cause they can't settle on smokin weed or havin a barley sandwich! 

They could probably use someone who can do the double bass runs to "One" in his
sleep...

    That's really too bad -- J.C. was one of my ALL-TIME fav drummers!!

    
	Don't worry, Buck ... JC is fine.  But this guy isn't:
    
    
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Note 14.8886                       News Briefs                      8886 of 8886
POWDML::HANGGELI "Heartless Jade"                    55 lines  12-JUL-1996 10:59
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     Backup of Alternative Rock Band Found Dead At Manhattan Hotel

     By Associated Press, 07/12/96

     NEW YORK (AP) - A backup musician for the alternative rock group
     Smashing Pumpkins was found dead this morning in his Manhattan hotel
     room, apparently of a drug overdose, police said.

     Police officer Olga Mercado, a department spokeswoman, identified the
     man as Jonathan Melvoin, 34, adding that he played keyboard for
     Smashing Pumpkins. He is not one of the band's regular members.

     She said his body was found at 4:30 a.m. at the Regency Hotel. He died
     of an apparent drug overdose, Mercado said.

   
     No other details were immediately available.

     The Chicago-based band, which first came to national prominence about
     five years ago, combines various rock music styles in a multilayered
     sound, with lyrics expressing Generation X discontent. Their albums
     are ``Gish,'' ``Siamese Dream,'' ``Pisces Iscariot'' and ``Mellon
     Collie and the Infinite Sadness.''

     The group was in town for concerts at Madison Square Garden.

     The band's regular members are lead singer Billy Corgan, drummer Jimmy
     Chamberlin, guitarist James Iha and the bassist, who goes by the
     single name of D'Arcy.

     Several years ago, the Smashing Pumpkins came near to kicking out
     Chamberlin because of his recurring drug abuse, Rolling Stone and
     other publications reported.

     He kept clean, and after Nirvana's Kurt Cobain committed suicide in
     1994, the Smashing Pumpkins became arguably the top alternative rock
     act in the country.

     The Pumpkins co-headlined the Lollapalooza tour in 1994 and are
     currently on tour in support of ``Mellon Collie.'' The double CD
     contains two hours of new music in various styles of punk,
     psychedelic, heavy-metal and even country.

     The music industry has recently been discussing whether to take steps
     in response to a wave of drug-related casualties, including the death
     of Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon and the addiction of Stone Temple
     Pilots singer Scott Weiland. The Stone Temple Pilots had to cancel
     their summer tour after a judge ordered Weiland into a treatment
     program.

     Music executives have pushed for wider use of the industry's MusiCares
     program, a 7-year-old network that offers money for musicians to seek
     physical and mental health care and help for substance abuse.

     AP-DS-07-12-96 1021EDT

    Cool...thanks for the clarification Slab!
    
    I'll have to make phone call to the Bear and see where they got their
    facts?

    For What It's Worth,He Was From New_Hampshire.

    Whew -- what a relief!!
    
    ::TYSICK ... you like TOTALLY pulled a Seth "Sethypooh" "Mr. Everyone
    in Rock is Dead" Howes on us!!
    
    8^(

    
    Hmmm...perhaps this is why some thought it was Chamberlin:
    
    AP- A backup musician with the alternative rock group Smashing Pumpkins
    was found dead in a hotel room of an apparent heroin overdose yesterday
    and the group's drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, was charged with heroin
    possession, police said.
    
    Chamberlin was with the keyboard player, Jonathan Melvoin, 34, when he
    overdosed, a police source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told
    the Associated Press.  No other arrests were expected, the source said.
    
    Chamberlin, wearing sunglasses, limping and visibly shaken, was given a
    misdemeanor summons and released from the plice station at about 2:20
    p.m.   He collected his belongings and was escorted by his lawyer and
    two long-haired (don't you love that description!) roadies into a black
    car with dark windows.
    
    The other band members- frontman Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and
    bassist D'Arcy had no comment as they left the 19th prcint stationhouse
    in a black van shortly before 1:00 p.m. today.
    
    /jen

    
    Any guesses on how long he will last until he OD's?
    Hopefully he will come to his senses and realize that heroin=death and
    the world will continue to have a good band intact without mourning the
    loss of another musician.
    
    Dave
    

    This is what happens when you use crack cocaine in order to maintain an
    errection.

    Anyone know of this Red Rum?

    The Drummer has been Tossed By The Band and They Are Lookin fer A
    Replacement.
    
       Crazy_Dot_Dot_Dot_Dot_Dash_Dash_Al

    As a follow-up to Al's note, here was the press release info.
    
The band today has announced that they are firing Jimmy as their drummer. The 
band will not be holding open auditions for the position. Here's the press 
release: 

Today we are very sorry to tell our friends and fans that we have decided to 
sever our relationship with our friend and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain. This may
come as a shock, to some and to others perhaps not, but to us its devastating. 
For nine years we've battled with Jimmy's struggles with the insidious disease
of drug and alcohol addiction and its nearly destroyed everything we are
and stand for. So we have decided to carry on without him and wish him the 
best we have to offer.  The three of us plan to seek an immediate replacement 
for Jimmy and to finish the touring we started at the beginning of this year. 
We would like to thank everyone for their well wishes. 

