Thursday, 19 May 2011

Another Interview with Mike Reina of SKYSAW

HERE

Including a little bit more talk about the cross-country collaboration involved the recording of Great Civilizations.

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Questions?

I might, might, be able to coax JC and Skysaw to answer a couple of questions...

I have my own super nerdy ideas of course, but rather than just ask them - I thought I'd throw the floor open to you guys... So, post away in the comments.

Cheers.

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Mike Reina Interviewed about Skysaw

Right here

Apparently Mike writes the lyrics and they might play some festivals this summer


This just doesn't get enough plays...

When JC has talked about Machina being " the most honest record [Smashing Pumpkins] ever made, because it's the least least forced. It's what came out of us naturally, as opposed to songs like 'Geek'..."*  I just think that this is a perfect example of SP playing naturally back in the day. At the very least, it's one of the great examples of JC playing what seems to come completely naturally to him: The ease, power, swing/feel and harmony with the guitars he injects is well... just, absolutely, splendid. G&TGC and Stellar went on to echo this type of playing from JC perfectly, as far as I'm concerned.

Let us know if you feel differently;

Cheers.

*Rhythm magazine Christmas 2000

P.S I may have had a dram or two 2 many, please excuse me.

Friday, 13 May 2011

BLAMO... R.I.P.

Blamo.org, one of the two [most famous and long standing Smashing Pumpkins fan sites] alongside Netphoria.org, which had tons of cool SP resources for fans, has decided to close its doors... well most of them...


After 15 years of running blamo.org, I've decided to shut off most of the content to the site. The site now will be redirected to the Smashing Pumpkins forum on blamonet.com. Additionally I've shut off jamesiha.org and zwanmusic.org and forwarded them both to blamonet.com.
http://www.facebook.com/blamo.org/posts/10150191019267617



 Cheers Aaron, thanks for everything of the years.