Joah Freese, Chamberlin, Carey should be somewhere on any well rounded rock music lover's top 5. Bonham's intro into When the Levee Breaks is still one of my fav stand out drumming pieces, as simple as it is(doesnt have to be complicated to be great. Its just as hard to know when to hold back as it is to know when to rock the fuck out!)
One of many face melting medley versions of HMM. If you never 'got' this song or the Machina album in general, you have to understand this song (and the album) is not really being sung from Billy's perspective, but from the perspective of a fictional version of himself, a grandiose caricature of what he and pumpkins had once been or were once becoming. Basically like a modern more dystopian type of Beatles-bigger-than-Jesus band. Would you die for rock and roll? It's almost tongue in cheek. The whole thing is a cool concept, one that only Billy and Jimmy could actually come close to doing justice to in a live setting.
agreed! I've been thinking about them a lot lately for some reason. I wonder if they'll ever get big again like back in the day. I mean, over the top huge again. the music industry needs them
I've always liked live renditions more than the original studio version of this song. Nevertheless, this was a little over the top, even for Pumpkins' standards.
+Fdo Retam I agree, it's better than the album version. I would have loved to hear an album after Zeitgeist with stuff like this, SuperChrist, and GLOW.
