So, after Billy left The Marked and formed the Smashing Pumpkins, what happened to the rest of the Marked members? Did they join some other band and get famous?

no.

Actually, does anyone know where to get a hold of some of their songs? I'm curious what they sounded like.

There's a couple on youtube. But the sound/video quality isn't the best.

I think there are some on RSPAA.

Rocket Baby Dolls' site has lots of those songs.

manders4001 link=topic=799.msg12088#msg12088 date=1164489402]
I think there are some on RSPAA.


Somewhere...

The drummer (Ron Roesing) is in a band called Sons of Neptune or something. If you look on Vieuphoria, the clips of The Marked were filmed by a guy who tried to sue the pumpkins in 2000 for using the video without his consent. That lawsuit is probably the closest they got to fame.

That reminds me, ive more to add.

Dale Meiners started producing and i remember he had his own recording studio. 2 years ago i was trying to hunt down Dale and Ron and i found Dale's recording studio site, when i finally plucked up the courage to contact him, the site was down and never came back again.

I've actually spoken to Ron online several times, he's a friendly guy, very informative. He's currently involved in 2 projects, one solo, and he's released an EP with the band Sons Of Neptune.

I've started work on a wikipedia page but it's totally incomplete and i havent had the time to go back to it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marked

Hmm, i havent replied back to Ron's last message. I better do it now.

Ron and Billy are not too close are they? didnt he sue him for using the marked in vieuphoria?

Teej212 link=topic=799.msg12175#msg12175 date=1164565632]
Ron and Billy are not too close are they? didnt he sue him for using the marked in vieuphoria?




That was the guy who originally filmed the footage. Ron Roesing fell out with Billy because SP used footage of Ron's birthmarks in Rhinoceros

ahh....wait, i always thought the birthmark was in siva!!! whoops


at what time in rhinocerous is it? i wanna see the birthmark.


oh, and Ron should have sued billy- i wouldnt want people looking at my birthamark (unless it were in a SP music video!)

To find them in RSPAA go to demos, pre-pumpkins, and you can find it from there

Teej212 link=topic=799.msg12196#msg12196 date=1164586708]
ahh....wait, i always thought the birthmark was in siva!!! whoops


at what time in rhinocerous is it? i wanna see the birthmark.


oh, and Ron should have sued billy- i wouldnt want people looking at my birthamark (unless it were in a SP music video!)


My mistake, it was Siva.

The Marked Demos

http://uboardmedia.com/media/Audio/Pre-SP/The%20Marked/

i would of prefered a link to the page on the site...

What, you mean this site?

I remember a few years back, one of my friends and some of his trader friends got a hold of some of The Marked Tapes. Don't remember if it was from Ron or Dale. The material they received is part of what was leaked on the net awhile back, I believe initially on the SP Hub. It may have been the SP signing in Toronto in 2000 or at some point later, my friend told Billy about the tapes, and arranged to send the Marked tapes (may have been the originals) to Billy at some point. Not sure if Billy ever gave them back haha. I will have to ask my friend sometime lol.

I remember my friend or his trader friends getting in contact with a guy named Len. Refresh my memory. Was he the guy who introduced Billy to James? Anyways, we were even sent a picture of Len to put on a pass for Act IV 2002, but he never ended up showing up. Now, Barry Waterman who produced the Light into Dark vinyl did show up. He was quite an interesting person. Anyways, I digress.

you seem to know a lot of famous people!!!

so your friend met Billy Corgan?!?!?!

Yes, met him first at the March 2000 signing. I think he may have mentioned The Marked Tapes to Billy at that point, and he may have given him the Marked Tapes at Act IV 2001, when Billy made a surprise appearance. Or somehow arranged to send it through a third party to Billy or something. I don't get the sense that my friend has ever been in direct contact with Billy except for face to face at fan signings and gatherings.

Some of the people in the trading community, including my friend have talked with either Dale or Ron. I have never talked to them, nor do I know how to, and I am not in any hurry to try. To tell you the truth, I haven't really liked 99% of the material I have heard from The Marked. Somehow they got in touch with that Len guy as well, but I never got to meet up. Frankly, I don't how they did. Perhaps my friend never even talked to them personally, but was just in contact with traders that had been.

One of the interns at Metro who would ended up helping us out with the second concert, had contacted Barry Waterman, after seeing his website advertising the release of Light into Dark on CD 14 years after the release of the vinyl. For some reason, he had made an arrangement with her, where he offered to auction off a dinner with him with a Pumpkin fan to help raise funds for Make-A-Wish around the time of Act IV 2002 for a joint Act IV/SPIFC charity auction (an option more viable for people who wanted to help out with charity but could not or had no desire to come to our show).

Anyways, some guy ended up winning the dinner with Barry, and he invited the Metro intern, and my brother and I to come to the dinner. It was at some vegan indian restaraunt in Chicago. He had some colorful stories about SP supposedly signing eachother's name on the contract for Light into Dark. And also he insisted that the songs on Light into Dark were actually recorded at his studio rather that a Reel Time Studios. None