    
    More press on Smashing Pumpkins:
    
    /jen
    
    "Bummed-out Smashing Pumpkins fans, rejoice.  The band has hired former
    Filter drummer Matt Walker to replace Jimmy Chamberlain, booted out of
    the band for drug use, and touring keyboardist Dennis Flemion, founding
    member of the Frogs, who takes over for the late John Melvoin, another
    recent victim of the heroin highway.  Rehearsals are under way as the
    band resumes its postponed world tour on August 27th in Las Vegas.  No
    official Boston date yet, but the Pumpkins will play Providence on
    September 8th."

    It's nice to see the Pumpkins patch things up like that.

  >>  It's nice to see the Pumpkins patch things up like that.

	Pumpkins...Patch  Oh boy that's a good one

    
    	"Former Filter drummer"?
    
    	Geez, what'd he last ... almost 2 years, maybe?
    

    
    
    Re: .44
    
    Any ticket info for that Providence show??  Also, where in Prov.???
    
    
    CF

    
    RE: .48
    
    Oh dearie, it sounds like
    "Rob-ticked-cuz-he-missed-out-on-Boston-at-the-House-of-Blues"
    syndrome.   Tickets for Smashing Pumpkins in Providence (at the Civic
    Center) went on sale on this past Saturday through TicketMaster.  This
    info was posted in note 22 (concert/gigs) in this conference.
    
    I'm not sure if they sold out or not...but I got mine at 10:06!  :)
    
    /jen

    
    How much for the tix???

    
    	The tix are free, but the German Shepherd they're living on
    	will cost you $500.
    

    
    RE: .50
    
    All tickets for the Pumpkin show in Providence are $25
    across-the-board.   There was a $4 per ticket charge by buying at
    at TM location.  I'm not sure of the exact fees over the phone.
    
    /jen

    
    "New York - The drummer for the alternative rock group Smashing
    Pumpkins hs pleaded not guilty to a drug charge in connection with the
    death of another band member, officials said yesterday.  Jimmy
    Chamberlin entered a plea of not guilty to crimial possession of a
    controlled substance, a misdemeanor, on Tuesday in Manhattan Criminal
    Court, authorities said.  He was charged after the band's backup
    keyboard player, Jonathan Melvoin, was found dead of a heroin overdose
    in a room in Manhattan's Regency Hotel on July 12"   Reuters
    
    /jen
    

This guy is Steven Adler in disguise.  You heard it hear first.  Just as his
band goes over the top he goes off the deep end on heroin...

    
    yup...same old...same old! 8)
    
    
    						ian

    Just heard on the radio that Mellon Collie has now become the highest
    selling double CD of all time.  WOW!  Who would figure thay'd beat
    that.
    
    Paully 8)
    

    MCATIS is brilliant!

    Is it just me or do other think that these guys suck live?
    Everytime I see them play live, like on last nights MTV
    music awards, the singer always sounds flat or just bad.
    Plus most of the time their guitars sound out of tune and
    I just think their performance is awful.  They sound like
    a lousy cover band of themselves.  Their music on CDs are
    sound like another band.
    
    Shane, who thinks the singer now looks like a member of the 
    Adamms family...Uncle Fester or maybe a grown up Pugsley
    ...weird

    I thought the lead singer was Daddy Warbucks!
    
    
    
    						Ian

    I Think he Looks like A Young Mr.Clean.
     Glad They won All those Awards..Cuz they Won't Next_Year.
     New Drummer Seems to Fit in.
    I Think the Bass_Player Looked Hauntingly_Sexy.
    That Other"Dude"(?)must still be Searchin fer his Sexuallity.
    
      Crazy_They_Deserved_Fer_The_Great_Vidio_And_Double_CD_Al

>>    That Other"Dude"(?)must still be Searchin fer his Sexuallity.

    ha...thats funny...I thought the same thing...I couldnt figure
    out if he was male or female...well until he spoke!!

That's James Iha???  Yeah he has that none of the above look doesn't he?

    Seeing Billy Corgan standing next to Rodman, I didn't realize he was so
    tall.  I mean he looks like he's 12, so I guess I'd never guess he'd be
    over 6 feet tall.
    
    Paully

    Toni Braxton!
    
    Do the words, "I'd give my right n*t!" mean anything to you???
    
    	J

    James Iha
    
        
    He has been doing an awful lot of modeling gigs of late -- I guess
    that's what happens when you get into that kind of stuff?!

    
    its a pity he can't colour co-ordinate his jacket and trousers properly!
    
    
    does anyone else think he looks kinda Bowie-esque when David Bowie was
    in the movie "the man who fell to earth?"
    
    
    							Ian