Smashing Pumpkins release DVD details
It seems like forever ago that we heard anything newsworthy that was Smashing Pumpkins-related to report on. What with halfway of September gone, its been nearly a month since the band wrapped up its summer rehearsal tour and there’s still a month left until the band’s new single, “G.L.O.W.”, debuts on Guitar Hero World Tour. Maybe that’s why Billy Corgan & Co. decided to release information about its “reunion tour” DVD today.
Directed by Jack Gulick (Bruce Springsteen, Metallica), If All Goes Wrong is a comprehensive set which reaches a year or so back, focusing on the band’s US reunion debut, which includes the eight nights at Asheville, NC’s Orange Peel and the eleven show run during its residency at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium. Given the band’s notoriety for practicing for hours on end and Corgan’s insistence on perfection, the documentary should have enough drama to hold everyone over.
There are even some goodies included. Pete Townshend (The Who) provides an interview for the DVD’s special features, so that should whet any music fan’s appetite. As for the media involved, a 115 minute concert was compiled together and from the looks of the specs, this promises to be one impressive set.
The concert portion of the If All Goes Wrong, entitled The Fillmore Residency, runs 115 minutes and includes seven of the almost 20 all-new compositions the band composed and performed exclusively during the residencies that are available exclusively on this release. With 15 songs in all, the concert - captured in 5.1 Surround Sound and state-of-the-art high definition from 12 cameras - showcases the band as they explore the freedom afforded to them in a live setting, including the 30+ minute opus “Gossamer”. Along with the new tracks, the concert also includes alternate versions of fan favorites and a selection of Pumpkins rarities. The Fillmore Residency also includes five songs recorded live from the floor of The Fillmore that gives fans an intimate glimpse of the band as a performing entity.
If that’s not enough to sell you, here are the official specs:
If All Goes Wrong DVD Listing:
If All Goes Wrong (Disc 1):
01. If All Goes Wrong
02. Voices of the Ghost Children
03. Interview with Pete Townshend
The Fillmore Residency (Disc 2):
01. The Rose March*
02. Peace + Love*
03. 99 Floors*
04. Superchrist
05. Lucky 13
06. Starla
07. Death From Above
08. The Crying Tree Of Mercury
09. Winterlong
10. Heavy Metal Machine
11. Untitled
12. No Surrender*
13. Gossamer*
14. Zeitgeist
Live From The Floor Of The Fillmore (Bonus Tracks):
15 99 Floors *
16 Peace + Love *
17 No Surrender *
18 Mama *
19 Promise Me *
* previously unreleased
If All Goes Wrong will be released by Coming Home Media and is currently set for a November 11th release. How quaint. Just in time for the annual Nirvana release, which should either make for a great co-buy, or naturally spark a conversation (and/or debate) about which release is better, or even worse… which band is more relevant.
Sounds fun. See you then!
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so where are the asheville songs? the filmore shows blew!
the 2nd “concert” disc is all from the fillmore, but the 1st “documentary” disc includes stuff from asheville as well as fillmore.
i think the only reason there’s no asheville on the 2nd disc is because they didn’t have the 5.1 surround, 7 camera angle setup like they did at fillmore.
and, for the record, as you will sooon see…the fillmore shows were awesome.
Yeah, I found the Fillmore bootlegs to be pretty powerful, actually. But, we can’t please everyone. However, if you can’t find something in the documentary’s four hours… yikes… I don’t know what to say.
Sep 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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